Overview:
Five-time Emmy Award winner Neil Patrick Harris is currently coming to NBC to a brand new prime time variety series depending on the U.K.'s hugely popular"Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway." The show will comprise comedy sketches, musical numbers, mini match shows from celebrities. Harris, who's functioned as the Emmy and Tony celebrity sponsor and was recently announced as sponsor of their 2015 Academy Awards, brings his skills that are multi-dimensional to the forefront with the new hour-long series. Harris recently co-starred in David Fincher's"Gone Girl," and completed a run on Broadway as the lead in"Hedwig and the Angry Inch," for which he won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical. For fourteen days he played with the position of Barney Stinson on"How I Met Your Mother" which is why he received four Emmy and two Golden Globe nominations.