ABC orders Alec Baldwin talk show
ABC is prepared to spend its “Sundays With Alec Baldwin”.
The network has ordered eight additional episodes of Baldwin's hour-long talk show, which will be modeled after the interviews he has done for years on his popular WNYC podcast. ABC plans to air a version of the pilot episode immediately following Sunday's Academy Awards telecast as a glimpse of what's to come this year.
The first episode, which is being billed as a sneak peek rather than a season premiere, will feature in-depth interviews with Baldwin's longtime friend Jerry Seinfeld and Saturday Night Live cast member Kate McKinnon.
Baldwin will aim to include two interviews per show, letting them collectively stretch the entire hour, save commercial breaks. Like his podcast, “Sundays With Alec Baldwin” will line up actors, comedians, politicians and other newsmakers in the American pop culture sphere as guests.
ABC is staying mum on its timeline or future airdates for the show filmed in New York, where Baldwin is based.
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