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Alec Baldwin — NBC Late-Night Host?

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday April 9, 2013 @ 5:10pm PDTTags: Alec Baldwin, Last Call with Carson Daly, Lorne Michaels, NBC
Nellie Andreeva

The NBC late-night saga continues. With the Tonight Show transition set, the attention is shifting to the other members of the network’s late-night lineup. NBC brass had been hinting of wholesale changes, and that may include the least-talked-about program in late-night, Last Call With Carson Daly, which has quietly made it to 12 seasons. The New York Times is reporting that NBC is in early talks with Alec Baldwin about potentially taking over the 1:35 AM half-hour. NBC has already laid the groundwork for a potential Baldwin late-night stint. Following his seven-year run on the network’s 30 Rock, the network kept the Emmy-winning actor in the fold with a two-year overall deal inked late last year. Baldwin already has proven his chops as a comedy performer with a record 16 stints as host of NBC’s Saturday Night Live. Additionally, he’s been honing his skills as interviewer with his weekly podcast Here’s The Thing, in which he interviews famous people. And taking on a half-hour late-late night program won’t be as time consuming as hosting an hourlong show like Tonight or Late Night, allowing Baldwin take acting jobs. UPDATE: I hear that there is interest in Baldwin for potential NBC’s late-night opportunities, largely based on his popular podcasts, though things have not progressed beyond that yet.

It would be interesting whether Lorne Michaels, who was behind turning Baldwin into SNL’s top host and bringing him to primetime with 30 Rock, would also be involved in the actor’s potential foray into the late-night talk show circus. Michaels already runs SNL and will executive produce The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon. He may also keep his grip on Late Night, especially if his protege Seth Meyers gets the gig. Can he take it all?

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That Alec Baldwin Is So Good To His TV Mother!

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday April 8, 2013 @ 1:57pm PDTTags: 30 Rock, Alec Baldwin, Elaine Stritch, Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me, Tribeca Film Festival
Mike Fleming

While Elaine Stritch played a mom character who drove her executive son crazy on 30 Rock, that Alec Baldwin continues to be a good son, even after the sitcom has gone by the wayside. Or maybe he … Read More »

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Berlin: Stefan Ruzowitzky In Talks To Direct ‘Caught Stealing’, Alec Baldwin Stars

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Thursday February 7, 2013 @ 4:37pm PSTTags: Alec Baldwin, Myriad Pictures

Oscar winner Stefan Ruzowitzky is in deep negotiations with Myriad Pictures to come on board to helm Caught Stealing, the company announced today. The director won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film back … Read More »

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SAG Awards TV: ‘Modern Family’ Leads, ‘Homeland’ Lands First Noms, Alec Baldwin And Betty White Keep Rolling, Edie Falco Ties Record

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday December 12, 2012 @ 8:14am PSTTags: Alec Baldwin, Betty White, Homeland, Modern Family, SAG Awards
Nellie Andreeva

More than any other awards race, the SAG Awards have proven to be a popularity contest. Alec Baldwin and Betty White have won the best actor/actress in a comedy series SAG Award every year their current shows have been on the air — a whopping six consecutive times for 30 Rock‘s Baldwin and two for Hot In Cleveland‘s Betty White. Both are nominated again, with Baldwin having a chance to complete his streak with a seventh statuette for the seventh and final season of the NBC comedy. With Baldwin and White having a stronghold on the comedy categories, awards darling Modern Family is yet to win an individual award. (It won for best comedy ensemble the past two years). The ABC comedy has three more chances this year as it once again leads the list of series nominees with four noms: best ensemble and best actor/actress mentions for Emmy winners Ty Burrell and Eric Stonestreet as well as Sofia Vergara. Two-time Emmy winner Julie Bowen, nominated last year, did not make the cut this time.

Related: SAG Awards Nominations Announced

There was very little fresh blood in the series SAG nominations — no Lena Dunham or the Girls cast, no Emmy winner Julia Louis-Dreyfus of Veep, no mention of any new broadcast series. The only first-year shows to land nominations were HBO’s The Newsroom for star Jeff Daniels and USA’s short-lived Political Animals for Sigourney Weaver in the movie/miniseries category.

But the SAG Awards did correct some anomalies from last year. The guild had many scratching their heads last December where it completely ignored Showtime’s drama Homeland, which would go on to dominate the Golden Globes and Emmy Awards. No snub this years as Homeland landed three noms — best ensemble and best actor/actress for Emmy winners Claire Danes and Damian Lewis. Despite four Emmy nominations and two wins, The Big Bang Theory‘s Jim Parsons had never received an individual SAG nomination until today. (His show nabbed its second consecutive ensemble nom.) Also, FX’s Louie finally got on the board with a first nomination for creator/star Louis C.K.

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Alec Baldwin Signs Overall Deal With NBC

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday December 3, 2012 @ 10:17am PSTTags: 30 Rock, Alec Baldwin, Big Deals TV, NBC, Universal TV
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: As he is wrapping his first starring TV series role on NBC‘s 30 Rock, Alec Baldwin is staying in business with the network and the studio behind the departing Emmy-winning comedy. I’ve learned that Baldwin, whose turn on 30 Rock has earned him two Emmys, has signed a two-year overall deal with Universal Television. Under the pact, Baldwin, who also serves as a producer on 30 Rock, will develop and produce series projects for the studio, including potential new starring vehicles for him. Baldwin joins his 30 Rock co-star, the series’ creator Tina Fey, who recently signed a new four-year overall deal with Universal TV. The pact assures Baldwin’s continued presence in the TV business. He had indicated that he may leave acting post-30 Rock for “more of a normal life,” and also has been constantly rumored for a potential political career. The current seventh and final season of 30 Rock ends January 31. Read More »

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AFI Fest: ‘Rise Of The Guardians’ Tries To Stake Its Claim In Oscar Race And At Holiday Box Office

By PETE HAMMOND | Monday November 5, 2012 @ 2:24pm PSTTags: AFI Fest, Alec Baldwin, Guillermo Del Toro, Hugh Jackman, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Rise Of The Guardians, Wreck-It Ralph
Pete Hammond

AFI Fest 2012 continued Sunday with the World Premiere of DreamWorks Animation’s holiday biggie and Oscar hopeful, Rise Of The Guardians, and if the buzz generated by this screening is any indication DWA should have a hit on … Read More »

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Alec Baldwin Returns To Broadway In ‘Orphans’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday June 27, 2012 @ 6:06pm PDTTags: 30 Rock, Alec Baldwin

Alec Baldwin will return to Broadway next spring in Lyle Kessler’s Orphans. This will be Baldwin’s first project post-30 Rock, which will conclude its final season on … Read More »

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Alec Baldwin And James Toback Team On Cannes Docu ‘Seduced And Abandoned’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday May 15, 2012 @ 10:36am PDTTags: Alec Baldwin, Cannes Film Festival
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: As the 2012 Cannes Film Festival gets underway, one of the many Croisette curiosities will be the visage of Alec Baldwin and writer/director James Toback milling around at parties and hotels on the strip, with a camera covering their … Read More »

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Alec Baldwin Up For Re-Teams With Both Russell Brand And Woody Allen

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday May 11, 2012 @ 9:33am PDTTags: Alec Baldwin, Big Deals Film, New Line, Russell Brand, Woody Allen
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: In separate deals, 30 Rock star Alec Baldwin is reuniting with his To Rome With Love helmer Woody Allen, and his Rock Of Ages co-star Russell Brand. I’m told that Baldwin will be part of the cast of Allen’s … Read More »

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Does Alec Baldwin Know Fate Of ’30 Rock’?

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday April 11, 2012 @ 1:40pm PDTTags: 30 Rock, Alec Baldwin, NBC, Twitter

Alec Baldwin Leaving 30 RockHow NBC’s Thursday night comedy block will change next season is still up in the air. But a piqued Alec Baldwin tweeted this morning: “I think I’m leaving NBC just in time.” The 30 Rock star, as … Read More »

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Video: NBC’s Musical Brotherhood Of Man

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday February 5, 2012 @ 3:18pm PSTTags: Alec Baldwin, NBC, Super Bowl

For today’s runup to the Super Bowl, NBC put together this little ditty:

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SAG Awards TV: The Equivalent Of A Rerun

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Sunday January 29, 2012 @ 9:25pm PSTTags: Alec Baldwin, Betty White, Boardwalk Empire, Jessica Lange, Modern Family, SAG Awards, Steve Buscemi
Nellie Andreeva

SAG Awards Live Blog, SAG Awards Winners List
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Alec Baldwin Set To Return to NBC’s ’30 Rock’ If Series Is Renewed

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday January 6, 2012 @ 11:00am PSTTags: 30 Rock, Alec Baldwin
Nellie Andreeva

After NBC’s executive session at TCA this morning, NBC chairman Bob Greenblatt addressed the future of 30 Rock star Alec Baldwin, who had hinted in interviews that he may leave the NBC comedy when his original contract was up at … Read More »

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Alec Baldwin Vs American Airlines: SNL

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Sunday December 11, 2011 @ 9:31am PSTTags: Alec Baldwin, Saturday Night Live
Nellie Andreeva

It is unlikely Alec Baldwin will ever get an apology from American Airlines, so he decided to take things into his own hands. The popular Saturday Night Live host returned to the NBC sketch comedy show last night impersonating the captain of the American Airlines flight that kicked him off earlier … Read More »

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Adam Shankman To Helm ‘The Nutcracker’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday November 30, 2011 @ 2:49pm PSTTags: Adam Shankman, Alec Baldwin, Bryan Cranston, Diego Boneta, Julianne Hough, Marty Bowen, Mary J. Blige, Paul Giamatti, Russell Brand, Tom Cruise, Wyck Godfrey
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Adam Shankman will be set by New Line Cinema to direct The Nutcracker, a new take on the classic fairy tale that is being eyed as a tent pole family holiday film for late 2013. The script was written … Read More »

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‘Like Crazy’s Felicity Jones Is Warren Beatty’s Choice For Howard Hughes Film

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday November 14, 2011 @ 4:18pm PSTTags: Alec Baldwin, Annette Bening, Drake Doremus, Felicity Jones, Howard Hughes, Jack Nicholson, Owen Wilson, Warren Beatty
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: After a long search, Warren Beatty has chosen Like Crazy star Felicity Jones to play the female lead in the untitled film about reclusive industrialist Howard Hughes. The film is still mobilizing its financing, with New Regency in place … Read More »

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HAMMOND: An Emotional Governors Awards

By PETE HAMMOND | Sunday November 13, 2011 @ 3:20am PSTTags: Alec Baldwin, Dick Smith, Glenn Close, Governors Awards, James Earl Jones, John Travolta, Maria Shriver, Michael Fassbender, Oprah Winfrey, Tom Sherak
Pete Hammond

OSCARS: 2011 Governors Awards – Photos

At Saturday night’s third annual Governors Awards, Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody (Juno) was seated next to me and before the show unexpectedly said of being in the room with Oprah: “This is extreme for me. I am an Oprah worshipper.” After this year’s recipient of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award earned a trio of standing ovations and ended her emotional acceptance speech to bring the big night to a close, Cody concluded, “I feel like I have just freebased Oprah”. Indeed it was Oprah’s night in this room. But it also belonged to the other honorary Oscar winners, too – makeup legend Dick Smith and actor James Earl Jones, who accepted his award from London’s Wyndham stage in a segment taped earlier in the day after a matinee performance of Driving Miss Daisy in which he is appearing alongside Vanessa Redgrave.

So far I have been to all three Governors Awards  ceremonies and I would say this seemed the most emotional of them all with both Winfrey and Jones referencing their long journey from Mississippi to this Hollywood moment. One attendee told me afterwards, “I was really moved by this more than any other year”. If only the speeches could be this good on the Oscar show itself. Then the Academy wouldn’t have to worry about who hosts or produces the show.

Academy President Tom Sherak made his entrance in a Darth Vader uniform (in tribute to Jones) and opened with the same line he used to introduce a screening of the Jones film, The Great White Hope on Friday night: “How was your week?” It was an obvious reference to the tumultuous events surrounding this year’s Oscar show. But that was the only time the week’s events came up all evening. This was a night for the honorees and they all made the most of it. Before dinner a stirring reel was shown highlighting the entire 84-year history of honorary Oscar winners, followed by a touching tribute to past Oscar show producers Laura Ziskin and Gil Cates who both died this year.

Alec Baldwin got the show rolling after dinner by honoring his The Hunt For Red October co-star Jones saying, “Unlike many actors, James Earl Jones never had to get his career back because he never lost it. He is one of the greatest actors in history”. Glenn Close came out to praise him by referencing his Broadway triumph Fences. “He is the only actor who has broken me apart and transformed me until I was a screaming slobbering mess. James Earl Jones is indeed a world treasure.” Redgrave via tape surprised her co-star by bringing on Sir Ben Kingsley with an Oscar to present to Jones. ”You achieve what every actor is striving for. You are always so damn good,” Kingsley praised.

Jones was genuinely taken aback. “If an actor’s nightmare is being onstage butt-naked and not knowing his lines, then what the hell is this?” he laughed. ”This is an actor’s wet dream. I am gobsmacked at this improbable moment in my life. You cannot be an actor like I am and not have been in some of the worst movies like I have. But I stand before you deeply honored, mighty grateful, and just plain godsmacked.” Read More »

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OSCARS: 2011 Governors Awards – Photos

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Sunday November 13, 2011 @ 2:08am PSTTags: Academy Of Motion Pictures Arts And Sciences, Alec Baldwin, Dick Smith, Glenn Close, Governors Awards, J.J. Abrams, James Earl Jones, John Travolta, Maria Shriver, Mary J. Blige, Oprah Winfrey, Oscars

HAMMOND: An Emotional Governors Awards

J.J. Abrams, Glenn Close, John Travolta, Alec Baldwin, Larry Gordon, Rick Baker, Mary J. Blige, and Maria Shriver were some of the names who helped the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences present Honorary Awards to actor James Earl Jones and makeup artist Dick Smith and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to philanthropist Oprah Winfrey. It was the Academy’s 3rd Annual Governors Awards dinner last night at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Center. Photos on next page: Read More »

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Catherine Zeta-Jones Heads To ‘Broken City’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday October 20, 2011 @ 2:52pm PDTTags: Adam Shankman, Alec Baldwin, Brian Tucker, Bruce Willis, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Dennis Quaid, Gerard Butler, Jessica Biel, Mark Wahlberg, Randall Emmett, Russell Brand, Russell Crowe, Stephen Frears, Stephen Levinson, Tom Cruise, Vince Vaughn
Mike Fleming

Catherine Zeta-Jones has closed her deal to star in Broken City, joining Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe in the Allen Hughes-directed drama. Zeta-Jones will play the philandering wife of the mayor of New York (Crowe).  When a Brooklyn detective (Wahlberg) … Read More »

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