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The comedian with the highest-grossing tour of 2024, according to Billboard, is set to emcee TV’s biggest night. The jokes start rolling on Sept. 14 from Los Angeles’ Peacock Theater. The awards ceremony will air live on CBS and stream on Paramount+ (8 ET/5 PT). Nominations will be revealed on July 15.

“It’s a huge honor to be asked to host such an iconic awards show,” Bargatze said in a statement, “and I’m beyond excited to work with CBS to create a night that can be enjoyed by families around the world.”

And likely the A-list attendees as well, as Bargatze’s clean comedy is clever without being cruel. He’s more apt to joke about his dependency on food delivery or deep devotion to McDonald’s than obliterate the audience. This marks his first time hosting a major awards show. Eugene and Dan Levy hosted the 2024 Emmys on ABC.

Last year, CBS aired a Bargatze holiday special, “Nate Bargatze’s Nashville Christmas.” The Grammy-nominated standup has gained popularity in recent years following the release of his 2019 Netflix special “The Tennessee Kid.” He’s since released three more specials, “The Greatest Average American” (2021), “Hello World” (2023) and “Your Friend, Nate Bargatze” (2024).

USA TODAY’s 28th annual Save Our Shows poll is nearing the deadline, and we’re asking you to vote of which of 17 comedies and dramas deserve another season.

The four major broadcast networks are weighing the fates of these series as they balance them against a smaller crop of new shows vying to replace them. They’ll decide their fates by mid-May, when they unveil their plans for the 2025-26 TV season. Now it’s your turn to weigh in: Our exclusive 28th annual Save Our Shows poll whether you’d like to save or cancel each of them.

Which series are ahead in the poll, first published on April 2? In no particular order, the top choices include NBC’s “The Irrational,” starring Jesse L. Martin; Tim Allen comedy “Shifting Gears,”  which ABC renewed after the poll launched; and CBS’ remake of “The Equalizer,” starring Queen Latifah.

More: Save Our Shows: What’s renewed, canceled or ‘on the bubble’ in 2025?

The rest of this year’s endangered crop is weighted toward still-unproven freshmen shows such as ABC’s “Doctor Odyssey,” NBC’s “Brilliant Minds” and new spinoff “Suits LA,” and Fox’s “Rescue: Hi-Surf.” But it also includes longer-running shows like Fox’s “The Cleaning Lady” and two NBC sitcoms, “Lopez vs. Lopez” and a “Night Court” revival.

In an interview with “Extra,” the “CBS Mornings” anchor, who blasted off Monday for a celebrity-studded space mission sponsored by the Jeff-Bezos-backed exploration company Blue Origin, said critics have merely not done enough research.

“I wish people would do more due diligence,” she said. “And then my question is, ‘Have y’all been to space?’ Go to space or go to Blue Origin and see what they do and then come back and say, ‘This is a terrible thing.’”

The mission, which saw pop star Katy Perry and Bezos’ fiancé Lauren Sánchez join King and three others for the first all-female flight to space in decades, was marketed as a feminist win and a tribute to life on earth.

Stars in space, critics on Earth: Emily Ratajkowski, Olivia Wilde speak out

Critics, including several celebrities, however, chided the female “astronauts” for aiding what they saw as a marketing play for Blue Origin’s expensive flights to space and helping to put an activist sheen on a company that contributes to Earth’s pollution.

Why? To ballroom dance.

“It’s like being at a jury,” she says, marveling at all the people she meets in a world outside her typical bubble. “It’s the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker, and it’s taken about a year or so for me to now have little fun friendships with people from all over the world and people all different walks of life in New York who gather at this place, and are super encouraging to each other, and it’s fun.”

She encourages people to go out and escape their pandemic habits in her new book “I Wish Someone Had Told Me … ” (Fox News Books, 263 pp., out April 22) to reset their career and life goals. And in her case, taking her own advice helped her fix her posture and back issues.

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In a Tuesday appearance on the “Bachelor Happy Hour” podcast, Turner said he felt “great” as he awaits treatment for bone marrow cancer − a diagnosis he revealed in December.

“Until I have any symptoms, there’s no treatment. So I go frequently for blood tests. I’m on, like, a six-month schedule now,” Turner, 73, said. “I feel optimistic because the doctor has said, ‘Well, when you turn 75, we’re going to have to go three-month increments.’ So it’s telling me that at least he expects me to live another couple of years to get to that. But the bottom line is I feel really good.”

Turner, the inaugural star of ABC’s dating show for contestants in their golden years, first told fans he had been diagnosed with cancer last year, telling People magazine that “it was like 10 tons of concrete were just dropped on me.”

The former child star took to Instagram on Monday to share that she would be joining OnlyFans, but only to connect with her followers.

“I’m on onlyfans now! Disclaimer: I’m doing onlyfans to chat with my fans through dm’s. I won’t be posting any sleazy content,” she wrote on her Instagram story. “Excited to join.”

OnlyFans is an internet content subscription service that has gained a reputation for NSFW content. The platform has become synonymous with the adult entertainment industry and sexual content, but stars from Bella Thorne to “The Sopranos” star Drea de Matteo have made headlines for using the platform, where creators can earn money from users – or “fans” – who pay a monthly membership fee to access their exclusive content.

In late 2023, Bynes, 39, released a podcast with friend and biochemist Paul Sieminski, which ended after one episode with tattoo artist Dahlia Moth. She said at the time that the pair planned to “interview our friends, and then we’re hoping to take it mainstream and interview celebrities and artists.”

The series’ seminal star, Pompeo has led a rotating cast of characters as they battle medical emergencies (and plenty of personal drama) at Seattle Grace Hospital for 22 seasons. In a recent interview with El País, the actress said she has no plans of leaving anytime soon.

“That would make no sense,” she said in the article published Sunday. “Emotionally or financially. The show was streamed more than a billion times in 2024. More than a billion times.”

Why Ellen Pompeo feared her latest television role could be ‘Cancel City’

Among the best-paid actresses in Hollywood, Pompeo, who plays the show’s namesake Meredith Grey, said she’s at peace with the choice she’s made to embody one character for a long time rather than many. When she decided to reduce the number of episodes she starred in several seasons back, the show allowed her to create some much-needed balance in her life.

A bonafide who’s-who of the entertainment, sports and political elite, the list serves as a quasi-yearbook superlatives list for the biggest movers and shakers in each industry. USA TODAY can exclusively reveal that this year’s group includes Hollywood favorites like Danielle Deadwyler, Daniel Dae Kim and Jon M. Chu, along with trailblazing athletes like Jalen Hurts, Simone Biles and Serena Williams.

Here’s an early look at this year’s honorees − and, in signature Time 100 fashion, some words of praise written about them by other notable names.

Michelle Yeoh thinks Jon M. Chu is a ‘baby genius’

You’ve definitely seen a Jon M. Chu film. The director behind blockbuster hits like “Wicked,” “In the Heights” and “Crazy Rich Asians,” Chu’s fingerprint on pop culture is inarguable.

Michell Yeoh, who starred in both “Wicked” and “Crazy Rich Asians,” says the director “sees into the heart of things.”