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EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of Wild ‘N Out’s 13th-season premiere this summer, MTV has ordered 90 additional episodes of the Nick Cannon-hosted comedy improv competition series to take it through Season 16. The multi-season pickup is a recognition of Wild ‘N Out’s role in MTV’s continuing ratings upswing as the Viacom cable…

Nick Cannon, EGOT-winner Whoopi Goldberg, Kenan Thompson, Jennifer Coolidge, and E.G. Daily (who best known for voicing Tommy Pickles in Nicktoons’ Rugrats series) have signed on as the voice cast of Pierre The Pigeon-Hawk, a musically driven animated feature from Exodus Film Group and Cannon’s Ncredible…

Nick Cannon, host of Fox's breakout The Masked Singer and MTV's Wild n' Out, has been set as the first guest host for The Wendy Williams Show. He will be subbing for Williams who recently announced that she is taking an extended break from her syndicated daytime talk show while recovering from a fractured…

As the dramatic saga involving Kevin Hart stepping down as Oscars host after old homophobic tweets resurfaced, Nick Cannon has decided to come to the defense actor-comedian by posting tweets containing homophobic language from comedians Chelsea Handler, Sarah Silverman, and Amy Schumer. In a string of tweets, Cannon…

Fox has set Wednesday, January 2 for the premiere of celebrity singing competition series The Masked Singer, based on the hit South Korean format, hosted by Nick Cannon, with panelists Ken Jeong, Jenny McCarthy, Nicole Scherzinger and Robin Thicke. A viral phenomenon with more than half a billion fans worldwide and…

Hours after announcing it had ordered unhinged celebrity singing competition sensation The Masked Singer, based on the hit South Korean format, Fox brought host Nick Cannon, “detectives” Ken Jeong, Jenny McCarthy, Nicole Scherzinger and Robin Thicke, and one of the masked singers out on stage to demonstrate. (you can…

UPDATED with first trailer: Fox has ordered celebrity singing competition series The Masked Singer based on the hit South Korean format for premiere in January 2019, with Nick Cannon as host, and featuring Ken Jeong, Jenny McCarthy, Nicole Scherzinger and Robin Thicke. It is one of three unscripted series announced…

Nick Cannon is set to host Lip Sync Battle Shorties, Nickelodeon’s kid-focused spinoff of Spike’s Emmy-nominated global phenom Lip Sync Battle. He’ll be joined by social media sensation JoJo Siwa, who’ll serve as Cannon’s sidekick providing commentary on each performance. The 10-episode series, which features…

EXCLUSIVE: Nick Cannon is making another major career change. The multi-hyphenate, who announced on Monday morning that he was leaving America's Got Talent after allegedly being threatened with termination by NBC over an AGT- and NBC-related racial joke in his new Showtime stand-up special, also is changing agencies…

Nick Cannon says he’s leaving as host of NBC’s America’s Got Talent after he learned network execs were considering firing him over a racial joke he told in his Showtime comedy special. Stand Up, Don’t Shoot, described as a stand-up special in which Cannon takes on race and other topics, premiered Friday on Showtime.…

NBC has set America’s Got Talent Holiday Spectacular, a two-hour special with performers including Andra Day, Pentatonix, Penn & Teller, along with past season favorites including Grace VanderWaal, Jackie Evancho and Matt Franco, with Nick Cannon as host. Judges Mel B, Simon Cowell, Heidi Klum and Howie Mandel also…

EXCLUSIVE: Nick Cannon, whose feature directorial debut King of the Dancehall had its world premiere at Toronto last month, is joining Rhys Wakefield’s Untitled Hollywood Hills Project. It’s Wakefield’s first feature directing gig and, he’ll co-star with Cannon. Best described as Less Than Zero in a house in the…