Neil Patrick Harris To Host Tonys
So Neil Patrick Harris (pictured) has been tapped to host the Tonys. He’s very likeable, he’s on a hit TV show (“How I Met Your Mother”), he’s has song-and-dance experience so he won’t embarrass himself in the production numbers. James Gandolfini was asked to host and turned the producers down: he would have been a potential boost for ratings, at least for the Tony broadcast first half-hour, as the beer-drinking crowd would have tuned in to see Tony Soprano’s opening salvo, before changing the channel back to the NBA playoff game. Bottom line: the Tony ratings will be down again, but at least CBS, which broadcasts the event, will have a chance to plug its primetime lineup, which includes “How I Met Your Mother.”
