Carrie Underwood Holiday Christmas Special Featuring David Cook to Debut Monday December 7
We finally have some deets on the Carrie Underwood holiday special Nigel Lythgoe and Adam Shankman are producing for Fox television.
And the news is awesome. David Cook will be one of her special guests! Hooray! Brad Paisley and the fabulous Dolly Parton will also be joining Carrie on her first-ever TV special.
via Futon Critic:
LOS ANGELES (thefutoncritic.com) — FOX has locked down its December plans, which include a new special from “American Idol” alum Carrie Underwood as well as the fall finales of “So You Think You Can Dance” and “Glee.”
“Carrie Underwood: An All-Star Holiday Special” (working title) is set to premiere on Monday, December 7 at 8:00/7:00c with a rebroadcast also set for Tuesday, December 22 at 8:00/7:00c. The two-hour event will feature appearances by Dolly Parton, Brad Paisley and David Cook with additional performers to be announced.
Glee will wrap its initial 13-episode run on Wednesday, December 9 at 9:00/8:00c and the So You Think You Can Dance two-part season finale is scheduled for Tuesday, December 15 (8:00-9:00 PM ET) and Wednesday, December 16 (8:00-10:00 PM ET).
Carrie and Cook–together! Yay.
Update: Even more deets from the Hollywood Reporter:
Underwood will perform previous hits, holiday classics and songs from her upcoming album and participate in comedy bits.
Musical guests signed so far to join her on stage include Dolly Parton, Brad Paisley — her co-host at the 2008 and the upcoming 2009 CMA Awards — and David Cook, last year’s “Idol” winner.
“Seinfeld” alumna Carol Leifer, former “Frasier” exec producer Jeffrey Richman and actor/writer Seth Morris are penning sketches for the special. It is is being produced by Big Red 2 Entertainment, the joint venture between Lythgoe and Fuller named after the red-colored jerseys of the Brits’ favorite soccer teams, Manchester United (Fuller) and Liverpool (Lythgoe).
OMG COMEDY BITS! ELevenTY111!!!11 Hee!
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56 Responses to “Carrie Underwood Holiday Christmas Special Featuring David Cook to Debut Monday December 7”
New tweet from Adam Shankman!
http://twitter.com/adammshankman/status/4837584882
I am confused aren’t all Christmas specials “cheesy” by definition. Who wants a dark, introspective, gloomy, Kafka inspired, Christmas show. Not me I want to happy and be filled with “Cheese”.
Seriously, even Christmas doesn’t have to be cheesy. There are new songs to sing, and be written, and old songs can be sung in new ways. There are new ways to envision the holidays, it doesn’t even have to be just about Christmas, it can include other seasonal holidays. Even if it’s just about Christmas, it can be made modern and smart, with a little cheese here and there. I hope they use their imagination in producing it. Not dark, but it can include humor, and some awareness of the current global world. But whatever, I’ll be watching it regardless, but some more modern Christmas productions in general would be welcome. And modern can include reaching back to the past, to pagan celebrations, and awareness of nature and the seasons, and awareness of various faiths, and of people who don’t have family on Christmas. Lots of possibilities.
But that’s not to burden this particular show with expectations. Just speaking in general about Christmas and cheese. It’s not inevitable.
I forgot JHud will have a holiday special too! Haha, I don’t really get the point of these, but whatevs, I’ll be watching for DC
http://insidetv.aol.com/2009/10/13/carrie-underwood-vs-jennifer-hudson-holiday-special/#
Weird – why would DC be on a Christmas show with a bunch of country singers? Is he going to sing ToML: the Nashville song of the year winner? lol
Seriously – I would watch DC – via the net – on anything he appeared on and pairing with Carrie Underwood is not a bad thing, but WTF…
DC was certainly wonderful when he sang two Christmas songs at Rockefeller Center last year. I have complete faith in him that he’ll be worth watching and listening to.