Emmy Nomination for Craig
Craig Ferguson has been nominated once again for a daytime Emmy Award for best talk show host. Craig won the award last year for his work on Celebrity Name Game. This year, his fellow nominees include Brooke Burns, host of The Chase, Steve Harvey of Family Feud, Wayne Brady from Let’s Make a Deal, and Billy Gardell, host of Monopoly Millionaires’ Club. The awards ceremony will be held at the Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles on May 1st. As usual, the event will not be televised, but will be live streamed on the Emmy website. Good luck, Craig! Meanwhile, more taping dates have been announced for Celebrity Name Game in April. If you live in or will be visiting the greater Los Angeles area, come to a taping!

‘Crunch Time’ Taping Coming Soon
Sharp-eyed readers like @Colleen_Byrne noticed a gap in the April tapings for Celebrity Name Game, and for good reason: Production for Craig’s NBC sitcom pilot Crunch Time has been scheduled for April 11, and April 16-22. We suspect the 11th may be a table read, where the actors can read through the full script together and see how the lines work, which would give the writers a few days to make any needed changes before rehearsals begin. Crunch Time will be recorded at NBC Universal. We’ll keep an eye out for more details.

Get A Clue
If you become a clue on Jeopardy, does that mean you’ve made it? Craig Ferguson has been the subject of several clues in the past decade, and he popped up again recently. As Twitter user @MrLimbs noticed, one “answer” included Craig’s name and said he is currently the host of “this lively game show.” And of course, the “question” was, “What is Celebrity Name Game?” Australian uber-fan @bec_giddy also saw a clue featuring Craig on the game show The Chase, asking which Doctor Who star played in a band with him. The answer was the current Doctor, Peter Capaldi.

Catalogues Too?
Twitterer @souphead noticed an ad from London clothier Charles Tyrwhitt, featuring a model that looks a bit like Craig. She tweeted:

@CraigyFerg Did you know Charles Tyrwhitt,fancy shirt seller uses your doppelganger in their ads? #askcraigferguson

That Face Mash Thingy
On Celebrity Name Game, they’re trying a new kind of clue that mashes up the photos of two celebrities. The producers call it a “double take,” but Craig has a hard time remembering it:

Video courtesy: Celebrity Name Game

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Hopper Book Available For Pre-Order
A book filled with short stories inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper, edited by Lawrence Block and featuring a story by Craig Ferguson will go on sale December 6th. The book is already available for pre-order. Craig first told us back in February about the project, saying his story for the book is based on Hopper’s South Truro Church 1930. The book is being published by Pegasus Press. Other authors in the anthology include Michael Connelly, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Owen Butler, Stephen King, Lee Child, Megan Abbott, Joe R. Lansdale, and Block himself, who wrote a piece about the painting called Automat. Thanks to the RSA’s @chandlersdame for spotting the pre-order listing and letting us know!

Craig on Kelly and Michael
Set those DVRs! The appearance Craig recorded a few weeks ago in New York on Live with Kelly and Michael will air Monday, March 28th. He’ll be talking about Join Or Die. The syndicated morning talk show airs in most markets across the country. Check your local listings for the time and channel “in your region.” Thanks to the RSA’s @bgrhubarb for spotting the listing.

It’s All Sparkly
The folks at the Emmys are pleased that Craig keeps his statuette trophy on the set of Celebrity Name Game. They tweeted:

We love that #CraigyFerg‘s Daytime Emmy Award is on the set of #CelebNameGame http://fb.me/2uvAKAbi3 

Corden Marks One Year
James Corden is celebrating his first year as host of The Late Late Show. Entertainment Weekly talked with him about how it’s been going. Meanwhile, The Hollywood Reporter and Variety report a series might eventually result from his popular “carpool karaoke” segments. Now that it’s been a year, will Craig be a guest on The Late Late Show? In a recent interview, he says he’s been asked, and they are trying to work out a time to make it happen.

C’Mere A Second
Just like in the days when someone in The Late Late Show‘s opening segment would get in trouble, Craig still takes people aside for a private conversation on Celebrity Name Game.

Video courtesy: Celebrity Name Game

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One Minute Mentor
When Craig Ferguson was in New York last month to promote the debut of Join Or Die, he stopped by the Hearst Corporation’s office in Manhattan to be interviewed by Esquire’s Mark Warren about the show and lots of other things. And while he was there, he recorded a few “One Minute Mentor” videos for Hearst’s online series. They included Craig’s thoughts on Change, Fear and “If I Knew Then.” Thanks to the RSA’s @bgrhubarb for spotting them!

History’s Comedies Are No Tragedy
Along with Join or Die, the History Channel is excited about its trio of comedy shows that follow Craig on Thursday nights, collectively known as Night Class. The website Tracking-Board.com takes a closer look at the shows and the channel’s hopes for their success.

Kimmel to Host Emmys
As Deadline.com reports, Jimmy Kimmel will host the prime time Emmy Awards ceremony on ABC September 18.

Corden Continues To Surprise
The Wall Street Journal magazine recently published an extended profile of Late Late Show host James Corden, focusing on how a talented man previously little-known in the U.S. is redefining the show in new ways.

Backstage at ‘Name Game’
Comedian Frank Nicotero was turned loose backstage at Celebrity Name Game to give us a tour of what you might not see on TV. Take a look:

Video courtesy: Celebrity Name Game

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Craig to Star in NBC Comedy Pilot
Craig Ferguson will star in a new sitcom pilot for NBC, reports the trade publication Variety. The half-hour show called Crunch Time will focus on an up-and-coming producer named Jake (played by Kyle Howard) trying to deal with the crazy host of a TV game show named Toby (played by Craig). Hmm. Remind you of anyone?

The pilot was written by Betsy Thomas of the TBS show My Boys, which starred Kyle Howard and Kellee Stewart, who has also been cast in the new show.

We’ve not heard about when the pilot episode will be recorded, but March and April are considered “pilot season” in Hollywood, so they’ll probably squeeze in a week of work between Craig’s tapings of Celebrity Name Game.

As always, we remind our fellow skellies that this is a pilot, so there is no guarantee it will get picked up as a series. Craig shot a pilot last year for ABC called The King of 7B that did not move forward. But imagine if this one does. Craig will be playing a game show host on one show, while being an actual game show host on another show… and all the while, he’ll be hosting a late-night talk show that’s not really a late night talk show, since he stopped doing his other late-night talk show. The mind boggles at the very thought.

As we hear more details about the new pilot episode, we’ll be sure to pass them along. Thanks to the RSA’s @bgrhubarb who was the first among a bunch of hobos to spot the news and pass it along!

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New ‘Name Game’ Tapings
Craig Ferguson will be spending the next couple of months in Hollywood, recording dozens and dozens of new episodes of Celebrity Name Game. If you live in or are planning to visit the greater Los Angeles area in the next several weeks, you can get free tickets to see the show. Our friends at On Camera Audiences have posted links to order tickets on their website. So far, they’ve listed 12 shows, to be taped at 10:30am and 2:30pm PT March 13-18 and more are expected to be added soon.

Book of the Month
Craig has been named Guest Judge in the month of March for the Book of the Month Club, and the book he’s recommending is The Moor’s Account by Laila Lalami, a Moroccan-American novelist and professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside. As you may remember, Craig told us last month he has optioned the novel and is hoping to make it into a multi-part television series. You can see lots of videos and comments from Craig on the club’s website. Lalami, who appeared as a guest on The Late Late Show in Craig’s last year on the show, will soon appear as a guest on Join Or Die on the History Channel.

Craig’s Tribeca Short List
In our most recent post, we told about you about how Craig was asked to recommend some films for a new online movie service called Tribeca Shortlist, and that the first movie on his list was Groundhog Day. The RSA’s @chandlersdame and @bgrhubarb have dug into it further and say two more films have made the list: The Fisher King starring Robin Williams and Jeff Bridges, and NEDS, a film about a young man’s life on the streets of Glasgow. The website Uproxx.com did a story featuring clips of Craig talking about films and acting. It’s well worth a look.

About The Moor’s Account
Craig talks about his choice for Book of the Month, and what attracts him to it:

Video courtesy: Book of the Month

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Looking Ahead
The success of Craig Ferguson‘s television shows will be keeping him busy for the next few months. After shooting 22 episodes of Join Or Die, the History Channel has indicated they’ll probably want some more, which Craig told Larry King last week. And with the syndicated game show Celebrity Name Game renewed through the 2016-2017 season, a couple hundred new episodes will need to be taped in the coming months. Neither show has posted new taping dates yet, but we’ll alert you when we see them pop up. Then, if you happen to be living in or visiting the Los Angeles area, you can order ahead for free tickets.

Spring Stand Up Canceled
The four remaining shows on Craig’s stand up comedy schedule for the spring have been canceled, as the demands of his television projects grow. The shows in Chico, Turlock, Portland and Bellingham were taken off the schedule late last week. Refunds will be issued. During his recent interview with Larry King, Craig mentioned he would be gearing up for a new stand up comedy special later in the year. We anticipate he’ll schedule several dates in the fall, leading up to back-to-back shows in the same theater that will be recorded and edited into the special. If past years are any indication, the special will debut on a cable channel, move to Netflix, and then on to DVD. We’ll keep you posted on the show’s progress.

Craig’s Movie Tips
There is a new subscription movie service called Tribeca Shortlist, which asks celebrities to curate a list of films and comment on them. To start off his list, Craig talks to the website Crave Online about his appreciation for the movie Groundhog Day, a film that Matthew Perry once described as his favorite film of all time. The service costs five bucks a month, but you can get a free trial. Thanks to the RSA’s @bgrhubarb who first spotted the service’s promotions that mentioned Craig, and @NancyInTampa, who found the interview and passed it along.

Appearance Roundup
The RSA’s @Fanny57 was among the many skellies who spotted Craig pop up on the Rachel Ray show on Thursday of last week. That appearance was last-minute, but turned out to be a fun one. We still have not seen any indication of when Craig’s taped appearance with Kelly and Michael will be broadcast, but they’ve been focusing mostly on the Oscars, and will probably schedule the segment soon. If you missed any of Craig’s appearances in the past few weeks promoting Join Or Die, check out our complete list in our most recent post.

Getting It Done
It isn’t easy to win the big prize on Celebrity Name Game, but when it happens, it’s fun to see:

Video courtesy: Celebrity Name Game

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