Jimmy Donaldson, higher generally known as MrBeast, has amassed 386 million subscribers for his YouTube channel, greater than every other individual on Earth. However he’s not stopping there. He’s increasing into tv with the Prime Video collection Beast Video games, a actuality competitors present the place contestants vie for $5 million, “the most important money prize in TV historical past!”
MrBeast is among the many main names set to participate in right this moment’s digital Deadline’s Contenders Tv: Documentary, Unscripted & Selection award-season occasion, which kicks off at 9 a.m. PT. It’s your information to a unique type of competitors — one the place the final word prize is Emmy gold.
Together with MrBeast, we’ve acquired Grammy-winning nation music famous person Kelsea Ballerini, representing The Voice from Warner Bros Tv Group. 4 of the queenly contestants from RuPaul’s Drag Race will cease by — Lexi Love, Onya Nurve, Jewels Sparkles, and Sam Star. Love Island USA host Ariana Madix will share secrets and techniques from the steamy Peacock collection.
We’ve acquired comedy coated with Seth Meyers, host of Late Evening with Seth Meyers; Saturday Evening Dwell solid members Mikey Day and Ego Nwodim; and The Every day Present’s Desi Lydic. Standup comedian Iliza Shlesinger will inform us about her Prime Video comedy particular Iliza Shlesinger: A Totally different Animal.
Animals of each description populate The Americas, the character collection from Common Tv Different Studio and NBC. Tom Hanks narrates the 11-part present that examines the tremendous continent all the way in which from Northern Canada to the southernmost tip of South America. Govt producer Mike Gunton will be part of Contenders to debate the wonders revealed, like flamingos that maintain a “dance off” on the prime of the Andes.
Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson and Joseph Patel, who gained Academy Awards for his or her 2021 documentary Summer season of Soul, will inform us about their follow-up: Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius), streaming on Hulu. It explores the good and groundbreaking musician Sly Stone of Sly and the Household Stone whose limitless expertise ran up towards a streak of self-sabotage.
One other music legend headlines the Emmy-contending documentary Highway Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Road Band, an inside have a look at the group’s newest tour, from rehearsals to spectacular concert events. Director Thom Zimny, who first labored with Springsteen 1 / 4 of a century in the past, will share insights on his newest collaboration with the Boss.
Music made Sean “Diddy” Combs, the hip hop producer-performer who launched a file label earlier than branching out into vogue, media and extra. However it’s been a pointy decline for the mogul, who awaits trial on federal intercourse trafficking and racketeering expenses. His profession and the allegations that threaten to ship him to federal penitentiary are explored within the explosive Investigation Discovery docuseries The Fall of Diddy. Administrators-executive producers Emma Schwartz and Yoruba Richen will be part of Contenders to debate Diddy’s destiny.
We’ll discover a climactic chapter from World Struggle II with a panel on The Eyes of the World: From D-Day to V-E Day. And we’ll get the straight story on The Traitors, the crafty Peacock collection hosted by Alan Cumming, and a few trickery from David Blaine, who travels the world in David Blaine Do Not Try seeking prodigious prestidigitators.
Stick with Deadline all day for protection of all of the panels each on the location and on our social channels by way of #DeadlineContenders. On Monday, we’ll launch the occasion’s streaming web site with the entire panel movies.
Right here’s right this moment’s lineup:
Contenders Tv: Documentary, Unscripted & Selection
9 a.m. PT – Livestream begins
WARNER BROS TELEVISION GROUP
The Voice
Audrey Morrissey (Govt Producer)
Kelsea Ballerini (Coach)
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
David Blaine Do Not Try
David Blaine (Host)
PRIME VIDEO
Beast Video games
Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson (Co-Creator/ Govt Producer/Host)
Jeffrey Allen (Participant 831/Winner of Beast Video games)
Sean Klitzner (Co-Creator/Govt Producer)
Iliza Shlesinger: A Totally different Animal
Iliza Shlesinger (Author/Govt Producer/Comic)
ID
The Fall of Diddy
Emma Schwartz (Director/Govt Producer)
Yoruba Richen (Director/Govt Producer)
COMEDY CENTRAL
The Every day Present
Jen Flanz (Showrunner/Author/Govt Producer)
Zhubin Parang (Author/Co-Govt Producer)
Desi Lydic (Host)
ONYX COLLECTIVE and HULU
Sly Lives!
Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson (Director/Govt Producer)
Joseph Patel (Producer)
HULU
Highway Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Road Band
Thom Zimny (Director/Producer/Editor)
AMERICAN HISTORY UNBOUND
The Eyes of the World: From D-Day to VE Day
John Monsky (Creator/Author/Narrator/Historian)
Meredith Wagner (Govt Producer/President American Historical past Unbound Inc.)
Patrick Hemingway Adams (Historic Advisor/Particular Visitor)
MTV ENTERTAINMENT STUDIOS
RuPaul’s Drag Race
Lexi Love (Contestant)
Onya Nurve (Contestant)
Jewels Sparkles (Contestant)
Sam Star (Contestant)
NBC
Late Evening with Seth Meyers
Seth Meyers (Author/Host)
Saturday Evening Dwell
Mikey Day (Forged Member)
Ego Nwodim (Forged Member)
Tom Broecker (Producer/Costume Designer)
UNIVERSAL TELEVISION ALTERNATIVE STUDIO and NBC
The Americas
Mike Gunton (Govt Producer)
PEACOCK
Love Island USA
Ariana Madix (Host)
Danielle Gervais (EVP Casting & Expertise)
Ben Thursby-Palmer (Showrunner/Govt Producer)
James Barker (Govt Producer)
The Traitors
Rosie Franks (Govt Producer)
Ben Archard (Director)
Siggi Rosen-Rawlings (Director of Pictures)
Matt Wright (Director of Pictures)
