Vanessa Hudgens and Julianne Hough will be hosting The Oscars Red Carpet Show on ABC, leading into the 96th Oscars on Sunday, March 10th
What’s Happening:
- Actor Vanessa Hudgens and multihyphenate Julianne Hough will host The Oscars Red Carpet Show, the official lead-in to the 96th Oscars on Sunday, March 10, airing at 6:30 p.m. EDT/3:30 p.m. PDT on ABC.
- This marks Julianna Hough’s inaugural year and Hudgens’ third consecutive year hosting the official pre-show.
- The 30-minute special will highlight Oscar nominees, performers and presenters, and provide a multiview experience of the red-carpet arrivals, giving the audience every can’t-miss moment from Hollywood’s biggest celebration.
- Leading into the official pre-show, ABC News will celebrate the 96th Oscars with special programming, including the live pre-show Countdown to Oscars: On the Red Carpet Live on Sunday, March 10th, from 1:00-4:00 p.m. EDT/10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. PDT.
- The pre-show coverage will also stream on ABC News Live, beginning at 1:00 p.m. EDT/10:00 a.m. PDT and continue throughout the day until the start of the Oscars ceremony.
- ABC News Live Prime” anchor and World News Tonight weekend anchor Linsey Davis and Good Morning America weekend co-anchor and World News Tonight weekend anchor Whit Johnson will host live from the red carpet at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre.
- The show will include previews of the award show and feature live interviews with nominees and presenters, plus an exclusive preview of the Governors Ball, the official post-Oscars celebration.
- Joining Davis and Johnson to make their Oscar-reporting debut will be GMA3: What You Need to Know co-anchors Eva Pilgrim and DeMarco Morgan, along with veteran ABC News correspondent Chris Connelly, ABC News contributors Kelley Carter and Mike Muse, Variety’s senior awards editor Clayton Davis and celebrity stylist Joe Zee.
- Finally, as the sun sets on Oscar night and all of Hollywood is dancing the night away, Kelly Ripa, Mark Consuelos and the Live family will work through the night in preparation for television’s BIGGEST morning of the year.
- The fan-favorite special After the Oscars will air LIVE from the famed Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood at 9:00 a.m. EDT on Monday, March 11th, and will feature unforgettable moments with the night’s biggest winners capturing the very moment they walked offstage mere hours before.
- The highest-rated show of the year for Live will take place LIVE in front of a huge audience of fans and feature Sebastian Maniscalco, a musical performance by Andy Grammer, Elaine Welteroth, plus Jesse Palmer will be the Live red-carpet correspondent.