Ryan Seacrest to Cohost ‘Live'’s Annual After Oscars Show

By Paige Albiniak
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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Ryan Seacrest has landed the plum spot next to Kelly Ripa on Live’s annual After Oscars Show, which will be broadcast on Monday, Feb. 27.

The show will air live at 9 a.m. ET from the Dolby Theater at Hollywood & Highland, where the 89th Annual Academy Awards will take place the prior evening. The telecast will feature Ripa and Seacrest chatting with winners, showcasing all of the night’s fashions and recapping the evening’s trending moments.

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Live With Kelly has been hosted by Ripa and various cohosts since Michael Strahan departed the show last May to join ABC’s Good Morning America full time. Besides Seacrest, guest hosts have included Jerry O’Connell, Anderson Cooper, Andy Cohen, Carrie Ann Inaba and more than 50 others. 

Live’s annual Oscars after show is one of the daytime talker’s highest-rated shows every season, ranking up there with its annual Halloween episode. Fans who want to attend, which requires getting up very early on Feb. 27, should head to LiveKelly.com. 

Paige Albiniak
Paige Albiniak

Contributing editor Paige Albiniak has been covering the business of television for more than 25 years. She is a longtime contributor to Next TV, Broadcasting + Cable and Multichannel News. She concurrently serves as editorial director for The Global Entertainment Marketing Academy of Arts & Sciences (G.E.M.A.). She has written for such publications as TVNewsCheck, The New York Post, Variety, CBS Watch and more. Albiniak was B+C’s Los Angeles bureau chief from September 2002 to 2004, and an associate editor covering Congress and lobbying for the magazine in Washington, D.C., from January 1997 - September 2002.