Siegfried & Roy to Air in Sept.

By Paige Albiniak
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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NBC’s promised exclusive special with lion tamers Siegfried & Roy is scheduled to air Wednesday, Sept. 15 at 9 p.m. Maria Shriver–an award-winning NBC News correspondent who is on leave while her husband, Arnold Schwarzenegger, is governor of California–will host the program.

Siegfried & Roy: The Miracle will be billed as an entertainment special, not news, and will be produced by NBC Studios. In addition to exclusive interviews with both Siegfried and Roy, the show will document the accident that almost took Roy's life and his difficult recovery.

NBC’s animated show, Father of the Pride, premieres eight days before the Siegfried & Roy special. The two are featured in the prime-time program as wacky caricatures of themselves.

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.