Tony Awards on Paramount Plus, CBS

By Michael Malone
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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Broadway’s awards gala happens at Radio City Music Hall in June

Tony Awards on CBS and Paramount Plus
(Image credit: CBS)

The 75th Annual Tony Awards happens June 12 at Radio City Music Hall in New York. Paramount Plus starts the coverage at 7 p.m., and CBS goes live at 8 p.m. ET. Both networks air the awards event until 11 p.m. 

The host has not been named. 

The 75th Annual Tony Awards salutes the top Broadway projects of 2021-2022. CBS has aired the event since 1978. 

The Tony Awards are produced in collaboration with Tony Award Productions, a joint venture of the Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, and White Cherry Entertainment. Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss are executive producers for White Cherry Entertainment. Weiss will direct. 

The 74th Annual Tony Awards was on September 26, pushed back from June due to the pandemic. Audra McDonald and Leslie Odom, Jr. hosted. 

Broadway shows resumed in September 2021. ■ 

Michael Malone
Michael Malone

Michael Malone, senior content producer at B+C/Multichannel News, covers network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television. He hosts the podcasts Busted Pilot, about what’s new in television, and Series Business, a chat with the creator of a new program, and writes the column “The Watchman.” He joined B+C in 2005. His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Playboy and New York magazine.