{"id":264619,"date":"2019-01-03T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1001200"},"modified":"2019-01-03T10:15:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T17:15:00","slug":"taye-diggs-to-host-the-2019-critics-choice-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/taye-diggs-to-host-the-2019-critics-choice-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Taye Diggs to Host the 2019 Critics&#8217; Choice Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/201903\/rs_600x600-190103090706-600.taye-diggs.1318.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"41.074358974359\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"22.764102564103\">\n<p>The CW <em>really<\/em> digs <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/taye_diggs\">Taye Diggs<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The actor, who stars in the network&#8217;s upcoming drama <em>All American<\/em>, has also been tapped to host the <strong>2019 Critics&#8217; Choice Awards<\/strong>. &#8220;I am truly honored and ridiculously excited to be hosting the 24th Annual Critics&#8217; Choice Awards, especially since, as an actor, I recognize what a vital role the critics play in the entertainment industry today,&#8221; he told E! News in a statement today. &#8220;We are all looking forward to a big night celebrating the best of the best in TV and film!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are thrilled to have Taye hosting this year&#8217;s ceremony. Taye is a star of both film and television, plus his illustrious stage career makes him especially qualified to lead our show,&#8221; <strong>Joey Berlin<\/strong>, president of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA), said of Diggs, who was last seen in Netflix&#8217;s rom-com <em>Set It Up<\/em>. &#8220;He promises to infuse the Critics&#8217; Choice Awards with his infectious charm and humor and enrich what already promises to be a memorable night!&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"63.306220095694\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"20.296650717703\">\n<p>As previously announced, Best Supporting Actress nominee <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/claire_foy\">Claire Foy<\/a><\/strong> (<em>First Man<\/em>) will accept the #SeeHer Award, while <strong>Chuck Lorre<\/strong>, creator of TV comedies including <em>The Big Bang Theory<\/em>, <em>The Kominsky Method<\/em>, <em>Mom<\/em> and <em>Young Sheldon<\/em> will receive the Creative Achievement Award.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/994817\/critics-choice-awards-2019-the-complete-list-of-nominations\" target=\"_blank\">Nominations<\/a> for the 2019 Critics&#8217; Choice Awards were announced Dec. 10, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Fox Searchlight Pictures&#8217; <em>The Favourite<\/em> leads in the film categories with 14 nominations.<\/p>\n<p>The show will once again take place at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif., and will be broadcast live on The CW Network on Sunday, January 13th, from 7 \u2013 10 p.m. ET (delayed PT).<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Don&#8217;t miss <em>E! News<\/em> every weeknight at 7, only on E!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1001200\/taye-diggs-to-host-the-2019-critics-choice-awards?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CW really digs Taye Diggs. The actor, who stars in the network&#8217;s upcoming drama All American, has also been tapped to host the 2019 Critics&#8217; Choice Awards. &#8220;I am truly honored and ridiculously excited to be hosting the 24th Annual Critics&#8217; Choice Awards, especially since, as an actor, I recognize what a vital role [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-264619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 17:44:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}