Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Tony AwardsNot that it would have been all that difficult to best last year's reality-host trainwreck tag team, but the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is by all accounts thisclose to making it up to viewers by booking the fan-loved and critic-proof Neil Patrick Harris as emcee of this year's Emmys.
Following in the grand tradition of pulling from its own network ranks, CBS and ATAS are currently in negotiations with the How I Met Your Mother star to take over the hosting reins for the Sept. 20 ceremony.
Should the deal go through—and per both Variety and the Los Angeles Times, there's no reason to believe it won't—NPH will have more than just his affable charm to fall back on during television's biggest night.
In addition to his song-and-dance-fueled hosting of last month's Tonys, Harris, who incidentally has scored Best Supporting Actor nominations the past two years running, also honed his master of ceremonies skills at both the TV Land and Writers Guild Awards earlier this year. Last fall, he served as cohost of the Creative Arts Emmys.
Nominations for the 61st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards are announced on July 16.
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