Maurice Benard to Appear on the Daytime Emmy Awards

Posted on June 24, 2020 by Tom Castaneda

Maurice Benard has special plans this Friday…

The 57-year-old Salvadorian and Nicaraguan American actor and General Hospital star is set to appear on the 47th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards this Friday on CBS.

Benard, who has portrayed Sonny Corinthos on General Hospital since 1993, is a two-time Daytime Emmy Award winner, including a win last year in the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series category.

Bernard joins a presenters and performers roster that includes Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest, Kelsey Grammer, Gayle King, Melody Scott Thomas, Kathie Lee Gifford, Cookie Monster, Scott Evans, Patrika Darbo, Kevin Frazier, Wayne Brady, Michael Strahan, James Reynolds, Jacqueline MacInnes Wood, Nate Burleson, Sunny Hostin and Eric Braeden.

The event’s hosts will be Sharon Osbourne, Sheryl Underwood, Eve, Carrie Ann Inaba and Marie Osmond.

This year, awards in the leading categories will be presented virtually, with recipients and other guests appearing from home. Additional categories will be announced on the Daytime Emmys’ social media accounts simultaneously with the CBS broadcast, with some immediately following the broadcast and others streamed in separate virtual ceremonies on July 19 and July 26.

The 47th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards will be broadcast Friday, June 26, 8:00 – 10:00 pm ET/PT) on CBS.

Categories scheduled for the CBS broadcast include:

Outstanding Drama Series
Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actress in a Drama Series
Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actor in a Drama Series
Outstanding Entertainment News Show
Outstanding Writing Team for a Drama Series
Outstanding Digital Drama Series
Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Host
Outstanding Game Show Host
Outstanding Game Show
Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series
Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show
Outstanding Informative Talk Show
Outstanding Younger Performer in a Drama Series
Outstanding Legal/Courtroom Program
Outstanding Special Class Special
Outstanding Culinary Series
Outstanding Morning Show
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series

Consuelos & Kelly Ripa to Develop Book “Geek Girl Rising” into Scripted TV Series

Posted on April 2, 2017 by Tom Castaneda

Mark Consuelos is ready to Geek out…

The 46-year-old half-Mexican actor and his wife Kelly Ripa will develop the book Geek Girl Rising: Inside the Sisterhood Shaking Up Tech as a scripted television series, according to Variety.

ABC Studios optioned the book, which will be released by St. Martin’s Press on May 23.

Ripa and Consuelos will executive produce along with Albert Bianchini through their Milojo Productions banner, which is currently under an overall deal with the studio.

Milojo also produces the upcoming Logo unscripted series Fire Island” and has previously developed several shows with ABC Studios.

The book, written by journalists Heather Cabot and Samantha Walravens, introduces readers to the female entrepreneurs and technologists who are building the next generation of tech start-ups, investing in each other’s ventures, upending male hacker stereotypes, and rallying women and girls everywhere to join the digital revolution.

According to information cited by the authors, just 2.7 percent of venture capital-funded companies have a female CEO, while 94 percent of venture capitalists are male and mostly white. In addition, 56 percent of women in technology drop out mid-career and only 18 percent of undergraduate computer science degree recipients today are women , which has dropped from a high of 37 percent in 1985.

Logo Greenlights Consuelos- & Kelly Ripa-Produced Docuseries “Fire Island”

Posted on July 21, 2016 by Tom Castaneda

Mark Consuelos is bringing the Fire (Island) to Logo…

The network has given a greenlight to Fire Island, a docuseries from the 45-year-old half-Mexican actor and his wife Kelly Ripa’s SoHo based production company Milojo Productions.

Fire Island will follow a group of young New York City professionals who leave behind the stress of their big-city lives and escape to the magical sun-soaked oasis that is Fire Island Pines.

“Fire Island is an exciting new addition to Logo’s slate and perfectly complements the stories our audience craves,” said Pamela Post, Logo’s SVP Original Programming.

Milojo Productions will produce the docuseries with Albert Bianchini and Lenid Rolov.

Consuelos, who currently appears on Queen of the South, and Ripa’s production company has previously produced American Cheerleader, Secret Guide to Fabulous and Get On Pointe, among other projects.

Consuelos and Kelly Ripa Developing “Rated P for Parenthood” for ABC Family

Posted on June 5, 2014 by Tom Castaneda

Mark Consuelos may soon be bringing Rated P programming to ABC Family…

The network has put in development Rated P for Parenthood, a half-hour musical comedy chronicling the stages of modern-day parenting from the 43-year-old half-Mexican actor and his wife Kelly Ripa’s Milojo Prods. and writer-actress Jamie Denbo.

ABC Signature, the cable division of ABC Studios, is producing Rated P For Parenthood, which is based on the stage musical comedy of the same name created by Sandy Rustin, with music and lyrics by Dan Lipton and David Rossmer, which had an off-Broadway run in 2012.

Denbo will write the adaptation and executive-produce the project with Ripa and Consuelos.

In the spirit of Girls, Avenue Qand Parenthood, Rated P is an irreverent (musical) peek into the struggles of parenting in the age of parents who all still feel much closer to being kids themselves. And in many ways, still are.

Milojo is gearing up production on a new series for Logo, Secret Guide To Fabulous Living. Two digital projects, Unstoppable Moms and La Familia De Hoy have premiered online in recent months, with another, 30 Things for Conde Nast Entertainment’s Glamour channel, in the beginning stages of production.

Consuelos May Star in Comedy Pilot for ABC

Posted on October 23, 2012 by Tom Castaneda

Mark Consuelos may soon be moving on up to Manhattan’s Upper West Side…

ABC is thisclose to closing on a script deal for a comedy that will star the 41-year-old half-Mexican actor and former All My Children star.

Executive produced by Consuelos and his wife, Live With Kelly & Michael host Kelly Ripa, the half-hour project will be written by Peter Murrieta.

Produced by ABC Studios, the comedy centers on a blue-collar handyman from Queens (Consuelos) who enters the wealthy world of New York City’s Upper West Side, where he and his son become part of a non-traditional family unit.

This marks the second time ABC and ABC Studios are developing a comedy starring Consuelos. Two years ago, the network bought Port Love, a workplace comedy written by Jeffrey Hodes and Nastaran Dibai.

Consuelos, who rose to acclaim as the hunky Mateo Santos on All My Children, is currently recurring on FX’s American Horror Story: Asylum. He’s previously guest-starred on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Third Watch and Friends.

Meanwhile, this is the second broadcast project this season for Murrieta, who also has a semi-autobiographical multi-generational family show currently set up at NBC. He served as showrunner on the first three seasons of the Disney Channel’s Emmy-winning Wizards Of Waverly Place.

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Consuelos & Kelly Ripa to Develop Book “Geek Girl Rising” into Scripted TV Series

Logo Greenlights Consuelos- & Kelly Ripa-Produced Docuseries “Fire Island”

Consuelos and Kelly Ripa Developing “Rated P for Parenthood” for ABC Family

Consuelos May Star in Comedy Pilot for ABC