The Motion Picture Television Fund telethon Lights, Digicam, Take Motion! returns for its third version Sunday, airing dwell in Los Angeles on KTLA-Channel 5 from 7-9 p.m. PT.
Yvette Nicole Brown and Tom Bergeron return to co-host the occasion, overseeing a night of tales, songs and celeb appearances to assist elevate funds for Hollywood crew staff in want. Additionally returning this 12 months are producers Phil Rosenthal (Any individual Feed Phil) and writer-critic-producer David Wild.
Along with KTLA, you may watch the telethon livestream on Deadline above.
The MPTF telethon’s first 12 months raised greater than $850,000 and scored an L.A. Space Emmy nomination. Final 12 months, the present raised $750,000 at a time when staff had been impacted by the summer-long WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.
Organizers have set a $750,000 objective for tonight’s occasion, which is able to function KTLA’s Dayna Devon as host of the dwell Superstar Lounge, and Tiffany Smith internet hosting the tote board. Click here to donate.
Others anticipated to reply telephones and make appearances tonight embody, per the MPTF, Adam Shapiro, Alex Winter, Camilla Belle, the forged of The Neighborhood, Cedric the Entertainer, Clark Gregg, Colin Farrell, Cooper Koch, Diane Schuur, Ellen Ok, Emily Hampshire, Henry Winkler, Ike Barinholtz, Jay Ellis, Jeff Torres, Jimmy Jam, Jimmy Kimmel, Jonathan Nolan, Josh Margolin, Keegan-Michael and Elle Key, Ken Jeong, Kyle Bornheimer, Lisa Loeb, Maria Russell, Max Greenfield, McG, Melissa Gilbert, Morgan Freeman, Howie Mandel, Rob Morrow, Spencer Garrett, Tony Goldwyn, Virginia Madsen, Walton Goggins, Whoopi Goldberg, Will Forte and William Shatner, with extra anticipated.
“Our group’s founder, Mary Pickford, acknowledged on the very inception of the movie trade in Hollywood that for a lot of the workforce employment can be unpredictable and that profitable careers can be troublesome to carve out,” MPTF CEO and president Bob Beitcher mentioned. “These previous few years, with the pandemic after which the strike-related work stoppages, haven’t solely demonstrated Mary’s perception but in addition highlighted the necessity for a corporation like MPTF that ‘takes care of our personal’ in instances of monetary disaster.”
