Kelly Clarkson is heading to primetime for particular version episodes of The Kelly Clarkson Present later this yr.
4 brand-new episodes of Songs & Tales with Kelly Clarkson will premiere on August 19, August 26, September 2, and September 9 on NBC at 10 p.m. ET/PT. The specials will characteristic Clarkson sitting down with Gloria Estefan, the Jonas Brothers, Lizzo, and Teddy Swims to debate all issues life and music.
“The conversations are a front-row cross for Kelly Clarkson to have interaction with a few of her favourite celebrities and look at each their music and private lives,” an NBC press launch reads. “The specials are a discussion board the place iconic voices meet heartfelt storytelling via unfiltered dialog and sung in an intimate, unplugged setting.”
Songs & Tales originated as a particular episode format of The Kelly Clarkson Present, with previous company together with Babyface, Alanis Morissette, and P!NK. Clarkson and Miranda Lambert even went viral with their cowl of Chappell Roan‘s “Good Luck, Babe!” through the nation star’s Songs & Tales episode in September 2024.
Clarkson’s primetime specials will air amid hypothesis that she’s going to depart her eponymous daytime collection subsequent yr when her contract expires. (The American Idol alum beforehand took a break from the present in March as a result of a non-public private matter earlier than returning later that month.)
“[Clarkson] might bolt at any time. The place does that depart me?” an nameless producer informed the Day by day Mail in Could, including, “Nobody likes the uncertainty. This feels prefer it might collapse any minute.”
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On the time, the outlet reported that former At the moment host Hoda Kotb might take over for Clarkson. “Everybody loves Kelly. She’s an exquisite particular person. However perhaps Hoda could be a greater boss. I do know she’s universally beloved and revered by her former coworkers,” the producer acknowledged. “Possibly she could be good. She positive could be much more steady than what we’ve been going via. … If Kelly is sad, then she ought to transfer on. We might all perceive. If Hoda desires to do it, it may very well be [a] win-win for everybody.”
Kotb, nonetheless, shut down the rumors whereas showing on At the moment for the primary time since her January exit on Could 28. “Do you suppose that if I ever got here again to TV … are you aware the one place I’d ever come again is? Proper right here, that is the spot,” she defined to Savannah Guthrie and Craig Melvin. “There’s no place like house.”
Songs & Tales with Kelly Clarkson, collection premiere, Tuesday, August 19, 10 p.m. ET/PT, NBC/episodes accessible to stream subsequent day on Peacock