Uzo Aduba Leads Schmigadoon Tony Nominations on CBS Mornings
Uzo Aduba and Darren Criss led the schmigadoon Tony nominations rollout on May 5, with some of the top categories announced exclusively on CBS Mornings. The rest of the 2026 Tony Awards nominations moved to the Tony Awards' YouTube channel and TonyAwards.com, splitting the reveal across broadcast and digital platforms.
CBS Mornings and TonyAwards.com
Aduba, a Tony Award nominee, and Criss, a Tony Award winner, handled the top-category announcement on Tuesday, giving the morning show the highest-profile part of the day’s rollout. That format keeps the biggest names in the first frame while pushing the remainder of the list online, where the organization can drive traffic to its own channels instead of relying on a single televised reveal.
The rest of the nominations followed on the Tony Awards' YouTube channel and on TonyAwards.com, which means the full field for the 2026 Tony Awards was not packaged as one broadcast moment. For viewers and industry watchers, the structure made the nominations easier to follow by category, but it also created two separate entry points for the same news cycle.
P!NK at Radio City Music Hall
P!NK will host the 79th Annual Tony Awards at New York City's Radio City Music Hall on Sunday, June 7, at 8 p.m. ET. The show will air on CBS and Paramount+, keeping the ceremony in the same corporate orbit as the nominations announcement while giving the telecast a live broadcast lane and a streaming one.
“It is the honor of an entire lifetime to host a night celebrating the literal hardest working people in showbiz.” That line sets the tone for a telecast that now has its host, venue, time, and distribution in place, even as the nominations themselves arrive in pieces rather than one clean broadcast dump.
79th Annual Tony Awards field
The split rollout is the real operational detail here: top categories on CBS Mornings, the rest on the Tony Awards' digital platforms, then the ceremony on CBS and Paramount+ about a month later. For nominees, that means the first wave of attention landed on network television, while the complete list was designed to keep the conversation alive online after the morning segment ended.
For readers tracking the race, the key takeaway is simple: the field is set, the host is set, and the ceremony is locked for Radio City Music Hall on June 7. The only thing left is the awards itself, and by then the conversation has already been divided between the names that got television time and the ones that had to pick up momentum online.
