Neil Patrick Harris doesn?t scare easily. He is, after all, the guy who strode across the Dolby Theater stage in nothing but his tighty-whities as the host of this year?s Oscars.
So the idea of fronting a live hour of hard-to-describe television for NBC in the first eight weeks of the 2015-16 season doesn?t faze him in the slightest. Or so he insists. ?Best Time Ever With Neil Patrick Harris? is getting the Rolls-Royce treatment from NBC as the tentpole of the Peacock?s fall launch, fueled by his star power. ?At worst, it fails. And if it fails, then I?ll do something else,? he says over a late breakfast in Beverly Hills in August between a packed schedule of production meetings. He?s doing a good job of making it sound like an easy thing for him to take a flier on; that?s the same approach he?ll have to take on air to convince viewers to join the party. And stay.
