About Extra
HOST
Derek Hough, Host
Emmy® Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Derek Hough started dancing in his hometown of Salt Lake City, Utah, at age 11. Just one year later, he moved to London to live and train with the top dance coaches in the world and attend the prestigious Italia Conti performing arts school, where he studied theatre, music, and dance.
CORRESPONDENTS
Mona Kosar Abdi, Senior Correspondent
Mona Kosar Abdi is a Senior Correspondent and weekend co-host with “Extra,” based in New York City.
Terri Seymour, Correspondent
Terri Seymour joined "Extra" in 2004 as a freelance reporter covering "American Idol," and was then promoted to a full-time correspondent position. Terri continues to cover television, fashion-and-beauty segments, movie premieres, junkets, on-set visits, and is a regular red-carpet favorite.
Carlos Greer, Special Correspondent
Carlos Greer is one of "Extra’s" special correspondents based in New York. He first started working for the program in 2019. Greer is also a senior reporter at New York Post gossip column Page Six, where he also hosted the brand's digital crime show "New York Post Reports: Off the Record" on discovery + and IDGO. He previously co-hosted the nationally syndicated entertainment newsmagazine show "Page Six TV."
Tommy DiDario, Special Correspondent
Tommy DiDario has interviewed some of the biggest stars in the world, like Ryan Reynolds, Jennifer Lopez, Robert De Niro, Selena Gomez and so many more.
Alecia Davis, Nashville Correspondent
Alecia Davis interviews some of today’s biggest celebrities on the Emmy award-winning entertainment news show “Extra,” garnering exclusive interviews with Dolly Parton, Garth Brooks, Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid, Blake Shelton, Tim McGraw, Kelly Clarkson, Reba McEntire, Miranda Lambert, Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood, Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Kenny Chesney, and more.
Adam Glassman, Special Correspondent
Adam Glassman has been creative director of Oprah Daily, formerly known as O, The Oprah Magazine, since 2000, overseeing the style pages, all aspects of the magazine’s cover shoots, and the highly anticipated "O Favorite Things."
Michael Corbett, Special Correspondent
Michael Corbett is a two-time Emmy winner and one of “Extra’s” expert correspondents.
He is the creator, host, and senior supervising producer of our signature franchise “Extra’s Mansions & Millionaires!” Michael travels the world for the popular half-hour specials and gives viewers a sneak peek of the extraordinary mansions, destinations, and vacation spots of the rich and famous.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
Jeremy Spiegel, Executive Producer
Veteran producer Jeremy Spiegel serves as executive producer of the Emmy® Award-winning newsmagazine "Extra," now in its 32nd season. It marks Spiegel's 29th year with the show.
ABOUT THE SHOW
“Extra” has named four-time Emmy® Award winner, New York Times bestselling author, and “Dancing with the Stars” judge Derek Hough as host for Season 32. With Hough as host, the show enters an exciting new chapter, with continued dynamic storytelling and deeper connections with global audiences across all platforms. "Extra" remains a category leader, breaking headlines and providing a unique, fresh take on entertainment news, advancing the biggest pop culture stories of the day. Reaching all linear, digital, and social audiences, “Extra” has garnered a cross-platform reach of over 100 million each month.
As the second longest-running entertainment news magazine in syndication, “Extra” has covered over 14,000 red carpets, with over 80,000 celebrity interviews, creating a quarter of a million minutes of original content.
The show has received 12 consecutive Daytime Emmy nominations for Outstanding Entertainment News Program, winning the Emmy in 2014, and the show took home the top prize again in 2016. “Extra” has continually refreshed its format to deliver daily entertainment and pop culture news in a unique and trailblazing way.
Under Jeremy Spiegel, who has served as executive producer for over a decade, the 32nd season of “Extra” will be freshly reimagined with brand-new segments built around Hough, original digital content, and “Extras,” and with a dynamic new set and graphics. Hough will sit down for engaging and exclusive interviews with celebrity friends and take us behind the scenes of his many projects, including “Dancing with the Stars” and beyond. Alongside Hough, Senior Correspondent and Weekend Host Mona Kosar Abdi and Correspondent Terri Seymour will also tap into their contacts and continue to cover breaking entertainment news and major Hollywood events, from award-show red carpets to one-on-one interviews with Hollywood’s hottest film and TV stars.
Cleared to date for Season 32 in over 95 percent of the country, “Extra” has been renewed by Fox Television Stations, Nexstar Media Group, Sinclair Broadcast Group, TEGNA, Hearst Television, Scripps Broadcasting, Gray Media, Sunbeam Television, CBS, Mission Broadcasting, Morgan Murphy Media, Coastal Television, Allen Media, American Spirit, Lilly Broadcasting, News-Press & Gazette Company, Block Communications, Imagicomm Communications, Circle City Broadcasting, Weigel Broadcasting, Griffin Media, Marquee Broadcasting, Morris Network, Draper Media, Heartland Media, Heritage, Standard Media, Wray Properties Trust, Channel Communications, Community Broadcast Group, and Price Media Corporation.
“Extra” offers a half-hour edition every weekday and an original hour-long weekend installment for 52 weeks a year. The series is produced by Telepictures, a Warner Bros. Television Group company, and distributed by Warner Bros. Discovery Content Sales.
