Spike TV is partnering up Jimmy Fallon to produce his Tonight Show skit, Lip Sync Battle , into a television series.
Fallon made the announcement Thursday night on the Tonight Show and said the network has ordered 10 half-hour episodes of Lip Sync Battle . The show will feature celebrities going head to head lip syncing to a song of their choice to see who is the best at lip syncing.
Jimmy Fallon, John Krasinski and Stephen Merchant will appear and perform on the show, as well as serving as executive producers. In addition, Rick Schwartz of Fallon’s Eight Million Plus, Jay Peterson of Matador, and Casey Patterson will also be executive producers of the show. Emmy winner and former SNL director Beth McCarthy-Miller will direct the new Spike TV series.
“Lip Sync Battling is one of the coolest things happening in pop culture right now and already has a huge fan base thanks to the amazing talent involved,” said Casey Patterson, executive vice president of talent development and production at Viacom Entertainment Group. “We’re thrilled to be in business with producers as talented as Jimmy, John and Stephen as Spike broadens its programming in new and exciting ways.”
Lip Sync Battle will begin taping in January in New York City, and will premiere on April 2, 2015.
Here is a clip of Jimmy Fallon’s Lip Sync Battle on The Tonight Show:
