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For Immediate Release PEOPLE, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY & TNT RED CARPET LIVE: 25TH SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS®” PRE-SHOW STREAMS ON SUNDAY, JANUARY 27 PeopleTV’s Exclusive Official Pre-Show, Presented by Reynolds Wrap® Streams Live at 5:30pm ET/2:30pm PT Harry Shum Jr. and Yvonne Strahovski to Announce Outstanding Action Performances by Film and Television Stunt Ensembles During Official Pre-Show #SAGAwardsLive (LOS ANGELES, Jan. 17, 2019) – PEOPLE and Entertainment Weekly, in partnership with TNT, will host the official live, red carpet streaming pre-show in celebration of the SAG AWARDS® on Sunday, January 27 beginning at 5:30 p.m. ET/2:30 p.m. PT from Los Angeles. PEOPLE Deputy Editor JD Heyman and PeopleTV hosts Jeremy Parsons (PEOPLE Now), Lola Ogunnaike (Couch Surfing) and Andrea Boehlke (PEOPLE Now) will co-host PEOPLE, Entertainment Weekly & TNT Red Carpet Live: 25th Screen Actors Guild Awards®. Additional commentary on the night’s biggest stars as well as this year’s standout moments from film and television will be provided by Turner Classic Movie (TCM) primetime host Ben Mankiewicz. The official pre-show will livestream beginning at 5:30 p.m. ET/2:30 p.m. PT on PeopleTV, the streaming network from PEOPLE and Entertainment Weekly. It will also be available to stream on tntdrama.com/sag-awards, sagawards.org, PEOPLE.com and EW.com, in addition to being broadcast live in Times Square. Social platforms streaming the pre-show include: Facebook (PEOPLE, EW, PeopleTV, InStyle, TNT, TBS), Twitter (PEOPLE, EW, PeopleTV, TNT, TBS) and YouTube (PEOPLE, TNT). PEOPLE and Entertainment Weekly will post socially throughout the evening using the hashtag #SAGAwardsLive. In honor of the SAG Awards Silver Anniversary, Reynolds Wrap® will roll out the silver carpet, celebrating the brand’s signature color. On the silver carpet, SAG Awards® Ambassador Harry Shum Jr., a SAG Awards motion picture cast nominee (Crazy Rich Asians), and SAG Awards drama ensemble nominee Yvonne Strahovski (The Handmaid’s Tale) will exclusively reveal the honorees for Outstanding Action Performances by Film and Television Stunt Ensembles. The nominees for this year’s Outstanding Action Performance by Film Stunt Ensembles are: Ant-Man and the Wasp, Avengers: Infinity War, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Black Panther and Mission Impossible: Fallout. The nominees for this year’s Outstanding Action Performance by Television Stunt Ensembles are: Glow, Marvel’s Daredevil, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, The Walking Dead and Westworld. The awards ceremony will be hosted by Megan Mullally. Tom Hanks will present Alan Alda with this year’s SAG Life Achievement Award. Ambassadors for the 25th Anniversary Screen Actors Guild Awards® are Yara Shahidi and Harry Shum Jr. The 25th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® will be simulcast live on TNT and TBS from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on Sunday, January 27 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT. About PEOPLE PEOPLE revolutionized personality journalism when it launched as a weekly in 1974 with a mission to celebrate extraordinary people doing ordinary things and ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Ubiquitous and still at the center of pop culture more than 40 years later, the PEOPLE brand is accessible across all media and platforms (print, digital, video, OTT, mobile, social) bringing more than 100 million consumers a unique mix of breaking entertainment news, exclusive photos, video, unparalleled access to the red carpet, celebrities, and in- depth reporting on the most compelling newsmakers of our time. An essential component of PEOPLE’s editorial vision remains human interest stories, which touch and often mirror the lives of our passionate audience. ComScore ranks the PEOPLE/Entertainment Weekly Digital Network No. 1 in the entertainment news category. And now, the PeopleTV app offers a free, advertiser-supported OTT streaming video service. PEOPLE is an award- winning 24/7 news organization headquartered in NYC with reporters worldwide. For more information visit PEOPLE.com and follow @people on Twitter and Instagram, @peoplemag on Facebook, and the PEOPLE channel on YouTube and on Snapchat’s Discover. About Entertainment Weekly Meredith Corporation’s Entertainment Weekly (EW) is your all-access pass to Hollywood’s most creative minds and most fascinating stars. The magazine was launched in 1990 and is America’s leading consumer publication in the entertainment category, with a guaranteed circulation rate base of 1.5 million and a combined audience of almost 28 million loyal, engaged fans. Each day, EW.com publishes a myriad of featured stories, news articles, TV-recaps, original videos, film reviews and photo galleries. EW is the first to know about the best in entertainment. With sharp insight, unparalleled access and a trusted voice, EW keeps readers plugged into pop culture. This is where the buzz begins. About the 25th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® The 25th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, hosted by Megan Mullally and presented by SAG-AFTRA with Screen Actors Guild Awards, LLC will be produced by Avalon Harbor Entertainment, Inc. and nationally simulcast live on TNT and TBS on Sunday, Jan. 27, 2019 at 8 p.m. (ET) / 5 p.m. (PT), followed by a special encore presentation at 11 p.m. (ET) /8 p.m. (PT). TNT and TBS subscribers also have the option to watch the SAG Awards live through the network’s websites, mobile apps and connected device apps. The telecast is available internationally, including to U.S. military installations through the American Forces Network. One of the awards season’s premier events, the SAG Awards annually celebrates the outstanding motion picture and television performances from the previous calendar year. Of the top industry honors presented to actors, only the SAG Awards are selected entirely by performers’ peers in SAG-AFTRA. The SAG Awards was the first televised awards show to acknowledge the work of union members and the first to present awards to motion picture casts and television ensembles. For more information about the SAG Awards, SAG-AFTRA, TNT and TBS, visit sagawards.org/about. Thumbnails of the photos and graphics available for the 25th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards are at sagawards.org/media/newsinfo/photos-and-artwork. Connect with the SAG Awards® Hashtag: #sagawards Website: sagawards.org Facebook: facebook.com/sagawardsofficialpage/ Twitter: twitter.com/sagawards/ Instagram: instagram.com/sagawards/ About TNT TNT is basic cable's #1 network in primetime with young adults and is home to one of cable's most popular slates of original series, including The Alienist, Animal Kingdom, Claws, the upcoming I Am the Night, Snowpiercer, Tell Me Your Secrets and The Angel of Darkness. TNT also presents popular shows such as Arrow, Supernatural, Bones and Castle; primetime specials such as the Screen Actors Guild Awards®; and championship sports coverage, including the NBA and the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship. Connect with TNT Website: tntdrama.com Pressroom: turner.com/pressroom/united-states/tnt YouTube: youtube.com/user/tntweknowdrama Facebook: facebook.com/TNTDrama Twitter: twitter.com/TNTDrama | twitter.com/TNTPR TNT app available for Xbox One, iOS, Android and other platforms and devices. MEDIA CONTACTS: Rosalind Jarrett Sepulveda, SAG Awards, 323.918.1440 Marnie Perez, PEOPLE, 212 522 6300 Screen Actors Guild Awards®, LLC phone 323.918.1440 • email [email protected] • web www.sagawards.org 15821 Ventura Boulevard • Suite 110 • Encino, CA 91436 Airs Sunday, January 27, 2019 on TNT & TBS .