VH1 TO PREMIERE “RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE HOLI-SLAY
SPECTACULAR”
FEATURING RETURNING FRANCHISE SUPERSTARS
ON FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7 AT 8:00 PM ET/PT
NEW
YORK, NY
VH1 announced that the Emmy® Award-winning “RuPaul’s
Drag Race” will air a holiday-themed episode on Friday,
December 7 at 8:00 PM ET/PT. The one-hour “RuPaul’s Drag
Race Holi-slay Spectacular” will bring back franchise favorites
including Eureka O’Hara, Jasmine Masters, Kim Chi, Latrice Royale,
Mayhem Miller, Shangela, Sonique, and Trixie Mattel as they
compete for the title of America’s first “Drag Race Xmas Queen.”
The eight queens will return for an extraordinary holiday-themed
episode filled with jaw-dropping surprises, eye-popping fashions,
and epic performances choreographed by Todrick Hall. The queens
will be dancing and lip-syncing to original holiday music from
two RuPaul holiday albums, the classic “Slay Belles” and the
new album, “Christmas Party.” Michelle Visage, Ross Mathews,
and Todrick Hall will join RuPaul on the judging panel to help
crown America’s first “Drag Race Christmas Queen.”
"Nothing says Christmas like ‘Chestnuts roasting on an open
fire, and drag queens slipping on their pantyhose,'" said three-time
Emmy® Award-winning host and EP RuPaul. "Celebrating the holidays
with my most festive girls inspired me to record my new album,
‘Christmas Party.’ And this VH1 holiday extravaganza is my way
of saying thank you to my ‘Drag Race’ family by spreading a
little bit of love, laughter and light across the country and
around the world.”
The special comes on the heels of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” making
Emmy ® history as the first series to win both Outstanding Host
of a Reality Competition Program and Outstanding Reality Competition
Program in the same year. Additionally, the milestone tenth
season was the most watched season in franchise history across
both “Drag Race” and “All Stars,” averaging 794,000 P18-49 Live+7
viewers and 1.2 million Live+7 total viewers. Both season 11
of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” and season 4 of “All Stars” were previously
greenlit by VH1.
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news, go to RuPaulsDragRace.com.
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RuPaul’s holiday albums “Christmas Party” and “Slay Belles”
are available on iTunes, Amazon and Google Music.
“RuPaul’s Drag Race Holi-slay Spectacular” is
produced by World of Wonder Productions with Fenton Bailey,
Randy Barbato, Tom Campbell, Steven Corfe, Mandy Salangsang
and RuPaul Charles serving as Executive Producers. Pamela Post
and Tim Palazzola serve as Executive Producers for VH1, and
Jen Passovoy serves as Producer.
Source: NMR, Live+7, P18-49 and P2+ 000s, S10: 3/22/18-5/24/18
compared to all other seasons of Ru across VH1 and Logo (Ru
2-9 + AS 1-3), ranked on impressions.
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About World of Wonder:
Award-winning production company World of Wonder is behind entertaining
and critically acclaimed hit series including the Emmy® Award
winning RuPaul’s Drag Race (VH1/Logo), which received a groundbreaking
seven 2017 Emmy® nominations, Million Dollar Listing LA & NY
(Bravo), Big Freedia: Queen of Bounce (Fuse), and Gender Revolution:
A Journey with Katie Couric (National Geographic). World of
Wonder has also created award-winning films and documentaries
such as Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures, Menendez: Blood
Brothers, Inside Deep Throat, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, I Am Britney
Jean, In Vogue: The Editor’s Eye, Carrie Fisher’s Wishful Drinking,
Monica in Black and White, The Last Beekeeper, which won an
Emmy® Award for Outstanding Nature Programming and Out of Iraq,
which won an Emmy® Award for Outstanding Special Class Special.
Seven of their films have premiered at the Sundance Film festival
including Becoming Chaz and Party Monster, the documentary and
feature film starring Macaulay Culkin. World of Wonder has created
a substantial digital footprint with its YouTube channel WOWPresents,
along with an award-winning blog, The WOW Report. Co-founders
Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey authored The World According
to Wonder, celebrating 21 years of production, which can be
found online at http://worldofwonder.net/.
Randy and Fenton were honored with the IDA Pioneer Award in
December 2014, celebrating exceptional achievement, leadership,
and vision in the nonfiction and documentary community.