Dana Carvey to Helm Impressions Competition for USA Network
The USA network just picked up a new reality/competition series that comes from Executive Producer and Saturday Night Live alum Dana Carvey. Carvey is widely held to be the best celebrity impressionist out there. His impressions are so good that many of his impressions have become the basis for other people’s impressions.
The new half hour series is called First Impressions and will pit amateur impressionists against each other each week. The competition will incorporate an audience vote and there will be winners. Carvey plans to mentor contestants and appear on the show, along with other celebrity guests.
“There is no better talent to mentor these contestants than the master of impressions, Dana Carvey,” said Jackie de Crinis, executive vp original programming at USA Network. “The expertise and humor that he will bring to the series is unsurpassed and we can’t wait to have his world famous celebrity impersonations on our network.”
Carvey will executive produce the project with Jeff Gaspin, David Garfinkle and Jay Renfroe.
