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Academy Awards producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron asked to return for 2014 Oscar show

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FILE - This Nov. 15, 2007 file photo shows Craig Zadan, left, and Neil Meron, producers of the film "Hairspray" at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival\'s Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film presented to actor John Travolta in Santa Barbara, Calif. Zadan and Meron will produce the Oscars again. The film academy announced Tuesday, April 17, 2013, that it has invited Zadan and Meron to return for the 2014 Academy Awards telecast. (AP Photo/Michael A. Mariant, file)

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Craig Zadan and Neil Meron will produce the Oscars again.

The film academy announced Tuesday that it has invited Zadan and Meron to return for the 2014 Academy Awards telecast.

The duo say they are “honoured” to come back.

Zadan and Meron’s show earlier this year featured “Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane as host. It drew Oscar’s largest audience since 2010.

Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences president Hawk Koch says Zadan and Meron have “the overwhelming support of the Academy’s governors” to produce the Oscars a second time.

There’s no word on whether MacFarlane will also return as host. He said during the run-up to the show that he saw the Oscar job as “a one-time thing.”

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