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Nationally-syndicated morning show 'LIVE! with Kelly' announces the lineup of guest co-hosts who will join Kelly Ripa during the week of June 11-15, 2012.

NBC's top-rated summer series AMERICA'S GOT TALENT will kick off its highly-anticipated Las Vegas audition shows on Monday, June 25th at 9 p.m. ET and includes a third night of Vegas performances for the first time in the show's history.

NBC previously announced that it will shift the season finale of HARRY LAWS to tonight, May 27th and bump its broadcast of THE FIRM. Encores of 'America's Got Talent' will replace both series this weekend.

On last night's episode of AMERICA'S GOT TALENT, controversial radio host and new judge Howard Stern caused a 7-year-old contestant to cry. View the segment below!

USA Network is building on its consistent track record of hits and expanding its original programming slate with the development of several high-profile comedies and drama series

NBC has announced that it will shift the season finale of HARRY LAWS to May 27th and bump its broadcast of THE FIRM. Encores of 'America's Got Talent' will replace both series this weekend.

AMERICA'S GOT TALENT, NBC's top rated summer series from producers FremantleMedia North America and Simon Cowell's SYCO Television, returned last night with the hottest performers from across the country ready to compete in the blockbuster reality show's seventh season. Watch the Elements Dance Crew, who performed on last night's season premiere, below!

The NBC network has renewed the reality show BETTY WHITE'S OFF THEIR ROCKERS, along with 'The Voice,' 'The Celebrity Apprentice,' 'Fashion Star' and 'The Biggest Loser.'

Not making the cut among the network's reality series are 'Escape Routes,' 'Fear Factor,' 'The Sing-Off,' 'Minute to Win It,' 'The Marriage Ref,' 'Who's Still Standing?,' 'It's Worth What?' and 'Who Do You Think You Are?'

NBC announced today an ambitious new primetime lineup for the 2012-13 primetime season that combines one of the top-quality returning lineups on television with a new fall edition of the red-hot musical competition 'The Voice' and a crop of six new scripted series in the fall and four at mid-season.

Shock jock Howard Stern joins the judge's table on the seventh season of NBC's AMERICA'S GOT TALENT. The series returns tonight with the hottest performers from across the country ready to compete in the blockbuster reality show.

NBC has further strengthened its growing Alternative production team with new overall development deals with some of the industry's top-flight reality producers, including Jason Ehrlich ('The Bachelor,' 'The Bachelorette'), David A. Hurwitz (NBC's 'Fear Factor'), Alex Katz (NBC's 'The Biggest Loser') and Lee Metzger (NBC's 'The Voice').

NBC's AMERICA'S GOT TALENT and its producers have again collaborated with YouTube, and for the first time, show sponsor Snapple, to allow talented acts from across the country the opportunity to audition online for their shot at stardom and a million-dollar prize.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Parents Television Council is encouraging 91 sponsors of NBC's reality series AMERICA'S GOT TALENT to boycott the show in support of the group's opposition to the hiring of shock jock Howard Stern as its newest judge.

AMERICA'S GOT TALENT will premiere with two two-hour episodes on Monday, May 14 (8-10 p.m. ET) and Tuesday, May 15 (8-10 p.m. ET). The show's return will feature the first appearance of new judge Howard Stern, who joins fellow judges Howie Mandel and Sharon Osbourne. The series then resumes in its regular day and time on Monday, May 21 (8-9 p.m. ET) and on Tuesday, May 22 (9-10 p.m. ET).

The McCallum Theatre, the Coachella Valley's premiere theatrical venue, will celebrate its 25th Anniversary Season with a star-studded lineup of Classical Music, Jazz, Cabaret, Comedy and a Broadway Blockbuster Series which includes Rock of Ages, Dreamgirls and West Side Story. The season kicks off on August 31 with comedy legend Steve Martin joined by the Grammy nominated Steep Canyon Rangers. This wonderfully eclectic season also includes Pink Martini, Howie Mandell, Barbara Cook, Michael Feinstein, Elaine Page and Yo-Yo Ma, to name a few.

'Bigger, bolder, broader' is the watch cry as truTV adds several new original series to its production and development slate. The network is placing a strong emphasis on comedic and action-packed 'actuality' programming designed to appeal to its young adult and young male audience. Projects in the works include a unique new game show set on an airplane, which is being developed by Howie Mandel and his production company, Alevy Productions. truTV has also ordered a pilot starring Shaquille O'Neal and developed by Fishbowl Worldwide Media, with America's Funniest Home Videos creator/executive producer Vin Di Bona and Tosh.0 co-creator Mike Gibbons among the executive producers.