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The judges of SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE announced the Top 20 finalists who will compete to be named America's Favorite Male and Female Dancer. This season's Top 20 finalists are: Girls - Alexa Anderson, Lindsay Arnold, Witney Carson, Audrey Case, Janaya French, Eliana Girard, Amber Jackson, Janelle Issis, Amelia Lowe and Tiffany Maher; and Boys - Daniel Baker, Nick Bloxsom-Carter, Cole Horibe, Matthew Kazmierczak, Dareian Kujawa, George Lawrence II, Brandon Mitchell, Cyrus Spencer, Will Thomas and Chehon Wespi-Tschopp.

Following the success of the premiere seasons of Travel Channel's original series 'Hotel Impossible' and 'Baggage Battles,' the Network has greenlit production for second seasons of both hit shows. 'Baggage Battles' will begin filming 14 half-hour episodes in July, and 'Hotel Impossible' will begin filming 13 one-hour episodes next month as well. Additionally, a third season of Travel Channel's popular original paranormal investigative series, 'The Dead Files,' will premiere on Friday, August 10 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT.

EPIX today announced a new monthly comedy showcase 'EPIX Comedy Unbound' kicking off with the EPIX Original Comedy Event Jim Norton: Please Be Offended on June 30.

Comedy Central has given series orders to three new shows scheduled to join the network's roster in 2013, it was announced today by Kent Alterman, Head of Original Programming and Production, Comedy Central.

The Hub TV Network, a destination for kids and their families, returns to Comic-Con International in San Diego in spectacular fashion with a presence at five panels, a live concert, a restaurant take-over and a trolley-car transformation.

Disney Channel has announced 'Let It Shine - Rap Battle Edition,' premiering SATURDAY, JUNE 30 (7:30 p.m., ET/PT), on Disney Channel. Lyrics from the movie's songs, featuring a mix of rap, hip-hop and gospel music performed by stars Tyler James Williams, Coco Jones and Brandon Mychal Smith, will appear on screen throughout the telecast.

Dan Cortese (MTV Sports, Veronica's Closet, Surviving Suburbia) has signed on to host truTV's exciting new series Guinness World Records Gone Wild, which started production today in Santa Monica, Calif. Set to premiere later this year on truTV, Guinness World Records Gone Wild challenges people to push themselves to do astonishing things for their place in history. The one-hour series is being produced for truTV by High Noon Entertainment (Tough Love, Cake Boss, Hurricane Hunters).

The CW Network will strategically roll-out its 2012-13 season this October with the premieres of three new series, returning favorites on new nights and one final season of Upper East Side drama.

TNT has announced a five-hour marathon of Dallas, basic cable's #1 new series for the year-to-date. The lineup will feature the first four episodes of the series, climaxing at 9 p.m. (ET/PT) with the premiere of an all-new episode. In addition, a new installment of the 15-minute post-episode webshow Dallas Round-Up will premiere on http://dallastnt.com at 10 p.m.

ABC's 'Nightline' ranked as the No. 1 program in latenight during 2nd Quarter 2012 in all target demos: Total Viewers (3.843 million), Adults 25-54 (1.503 million) and Adults 18-49 (1.198 million), taking the top spot in back-to-back 2nd quarters, according to Nielsen Media Research.

Bob Costas leads a record 115 NBC Olympic commentators as NBCUniversal will present an unprecedented 5,535 hours of London Olympic Games coverage across NBC, NBC Sports Network, MSNBC, CNBC, Bravo, Telemundo, NBCOlympics.com, two specialty channels, and the first-ever 3D platform, an unprecedented level that surpasses the coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympics by nearly 2,000 hours.

This show is about a rescue mission. Human trafficking is an international problem affecting millions of people and many countries around the world. Nick News with Linda Ellerbee shines a light on this huge issue in the new half-hour special, 'Kids for Sale: Slavery in Ghana,' premiering Sunday, July 15, at 9:00 p.m. (ET/PT) on Nickelodeon.

Nationally-syndicated morning talk show 'LIVE! with Kelly' announces the line-up of guest co-hosts who will join Kelly Ripa during the weeks of July 9-13 and July 16-20, 2012.

The West Coast premiere of The Alaev Family continues the Skirball Cultural Center's annual Sunset Concerts series on Thursday, August 2, 2012 at 8:00 PM. The Alaev Family blends the ancient, rhythmic, and highly percussive music of Central Asia, Turkey, Persia, and Russia with Jewish traditions, on instruments such as the doyra, darbuka, alofon (all percussion instruments), drums, cajon, Turkish clarinet, accordion, kanun (plucked zither), violin, Bukharan and Armenian clarinets, and bass guitar. On stage, The Alaev Family represents three family generations, with eighty-year-old patriarch Allo Alaev at the center playing the doyra (frame drum).

Wolf Trap has announced the following upcoming concerts.

ClassicsFest 2012, Part 2 - The Antaeus Company, L.A.'s classical theater ensemble, presents staged readings of six classics in six weeks.

Milwaukee Repertory Theater is delighted to announce that Aaron Posner returns to The Rep to direct A Christmas Carol, performed annually at the historic Pabst Theater. Posner directed The Rep's To Kill a Mockingbird, which broke all-time attendance records last season, as well as the lyrical, beautifully-realized production of My Name is Asher Lev in 2010. This will be the first time that Posner has directed A Christmas Carol at Milwaukee Rep.

The New-York Historical Society has announced that a rare copy of the "Stone" facsimile of the Declaration of Independence -one of approximately fifty in existence-will be added to the displays in the Judith and Howard Berkowitz Sculpture Court beginning July 3 in honor of Independence Day. The document is being lent to New-York Historical through the courtesy of collector David Rubenstein, managing director of The Carlyle Group, and will remain on view through July 15.

Come Back, Little Sheba, the heartfelt drama that launched William Inge's career and became a Broadway hit, begins previews today at the Shaw Festival's Royal George Theatre. Artistic Director Jackie Maxwell directs this powerful portrayal of flawed humanity and the enduring power of love. With this production, she adds a third work (Picnic (2001), Bus Stop (2005)) by the writer known as the "Playwright of the Midwest" to her directorial repertoire at The Shaw.

Aurora Theatre Company announces that it will add an additional four performances of its current hit production SALOMANIA, Aurora Theatre Company Artistic Director Tom Ross's first new play commission for the company, written and directed by award-winning Bay Area auteur Mark Jackson (Metamorphosis, Salome, Miss Julie).