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CBS announced today it has given a 13 episode series production commitment to a new one-hour drama from Emmy Award winner Dick Wolf for broadcast during the 2018-2019 season.

Twelve-time CMA Awards winner Miranda Lambert took the Marathon Music Works stage in Nashville on Tuesday with fourteen of the songwriters from Lambert's album The Weight of These Wings for a special taping of CMA Songwriters Series presented by U.S. Bank with the public television concert program Front and Center .

Comedy Central, the #1 brand in comedy, continues to expand its brand and deepen its engagement with fans with the launch of its latest venture a global podcast network.

getTV will add back-to-back episodes of the supernatural drama series Ghost Whisperer, starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, to its weekday lineup beginning September 25 at 1 and 2PM ET/12N and 1PM C.

On Saturday, October 7, Pratt Institute's Alumni Achievement Awards 2017 will be presented to five accomplished alumni during a special D ner en Noir catered dining event to be held as part of Alumni Day 2017.

TV fans rejoice! For the first-time ever, all 194 episodes of the Emmy Award-winning pop-culture phenomenon Will & Grace will be available to stream and on-demand.

On November 2, 2017, The Paley Center for Media will pay tribute to Alec Baldwin's illustrious career at A Paley Honors Luncheon Celebrating Alec Baldwin.

NBC has won its fourth consecutive September-to-September television season in the key primetime demographic of adults 18-49, having clinched a first-place finish with one week left to count in the 2016-17 season, according to most current ratings data from Nielsen Media Research.

NBC Sports Group's live Premier League coverage continues this week, highlighted by Liverpool visiting Jamie Vardy and Leicester City this Saturday, September 23, at 12:30 p.m. ET on NBC and Universo. Vardy has scored four goals for the Foxes so far this season, tied for third-most in the league, while Liverpool come off a 1-1 draw with Burnley.

NBC's Emmy Award-winning Saturday Night Live will once again air live simultaneously around the country beginning with the highly anticipated season 43 premiere on Sept. 30 with host Ryan Gosling and musical guest Jay-Z.

Hockey is back as NBC Sports presents a pair of NHL preseason games this week, highlighted by the 2017 Kraft Hockeyville USA matchup featuring the St. Louis Blues and the two-time defending Stanley Cup Champion Pittsburgh Penguins on Sunday at 8 p.m. ET on NBCSN.

For the 2nd week in a row, Nightline improved on the year-ago week (472,000 and 346,000, respectively, for w/o 9/12/17) in Adults 25-54 (+4%) and Adults 18-49 (+6%).

For the week of September 11, 2017, ABC's 'The Chew' out-delivered CBS' 'The Talk' for the 14th consecutive week in key Women 18-49(+28% 318,000/0.5 rating vs. 248,000/0.4 rating).

ABC's The View averaged 2.785 million Total Viewers, 522,000 Women 25-54 and 398,000 Women 18-49 during the week of September 11, 2017, based on Live + Same Day Data from Nielsen Media Research.

HGTV has greenlighted production of Flip or Flop Paradise, the newest installment for its booming Flip or Flop franchise

The premiere of THE ORVILLE, FOX's new space adventure series created by and starring Seth MacFarlane, earned a 7-day multi-platform audience of 12.2 million viewers. Marking the network's largest drama debut in two and a half years since EMPIRE (15.6 million viewers, 1/7/15*), THE ORVILLE posted a +44% lift in multi-platform viewers from Live +Same Day, according to Nielsen.

Telemundo Phoenix / KTAZ announced today that Hector Lagunas has been named Video Journalist for Noticiero Telemundo Arizona for the station's weekday newscasts at 4PM, 4:30 PM, 5PM and 10 PM.

On Tuesday September 19th Telemundo will announce the nominees for the 2017 Latin American Music Awards (Latin AMAs) beginning with the announcement of two categories on Un Nuevo Dia.

Emmy-awarding winning BIG LITTLE LIES receives an encore play of all seven episodes back-to-back on HBO2 this Thursday, Sept. 21, starting at 8:00 p.m. (ET/PT).

Today, SHOWTIME announced the newest film to join its growing slate of music specials and documentaries, GEORGE MICHAEL: FREEDOM, premiering on Saturday, October 21 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on-air, on demand and over the internet.