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The holiday season is officially underway, and top morning show “LIVE with Kelly and Michael” gets ready to celebrate with lots of holiday fun, including its annual Christmas spectacular and end-of-the-year special.

NBC Sports presents a matchup of conference foes this week onWednesday Night Rivalry, when Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins visit Patrice Bergeron and the Boston Bruins at TD Garden in Boston, Mass., on Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET on NBCSN. This week's NHL coverage begins tomorrow night at 8:30 p.m. ET as Patrick Kane looks to extend his 26-game point streak when the Chicago Blackhawks host Nathan MacKinnon and the Colorado Avalanche. Pre-game coverage on NHL Live begins one hour prior to puck drop tomorrow and Wednesday.

Melanie Brook, Anna Ty Bergman, and Kerri George are back with a new video on YouTube, this time, taking on a new mashup featuring Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah' and John Lennon's 'Imagine,' arranged by Nat Zegree. Check it out below!

The Texas Christian Film Festival features the best in genre filmmaking and post screening discussions with fresh film makers and noted panelists. “Our goal is to help audiences discover films that will inspire, entertain, transform and stimulate dialogue,” says festival creator, Ken Bailey. 

Michael McElroy and the Broadway Inspirational Voices (BIV) are welcomed back to First Corinthian Baptist Church for their holiday concert, HOW GREAT OUR JOY, on Monday December 14th at 7:00pm. The concert will feature music from their upcoming album Great Joy II: Around the World, with members from such shows as: HAMILTON, ON YOUR FEET!, THE LION KING, THE COLOR PURPLE, BOOK OF MORMON, FUN HOME, KINKY BOOTS and ALADDIN.

The cast of IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE: A LIVE RADIO PLAY wraps up rehearsals and heads to Bucks County Playhouse this week!

Fox Broadcasting Company (FOX) has ordered SHOTS FIRED, the dramatic new event series from Gina Prince-Bythewood (“Beyond the Lights,” “The Secret Life of Bees,” “Love & Basketball”) and Reggie Rock Bythewood (“Beyond the Lights,” “Notorious”), that examines the dangerous aftermath of racially charged shootings in a small town in Tennessee.  The event series will debut in 2016. 

ABC's “The View” averaged 2.688 million Total Viewers, 551,000 Women 25-54 and 414,000 Women 18-49 during the week of November 30, 2015, based on Live +Same Day Data from Nielsen Media Research. 

During the week of November 30, 2015, “The Chew” feasted on 9-month highs in Women 18-49 (440,000/0.7 rating) and Women 25-54 (546,000/0.9 rating), and delivered its 2nd-best week in the time frame in Total Viewers (2.648 million) – since 2/23/15, 3/2/15 and 3/2/15, respectively.

NBC Sports Group, the media “Home of Motorsports,” drove viewership records and milestones across all of its motorsports properties in 2015, led by the most-watched NASCAR season finale in a decade, and NBCSN's most-watched IndyCar and Formula One seasons to date.

TELEMUNDO today announced the network's Monday-Friday primetime ratings in 2015 were the highest in its history among total viewers (1.67M, +9% vs. 2014) and adults 18-49 (828K, +9% vs. last year), according to Nielsen. This year, the network gained more total viewers (+144,000), adults 18-49 (+71K) and adults 18-34 (+40K) versus the prior year than any other Spanish-language broadcast network. For the third consecutive year, TELEMUNDO's Spanish-language network share has increased among adults 18-49 and adults 18-34, up +7 points vs. 2014 to 36 and 35 percent, respectively.

 Bravo Media's Emmy Award-winning “Inside the Actors Studio,” hosted by James Lipton, presents a hilarious and heartwarming episode with Academy Award-nominated actor Steve Carell on Thursday, December 17 at 8pm ET/PT.  Lipton welcomes the multi-faceted talent in celebration of his performance in the true-life drama, “The Big Short,” where Carell plays Mark Baum, a money manager who shorted subprime mortgages during the housing and credit bubbles in 2008. With awards season underway, “The Big Short” has just been nominated for two Screen Actors Guild Awards and four Golden Globe Awards ®, including a nomination for Carell in the Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy category for his portrayal of Mark Baum. This marks his eighth Golden Globe Award nomination and the first in this category. The film hits theaters in New York and Los Angeles on Friday, December 11th and nationwide on December 23rd.

Telemundo announced today that acclaimed Mexican journalist Felicidad Aveleyra will be joining Noticias Telemundo as a presenter and reporter. The addition of Aveleyra to the network's news team comes at a time of audience growth and expanded programming in preparation for the upcoming US presidential elections, which are of critical interest to the Hispanic community.

George Takei has taken to YouTube to respond Donald Trump's comments on Muslim immigration, inviting the 2016 Republican Presidential hopeful to take in his new Broadway show, ALLEGIANCE. Takei captioned the video: 'Donald Trump recently said he might have supported the internment camps of WWII. I felt I had to respond, and in the best way I could.'

An exclusive first look at the Castle Craig Players production of THE SANTALAND DIARIES by David Sedaris, running through December 13th only!

Singer/songwriter Jimmy Buffett will make a special live appearance from his concert at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York on "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2016." Buffett will bring everyone to a "Margaritaville" state of mind as he performs his timeless song right after the ball drops at midnight, ringing in the start of 2016. The full evening will include over 38 performances and five-and-a-half hours of music. America's biggest celebration of the year will take place on THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31 beginning at 8 p.m., EST/PST, on the ABC Television Network.

Building on its lead-in at 8:30 p.m., ABC's “Fresh Off the Boat” built 7% week to week in Total Viewers (3.9 million vs. 3.7 million) and was even with its week-ago Fast Affiliate rating (1.2/4), which adjusted up 1-tenth in the Nationals. The ABC sophomore comedy delivered its most watched telecast overall in 5 weeks – since 11/3/15.

During the week of November 23, 2015, “LIVE with Kelly and Michael” grew for the 2nd-consecutive week in Households (+11% - 3.1 rating vs. 2.8 rating), Total Viewers (+11% - 4.060 million vs. 3.671 million) and Women 25-54 (+7% - 1.5 rating vs. 1.4 rating) to deliver new season highs. In fact, “LIVE” matched its highest-rated week since March in Homes and since April among Women 25-54 while also drawing its largest weekly audience since April – since the weeks of 3/2/15, 4/6/15 and 4/6/15, respectively.

NBC's Sunday Night Football presents a showdown of AFC playoff contenders this week when QB Tom Brady and the first-place New England Patriots (10-2, AFC East) host DE J.J. Watt and the tied-for-first-place Houston Texans (6-6, AFC South) at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas, this Sunday, Dec. 13, at 8:30 p.m. ET. Coverage begins with Football Night In America – the most-watched weekly studio show in sports – at 7 p.m. ET.

The animated series 'The Lion Guard' will premiere FRIDAY, JANUARY 15 (9:30 a.m., EST/PST) on Disney Channel and encore throughout the weekend on Disney Junior and Disney Channel. Its story – introduced last month in a Disney Channel movie which posted commanding ratings among Kids 2-5 and Total Viewers – continues the 'The Lion King' epic. It follows the adventures of Kion, the second-born cub of Simba and Nala, and his diverse group of friends, each with a unique skill, as they unite to protect the Pride Lands.