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The new comedy farce The Lobby announces their 29 hour reading, which will be directed by multi award-winning Eric Tucker (Bedlam's Sense & Sensibility), and written by Don Creedon.

Beau 'Casper' Smart, has signed on the ABC's three-hour reboot of DIRTY DANCING. The actor, dancer and choreographer will take on the role of Billy Kotsecki

This isn't the news correspondent's image of war. This is the soldiers' war - their words, their footage, their horrors. Following the success of National Geographic Channel's (NGC) series Inside Combat Rescue comes two new boots-on-the-ground war series: Battleground Afghanistan, a one-hour series premiering Monday, July 1, at 9 p.m. ET/PT, and Eyewitness War, a 30-minute series that follows at 10 and 10:30 p.m. For more information, see natgeotv.com and @NGC_PR on Twitter.

So far at this evening's Emmy Awards, theater stars Jeremy Piven, Dianne Wiest, Laura Linney, Dame Eileen Atkins and Zeljko Ivanek are among the winners.