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Season 1 of PAUSE WITH SAM JAY features a new take on the late-night talk show format and uses a fresh lens to plunge into the cultural issues that divide us.

Season four of THE CHI, Season three of BLACK MONDAY and the debut season of FLATBUSH MISDEMEANORS will officially premiere on SHOWTIME on Sunday, May 23. 

Prentice Penny is an Emmy®-nominated, Peabody® and Golden Globe®-winning writer, director and producer. Penny made his feature directorial debut on Netflix original “Uncorked.” He serves as showrunner, executive producer and frequent director for HBO’s “Insecure.”

International award-winning director and virtual theatre pioneer Kiira Benzing will have the North American premiere of her award-winning immersive theatre experience Finding Pandora X at the renowned SXSW Film Festival.

Time has moved on in Breeders, the comedy series that explores the parental paradox that you’d happily die for your children, but quite often also want to kill them.

Let the holiday musical merriment begin!  The heart-warming THE CHRISTMAS CAROLER CHALLENGE returns for a three-episode two hour-long Christmas caroling competition event series. 

City Theatre at Sacramento City College will present a virtual series of plays, Zoom for the Holidays.

City Theatre at Sacramento City College continues the extraordinary 2020-21 season with an online streaming premiere of ten new short seasonal themed plays called Zoom for the Holidays.

SHOWTIME has made a straight-to-series order for 10 episodes of the new half-hour comedy FLATBUSH MISDEMEANORS, created and written by Kevin Iso and Dan Perlman, who will both star.

Colin Macleod recently introduced his upcoming second album Hold Fast by sharing its lead single “Old Soul.”

HBO has given a series order for a weekly late-night show from Emmy® nominated comedian and writer Sam Jay (“Saturday Night Live”).

WORLD'S FUNNIEST ANIMALS, hosted by Elizabeth Stanton (POPSTAR! This Week), returns for Week Three on The CW Network with two 30-minute episodes airing back to back on Friday, October 2, 2020 at 9:00 p.m./8:00 p.m. Central. This week celebrity guest, Las Vegas Magician Headliner, Murray SawChuck and his Rescue Chihuahuas, Smudge, Bailey and Kahlua.

Award-winning director Kiira Benzing will add Best VR Immersive User Experience to her collection. This year marked the second consecutive year Benzing was invited to the prestigious festival where she debuted her latest work, Finding Pandora X.

MASTERS OF ILLUSION, produced by Associated Television International and hosted by Dean Cain, will return for Week Sixteen of their seventh anniversary season on The CW with two 30-minute encore episodes airing back to back on Friday, September 4, 2020.

Marking the second consecutive year, award-winning director Kiira Benzing will debut her latest work, Finding Pandora X, at the renowned Venice International Film Festival, This Virtual Reality Theatre production will be in competition at Venice VR Expanded.

In advance of the Disney Advertising Sales Virtual Roadshow presentation, Freeform highlighted its commitment to bold and boundary-pushing young adult content with the pickups of both “Everything's Gonna be Okay“ and “Motherland: Fort Salem,” as well as the recently announced scripted romantic-comedy series “Love in the Time of Corona'

The CW Network will officially launch its new season in January 2021 with its regularly scheduled series line-up, while loading up Fall 2020 with fresh original and acquired scripted series and alternative programming, it was announced today by Mark Pedowitz, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The CW Network.

Quibi today ordered critically-acclaimed sketch series 'ALTERNATINO' from series creator, writer and star Arturo Castro ('Broad City,' 'Narcos,' 'Flipped') and Comedy Central Productions.  

MASTERS OF ILLUSION, produced by Associated Television International and hosted by Dean Cain, will return for a seventh anniversary season on The CW with two 30-minute episodes airing back to back on Friday, May 15, 2020 at 8:00 p.m./7:00 p.m. Central. 

MASTERS OF ILLUSION, produced by Associated Television International and hosted by Dean Cain, will return for a seventh season on The CW Network with back-to-back episodes on Friday, May 15, 2020 (8:00-8:30 p.m. and 8:30-9:00 p.m. ET).