Howie Mandel News

NBC has announced that it will shift the season finale of HARRY LAWS to May 27th and bump its broadcast of THE FIRM. Encores of 'America's Got Talent' will replace both series this weekend.

AMERICA'S GOT TALENT, NBC's top rated summer series from producers FremantleMedia North America and Simon Cowell's SYCO Television, returned last night with the hottest performers from across the country ready to compete in the blockbuster reality show's seventh season. Watch the Elements Dance Crew, who performed on last night's season premiere, below!

The NBC network has renewed the reality show BETTY WHITE'S OFF THEIR ROCKERS, along with 'The Voice,' 'The Celebrity Apprentice,' 'Fashion Star' and 'The Biggest Loser.'

Not making the cut among the network's reality series are 'Escape Routes,' 'Fear Factor,' 'The Sing-Off,' 'Minute to Win It,' 'The Marriage Ref,' 'Who's Still Standing?,' 'It's Worth What?' and 'Who Do You Think You Are?'

NBC announced today an ambitious new primetime lineup for the 2012-13 primetime season that combines one of the top-quality returning lineups on television with a new fall edition of the red-hot musical competition 'The Voice' and a crop of six new scripted series in the fall and four at mid-season.

Shock jock Howard Stern joins the judge's table on the seventh season of NBC's AMERICA'S GOT TALENT. The series returns tonight with the hottest performers from across the country ready to compete in the blockbuster reality show.

NBC has further strengthened its growing Alternative production team with new overall development deals with some of the industry's top-flight reality producers, including Jason Ehrlich ('The Bachelor,' 'The Bachelorette'), David A. Hurwitz (NBC's 'Fear Factor'), Alex Katz (NBC's 'The Biggest Loser') and Lee Metzger (NBC's 'The Voice').

NBC's AMERICA'S GOT TALENT and its producers have again collaborated with YouTube, and for the first time, show sponsor Snapple, to allow talented acts from across the country the opportunity to audition online for their shot at stardom and a million-dollar prize.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Parents Television Council is encouraging 91 sponsors of NBC's reality series AMERICA'S GOT TALENT to boycott the show in support of the group's opposition to the hiring of shock jock Howard Stern as its newest judge.

AMERICA'S GOT TALENT will premiere with two two-hour episodes on Monday, May 14 (8-10 p.m. ET) and Tuesday, May 15 (8-10 p.m. ET). The show's return will feature the first appearance of new judge Howard Stern, who joins fellow judges Howie Mandel and Sharon Osbourne. The series then resumes in its regular day and time on Monday, May 21 (8-9 p.m. ET) and on Tuesday, May 22 (9-10 p.m. ET).

The McCallum Theatre, the Coachella Valley's premiere theatrical venue, will celebrate its 25th Anniversary Season with a star-studded lineup of Classical Music, Jazz, Cabaret, Comedy and a Broadway Blockbuster Series which includes Rock of Ages, Dreamgirls and West Side Story. The season kicks off on August 31 with comedy legend Steve Martin joined by the Grammy nominated Steep Canyon Rangers. This wonderfully eclectic season also includes Pink Martini, Howie Mandell, Barbara Cook, Michael Feinstein, Elaine Page and Yo-Yo Ma, to name a few.

'Bigger, bolder, broader' is the watch cry as truTV adds several new original series to its production and development slate. The network is placing a strong emphasis on comedic and action-packed 'actuality' programming designed to appeal to its young adult and young male audience. Projects in the works include a unique new game show set on an airplane, which is being developed by Howie Mandel and his production company, Alevy Productions. truTV has also ordered a pilot starring Shaquille O'Neal and developed by Fishbowl Worldwide Media, with America's Funniest Home Videos creator/executive producer Vin Di Bona and Tosh.0 co-creator Mike Gibbons among the executive producers.

EWonline.com reports that 'Deal or No Deal's Howie Mandel will host a new NBC game show, WHITE ELEPHANT. The show is based on a popular gift-trading tradition.

Shock jock Howard Stern joins the judge's table on the upcoming seventh season of NBC's AMERICA'S GOT TALENT. The series returns this summer with the hottest performers from across the country ready to compete in the blockbuster reality show.

The hit NBC alternative series AMERICA'S GOT TALENT will have a fresh new perspective from the East Coast as the summer's top-rated series has found its brand new home for its seventh season, broadcasting live two nights a week from Prudential Hall at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) beginning in July.

NBC's America's Got Talent is taping live at The Mahaffey and you can join host Nick Cannonand celebrity judges Howard Stern, Howie Mandel, and Sharon Osbourne in the live television audience!

NBC will commence live episodes of THE VOICE on Monday, April 2 (8-10 p.m. ET) and will expand the hit singing competition series to a second night with live elimination rounds beginning on Tuesday, April 3 (9-10 p.m. ET).

On April 9, 2012, 'LIVE! with Kelly' host Kelly Ripa will unveil 'LIVE's' brand-new set and kick off a week of celebration, highlighted by 'House DJ Week' - five of the top DJs in the country stopping by to spin some tunes and rock 'LIVE's' new home.

NBC will commence live episodes of THE VOICE on Monday, April 2 (8-10 p.m. ET) and will expand the hit singing competition series to a second night with live elimination rounds beginning on Tuesday, April 3 (9-10 p.m. ET).

Comedy legend Jonathan Winters is back! Jonathan Winters stars in CERTIFIABLY JONATHAN, available on DVD at Walmart and other fine retailers on Tuesday, March 06, 2012.