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Daytime viewers are set for a fresh dose of “How you doin'?” when season five of America's fastest growing daytime talk show, “The Wendy Williams Show,” premieres Monday September 16.

The Nominating Committee attends all productions during the Broadway season and meets on the date designated by the Administration Committee to determine, by vote, the Tony Award nominees for that season. The committee of Tony Nominators, which has been expanded to 46 members for the 2013-2014 season, includes:

Debmar-Mercury has renewed the nationally syndicated The Wendy Williams Show through the 2016-17 television season on FOX Television Stations. The renewal covering the top TV markets cements the fast-rising talk show's return for its sixth, seventh and eighth seasons, announced Debmar-Mercury Co-Presidents Ira Bernstein and Mort Marcus.

CMT has reached a multi-year licensing deal with distributor Debmar-Mercury to become the exclusive cable partner for off-network episodes of HELL'S KITCHEN, produced by ITV Studios America, it was announced today by Katie Buchanan, senior vice president of programming strategy, CMT. The series will debut weekdays beginning this Memorial Day, Monday, May 27, at 12 p.m. ET/PT on CMT and will also be available on CMT VOD.

FX has closed a 10/90 deal with Lionsgate Television and Lionsgate's television distribution company Debmar-Mercury for the George Lopez half-hour sitcom Saint George, starring and co-created by Lopez, it was announced today by Chuck Saftler, Executive Vice President, FX Networks.

Producer-distributor Debmar-Mercury today announced it will add two months of original episodes to the fourth season of The Wendy Williams Show, extending production through June and July, after it posted the biggest Nielsen sweeps gains of any talkshow competitor and surged to new ratings' heights in the February sweeps.

THE WENDY WILLIAMS SHOW premiered its fourth season in national syndication yesterday, September 10 in high definition and from the first episode, viewers are going to see changes to the show that will make their favorite daytime star even more must-see than ever before.

Debmar-Mercury's THE WENDY WILLIAMS SHOW premieres its fourth season in national syndication on September 10 in high definition and from the first episode, viewers are going to see changes to the show that will make their favorite daytime star even more must-see than ever before.

ANGER MANAGEMENT, the sitcom starring Charlie Sheen and created by Executive Producer Bruce Helford, has received a 90-episode order from FX. The sitcom also features Broadway's Michael Arden as a series regular in the role of 'Patrick'.

Debmar-Mercury's THE WENDY WILLIAMS SHOW premieres its fourth season in national syndication on September 10 in high definition and from the first episode, viewers are going to see changes to the show that will make their favorite daytime star even more must-see than ever before.

Former Two and a Half Men star Charlie Sheen will return to television in summer 2012 on FX in Anger Management, a new sitcom loosely based on Revolution Studios' 2003 hit comedy feature of the same name, announced John Landgraf, President and General Manager, FX Networks.

Debmar-Mercury's The Wendy Williams Show will return for a third season in September following renewals in more than 70% of the U.S., including stations belonging to the FOX, CBS, NBC, Local TV, Tribune, Lin, Cox, Raycom, Meredith and New Vision groups. Debmar-Mercury Co-Presidents Mort Marcus and Ira Bernstein made the announcement today.

Coming home isn't always easy, especially when you're diving back into the dysfunctional arms of your crazy family and mismatched friends. Chris Gethard, Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell star in COMEDY CENTRAL's 'Big Lake,' a new half-hour, multi-camera family sitcom about a big city banker (Gethard) who loses his job and moves home to his parents' couch in Big Lake, PA. Produced by Gary Sanchez Productions ('The Other Guys,' 'Talladega Nights,' 'Anchorman') and distributed by Debmar-Mercury, 'Big Lake' premieres on Tuesday, August 17 at 10:00 p.m. with two back-to-back episodes.

COMEDY CENTRAL'S® 'Big Lake,' Starring Chris Gethard, Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell, Debuts on Tuesday, August 17 at 10:00 P.M.*

Coming home isn't always easy, especially when you're diving back into the dysfunctional arms of your crazy family and mismatched friends. Chris Gethard, Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell star in COMEDY CENTRAL's 'Big Lake,' a new half-hour, multi-camera family sitcom about a big city banker (Gethard) who loses his job and moves home to his parents' couch in Big Lake, PA. Produced by Gary Sanchez Productions ('The Other Guys,' 'Talladega Nights,' 'Anchorman') and distributed by Debmar-Mercury, 'Big Lake' premieres on Tuesday, August 17 at 10:00 p.m. with two back-to-back episodes.

COMEDY CENTRAL'S® 'Big Lake,' Starring Chris Gethard, Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell, Debuts on Tuesday, August 17 at 10:00 P.M.*

BET Networks has acquired Debmar-Mercury's THE WENDY WILLIAMS SHOW for a second season in the U.S. this fall and has agreed to air the popular talk show on its international networks in the United Kingdom, Africa and the Middle East in 54 countries starting in July 2010.

It's hard to pinpoint the exact moment when Florence Henderson became a household name. It was certainly through the media of television, but was it her numerous appearances on the then-popular variety shows? Perhaps it was because of the proliferation of commercials she did for Polident and Wesson Oil; the latter in which she helped coin the phrase 'Wessonality'. Obviously her long stint as Mrs. Carol Brady in 'The Brady Bunch' played a major role in her becoming not only a name people easily recognized, but a talent that has genuinely been appreciated by different generations down through the years.

A memorial celebration of the life and career of Cy Feuer, legendary Broadway producer, director, composer, musician, and immediate past chairman and longtime president of The League of American Theatres and Producers, was held on Thursday, September 21st at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre