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On Monday, February 22, WGN America's highly anticipated original series UNDERGROUND will be screened at the White House, as part of the White House Office of Public Engagement's Black History Month event

The winners of the “47th NAACP Image Awards” were announced tonightduring the live broadcast from Pasadena Civic Auditorium which aired on TV One (9-11 p.m. ET live/PT tape-delayed). The two-hour live special was hosted by Anthony Anderson.

WGN America has released a first-look featuretter for UNDERGROUND, its highly anticipated Underground Railroad escape seriesset to premiere March 9, 2016 (10pm ET/PT).

WGN America announced today a first-time collaboration with The Blackhouse Foundation, an Institute Associate of the Sundance Film Festival, to present 'The Making of WGN America's UNDERGROUND, on Saturday, January 23 at 7:00 p.m. in Park City, Utah.

WGN America's highly anticipated scripted dramas 'Outsiders,' premiering Tuesday, January 26 (9:00 pm ET/PT) and 'Underground,' premiering Wednesday, March 9 (10:00 p.m. ET/PT), will air commercial free

WGN America announced today that UNDERGROUND, the highly-anticipated original series, will premiere Wednesday, March 9.

WGN America has shared a dynamic first-look teaser spot for UNDERGROUND, the gripping original scripted series scheduled to debut early next year.

New York Comic-Con attendees will be among the first to see WGN America's highly anticipated heroic actioner 'Underground' at a first-look screening and panel with the cast and creators, during the preeminent pop culture convention today, October 11.

New York Comic-Con attendees will be among the first to see WGN America's highly anticipated heroic actioner 'Underground' at a first-look screening and panel with the cast and creators, during the preeminent pop culture convention on SUNDAY, October 11.

John Legend, an Academy Award and Golden Globe(R)-winner and nine-time Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, together with his Get Lifted partners Mike Jackson and Ty Stiklorius, are on board to executive-produce WGN America's pulse-pounding thriller, 'Underground.'

The cast and creators of WGN America's highly anticipated, pulse-pounding original series “Underground” will unveil a first-look trailer and participate in a panel session at the 2015 Essence Festival in New Orleans.

WGN America announced today that Jussie Smollett (“Empire“) has signed on to guest star in the cable network's pulse-pounding thriller “Underground.'

WGN America has tapped Christopher Meloni to star in their latest series, UNDERGROUND.

The star-studded production of Horton Foote's THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL, starring Cicely Tyson in her legendary, Tony Award-winning and Emmy-nominated performance, Tony Award-nominee Vanessa Williams, and Golden Globe nominee Blair Underwood, broke box office and attendance records at Boston's Cutler Majestic Theatre with a gross of $1,045,893 for its engagement. The production was seen by 15,294 audience members, also a record for the venue. Additional touring cities are currently under discussion.

Cicely Tyson reprises her Tony Award-winning role as Carrie Watts in Horton Foote's poignant American classic THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL now in its only east coast engagement at the Emerson/Cutler Majestic Theatre in Boston, Mass. The ArtsEmerson World on Stage production continues through December 7.

The Center Theatre Group engagement of the Tony-nominated Broadway revival of Horton Foote's American masterpiece 'The Trip to Bountiful,' began performances at the Ahmanson Theatre tonight, September 17, and continues through November 2, 2014. Below, check out photos from opening night!

In his timeless and invigorating script The Trip to Bountiful Horton Foote engages our attention with his keen appraisal that 'The world can't be bought'. Believing the best things in life are free - well, almost..., elderly Carrie Watts (Cicely Tyson), in her Tony-winning role, proves just how healing a return to one's roots, however brief, may be. This Broadway revival directed by Michael Wilson also stars Vanessa Williams from the original New York production and Blair Underwood replacing Cuba Gooding Jr. It's a stellar cast, achieving a truly beautiful representation of Foote's infreqeuntly seen work.

The Center Theatre Group engagement of the Tony-nominated Broadway revival of Horton Foote's American masterpiece 'The Trip to Bountiful,' began performances at the Ahmanson Theatre tonight, September 17, and continues through November 2, 2014. Below, check out photos from opening night!

The Center Theatre Group engagement of the Tony-nominated Broadway revival of Horton Foote's American masterpiece 'The Trip to Bountiful,' began performances at the Ahmanson Theatre tonight, September 17, and continues through November 2, 2014. The opening is tonight, September 26.

The Center Theatre Group engagement of the Tony-nominated Broadway revival of Horton Foote's American masterpiece 'The Trip to Bountiful' opens Friday, September 26 at the Ahmanson Theatre. The production continues through November 2, 2014.