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TNT and Turner Broadcasting System International, Inc. Announce Worldwide Launch of Epic Alien Invasion Series 'FALLING SKIES,' Debuting in More Than 75 Countries

In its latest high-profile acquisition, TNT has secured the exclusive off-network cable rights to the hit series, Castle, from Disney-ABC Domestic Television. Castle, which just completed its third highly rated season on ABC, is a crime drama starring Nathan Fillion (Firefly, Desperate Housewives) and Stana Katic (Quantum of Solace, TNT's The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice).

TNT's summer season got off to a solid start last night. The new legal dramedy FRANKLIN & BASH summoned 2,746,000 viewers for its series premiere and proved to be a hit with young adults, according to fast national data from Nielsen Media Research.

TNT and TBS Announce Extensive Slate of New Projects from Top Talents, Including Mitch Albom, Thom Beers, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Conan O'Brien, Brad Paisley, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Richard North Patterson, Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Joel Silver, Arthur Smith, Scott Turow, Bertram van Munster and John Wells.

TNT's coverage of the 2011 NBA Playoffs continues to establish record-setting numbers for the network as the most-watched and highest-rated basketball postseason to-date in cable television history and has helped establish TNT as one of the top networks in all of television during its telecast windows among male viewership.

New York Stage and Film (Johanna Pfaelzer, Artistic Director; Mark Linn-Baker, Max Mayer, Leslie Urdang, Producing Directors) and Vassar College (Ed Cheetham, Producing Director) have announced the full line-up of their 2011 Powerhouse Theater season, now entering its 27th year. The result of a unique collaboration between New York Stage and Film and Vassar College, the program consists of an eight-week residency on the Vassar campus (124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY) during which more than 200 professional artists and some 40 apprentices live and work together to create new theater works. The 2011 Main Stage season kicks off with Patricia Wettig's F2M (June 29 - July 10).

Taye Diggs, who began his rise to fame after starring in the original cast of RENT, is preparing for a solo show at Prelude by Barton G at Miami's Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. According to an article from the Miami Herald, Diggs is both excited and terrified about the show. 'I was 175 percent petrified out of my gourd. But then I thought, ‘If I can do this, then f**k the world!' Part of it was that this is Idina's thing. But she was 100 percent supportive,' said Diggs.

TAYE DIGGS, undoubtedly one of the entertainment world's hottest stars, will hit town Friday and Saturday, April 29 and 30 when he performs as the big finale of the Prelude By Barton G Presents Spring performance series presented at Prelude By Barton G restaurant/supper club located in the Ziff Ballet Opera House of the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County, 1300 Biscayne Boulevard.

TNT's critically acclaimed drama series SOUTHLAND will return for a fourth season. TNT has ordered 10 new episodes of the gritty, realistic cop drama, which wrapped up its third season March 8.

Grammy(R)-winning recording artist and actor Marc Anthony has joined the cast of TNT's HAWTHORNE, the powerful drama series starring and executive-produced by Jada Pinkett Smith (The Women, The Matrix trilogy)

BWW covered the results live on Sunday, January 30, 2011, broadcast live from the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center on TNT and TBS, at 6 p.m. MT, 7 p.m. CT and 8 p.m. ET/PT.

BWW covered the results live on Sunday, January 30, 2011, broadcast live from the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center on TNT and TBS, at 6 p.m. MT, 7 p.m. CT and 8 p.m. ET/PT.

BWW covered the results live on Sunday, January 30, 2011, broadcast live from the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center on TNT and TBS, at 6 p.m. MT, 7 p.m. CT and 8 p.m. ET/PT.

Ernest Borgnine, who is exuberantly entering his seventh decade of creating memorable characters and award-winning performances, will receive Screen Actors Guild (SAG)'s most prestigious accolade-?the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award for career achievement and humanitarian accomplishment.

BWW is covering live the results on Sunday, January 30, 2011, broadcast live from the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center on TNT and TBS, at 6 p.m. MT, 7 p.m. CT and 8 p.m. ET/PT. We'll be bringing you live results throughout the night of ALL the theatre-related winners.

The 68th Golden Globe® Awards aired LIVE coast-to-coast Sunday night, January 16, 2011 on NBC from 5:00-8:00 p.m. (PST) /8:00-11:00 p.m. (EST) from the Beverly Hilton Hotel with host Ricky Gervais. The awards were seen in more than 160 countries. BroadwayWorld bruoght you real-time updates and coverage throughout the night!

Celebrated actress and two-time Tony Award-winner Frances Sternhagen will be joining the confluence of artists and audiences for Florida Stage's 5th Annual 1st Stage New Works Festival. Ms. Sternhagen will be featured in a staged reading of legendary playwright Israel Horovitz' new play Beverley on Saturday, February 5, 2011. On Friday, February 4, in place of the Festival's usual Keynote speech, Ms. Sternhagen will take part in what is being called 'A Conversation with Frances Sternhagen.' Florida Stage Producing Director Louis Tyrrell will conduct a public interview with Sternhagen on stage in the Persson Hall at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts. The Florida Stage 1st Stage New Works Festival takes place February 3-6, 2011. Tickets and packages for all Festival events are available online at www.floridastage.org or by calling the box office at (561) 585-3433.

Mariah Carey, Miranda Cosgrove, Annie Lennox, Maxwell and Matthew Morrison will join host Ellen DeGeneres as TNT rings in the holidays with its annual presentation of CHRISTMAS IN WASHINGTON.

Mariah Carey, Miranda Cosgrove, Annie Lennox, Maxwell and Matthew Morrison are scheduled to join host Ellen DeGeneres as TNT rings in the holidays with its annual presentation of CHRISTMAS IN WASHINGTON. This year's spectacular holiday presentation will premiere Friday, Dec. 17, at 8 p.m. (ET/PT).

The 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards, the only televised awards show honoring performers in film and television, announced nominees at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood on Thursday, December 16.