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Broadway Sessions kicked off it's new season recently with a celebration of alumni of the formidable MDT (Music/Dance/Theatre) program at Brigham Young University. Clark Johnsen (The Book of Mormon, La cage), Tregoney Shepherd (Les Mis, Phantom), Erin Wilson (Wicked), Steven Fales (Confessions of a Mormon Boy), Jacob Ben Widmar (Xanadu), Peter Nelson (Chicago, Cinderella), Broadway wardrobe veteran Jake Fry, Don Alden (Open Jar Studios), Knikki Hess Roberts, recent graduate Ellora Lattin and host Ben Cameron (a Utah native) share songs and stories from the sincere to the spectacularly hilarious. Enjoy highlights here.

BROADWAY SESSIONS is described as an evening of musical performances, games and open mic featuring a new Broadway cast twice monthly. The show is created and hosted by Ben Cameron (Bway Wicked, Aida, Footloose, Dance Captain Dance Attack web series) and features musical director Joshua Stephen Kartes on piano.  This Thursday night, August 15th, Broadway Sessions welcomes an all star line up of Broadway and national vets who are all alumni of BYU.

HBO Sports, NFL Films and the Raiders team up for an unfiltered all-access look at what it takes to make it in the National Football League when HARD KNOCKS: TRAINING CAMP WITH THE OAKLAND RAIDERS kicks off its five-episode season this summer. Spotlighting this AFC West franchise that has an intriguing mix of established veterans, highly regarded rookie hopefuls and free-agent acquisitions under head coach Jon Gruden, the 14th edition of the 18-time Sports Emmy(R) Award-winning series debuts TUESDAY, AUG. 6 (10:00-11:00 p.m. ET/PT). Other hour-long episodes of the first sports-based reality series - and one of the fastest-turnaround programs on TV - debut subsequent Tuesdays at the same time, with encore plays Wednesday nights, culminating in the Sept. 3 season finale.

The two-part HBO Sports documentary WHAT'S MY NAME | MUHAMMAD ALI, chronicling the extraordinary life of one of the 20th century's most iconic figures, debuts TUESDAY, MAY 14 (8:00-10:40 p.m. ET/PT), with both chapters airing back-to-back in a special television event, it was announced today by Kary Antholis, president, HBO Miniseries and CINEMAX Programming, and Peter Nelson, executive vice president, HBO Sports.

After a sell-out season and rave reviews at the Edinburgh International Children's Festival in 2018, Baba Yaga is set make its Australian premiere at the Queen's Theatre as part of the 2019 Adelaide Festival.

REAL SPORTS WITH BRYANT GUMBEL, TV's most-honored sports journalism series, with a record 18 Sports Emmy® Awards for Outstanding Sports Journalism, returns for its 25th season with more enterprising features and reporting when the show's 262nd edition debuts TUESDAY, JAN. 29 (10:00 p.m. ET/PT & 9:00 p.m. CT) on HBO. 

 REAL SPORTS WITH BRYANT GUMBEL caps another season of enterprising reporting with a roundtable review of its most memorable moments this year when the series' 261st edition, available in HDTV, debuts TUESDAY, DEC. 18 (10:00 p.m. ET/PT & 9:00 p.m. CT) on HBO.

MOMENTUM GENERATION Chronicling the Extraordinary Experiences of a Band of Youthful Surfers Who Transformed the Sport, 12/11 on HBO

HBO Sports takes a deep dive into the fascinating, constantly evolving world of surfing, exploring how a group of dedicated teenagers changed the sport and its culture in the 1990s, when MOMENTUM GENERATION debuts TUESDAY, DEC. 11 (10:00-11:45 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO.

REAL SPORTS WITH BRYANT GUMBEL, TV's most-honored sports journalism series, with a record 18 Sports Emmy® Awards for Outstanding Sports Journalism, returns for more enterprising features and reporting when the show's 260th edition debuts TUESDAY, NOV. 20 (10:00-11:00 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO.

MOMENTUM GENERATION Chronicling the Extraordinary Experiences of a Band of Youthful Surfers Who Transformed the Sport, 12/11 on HBO

The HBO Sports documentary STUDENT ATHLETE, illuminating the complex rules of amateur athletics in America and showing how they affect uncompensated athletes and their families, will debut TUESDAY, OCT. 2 (10:00-11:30 p.m. ET/PT) on HBO, it was announced today by Peter Nelson, executive vice president, HBO Sports. From LeBron James and Maverick Carter's SpringHill Entertainment and Steve Stoute's United Masters, the feature-length presentation is directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (HBO's Oscar(R) winners 'Saving Face' and 'A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness') and Trish Dalton ('Bordering on Treason').

HBO Sports and Uninterrupted Present THE SHOP, Unscripted Series Debuting 8/28

HBO Sports, home to some of the most provocative, award-winning and engaging sports television programming, is collaborating with LeBron James and Maverick Carter's award-winning digital media company, UNINTERRUPTED, to present the innovative, unscripted series THE SHOP, debuting TUESDAY, AUG. 28 (11:00-11:30 p.m. ET/PT) exclusively on HBO. Offering unfiltered conversation and debate with some of the biggest names in sport and entertainment, the show will air periodically throughout the year.

HBO Sports and Uninterrupted Present THE SHOP, Unscripted Series Debuting 8/28

HBO Sports, one of television's premier storytellers, is teaming up with the Bill Simmons Media Group for COURTSIDE AT THE NBA FINALS, an unscripted one-hour special chronicling the sights and sounds of the 2018 NBA Finals, debuting TUESDAY, JUNE 19 (9:00-10:00 p.m. ET/PT), with a replay that evening at 11:00 p.m. (ET/PT), on HBO. Bill Simmons will serve as executive producer.

The HBO Sports documentary STUDENT ATHLETE, illuminating the complex rules of amateur athletics in America and showing how they affect uncompensated athletes and their families, will debut TUESDAY, OCT. 2 (10:00-11:30 p.m. ET/PT) on HBO, it was announced today by Peter Nelson, executive vice president, HBO Sports. From LeBron James and Maverick Carter's SpringHill Entertainment and Steve Stoute's United Masters, the feature-length presentation is directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (HBO's Oscar(R) winners 'Saving Face' and 'A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness') and Trish Dalton ('Bordering on Treason').

HBO Sports, one of television's premier storytellers, is teaming up with the Bill Simmons Media Group for COURTSIDE AT THE NBA FINALS, an unscripted one-hour special chronicling the sights and sounds of the 2018 NBA Finals, debuting TUESDAY, JUNE 19 (9:00-10:00 p.m. ET/PT), with a replay that evening at 11:00 p.m. (ET/PT), on HBO. Bill Simmons will serve as executive producer.

BEING SERENA, Intimate Documentary Series About Tennis Superstar Serena Williams, Debuts 5/2, Exclusively on HBO