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WNET, home to tri-state-area PBS Stations THIRTEEN, WLIW21and NJTV, is making the groundbreaking 1963 documentary, Take This Hammer, available via Facebook Live on Friday, February 24 at 8 pm.

INDECENT is inspired by the true events surrounding the controversial 1923 Broadway debut of Sholem Asch's GOD OF VENGEANCE - a play seen by some as a seminal work of Jewish culture, and by others as an act of traitorous libel. At a time when US borders were closing to immigration, INDECENT charts the history of an incendiary drama and the path of the artists who risked their careers and lives to perform it. 

Twenty-five years after THE SIMPSONS' “Homer at the Bat” episode originally aired, it is still a fan-favorite. The episode featured guest-voice appearances by nine superstar Major League Baseball players, including members of the National Baseball Hall of Fame – Wade Boggs, Ken Griffey, Jr. and Ozzie Smith – and Roger Clemens, Steve Sax, Jose Canseco, Don Mattingly, Darryl Strawberry and Mike Scioscia.

The second season of DARK NET, the provocative docu-series produced by Vocativ Films that shines a spotlight on the dark recesses of the deep web, will return to SHOWTIME's primetime schedule Thursday, April 6th at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT. DARK NET chronicles the ways in which the Internet has pervaded our communities, relationships and minds, and exposes the dangers of an unregulated, unsupervised digital frontier.

A new comedy video premiering today on FunnyOrDie unveils the latest experts teaching wanna-be's in the original spoof, MASTERCLASS: SEAT FILLERS. The parody comes from ShowFriends and guest stars Jean-Luc Bilodeau and Derek Theler, 2017 People's Choice Award winners for Freeform's BABY DADDY.

Those words, which have drawn millions of eager viewers to their television sets for six decades, will remain a high point of the broadcast day for a record 52nd season with the announcement today of NBC's latest renewal of the acclaimed drama “Days of our Lives.”

Hard hitting new documentary Ice Guardians smashes onto VOD March 7 from Upstream Flix.

The wildly popular anime series Sword Art Online is set to make its U.S. cinematic premiere with the English subtitled “Sword Art Online The Movie -Ordinal Scale- A Special Event.” At this exclusive event, anime fans will experience an all-new adventure with Kirito, Asuna and their party members as they explore the world of “Ordinal Scale,” a new hit game utilizing augmented reality technology.

The world's most innovative cosplayers go head to head each week in Syfy's new transformation competition series COSPLAY MELEE – an epic showdown of creativity, eye popping costumes and one of a kind characters. Premiering on Tuesday, March 21 at 10/9c, the hour-long battle is hosted by actress and self-described “super fan girl” Yvette Nicole Brown (“The New Edition Story,” “Community”) and executive produced by Jay Peterson and Todd Lubin of Matador Content (“Lip Sync Battle”).  

THE LATE SHOW with STEPHEN COLBERT gained +511,000 viewers with live + 3-day playback, according to Nielsen late night ratings for the week of Feb. 6. With L+3, last week's THE LATE SHOW audience grew to 3.52 million viewers from its live + same day average of 3.01m while extending its winning advantage to +431,000 viewers from +134,000 viewers.

George Street Playhouse presents American Son, a ripped-from-the-headlines drama by Christopher Demos-Brown that earned the 2016 Laurents/Hatcher Foundation Award for a new play by an emerging playwright. The emotionally charged play stars George Street favorites John Bolger (GSP's Outside Mullingar, Twelve Angry Men) and Suzzanne Douglas (GSP's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, Wit), as well as Mark Junek (Broadway's The Performers) and Mark Kenneth Smaltz (Law & Order: SVU). Performances run now through February 26, 2017.

After a warm welcome at 'In Transit', former presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton received another standing ovation from an enthusiastic Broadway house at the Wednesday night performance of "Sunset Boulevard.'

TLC's Emmy Award-winning series, WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? returns this spring with a new group of celebrities ready to delve into their lineage and get answers to the questions they've wondered about their entire lives. Eight new one-hour episodes bring more unexpected turns and surprising discoveries of great historical significance. Executive Produced by Lisa Kudrow and Dan Bucatinsky, the new season premieres on Sunday, March 5th at 10/9c.

NBC Sports Group presents coverage of the 2017 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships from Gangneung Ice Arena in Gangneung, South Korea, the venue for the figure skating competition at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games. Coverage, which includes every event, begins tomorrow, Thursday, Feb. 16, at Noon ET with the short dance on NBCSN, and continues throughout the weekend, including the ladies' free skate this Saturday, Feb. 18 at 2:30 p.m. ET on NBC. Coverage culminates Saturday at 11 p.m. ET with the men's free skate on NBCSN. 

NBC has averaged a 1.0 rating in adults 18-49 and 3.7 million viewers overall for the primetime ratings week of Feb. 6-12, according to “live plus same day” viewing figures from Nielsen Media Research.

Noticias Telemundo's “Inmigración, Trump y los Hispanos” (Immigration, Trump and the Hispanic Community) Town Hall  broadcast on Sunday, February 12 at 7PM/6 C, ranked # 1 in Spanish-language TV in primetime across all key demographics, averaging 1.57 million total viewers, 708,000 adults 18 to 49 and 325,000 adults 18 to 34, according to Nielsen. The news special moderated by Noticias Telemundo News Anchor José Díaz-Balart also positioned Telemundo as the #1 Spanish-language network during the entire primetime on Sunday, across all key demos.

The ABC Television Network won seven NAACP Image Awards during the dual ceremonies held in Pasadena, California, February 10-11, 2017.  

Movie fans can visit Oscar.com to fill out their official The Oscars® ballot and can also enter The Official Oscars Challenge Sweepstakes for a chance to win a grand-prize trip for two to Hollywood for the 2018 The Oscars Red Carpet fan experience. 

The entire cast and orchestra of Come From Away gathered in Studio Q at CBC Radio this week to perform the opening number of their show, 'Welcome to the Rock'.

TODAY is throwing it back to the 90's with a new series “Where Are They Now: Talk Show Titans”. Starting Monday, February 13, TODAY will check in with five 90's talk titans to see what they've been up to since their time on the daytime airwaves.