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SitcomsOnline Digest: Fall Premiere Dates for CBS; CBS and Viacom in Merger Talks Yet Again

• CBS has set their fall premiere dates. (Hollywood Reporter)
• The longest running on-again/off-again relationship between CBS and Viacom, which is old as TV itself (Viacom originally began as CBS Films in 1952 and was spunoff as a separate entity in 1971), seems to be on the verge of being on again with the two entities at least trying to become one big family again. (CNBC)
• Just as we suspected, Alec Baldwin is now backing down from his comments that he is "done" playing Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live. (TVLine)
• Local TV news stations have started issuing their own station-based "alert days" for days with potential severe weather that go against the guidance of the National Weather Service, and one meteorologist for Sinclair Broadcasting spoke up against that. Now, he has been fired. (Deadline)
• Antenna TV has some lineup changes coming, and they will bring Webster, What's Happening!!, and What's Happening Now!! back to the lineup. (SitcomsOnline) 

• The reboot of All That debuts tonight on Nickelodeon.
• Decades has Vega$ all weekend long.
• Antenna TV celebrates Father's Day with a Father Knows Best marathon on Sunday.
• The fourth season of The Detour debuts Tuesday on TBS.
• Also on Tuesday, Comedy Central has the sixth season of Drunk History.
• The new Netflix comedy, Mr. Iglesias, debuts on Friday.
• The fourth season of Baskets debuts Thursday on FX.

Posted by Skees -- SitcomsOnline.com at 1:00 PM

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