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Weigel's Newest Diginet WEST Launches Monday, September 29; New Baywatch Coming to Fox in 2026-27

Weigel's newest diginet launches on Monday (September 29) and it is called WEST. WEST, Western Entertainment Series Television, is the home of the greatest TV western series ever made. Their robust library of over 30 marquee series celebrates the epic journeys, adventurous spirit and timeless stories brought to life in the great American TV western art form. When you look for entertainment, look WEST.

It will be available in 15 of the Top 20 broadcast TV markets including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Houston, Atlanta, Tampa, Phoenix, Detroit and Orlando. At launch, WEST will air in 46 TV markets nationwide covering 55.7% of the U.S. WEST will also be available on TDS cable systems and on DISH channel 372. Series at launch include classics Gunsmoke, Bonanza, The Waltons, The Virginian, Rawhide, and The Wild Wild West. View the full schedule here.

FOX Television Network is diving into shimmering blue coastal waters with greenlight for a reimagined Baywatch, the legendary lifeguard action-drama series that concluded its epic, 11-season run 25 years ago. The revival is a straight-to-series order with 12 episodes in its first season. Sporting signature red swimsuits, an all-new cast of Baywatch lifeguards is set to make waves on FOX's 2026-27 season schedule with Fremantle and FOX Entertainment co-producing this original take on the massively popular global phenomenon.

First hitting screens in 1989, Baywatch became the most-watched show in the world, airing in over 200 countries, and at its peak, reaching more than a billion viewers every week. The unforgettable original series starred heartthrob David Hasselhoff and helped launch the careers of international superstars from Pamela Anderson and Carmen Electra to Jason Momoa and Yasmine Bleeth. The series reboot will celebrate the franchise's enduring legacy, while re-energizing it for today's global audience. Fans can expect all the adrenaline-fueled rescues, tangled relationships, complicated chemistry and beachside heroics that defined the original - now with an entirely new cast, contemporary trappings, tensions and challenges, and a renewed mission to protect Southern California's shoreline.

Posted by Pavan -- SitcomsOnline.com at 12:00 PM

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Labels: Baywatch, Bonanza, Fox, The Waltons, WEST