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The Winter 2017 schedule for Antenna TV is now here! It begins on Monday, January 2, 2017. Coming to Antenna TV in January are What's Happening!!, Becker, 227, My Two Dads, The Joey Bishop Show, Good Morning World, and The Patty Duke Show, while Circus Boy and The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin return to the schedule on Saturday mornings. Get in on the gossip with Marla Gibbs, Alaina Reed Hall, Helen Martin, & Jackee Harry when 227 starts airing Mon-Thu at 9pm & 9:30pm ET & Sunday nights at 1am & 1:30am ET on Antenna TV. Watch Ted Danson in Becker, Monday - Thursday nights at midnight & 12:30am ET and Sundays at 6pm & 6:30pm ET on Antenna TV. Other timings include, What's Happening!! Mon-Thurs at 8:00pm & 8:30pm, My Two Dads Sundays at 11:00pm & 11:30pm, and The Joey Bishop Show weekdays at 1pm & 1:30pm, Saturdays 11:30pm-1am, and Sundays 9am & 9:30am. Good Morning World will air Saturdays at 1am & 1:30am, while The Patty Duke Show airs weekdays at 11am & 11:30am.

Among the highlights of the schedule is a Friday night '70s block in primetime with One Day at Time from 8-9pm, Barney Miller from 9-10pm, leading into 90-minute Johnny Carson '70s episodes (now on Fridays and Saturdays as 90-minutes) from 10-11:30pm, Maude follows from 11:30pm-1am into Good Times from 1-2am. Other moves include Family Ties now only Sundays at 12am & 12:30am, Three's Company only airing Mon-Thu at 3:00am & 3:30am, but The Ropers and Three's a Crowd are back on their own Sundays 10am & 10:30am. And that's just some of the changes, because the whole schedule is pretty much all-new in timings, so please view the Antenna TV Winter 2017 Schedule!

For the second year, in a strategic partnership with Just For Laughs, The CW Network announced the brand new primetime comedy special, The Howie Mandel All-Star Comedy Gala. Featuring stand-up performances from today's comedic heavyweights such as Jay Pharoah, Iliza Shlesinger, Russell Peters and JB Smoove, this special will premiere Monday, January 16, 8:00-10:00 pm ET/PT on The CW. Recorded at the biggest comedy event in the world, the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal, and hosted by Howie Mandel, this primetime special also showcases performances from Alonzo Bodden, Jo Koy, Matt Donaher, Ryan Hamilton, Gina Brillon and Tom Papa. Additionally, as Just For Laughs prepares to celebrate its 35th anniversary this year, the special includes comedians paying tribute to some of their favorite comedians from the festival over the past 34 years, such as Amy Schumer, Jim Gaffigan and Wanda Sykes.

Also back with new episodes on CW Seed, The CW's digital network, The Elevator Talk Show with new host Nick Thune is all the late-night talk show you can cram into an eight-foot box. Hosted by comedian Nick Thune, guests on this season of The Elevator Talk Show include John Mulaney, Hannibal Buress, Lauren Lapkus, Scott Aukerman, Tone Bell, Noel Wells, and Blake Griffin, all recorded at the Just for Laughs Festival and all inside one very crowded elevator. The new episodes will debut on CW Seed later this month.

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Claim to Fame: This coming week brings us the very last week of "new fall premieres" as CBS prepares to return Thursday nights to comedy (which also frees up room on their Monday night lineup), and out final week of our theme of "stars of the new sitcoms." This week, we have Christopher Mintz-Plasse, who stars in the new CBS series The Great Indoors. This series marks his first regular role in a live-action series, but he shouldn't be unfamiliar to audiences, as he most famously played the role of McLovin in the movie Superbad (which is also where he made his on-screen debut as an actor). Additionally, he has appeared in the movie Kick-Ass, and the sequel, Kick-Ass 2.

Antenna TV, Tribune Broadcasting's multicast network is pleased to announce beginning January 2, 2017, The Joey Bishop Show and Good Morning, World will join Antenna TV's schedule as the network continues to expand its programming lineup. The Joey Bishop Show starred Rat-Pack member Joey Bishop as Joey Barnes, a harried talk show host. Executive produced by Danny Thomas, the 30-minute sitcom originally aired between 1961-1965 and Antenna TV is thrilled to add the show's entire four seasons to its lineup, including the 32 episode first season (in black & white) which was transferred from 35mm film to make its debut on Antenna TV.

Good Morning, World starring Ronnie Scnell (Gomer Pyle) featured Goldie Hawn in her first television series, set at a Los Angeles radio station. Created by Carl Reiner and featuring LA Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully as the voiceover, the sitcom aired from 1967-1968. Earlier this year, the network brought Johnny Carson back to late night with a 60-minute classic Carson episode airing weeknights and a 90-minute episode on weekends, marking the first time Carson is airing in strip since he signed off in 1992. This year, Antenna TV also added Webster, Wings and The Addams Family to its program lineup. In 2017, Becker, What's Happening!!, My Two Dads, Alice, Growing Pains, 227, Hogan's Family, Head of the Class and Murphy Brown will join the network during the year. Antenna TV currently airs in 129 TV markets across the U.S. reaching 87% of TV households.

And we will keep it right here with more Antenna TV news. This Thanksgiving, trade your turkey for Archie Bunker, another "fowl" creature, when Antenna TV airs an 18 hour/36 episode marathon of All in the Family. Beginning at 5am ET on Thursday, November 24, viewers can grab a slice of Meathead and catch the following episodes of All in the Family:

5:00 AM Meet the Bunkers
5:30 AM Too Good Edith
6:00 AM Everybody Tells the Truth
6:30 AM Archie in the Cellar
7:00 AM Two's a Crowd
7:30 AM Pay the Twenty Dollars
8:00 AM Archie the Hero
8:30 AM Saga of Cousin Oscar
9:00 AM Archie and the Editorial
9:30 AM Elevator Story
10:00 AM Man in the Street
10:30 AM Archie in the Lock-Up
11:00 AM Flashback-Mike Meets Archie
11:30 AM Games Bunkers Play
12:00 PM Archie Gives Blood
12:30 PM Archie's Fraud
1:00 PM First and Last Supper
1:30 PM Archie Goes too Far
2:00 PM Flashback: Mike & Gloria's Wedding (Pt.1)
2:30 PM Flashback: Mike & Gloria's Wedding (Pt.2)
3:00 PM Edith's Accident
3:30 PM Lionel Steps Out
4:00 PM Archie is Jealous
4:30 PM Oh Say Can You See
5:00 PM Edith Writes a Song
5:30 PM Class Reunion
6:00 PM Archie Feels Left Out
6:30 PM Archie Eats and Runs
7:00 PM Sammy's Visit
7:30 PM Edith's Problem
8:00 PM Bunkers and the Swingers
8:30 PM Archie is Branded
9:00 PM Judging Books by Covers
9:30 PM Lionel's Engagement
10:00 PM Cousin Maude's Visit
10:30 PM Lionel Moves into the Neighborhood

Antenna TV regularly airs All in the Family weeknights at 9pm ET / 6pm PT.