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COZI TV will be decking the halls and ringing in the season with two weeks of special, holiday-themed programming on the national multicast network. For the third consecutive year and running through Christmas Day, COZI TV's "Holidozi" marathon will feature holiday-themed episodes of its most iconic shows, including Frasier, Hart to Hart, Murder, She Wrote, Quantum Leap, Knight Rider, Baywatch, Make Room for Daddy, Starsky & Hutch, The Six Million Dollar Man, Adam-12 and Little House on the Prairie, among many others in their normal time periods and a special treat on Xmas Eve and Day. Here is the COZI HOLIDOZI lineup just for Christmas Eve and Day:

December 24
6:00 AM Make Room for Daddy - "Christmas and Clowns"
6:30 AM Adam 12 - "Log 122: Christmas - The Yellow Dump Truck"
7:00 AM Baywatch - "Silent Night, Baywatch Night: Part 1"
8:00 AM Baywatch - "Silent Night, Baywatch Night: Part 2"
9:00 AM Knight Rider - "Silent Knight"
10:00 AM Starsky & Hutch - "Little Girl Lost"
11:00 AM The Six Million Dollar Man - "A Bionic Christmas Carol"
12:00 PM Murder, She Wrote - "A Christmas Secret"
1:00 PM Little House on the Prairie - "Christmas at Plum Creek"
2:00 PM Little House on the Prairie - "Blizzard"
3:00 PM Hart to Hart - "Tis the Season to Be Murdered"
4:00 PM Hart to Hart - "A Hart Christmas"
5:00 PM Hart to Hart - "Trust Your Hart"
6:00 PM Frasier - "Miracle on Third or Fourth Street"
6:30 PM Frasier - "Frasier Grinch"
7:00 PM Frasier - "Perspectives On Christmas"
7:30 PM Frasier - "Merry Christmas, Mrs. Moskowitz"
8:00 PM Frasier - "The Flight Before Christmas"
8:30 PM Frasier - "Mary Christmas"
9:00 PM Frasier - "We Two Kings"
9:30 PM Frasier - "High Holidays"

December 25
6:00 AM Make Room for Daddy - "Christmas Story"
6:30 AM The Dick Van Dyke Show - "The Alan Brady Show Presents"
7:00 AM The Real McCoys - "Diamond Ring"
7:30 AM Lone Ranger - "Christmas Story"
8:00 AM Lassie - "The Christmas Story" (Episode #159)
8:30 AM Lassie - "The Christmas Story" (Episode #234)
9:00 AM Lassie - "Yochim's Christmas"
9:30 AM Lassie - "The Little Christmas Tree"
1:00 PM Frasier - "Perspectives On Christmas"
1:30 PM Frasier - "Merry Christmas, Mrs. Moskowitz"
2:00 PM Starsky & Hutch - "Little Girl Lost"
3:00 PM The Six Million Dollar Man - "A Bionic Christmas Carol"
4:00 PM Knight Rider - "Silent Knight"
5:00 PM Little House on the Prairie - "Christmas at Plum Creek"
6:00 PM Little House on the Prairie - "Blizzard"
7:00 PM Murder, She Wrote - "A Christmas Secret"
8:00 PM Quantum Leap - "A Little Miracle"
9:00 PM Quantum Leap - "Promised Land"

HBO has confirmed the February debut dates for new seasons of Girls and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, and the new comedy series Crashing. Girls returns for its sixth and final season Sunday, Feb. 12 at 10:00pm ET/PT. Created by and starring Lena Dunham, the Emmy(R)-winning half-hour comedy series is a comic look at the assorted humiliations and rare triumphs of a group of girls in their 20s. Dunham executive produces along with Judd Apatow, Jenni Konner, Ilene S. Landress, Murray Miller and Bruce Eric Kaplan. The cast also includes Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke, Zosia Mamet, Adam Driver, Alex Karpovsky, Andrew Rannells and Ebon Moss-Bachrach. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver returns for its fourth season Sunday, Feb. 12 at 11:00pm ET/PT. Presenting a satirical look at the week in news, politics and current events, as well as addressing broader issues, the Emmy(R)-winning half-hour show is the only weekly news-oriented comedy series to be presented on Sunday night. Executive producers, John Oliver, Tim Carvell, Liz Stanton, Jon Thoday, James Taylor.

The comedy series Crashing debuts a week later on Sunday, Feb. 19 at 10:30 pm ET/PT. The show was created by and stars Pete Holmes as a standup comic who discovers that his wife is unfaithful, leading him to reevaluate his life amidst the New York City comedy scene. Artie Lange, Lauren Lapkus and T.J. Miller also star. Executive produced by Judd Apatow and Pete Holmes.

Countdown to New Year's Eve with El Rey Network and this 2002 remake of the classic series, hosted by Forest Whitaker and featuring tales of suspense, fantasy, science fiction and horror during 24 hours of The Twilight Zone, creeping into your home airing Thursday, December 31 at 6:00AM ET/PT – Friday, January 1 at 6:00AM ET/PT. Then kick off the New Year with a trip to the Magic City during a 14 hour marathon of the '80s drama Miami Vice airing Friday, January 1 from 6:00AM ET/PT –8:00PM ET/PT featuring break out performances by powerhouse guest stars, including: Bruce Willis, Liam Neeson, Laurence Fishburne, Michael Bay, Steve Buscemi, Benicio Del Toro, Chris Rock, and Julia Roberts. Then finish the night off with three kick-ass, back-to-back airings of Roadhouse, to get your first Patrick Swayze fix of 2016 from 8:00PM ET/PT – 3:30AM ET/PT.

Actress Marjorie Lord, who was best known for her role as Kathy "Clancey" Williams in Make Room for Daddy (aka The Danny Thomas Show), has died. She died on November 28 at her home in Beverly Hills, California of natural causes. Ms. Lord was 97.

Lord's early television guest appearances included Public Prosecutor, Racket Squad, The Adventures of Kit Carson, China Smith, Ramar of the Jungle, Big Town, Hopalong Cassidy, Fireside Theatre (8 episodes), The Lone Wolf, The Ford Television Theatre, Cavalcade of America, The Lone Ranger, The Loretta Young Show and Wagon Train.

Jean Hagen, who played Danny Thomas' first wife Margaret Williams in Make Room for Daddy, was written out of the show as having died. In 1957, Lord appeared in four episodes as Kathy O'Hara, a young Irish nurse, who was hired to take care of an ill Rusty (Rusty Hamer). The characters were married off-screen. The series was re-titled The Danny Thomas Show at the start of the fourth season when it moved from ABC to CBS. She appeared in the show until it ended in 1964.

Lord appeared in two hour-long reunion specials on NBC: The Danny Thomas TV Family Reunion in 1965 and Make More Room for Daddy, which aired as an episode of The Danny Thomas Hour in November 1967. ABC aired Make Room for Granddaddy for a single season in 1970-1971.

Some of her other television guest appearances included The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour (as Kathy Williams), The Joey Bishop Show (as Kathy Williams), Love, American Style, The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, Fantasy Island, The Love Boat and Sweet Surrender. Her film credits included Sherlock Holmes in Washington, Chain Gang, Mexican Manhunt, Down Laredo Way, Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! and The Pirate.

Survivors include her daughter, actress Anne Archer, her son, Gregg Archer, grandson Tommy Davis, four other grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Ms. Lord was a wonderful actress. She always seemed very appreciative of her fans. She will be deeply missed.

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Welcome to SitcomsOnline Digest! This week, we have news of more musicals on broadcast television (they have sort of become the new reboot of 70s and 80s series), news of a death of a sitcom star from the golden era of television, and more. Let's get going!

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• It probably comes as no surprise that after releasing all of the other versions of The Bold Ones, Shout! Factory (under TMG) will be wrapping things up by releasing the most successful of the series, The Bold Ones: The New Doctors - The Complete Series on March 1.
• Shout! Factory is finishing up The Nanny on DVD (for those who skipped on the complete series) with The Nanny - The Final Season on March 15.
• Maude - The Complete Fourth Season will be arriving on DVD on March 22.

Who to Follow: Don Most (Twitter)

Claim to Fame: "Don Most" is not the name we think of when we see the face, because we knew him better as Donny Most, who played Ralph Malph on Happy Days. Since that time, he has had guest roles on several series, including Murder, She Wrote, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, and Glee, among other series. He has had some cartoon voice roles as well. Lately, he is returning to what he says is his first love: singing.

COZI TV announced it is ringing in the holiday season with a special COZI HOLIDOZI month of programming for the second year in a row. Beginning the day after Thanksgiving and running through Christmas Day, COZI TV will feature holiday-themed episodes of its iconic shows, including Magnum P.I., Murder She Wrote, Adam 12, Hart to Hart and Baywatch, among many others. Here is a promo inviting viewers to tune into COZI HOLIDOZI.

Below is the COZI HOLIDOZI lineup:

November 27
9:00 AM Lone Ranger - Christmas Story
11:00 AM Dragnet - The Christmas Story
1:00 PM Simon & Simon - Yes, Virginia, There is a Liberace
2:00 PM Hart to Hart - ‘Tis the Season to be Murdered
7:00 PM Make Room For Daddy - Christmas and Clowns
8:00 PM Murder, She Wrote - A Christmas Secret

November 28
4:30 PM Hollywood Treasure - Chasing Rudolph
5:30 PM Dick Van Dyke Show - The Alan Brady Show Presents
6:00 PM Make Room For Daddy - Christmas Story
7:00 PM Starsky & Hutch - Little Girl Lost
10:00 PM Quantum Leap - Promised Land
11:00 PM Quantum Leap - Little Miracle

November 29
1:00 PM Murder, She Wrote - A Christmas Secret
2:00 PM Baywatch - Silent Night, Baywatch Night Part 1
3:00 PM Baywatch - Silent Night, Baywatch Night Part 2
4:00 PM Starsky & Hutch - Little Girl Lost

December 1
12:30 PM Adam 12 - Christmas the Yellow Dump Truck

December 2
11:30 AM Dragnet - The Christmas Story
3:00 PM Murder, She Wrote - A Christmas Secret

December 4
8:00 PM Murder, She Wrote - A Christmas Secret

December 5
5:00 PM The Real McCoys - The Diamond Ring
5:30 PM Dick Van Dyke Show - The Alan Brady Show Presents

December 6
12:00 PM Beverly Hillbillies - Home for Christmas
12:30 PM Beverly Hillbillies - Christmas with the Clampetts
1:00 PM Hart to Hart - A Hart Christmas
2:00 PM Quantum Leap - Little Miracle
3:00 PM Simon & Simon - Yes, Virginia, There is a Liberace
4:00 PM The Avengers - Too Many Christmas Trees

December 7
8:00 PM Hart to Hart - Trust Your Hart

December 9
1:00 PM Simon & Simon - Yes, Virginia, There is a Liberace
4:00 PM Murder, She Wrote - A Christmas Secret

December 10
11:00 AM Dragnet - The Christmas Story

December 12
5:00 PM Dick Van Dyke Show - The Alan Brady Show Presents

December 13
1:00 PM Dick Van Dyke Show - The Alan Brady Show Presents
1:30 PM Make Room for Daddy - Christmas and Clowns
2:00 PM Hart to Hart - Trust Your Hart
3:00 PM Six Million Dollar Man - A Bionic Christmas Carol
4:00 PM Knight Rider - Silent Knight
5:30 PM The Real McCoys - The Diamond Ring

December 14
8:00 PM Hart to Hart - ‘Tis the Season to be Murdered

December 16
12:30 PM Adam 12 - Christmas

December 18
11:30 AM Dragnet - The Christmas Story
1:00 PM Simon & Simon - Yes, Virginia, There is a Liberace
10:00 PM Murder, She Wrote - A Christmas Secret

December 19
7:00 PM Starsky & Hutch - Little Girl Lost

December 20
1:00 PM Baywatch - Silent Night, Baywatch Night Part 1
2:00 PM Baywatch - Silent Night, Baywatch Night Part 2
3:00 PM Quantum Leap - Promised Land
4:00 PM Hart to Hart – ‘Tis the Season to be Murdered
5:00 PM The Real McCoys - The Diamond Ring

December 21
4:00 PM Murder, She Wrote - A Christmas Secret
8:00 PM Hart to Hart - A Hart Christmas
9:00 PM Hart to Hart - Trust your Hart

December 22
8:00 PM Knight Rider - Silent Knight

December 23
8:00 PM Quantum Leap - Little Miracle
9:00 PM Quantum Leap - Promised Land
10:00 PM Simon & Simon - Yes, Virginia, There is a Liberace

December 24
8:00 PM Magnum, P.I. - Thank Heaven for Little Girls
9:00 PM Magnum, P.I. - Operation Silent Knight

December 25
8:00 AM Lassie - The Christmas Story
8:30 AM Lassie - Yocjim’s Christmas
9:00 AM Lone Ranger - Christmas Story
9:30 AM Make Room for Daddy - Christmas Story
10:00 AM Dick Van Dyke Show - The Alan Brady Show Presents
10:30 AM Dragnet - The Christmas Story
11:00 AM Highway to Heaven - With Love, the Claus
12:00 PM Six Million Dollar Man - A Bionic Christmas Carol
1:00 PM Magnum, P.I. - Operation Silent Knight
2:00 PM Hart to Hart - A Hart Christmas
4:00 PM Knight Rider - Silent Knight
5:00 PM Baywatch - Silent Night, Baywatch Night pt 1
7:00 PM Lassie - The Little Christmas
7:30 PM Make Room for Daddy - Christmas and Clowns
8:00 PM Murder, She Wrote - A Christmas Secret

The CW announced its new January 2016 schedule, including the series debut of new drama DC's Legends of Tomorrow and the season three premiere of The 100, plus The Vampire Diaries and The Originals take over Friday night. On Thursday January 21, The CW kicks off a new night of action and adventure with the highly-anticipated series premiere of DC's Legends of Tomorrow at 8:00pm ET/PT followed by the return of the critically-acclaimed post-apocalyptic drama The 100 at 9:00pm ET/PT. In DC's Legends of Tomorrow, when heroes alone are not enough... the world needs legends. Having seen the future, one he will desperately try to prevent from happening, time-traveling rogue Rip Hunter is tasked with assembling a disparate group of both heroes and villains to confront an unstoppable threat — one in which not only the planet is at stake, but all of time itself. Can this ragtag team defeat an immortal threat unlike anything they have ever known?

Starting January 29, The Salvatore brothers and the First Family of vampires head to Friday nights to kick off the weekend with two hours of high-stakes drama, with The Vampire Diaries at 8:00pm ET/PT followed by The Originals at 9:00pm ET/PT. This season, both The Vampire Diaries and The Originals are among the most heavily time-shifted series on television; both shows more than triple their audiences when viewing beyond the night of air is tallied, across DVR, digital, and VOD platforms. Reign will have its winter finale on Friday, January 22 at 8:00pm ET/PT and return later in the season, night and time to be announced. Stay with us...

The CW 2014-15

Fall 2014

Mondays
8:00PM The Originals
9:00PM Jane the Virgin (NEW!)

Tuesdays
8:00PM The Flash (NEW!)
9:00PM Supernatural

Wednesdays
8:00PM Arrow 
9:00PM The 100

Thursdays
8:00PM The Vampire Diaries
9:00PM Reign

Fridays
8:00PM Whose Line Is It Anyway?
8:00PM Whose Line Is It Anyway? (Encore Episode)
9:00PM America's Next Top Model

Unscheduled Mid-Season 2015:

COMEDY:
DRAMA: iZombie (NEW), The Messengers (NEW), Hart of Dixie (returning), Beauty and the Beast (returning)
REALITY:

NOTES: The CW adds three new dramas and one new comedy. Hart of Dixie and Beauty and the Beast will return at mid-season.


Discuss The CW's 2014-15 line-up and also you can view complete program information.

Get ready to get "cozi" with The Dick Van Dyke Show on Cozi TV this summer! The classic sitcom starring Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore will launch on the digital network on Monday, June 2 and will air weekdays back-to-back at 5pm & 5:30pm following back-to-back episodes of Make Room for Daddy at 4. The Real McCoys will continue to air at 6pm. Cozi TV recently launched a classic action and adventure block every weekday afternoon starting at 1pm with The Avengers, followed by Magnum P.I. at 2 and Charlie's Angels at 3. Upcoming stunts include a Memorial Day marathon for Maverick on Monday, May 26 from 8am-5pm. And that's not all that day! Starsky & Hutch and Knight Rider launch that night in primetime with a preview marathon from 8pm-12am, before they settle into their Tuesday night block the following day (May 27) from 8pm-12am. As a result, The Bionic Woman will move to Wednesdays from 10pm-12am cutting short Six Million Dollar Man to 8pm-10pm, rather than 8pm-12am.

Other Cozi TV programming updates include a Father's Day marathon of Make Room for Daddy from 6am-12pm followed by The Six Million Dollar Man marathon from 12pm-12am. And finally, Hart to Hart will launch on Cozi this July. The classic Robert Wagner series will launch with a marathon on Sunday, July 6 from 8pm-12am. It will then air regularly the following night every Monday night in primetime starting at 8pm replacing McCloud's McMondays double feature. Stay with us for more on The Dick Van Dyke Show and everything Cozi TV!

Starting Monday, February 24, COZI TV is giving you more of what COZI TV superfans love most, plus other shows you've been asking to see! Say hello to The Avengers, Maverick, The Real McCoys, Make Room For Daddy, and more. Tune in weekdays for a special midday mystery wheel from 3-4:30P, with COZI TV favorites McMillan & Wife, Banacek, McCloud and Name of the Game. And you wanted it, you got it -- MORE Magnum P.I., daytime and primetime, with daytime being added weekdays at 2pm (in addition to its Thursday prime block). Plus more shows are coming as we mentioned that Starsky & Hutch, Knight Rider and Hart to Hart begins this summer. It has been a great first year for COZI TV and they thank their superfans. The new weekday daytime schedule will have the following changes: 9:30AM The Adventures of Jim Bowie, 11AM Maverick, 1PM The Avengers, 2PM Magnum P.I., 3PM Midday Mystery Wheel, 4:30 Make Room For Daddy and 6PM The Real McCoys. We will have more on their summer slate in the coming months, but expect marathons in May and June for Mother's Day and Father's Day and launch marathons for the three new series we mentioned for summer.

Character actress Mary Grace Canfield, who was best known for her recurring role as Ralph Monroe in Green Acres, has died. She died from lung cancer on February 15 in Santa Barbara, California. Ms. Canfield was 89.

Canfield appeared as Ralph Monroe in more than forty episodes of Green Acres, which ran on CBS for six seasons from 1965-1971. Ralph and her brother, Alf (Sid Melton), were quarrelsome carpenters hired to rebuild the Douglas' house and barn. Her signature greeting to fellow Hootervillians was "Howdie Doodie!" In 1990, she reprised her role in the TV movie Return to Green Acres.

Her first television appearance was in March 1954 on Goodyear Playhouse. She had a recurring role as a housekeeper, Amanda Allison, in the 1961-1962 ABC sitcom The Hathaways. She appeared as Mrs. Hanley in two episodes of Family in 1976. Some of her other sitcom guest appearances included Hazel, The Joey Bishop Show, The Andy Griffith Show, The Farmer's Daughter, Bewitched (four episodes as Abner Kravitz's sister, Harriet), Love, American Style, The Love Boat, Tabitha, Alice and The Jackie Thomas Show. Her other television credits included Thriller, The Eleventh Hour, Adam-12 and General Hospital.

Survivors include John Bischof, her husband of 25 years; daughters Phoebe Alexiades and Alison Carey; and three grandsons. It's sad that we've lost another member of the Hooterville family. The Monroe Brothers were a very funny duo. We thank her for the laughs she brought us. She will be deeply missed.

Share your memories on our Green Acres message board. View photos in our galleries.

COZI TV, the 24/7 national network designed to deliver an easy-to-watch, comfortable and familiar viewing experience to audiences nationwide, is celebrating its first anniversary throughout January. COZI TV, which offers many of America's most beloved and iconic television series and hit movies, has proven to be a formula that works. In its inaugural year, COZI TV has grown steadily and is available in over 55 million homes nationally. Most recently, COZI TV has brought some great TV favorites back including Fantasy Island, Maverick, The Real McCoys and Make Room for Daddy starring Danny Thomas. The Real McCoys started earlier this month and airs weekdays 6-7pm, while Make Room for Daddy will be added to the line-up very soon...stay tuned. But wait, that's not all! Viewers have more to look forward to in the coming months, including the original version of the series, The Avengers, starring Diana Rigg (who has a major role in the current HBO hit Game of Thrones), starting Wednesday, February 26. More info to come. COZI TV viewers will also soon be able to tune in to favorites such as Knight Rider, Starsky & Hutch and Hart to Hart in the coming year with even more classics coming beyond 2014. We'll let you know exact start dates and timeslots soon. Stay with us!

The MeTV Network is pleased to announce new affiliation agreements in New York and Philadelphia with the PMCM TV, LLC Broadcast Group. PMCM TV is the owner/operator of KVNV, Channel 3, serving the New York City television market (but the station is based in Middletown, New Jersey, so technically not a New York City station), and KJWP Channel 2, serving the Philadelphia television market. Both KVNV and KJWP are full power television stations, entitled to must carry status making MeTV available to all viewers in New York and Philadelphia markets whether they receive television signals via over the air, on cable or satellite. KJWP-DT Channel 2, licensed to Wilmington, Delaware is located on the same tower as Philadelphia NBC owned and operated station WCAU along with several other Philadelphia market TV stations. KJWP began broadcasting over the air on channel 2.1 on November 19, 2013 and is expected to have full satellite and cable distribution by March 1, 2014. KVNV-DT, channel 3, Middletown, New Jersey will be broadcasting from 4 Times Square in Manhattan. KVNV is scheduled to commence operation in the second quarter of 2014. In addition to airing MeTV programming, both KVNV and KJWP plan to air locally produced news, public affairs and other community oriented programming complementing the family friendly content of MeTV.

As announced back in 2011, MeTV Network will get rights to many series from NBCUniversal Television Distribution. Some series have already started airing but three more are coming this spring and are "new to Me." Leave it to Beaver, Dragnet and Adam-12 will make their way from Antenna TV to MeTV effective Monday, May 6, part of their "It's New To Me" line-up! Both series will be leaving Antenna TV later this month, as Antenna TV starts a new schedule on April 29 (which we will post shortly, so stay tuned). On MeTV, Leave it to Beaver will air weekdays at 9:00am & 9:30am ET, replacing Daniel Boone. The other two additions will be paired in the 4pm hour with Dragnet at 4pm ET and Adam-12 at 4:30pm ET, replacing The Wild Wild West. Both series will lead-into similar style series Emergency! at 5pm, which was already on the schedule. That's it, no other schedule changes will be made. This means The Wild Wild West and Daniel Boone will be off the line-up this spring. Stay with us for continued updates on the MeTV schedule and we will give you Antenna TV's spring schedule later this week, which will obviously not have these three shows anymore.

In more MeTV news, his weekend, MeTV will pay tribute to the beloved actress and singer, Annette Funicello. On Sunday, April 14, from 1pm-3pm, Eastern/Pacific, MeTV will air select episodes of Make Room For Daddy. Before she was queen of the beach, she was Danny Thomas' foreign exchange student on Make Room for Daddy. "A Tribute To Annette Funicello" will feature episodes with Annette Funicello in her role as foreign exchange student, Gina Minelli. Sunday's tribute includes several of her classic TV appearances on the sitcom. This tribute carries on the MeTV tradition of paying homage to the lives and careers of classic TV stars. Episodes airing are "Gina From Italy," "Gina's First Date," "Frankie Laine Sings for Gina," and "Gina for President." Make Room for Daddy regularly airs on MeTV every weekday mornings at 5:30am ET.

TBS has announced a premiere date for season two of original sitcom Sullivan & Son. The sitcom was ordered for a 10-episode second season after finishing its first season last summer, which also had 10 episodes. Sullivan & Son will have its season premiere on Thursday, June 13, 2013 at 10pm and will continue to air Thursdays at 10, like last summer. The sitcom will premiere a week after the season finale of fellow original sitcom Men at Work, which will wrap up its 10-episode second season on June 6. Men at Work had its season premiere last Thursday (April 4). In other TBS comedy news, Cougar Town had its one-hour season finale last night (April 9). Back to Sullivan & Son, series star Steve Byrne suffered an injury to his face recently that led his jaw being wired shut for six weeks. So a shutdown of production on Season 2 for the series was ordered until June, but TBS still plans on premiering the sitcom on June 13 as some of the episodes have already taped. TBS's Sullivan & Son stars Steve Byrne as a corporate attorney who finds new life behind the bar when he leaves his Manhattan lifestyle and moves to Pittsburgh to take over his parents' pub. Byrne is joined by a stellar ensemble cast that includes Christine Ebersole, Brian Doyle-Murray, Jodi Long, Valerie Azlynn, Vivian Bang, Owen Benjamin and Dan Lauria.

Watch the video announcing the return on June 13:

With Valentine's Day about three weeks away, The MeTV Network is getting ready as love is in the air on the MeTV Sunday Showcase! That's of course a weekly block of various themes, stunts, and marathons every Sunday from 3-7PM ET. The Valentine's stunt will be airing on Sunday, Feb. 10 from 3-7PM with various comedies showcasing episodes dealing with love and romance. Kicking it off will be an episode of The Honeymooners, where The Kramdens and Nortons visit the Wedemeyers and the wives believe their husbands are neglecting them. Following that will be an episode of Make Room for Daddy, where Terry thinks that Danny and Kathy's marriage has lost its spark, so she advises each of them to be more romantic toward the other. Then it's The Dick Van Dyke Show, as Laura and Rob plan to see a play but she gets locked in a bathroom at their hotel. Other series airing in this stunt are The Mothers-In-Law, Love American Style, I Dream of Jeannie, The Brady Bunch and The Bob Newhart Show. It's a classic Brady Bunch episode where Mike and Carol switch roles for a day in order to prove a day with the opposite sex involves much less work, as Carol must help the boys with baseball practice and Mike must help Marcia with a cooking badge. Classic!

And the week prior, on Super Bowl Sunday (Feb. 3), The MeTV Sunday Showcase will feature a four-hour marathon of The Donna Reed Show! That's a nice way to showcase the comedy since it airs early mornings on weekdays. Keep it right here for further updates on MeTV!

On the next...The Middle:
By: Pavan

ABC's Comedy Wednesday sitcom starring Patrica Heaton airs Wednesday nights at 8:00pm and we have just watched the next episode that airs tonight (Jan. 23). The episode features The Heck family doing what they do the best, being a real family. In the episode airing tonight, "The Friend," Mike (Neil Flynn) is upset with Frankie (Patrica Heaton) when he discovers that she set him up on an adult playdate with a new neighbor (guest star David Koechner) who shares the same interests. Meanwhile, when the school cheerleaders announce that they're taking over cheering for the wrestlers - thus putting Sue (Eden Sher) and her Wrestlerettes out of business - a determined Sue demands a cheer off; and Brick (Atticus Shaffer) makes a lovesick Axl (Charlie McDermott) begin to question whether he's intellectually stimulating enough for his smart, new girlfriend.

On this hilarious all-new episode, we are presented three different storylines. And as usual, The Heck family rocks it! A couple of weeks ago the episode "Life Skills" showscased the show perfectly and this is once again one of those episode that just works very well and clicks on all cylinders. The good thing about this show is that it just feels so real. The main plot of this episode is about Frankie meeting a new couple that has moved into the neighborhood, and we all know Frankie always means well but she can be kind of meddling. She sees the husband is just a fun guy and she realizes well Mike is not. She secretly sets up a "play date" between the two and of course Mike finds out. The two get along really well, so you'll have to see what happens next! As for the kids, Sue's job as a Wrestlerette is in jeopardy when the school cheerleaders announce they will do triple duty and are now also cheering on the wrestlers because they are supposed to do well. Sue Heck is just a breath of fresh air and won't let anything stand in her way, no matter what everything thinks. She is like a perfect role model for teenage girls these days and that you don't need to be popular to have a great outlook on life. Anyway, in the end it's a cheer off when the cheerleaders battle the Wrestlerettes on who will cheer on the wrestling team. It's hilarious but also so well done! "Remember my name!" And the storyline with Brick and Axl also is fun and factual. Axl is dating a smart girl and Brick notices that all they have is a physical attraction and they don't talk, so he questions Axl saying that she might get bored soon because they don't have a friendship and intellectual stimulation. Yeah, Brick's been reading Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus. He thought it was going to be a science fiction book, ha. Anyway, Axl takes Brick's advice and we get to see Axl try to have a conversation with Cassidy. How will it go? It's going to be fun, that's for sure! B+

The Middle as always is on its game. Even in its fourth season, the plots are fresh and its such a real-take on families in America, especially in middle America. I think America can really relate to the Heck family and that's why it does so well and audiences embrace it. I just wish it gets more props when everyone mentions their best current comedies. It's just as good as any comedy out there today. The Hecks are like the modern day Brady Bunch and like that show, it will be a part of pop-culture for years to come. Each member of the family is vital to the show and I always look forward every Wednesday to see what topic they deal with next, because you can always relate to something from the episode. The character of Sue Heck might go down in TV history as the most positive TV character of all-time. She may have a clueless exterior, but she knows what she is doing and that's why she's always so happy. Anyway, tune in tonight for another fine episode that we all have come to expect from this show for the last four years. The Middle is not in the middle class of comedies, it's in the high class. It's definitely deserving to be on the top 5 lists of everyone's top 5 lists for not only TV comedies, but of all TV shows on television today! Go Hecks!

Today we are bringing you MeTV Network's fall 2012 schedule. The line-up will launch on Monday, September 3, 2012 with some more classics coming to the network. The classic TV network has 132 affiliates and has clearances in 82% of the country. Joining the line-up will be Make Room for Daddy weekdays mornings at 5:30am ET, The Donna Reed Show weekday mornings at 7:30am ET, Emergency! Mon-Sat at 5:00pm ET, Remington Steele weeknights at 8:00pm ET, and Night Gallery weeknights at 1:30am ET. Returning to the schedule will be Kojak, airing weeknights at 12:30am following Perry Mason and Burke's Law late on Saturday nights at 4am ET. Also MeTV Network will present the MeTV Sunday Showcase every Sunday from 3:00pm-7:00pm. The programs will vary and the first week will be a Night Gallery marathon on Sept. 9.

With all these new series joining, this means some shows will be off the regular line-up for now. Shows not on the fall 2012 schedule are Family Affair, Cannon, The Untouchables, The Mothers-In-Law, Love American Style, Green Acres, Honey West, The Rogues, Happy Days, and Laverne & Shirley. Perhaps some of these will air during the MeTV Sunday Showcase, so stay alert. "The Summer of Me" primetime marathons will conclude on Friday, Aug. 31, so the new primetime schedule on weeknights will start off with Remington Steele at 8 leading into the comedy hour of The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Dick Van Dyke Show at 9pm. At 10, Cheers and The Bob Newhart Show will air to close out primetime.
View the FULL MeTV Network Fall 2012 schedule, so you can see where your favorite series will be. Stay with us for further updates, if there are any.

Moving on, Nick at Nite has pulled original drama Hollywood Heights from its schedule effective tonight. The drama had been airing weeknights at 9pm for the last two months. 40 episodes of its 80 episode order were fulfilled. Reruns of My Wife & Kids will take over the hour starting tonight at 9pm ET. All is not lost for Hollywood Heights though, Nick at Nite will move it to sister network TeenNick and they will air the remaining 40 episodes every weeknight at 8pm ET beginning tonight. That should last them another two months through October, ratings pending of course. The series bombed on Nick at Nite with episodes only averaging a 0.1 adults 18-49 rating. The rest of the Nick at Nite schedule will remain unchanged with George Lopez at 10, leading into a Friends block from 11pm-1am. Then more Lopez is at 1am, followed by an hour of Everybody Hates Chris at 2. At 3am, we have an episode of My Wife & Kids at 3am, leading into an hour of Yes, Dear from approx. 3:30am-4:30am. The Nanny concludes the night though 6am. The late night 2-6am line-up just mentioned is only Mon-Wed, as marathon blocks air Thurs-Sun with Yes, Dear on Thursdays, The Nanny on Fridays, George Lopez on Saturdays (1-6am), and now Friends on Sunday (11pm-6am). My Wife & Kids was on Sundays in the block from 1-6am but Friends will take over this coming Sunday and expand to 11pm-6am.

Hollywood Heights centers on Loren Tate (Brittany Underwood, One Life to Live), a shy teen whose musical aspirations inch closer to reality when she wins a songwriting contest sponsored by Eddie Duran (Cody Longo, Fame), a rock star at the top of his game. Although Loren and Eddie's budding partnership - on-stage and off - faces obstacles, their strong family bonds inspire them to keep going. Loren finds the support system she needs in her single mom, Nora (Jama Williamson, Parks and Recreation), as Nora returns to the dating scene for the first time in years. Meanwhile Eddie's unbreakable bond with his father, Max (Carlos Ponce, Couples Retreat, telenovela actor/singer) - strengthened by family tragedy - is challenged by Eddie's budding romance with a beautiful, but manipulative model and aspiring actress, Chloe Carter (Melissa Ordway, 17 Again). As Loren begins a meteoric rise on the music scene and Eddie's star begins to fade, together they learn that the road to love and stardom often carries a heavy price tag. Justin Wilczynski (Kaya) also stars as Eddie's bitter former friend, Tyler Rorke.