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Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Kirstie Alley (Cheers, Veronica's Closet) has been cast in a series regular role in the upcoming second season of Scream Queens, the comedy-horror series from award-winning executive producers Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan. Premiering next Tuesday, Sept. 20 at 9:00 PM ET/PT, on Fox, Season Two of Scream Queens graduates from the college campus and into a hospital, as a terrifyingly funny mystery will begin once again. At the C.U.R.E. Institute, where some of the most fascinating and bizarre medical cases are under observation, Alley will play a brilliant and devious administrator. As previously announced, Golden Globe Award nominee Jamie Lee Curtis, Emma Roberts, Lea Michele, Abigail Breslin, Keke Palmer, Billie Lourd, Glen Powell and Niecy Nash are set to reprise their Season One characters. Joining the Season Two cast are John Stamos, Taylor Lautner and James Earl.

The MeTV Network has announced the new MeTV Music streaming service now playing on MeTV.com. MeTV Music is the free popular music companion to MeTV and will feature a wide and appealing variety of artists playing music spanning many decades and genres. Just as MeTV features many of the greatest TV shows ever made, MeTV Music will showcase the best in timeless and memorable popular music. MeTV Music, launching in association with AccuRadio, America’s fastest growing music webcaster, is the first ever music-streaming companion to MeTV and will be programmed with the same emphasis on enduring quality and timeless appeal. With a library that is thousands of tracks deep, listeners will be treated to top hits, hummable favorites and many songs that traditional music outlets have long forgotten about. As a dedicated streaming music player designed for all day listening at work and home, MeTV Music will allow listeners to log on from the MeTV.com homepage and enjoy music on their personal computer or laptop. Listeners can skip or pause songs, rate tracks and get detailed information on each song as it plays. And unlike traditional radio, MeTV Music will stream songs with limited commercial interruptions.

MeTV Music has a format all its own, with an easy to listen to vibe and a seemingly endless stream of songs that will treat listeners to musical memories. The wide collection of musical artists and eras showcases artists such as Billy Joel, Carole King, Aretha Franklin, Elton John, The Carpenters, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Simon and Garfunkel, Chicago, Hall and Oates, The Four Seasons, The Eagles and hundreds more. It's a broad and appealing playlist not based on over-researched corporate algorithms. MeTV Music is a national streaming feature now available on MeTV.com. Its one-of-a-kind music format is based on the successful launch and operation of 87.7 MeTV FM, a Chicago-based station that debuted the MeTV Music format in March, 2015. Since then, 87.7 MeTV FM has risen to among the top of Chicago radio stations in time spent listening and reaches 684,000 listeners a week in Persons 6+. Importantly, listener feedback to the 87.7 MeTV FM format is similar to that of MeTV viewers, with responses expressing appreciation and thanks for a thoughtful high-quality music format that brings back fond memories and encourages extended listening to discover what song will play next.

Welcome to SitcomsOnline Digest! This week has been a surprisingly busy news week (for summer, especially) with lots of casting news and (unfortunately) more deaths of sitcom stars. Let's get going!

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TUESDAY (JUNE 21) HOME MEDIA RELEASES

• Workaholics - Season Six (DVD, $19.99): The Comedy Central series moves forward on DVD with this release.

Who to Follow: Scott Bakula (Twitter)

Claim to Fame: Scott Bakula was born in St. Louis in 1954, and began his career as a stage actor. It wasn't until he was in his 30s that he first made any appearances on any TV series or movie. His first TV appearance came in an episode of My Sister Sam, and he also appeared in several Designing Women episodes playing Ted Shively, the ex-husband of Annie Potts' character Mary Jo. In 1989, he starred in Eisenhower and Lutz, a short-lived sitcom created by Allan Burns. But as luck would have it, that show would be canceled just in time for his first big role as Same Beckett on Quantum Leap. Since then, he has remained busy, with starring roles on Star Trek: Enterprise and Men of a Certain Age, and recurring roles on numerous other series. Currently, he stars in NCIS: New Orleans.

FXX will countdown to Halloween with a frightfully fun The Simpsons "Treehouse of Horror" programming event beginning October 25 and concluding Halloween night (Saturday, October 31) with a marathon featuring all 25 spooktacular "Treehouse of Horror" episodes airing in consecutive order from 12pm - 12:30am ET/PT. Please see the schedule and themes for each night below:

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25 (4pm - 8pm)
· "Treehouse of Horror XVII" (Season 18)
· "Treehouse of Horror XVIII" (Season 19)
· "Treehouse of Horror XIX" (Season 20)
· "Treehouse of Horror XX" (Season 21)
· "Treehouse of Horror XXI" (Season 22)
· "Treehouse of Horror XXII" (Season 23)
· "Treehouse of Horror XXIII" (Season 24)
· "Treehouse of Horror XXIV" (Season 25)

MONDAY, OCTOBER 26 (8pm - 10:30pm) - Theme: "Nightmares"
· "Treehouse of Horror" (Season 2)
· "Treehouse of Horror II" (Season 3)
· "Treehouse of Horror IV" (Season 5)
· "Treehouse of Horror V" (Season 6)
· "Treehouse of Horror VI" (Season 7)

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27 (8pm - 10:30pm) - Theme: "Creatures of the Night"
· "Treehouse of Horror III" (Season 4)
· "Treehouse of Horror XIII" (Season 14)
· "Treehouse of Horror XVI" (Season 17)
· "Treehouse of Horror XX" (Season 21)
· "Treehouse of Horror XXI" (Season 22)

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28 (8pm - 10pm) - Theme: "Tales of Science Fiction"
· "Treehouse of Horror VIII" (Season 9)
· "Treehouse of Horror XII" (Season 13)
· "Treehouse of Horror XIV" (Season 15)
· "Treehouse of Horror XIX" (Season 20)

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29 (8pm - 10:30pm) - Theme: "Scary Spoofs"
· "Treehouse of Horror X" (Season 11)
· "Treehouse of Horror XI" (Season 12)
· "Treehouse of Horror XV" (Season 16)
· "Treehouse of Horror XXIII" (Season 24)
· "Treehouse of Horror XXIV" (Season 25)

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30 (8pm - 10:30pm) - Theme: "Aliens Attack"
· "Treehouse of Horror VII" (Season 8)
· "Treehouse of Horror IX" (Season 10)
· "Treehouse of Horror XVII" (Season 18)
· "Treehouse of Horror XVIII" (Season 19)
· "Treehouse of Horror XXII" (Season 23)

In other Halloween-related news, sister network of FX will also air a marathon. FX will air a special Halloween marathon of the new Fox horror comedy Scream Queens. Spend Halloween night with FX, catching up on the first six episodes of the new Fox horror comedy Scream Queens. The marathon airs Saturday, October 31 from 6pm-12am with all six hours to-date. Kappa Kappa Tau is the most exclusive sorority on campus, but a dean with a grudge against Kappa House has decreed that pledging must be open to all students, not just the school's silver-spooned elite. Now all hell is about to break loose as a murderer in a devil mask begins wreaking havoc across the campus, and the girls of Kappa House are dying for new pledges.

Scream Queens stars Emma Roberts as "Chanel Oberlin," Jamie Lee Curtis as "Dean Munsch," Lea Michele as "Hester," Abigail Breslin as "Chanel #5," Nasim Pedrad as "Gigi," Oliver Hudson as "Wes," Skyler Samuels as "Grace," Keke Palmer as "Zayday," Billie Lourd as "Chanel #3," Diego Boneta as "Pete," Glen Powell as "Chad," Lucien Laviscount as "Earl," Niecy Nash as "Officer Denise Hemphill," Nick Jonas as "Boone," and Ariana Grande as "Chanel #2."