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Rewind TV January 2022 Schedule Includes Drew Carey, NewsRadio; HBO's Somebody Somewhere Premieres Jan. 16

Earlier this week we gave you the new January 2022 schedule for Antenna TV, now we have the new schedule for companion network Rewind TV! Four new series join the line-up: The Drew Carey Show, Suddenly Susan, NewsRadio and The John Larroquette Show, while My Two Dads is coming soon. Antenna TV's It's a Living also joins the Rewind TV line-up. The new line-up begins on Monday, January 3, 2022. Starting on the weekday schedule, most timeslots will have a change. It's a Living joins the schedule airing 5-6am, followed by Head of the Class, 227, Growing Pains from 6-9am. Who's the Boss? moves to the 9am hour leading into Sabrina, the Teenage Witch and Mork & Mindy from 10am-12pm. The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes remain in their 12pm-2pm time period. 227 now will air at 2pm, replacing Dear John, which will also air on Antenna TV. The after school family block features The Hogan Family, Growing Pains, Who's the Boss? and Family Ties from 3pm-7pm!

In primetime,'90s hits take over with Wings, The Drew Carey Show, Becker and NewsRadio from 7pm-11pm, leading into late fringe block of Designing Women and Murphy Brown from 11pm-1am. More '90s hits take over from there with Caroline in the City at 1am and Suddenly Susan at 2am, followed by encores of Wings and The Drew Carey Show from 3-5am. Weekends will now have a different line-up than weekdays, and will feature two-hour binges of your favorite Rewind TV sitcoms! On Saturdays, The Facts of Life airs 5-7am and 9pm-11pm, Diff'rent Strokes airs 7-9am and 11pm-1am, Murphy Brown airs 9-11am, Designing Women airs 11am-1pm, Caroline in the City airs 1pm-3pm, Suddenly Susan airs 3pm-5pm, Sabrina the Teenage Witch airs 5pm-7pm, Mork & Mindy airs 7pm-9pm, Head of the Class airs 1am-3am and Family Ties airs 3am-5am. On Sundays, Sabrina the Teenage Witch opens the day 5-7am, Mork & Mindy airs 7-9am, Wings airs 9am-11am, The Drew Carey Show airs 11am-1pm, Murphy Brown airs 1pm-3pm, Designing Women airs 3pm-5pm, The John Larroquette Show airs 5pm-7pm, Family Ties airs 7pm-9pm, The Hogan Family airs 9pm-11pm, Growing Pains airs 11pm-1am, Who's the Boss? airs 1am-3am and Dear John airs 3-5am.

Starring and executive produced by comedian and singer Bridget Everett, the seven-episode HBO original comedy series Somebody Somewhere debuts on Sunday, January 16 (10:30-11:00p.m. ET/PT) on HBO and is available to stream on HBO Max. From Mighty Mint, Duplass Brothers Productions, and creators & executive producers Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen (writers on HBO's High Maintenance), the series follows Sam (played by Everett), a true Kansan on the surface, but, beneath it all, struggling to fit the hometown mold. Grappling with loss and acceptance, singing is Sam's saving grace and leads her on a journey to discover herself and a community of outsiders who don't fit in but don't give up, showing that finding your people, and finding your voice, is possible. Anywhere. Somewhere.

Cast regulars include: Jeff Hiller (Nightcap) as Joel, whose vision-board dreams of Faith, Family, and high-end kitchen appliances are ripped to pieces in a spiral of joy, shame, music, and stress rashes, after he befriends his high school idol, Sam (Bridget Everett); Mary Catherine Garrison (HBO's Veep) as Tricia Miller, Sam's resentful and scrappy sister, who is exhausted from trying to live up to hometown expectations; Danny McCarthy (The Ballad of Buster Scroggs) as Rick, Sam's quietly unremarkable brother-in-law, whose secret sends Sam and Joel's imaginations spinning as fast as the Kansas tornado that reveals the truth; and Mike Hagerty (HBO's Lucky Louie) as family patriarch Ed Miller, a stoic Kansas farmer who believes if you just keep your head down and work hard... you'll reap what you sow. He eventually learns that ignoring problems only makes them grow.

Recurring cast includes Murray Hill (Welcome to Flatch) as Fred Rococo, a University soil scientist by day, Master of Ceremonies in a flashy suit by night, who's been through it all, done the work, and found his stable place of happiness in the land of sunflowers; Jon Hudson Odom (HBO's Lovecraft Country) as Michael, Joel's boyfriend who suddenly is playing second fiddle to Sam; Heidi Johanningmeier (100 Days to Live) as Charity, co-owner of the store Tender Moments with Sam's sister Tricia; Jane Brody (Chicago Fire) as Mary Jo, Sam's mother struggling with alcoholism.

Antenna TV Fall 2021 Schedule; Rewind TV Launch Schedule Beginning September 1

It's time to gear up for the Fall! Antenna TV and its new companion network Rewind TV have announced their Fall schedules. Let's start with Antenna TV. Their new lineup begins on Monday, August 30 and there is one new series joining the lineup, as they have re-acquired Too Close for Comfort. That series will air on weekends, airing 3pm & 3:30pm. Most of the weekday schedule remains intact, however late fringe will get a makeover. Archie Bunker's Place and Maude return to weekdays and will air 12-1am & 1-2am. In the overnight, Family Ties and Mork & Mindy return to weekdays, and will air 3-4am and 4-5am. Mork is returning from hiatus and will also air on Rewind TV. The rest of the ATV changes are on the weekends, with the addition of Too Close for Comfort, along with the return from hiatus The Partridge Family (weekends 11am-12pm) and Mork & Mindy (weekends 6-7pm). A lot of the weekend shows on Antenna TV are moving to Rewind TV (i.e. The Hogan Family, Head of the Class, Diff'rent Strokes, The Facts of Life, etc). Check the full Antenna TV Fall 2021 schedule image for full details.

Stunts and future programming wise, there is a lot to come. On Labor Day, there will be an Alice marathon. On Halloween there will be a Bewitched marathon, while a Coach binge will air on Thanksgiving weekend. On Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, it's Antenna TV's annual Classic Christmas Collection marathon and Christmas Through the Years stunt. And finally, New Year's Eve will once again feature dance party episodes. More details on each stunt as we get closer to the dates. As we mentioned, AnTENna TV's final two months for their birthday blowout will have 10 episodes of Three's Company on Sept. 10 from 5pm-10pm and Hazel on Oct. 10 from 5pm-10pm. As for future programming, Antenna TV has reacquired Welcome Back, Kotter and it will begin this January, 2022. We hinted two shows returning to Antenna TV, and those are now announced: Too Close for Comfort and Welcome Back, Kotter.

Moving on to new Antenna TV companion network, Rewind TV. They will launch on Wednesday, September 1. The lineup will be seven days a week. Check the full Rewind TV launch schedule image for full details, but some highlights include: new acquisition Caroline in the City (12-1am), series moving from Rewind to Antenna like Diff'rent Strokes (5-6am and 1-2pm), The Facts of Life (6-7am and 12-1pm), Who's the Boss? (8-9am and 4-5pm), Head of the Class (3-4pm and 2-3am), along with series airing on both Antenna TV and Rewind TV like Mork & Mindy (11am-12pm on Rewind) and Family Ties (6-7pm on Rewind). Full list of launch shows: Caroline in the City, 227, Becker, Dear John, Designing Women, Diff'rent Strokes, The Facts of Life, Family Ties, Growing Pains, Head of the Class, The Hogan Family, Mork & Mindy, Murphy Brown, Sabrina The Teenage Witch, Who's the Boss, and Wings.

No details on if there will be any stunts yet, but there are plenty of series coming to Rewind TV in the next couple years, with most that were already announced to join. The Drew Carey Show launches first this December. The John Larroquette Show, My Two Dads, NewsRadio and Suddenly Susan will join in early 2022, while Just Shoot Me! and Mad About You launch sometime in 2023. More details to come on these as we get closer to the dates.

Antenna TV's Companion Network, Rewind TV Launching September 1 with 80s and 90s Series; Remembering Sitcom Writer Bernie Kahn

Nexstar Media Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Nexstar Media Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: NXST), announced that it will launch Rewind TV, a digital subchannel offering a slate of classic television sitcom hits from the 1980s and 1990s, on September 1, 2021. We first broke this news a few months ago, but now the official announcement has come with the name of the network and programming info. At its launch, Rewind TV will reach 40 percent of U.S. television households, or nearly 50 million homes, including New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Rewind TV will be available on newly designated or recently vacated digital subchannels licensed to Nexstar, full details on station carriage will be coming in the coming months.

Rewind TV will air a bunch of series from the Antenna TV library, but they have also acquired some new sitcoms: The Drew Carey Show, Suddenly Susan, Caroline in the City, and The John Larroquette Show. We already announced Caroline in the City is coming in 2021 and vaguely hinted about Suddenly Susan in 2022 (but now both are coming to Rewind instead of Antenna). We also hinted a return for Mad About You, but no word on that one yet. The Drew Carey Show and The John Larroquette Show are totally new and will start in 2022 with Suddenly Susan. Joining Caroline in the City this September on Rewind are Antenna TV faves 227, Becker, Dear John, Designing Women, Diff'rent Strokes, The Facts of Life, Family Ties, Growing Pains, Head of the Class, The Hogan Family, Mork & Mindy, Murphy Brown, My Two Dads, NewsRadio, Sabrina The Teenage Witch, Who’s the Boss, and Wings all will migrate over to Rewind TV in September. Some of these series are resting a bit right now on Antenna TV, as we mentioned. Nexstar's companion digital network, Antenna TV, will continue to air some of the most popular programming from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, including weeknight reruns of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and sitcoms such as Three's Company, Bewitched and The Jeffersons. Stay tuned for much more information on Rewind TV!

Television writer Bernie Kahn, who worked on The Addams Family, Get Smart, Bewitched and Three's Company, has died. He died on April 21 at the Motion Picture Home in Woodland Hills, California. Mr. Kahn was 90.

Kahn's sitcom writing credits in the 1960s included My Favorite Martian, The Smothers Brothers Show (aka My Brother the Angel), My Mother the Car, The Lucy Show, The Addams Family, Petticoat Junction (2 episodes), Hank, Get Smart, Bewitched (15 episodes from 1967 to 1972), Occasional Wife, The Second Hundred Years, The Ugliest Girl in Town and The Courtship of Eddie's Father.

He co-created the short-lived 1978-1979 NBC sitcom Joe & Valerie with Ronald Rubin. Some of his sitcom writing credits in the 1970s included My World and Welcome to It, Nanny and the Professor, Make Room for Granddaddy, The Good Life, Love, American Style (3 episodes), The Brady Bunch, The Partridge Family, Room 222 (2 episodes), The Paul Lynde Show, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Maude, Chico and the Man, Viva Valdez (2 episodes), The Practice (3 episodes), Tabitha (also an executive story consultant), Three's Company, The Love Boat and Brothers and Sisters.

Kahn received two Writers Guild Award nominations for Episodic Comedy for Get Smart in 1968 and My World and Welcome to It in 1971.

He co-wrote the 1971 Disney television movie The Barefoot Executive with Joseph McEveety, Lila Garrett and Stu Billett. He wrote the 1985 comedy film Basic Training.

Survivors include his wife, Elinor Berger; three daughters; two step-children; and five grandchildren.

Mr. Kahn penned more than 100 episodes of television series during his career, which spanned from the 1960s to the 1990s. We thank him for the laughs and entertainment he brought us. He will be greatly missed.