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Beginning August 5, getTV will begin airing episodes of the popular sitcom Hot in Cleveland, starring Valerie Bertinelli (One Day at a Time), Jane Leeves (Frasier), Wendie Malick (Just Shoot Me) and Betty White (The Golden Girls). The series, which ran on TV Land from 2010 to 2015, will air August 5 at 6PM ET. Hot in Cleveland features three 40-something best friends from Los Angeles-new divorcee Melanie (Bertinelli), makeup artist Joy (Leeves) and former soap star Victoria (Malick)-who are on their way to a vacation in Paris when their plane makes an emergency landing in Cleveland, where they're grounded. After venturing into a local bar to find that they attract welcome male attention, the ladies believe they can be big fish in a smaller pond that's less youth-obsessed than their Hollywood hometown. They decide to give Cleveland a shot and rent an old Victorian house that comes with a caretaker named Elke, played by White.

Hot in Cleveland's recurring cast members included Craig Ferguson, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Heather Locklear, Eddie Cibrian, Wayne Knight, Carl Reiner, Susan Lucci, musicians Huey Lewis and Joe Jonas, Juliet Mills, Georgia Engel and Tim Daly. The list of guest stars is a veritable Who's Who from the worlds of TV, movies and music. Among the stars who guested on the show during its long run were Bertinelli's co-stars from One Day at Time, Bonnie Franklin, MacKenzie Phillips and Pat Harrington Jr.; Leeves' and Malick's co-stars from Frasier, John Mahoney and Peri Gilpin; Malick's co-star from Just Shoot Me, Laura San Giacomo; and White's co-stars from The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Mary Tyler Moore, Valerie Harper, Edward Asner and Cloris Leachman.

Comedy Central, the #1 brand in comedy announced that Emmy(R) Award-winning actor and host Sean Hayes has been named Roast Master for the Comedy Central Roast of Alec Baldwin. The #BaldwinRoast will tape in Los Angeles on Saturday, September 7 and will premiere on Sunday, September 15 at 10:00 p.m. ET/ PT. Baldwin and Comedy Central will also contribute a combined $1 million, in matching $500,000 donations, to Exploring The Arts, a 501c3 nonprofit organization serving public high schools throughout New York City and Los Angeles. Founded in 1999 by legendary American singer and painter Tony Bennett and his wife Susan Benedetto, a former public school teacher, the mission of Exploring the Arts (ETA) is to transform the lives of young people through arts education. At the heart of ETA's work is a vision to provide greater equality of resources and opportunity in the arts to traditionally underserved teens.

Comedy Central is rolling out the red carpet for the illustrious and multitalented film, television and stage star Alec Baldwin. The #1 brand in comedy announced that Baldwin will be this year's Roastee. The Comedy Central Roast of Alec Baldwin (#BaldwinRoast) will take place in New York with the tape and airdate to be announced at a later date. The Comedy Central Roast of Alec Baldwin will be executive produced by Joel Gallen from Tenth Planet Productions, who also served as Executive Producer and Director of the Comedy Central Roasts of Bruce Willis, Rob Lowe, Justin Bieber, James Franco, Charlie Sheen, and Donald Trump, as well as the Emmy(R)-nominated Comedy Central Roast of William Shatner. Christian McLaughlin is the Executive in Charge of Production and Jordan Ellner is the Talent Producer for Comedy Central.

Comedy Central gives audiences access to a world of super funny, personally relatable, culturally relevant, and provocative comedy that tells the funny truths of life, every day and everywhere. From award-winning late-night, scripted and animated series to stand-up specials, short-form and sketch, Comedy Central has it all. A subsidiary of Viacom, Comedy Central is available to more than 300 million households in over 150 countries across the globe.

Viewers are getting into the Christmas spirit this July with Hallmark Channel's "Keepsake Christmas" (Friday, July 12 - Saturday, July 27) and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries' "Gold Crown Christmas" (Friday, June 28 - Sunday, July 14). Along with two all-new Christmas movies premiering in the month of July on both networks, Christmas movies featuring fan-favorite stars including Candace Cameron Bure, Lacey Chabert, Jill Wagner and Christina Milian will air throughout the programming events and are sure to put audiences in the holiday spirit. Two all-new movies are Christmas Camp on Sunday, July 7 at 9pm/8c on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries starring Lily Anne Harrison and Bobby Campo and A Merry Christmas Match on Saturday, July 13 at 8pm/7c on Hallmark Channel starring Ashley Newbrough and Kyle Dean Massey.

Hallmark Channel Original Christmas Movies that will air throughout "Keepsake Christmas" (Friday, July 12 - Saturday, July 27): A Shoe Addict's Christmas starring Candace Cameron Bure and Luke Macfarlane; Pride, Prejudice, and Mistletoe starring Lacey Chabert and Brendan Penny; Christmas at Graceland starring Kellie Pickler and Wes Brown; Christmas in Evergreen: Letters to Santa starring Jill Wagner, Mark Deklin, Holly Robinson-Peete, Barbara Niven, Andrew Francis and Ashley Williams; Mingle All the Way starring Jen Lilley, Brant Daugherty and Lindsay Wagner; and Entertaining Christmas starring Jodie Sweetin and Brendan Fehr.

Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Original Christmas Movies that will air throughout "Gold Crown Christmas" (Friday, June 28 - Sunday, July 14): Memories of Christmas starring Christina Milian and Mark Taylor; A Veteran's Christmas starring Eloise Mumford and Sean Faris; Once Upon a Christmas Miracle starring Aimee Teegarden and Brett Dalton; and Time for Me to Come Home for Christmas starring Josh Henderson and Megan Park.

Welcome to SitcomsOnline Digest! We're now into the second half of fall, the leaves are falling, it's starting to get legitimately cold... and what better way to work around that than to sit around and watch some sitcoms? This week, we've got news about a new Showtime series under development starring Vanessa Bayer, we're hearing that Orange is the New Black may be spawning a sequel, and more. Let's get going!

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