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A stellar line-up of Hollywood talent will help to make the holiday season bright when they guest-host The Late Late Show with James Corden Monday, Dec. 9 - Wednesday, Dec. 18 (12:37-1:37AM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Some of the most respected names in music, film and television will fill in for host James Corden on the Emmy Award-winning series while he is in production on the upcoming film The Prom. Those taking a turn behind Corden's desk include 15-time Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, producer and returning Grammy host Alicia Keys; three-time Grammy Award winner Chance the Rapper; Emmy-nominated actor and musician Jeff Goldblum; scene-stealing actor, producer and writer Ken Jeong (Dr. Ken/Community); Oscar-nominated actress Melissa McCarthy (Mike & Molly); and multi-platinum recording artist Harry Styles, who previously guest-hosted the show in December 2017. Each will take on hosting duties for one night. Specific airdates will be announced shortly.

COZI TV invites their loyal fans to light up the tree, throw on an ugly sweater and snuggle up in front of the television for a special marathon filled with many of television's most beloved Christmas moments from The Office, Will & Grace and more. The national multicast network's A Very COZI Christmas marathon will kick off Monday, December 9 at 8:00 p.m. ET and continue select days through Christmas Eve (check local listings).

A Very COZI Christmas will include the two-hour COZI TV premiere of the Little House: Bless All the Dear Children television movie and several Roseanne holiday episodes (before its January 2020 premiere!). Viewers can also watch episodes from Murder She Wrote, Six Million Dollar Man and Highway to Heaven. For full lineup information, please visit COZITV.com for your local schedule.

Make some extra room at the table for a few Unexpected Guests throughout Thanksgiving week. Starting Thanksgiving Thursday, November 28, 2019 at 8AM and concluding Sunday, December 1 at midnight (check local listings), COZI TV's special, four-day Unexpected Guests marathon will include many of America's most well-known personalities making Guest appearances in The Office, Will & Grace, The Nanny and more. Visit COZITV.com for episode and schedule information.

The national multicast network's Unexpected Guests marathon will include appearances by Ray Romano, guest starring in The Office and The Nanny. Carol Burnett and Frank Sinatra will make appearances in Magnum P.I., Flip Wilson will join the Six Million Dollar Man, and Kevin Bacon will guest star on Will & Grace. Also appearing will be Ed Harris in Rockford Files and Richard Gere in Kojak. Throughout the week, viewers will also spot musical legends such as Elton John, Ray Charles and Madonna, in addition to hall-of-fame athletes including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Dick Butkus and Joe Namath.

MeTV Network will celebrate one of the most powerful and riveting broadcast television events in history with "MeTV Remembers the M*A*S*H Finale," airing Veterans Day, Monday, November 11 from 7:00-10:00pm ET/PT. The final episode of M*A*S*H, "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen," was directed by star Alan Alda and captivated the country when it first aired, becoming the most watched dramatic television event in history with more than 100 million viewers tuning in to see how the 4077th wrapped up their last days of the Korean War. For this special three-hour event, MeTV has assembled many of the cast and creators of M*A*S*H, including Alda, Jamie Farr, Loretta Swit, Gary Burghoff, Mike Farrell, Burt Metcalfe and others to share their memories of this landmark event, offering viewers an intimate, behind-the-scenes look into the making of the groundbreaking finale and its impact on popular culture.

Welcome to SitcomsOnline Digest! Labor Day weekend has finally arrived, and everybody knows what that means: new fall seasons and new series are coming right around the corner! This week, we've got a light week of news, but we're hearing of a Simpsons crew member who might be gone and more on the reboot of Starksy and Hutch. Let's get going!

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Who to Follow: Tone Bell (Twitter), "DISJOINTED on NETFLIX on AUG 25th. There are no abs under this shirt --- IG: toneBell"

Claim to Fame: A little over a week ago, Netflix debuted the sitcom Disjointed, a sitcom created by David Javerbaum and Chuck Lorre, about a character played by Kathy Bates who runs a medical marijuana shop. The reviews of the series have been terrible, and it has been described as the worst sitcom of the summer. Still, it does have a talented cast who'll either continue to flourish here despite those reviews or go on to something else. Among those cast members, we have Tone Bell, who is not new to the sitcom world at all. He previously had a role in the NBC series Whitney as RJ. But more than that, he is also a stand-up comedian and has also been seen in series such as Bad Judge, Single Ladies, and Key and Peele. Disjointed probably won't be the role he'll be best known for, and it may even become one of those hilarious footnotes in his career, but we wouldn't be surprised to see him go on to something successful that makes a name for himself in the future.

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.

COZI TV is offering six million reasons to spend Father's Day with Lee Majors. The popular, national multicast network announced a special Father's Day mini-marathon of the iconic, action adventure series The Six Million Dollar Man, which will kick off on Sunday, June 19 at 12 PM (check local listings). Featuring five episodes of the beloved TV series, the Father's Day mini-marathon will spotlight the actor Lee Majors in his famed role as Colonel Steve Austin. A former astronaut with bionic implants employed by the United States Government, Colonel Austin enjoyed vision, strength and speed far beyond human capabilities. The Six Million Dollar Man regularly airs on COZI TV on Wednesdays at 9 PM.

Episodes included in COZI TV's Father’s Day mini-marathon are:
Secret of Bigfoot, Part I (12 PM)
Secret of Bigfoot, Part II (1 PM)
Return of the Bionic Woman, Part I (2 PM)
Return of the Bionic Woman, Part II (3 PM)
Seven Million Dollar Man (4 PM)

FX Networks has ordered a comedy pilot written by and starring Cristin Milioti and Nina Pedrad. Milioti (Fargo, How I Met Your Mother, The Wolf of Wall Street) and Pedrad (New Girl, 30 Rock) will serve as Executive Producers along with RCG Productions' (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia) Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day and Glenn Howerton, and 3 Arts' Michael Rotenberg (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Silicon Valley) and Nick Frenkel (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Mick). Pedrad will serve as showrunner. This half-hour comedy pilot follows Maxine, her best friends Natalie and Amy, and stepbrother Landis as they navigate the abject shit-storm that is adulthood. Cristin Milioti will play Maxine, an entitled actress-turned-process-server who takes lemons and makes a fire out of lemons, burning herself and others. Max's dysfunctional, tight-knit clan serves as her surrogate family and always lets her sing the Aaron Burr parts of Hamilton. Nina Pedrad will play Natalie. Sharp witted and scientifically inclined, Nat sells weed and prescription drugs, but blanches at the term "drug dealer." She wants to be the Sheryl Sandberg of weed. The other two roles have yet to be cast.