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Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager will kick off New Year’s Eve on NBC as the hosts of the primetime two-hour special, A Toast to 2022! beginning at 8 p.m. Miley Cyrus, George Lopez, Dolly Parton, and Kenan Thompson are among the talent who will join Kotb and Bush Hager as they look back at the year’s biggest and buzziest moments.

A few hours before the last episode of the season Saturday, the NBD show’s Instagram account posted a cue card saying, “we’ll miss you, Cecily.” The caption read “Tonight we send off one of the best to ever do it.” A two-time Emmy nominee for her work on the show, Strong was known for characters like the Girl You Wish You Hadn’t Started a Conversation With At a Party and impressions of people like Fox News host Judge Jeanine Pirro and U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green.

Beauty and the Beast averaged 4 million total viewers and a 0.7 demo rating, after which The Parent Test retained 1.9 mil and a 0.4. Ghosts‘ hour-long Christmas episode averaged 6.8 million viewers and a 0.6 rating, eyeing its best audience ever and matching its season high in the demo.

A report last August about NBC considering dropping the 10 PM hour and giving it back to its affiliate stations rattled the creative community. NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell in October acknowledged the discussions, but stressed that no final decisions have been made. A decision has now been made, at least when it comes to the next 2023-24 broadcast season.

NBC renewed hit freshman series Quantum Leap, its reboot of the popular 1990s sci-fi drama, for a second season, the network announced Monday. The renewal comes midway through the series’ first season which has seen solid ratings. Starring Raymond Lee, the Quantum Leap pilot is currently up to a 2.0 rating in the 18-49 demo and 10.8 million viewers across linear, digital and streaming platforms, according to Nielsen and the network. The reboot is NBC’s best-ever drama launch on Peacock and is the No. 2 new broadcast show of the season in the 18-49 demo.

In June, David Graziano was given the keys to one of the most valuable fiefdoms in television when he was named showrunner of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ahead of the NBC drama’s record-setting 24th season. But trouble was brewing behind the scenes. Not long after Graziano took the helm of SVU, the show’s script coordinator — who works closely with the show’s writers — quit. After the position was posted on a listserv that circulates widely among script coordinators, it triggered warnings from other individuals who had previously worked with Graziano.

Emmy-winning comedian Jerrod Carmichael has signed on to host the 80th Golden Globe Awards as it returns to NBC next month. Carmichael will helm the three-hour telecast on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023, from the Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. NBC and Peacock will air the show live.

NBC to Stream Its Regional Sports Networks on PeacockNBC Sports regional networks (RSNs) will soon start streaming on Peacock. NBCUniversal Television and Streaming Chairman Mark Lazarus said at a conference that the company has been negotiating streaming rights with teams and leagues.

In the latest TV ratings, the NBC TV-movie Dolly Parton’s Mountain Magic Christmas dominated a quiet-ish Thursday in total viewers (with 6 million) and is currently tied for the nightly demo win (with a 0.5 rating). Leading out of that, a holiday edition of The Wall retained just 2.1 mil and a 0.2.

Roker, the 68-year-old Today stalwart, briefly made it out of the hospital for Thanksgiving with his family, but had to quickly return via ambulance when something went wrong. He’s suffering from blood clots in his leg and lungs. It was the first time in 27 years he didn’t appear at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade, and he is still in the hospital, making it impossible to appear at live events.

Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager are pushing for a shake up in their morning routine. Last week, the duo led their 10 a.m. hour of Today in front of an audience gathered in NBC’s Studio 6A, a big change for a program that usually is closed off from crowds. They got to award luxury vacations to audience members who had been through hardship or emotional moments, and interact with viewers they would normally never see. The experience left the two hosts feeling such a burst of energy that they are trying to make the in-house crowd a regular feature of their show. “It adds energy and juice,” Kotb says.

A series of three 15-second commercials produced by the Creative Partnerships @ NBCU team will demonstrate how the Google Pixel 7 smartphone can help create their dream holiday photo as the spots demonstrate how the device’s Magic Eraser and Photo Unblur features bring new life to classic Thanksgiving Day Parade moments.

Legendary country superstar Dolly Parton will co-host Miley Cyrus’ live New Year’s Eve special on Dec. 31 in Miami. “Miley’s New Year’s Eve Party is about getting glamorous and dressing your best,” Cyrus said Tuesday in a promotional video posted to Instagram. “Well, we do that every day. Don’t we, Miley?” Parton chimed in. “You taught me well,” the Wrecking Ball songstress acknowledged.

NBC will strip its U.S. remake of hit U.K. game show The Wheel across two weeks in an unusual scheduling move. The series will launch on Dec. 19 at 10 p.m. and will move to 8 p.m. for its second week with new episodes airing nightly.

In the latest TV show ratings, NBC’s Law & Order: SVU led Thursday both in total viewers and in the demo, while CBS’ Pickled proved to be a dead ball.

NBC has unveiled its plans for the start of 2023 with Magnum, P.I moving from CBS, and its sequel series to Night Court leading the lineup. New drama series Found, starring Shanola Hampton from executive producer Greg Berlanti, also lands a spot after the Jay Hernandez-fronted procedural on Sunday nights.

Fans of Dolly Parton and/or movie musicals will have an early present to unwrap, when NBC premieres Dolly Parton’s Mountain Magic Christmas on Thursday, Dec. 1 at 8 p.m. ET. Starring Parton, Tom Everett Scott (SouthLAnd), Angel Parker (The Rookie) and Ana Gasteyer (The Goldbergs) — and counting Miley Cyrus, Willie Nelson, Billy Ray Cyrus, Jimmie Allen, Zach Williams and, well, Jimmy Fallon among its musical guests — the two-hour special promises a “modern-day movie musical about the making of a network TV special.”

Chicago Med star Brian Tee will exit the series following eight seasons on the medical drama with episode 9 titled “Could Be The Start Of Something New” airing Dec. 7 serving as his final appearance. He will, however, return for episode 16 offscreen to make his directorial debut.

NBC has picked up a 23rd edition of The Voice — which will be the last one for Blake Shelton. The country singer is the only judge, or “coach” in The Voice’s preferred description, who has appeared in every season to date. NBC announced Tuesday that it has renewed the show for season 23, which will be its first spring edition in two years after skipping one in 2022.

Amazon’s Fire TV has added thousands of hours of free ad-supported video and live content to its platform in the U.S., including sports highlights from MLB, NBC Sports and Fox sports. New free content is accessible from dedicated rows on the Fire TV Home and Free screens and spans three categories of sports news and highlights, trending trailers, and food and cooking. Amazon is touting live, on-demand, and short-form content. Users can access without any sign-ups, downloads or fees to get the instant video playback.

Ten years ago, NBC won the same week among adults 18-49 with a 2.9 rating.

The launch of John Dickerson’s CBS News Prime Time in September means that all three broadcast network news divisions have unique streaming newscasts at night, a nod to the future and bid to reach young people who aren’t watching television at dinnertime. Above (l-r): Tom Llamas, host of Top Story with Tom Llamas, Linsey Davis on the set of ABC News Live Prime with Linsey Davis, and John Dickerson, host of CBS News Prime Time with John Dickerson.

NBC, the Hollywood Press Association and Dick Clark Productions on Tuesday made the Globes’ return official. The 80th Golden Globes will be held Jan. 10, airing both on NBC and Peacock.

The comedian is the eighth castmember to leave the NBC sketch comedy series ahead of Season 48.

Saturday Night Live is trying to replenish its ranks after many of its best-known cast members have signaled they intend to leave the show. The venerable NBC latenight program has enlisted four new featured players for its 48th season, a move that will lend some ballast to the cast after mainstays like Kate McKinnon and Aidy Bryant decided to leave. The four new featured players are Marcello Hernandez, Molly Kearney, Michael Longfellow and Devon Walker.

The world-famous exhibition basketball team known for its spectacular ball handling and humorous antics will appear in a weekly show called “Harlem Globetrotters: Play it Forward” on NBC. The show, which debuts Oct. 1, will be hosted by Craig Robinson of The Office. It will showcase the players’ talents and their connections to local communities, including volunteer initiatives and fundraising.

Longtime New York viewers of Days of Our Lives got the ultimate Friday cliffhanger today, when the final scene of the final broadcast episode of NBC’s long-running soap was cut short for live coverage of King Charles III’s speech. The soap moves to the Peacock streaming service on Monday.