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Adults 18-49:NBC: 1.3Fox: 0.8ABC: 0.6CBS: 0.6Total Viewers:NBC: 6.6 millionCBS: 4.4 millionFox: 3.5 millionABC: 3.0 million“This is an incredible coup, particularly on the heels of NBC’s recent victory in the 52-week season, and we are excited to continue this momentum as we look toward holiday programming, midseason and beyond,” NBCUniversal Chairman Frances Berwick and its television and streaming entertainment content chairman, Susan Rovner, said in a joint statement on Tuesday.

Adam Devine will reprise his role from the film franchise that the movies’ fans all loved to hate.“When we saw the opportunity to create a series for ‘Pitch Perfect’ with Elizabeth Banks, Max Handelman and Paul Brooks plus more earworm classics for superfans to enjoy, we jumped at it,” Susan Rovner, chairman of entertainment content for NBCUniversal Television and Streaming said to Variety.

Nearly a decade after the series finale back in 2013, “The Office” is more popular now than ever before. Thanks to a new generation of viewers discovering the sitcom on Netflix years ago, combined with the fact that you can find an episode of “The Office” airing nearly 24/7 somewhere on cable TV, the Steve Carell-led comedy series from NBC seems to be the topic of conversation whenever people talk about potential reboots and revivals.

Simon Cowell is staying in business with NBCUniversal.

Peacock is doubling down on true-crime content and global co-productions, while NBC will develop more limited series in the vein of Renée Zellweger’s upcoming drama The Thing About Pam.

In a world of reboots, spin-offs and reimaginations, The Office remains one of the most vaunted.

The villain has arrived! Taraji P. Henson has joined NBC’s holiday production of Annie Live! as Miss Hannigan, the orphanage’s cruel manager, who hates children.

NBC today canceled one of its two high-concept bubble drama series, freshman Debris. And while the demise of the sci-fi series was largely expected, it improves the odds for sophomore Manifest, produced by Warner Bros. TV and Universal TV.

NBCUniversal brought out the stars to its Upfront on Monday to show off how the company’s new content strategy might work in practice.

NBC has greenlit a reboot of 1960s gameshow Password with Jimmy Fallon.

Cynthia Littleton Business Editor“The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” has been renewed for five years — a longer term commitment from NBC to the host than the network had previously disclosed.Susan Rovner, NBCUniversal Television and Streaming chairman, confirmed the renewal during NBCUniversal’s upfront presentation Monday.

The Tonight Show isn’t going anywhere from your late night viewing schedule.

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon has been officially renewed by NBC for five more years.

It’s seven years since then-Fox chief Kevin Reilly declared “RIP pilot season”.

NBC has been entertaining insomniacs, stoners and shift workers in the 1:30am timeslot since 1988.

The doors at Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s 99th precinct will close after the Summer Olympics after NBC gave the final season of the comedy the “coveted” post-games slot.

With a matter of days before NBCUniversal’s virtual upfront presentation on Monday, Good Girls, Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, Manifest, Debris and Ellen’s Game Of Games have yet to learn about their fate.

The Pearson saga at the center of Dan Fogelman’s time-skipping drama This is Us will reach its final chapter with season 6. Ahead of the NBC’s final season network bosses Susan Rovner and Frances Berwick celebrated the series and explained its midseason premiere.

picked up to series as a multi-platform release, with plans for the show to run on NBC and USA in addition to Peacock. An individual familiar with the situation attributed the move to Susan Rovner, who was appointed head of scripted programming for NBCU in September, about a month after the show was picked up.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe “Joe Exotic” series starring Kate McKinnon and John Cameron Mitchell will now air only on Peacock instead of on the streamer, NBC, and USA Network as originally planned.The show received the multi-platform series order last year. According to an individual with knowledge of the production, the move comes as the multi-platform order was made prior to Susan Rovner assuming her role as chairman of entertainment content for NBCUniversal Television and Streaming.

The Joe Exotic scripted series, starring Kate McKinnon and John Cameron Mitchell, is going to stream exclusively on Peacock.

Fremantle’s Melissa Harper is joining NBCUniversal in a new role that will oversee all physical production across its TV and streaming portfolios.

The reorganization of NBCUniversal’s entertainment content team is complete with Susan Rovner setting the team and around 50 employees leaving as part of the changes.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterNBCUniversal has finalized its organizational structure under new television and streaming entertainment chief Susan Rovner, a move that includes 50 layoffs, mostly in the content division.Scripted content president Lisa Katz’s team now includes Cara Dellaverson and Alex Sepiol, who have been tapped to together lead drama development and current programming as executive VPs of drama series.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterJust a little more than a month after officially joining NBCUniversal as the entertainment giant’s television and streaming chief, Susan Rovner has set her leadership team, a move that includes making Lisa Katz sole head of scripted content and splitting unscripted into two units.In an internal note to staff, Rovner started off by writing that she has spent the past month getting to know the organization, its employees and “watching A LOT of television.”“I accepted

Peter White Television EditorFive weeks after joining NBCUniversal, Susan Rovner has put her stamp on the company’s TV and streaming division by setting her programming leadership team.The main takeaways from the reshuffle, which Rovner shared via an internal memo, are Lisa Katz becoming President of Scripted Content and Rovner splitting the unscripted portfolio between reality shows and competition formats/game shows.Interestingly, five of the six execs named to the leadership are women.The

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVLongtime programming exec Bill McGoldrick is leaving NBCUniversal after spending the better part of more than 20 years at the company and its predecessors.McGoldrick’s departure comes amid a restructuring of NBCUniversal’s television and streaming content teams under new programming chief Susan Rovner, who on Tuesday unveiled her new leadership team.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterChanning Dungey is stepping down from her role as vice president of original content at Netflix, Variety has confirmed.Her last day at Netflix is today. According to an individual with knowledge of the situation, she is leaving to pursue another opportunity.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Channing Dungey has stepped down as VP Original Content and head of drama at Netflix after 20 months at the company to pursue another opportunity.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVFor the second time in that many months, a top TV programming job has opened that is bringing up the names of some of the TV business’ most accomplished female executives.NBCUniversal’s head of TV and streaming content post ultimately went to Warner Bros. TV President Susan Rovner.