“We’re thrilled to be making more Hollywood Game Night,” said Paul Telegdy, President of Alternative and Late Night Programming, NBC Entertainment. “Jane is an amazing host and ringmaster. Let the games begin!”

Hosted by Emmy winner Jane Lynch (Glee), Hollywood Game Night pits two teams comprised of two celebrities and one contestant against one another in a series of games, with the maximum prize being $25,000 for contestants and $10,000 for the charities the celebrities are playing for. Last season, the series averaged a 1.5 in the 18-49 demo and five million total viewers while airing on Mondays in place of The Voice and Thursdays in place of low-rated comedies.

There’s no word yet on when Hollywood Game Night will premiere, but considering how flexible it’s been for NBC and how cost effective an option it is for them, it could conceivably air anywhere on the schedule NBC believes needs a little help. Right now, that could be Mondays in between cycles of The Voice; Wednesdays at 8:00, should The Mysteries of Laura begin dropping; Thursdays at 8:00 once The Biggest Loser finishes its season; and post-football Sundays, where NBC has struggled for years.

Will you be watching the third season of Hollywood Game Night? Which celebrities do you hope to see during the upcoming season? Should the show add any news games to its repertoire for season three?

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-ABC Family will be running the five episodes of reality series The Vineyard on Monday, August 26th from 6:00 p.m. until 11:00 p.m. The series focuses on locals and “wash-ashores” on Martha’s Vineyard and the relationship drama that follows them.

-Do you like FX? Want to know if you will have FXX come September 2nd, the day the network will officially launch? You can check out GetFXX.com to see if you’ll be able to watch It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The League, and Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell live. The network will reportedly be available in 72 million homes upon its debut.

–Oprah’s Lifeclass has officially won the Primetime Emmy for Creative Achievement in Interactive Media – Social TV Experience, a category voted on by a jury of professionals in the relevant peer group. The series finds millions of students all over the world interacting with Winfrey on-air, online, and via social media as they listen to an expert meant to help them live more fulfilling lives. OWN has also doubled the episode order for Tyler Perry’s Love Thy Neighbor, bringing the comedy up to 52 episodes for its first season, and while ordering four more installments of Tyler Perry’s The Haves and the Have Nots and moving Tyler Perry’s For Better or Worse over from TBS beginning Wednesday, September 18th at 9:00.

–True Blood star Stephen Moyer has signed on to star in NBC’s production of The Sound of Music as Captain Georg Van Trapp. The three-hour live event, also starring country music star Carrie Underwood, is set to air December 5th.

-ABC Family has ordered three comedy pilots: Mystery Girls, starring Tori Spelling as a former TV star forced to solve crimes with her mystery TV series co-star; Work Mom, which follows digital marketer Heather as she gets a promotion and hires her mother; and Young & Hungry, about a tech entrepreneur who hires a food blogger as his personal chef. A decision about whether any of these will be picked up to series and join the network’s comedy roster, which includes Baby Daddy and Melissa & Joey, will come early next year.

-Kendrick Lamar leads the way with 14 nominations at the BET Hip Hop Awards, which will air October 15th and be hosted by Snoop Dogg. Other major nominees, which you can see here, include J. Cole, Drake, and Wale.

-Comedian Dave Attell has landed a weekly late-night stand-up series. Yet to be titled, the eight-episode first season will feature comedians performing uncensored and unfiltered sets, with new faces mixed in with familiar favorites. He previously had travelogue Insomniac with Dave Attell on the network, which ran from 2001-2004 and inspired several one-hour specials during its run.

-History has greenlit production on a scripted miniseries based on famed magician Harry Houdini. Starring Adrien Brody and Kristen Connolly, Houdini follows the man as he “finds fame, engages in espionage, battles spiritualists and encounters the greatest names of the era, from U.S. presidents to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Grigori Rasputin.”

-Upcoming ABC Family drama Ravenswood will be given a special new promo during the summer finale of Pretty Little Liars, airing Tuesday. Also, the network will initiate the #RavenswoodReveal challenge, as star Tyler Blackburn will tweet a portion of a photo that holds clues to the series. Once it reaches 1022 retweets, in honors of the show’s October premiere date, one of his four co-stars (Nicole Gale Anderson, Brett Dier, Britne Oldford, and Merritt Patterson) will tweet another part of the photo, looking for 1022 retweets, and so on.

-Syfy has put a new reality series from the producers of Face Off into development. Camera Ready will put ten aspiring costume designers through challenges in creating wardrobe for television, film, and music videos. They’ll be evaluated by Oscar-winning costume designers, cutting-edge directors, and avant-garde fashionistas, with the winner taking home $100,000.

-On September 7th at 9:00, Animal Planet will be holding a countdown of the Top 20 Kitten Moments, with regular interruptions scheduled for glimpses at the Animal Planet L!VE’s Kitten Cam. If you can’t wait, the network has set up an exclusive live stream of the second annual Walker Art Center Internet Cat Video Film Festival, set to begin August 28th at 8:30 p.m. on AnimalPlanet.com/CatVidFest. A butter sculpture of a cat will also be revealed during the hour.

-The CW has set its summer finale dates, as well as ordered one-hour special Colin & Brad: Two Man Group (with Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood) and a one-hour Arrow recap special titled Year One. The schedule is as follows:

–Renewals: NBC has ordered a 10-episode second season of Hollywood Game Night, while TBS has renewed Men at Work for a 10-episode third season, Sullivan & Son for a 13-episode third season, and Deal with It for a 10-episode second season. Deon Cole’s Black Box remains the only TBS original with its fate up in the air.

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The network will debut original scripted drama Crossing Lines on Sunday, June 23rd at 9:00 with a two-hour premiere before moving it to 10:00 for the rest of its 10-episode run. From creator Edward Bernero, Crossing Lines taps into the charter of the International Criminal Court to investigate serialized cross-border crimes and to hunt down global criminals. The series stars William Fichtner, Donald Sutherland, Marc Lavoine, Gabriella Pession, Tom Wlaschiha, Moon Dailly and Richard Flood.

On Thursday, July 11th, NBC is set to debut two unscripted entries to its schedule, beginning with The Winner Is… at 9:00. Hosted by Nick Lachey, each episode features six acts that go head to head each week and sing for a shot at a $1 million grand prize, all the while avoiding cash distractions mean to push them out of the game. At 10:00 is Hollywood Game Night, hosted by Jane Lynch. The show features A-list celebrities partaking in a cocktail party atmosphere that is based on the real-life game nights of creator Sean Hayes. There’s been no announcement of the celebrities set to participate.

Do any of these three sound interesting enough to give a shot? What do you think is missing from broadcast television during the summer? Aside from America’s Got Talent, which of NBC’s summer shows do you think will do well?

Here’s an updated look at what NBC’s schedule will look like this summer:
Thursday, May 23rd
8:00/8:30 Save Me

Tuesday, June 4th
8:00 America’s Got Talent

Sunday, June 23rd
9:00 – 11:00 Crossing Lines (Two-Hour Premiere)

Monday, July 1st
8:00 – 10:00 American Ninja Warrior (Two-Hour Premiere)

Monday, July 8th
8:00 American Ninja Warrior  (Time Period Premiere)
9:00 Get Out Alive with Bear Grylls

Wednesday, July 10th
10:00 Camp

Thursday, July 11th
9:00 The Winner Is…
10:00 Hollywood Game Night

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