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Court TV will carry the televised feed of the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial, which is scheduled to begin next week in Fairfax County, VA. The network will be the pool feed provider for the trial, and plans to provide coverage of the proceedings. Ethan Nelson, Acting Head of Court TV, said in a statement…

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy Award-winning journalist Tamron Hall is set to host the weekly true-crime series Someone They Knew…With Tamron Hall for Court TV, premiering Jan. 9, 2022 at 9 p.m. ET. Forthcoming episodes will air weekly on Sunday nights in the same timeslot. According to the network, each episode will follow the path…

The eyes of the world will focus on Minneapolis this Monday, as the trial of a former police officer accused of killing George Floyd is expected to begin. Protests are already underway in the city and its surrounding neighborhoods, which were devastated in the aftermath of Floyd's death. As widely reported, Officer Der…

Court TV, which relaunched in the U.S. in 2019 after an 11-year hiatus, has arrived in the UK via an initial deal with pay-TV giant Sky. The first batch of programming will include airing the trials of those accused in the George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery cases, as well as the R Kelly trial, which is currently…

Bounce has greenlighted a pair of scripted series — one produced by Cedric the Entertainer and fronted by D.J. Hughley and another starring Vivica A. Fox — and Court TV unveiled a new show with Ashleigh Banfield as the sibling networks unveiled their 2020-21 slates at CTAM today. Along with the Hughley-led dramedy John…

Ashleigh Banfield, a host on the original Court TV, is returning to the rebooted network as a special contributor. Banfield will appear nightly on Court TV’s live primetime show at 8 PM ET, joining anchors Vinnie Politan, Julie Grant and Ted Rowlands in discussing the legal news of the day. "Ashleigh's Court TV…

Court TV’s first original true crime series, OJ25, will look back at the world-famous O.J. Simpson murder case 25 years later. The series will premiere on Thursday, Jan. 23 at 9:00 p.m. ET on Court TV. OJ25 will relive the trial using Court TV's extensive library, featuring every minute of the double murder trial. OJ25…

Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial in New York, which is slated for September, will headline gavel-to-gavel courtroom coverage on the reborn Court TV. The network, reactivating a TV brand that revolutionized trial coverage as much as ESPN did sports or CNN did news, relaunched in May as a multicast network operated by E.W…

EXCLUSIVE: Katz Networks, a unit of the E.W. Scripps Co., has expanded the reach of the upcoming May 8 launch of the new Court TV with additional distribution pacts across multiple platforms. Court TV has added more than a dozen mid-sized cable providers, including GCI Cable; Massillon Cable TV; Buckeye Cable; Skitter…

EXCLUSIVE: Katz Networks, a unit of the E.W. Scripps Co., has set May 8 for the relaunch of the iconic TV brand Court TV, and unveiled its programming schedule for the network as well as courttv.com. Weekday programming will kick off at 9 AM EDT daily with live, gavel-to-gavel coverage, legal reporting and expert…

Court TV, the iconic TV brand known for broadcasting the trials of O.J. Simpson, the Menendez Brothers and Casey Anthony, will relaunch under its old name with a new backer. Katz Networks, a unit of the E.W. Scripps Co. which operates multicast networks like Bounce, Escape and Grit, will relaunch Court TV in May 2019…