The final season of Darren Star comedy Younger premieres on TV Land Wednesday, July 7 with two episodes. Season seven debuted on ViacomCBS sibling Paramount Plus in April. 

Younger follows Liza Miller (Sutton Foster), an editor navigating the publishing world while facing the lie she created about her age to land her dream job. In the final season, “Liza’s personal life is on shaky ground as she tries to stay true to herself,” said TV Land. After a setback at work, Kelsey (Hilary Duff) wonders about her career decisions and discovers a new creative outlet. Meanwhile, Maggie (Debi Mazar) gets cancelled.

Younger is created, executive produced and written by Darren Star, creator of Beverly Hills, 90210, Sex and the City and Emily in Paris. Tony Hernandez of JAX Media executive produces with Dottie Zicklin, Eric Zicklin and Alison Brown. ViacomCBS MTV Entertainment Studios’ Keith Cox and Antonia Covault are the executives in charge of production. 

The series is produced by Darren Star Productions and MTV Entertainment Studios.

All seven seasons of Younger are on Paramount Plus. The first five seasons aired on TV Land and season six was on Paramount Network. 

 A slew of returning series draw the biggest attention among the new show debuts this week.

Paramount Plus’ dramedy Younger debuts its seventh and final season on April 15. The Daren Star-produced series, which made its debut on TV Land, stars Sutton Foster. The series will also stream on Hulu. 

 Epix on April 18 will debut the sophomore season of its drama series Godfather of Harlem, starring Forest Whitaker, while on the same night Showtime brings back its reality series Couples Therapy for its sophomore campaign.

 Show premieres include HBO’s murder/mystery drama Mare of Easttown, starring Kate Winslet (April 18) and Netflix’s comedy series Dad Stop Embarrassing Me! Starring Jamie Foxx (April 14).

 Below are video trailers and premiere dates for several shows debuting the week of April 12 to April 18 on cable networks and streaming services (for some videos, viewer discretion is advised):

April 13 -- Our Towns (documentary) -- HBO 

 April 15 -- The Banishing (horror) -- Shudder 

 April 15 -- Joseline’s Cabaret: Miami (reality series) -- WE  

 April 15 -- Spy City (drama) -- AMC Plus 

April 16 -- Big Shot (drama) -- Disney Plus

 April 16 -- Frank of Ireland (comedy) -- Prime Video 

 April 16 -- Van Helsing (returning series) -- Syfy 

The Year Earth Changed (documentary) -- Apple TV Plus 

 April 18 -- Confronting a Serial Killer (documentary) -- Starz 

The seventh and final season of Younger will premiere on Paramount Plus. The first four episodes will be available on April 15, and eight more will premiere weekly on Thursdays. 

The full season will air on TV Land later this year. 

The first six seasons ran on TV Land. All are available on Paramount Plus. 

The Darren Star show follows Liza Miller (Sutton Foster), an editor navigating the publishing world and facing the lie she created about her age to land her dream job. In the final season, Liza’s personal life is on shaky ground as she tries to stay true to herself. After a setback at work, Kelsey (Hilary Duff) doubts her career decisions and discovers a new creative outlet. Maggie (Debi Mazar) gets cancelled.

Younger is created, executive produced and written by Star, with Tony Hernandez of JAX Media also executive producing. Dottie Zicklin, Eric Zicklin and Alison Brown are executive producers and writers on the series. The series is produced by Darren Star Productions, JAX Media and MTV Entertainment Studios.

The seventh and final season of the Darren Star series Younger will stream on Paramount Plus. There will be 12 episodes and Paramount Plus did not share the release date. The season will air on TV Land, where the first six seasons aired, after it streams on Paramount Plus. 

TV Land and Paramount Plus, which launches March 4, are part of ViacomCBS. The first six seasons of Younger will be available on Paramount Plus. 

“With Younger, Darren Star has done it once again, creating a generational defining series that has captured millions of fans who are craving more, and we are excited to pay that off with the final season on Paramount Plus,” said Chris McCarthy, president, MTV Entertainment Group.

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Younger follows Liza Miller (Sutton Foster), an editor navigating the publishing world while facing the lie she created about her age to land her dream job.

It is created, executive produced and written by Darren Star and Darren Star Productions, with Tony Hernandez of JAX Media executive producing. Dottie Zicklin, Eric Zicklin and Alison Brown also exec produce. 

A slew of new and returning series on deck this week to premiere on cable and streaming services.

On June 16 HBO premieres its new drama Euphoria starring Zendaya, while Showtime debuts its crime drama City On The Hill. The first episode of the series, which stars Kevin Bacon and Aldis Hodge (pictured), is already available online.

With regard to returning shows, OWN debuts the fourth season of its drama series Queen Sugar on June 12 while Netflix premieres the third and final season of Netflix’s series Marvel’s Jessica Jones.

Below are video trailers and premiere dates for several shows debuting this week on cable networks and streaming services:

June 10 -- Straight Forward (drama series) – Acorn Tv

June 11 – Pose (returning series) –FX

June 11 – Ice On Fire (documentary) – HBO

June 12 – Krypton (returning series) – Syfy

June 12 – Younger (returning series) – TV Land

June 13 – Baskets (returning series) – FX

June 13 – Strange Angel (drama series) – CBS All Access

June 14 – Absentia (retuning series) – Prime Video

June 14 – 16 Shots (documentary) – Showtime

June 14 – Jett (drama series) – Cinemax

June 14 – Los Espookys (comedy series) – HBO

June 14 – Murder Mystery (comedy movie) – Netflix

TV Land will bring back its dramedy series Younger for its sixth season in June, the network said Tuesday.

The Darren Star-created series, which stars Sutton Foster and Hilary Duff,  will return on June 12, according to the network. Season five of Younger, which aired in summer 2018,  was its highest-rated season to date among adults 18-49 in Nielsen Live+Same Day ratings, said TV Land. 

Younger is created, executive produced and written by Star, with Tony Hernandez, Dottie Zicklin, Eric Zicklin and Alison Brown also serving as executive producers and writers on the series.

Just ahead of its fifth season premiere, TV Land's dramedy series Younger has been renewed for a sixth season, the network said Mondayty (June 4).

The series, which stars Sutton Foster, Hilary Duff, Debi Mazar, Miriam Shor, Nico Tortorella, Peter Hermann, Molly Bernard and Charles Michael Davis, returns for its fifth season Tuesday night (June 5), according to the network. 

The series, in which Foster plays Liza Miller -- a 40-something woman who lies about her age in order to get a job in the highly competitive world of publishing -- is coming off its most watched season in series history, finishing season four as the top-rated cable sitcom with women 18-49 and women 25-54, according to TV Land.

“Younger exemplifies romantic comedy at its best and each season the show hits new creative and ratings heights,” said Kevin Kay, president, TV Land, CMT and Paramount Network in a statement. “We are honored to continue to work with the brilliant Darren Star and this amazing cast, led by the multi-talented Sutton Foster. The new season is outstanding and we are thrilled for what’s to come for these beloved characters.”

Younger is created, executive produced and written by Darren Star, with Tony Hernandez, Dottie Zicklin and Eric Zicklin serving as executive producers and writers on the series, said TV Land.

Tv Land’s original dramedy series Younger set a series ratings record with its June 28 fourth season premiere, network officials said.

The series, which stars Sutton Foster as a 40-year old woman who pretends to be 26 in order to secure a publishing job, averaged 1.3 million viewers four its fourth season premiere -- a double-digit increase compared to the prior season’s premiere episode, according to network officials.

Younger, created by Darren Star, also stars Hilary Duff, Debi Mazar, Miriam Shor, Nico Tortorella, Peter Hermann and Molly Bernard.

Hulu will stream the first three seasons of TV Land’s dramedy series Younger ahead of next week’s season four premiere as part of a deal between the OTT service and Viacom.

All past episodes of the series, which stars Sutton Foster and Hilary Duff, are now available to stream on Hulu, according to company officials. Younger premieres its fourth season on June 28. 

The series, which has already been greenlit for a fifth season, is created, executive produced and written by Darren Star, with Dottie Zicklin and Eric Zicklin also serving as executive producers and writers on the series. 

Younger is the latest series from a Viacom-owned network to secure streaming rights with Hulu, joining CMT's Nashville, and Comedy Central's Broad City and South Park.

TV Land has renewed two of its veteran scripted series Younger and Teachers for new seasons to debut in 2018, the network said Thursday.

Drama series Younger, which will launch its fourth season June 28, will return next year with a 12-episode fifth season, said the network. The series stars Sutton Foster as a 40-year old woman who pretends to be 26 in order to get a job in the highly competitive world of publishing.

Teachers, which revolves around a group of flawed elementary school teachers, will return for a 20-episode third season in 2018. The second half of Teachers’ sophomore campaign launches this fall, said the network.

In addition, the network has greenlit a second season of the Melissa McCarthy-produced comedy series Nobodies. The series, which stars Hugh Davidson, Larry Dorf and Rachel Ramras, is currently airing on the network.

“We’re absolutely thrilled to be bringing back Younger and Teachers for more seasons and double down on our dedication to creating smart, funny, honest and compelling originals,” said Frank Tanki. Tv Land general manager in a statement.

Amid overall ratings struggles for its parent company Viacom’s portfolio of cable networks, TV Land is looking to build its ratings fortunes by repositioning itself as a comedy-centric network focusing on a 25-54 audience, which is a departure from its previous target audience of 50-plus baby boomers. The network has traded earlier, older-skewing original shows like Hot in Cleveland for new comedies slash dramas like Younger, starring Sutton Foster as a 40-year-old mother trying to pass herself off as 26 to land her dream job, and the upcoming  Lopez series, in which comedian George Lopez plays himself as a Latino comedian who tries to balance the spoils of his success with his humble beginnings. Leading the network’s programming charge is Keith Cox, TV Land’s executive vice president of development and original programming. Multichannel News programming editor R. Thomas Umstead and Cox spoke after the network’s upfront presentation in New York about the network’s repositioning, as well as some of the challenges it faces in a crowded programming environment. Here are some edited highlights.

MCN:How would you define the TV Land brand?

Keith Cox: The DNA for the channel has always been great comedies. Even with our acquisitions, we curated the best comedies that the broadcast networks offered. At the time, my role to augment that was to make multicam comedies like Hot in Cleveland that featured great casts and fun concepts. But now the TV landscape has become so crowded, with 400-plus shows. For comedies, it’s especially hard to get traction, unlike the great dramas that people are driven toward mostly because of serialized storytelling. Big things can happen in dramas — the killing off of main characters and other big surprises — that aren’t really done in comedy.

So where we mutated a bit is staying in comedy, but adding more dramatic elements; nobody’s really doing that in a half-hour sitcom. Our first foray into that was [producer] Darren Star’s Younger, and then we launched [dark comedy] Impastor, which has a big mystery element built in into it. So yes it’s an evolution, but it’s not a total rebrand because we’re still in the comedy space.

MCN:So if the brand has evolved, has your target audience changed as well from baby boomers over 50 to a younger audience?

KC: It was boomers, but they have aged, so now we’re looking at Gen X. We do like people with life experience … we sell adults 25-54, but we’re leaning more 18-49. We wanted to do something real and less fabricated, which is a risk, but it stands out for the audience.

MCN:How do you appeal to a younger audience while serving your core viewers?

KC: Through shows like Younger, which was our first soap and is working for us — we’ve just picked up our third season. With the Lopez show, I’ve always been a George Lopez fan and he knows how to push buttons but there is a lot of likeability there. He’s basically playing himself and he has a distinct voice. He really goes into some dark places, but it’s really funny. It’s a nice balance and it’s really a different genre and I’m excited about that.

MCN:What are the challenges you face as a programmer within a very crowded multichannel environment?

KC: There is a lot of TV in the marketplace and it’s hard to create urgency with the comedy genre. With Game of Thrones crazy stuff happens and people talk about it; The Walking Dead is eye-popping. Comedies are harder: they are there but you can catch them almost anytime, there isn’t as much urgency. People want spectacular television, so we need figure out how to add that drama into our comedies. You want to tell stories that invest the audience — we need to develop superfans. If you try to build it for everybody, it loses its voice.

There’s also a need for more diverse writers. That’s a challenge, but it’s an exciting challenge for us.

What do you do when your husband leaves, your teenage daughter is out of the country and you really need a job after 15 years or so on the employment sidelines?   You might need to get Younger.  

Sutton Foster (Bunheads) stars here as Liza, a 40-year-old looking to rejoin the work force after a messy divorce. She quickly learns the publishing business has changed over the last 15 years and is now filled with 20-somethings not interested in hiring someone who’s not sure what IRL means in real life.  

Her friend Maggie (Debi Mazar) convinces Liza to get a makeover and pretend she is 26. The scheme quickly works, as Liza lands a job as an assistant to a demanding 43-year-old executive who needs someone adept with the new social-media marketing lingo. Hilary Duff (Lizzie McGuire) plays Liza’s work buddy and confidante, Kelsey.

Liza struggles with her new younger persona at first, coming up with a clever idea to promote a new Joyce Carol Oates book, but then forgets to add the hashtag to the tweet. She also nearly blows her cover in the locker room after a dance workout with Kelsey and another female co-worker, who remark on a part of Liza’s anatomy that looks a bit different than theirs. Awkward!

Then there’s Josh (Nico Tortorella), the 20-something tattoo artist Liza gets involved with while maintaining her age deceit. And Liza’s daughter will clearly add some spice when she eventually returns home.

  With smart dialogue, the charming Foster and a solid supporting cast, this comedy should draw some “younger” viewers to TV Land’s usual boomer demo.