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NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” visited Tampa, Florida, Monday night for a round of auditions that included a brass band, an escape artist and a TV theme singer. Judges Sharon Osbourne, Howie Mandel and Howard Stern decided which acts would go home and which would advance.

NBC, which will unveil its primetime schedule for next season to advertisers on Monday, this afternoon picked up a 13-episode season of “Community” and of “30 Rock” – the award winning-est of NBC’s Thursday comedy lineup once famously known as Must See TV, but these days better known as Self-Referential TV.

The satellite radio shock jock Howard Stern says he will show a more temperate side as a judge on NBC’s competition show “America’s Got Talent.”

"Law & Order: SVU" has been renewed. The Dick Wolf series will keep the "Law & Order" franchise alive for an impressive 14th season. NBC has also handed out a series order to Wolf's "Chicago Fire."An "SVU" renewal seemed likely after series star Mariska Hargitay renewed her contract.

After NBC dropped from first among young Monday viewers last week, "The Voice" got a bit of a finale bump and helped the network reclaim that crown. ABC still easily won Monday overall, thanks to "Dancing with the Stars" and a "Castle" finale bump.

In a break from its usual filmed style, NBC's "30 Rock" went live Thursday night with an episode that was full of fun and, yes, very lively. As promised, the setup for the episode had boss Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin) delivering the bad news that, as a cost-cutting measure, "TGS," the fictitious show-within-a-show produced by Liz Lemon (series star Tina Fey), would henceforth be filmed, not broadcast live.

The Voice eliminated quarterfinalists RaeLynn and Ashley De La Rosa and determined four of its second-season semifinalists during Tuesday night's broadcast of the NBC singing competition.

NBC News has fired a producer who worked on a 'Today' show segment that featured a heavily edited 911 recording in which George Zimmerman appears to racially profile Trayvon Martin before the teen's shooting, according to The New York Times.

Where in the world in Matt Lauer? Looks like he'll be at Rockefeller Plaza for quite a while. Although Lauer won't make the official announcement until tomorrow, NBC News confirms that the Today cohost has signed a long-term deal with the show. "Matt is the franchise, and our franchise player has decided to keep leading our team," Steve Capus, President of NBC News, told The New York Times.

Viewers got a first glimpse of Whitney Houston's upcoming film Monday when NBC's "Today" show premiered a trailer for the much-awaited release, and a fuller clip debuted on Yahoo! Movies. A remake of the 1976 original, "Sparkle" stars Houston as the mother of three girls who form a singing group and struggle with fame and drug addiction. The trailer displayed the daughters, including "American Idol" winner Jordin Sparks, in performance. Houston is prominent throughout, at one point singing the classic gospel song "His Eye Is on the Sparrow."