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Tom Llamas will succeed Holt as anchor and managing editor of the nightly news broadcast, NBC News announced on Wednesday.

The network said Llamas will take over after Holt signs off in early summer, but no specific date for the transition was shared.

Llamas, who has more than 25 years of experience in broadcast journalism, has served as fill-in anchor for Holt at “NBC Nightly News” since 2021, and he anchors the streaming newscast “Top Story with Tom Llamas.” He is a senior national correspondent for the network and also reports for the “Today” show. Llamas previously worked at ABC, where he anchored “World News Tonight” on weekends and served as fill-in anchor for David Muir.

Llamas will continue to anchor “Top Story” for NBC News NOW on weeknights.

“Anchoring ‘NBC Nightly News’ is a profound honor and one that carries tremendous responsibility,” he said in a statement. “I look forward to working with the world class journalists at ‘Nightly News’ and ‘Top Story’ to bring viewers the most important stories every night.”

Lester Holt is stepping down as ‘NBC Nightly News’ anchor

Llamas added, “Lester Holt is a great man and one of the most trusted broadcasters of our time. Just likeLester, I promise to be devoted to our viewers and dedicated to the truth.”

In a note to staff, NBC News Executive Vice President of Programming Janelle Rodriguez said Llamas has “consistently demonstrated the integrity, experience, and passion needed to carry on the tradition of ‘Nightly News.’” She also thanked Holt for “his leadership and for helping us chart a new path forward following his signoff this summer.”

All the TV news anchors exiting their roles, including Lester Holt and Joy Reid

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Joy Reid and Lester Holt are the latest to leave their positions as television news adjusts to changing audience habits.

The news comes just over a week after Holt announced he would step away from “NBC Nightly News,” although he will remain with NBC and move into a full-time role at “Dateline.”

In a previous note to staff, Holt said the “time has come for me to step away from” the role after 10 years, adding, “It has truly been the honor of a lifetime to work with each of you every day, keeping journalism as our true north and our viewers at the center of everything we do.”

Holt also said he was excited to be “expanding my footprint on the broadcast and crafting ‘Dateline’ hours on subjects I care deeply about” in his new full-time role there, noting it would allow him to “work more closely with my enormously talented friends at ‘Dateline’ as the broadcast continues to grow and attract new viewers in new places.”

Norah O’Donnell signs off, Hoda Kotb’s out: ‘God-like days’ are over for big name anchors

Holt is one of numerous news anchors stepping away from their positions in recent months amid changes in the television news landscape. The list of departing broadcasters also includes Joy Reid, whose show was recently canceled at MSNBC, and the “Today” show’s Hoda Kotb, who said she decided to leave her role to spend more time with her children.

Norah O’Donnell also signed off as anchor of the “CBS Evening News” in January. She announced her decision in July, saying that after spending “12 years in the anchor chair here at CBS News, connected to a daily broadcast and the rigors of a relentless news cycle,” it was “time to do something different.” CBS replaced O’Donnell with John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois.

According to the streaming platform, the series follows Mark Scout (Adam Scott), who leads a team at Lumon Industries whose employees have undergone a severance procedure that surgically divides their memories between their work and personal lives.

In the second season of the Emmy Award-winning series, Mark and his friends learn “the dire consequences of trifling with the severance barrier, leading them further down a path of woe,” the series description on Apple TV+ reads.

Here’s what you need to know about Season 2 of “Severance,” including how many episodes the season has and when new episodes come out.

Watch Severance on Apple TV+

When does the next episode of ‘Severance’ come out?

Season 2 premiered on Friday, Jan. 17 and new episodes will come out every Friday through March 21, according to Apple TV+.

The network says the mid-season premiere, titled “Sob Stories,” will see the 118 respond to a fire at a local animal shelter and race to evacuate all the animals. “Meanwhile, Maddie takes a 9-1-1 call that sets her on a quest for answers,” the episode’s logline reads.

The first part of Season 8 premiered on Sept. 26 with new episodes airing weekly on Thursday nights. The eighth and final episode of Season 8, Part 1 aired on Nov. 21.

Here’s what to know about Season 8, Part 2, including when it premieres and how you can watch.

When does ‘9-1-1’ Season 8, Part 2 premiere?

ABC announced in November that “9-1-1” would return for its midseason premiere on Thursday, March 6 at 8 p.m. ET/PT.

How to watch ‘9-1-1’ Season 8, Part 2 premiere

“9-1-1” Season 8 will air on ABC. New episodes will premiere every Thursday at 8 p.m. ET. They will also be available live on the ABC app and ABC website.

Country music luminaries Reba McEntire, Tim McGraw and Jelly Roll are set to perform at Music City Rodeo, Nashville’s first-ever Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association rodeo.

The three-day festival will feature bull riding, barrel racing, team roping and broncs, with cowboys and cowgirls competing for over $200,000 in prizes. Music City Rodeo founding members McEntire, McGraw and Jelly Roll will headline a concert at the venue each night.

Additionally, Music City Rodeo is joining Nashville’s Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt to benefit the patients and families it serves. A portion of all event proceeds will support their mission of providing world-class pediatric healthcare and research. 

Here’s everything you need to know about Music City Rodeo.

When is Music City Rodeo?

Music City Rodeo will come to Bridgestone Arena in Nashville on May 29, 30 and 31.

The artist lineup is as follows:

• Reba McEntire: May 29
• Jelly Roll: May 30
• Tim McGraw: May 31

The comeback festival promotes Mexico’s Isla Mujeres as the new venue from May 30 to June 2, Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland told USA TODAY last week. But Isla Mujeres government officials and the management of Impression Isla Mujeres by Secrets, a five-star hotel that the festival website claims will provide accommodations for high-paying ticketholders, say they aren’t working with Fyre Festival 2.

In 2018, McFarland was sentenced to six years in prison for engaging in several fraudulent schemes related to Fyre Festival. After his arrest, he acknowledged that he had defrauded investors out of $26 million and more than $100,000 in fraudulent ticket-selling schemes.

In a Facebook statement shared on Feb. 26, Isla Mujeres’ city hall claimed the festival’s team had not secured the necessary permits for the musical event.

The long-running medical drama will air its midseason premiere on Thursday, picking up after its gut-wrenching Season 21 cliffhanger in the fall.

In true “Grey’s” fashion, the episode ended with Jo Wilson (Camila Ludington) getting shot following an armed store robbery while going into labor. The midseason premiere will pick up in the aftermath of shooting at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, where Jo’s romantic partner Atticus Lincoln (Chris Carmack) is working, unaware of what happened.

The episode will also follow Ben Warren (Jason Winston George) facing roadblocks “with his new emergency preparedness plan,” romantic tensions for Owen Hunt (Kevin McKidd), as well as a surgical plan dispute between doctors Amelia Shepherd (Caterina Scorsone) and Dr. Winston Ndugu (Anthony Hill).

Here’s what to know about the “Grey’s Anatomy” Season 21 midseason premiere this week.

Kardashian’s unisex shapewear brand Skims celebrated the release of its new swimwear collection with the cheeky installation, which has been on display in Times Square since Tuesday.

“OMG… I cannot believe there is a 60 foot float of me in SKIMS Swim in the middle of Times Square,” the 44-year-old wrote in a now-expired Instagram story.

The installation features Kardashian in a blue Skims swim top and bottom. The balloon is elevated on a sleek 4-foot blue deck and wrapped in the brand’s signature logo, making it impossible to miss against the city skyline, according to a Skims news release.

Yet viewers will finally have clarity after the Season 3 finale drops this week and a winner (or winners) is revealed.

The latest season of the Emmy-winning reality competition series has been called messy, impassioned, cut throat and utterly hilarious since the Jan. 9 premiere. It’s followed an extremely chaotic batch of traitors who have gone after each other more than the faithfuls they are competing against.

The finale will also reveal who is the seer, a new twist where the winner of last week’s mission will have the ability to see whether a player of their choice is a faithful or traitor.