Kristin Brzoznowski

LOS ANGELES: HBO has confirmed that season eight of Game of Thrones will be its last.

LOS ANGELES: TNT has greenlit a pilot for Monsters of God, a post-Civil War drama from Rod Lurie (The Contender) and Brad Pitt's Plan B Entertainment for Turner's Studio T, while sister Turner networks TBS and truTV also presented new upcoming programming highlights.

WASHINGTON, D.C./LOS ANGELES: National Geographic Channel has secured a script-development deal for a global limited series based on the soon-to-be-published Michael Crichton manuscript Dragon Teeth.

NEW YORK: Roger Ailes, the chairman and CEO of Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network and chairman of Fox Television Stations, has resigned effective immediately.

HOLLYWOOD: Sarah Geismer will transition from her development duties at Fox 21 Television Studios to a new post as VP of comedy development at 20th Century Fox Television.

UNIVERSAL CITY: NBC, Universal Television Alternative Studios and Jennifer Lopez's Nuyorican Productions have prepped a ten-episode competition series titled World of Dance that will award the winner with a grand prize of $1 million.

NEW YORK: Comedian Chris Hardwick has entered into a multiyear deal with AMC that will see him host and executive produce multiple programs for the network.

LOS ANGELES: Twentieth Century Fox Television has appointed Brandon Brito and Cheryl Dolins to lead the studio’s drama and comedy teams, respectively.

SEATTLE: Amazon has opted in for two additional seasons of the comedy Catastrophe, produced for the U.K. broadcaster Channel 4.

LOS ANGELES: The nominations for the 68th Emmy Awards were announced today by the Television Academy, with Game of Thrones again racking up the most nominations, with 23, while the limited series The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story and Fargo received 22 and 18 nominations, respectively.