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Jack McBrayer is heading to Grey’s Anatomy!

The 51-year-old 30 Rock alum will be making an guest appearance as a patient on the Thursday, Oct. 10 episode of ABC’s long-running medical drama.

Jack will be playing a patient who is at the hospital for a kidney transplant, as revealed in the promo trailer for the third episode of season 21.

Keep reading to find out more…As the doctors prepare to operate, Simone Griffin (Alexis Floyd) introduces Jack as patient “Tom Costello, 33. Kidney transplant without general anesthesia.”

“What are the benefits of an awake surgery?” asks Nick Marsh (Scott Speedman) as the interns appear somewhat stumped.

While laying on the operating table, Jack as Tom questions, “Is he prepared?”

Jack is best known for playing NBC page Kenneth Parcell on 30 Rock, which ran for seven seasons from 2006 to 2013. He also voiced Fix-it Felix Jr. in Disney’s Wreck-it Ralph movies.

The U.S. Navy detected what sounded like an implosion off the North Atlantic coast around the time the OceanGate submersible lost communication with its mothership on Sunday, NBC reporter Tom Costello told Joy Reid on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” on Thursday. The report comes the same day the sub was confirmed to be destroyed by the U.S. Coast Guard, following a days-long search that captured worldwide media attention.

“On Sunday, the Navy detected what sounded, or was similar to, the sounds of an implosion or an explosion in the water about the time that that sub lost communication with the mothership,” Costello told Reid. “As you know, Joy, the Navy has microphones and sensors all across the North Atlantic, really to listen for Russian sub activity. It does appear that they may have picked up the implosion of the sub.”

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“Tom Swift,” a spinoff of the mystery series “Nancy Drew,” will premiere its first episode May 31 on The CW, the network announced Friday.

The series, which was first announced in 2020, stars Tian Richards as the title character, who was first created in the 1910 book “Tom Swift and His Motor Cycle.” Originally portrayed as a teen inventor, the series reimagines Swift as a Black, gay billionaire who is thrust into conflict with a mysterious global cabal following the sudden disappearance of his father. Richards first appeared as the character in Season 2 of “Nancy Drew.”

Ashleigh Murray co-stars in the series as Swift’s best friend Zenzi. Marquise Vilsón, April Parker Jones and Albert Mwangi also star, while LeVar Burton voices Swift’s AI companion Barclay. The series is created by Melinda Hsu Taylor, Noga Landau and Cameron Johnson, who executive produce with Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage.

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Before Amazon founder Jeff Bezos takes off Tuesday morning on a revolutionary mission to space conducted by his aerospace company, Blue Origin, the media has launched a frenzy of coverage. Bezos and members of his team made the rounds of the nation’s morning shows Monday, visiting Michael Strahan at ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Hoda Kotb at NBC’s “Today,” Gayle King at CBS’ “CBS This Morning” and correspondent Rachel Crane at CNN’s “New Day.” Neil Cavuto, the veteran Fox Business Network and Fox News Channel anchor, presented an interview on his afternoon Fox Business program that will air again later today on Fox News. News crews have been granted access to the Blue Origin spacecraft, located in remote Van Horn, Texas, in the days ahead of the mission, but it’s not clear how much access they will have to the live effort on Tuesday. Blue Origin...

Updated With Full List: PBS and CBS were the big winners tonight as the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences unveiled its 35th annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards. The pubcaster walked away with a leading 11 trophies, followed by the Eye with 10. ABC picked up three wins, the only other network with more than two. PBS came into the ceremony with a field-leading 43 nominations, one more than CBS.

The Lifetime Achievement Award went to William J. Small, who was CBS News Washington Bureau chief from 1962-74 and later President of NBC News, President of United Press International, and Chairman of News & Documentary at NATAS. “Throughout the ’60s and ’70s and into the 1980s, he was a key figure in the dramatic evolution of network news, NATAS Chairman Chuck Dages said of Small. “Recruiting the likes of Dan Rather, Bob Schieffer, Diane Sawyer, Lesley Stahl, Bill Moyers, and many others, he changed...