'Atom TV' Returns! COMEDY CENTRAL's Late-Night Series Featuring All-Original Broadband Programming Finishes Its First Season with 4 All-New Episodes

'Atom TV' Returns! COMEDY CENTRAL's Late-Night Series Featuring All-Original Broadband Programming Finishes Its First Season with 4 All-New Episodes

First Of Final 4 Half-Hour Episodes Of "Atom TV" Season 1 To Premiere On COMEDY CENTRAL On Monday Night, January 12 At 2:30 A.M.*

NEW YORK, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- COMEDY CENTRAL's on-air half-hour late-night series featuring all-original broadband programming from Atom.com is returning to the television screen with the 4 final episodes of the first season. New episodes of "Atom TV" will return to COMEDY CENTRAL on Monday night, January 12 at 2:30 a.m. Both COMEDY CENTRAL and Atom are divisions of MTV Networks, a unit of Viacom (NYSE:VIA)(NYSE:VIA.B).

"Atom TV" is a weekly comedy show featuring a selection of random and hilarious Web videos, each one developed or handpicked by COMEDY CENTRAL and Atom. Each episode of "Atom TV" features a line-up of original programming including animation, live-action narratives and sketch comedies. Among the Web series that have aired on "Atom TV" are "Stickman Exodus," "Legend of Neil," "Border Patrol" and "Steven and Stephen," an animated series about internet-obsessed, groin-conjoined twins from "Adult Swim's" Tim & Eric.

Upcoming videos to appear in new episodes of "Atom TV" include "Monkey Talk," featuring Matt Walsh, Peter Hulne and Neil Flynn ("Scrubs"); "Super Special Dog: Best Friends," about an animated superhero who is a little slow; "Snack and a Commercial: Raisins," a parody of TBS's "Dinner and a Movie," with Eddie Pepitone; "Crackatron: Raggamonster," an animated tale about drug-addicted superheroes; "Antourage: Episode 1," a parody of HBO's "Entourage" featuring each character as an ant, and as always, "Upload Showdown" winners, top UGC content voted onto the show by Atom's Web users.

"Atom TV" returns with new episodes on Monday night, January 12 at 2:30 a.m.

About ATOM

Since 1998, Atom has evolved from an online video pioneer into one of the world's leading brands for independent entertainment. For viewers, the Atom Web site (a 2007 Webby Award-finalist) is a daily source of original Web shows, animation, and short films. Atom empowers creators by licensing their content, sharing revenue, funding and developing new programming, and providing distribution to extensive audiences on the Internet, mobile phones and television to partners including COMEDY CENTRAL, Spike TV, Verizon, and BellSouth. Atom is a division of VIACOM Inc.'s (NYSE:VIA)(NYSE:and)(NYSE:VIA.B) MTVN Entertainment Group.

About COMEDY CENTRAL

COMEDY CENTRAL, the only all-comedy network, currently is seen in more than 95 million homes nationwide. COMEDY CENTRAL is owned by, and is a registered trademark of, Comedy Partners, a wholly-owned division of VIACOM Inc.'s (NYSE:VIA)(NYSE:and)(NYSE:VIA.B) MTV Networks. COMEDY CENTRAL's Internet address is www.comedycentral.com. For up-to-the-minute and archival press information and photographs visit Press Central, COMEDY CENTRAL's press Web site at www.comedycentral.com/press.

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Source: COMEDY CENTRAL Corporate Communications

CONTACT: Kelly Campbell of COMEDY CENTRAL, +1-310-407-4728,
kelly.campbell@comedycentral.com

Web Site: http://www.comedycentral.com/

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