On 6 November 2009, TNT announced that it had obtained exclusive syndication rights for The Mentalist and would begin airing old episodes of the series starting in the fall of 2011.

On May 18, 2011, TNT announced that Major Crimes had been picked up for a 10-episode season, which will premiere in summer 2012.

When TNT announced that it would order 72 British Aerospace 146 aircraft converted to freighters, Air Foyle won the contract to operate these aircraft on behalf of TNT, then an Australian company.

On October 26, 2009, TVGuide. com announced Loggia joined the cast of the TNT series Men of a Certain Age.

On July 1, 2009, it was announced by TNT and NASCAR that Sheheen will fill in for Weber at the Coke Zero 400 and the LifeLock. com 400, the final two races of TNT's 2009 schedule.

On 2 August 2010, TNT N. V. announced its intention to split up into two independent companies, an express and a mail company.

On July 30, 2006, TNT announced that Bill Weber would continue as voice of NASCAR on TNT even after contracts with NBC come to an end at the conclusion of the 2006 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series season.

On July 1, 2009, TNT and NASCAR announced that Weber would be replaced by Ralph Sheheen for the final two races of TNT's 2009 schedule.

The television network TNT announced plans to adapt The Talisman into a six-part mini-series, but was cancelled in 2006 due to budgetary concerns.

On December 18, 1993, the NFL announced new 4-year television agreements with ABC, ESPN, TNT, and NFL newcomer Fox, which took over the NFC package from CBS.

The 2001 race was scheduled for NBC, but was moved to TNT just 30 minutes before the start when the United States government announced the start of hostilities against Afghanistan in retaliation for the September 11th, 2001 Attacks.

On 23 August 2006, TNT N. V. announced that it has signed a Sale and Purchase Agreement to sell its logistics division to Apollo Management L. P., a U. S. private equity firm.

The 2009 TNT television drama HawthoRNe, starring Jada Pinkett Smith and Michael Vartan, is set at the fictitious Richmond-Trinity Hospital which is based on Richmond's Community Hospital in Church Hill.

In January 2009, a version of TNT launched in Germany as TNT Serie.

In June 2009, the German version of TCM was relaunched as " TNT Film ".

Yet another legal drama entitled Raising the Bar was produced for TNT, this time in partnership with David Feige, although it was cancelled in December 2009 during the second season.

In January 2009, she started working on the TNT medical drama Hawthorne, in which she was executive producer and a starring cast member.

Roenick has made acting appearances on television shows as well, most recently having a cameo appearance on an episode of Leverage on TNT in 2009.

Beginning in 2009, McDermott starred in the TNT drama Dark Blue, playing a veteran cop who heads a squad of undercover LAPD officers.

Beginning in January 2009, Cavanagh starred in the new television drama Trust Me, co-starring Eric McCormack, which aired weekly on TNT until it was canceled.

He starred in the television mini-series The Andromeda Strain ( 2008 ) and returned to television in 2009 in the TNT drama Trust Me, which was cancelled after one season.

In January 2009, McCormack returned to television in the TNT drama Trust Me, co-starring Tom Cavanagh.

In July 2009, she landed the recurring role of Renee Ellen on the TNT show Saving Grace, starring Holly Hunter.

For television he wrote the miniseries, The Andromeda Strain ( A & E, 2009 ), four episodes of The Pacific ( HBO, 2010 ), Spartacus ( USA Network, 2006 ) and Crazy Horse ( TNT ).

*** Originally alternated with Tuesday Night Titans in the programming schedule until the final TNT aired in February 2009.

Over 2009, TNT reported € 10. 4 billion in revenues and an operating income of € 648 million.

In 2009, while in New Hampshire to cover the NASCAR Sprint Cup race, Weber was suspended by TNT and was not allowed to call the race or appear on the air.

Carlesimo was hired to cover NBA games for The NBA on TNT during the 2009 playoffs, and has also covered the 2010 NCAA tournament as a color analyst for Westwood One.

Perhaps confusingly, this means that some events are broadcast with ESPN branding during ABC coverage, even though another channel owns the cable rights – for example, TNT owned cable rights to the British Open from 2003 to 2009 ( with ABC picking up weekend coverage ), while IndyCar Series rights are currently split between ABC and Versus ( now the NBC Sports Network ).

Although TNT stated that safety was the primary reason for the clarification, they also admitted that another reason was that Bigfoot No. 8 was simply too technologically advanced and was upsetting the competitive balance of the series.

TNT was introduced, but this too was expensive, particularly in its pure form required for shells so eventually Amatol was adopted.

Unlike their contributions to TNT: Evilution, which were edited after submission ( four were also rejected due to being too large to run on the computers of the day ), these were the final revisions of the levels, and Dario Casali later commented about the fact that no changes were requested, " Thank God because I was ready to throw my computer out the window at the time.

In 1910, Egon Neumann of Germany discovered that a block of TNT, which would normally dent a steel plate, cut a hole right through it if the explosive had a conical indentation.

Daniel Rosenthal comments that the film was able, by reason of having been commissioned by the cable channel TNT, to include a bleaker and more violent ending than would have been possible on the national networks.

Calculations showed that the yield of the device would be between 0 ( if it did not work ) and 20 kilotons of TNT.

The smallest of these impactors would release the equivalent of ten million megatons of TNT and leave a crater across.

Up until 1998, TNT would also show cartoons from the Turner library, such as The Flintstones, Scooby-Doo, the DePatie-Freleng Pink Panther cartoons, Dexter's Laboratory, The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest, among many others on a block called " TNT Toons ".

In addition, NASCAR coverage moved to TNT from TBS starting in the 2001 season, as Ted Turner believed that it would fit more with TNT's new look and theme than TBS.

In theory, TNT Plus was to have been the sole carrier of Turner's NBA and NASCAR coverage from that point forward, while any providers still carrying the original TNT would have seen replacement programming instead.

It was not until the early 1990s that he would branch back into television, starting with producing the TNT biopic Geronimo ( 1993 ).

The arrival of the Nvidia RIVA TNT with integrated 2D / 3D chipset would offer minor challenge to the Voodoo2's supremacy months later.

With the optimum height of burst to maximize this desired severe ground range destruction for 1 kiloton ( kt ) of TNT yield an altitude of burst of 0. 22 km would be required, for 100 kt an altitude of 1 km ; and for 10 megatons ( Mt ) of TNT an altitude of 4. 7 km.

The TNT cable network also produced a movie George Wallace in 1997, which was a John Frankenheimer film starring Gary Sinise, who would win an Emmy for his performance as Wallace the very night of the real Wallace's death.

" A bomb equivalent to 20 million tons of TNT would cause an intense fire called a ' fire storm ' in an area about around the area of the blast.

In explosive terms, it would be equal to 132 megatons of TNT or approximately 32 megatons more than the theoretical max yield of the tsar bomba, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated.

Mayer claimed that he would destroy the Monument with of TNT loaded in his van unless a national dialogue on the threat of nuclear weapons was seriously undertaken.

Ellison, who claimed to have recognized Mayer's threat as a bluff as soon as he heard TV reports on the crisis, noted that, had the threat been genuine, the explosion of of TNT, even at such close proximity, would have barely damaged the Washington Monument's exterior and could not have possibly destroyed it.

The 2004 NBA All-Star Game also cleaned up its act, despite being broadcast on cable television channel TNT that was not under Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) regulation as with all other cable channels, having halftime performer Beyoncé Knowles perform " Crazy in Love " rather than " Naughty Girl ", which they feared would incite controversy given its sexual content.

The next major chip from Nvidia would be the RIVA TNT.

In what would become standard industry practice on a massive scale in later years, Nvidia released a budget version of TNT called Vanta.