CBS’s decision to keep the specifics of NCIS star Mark Harmon‘s alleged “limited” Season 19 commitment under wraps is beginning to make sense. Multiple sources confirm to TVLine exclusively that Harmon is slated to appear in a relatively small number of episodes next season. One insider close to the CBS procedural said: “It’s going to be in the low single digits.” Another source says the actor will make only “a few” appearances throughout the season.
The high court agreed with a lower court’s determination that NCAA limits on the education-related benefits that colleges can offer athletes who play Division I basketball and football violate antitrust laws. The case is important in the short term for students who may see schools competing for talent by sweetening their offers with a variety of education-related benefits. It’s also important in the long term because it sets the stage for future challenges to NCAA rules limiting athletes’ compensation.
After lengthy conversations and deliberations that stretched into this week, Netflix has opted not to order a fourth season of Manifest following the series’ cancellation by NBC after three seasons, sources said. The streaming giant, which recently released the first two seasons of the missing plane drama, had been considered the most viable option for Manifest. With that, Manifest studio Warner Bros. Television has concluded its efforts to find a new home for the series.
Mere days away from sentencing for her involvement in the NXIVM cult, former Smallville actress Allison Mack on Monday got an unexpected helping hand from federal prosecutors.
Michelle Lee, Allure’s top editor for the last five and a half years, is joining the Netflix marketing team in a newly created editorial and publishing role. She will lead and oversee Netflix’s team focused on social media channels, podcasts and other initiatives, including the streamer’s Queue magazine.
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Adult Swim’s animated sensation Rick and Morty has posted its entire season 5 premiere online for free. The 10-episode new season launched Sunday evening, and the video was posted on YouTube early Monday. By midmorning, it had already racked up 1.7 million views and was the No. 2 trending video on the platform.
The addition of this content will complement the Law&Crime linear channel that launched on Peacock in March. Currently, Law&Crime is featuring ongoing live coverage of the murder trial of real […]
The 2021 Peabody Awards has started revealing its list of winners, with Ted Lasso, Stephen Colbert’s Late Show and Amazon’s Oscar-nominated Time documentary among the first batch of recipients. Additional winners will be unveiled over the course of this week, with the presentations taking place from June 21-24 on social media (Twitter, Instagram and Facebook) and the Peabody Awards’ website from 9 to 10:30 a.m. PT.
Fox’s Bless the Harts ended its two-and-done run with 380,000 total viewers and a 0.1 demo rating, hitting and tying series lows. U.S. Open golf championship coverage led primetime with 7.4 million viewers and a 1.3 demo rating in the 7 o’clock hour. Leading out of that, the latest U.S. Olympic trials did 4.9M/1.0 (at 8 p.m.) and then 3M/0.6 (in the 9 p.m. hour).
Hosted By Jerry O’Connell, the game show based on the classic sketch game, will have a four-week run beginning July 12.
The popularity of Netflix’s Lupin is no fluke. Non-English shows are gaining steam. The pandemic, which stalled a number of Hollywood productions last spring, opened even more viewers to TV shows outside of their native language. In a time of uncertainty and isolation, they found solace in feel-good Korean dramas, thrilling telenovelas and other international gems.
It will feature an expanded free advertising supported (AVOD) and an all-new subscription tier (SVOD) offering, bringing together the best of VIX, Univision NOW and PrendeTV under “a unified global product and vision.” Rodrigo Mazon is tapped as EVP-GM of SVOD. It will be available across U.S. and Latin America next year.
When the young Oracle heir entered the entertainment industry, no one expected much. Instead, he’s built the rarest of businesses — a thriving, all-audiences, independent studio, Skydance Media.
News this past week that Sinclair Broadcast Group and investment banker LionTree are raising $250 million to launch a sports streaming service may not be quite as big a deal as, say, that $43 billion spinoff/merger between WarnerMedia and Discovery. But despite the difference in the number of zeroes involved, a Sinclair streaming service could dramatically reshape the sports streaming leader board, and not incidentally, what’s left of the cable bundle and broadcast TV, too.
Roku has out-executed larger companies and leaned on an unusual corporate culture to gain a $45 billion valuation. Roku batted away early acquisition offers and skepticism from Wall Street bankers to go public in 2017. Roku founder Anthony Wood is now spending much of his time thinking about the company’s content ambitions.
Coverage of Division I women’s sports has been in a particularly bright spotlight in 2021 and the record-setting Women’s College World Series was just the latest example of growing interest — and growing demands for a more equitable playing field when compared with men’s events.
A new monthly Nielsen measurement called The Gauge shows just how much the pandemic has catalyzed streaming among a broad ranger of consumers with May usage across all television homes climbing to 26% of time spent on TV — outpacing broadcast, with an audience share of 25%. The streaming video data included SVOD and AVOD. Streaming and broadcast now account for half of television time. Cable accounted for 39%, and “other” viewing for 9%.
Top ViacomCBS executive David Nevins is in talks for an expanded role that would include oversight of content for Paramount Plus, sources tell Variety. The longtime Showtime CEO and chairman, who also serves as chief creative officer of CBS, would maintain his portfolio that at present includes Showtime Networks and BET Networks, individuals with knowledge of the talks said.
The comedy starring Denis Leary and Elizabeth Perkins is finished after two seasons. The show’s end comes after the broadcast network pushed its final three episodes into the summer; the now series finale is slated to air Sunday.
