Filming on NBC’s Law & Order: Organized Crime has been suspended following a positive Covid-19 test in Zone A, which includes the cast and those in direct contact with them. It is not clear yet how long the production shutdown will last.
Warner Bros. Television launched a probe after a writers’ room revolt over how the CBS legal drama dealt with issues of race and gender.
The network has given the green light to FBI: International, its second spinoff of Dick Wolf’s burgeoning franchise. Additionally, FBI and FBI: Most Wanted have been renewed for next season.
Jack Hanna is the focus of Hearst-owned Litton Entertainment’s second free, ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) channel, The Jack Hanna Channel, launching Wednesday on Vizio SmartCast devices in the U.S., Litton said today.
Exclusives
Jay Leno has apologized for anti-Asian jokes he made on The Tonight Show stemming back two decades. In a joint press statement released Wednesday with the Media Action Network for Asian Americans, Leno admitted that he knew in his heart the jokes were wrong.
Another film critics association is going where the cool kids are: TV. The Hollywood Critics Association, which launched in 2016 (originally as the Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society) announced a plan to add a TV awards ceremony in summer 2021. The HCA’s awards will also become the first to separate streaming programs from broadcast/cable shows, electing to give the digital platforms their own separate category in drama and comedy.
The CW and HBO Max have jointly acquired Wellington Paranormal, a spinoff of Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement’s 2014 vampire mockumentary (which has also spawned FX’s series What We Do in the Shadows). The show is the first joint acquisition by the two outlets; HBO Max parent company WarnerMedia jointly owns The CW with ViacomCBS.
The strike was initiated at 9 a.m. ET today “after the companies refused to agree to cover writers’ work under the Writers Guild of America’s Minimum Basic Agreement,” according to a statement from The Writers Guilds of America, East and West.
‘This Is Us’ And ‘NCIS’ Rerun Lead Tuesday
NBC’s This Is Us — which last week slipped to series lows — stabilized, drawing 4.9 million total viewers and a Tuesday-topping 0.8 demo rating. CBS’s NCIS rerun delivered Tuesday’s largest audience, with 5.6 million.
Segal, a banjo player turned actor who was nominated for an Oscar for 1966’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and starred in the ABC sitcom The Goldbergs, died Tuesday. He also played magazine publisher Jack Gallo on NBC’s Just Shoot Me from 1997 to 2003.
‘The Bachelor’ Ends Controversial Season With Ratings High
The taped season finale of ABC’s The Bachelor with Chris Harrison reached 6.1 million viewers last Monday and the “After the Final Rose” special, hosted by Emmanuel Acho, was seen by 5.67 million, Nielsen said. CBS won the week in the ratings, with an average of 4.5 million viewers in primetime. NBC had 3.6 million, ABC had 3.4 million, Fox had 2 million, Univision had 1.4 million, Ion Television had 1.2 million and Telemundo had 1.1 million.
TV’s Battle Of The Binge: Why The Wait Can Be Worth It
Streaming TV promised to free us from schedules, but series like WandaVision show that weekly rituals still have power.
Judge Jerry, the court show hosted by daytime TV veteran Jerry Springer, has been renewed for a third season by NBCUniversal Syndication Studios. The show premiered in national broadcast syndication in fall 2019 as the highest-rated syndicated court show premiere in five years, NBCU said. It is averaging 1 million daily viewers for Season 2 while delivering one of the youngest audiences among its court show competitors.
Last night’s move, which also saw the host return to his longtime home of Studio 6B, makes it likely the first nightly, network latenight program to bring back an audience since the pandemic began.
Status Quo The Word For Most Of Syndication
Once again, the vast majority of first-run shows are flat or down. In fact, in the week ending March 14, only two entries were up from the previous session, led by Judge Jerry.
CBS’s Monday coverage of two NCAA men’s basketball tourney matchups averaged 5 million total viewers and a 1.2 rating, easily leading the night in the demo. CBS’s coverage peaked in the 8 o’clock hour, with 6.2M and a 1.5.
Fuse Media is doubling down on delivering to blended households and young, Latinx and multicultural viewers. As cord-cutting accelerates and viewing hours increasingly favor streaming, the media company has built a new streaming division to do it.
The MPT Foundation has appointed Alfred R. Berkeley III to its volunteer board of directors. The MPT Foundation is the 501(c) (3) fundraising affiliate of Maryland Public Television. It comprises […]
The $113 billion deal
announced by the NFL and media companies last Thursday spreads professional football content broadly, with CBS, NBC, Fox, ABC, ESPN and Amazon all getting pieces, and locks it in at a time little else can attract such a wide audience. “If you think of the future of network television, there is nothing more important to it than the NFL,” said Rich Greenfield, a media analyst for LightShed Partners, an industry research firm. During the current television season, the eight most-watched recurring programs are football.
