It’s a long-awaited attempt from the iPhone maker, several years after Netflix turned “binge watching” into a worldwide phenomenon. The new video service is expected to have original TV shows and movies that reportedly cost Apple more than $1 billion — far less than Netflix and HBO spend every year.
A second day of mass layoffs has begun on the Fox lot in the wake of Disney completing its acquisition of 21st Century Fox on Wednesday. Longtime 20th Century Fox Television Distribution President Mark Kaner is among the senior executives who were formally notified with severance details on Friday morning.
March Madness was light on the “madness” part for CBS Thursday night, as the network’s first night of NCAA Tournament games fell by double digits compared to a year ago. The declines helped ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy claim the top spot in the Nielsens in primetime.
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ABC has renewed its highest-rated new show, The Conners, for a second season. The show’s stars, including John Goodman, Sara Gilbert, Lecy Goranson, Ames McNamara and Laurie Metcalf, are all set to return to Lanford, after several of them signed a new deal with the network on Thursday.
Another top Fox executive is leaving in the first wave of layoffs following the completion of the Disney-Fox deal. Greg Meidel, president of Twentieth Television, is out. He is the first high-level TV departure post-merger. The distribution operations of Disney and Fox were expected to be especially hard hit by the consolidation, both on the film and TV side.
NEW YORK (AP) — David Letterman says he stuck around on network television about 10 years too long. He made that admission during an appearance Thursday on Ellen DeGeneres’ talk […]
Nielsen’s SVOD content ratings and Local Nielsen Media Impact Included in the New Service Agreement. Univision is the latest media company to subscribe to Nielsen’s national out-of-home reporting service.
‘Survivor’ Ties All-Time Low
Survivor tied an all-time low among adults 18-49 Wednesday, yet it still led the night’s primetime ratings. The CBS stalwart averaged a 1.3 rating in the 18-49 demographic for a two-hour installment, matching a series low set twice during its fall 2018 run. On a soft night across the board, however, Survivorwas good enough to lead ABC’s The Goldbergs (1.2) for the evening’s top demo rating.
Amazon on Wednesday announced that it’s adding the MLB.TV streaming service to its Prime Video Channels lineup, giving users the ability to sign up for the service on Amazon’s platform.
Nebraska Broadcasters Kick Off Flood Relief Efforts
Now that the Walt Disney Company’s acquisition of 21st Century Fox is complete, Fox Entertainment — a unit of the newly formed, non-Disneyfied Fox Corp. — marked its “new chapter” with a one-time promotional video. Aired Wednesday at 8:32 p.m. ET, the 90-second trailer featured some of Fox’s most prominent television properties, past and present.
JAMESTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — Hollywood producer Carl Reiner and the National Comedy Center say they’re working together to digitally preserve Reiner’s collection of scripts from the 1960’s The Dick Van […]
Days of our Lives, General Hospital and The Young and the Restless lead the list of shows with the most Daytime Emmy nominations in 2019. CBS leads the list of networks receiving nominations, with 61 total across all categories, including Creative Arts. The 46th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards take place May 5.
A pair of new shows premiered to so-so ratings Tuesday night, as neither NBC’s The Village nor Fox’s Mental Samurai pulled in very big numbers. The Village drew a 0.9 rating among adults 18-49 and 4.91 million viewers behind This Is Us.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Young and the Restless star Kristoff St. John died of heart disease, with excessive drinking at the time of his death a contributing factor, according to a […]
Rob Silverstein, executive producer of NBC’s syndicated entertainment newsmagazine Access Hollywood and its spinoffs, is leaving the syndication franchise after 20 years at the helm. He’ll be replaced by Hot Bench alumnus Maureen FitzPatrick.
Viacom is blasting telco giant AT&T on several fronts as the companies wrestle over a carriage renewal deal that is vital to Viacom’s long-term financial health. As of Tuesday, Viacom had begun running crawls and promo spots on its channels warning viewers that Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, BET, MTV and other channels could go dark on AT&T’s DirecTV as of midnight ET on Friday, when the current contract expires.
As WarnerMedia’s John Stankey searches for a new studio chief following Kevin Tsujihara’s Monday exit as Warner Bros. chairman-CEO, he has put studio execs Toby Emmerich, Peter Roth and Kim Williams in charge.
