Super Bowl Early Numbers At 10-Year Low
The New England Patriots’ 13-3 victory over the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl LIII averaged a 44.9 household rating in overnight metered markets Sunday. While still massive, the audience for the low-scoring game was down about 5% from a year ago and the lowest since the 2009 game drew a 42.1.
Alfred Haber, president of Alfred Haber Inc., announced today that the company has secured the exclusive international distribution television rights to Aretha! A Grammy Celebration For The Queen Of Soul, the two-hour […]
The second season averaged 1.9 million viewers during its first seven days, according to Nielsen, which released an Amazon show’s figures for the first time.
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Starz CEO Chris Albrecht will depart next month after a decade at the company. Albrecht’s decision to step down comes two years after Starz’s acquisition by Lionsgate was completed amid the continued integration of the two companies. For the time being, Starz will move forward under COO Jeffrey Hirsch and the current leadership team, including President of Programming Carmi Zlotnik, working closely with Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer.
The CW announced Friday that it’s airing a special concert, titled Yes, It’s Really Us Singing: The Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ Concert Special! immediately after the series finale on Friday, April 5 at 9 ET. The one-of-a-kind event, which will be taped in Los Angeles in March, is described as being “equal parts concert special, rock concert and musical revue.”
NEW YORK (AP) — Beyond ratings, the surest sign to executive Brie Miranda Bryant that Lifetime’s “Surviving R. Kelly” had connected as a television event is when she started getting […]
The Big Bang Theory came close to reaching season highs Thursday night, improving week to week and carrying CBS to an across-the-board ratings victory. The CBS comedy earned a 2.4 rating among adults 18-49, 0.1 behind its season high, and 13.52 million viewers, just a smidge off the season-high 13.53 million from two weeks ago.
Major League Baseball is in the running to buy 21 local TV sports networks being sold by Disney, The New York Post reports. The league has teamed up with the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board to buy all of the networks with the exception of the YES Network, which the Yankees are expected to take hold of, sources said.
TNT’s Executive Vice President of Original Programming Sarah Aubrey has been named the head of original content for WarnerMedia Streaming Service. In addition, Brett Weitz was also named general manager of TBS and TNT.
CBC/Radio president Catherine Tait told Netflix’s Canadian lobbyist during an industry conference that the globally-expanding streaming giant reminded her of the former British and French empires.
Fuse Media said it is in talks with its lenders after the multicultural youth-focused music and entertainment company missed a $12.5 million interest payment. In a statement Thursday, Fuse said it is working with its lenders toward a solution and that while the process is ongoing, it is business as usual at its media properties.
Here are some things to know about CBS’s coverage Sunday as well as other Super Bowl-related programming on other networks.
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Bryan Cranston will star in a new TV legal thriller set in New Orleans. Showtime said Thursday that Cranston will play the lead role in “Your […]
The CW on Thursday went on something of a renewal tear, picking up additional seasons of 10 current series — aka nearly its entire lineup. The list of shows confirmed to return for the 2019-20 TV season includes The Flash, Arrow, Riverdale, Supernatural, Supergirl, Black Lightning and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow. Freshman entries Charmed and Legacies also scored renewals, as did (wait for it) perpetual cellar-dweller Dynasty.
‘Masked Singer’ Rises, Laps Wednesday Field
Fox’s singing competition posts the best ratings since its premiere, doubling the No. 2 show of the night in adults 18-49.
Dick Clark Productions today made three employee promotions within its production, communications and marketing and programming and development departments. Seasoned production executive, Linda Gierahn, has been promoted to EVP of […]
According to industry sources close to the situation but who wished to remain anonymous, Disney-owned ESPN is actively in negotiations with Major League Baseball for an extension of its media rights to show live games. The deal would come on the heels of Fox reaching an extension that runs seven years and begins in 2022 for $5.1 billion. ESPN’s current agreement with MLB expires in 2021 and has a total value of $5.6 billion over an eight-year span.
WAPT Airing Miss Black America Pageant
CBS All Access Subs Grow Over 50%
CBS All Access has seen double-digit growth during the past year, momentum that got a big boost earlier this month from the combination of the second season premiere of Star Trek: Discovery and the NFL’s AFC conference championship. Marc DeBevoise, president-COO of CBS Interactive, said Wednesday during the Television Critics Assciation press tour in Pasadena, Calif., that CBS All Access logged more than 50% growth in total subscribers as well as in total streams delivered and the amount of time users spent watching the service.
Detectives reviewed surveillance footage of Empire actor Jussie Smollett walking to his downtown Chicago apartment, but so far none of the video shows him being attacked by two masked men, although investigators have obtained images of people they would like to question, a police spokesman said Wednesday.
‘World’s Best’ Wins Post-Super Bowl Slot
Hosted by James Corden, The World’s Best premieres Sunday after Super Bowl 53. Besides impressing judges RuPaul, Drew Barrymore and Faith Hill, contestants have to break through the “wall of the world” featuring more than 50 experts from 38 different countries who score the competition.
During the recent reality television boom, small-time producers that were once “the Rodney Dangerfields” of Hollywood sold their companies for hundreds of millions. Now many are looking for second acts, and for Pawn Stars creator Brent Montgomery, that involves a high-stakes “VC to TV” business, Jimmy Kimmel and an invite-only L.A. “incubator” (just don’t call it a party house).
