Post-apocalyptic drama The 100 has aired two episodes of its fifth season, which premiered in April, thus far drawing an average of 1.23 total million viewers and 0.35 in the 18-49 demo.
NEW YORK (AP) — Relax, John Oliver fans. He’s not really quitting. It was all a joke. The host of HBO’s “Last Week Tonight” said Sunday that he’d achieved all […]
NBC has given a second-season pickup to Good Girls, its new midseason drama from The Family creator Jenna Bans. The series, starring Christina Hendricks, Retta and Mae Whitman, marks the second drama renewed by NBC for next season, joining This Is Us,and the first NBC freshman series to get a Season 2 (unless the Will & Grace revival is counted as a new series).
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BuzzFeed named Lauren Dolgen, previously with Vice and a long-time MTV exec, as head of BuzzFeed Studios. In her new role, Dolgen will oversee development of original products for BuzzFeed partners on TV, subscription VOD, film and digital. She will work with talent and intellectual property from BuzzFeed, BuzzFeed Media and BuzzFeed Media Brands.
Fox has given a second-season pickup to medical drama series The Resident. This marks the fourth freshman Fox drama to get a Season 2 renewal, joining 9-1-1, The Gifted and The Orville, for one of the largest groups of first-year dramas to make it to Year Two at the network. Like the other three, The Resident hails from Fox’s (still-sibling) 20th Century Fox TV.
Phone Swap is becoming the first Snapchat series to go from a mobile format to television. Fox Television Stations has closed a deal with Vertical Networks for a TV version of the company’s Snapchat reality dating show to air for a limited run on select Fox stations this summer.
‘American Idol’ Dips, Still Tops Sunday
Airing at 8 p.m., ABC’s American Idol averaged a 1.7 rating in adults 18-49 and 7.9 million viewers. That is down a little over 10% in both measures from last week. Nevertheless, Idol’s closest competition in the demo was fellow ABC series America’s Funniest Home Videos, which drew a 1.1 and 5.5 million viewers at 7 p.m. At 10 p.m., Deception (0.7, 3.4 million) also dipped in the demo but was the top-rated show in its timeslot.
As women take control behind the scenes, they’re beginning to influence the characters and stories we see on screen.
Samantha Bee Burns Latenight To The Ground
For a half-hour each week, the woman who Sen. Elizabeth Warren said “is more than a comedian — she’s an instigator and an advocate” fires off brilliant insults and observations touching on everything from sexism to social injustice. A ratings hit, according to Nielsen, her Full Frontal on TBS averaged over 1.2 million total viewers last year. Here, she shares her thoughts on changing late-night TV, gender and diversity in media, branding opportunities and creating the show that she wanted to watch.
Shari Redstone, the media heiress whose family controls CBS Corp. and Viacom Inc., has offered CBS CEO Leslie Moonves to drop her demands for Viacom CEO Bob Bakish to be his No. 2 following a merger, as long as Bakish sits on the combined company’s board, people familiar with the matter said on Friday.
ABC has ordered a second season of hit singing competition series American Idol, with Ryan Seacrest and judges Luke Bryan, Katy Perry and Lionel Richie set to return.
‘Big Bang Theory’ Rebounds From Series Low
Airing at 8 p.m., The Big Bang Theory — which saw Jerry O’Connell make a guest appearance as Sheldon’s brother — averaged a 2.3 rating in adults 18-49 and 12.6 million viewers. That is up approximately 15% from the 2.0 the show drew last week. It was the most-watched and highest-rated show of the night.
Univision Friday looked to secure its digital future with the announcement of several new partnerships and enhancements to its Univision Now on demand service during its pre-upfront event in New York.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Netflix says that Jeffrey Tambor will appear in the next season of “Arrested Development.” Tambor exited Amazon’s “Transparent” earlier this year amid misconduct allegations made by […]
After 40 Years Of Loving TV Baseball, I’ve Tuned Out
Over-the-top video is something of a hot topic now, with streaming bundles of content continuing to proliferate, and legacy TV companies being joined by startups in trying to launch their own streaming products. Yet, during NewFronts week, it was publishers that introduced dedicated OTT content.
A year after its controversial cancellation at ABC, the Tim Allen-fronted comedy is poised to be resurrected by Fox for the 2018-19 TV season. Allen has, according to sources, signed a deal for a potential Season 7 and conversations are underway with key cast members and EPs from the original incarnation to join him.
After years mired in fourth place in the 18-49 demo, ABC is tied with third-place Fox with an average 1.5 Nielsen live-plus-same day demo rating in primetime and is within seven hundredths of a point of tying CBS for second — despite being the only one of the three nets without an NFL package. (NBC, aided by the Super Bowl and Winter Olympics, far outpaces the competition at 2.2.) ABC’s fortunes are owed largely to three new shows — medical drama The Good Doctor, reality revival American Idol and the much-buzzed-about multicam Roseanne.
