The decision to block YouTube is retaliation for Amazon’s refusal to sell some Google products that compete with Amazon gadgets.
‘Today’ Dominates Ratings With Lauer Firing
It was the week’s top morning show. NBC also won the week in primetime, averaging 9.3 million viewers. CBS had 7.7 million, Fox had 5.4 million, ABC had 4.8 million, the CW had 1.8 million, Univision had 1.6 million, Ion Television had 1.3 million and Telemundo had 1.1 million.
The decision to block YouTube is retaliation for Amazon’s refusal to sell some Google products that compete with Amazon gadgets.
Film and television production company Legendary Entertainment has named longtime industry lawyer Joshua Grode as its new chief executive, the company said today.
The Nielsen company said Today had more viewers than Good Morning America all five days last week — the first time that has happened in nearly a year.
Exclusives
Russia has been barred from the 2018 Olympic games following a report regarding “the systematic manipulation of the anti-doping system in Russia,” the International Olympic Committee said Tuesday.
‘The Good Doctor’ Fall Finale Holds Steady
Airing at 10 p.m. on ABC, The Good Doctor averaged a 1.7 rating in adults 18-49 and 9.4 million viewers, even with its performance last week. It was the top-rated and most-watched scripted show of the night, and second overall in both measures behind only The Voice on NBC (1.9, 10 million). It should be noted that ABC’s Monday lineup was preempted in Pittsburgh and NBC’s lineup was preempted in Cincinnati for NFL coverage, so both shows’ numbers are subject to adjustment later today.
Two of America’s most popular gameshows, Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy, will be inducted into the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Broadcasting Hall of Fame at the new 2018 NAB Show Achievement […]
Stephen Colbert didn’t let Bush, in his first televised interview since the infamous Access Hollywood tape became public, get away with an easy self-exoneration.
NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — Former “Tonight Show” host Jay Leno and his wife have purchased an oceanfront estate in Newport, Rhode Island. The Boston Globe reports Leno, who grew up in Andover, […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jimmy Kimmel’s 7-month-old son, whose heart condition has made the late-night host an unlikely player in American politics, had a successful second round of surgery on […]
Oprah Winfrey is staying on board as CEO of OWN for the foreseeable future — solidifying a new deal that will retain her as CEO of the Discovery Communications-backed network through at least 2025. Simultaneously, Discovery has paid $70 million to acquire an additional 24.5% stake in OWN from the Winfrey-owned Harpo Inc. That will give Discovery 70% of OWN.
CBS’s Carol Burnett Special Draws Over 15M
The CBS special dedicated to the 50th anniversary of The Carol Burnett Show pulled in impressive numbers on Sunday night. Airing at 8-10 p.m., the special drew a 1.5 rating in adults 18-49 and 15.2 million viewers. It built on its lead in from 60 Minutes (1.2, 11.3 million) in both measures. That also puts it currently within a million viewers of Sunday Night Football (5.2, 16.2 million) though due to the nature of live sports, the final numbers for Sunday’s game will be released later today.
Cozi TV Adds ‘The Nanny’ To Lineup
Fran Drescher’s sitcom The Nanny has a new television home. Kicking off with a special broadcast marathon on Jan. 1, 2018, Cozi TV viewers can plan to raise a glass and ring […]
Seven months after the infamous “grab them by the pussy” recording got Bush fired (and nearly toppled Trump’s White House run), the former Today host goes public with what happened on that bus, the people who knew about the tape, how he broke the “awful” news to his daughters and his bold comeback move: “I plan to return to the job that I love.”
When art director Francis Giglio signed on to work on Louis C.K.’s animated series The Cops last summer, he believed he had a full-time job through next May. But after news broke that the comedian masturbated in front of several women, TBS killed the show and Giglio is out of a job.
NBC News, under intense scrutiny since it fired Today anchor Matt Lauer in the wake of revelations of incidents involving him and sexual harassment under its corporate aegis, said Fricay that it would conduct an internal review of its handling of the matter.
Vice Media fired three employees on Thursday amid a probe into sexual harassment and improper workplace conduct, according to an internal memo. Vice did not name the employees.
