Programming

Jeff Olde, who has served as EVP of programming and development since March 2013, is exiting the NBCUniversal-owned cable network to pursue what he called his “next adventure.” A replacement has not yet been determined.

The major broadcast networks, with a little help from a big bunch of A-listers, are banding together to raise funds for the Hurricane Harvey relief effort. Houston native Beyonce, as well as George Clooney, Oprah Winfrey, Barbra Streisand, Julia Roberts and Reese Witherspoon are among the boldfaced names scheduled to appear on the Sept. 12 special, which will be based in Los Angeles with cutaways to New York and Nashville.

The two most prominent media companies that program to a Spanish-speaking audience criticized the Trump administration’s decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, announced Tuesday morning.

Amazon today announced the launch of Brown Sugar — the new subscription-video-on-demand service featuring baddest African-American action movies — on Amazon Channels.  Amazon Prime members can now watch Brown Sugar’s library of iconic black movies, all un-edited and commercial-free […]

Bachelor in Paradise was down in both key ratings in the Monday Nielsen overnight ratings, which was not totally unexpected given the Labor Day holiday. Airing at 8 p.m. on ABC, Bachelor averaged a a 1.3 rating in adults 18-49 and 4.4 million viewers. That is down from the season-high 1.7 and 5.5 million viewers last Monday, for a decline of approximately 27% in the key demo and 19% in total viewers.

Steve Harvey has already been a King of Comedy. Now he’s attempting to rule everything else. The title of TV’s most in-demand host has passed from Ryan Seacrest to the 60-year old comic, who currently hosts four network shows, mugs weekdays on a syndicated version of Family Feud and wakes up listeners most mornings on his long-running radio show. He’s just getting started. On Tuesday the comic will launch a revamp of his daytime talker, Steve, which has moved from Chicago to Los Angeles to allow more celebrities to stop by and pay their respects to the king. And he’s turning his version of Showtime at the Apollo into a series next year.

The record bidding amount beat Sony Entertainment Television, which had held the Indian Premier League broadcast rights for 10 years since the popular cricket property was launched.

Brian Teta has been promoted to an executive producer on The View. He will share the role with the show’s other executive producer, Candi Carter, in overseeing the ABC daytime talk show started by Barbara Walters in 1997.

The Thursday Nielsen overnight numbers will be subject to greater adjustment than usual due to numerous local preemptions for NFL preseason football. As it currently stands, Big Brother is the most-watched and highest-rated regularly scheduled broadcast show of the night, averaging a 1.9 rating in adults 18-49 and 7 million viewers. That is up in both measures compared to last Thursday’s episode, but will most likely adjust down later today when the official numbers are tabulated.

On Monday Live with Kelly and Ryan launches a new season — its 30th in national syndication — of goes-down-easy chat and interviews. Live has dominated entertainment talk TV in daytime for decades, and that is unlikely to change. Even so, a face-off is nigh that media handicappers will delight in tracking: Kelly vs. Kelly. That is, Megyn Kelly, former Fox News star who earlier this year jumped to NBC News and will anchor the third hour of NBC’s Today (currently averaging 2.4 million viewers versus 2.8 million for “Live”). Airing at 9 a.m. ET, Megyn Kelly Today will go head-to-head against Live in many cities starting Sept. 25.

The new pact extends coverage of all Patriots pre-season games, Patriots All Access, Patriots GameDay and 5^th Quarter exclusively on the CBS O&O and co-owned WSBK.

The 9 p.m. episode of Marlon drew a 1.2 rating in adults 18-49 and 5.1 million viewers, up from a 1.1 and 4.6 million viewers in the same time slot last week for a 9% increase in the demo and 11% in total viewers. The 9:30 episode drew a 1.0 and 3.8 million viewers, making it approximately even with the 9:30 episode last week (1.0, 3.7 million)

Career and transition coach and entertainment marketing executive Pat Pattison has teamed up with TV Guestpert productions to create a series of 90-second news segments called Next Steps with Pat […]

Miramax, the onetime indie film powerhouse founded by the Weinstein brothers, has laid off 20 employees in a second round of downsizing this year under a new chief executive. The Santa Monica film and television company cut executives in the sales and finance departments, as well as workers in support roles, according to a person with knowledge of the matter who was not authorized to comment publicly.

The streaming services are taking over the Emmys. Four years after House of Cards opened up the major categories to online content providers with three wins, Netflix, Hulu and Amazon have hit an all-time high with a combined total of 126 nominations. But how did we get here?

Sharon Hall has stepped down from her post as president of Endemol Shine Studios, the scripted division of Endemol Shine North America. Hall, who had run the production unit since joining the company in January 2016, is transitioning into a producer role at the studio. The move comes a week or so after former Spike TV head of programming Sharon Levy was tapped as president of unscripted and scripted television for Endemol Shine North America.

The new contracts cover stations in South Carolina, Texas, Nevada, Georgia and Indiana.

There is a big executive change at Fox Broadcast Co. just as the buying season is kicking into high gear. David Madden is stepping down as entertainment president and is in negotiations for the top programming job at AMC. At Fox, Madden will be succeeded by 20th Century Fox EVP Development Michael Thorn who will report to Fox Television Group Chairmen and CEOs Gary Newman and Dana Walden.

Tuesday’s installment of ABC’s Bachelor in Paradise was up in both key ratings measures, with the episode featuring an interview with Corinne Olympios. According to Nielsen, Bachelor in Paradise averaged a 1.3 rating in adults 18-49 and 4.3 million total viewers, up approximately 13% in both measures from the previous Tuesday episode. Olympios was supposed to be a contestant on this season of the reality dating series, but dropped out after an incident with fellow contestant DeMario Jackson.

The satellite provider is up against a 11:59 P.M. deadline today with Raycom and is also facing losing two Dispatch Broadcast Group stations on Friday.