Today at 1 p.m. ET the ABC culinary feast marks its 500th edition with a special hour as its five co-hosts savor their chat-and-chew success. “The Chew was never about food, it was about these five people,” says executive producer Gordon Elliott before a recent taping at the show’s Manhattan studio.
When it lost a summary injunction back in September, the network said it wasn’t done trying to get Dish Network’s Hopper service shut down and on Wednesday ABC took another swing at it. In a brief dated Nov. 12 and filed yesterday (read it here) with the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, ABC and Disney Enterprises went after the satellite provider’s ad-jumping DVR service again.
ABC has firmed up its midseason scheduling plans. With Super Fun Night getting only a back-4 order, ABC will try out another new comedy series, Mixology, in the Wednesday 9:30 p.m. slot behind Modern Family. Meanwhile, Suburgatory will return to its original Tuesday 8:30 p.m. slot. It’s also making changes to some previously announced midseason moves. Once Upon A Time and Revenge are still slated to return from their winter hiatuses on March 9, joined by new drama Resurrection. But Revenge will move to 10 p.m., with Resurrection taking over its 9 o’clock slot.
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Gray To Air ABC On KGNS Subchannel
The Laredo, Texas, NBC affiliate will add the full ABC lineup to its ch. 8.2, becoming ABC’s 244th affiliate, starting in February 2014.
NEW YORK (AP) – A few years ago, ABC’s “General Hospital” was in trouble. “All My Children” and “One Life to Live” had been given their series’ end dates and […]
ABC wants full seasons from the two sitcoms and asks for four more episodes for Super Fun Night.
ABC Wins, Halloween Scares Ratings Down
TV viewing levels were down dramatically as children were trick-or-treating through the neighborhood. ABC came in first averaging a 2.6, led by Scandal at 10 p.m., which finished as the top show of the night. An hour earlier, Gray’s Anatomy drew a 2.6, down 7% from last week. The end of the MLB season hurt Fox, which ran a special recap of The X-Factor contestants, scoring a 0.7. CBS, which came in second, ran a rerun of The Big Bang Theory. The Millers and The Crazy Ones dropped to a 2.0 and 1.9, respectively.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The cast and creators of the Emmy-winning sitcom hit “Modern Family” gave back Monday, honoring some 600 of the show’s devotees with a so-called “fan […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — ABC is apologizing for a segment of “Jimmy Kimmel Live” in which a child joked about killing Chinese people to help erase the U.S. debt. The […]
Former Telepictures/Warner Bros. executive Lisa Hackner joins the network in the newly created position.
The redesigned ABC News app features personalized push alerts, which allows users to customize their experience with the app. The app also includes up-to-the-minute news coverage and live streaming video.
ABC is considering bringing back crime drama Body Of Proof. Discussions started at the beginning of the season, with the network expected to make a decision whether to move on with the revival, likely for midseason, within the next month as it gets a more clear picture of how many of its new series would stay on beyond the fall.
ABC has ordered two more scripts apiece for Wednesday frosh comedies Super Fun Night and Back in the Game. The script orders amount to a small vote of confidence for two shows in their infancy.
The new English-language television network will target millennial Hispanics and their BFFs as it attempts to capitalize on a generation for which cultural fusion is the norm and digital media is king. The network will provide something of a grab bag: a mix of hard news, commentary, sports and irreverence aimed at 16-30 year-olds.
What do the wealthy young people watch? Apparently, a lot of Modern Family, Big Bang Theory and Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Counting the first three weeks of the fall TV season, those are the top-rated broadcast shows among upscale young adults. In this context, “upscale young adults” are people in the key 18-49 age demographic in homes with a yearly income of $100,000 or more.
Cablevision Systems Corp. criticized the arguments made by broadcasters in a Supreme Court filing seeking to shut down Aereo, a start-up company that delivers local television station signals to consumers via the Internet. Cablevision said the case that broadcasters including Fox, CBS, ABC and NBC are attempting to make against Aereo is a “willful attempt to stifle innovation.”
Pixar Animation Studios is extending its reach from theaters to television with the TV film Toy Story of Terror! showing on ABC on Oct. 16.
No returning series in any daypart is off to a hotter start this fall than ABC’s daytime talkshow The Chew, which gobbled up more series records in key demos last week. Now in its third season, the food-themed program that replaced All My Children in 2011 averaged 2.6 million viewers for the week of Sept. 30-Oct. 4 — up 15% vs. the comparable week a year ago, according to Nielsen.
Marvel’s first primetime scripted drama gets the back-nine after opening as TV’s highest-rated drama debut since 2009. The Joss Whedon co-created drama is based on the Marvel Comics’ secret intelligence organization that has appeared in countless titles
After celebrating its big program ratings win in the last several months over longtime market leader NBC’s Today, ABC’s Good Morning America now touts another honor — one more important to national TV advertisers. GMA has won its first win in commercial ratings (C3) for the 2012-13 broadcast season (Sept. 24, 2012, to Sept. 22, 2013) — the viewership measure that virtually all national TV advertisers use to ink their media deals.
Sunday’s A Rough Night For ABC’s ‘Betrayal’
ABC has already canceled one new drama this season, and another is struggling as well. Last night the network’s 10 p.m. show Betrayal slid 27% from last week’s already-low premiere, to a 1.1 adults 18-49 rating. The show got less lead-in support from Revenge, ABC’s 9 p.m. drama, which fell 17% from last week to a 1.9. Betrayal bowed to a 1.5 last week, the third-worst rating for any new show.
ABC’s ‘Lucky 7′ Canceled After 2 Episodes
We have the first casualty of the 2013-14 broadcast season. ABC has pulled freshman drama Lucky 7 after two episodes, the second one posting that unlucky 0.7 adults 18-49 rating on Tuesday. Starting next week, ABC will air repeats of red-hot Scandal — which hit series highs in its third-season premiere last night — in Lucky 7‘s Tuesday 10 p.m. slot until settling on a permanent replacement.
Just a little more than one week into the new season, ABC is taking credit for delivering the best upscale viewers — provided you don’t account for big network primetime sports programming. ABC says it easily dominates over its three main rivals — when looking at non-sports primetime programming for the first week of the season. ABC earned a 2.8 average 18-49 rating among those making $100,000 a year or more and a 2.9 for those making $150,000.
