The 2022-23 TV season has its first casualty. CBS’s dating show The Real Love Boat has been pulled from the broadcast network after four episodes. It will finish out its season on Paramount+.
Executives from CBS, NBCU, CBC, Magid and Graham Media discussed the pros and cons of gathering and using data to attract and retain viewers during TVNewsCheck’s TV2025 last week at NAB New York. Above, l-r: Graham Media’s Dustin Block, Voice Interaction’s Joao Neto, Magid’s Bill Hague, MNCU’ Shawn Makhijhani, CBC’s Roma Kojima and CBS’s Radha Subramanyam.
CBS has given full-season orders to its three freshman dramas — East New York, So Help Me Todd and Fire Country.
When NCIS Special Agents land in the crosshairs of a hitman, it will fuel CBS’ first-ever three-way crossover between NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles and NCIS: Hawai’i. NCIS and NCIS: Hawai’i have crossed over twice thus far, including with their very recent season premieres. But NCIS: Los Angeles, which kick off its 14th season this Sunday at 10 p.m. ET, has yet to join in the fun.
The launch of John Dickerson’s CBS News Prime Time in September means that all three broadcast network news divisions have unique streaming newscasts at night, a nod to the future and bid to reach young people who aren’t watching television at dinnertime. Above (l-r): Tom Llamas, host of Top Story with Tom Llamas, Linsey Davis on the set of ABC News Live Prime with Linsey Davis, and John Dickerson, host of CBS News Prime Time with John Dickerson.
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Lappin, who has worked with Colbert for nearly 25 years, had been a senior supervising producer on the CBS latenight show.
The announcement was made Sunday night during the live finale of the show and on Twitter by host Julie Chen Moonves.
The Super Bowl and Winter Olympics power NBC to a demographic win but not the top of the total viewer chart.
The Waltons ran for nine seasons and 221 episodes on CBS, ranking as high as No. 2 in the Nielsen ratings. A half-century later it still stirs nostalgia among loyal fans who can’t resist taking in cable TV reruns, binging episodes via streaming apps and keeping up with former stars through social media.
CBS is expanding its representation and inclusion programs to launch a new “CBS Performers with Disabilities Talent Initiative.” The plan, which starts with the upcoming 2022-23 TV season, is to make sure the network’s programming includes “meaningful representation and inclusion for all underrepresented groups, including performers with disabilities in series regular, guest star or co-starring roles in current series and pilots, playing characters specifically written with a disability as well as roles that do not specify one.”
The long-running CBS reality show has racked up big viewing numbers on air and via streaming on Paramount+.
KCNC, the CBS-owned station in Denver, said it will be adding 10 hours of local news per week and shifting to a community journalism approach. The new newscast will air on weekdays from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. and from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. starting September 12.
As marketer interest in other TV programming declines, demand for pro football continues its upward trajectory and has had a knock-on effect for other leagues like the NBA and NHL.
CBS’ 60 Minutes rerun drew 6.6 million total viewers and a 0.9 demo rating, topping Sunday in both measures. Big Brother in turn is eyeing its best Sunday audience of Season 24 (4.1 million), though it was down a tick in the demo week-to-week (to a 0.7).
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The NWSL Championship is finally moving to primetime on CBS. On Tuesday, the league, CBS and Ally Financial announced this season’s final will be played in Washington at Audi Field on Oct. 29. Best of all, the match will move from its originally planned time of noon ET to 8 p.m., “following a recent collaborative effort by Ally, CBS and the league,” according to the official news release.
The Big Ten is on the cusp of television deals that are expected to pay it in excess of $1 billion and create a college football triple-header featuring Fox, CBS and NBC. If the agreement goes through, ESPN will be out of the business of Big Ten football and basketball for the first time in 40 years.
Longtime CBS golf broadcaster Nick Faldo is taking off his headset after 16 years. Faldo bid farewell Sunday during the final round of the 2022 Wyndham Championship at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, North Carolina. The six-time major champion was honored with a plaque behind the ninth green on the club’s Wall of Fame. The broadcast featured emotional messages from Faldo’s former and current colleagues both on and off the golf course.
The D.C.- and Hawaii-based NCIS teams will team up once again when CBS’s Monday night procedurals return with their new seasons in September.
Heather Gray, who was executive producer and showrunner on CBS’s daytime talk show The Talk, has died. She died Saturday in Los Angeles of an “unforgiving disease,” according to CBS, which did not provide further details.
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The Hollywood Reporter’s awards columnist explores the plummeting Emmys presence of ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox, which take turns airing the awards show.
CBS has given a pilot order to The Never Game, a drama series adaptation of Jeffery Deaver’s novel, starring and executive produced by This is Us star Justin Hartley. The project, which received a pilot production commitment in September 2021, comes from director Ken Olin and 20th Television.
CBS-owned stations in select markets launched a series of new hybrid, national-local newscasts across the country on July 18. All told, CBS launched 10 new newscasts, all branded around the word “Now,” in markets across the country in either the 9 or 10 p.m. local timeslot. The newscasts are on independent, CW or MyNetworkTV-affiliates owned by CBS News and Stations.
The next Jan. 6 hearings will take place on Thursday at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT, which means they will be replacing several networks’ planned scheduling, including Thursday’s eviction from Big Brother on CBS. CBS Evening News will air a live special report on Thursday. That bumps the Big Brother eviction to Friday at 8 p.m. ET for a one-time pairing with the Season 2 premiere of the Paramount+ series Blood & Treasure at 9, followed by a repeat of Blue Bloods at 10.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors said Monday they have declined to bring charges against nine people associated with CBS’ “Late Show with Stephen Colbert” who were arrested in a building […]
The Grammys are returning to Los Angeles for 2023, the Recording Academy announced Thursday. After hosting its 2022 show from Las Vegas, the ceremony dubbed “music’s biggest night” will return to Southern California and its usual home — the Crypto.com Arena (previously the Staples Center) — on Feb. 5, 2023.
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CBS will try again to launch a successful dating show by ordering to series The Real Love Boat, a reality competition series that’s inspired by the classic ’70s series that took place on Princess Cruises ships. The U.S. network and Australian Broadcaster Network 10 will jointly commission localized versions of the show that will bring “singles together to cruise the Mediterranean on a luxury cruise ship while looking for love.”
Kevin Frazier and Nischelle Turner of Entertainment Tonight host the awards, which return Friday at 9 p.m. ET on CBS, to a full-capacity live ceremony at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. The 2020 edition went virtual for the first time because of COVID-19. Last year’s show was taped with a limited audience on hand.
The broadcast network will launch four new shows and 18 returning series with a rollout that starts in Premiere Week, on Monday, Sept. 19. The network’s schedule is on par with its May announcement save for one change: dating series The Real Love Boat is moving from 10 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Wednesdays. CBS, overseen by president Kelly Kahl, has a schedule that’s largely stable with last season on Monday, Tuesday and Saturday.
The Tonys drew an audience of 3.9 million viewers on CBS on Sunday, about a million viewers more than last year. It was the second-lowest viewership on record.
The exuberant ceremony Sunday night on CBS was designed to answer that unthinkable possibility with an emphatic “No” — to make clear that whatever the ongoing difficulties, Broadway is back, with verve and creativity, and it’s here to stay. It just needs even more people filling the seats. Above: Michael R. Jackson accepts the award for best book of a musical for A Strange Loop. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
“They are destined to go down in the annals of live TV like the Watergate hearings, the moon landing and the time Walter Cronkite was swallowed by a python,” Colbert said.
