The network has handed out a two-season renewal to the competition series, hosted and co-created by Phil Keoghan. The renewal, which will take the show through its fourth season, comes hours before the season two finale airs on CBS Wednesday night.
Colton Underwood, the former football tight end who found fame on “The Bachelor,” has revealed that he is gay. “I’ve ran from myself for a long time. I’ve hated myself […]
ABC’s Big Sky resumed its freshman run on Tuesday night with 3.5 million total viewers and a 0.5 demo rating — down 15% and 29% from mid-February’s winter finale. A second episode slipped further, marking series lows of 3.2M and a 0.4. On CBS, an NCIS rerun drew Tuesday’s biggest audience: 5.4 million.
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Serena Williams has signed a deal with Amazon Studios under which she will create scripted and non-scripted programming, including a docuseries that follows her exploits on and off the court, […]
TVN Focus On Programming | Will Live TV Bounce Back Post-Pandemic?
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Univision and Televisa have come to terms on a merger agreement, a long-awaited deal that will create a Spanish-language TV giant with broad reach in Mexico and the U.S. The deal calls for Televisa to contribute its media, content and production assets and a handful of networks to a new entity to be known as Televisa-Univision. Televisa’s assets are valued at $4.8 billion. The new company will be led by Univision CEO Wade Davis, who headed the investor group that acquired Univision in early 2020.
Co-general manager of Epix Laura Sher has been tapped to take on the additional role of executive vice president of MGM Scripted Television Operations, where she will work with MGM Chief Legal Officer Lesley Freeman, president of MGM scripted TV and Epix Michael Wright and President of TV Operations Brian Edwards to grow the studio’s scripted series business.
The former Fox and 20th Television exec will now oversee casting for Disney’s entire television portfolio, adding animation, alternative, Hulu and Freeform to a purview that already included Disney TV Studios and FX.
The streaming giant has handed out a third and fourth season renewal for the period drama from executive producer Shonda Rhimes.
Mike Tirico won’t be anchoring NBC’s primetime coverage of the Tokyo Olympics from the usual confines of a studio inside the International Broadcast Center. Instead, he will have a more […]
‘Dr. Phil’ Stands Alone In A Tough Week
Preemptions from news coverage of opening arguments in the Derek Chauvin trial and the attack at a U.S. Capitol checkpoint as well as the regional round of March Madness and a rain-delayed NASCAR race hampered strips, especially those cleared on network affiliates. Phil was as the only first-run strip to post a gain in the week ended April 4.
The CW’s All American returned from a five-week break to 706,000 total viewers (its second smallest audience of the season) and a 0.2 demo rating, down a tenth from its last fresh episode to match its series low. ABC’s American Idol: Paula’s Return (5.2M/0.7) ticked up week-to-week, tying The Voice for the Monday demo win.
Trevor Noah and Stephen Colbert criticized officers’ use of force against Black men, citing two cases in which traffic stops turned violent.
Hosted by elite NFL QB Peyton Manning (with his brother Cooper Manning serving as sidekick), Capital One College Bowl will premiere Tuesday, June 22, at 10 p.m. ET.
American Idol judge Luke Bryan will miss Monday’s live broadcast after testing positive for COVID. The ABC series has tapped an original Idol judge to fill in for him. Paula Abdul will fill Bryan’s spot at the judges’ table on Monday, marking her first appearance on the show since it moved to ABC from Fox.
Access Hollywood and its spinoff/companion series Access Daily have both been renewed for three more seasons, which will take them through 2025. NBCUniversal Syndication Studios has sold both shows in more than 90% of the U.S. for next season. Currently averaging 1.4 million total viewers per day in its 25th season, Access Hollywood is hosted by Mario Lopez, Kit Hoover and Scott Evans, and features correspondents Sibley Scoles and Zuri Hall. Access Daily, which features the same trio of hosts, is in its 11th season.
WarnerMedia sells the CBS series in top Nexstar markets along with stations from Sinclair, CBS, Hearst, Gray, Tegna, Scripps, Cox, Meredith, Graham, Weigel, Allen Media, Sunbeam, News-Press, Londen Media, Griffin, Lockwood, Morris among others. It debuts in fall 2021.
‘Zoey,’ ‘Family Guy’ Rise, ‘Rookie’ Dips
NBC’s Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist — leading out of an Ellen’s Game of Games rerun this week — drew 1.4 million total viewers and a 0.3 demo rating, ticking up to its best Sunday numbers of the season.
