Programming

Fox’s Hell’s Kitchen this week drew 2.8 million total viewers and a 0.7 rating, leading Thursday in the demo (with ABC and CBS mostly in rerun mode). A Young Sheldon rerun on CBS drew Thursday’s largest audience, with 4.6 million viewers.

YouTube on Thursday announced an update to its global hub for sports content known as Sports. The changes are being made across mobile, desktop and connected TV (CTV). The content will offer clips and highlights from top leagues worldwide, along with exclusive live games and premium content from popular athletes and creators. Videos available are from NFL, La Liga, MLB, NBA and WWE.

As usual, the SAG Awards manages to pick up what the Golden Globe nominations left off. In particular, the biggest mistake the mostly solid Globes nods made this year, in missing the boat on Michaela Coel’s stunning, heartbreaking HBO series I May Destroy You. Coel landed a first-ever SAG Award nom in the female actor in a TV movie or limited series category for playing Arabella in I May Destroy You,

Brown hosted Fox’s pregame for the 2002 Super Bowl, which occurred nearly five months after 9/11. With the coronavirus pandemic still at the forefront, Brown realizes Sunday’s Super Bowl Today show could offer the same opportunities, but in a different manner.

Legendary is putting its entire television business under Chris Albrecht, who was named Head of Legendary TV. As part of the move, the studio is combining its domestic and international TV businesses under one roof. As part of the move, current Legendary TV President Nick Pepper will move to an executive producer role on the studio’s projects.

ViacomCBS will be promoting new series on CBS by streaming them on Pluto TV and other over-the-top platforms. The Equalizer and Clarice will be available for two weeks after they premiere on the CBS Broadcast Network.

Facing expulsion from SAG-AFTRA, Donald Trump resigned his membership from the union Thursday. To which SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris and national executive director David White simply said: “Thank you.”

The show will debut as part of a crossover with SVU, reuniting Christopher Meloni and Mariska Hargitay.

The pop star said he will “keep it PG” during his headliner slot on Sunday at Raymond James Stadium as the reigning Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs take on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Tampa, Florida. He promised to be “respectful to the viewers.”

Fox’s The Masked Dancer this Wednesday drew 2.66 million total viewers and a 0.5 demo rating, ticking down on both counts to mark series lows. Lead-out Name That Tune (2.3M/0.4) similarly slipped 15% and 33% in Week 5 to mark its lowest numbers yet. NBC’s Chicago Med (7.3M/1.0) ticked up and led Wednesday in both measures.

The organization cites five times that Cox Media has pulled stations just ahead of the big game.

The CW is bringing back the majority of its current slate next season after making a bumper renewal order including a second season of Walker. The network has made the early decision to hand renewals to 12 current series with Mark Pedowitz sticking with stability as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have an impact on network’s schedules, the development process and pilot season. All American, Batwoman, Charmed, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Dynasty, The Flash, In The Dark, Legacies, Nancy Drew, Riverdale, Roswell, New Mexico and Walker will all return for the 2021-22 season.

Longtime unscripted TV exec Rob Mills has been upped to executive vice president of unscripted and alternative entertainment at Walt Disney Television, expanding his role to lead a newly formed alternative programming production unit, Walt Disney Television Alternative.

The March 22 virtual event will convene creative professionals, marketers, developers, technologists, and entrepreneurs to focus on consumers, content and connection. It will offer insights, partnership opportunities, technology roadmap, commerce vision across Comcast NBCUniversal and Sky.

The long-term partnership kicks off with three new Telemundo-branded channels:Telemundo Al Día, Telemundo Realities and Telemundo Novelas

ABC’s Big Sky this week scored the Tuesday demo win (with CBS in rerun mode), holding steady with a 0.6 rating while drawing 3.6 million total viewers. On CBS, an NCIS repeat copped Tuesday’s largest audience: 4.9 million.

The next round of Jeopardy guest hosts has been announced, and it includes Dr. Oz, Anderson Cooper, Savannah Guthrie and Dr. Sanjay Gupta. For each guest host’s appearance, a donation will be made to a charity of their choice equal to the cumulative winnings of the contestants on their respective episodes.

Nominations will be announced virtually at 8:35 a.m. ET today by presenters Sarah Jessica Parker and Taraji P. Henson. They will reveal 12 categories on NBC’s Today show, with full nominees announced live on E! digital channels and the Golden Globes’ website. Without any in-person screenings or photo ops with stars, little is known about how the roughly 90 member press association — a notoriously unpredictable group, in normal times — is swaying this year. But one thing may be a lock: Netflix will land a whole lot of nominations.

Several programs on MSNBC and CNN had their most-watched months ever in January, the Nielsen company said. CNN as a network did so, too, in a newsy month where the Capitol insurrection and President Joe Biden’s inauguration left a lot to talk about. For last week, CBS was the most-watched broadcast network, averaging 4.7 million viewers in prime time. ABC had 3.6 million, NBC had 3 million, Fox had 2.6 million, Univision had 1.4 million, Telemundo had 1.12 million and Ion Television had 1.11 million.

Susan Rovner has finalized her Entertainment Content executive team on Tuesday, a few months after she joined NBCUniversal to lead its newly formed development unit. As part of today’s restructure, roughly 50 people will be leaving the company, with the majority coming from inside the division. There were additional cuts in scheduling, acquisitions and marketing.