Programming

The sitcom is currently airing Season 5. It was created by Justin Spitzer, who serves as an executive producer with star America Ferrera, director Ruben Fleischer and David Bernad.

The football league delivered some of the biggest audiences for sports programming on Feb. 8 and 9, with three of its four games outdrawing every NBA and college basketball telecast in the previous week. The numbers are a far cry from what the NFL brings in — and from the opening game of the previous XFL incarnation 19 years ago — but put the league on steady footing at the outset.

In the week ending Feb. 2, four of the top five magazine shows generated significant ratings steam fueled by extensive coverage of the 62^nd Annual Grammy Awards and reports on the life and tragic death of NBA legend Kobe Bryant.

The Bachelor bounced back from last week’s down ratings, recording its biggest same-day audience of the season Monday night and maintaining its spot as the top show among adults 18-49. Several other shows, including NBC’s America’s Got Talent: The Champions, also grew in viewers week to week.

Ratings may be down for the NBA this season, but ad sales for the league’s All-Star Game remain strong. According to Jon Diament, executive VP and chief revenue officer at Turner Sports, commercials for this year’s All-Star Weekend in Chicago sold out faster than ever before at prices that were “significantly higher” than in past years.

A live episode of ABC’s The Conners airing 8 p.m. ET Tuesday that will incorporate, in real time, the Democratic primary in New Hampshire. In the episode, which will be performed live twice for different time zones, Darlene’s children Mark (Ames McNamara) and Harris (Emma Kenney) are watching news reports on the primary.

Rule changes, mics on coaches and in the faces of players on the sidelines bring viewers a fresh perspective, creating an intimacy more akin to what you find in televised baseball, tennis or golf.

Sony Pictures Television Chairman Mike Hopkins will exit the studio and lead Amazon’s video entertainment business, including Amazon Studios. Amazon Studios head Jen Salke will now report to Hopkins, who will report directly to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. Hopkins had been with Sony since 2017, following four years with Hulu.

ABC’s Oscar telecast reached all-time lows in the ratings, falling sharply from last year. The three-hour-plus broadcast averaged about 23.6 million viewers and a 5.3 rating among adults 18-49, well below the 29.56 million and 7.7 for last year’s awards.

CSI could be coming back to CBS. Variety has confirmed with sources that the broadcaster is eyeing a potential event series revival of the megahit show, which aired on the network from 2000 to 2015. The project is in the very early development stages and no original cast members are currently attached.

The Freddie Highmore starrer from David Shore joins fellow medical drama Grey’s Anatomy with early renewals at the network.

Bean appeared in a number of films — notably, Anatomy of a Murder and Being John Malkovich — and starred in several top Broadway productions, receiving a Tony nod for the 1962 Comden-Green musical Subways Are for Sleeping. But fans remembered him most for his many TV appearances from the 1950s onward.

A history-making night for Parasite, plus emotional wins from Brad Pitt, Laura Dern, Joaquin Phoenix and Renee Zellweger, helped cover for a mess of a kudocast.

The TVS Television Network, founded in 1960, said it is launching a free streaming service with 12 channels on www.watchyour.tv. The service will start with classic TV shows and movies, but the company said it plans to produce 500 new shows per year from its studios in the Philadelphia area.

The rugged, contentious actor who starred in the hugely popular 1960s television series Hawaiian Eye and The Wild, Wild West. Baa Baa Black Sheep followed in 1976 and was roughly based on an autobiography by Marine Corps ace and Medal of Honor recipient Gregory “Pappy” Boyington, who wrote of the raucous fliers he commanded during World War II. Conrad was 84.

NBC’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine opened its seventh season a little ahead of where it finished its sixth on Thursday. The network’s other comedy debut, Indebted, opened to soft ratings, and CBS’s drama Tommy premiered with a total-viewer win in the 10 p.m. hour. Young Sheldon, meanwhile, is near a season high in viewers.

The revived XFL owned by wrestling impresario Vince McMahon will consciously appeal to fans accustomed to betting on professional or college football — and who otherwise would have nothing to bet on for months.

Following on the success of The Masked Singer, Fox is doubling down with another South Korean game show import, the musical series I Can See Your Voice. Based on the South Korean format from CJ ENM, the show will offer contestants a cash prize if they can tell the difference between the good and bad singers, without ever hearing them sing a note. Masked Singer judge Ken Jeong will serve as host and executive producer.

Advertisers have been slow to the table to support the newly-revived XFL league, which kicks off this weekend. Interest is finally stirring, according to ESPN and ABC, but uncertain audience engagement and the memory of past alternative pro-football league failures cast a shadow over its prospects.