Critics’ Choice Awards Fall 33% From 2019
Sunday’s 2020 Critics’ Choice Awards were down 33% in the key adults 18-49 demographic and -22% in total viewers from 2019’s show, according to preliminary data from Nielsen. Last night’s Taye Diggs-hosted edition of the awards show, which aired from 7-10 p.m. on The CW, settled for a 0.2 rating and 1.2 million viewers, compared to last year’s event, which got a 0.3 rating and 1.5 million viewers.
Netflix has turned in its best performance in the rankings of distributors with Oscar nominations — 24 compared to 15 last year. It has secured the top spot for the first time. Disney ends up right behind with 23, between the studio’s 10 noms, six each for 20th Century Fox and Searchlight, and another for Disney-owned National Geographic’s The Cave. Disney, by the way, had 17 noms last year, with Fox Searchlight turning in that number also.
The new OTT offering targeting African Americans is live, interactive and advertising supported.
The creator of Family Guy, American Dad!, Ted and The Orville is leaving his longtime home at 20th Century Fox Television, which bet on MacFarlane when he was just a recent college graduate trying his hand at animation.
Exclusives
The Critics’ Choice Awards, hosted by Taye Diggs, were handed out on Sunday night and on the TV side, Fleabag nabbed the trophy for Best Comedy Series while Succession went home with Best Drama.
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will share host duties for the Golden Globes ceremony in 2021. Poehler herself shared the announcement at a TV critics meeting […]
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Late-night host Stephen Colbert has yet another outlet for satire: He’s producing a new series featuring animated characters who riff on current events and interview real […]
The veteran television executive is promoted from president. In his new post he will oversee all creative and business aspects of the network.
Justin Chambers is leaving Grey’s Anatomy after 15 years on the ABC series. Chambers plays Alex Karev in the series, who started off as a surgical intern at the fictional Seattle Grace Hospital before eventually rising to the position of resident, and later becoming a pediatric surgical fellow.
PBS Looks Ahead As It Turns 50
Celebrating its 50th anniversary, PBS is both looking back on its heritage and looking ahead. The public broadcaster is launching PBS American Portrait, which Paula Kerger, president and CEO, called a “digital-first national storytelling project” about “what it really means to be an American today.”
‘Jeopardy’ Rises Again, Tops 15M Viewers
Jeopardy: The Greatest of All Time posted more big ratings for ABC Thursday, giving the network four consecutive nightly wins for the week. NBC’s Superstore and The Good Place also drew multi-episode highs in total viewers.
Comcast-owned NBCUniversal plans to detail its Peacock streaming video service on Jan. 16. But at CES 2020, an executive described the general strategy behind the content on the video-on-demand service as being like comfort food for viewers. Linda Yaccarino, chairman of ad sales and client partnerships at NBCU, said Peacock will leverage familiar brands, such as The Office, Parks and Recreation and Saturday Night Live, and focus on quality over quantity.
In FX’s annual update on the state of scripted, total volume came in at 532 originals in 2019, up 7% year-over-year.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Netflix will make its presence felt at the 51st NAACP Image Awards next month. The streaming giant on Thursday garnered the most nominations with 42, including […]
Night two of Jeopardy: The Greatest of All Time on Wednesday improved on the big audience for Tuesday’s premiere and helped Modern Family capture its biggest same-day tune-in in more than two years.
In a keynote address Wednesday afternoon, Linda Yaccarino, chairman of advertising and partnerships at NBCUniversal came to CES to talk about how technology is shaping the future of entertainment, but concluded that artificial intelligence won’t be able to replace talent, creativity and storytelling.
Buck Henry, the legendary screenwriter behind The Graduate and What’s Up, Doc? who also co-created Get Smart and was a regular presence in the early years of Saturday Night Live, died Wednesday night of a heart attack at Cedars-Sinai Health Center in Los Angeles. He was 89.
While it’s not quite fourth down and long for broadcast networks, lackluster scripted-programming ratings and cord-cutting woes are weighing heavily on the industry’s collective consciousness. So it’s particularly good news that one broadcast mainstay seems to have regained its mojo: live football. After a bumpy year or two, the 2019 NFL regular season grabbed an average of 16.7 million TV and digital viewers, according to the league, marking 5% growth from the prior year.
