The Bachelor scored very promising ratings for its season premiere Monday, opening well ahead of last season’s debut and giving ABC a victory among adults 18-49 in primetime. America’s Got Talent: The Champions, while still solid, came in lower than last year on NBC.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The NFL wild-card playoff games were the most watched opening weekend in four years. The four games averaged 30.5 million viewers, which was a 7% increase […]
Golden Globes Decline With Ricky Gervais
The Golden Globe Awards came down some vs. last year’s broadcast, but the show still put up healthy numbers compared to the rest of network TV this season. The Ricky Gervais-hosted awards drew an average of 14.76 million viewers and a 3.8 rating among adults 18-49 in the fast nationals, down 6% in viewers and about 16% in the demo from preliminary figures in 2019.
Victor Cruz has joined E!’s weekday morning news show, Pop of the Morning. The former football star will be co-hosting the 11 a.m. show alongside Lilliana Vazquez and Scott Tweedie, who also recently joined the E! Cruz […]
The growth in streaming platforms, including Apple and Disney Plus, is a dominant media story. But while streamers performed well at the Globes with Netflix’s The Crown and Amazon’s Fleabag (starring creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge, above) they didn’t shut out cable contenders including FX’s Fosse/Verdon and HBO’s Succession.
At AT&T spokesman said a new retransmission consent agreement was reached Sunday, and stations are returning to DirecTV and AT&T in time for the NFL Playoffs and Golden Globes, among other programming.
Mission Broadcasting said its stations in 18 markets are no longer being carried by Dish Network because of a retransmission consent dispute. The stations were removed by Dish without warning Friday night, Mission said. The broadcaster said it had offered to extend its current agreement so viewers wouldn’t miss the beginning of the NFL playoff but Dish turned it down. Dish said the opposite happened, blaming Mission for the signals being pulled.
Jeopardy‘s all-time top money winners Brad Rutter, Ken Jennings and James Holzhauer are facing off for ultimate bragging rights. The winner gets $1 million, with $250,000 for each runner-up in the contest that airs on consecutive nights beginning 8 p.m. ET Tuesday on ABC.
Fox’s ‘Deputy’ Makes Decent Debut
Deputy, Fox’s new cop drama, netted a decent debut Thursday night, bringing in a 0.7 rating in the key adult 18-49 demographic and 4.6 million total viewers. For context, the network’s Prodigal Son notched a 0.96 and 4 million viewers when it debuted in the fall, and CBS’s Carol’s Second Act and Bob Hearts Abishola scored around 6 million viewers apiece.
The group owner is now using Comscore’s local TV currency exclusively in 83 of its 93 markets.
On the eve of the NFL playoffs, which kick off Saturday, the league released statistics about TV and digital viewership during the regular season, saying viewership is at a three-year high. The season turned out to have the most tune-in of any since the 2016 campaign, with more than 182 million people sampling a game during the year.
According to a newly unsealed report from a PBS-hired external investigator, former talk-show host Tavis Smiley’s alleged misconduct dates back decades and spans inappropriate sexual comments and touching, verbal abuse, as well as sexual relationships with subordinates and guests on his show.
A syndicated talk show starring RuPaul won’t go forward for a national launch. The show, featuring the RuPaul’s Drag Race host and executive producer interviewing celebrities and newsmakers, had a three-week trial run in the summer on seven Fox stations.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The son of television producer Jenji Kohan, who created the series “Örange Is the New Black,” died in a New Year’s Eve ski accident in […]
Strong Showing By Syndie’s Top 2 Rookies
In the week ending Dec. 22, Tamron Hall surged 11% from the prior frame while The Kelly Clarkson Show climbed 15% to a 1.5, its highest rating since its strong premiere week in early September, even though it was in reruns for most of the stanza.
Ten months after he chafed under AT&T’s takeover of the network, he reboots himself as a producer in a five-year deal with Apple TV Plus.
Fox’s ‘Flirty Dancing’ Takes A Tumble
Without the benefit of an NFL lead-in, the second episode of Fox’s Flirty Dancing took a sizable ratings hit on Wednesday. The unscripted series, in which singles learn half of a dance routine then meet their partner for the first time when they perform, had a decent debut on Dec. 29, when it scored a 1.0 rating in adults 18-49 and 3.46 million following Fox’s NFL doubleheader. In its regular home, however, the show drew a 0.4 in the 18-49 demographic and 1.81 million viewers.
