‘It’s A Wonderful Life’ For NBC On Tues.
‘Twas the night before Christmas and all networks delivered a merry slate of reruns while NBC topped Tuesday night ratings with its traditional airing of Frank Capra’s 1946 holiday classic It’s A Wonderful Life. This year, it earned a 0.7 rating in the 18-49 adult demographic and 3.61 million tuned in to watch George Bailey realize he has so much to live for. The ratings are down from last year by a tenth.
Raw numbers for Modern Family, Law & Order: SVU and Hawaii Five-0 have dropped off considerably, but they’re still relatively strong shows compared to the rest of the broadcast landscape.
It’s impossible to know what, exactly, the future holds, particularly in an era of unprecedented transformation — but that’s never stopped smart people from prognosticating. As the decade draws to a close, The Hollywood Reporter asked more than 40 of them — from the heads of studios to the faces of movements — to weigh in with their predictions for the year ahead.
More top playwriting programs are preparing students to write for the small screen. And TV writers’ rooms are scouting those classrooms for new talent.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Allee Willis, a songwriter whose work included the Broadway musical “The Color Purple” as well as the theme song from the TV show “Friends” and Earth, […]
Judges Rule Despite Widespread Preemptions
Judge Judy, the ratings gold standard, scored a nosebleed-level 6.7, ruling over all courtrooms for a whopping 1,212 straight weeks in the session ending Dec. 15, despite the impeachment hearings coverage. And making the transition from talk show mainstay to court shot success look easy, Jerry Springer’s Judge Jerry has been the strongest of the new gavelers by far for 14 weeks in a row and shot up 25% to a 0.5 in the coveted women 25-54 demo.
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‘Price Is Right’ Special Helps CBS To Top
The only original show on the big four broadcast networks Monday, a Price Is Right primetime special, also drew the night’s biggest audience.
With the new year comes much new (or new-ish) TV — as well as no fewer than three series finales. Here’s a calendar of January 2020 return dates, season premieres, final-season launches and series debuts peppered with a sprinkling of finales and specials.
The last decade of television has changed the entertainment industry forever. Granted, that’s the kind of sweeping sentence that feels hyperbolic on the face of it, but make no mistake: The last 10 years’ explosion of television and streaming services has incontrovertibly transformed the medium.
From the unsolved mysteries of Lost to the happy ending of Jane the Virgin, many a prestige TV series ended in the last decade. Here are the most culturally significant ones.
The holiday season is a great time to be a kid, but December isn’t turning out to be a great time to be a cable TV network aimed at children. Ratings continue to plummet for the big kids networks, according to a report from Todd Juenger of Sanford C. Bernstein. The kids networks have been early victims of the shift to digital forms of entertainment, including streaming.
Harassment has long been a hurdle on the anchorwoman’s rise to the top. New projects, like The Morning Show and Bombshell, examine what she has to do to stay there.
Comcast, ViacomCBS, Discovery and Disney achieve a narrow victory on a preliminary injunction motion concerning the state’s novel à la carte mandate.
NBC’s Sunday Night Football scored ratings that were down a little week to week — but that won’t affect its status as the top-rated show on TV this season.
The latest installment — which featured the appearance of stars Chris Rock, Tracy Morgan, Dave Chappelle and more — currently ranks as the highest-scoring and most-viewed episode of the late-night sketch show since May 2017.
CBS will walk away from the SEC when its contract ends after the 2023 football season, and all indications are that the package will move to ESPN/ABC. CBS decided to exit the negotiations for college football’s most-watched TV package after making an aggressive bid in the neighborhood of $300 million per season — a massive increase from the $55 million it currently pays annually.
He was remembered as an innovator for creating QVC, short for “Quality Value Convenience.” It launched in 1986 and was available on nearly 60 cable channels. It now reaches 380 million homes around the world.
How Much Has TV Really Changed This Decade?
The 2010s were transformative, except for all the stuff that hasn’t changed a bit.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine actor and America’s Got Talent host Terry Crews will accept the honor at the 2020 NAB Show.
“I remember thinking, not in a morbid way, ‘I think this must be death. This must be what death is like,'” Sajak recalled during an interview with Good Morning America of the health scare that forced him to miss a taping of the game show.
The competition’s first airing on NBC in 23 years falls short of last year’s broadcast on ABC. NBC’s telecast of the competition, which crowned Virginia’s Camille Schrier as Miss America 2020, averaged 3.61 million viewers over its two hours and a 0.6 rating in adults 18-49. The demo rating tied for the lead on a night mostly populated with reruns, but was down from 0.7 for Miss America last year on ABC.
The Comcast NBCUniversal Foundation and NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations, a division of NBCUniversal, announced the return of their “Project Innovation” competitive grant challenge for a third consecutive year when applications […]
The programming will include original content produced locally by Gray’s WKYT Lexington, Ky.; WDTV-WVFX Clarksburg, W. Va.; WSAW Wausau, Wis.; WMTV Madison, Wis.; and KCRG Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The offerings will include Gray Television’s first direct-to-OTT broadcast.
Newly minted ViacomCBS is in talks to take a minority stake in the Miramax library, an asset that Viacom had previously kicked the tires on prior to its recent merger with CBS, insiders confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter.
