A whopping $128 million ruling in arbitration came after Fox licensed the Emily Deschanel series to Hulu for very little. Next week, the parties appear in open court for the next round of the dispute.
James Holzhauer eclipsed the $1 million mark in winnings Tuesday on his 14th appearance. Not only has he won $131,127 to shatter the program’s previous one-day record of $77,000, he already has the top five one-day scores in the history of a game that has aired regularly since 1984.
Mueller Report Release Not A Big Draw
The ABC, CBS and NBC broadcast networks and the cable’s CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC collectively averaged just 12.7 million viewers last Thursday when the redacted report on Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election was put out. CBS easily won the week in primetime, averaging 6 million viewers. ABC had 4.4 million viewers, NBC had 3.6 million, Fox had 2.5 million, Ion Television has 1.3 million, Telemundo had 1.25 million, Univision had 1.17 million and the CW had 840,000.
“The empire is accidental,” says Seth MacFarlane as he sits atop the sort of rarefied showbiz kingdom — television shows, movies, acting roles, musical albums, merchandise — that only a handful of entertainment industry titans such as George Lucas and Walt Disney have known. MacFarlane, who is set to receive a star April 23 on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, says there was never a plan to build such a legacy, only to work on things that make him happy.
Exclusives
The Emmy-winning writer, co-creator of NYPD Blue and creator of Deadwood says he began to suspect he might have the neurological disease several years ago.
‘American Idol’ Hits All-Time Lows
The ABC series reaches an unwelcome milestone, falling to all-time lows in both adults 18-49 and total viewers.
Holzhauer Shoots ‘Jeopardy’ To No. 1 In Games
His single-day victories boosted the game show by 5% to a 6.4 in the week ending April 14, while Judge Judy earned a 6.7, keeping it at the top of the overall syndication chart for a 40th consecutive week. That marked the longest streak of any show at the top of the syndication ratings in 15 years.
It began on a whim, a nutty idea in 1980 to provide weekday afternoon programming to a fledgling sports cable network that suddenly had a voracious appetite for content. Televise the NFL draft? Who’d watch that?
LOS ANGELES (AP) — As “The Young and the Restless” head writer Josh Griffith screened the episode in which Neil Winters’ family learns of his death, the tears began to […]
CBS Sports Network will broadcast 40 WNBA games beginning next month when the season opens. The Minnesota Lynx vs. the Chicago Sky on May 25 will be the first game on the CBS Sports Network.
As expected, CBS has renewed NCIS: Los Angeles and NCIS: New Orleans the 2019-2020 season. NCIS: Los Angeles will be back for an eleventh season, NCIS: New Orleans for a sixth. The pickups follow the recent renewal of the mothership series NCIS as CBS is keeping the crime procedural franchise intact. The casts of both NCIS spinoffs are expected to return.
‘American Idol’ Scores Easy Win On Easter
The ABC singing competition is the only broadcast show to climb above a 1.0 in adults 18-49 on a quiet night for the networks.
Heartland Diginet Launches On WHNE Detroit
The Heartland Network, Luken Communications’ country music and lifestyle multicast network, has made its debut in Detroit market (DMA 14) on Tait Broadcasting’s WHNE-LD (ch. 14.12). WHNE already broadcasts Luken’s Retro […]
Five Myths About Reality Television
Reality television has been around since the dawn of the medium, as popular radio shows such as This Is Your Life, Candid Microphone and The Original Amateur Hour made their way onto the box in the 1950s. Today, in what’s been called the era of “peak TV,” the genre remains popular and profitable. According to Nielsen, it accounts for half of all programming on broadcast and cable, and it generates $6 billion in annual revenue. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t widely misunderstood.
A survey finds that 72% of viewers recalled ads and 40% said they paused to learn more about a product or service. Fifty-four percent preferred a cheaper or free ad-supported service compared to a more expensive ad-free service.
‘Big Bang Theory,’ ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Hit Lows
Thursday’s two top shows suffered ratings lows, as The Big Bang Theory and Grey’s Anatomy both drew their smallest adults 18-49 numbers ever.
Shortly after long-time executive producer Rob Silverstein was let go at Access and Access Live, anchor Natalie Morales is following him out the door. Morales is out at Access, but is staying with NBC News as Today West Coast anchor and Dateline correspondent.
Major League Baseball won’t get a shot at controlling the nation’s regional sports TV networks, after all. MLB has resigned itself to becoming a minority investor — as Disney wraps up its auction of the 21 RSNs — giving up on a dream to become the operator of a nationwide chain of sports-focused TV channels.
NBC is switching up its Tuesday primetime block again by swapping freshman drama The Village and Season 16 of The Voice. The scripted show will now occupy the 8 p.m. slot and the alternative series will take over the 9 o’clock hour. New Amsterdam will remain at 10 p.m.
Woody Harrelson, Marisa Tomei, Jamie Foxx and Wanda Sykes will star in re-creations of episodes from the influential Norman Lear sitcoms born in the 1970s. Lear and Jimmy Kimmel are hosting the ABC primetime special airing next month
Why Viacom Must Merge With CBS
Hank Price: The relationship between Viacom and CBS is a long and complicated one.
