Programming

This season brings several shows that are remaking themselves after actors who were accused of acting reprehensibly were fired.

Game of Thrones is back in this year’s Emmy race after a one-year absence as it tries to reclaim its title from The Handmaid’s Tale in the drama categories, and three-time winner Veep has dropped out for the year, vacating the Outstanding Comedy Series for several first and second year shows, including Atlanta and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. These are our best guesses in all 26 categories that will be handed out on Monday’s show.

Big Brother delivered a ratings win for CBS Thursday night, although its current numbers may be a little bit inflated by an NFL pre-emption. Thursday’s only other original programming on the networks was on ABC. Match Game posted a season-high 0.8 and the season finale of Take Two earned a 0.5, its best rating since Aug. 9 and slightly above its season average of 0.4.

Twenty-five years after wrapping its seven-season run, ABC has handed out a script commitment to what is being billed as a “sequel” to the CBS comedy from original series creator Linda Bloodworth Thomason and executive producer Harry Thomason.

NBC’s World of Dance closed its second season on Wednesday, Sept. 12, with ratings that matched recent outings. The finale drew a 1.1 rating among adults 18-49, in line with the show’s average since moving to Wednesdays in late July.

TV dramas about brutal drug lords helped give Telemundo an edge over Univision in primetime in the soon-to-wrap TV season, recently released ratings reveal.

As legalized sports gambling rolls out across the nation, the people who make sports television are eager to help with a series of shows explicitly about a pursuit that has long been a major — but usually unstated — reason to watch sports TV in the first place.

CBS is in a predicament similar to what Fox News Channel faced when Roger Ailes was forced out in 2016 following sexual misconduct charges, felled by #MeToo before it was a movement. In both cases, a creative enterprise thoroughly dominated by one person was suddenly left to fend for itself.

TV has reached superstore proportions: Streaming, cable and broadcast are on track to surpass the record 487 shows they fielded last year, with 300-plus shows already out by mid-2018 per an ongoing FX tally. The fall TV season officially kicks off next week and even avant-garde streaming platforms, which release ambitious shows nonstop, are part of the traditional September hoopla once owned by broadcast networks.

In his new role, William Burton, former GM of ABC-owned KGO San Francisco, is responsible for the creation and production of all syndicated programming across ABC platforms. His duties include overseeing the development of a new daytime talk show with Tamron Hall for 2019.

Linda Bloodworth Thomason, one of CBS’s biggest hitmakers, reveals the disgraced mogul kept her shows off the air for seven years: “People asked me for years, ‘What happened to you?’ Les Moonves happened to me.”

The next-to-last performance episode of America’s Got Talent ticked up in the ratings Tuesday. So did the Bachelor in Paradise finale, which recorded the show’s best Tuesday numbers of the summer.

It surges 12% from the prior week to a nearly two-month high 2.8 live-plus-same-day national Nielsen rating and topped the chat pack for the 104^th straight week.