BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Showtime says that its acclaimed series “Homeland” will end in 2019 with its eighth season. The show’s conclusion was announced Monday by Showtime Networks chief […]
WNBJ Jackson Launches CW On Subchannel
The SagamoreHill NBC affiliate in Jackson, Tenn., is adding CW fare plus a 9 p.m. newscast on ch. 39.2.
‘Big Brother’ Again Tops Quiet Sunday
Big Brother topped a Sunday night that was largely filled with broadcast repeats. Big Brother was steady with a 1.5 rating in adults 18-49 and 5.6 million viewers. CBS aired only repeats for the rest of the night.
Litton Entertainment today appointed long-term collaborator Bryan Curb the company’s chief creative officer. Curb will oversee the creative aesthetic of Litton content across multiple channels, including their network television series […]
Luis Silberwasser is exiting after nearly four years as president of Telemundo Networks. In addition, NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises also gave new leadership responsibilities of four key executives: Beau Ferrari, Mónica Gil, Peter Blacker and Ronald Day.
Tribune Broadcasting today renewed its eight Fox Broadcasting Co. affiliations: KCPQ Seattle, KDVR Denver, WJW Cleveland, KTVI St. Louis, WDAF Kansas City, KSTU Salt Lake City, WITI Milwaukee and WGHP Greensboro, N.C. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
Exclusives
FX Networks CEO John Landgraf sees no end in sight to the growth of scripted TV production. During his Friday appearance at the Television Critics Association press tour, Landgraf gave a midseason update to his company’s annual tally of dramas, comedies and limited series in productions, and the arrow is still pointing up, as it has been since 2010. Through the first six months of 2018, 319 scripted series have been produced, up 5% from the same period a year ago. Much of the growth is propelled by the robust output of Netflix and other streaming services.
CBS canceled the drama in late May, but left it on the air to play out the remainder of its third season. Those summer episodes, however, performed pretty consistently in the ratings, well enough for CBS Entertainment president Kelly Kahl to tell reporters Sunday at the Television Critics Association’s summer press tour that he’s taking a second look at the show.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Charlotte Rae, who played a wise and patient housemother to a brood of teenage girls on the long-running sitcom “The Facts of Life” during a career […]
“When he [Brad Kern] was not fired … it seemed to me that Les must be enabling this kind of behavior.”
Dish Network says the removal of Univision Communications’ TV networks — from both its satellite and over-the-top Sling TV services — might be for good. On June 30, after Dish and Univision failed to come to terms on a contract renewal, more than 60 Univision-owned stations and cable channels including UniMás and Galavision went dark on Dish’s pay-TV platforms. “This removal could become permanent,” Dish said in a 10-Q regulatory filing Friday.
The comedian, former Oscar host and actor has signed on to star in the officially greenlit fourth season of Noah Hawley’s FX anthology Fargo. The role marks his first full-time TV gig since UPN’s Everybody Hates Chris.
NBC’s NFL Preseason Game Tops Thursday
This year’s first preseason game, between the Chicago Bears and the Baltimore Ravens, drew a 1.8 rating in adults 18-49 and 6.5 million viewers, though due to the nature of live sports those numbers could be subject to adjustment later today. That still is down from the 2.3 and 7.8 million last year’s game drew initially, though that game came in at a 2.2 and 7.7 million when the final numbers were tabulated.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — And your host, Rob Lowe. The actor will preside over “Mental Samurai,” a new game show on Fox to air during the upcoming season, the […]
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Fox is developing two potential new series for its “24” drama franchise. Fox executives Dana Walden and Gary Newman told a TV critics’ meeting Thursday […]
The reality dating program produced by Vertical Networks, is said to be the first show to move from Snapchat to broadcast TV.
Fox TV Group chairmen and CEOs Dana Walden and Gary Newman on Thursday outlined more of the vision for “New Fox”, the Fox Broadcast Co. after its sister studio 20th Century Fox TV, along with other key 21st Century Fox assets, move to Disney in the pending acquisition. “We want to be [studios] first choice among the four networks,” Walden said. “We will be the only network to be operating completely independently. It will have the ability to pick up the best shows without any studio agenda.”
KMSP’s ‘The Jason Show’ To Stream On Hulu
‘The Originals’ Series Finale Holds Steady
The series finale of The Vampire Diaries spinoff The Originals closed out steady in the Wednesday overnight ratings. Airing at 9 p.m., The Originals drew a 0.3 rating in adults 18-49 and 870,000 viewers, even with last week’s episode and on par with what the show has averaged in Live+Same Day during its final season. The CW has already ordered the spinoff series Legacies, which will launch this October. Earlier on CW, Burden of Truth (0.2, 830,000) was also even.
