Programming

The 9 p.m. episode of Marlon drew a 1.2 rating in adults 18-49 and 5.1 million viewers, up from a 1.1 and 4.6 million viewers in the same time slot last week for a 9% increase in the demo and 11% in total viewers. The 9:30 episode drew a 1.0 and 3.8 million viewers, making it approximately even with the 9:30 episode last week (1.0, 3.7 million)

Career and transition coach and entertainment marketing executive Pat Pattison has teamed up with TV Guestpert productions to create a series of 90-second news segments called Next Steps with Pat […]

Miramax, the onetime indie film powerhouse founded by the Weinstein brothers, has laid off 20 employees in a second round of downsizing this year under a new chief executive. The Santa Monica film and television company cut executives in the sales and finance departments, as well as workers in support roles, according to a person with knowledge of the matter who was not authorized to comment publicly.

The streaming services are taking over the Emmys. Four years after House of Cards opened up the major categories to online content providers with three wins, Netflix, Hulu and Amazon have hit an all-time high with a combined total of 126 nominations. But how did we get here?

Sharon Hall has stepped down from her post as president of Endemol Shine Studios, the scripted division of Endemol Shine North America. Hall, who had run the production unit since joining the company in January 2016, is transitioning into a producer role at the studio. The move comes a week or so after former Spike TV head of programming Sharon Levy was tapped as president of unscripted and scripted television for Endemol Shine North America.

The new contracts cover stations in South Carolina, Texas, Nevada, Georgia and Indiana.

There is a big executive change at Fox Broadcast Co. just as the buying season is kicking into high gear. David Madden is stepping down as entertainment president and is in negotiations for the top programming job at AMC. At Fox, Madden will be succeeded by 20th Century Fox EVP Development Michael Thorn who will report to Fox Television Group Chairmen and CEOs Gary Newman and Dana Walden.

Tuesday’s installment of ABC’s Bachelor in Paradise was up in both key ratings measures, with the episode featuring an interview with Corinne Olympios. According to Nielsen, Bachelor in Paradise averaged a 1.3 rating in adults 18-49 and 4.3 million total viewers, up approximately 13% in both measures from the previous Tuesday episode. Olympios was supposed to be a contestant on this season of the reality dating series, but dropped out after an incident with fellow contestant DeMario Jackson.

The satellite provider is up against a 11:59 P.M. deadline today with Raycom and is also facing losing two Dispatch Broadcast Group stations on Friday.

The MTV Video Music Awards tallied 5.68 million viewers across 10 different networks on Sunday for a show dominated by Kendrick Lamar’s coronation and the debut of Taylor Swift’s new video. That’s down from the 6.5 million people who watched the VMAs in 2016, and the 9.8 million who watched the year before. Among the broadcast networks, NBC won the week in primetime, averaging 5.5 million viewers. CBS had 4.2 million, ABC had 3.1 million, Fox had 2.4 million, Telemundo had 1.5 million, Univision had 1.4 million, Ion Television had 1.3 million and the CW had 890,000.

This fall’s freshman slate from the Big Five resonates with a clear message: Creatively, the broadcast networks are fed up trying to compete for new-and-different with their cable and streaming rivals, and have thrown in the towel. Surprise is off the table for the broadcast nets, which have succumbed to formulas and spinoffs. Comfort TV is the rule.

ABC’s Bachelor in Paradise saw a big enough jump in the Monday Nielsen overnight ratings to put it a nose beyond NBC’s American Ninja Warrior in the key demo. With both shows airing from 8-10 p.m., Bachelor in Paradise averaged a 1.7 rating in adults 18-49 and 5.6 million viewers. American Ninja Warrior drew a 1.5 rating and 6.4 million viewers. Bachelor was up by approximately 30% in the key demo and total viewers compared to last week, hitting a new high in both measures for the show’s fourth season.

Not only is the show the genre leader for 50 weeks straight, it grew weekly and also reported the largest annual rise of any show in the talk genre.

The new syndicated show will debut on Fox-owned stations and nationally on Sept. 11.

Even in a fractious era, the filmmaker still believes that his documentaries can bring every viewer in. “Documentaries are traditionally advocacy,” Burns says. He sees his films as acts of “emotional archeology” that aspire to be art. When Paula Kerger, PBS’s president, recently introduced Burns in Los Angeles, she quoted a tweet that described him as “the Marvel Studios of PBS.”

The network will close out the game show Candy Crush with a two-hour finale this Saturday, Sept. 2. The show has been airing on Sundays at 9 p.m., and had been expected to run through Sept. 10. The live-action game show, hosted by Mario Lopez, is based on the mobile game Candy Crush Saga.

CBS said it plans to use the takeover of Ten Network to launch its subscription streaming service CBS All Access in the Australian market.

NEW YORK (AP) — HBO’s “Game of Thrones” set yet another audience record Sunday with its seventh-season finale. Nielsen says an all-time high of 12.1 million viewers were tuned in […]

The creator of Orange Is the New Black and Weeds wants her shows to break viewers out of their bubbles.

More than 100 missing children and 100 most-wanted fugitives featured on the diginet have been returned home or captured.