Donald Trump’s inauguration on Friday reached an average 30.6 million viewers, down from the 37.7 million who tuned in for President Obama’s 2009 swearing in (and event eclipsed only by the 41.8 million who tuned into see Ronald Reagan take the oath of office in 1981). This year’s inauguration ranked fifth overall among total viewers, […]
The percentage of U.S. homes getting live TV channels through antenna has nearly doubled since 2013, to 15 percent of homes in 2016, according to Parks & Associates. Several factors contributed to the decline of pay-TV subs, said Brett Sappington, senior director of research for Park Associates, “including the growth in the OTT video market, […]
Midway through the first season, Food Network picked up 13 additional episodes of new primetime series Ginormous Food, starring comedian and food fanatic Josh Denny traveling the country sampling the greatest and biggest dishes and learning about the stories and people behind them. To date nearly 7.6 million people have tuned into Ginormous Food.
Discovery Channel cast Golden Globe and two-time Emmy winner Jane Lynch (Glee, Hollywood Game Night) as former US Attorney General Janet Reno in its upcoming scripted series Manifesto, set to air this year. Production on the series begins in Atlanta on January 30.
NBC is reviving Will & Grace for a 10-episode limited run. Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, Sean Hayes and Megan Mullally will reprise their Emmy-winning roles, and original series creators Max Mutchnick and David Kohan will act as showrunners and executive producers. James Burrows, who directed every episode of the show during its initial 1998-2006 run, […]
A+E Networks and lifestyle retailer HSN are teaming for a “See Now, Buy Now” branded integration for Lifetime original movie Beaches. HSN home products will be featured in the film, and be shoppable via a co-branded web site. “This partnership with HSN shows that brand integrations can live organically outside of the traditional product-placement model […]
Jessica Biel will star in and exec produce anthology series The Sinner, based on the book of the same name, for USA. Biel plays a mother who commits shocking acts of violence; Bill Pullman portrays an investigator drawn into her journey of self-discovery.
E!’s The Arrangement, about an actress who has a Cinderella-like date with a famous movie star, then is offered a $10 million marriage contract tying her to a secretive self-help organization, “really isn’t” based on Tom Cruise/Katie Holmes/Scientology, insisted EP Jonathan Abrahams at the TCA winter press tour on Tuesday. Instead, the 10-parter is based […]
BBC America, AMC and SundanceTV will simulcast the premiere of BBCA’s Planet Earth II on Saturday, February 18 at 9p. The following five episodes will air Saturdays on BBCA. This won’t be the first time the show celebrating the planet has an audience – half the population of the UK watched it on BBC One […]
Dakota Fanning is set to star in The Alienist, a psychological thriller based on the best-selling novel by Caleb Carr. Set in the Gilded Age of New York City in 1896, series is slated to premiere in late 2017 on TNT.
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