Beyonce will appear on HBO in a series of ten four-minute segments culled from her Mrs. Carter concert tour. Beyonce: X10 is set for Sundays at 8:55p, offering a boost to the seventh and final season of True Blood, launching June 22 at 9p. The singer’s Life Is But a Dream doc aired on HBO […]
NBC’s playing hardball, pitting a new episode of summer hit America’s Got Talent (instead of the planned repeat) against the 9p-11p premiere of ABC singing competition Rising Star on Sunday. NBC is also powering up the night with a “Showstopping Sunday” stunt, featuring attempts to break world records (jumping over moving cars, diving into fire), […]
Carson Daly (The Voice) and Mindy Kaling (The Mindy Project) will lend an assist to Television Academy chairman and CEO Bruce Rosenblum for the reveal of the 66th Primetime Emmys nominees, selected for the first time via online voting. The announcement will be streamed live on Emmys.com on Thursday, July 10 at 8:40a. New key […]
FX is offering NYCers “random acts of upgrade” today through Tuesday, June 24, when drama series Tyrant, featuring a family’s opulent lifestyle, premieres. “Upgraders” are being deployed city-wide to pluck commuters from buses for chauffeured SUV rides, and exchange tuna salad picnics for gourmet fare. LA’s not left out in the cold – Spike TV […]
Being the wind beneath the next American Idol winner’s wings could mean big bucks. Each contestant in season 14 of the Fox singing competition will have the chance to name a “True Believer,” someone who encouraged them to try out; whoever gave the winner the nudge takes home $50,000. Official rules here.
Up against the fifth and final NBA game on ABC, HBO’s Game of Thrones drew 7.1 million viewers at 9p for its season four finale. That’s up 32 percent from the season three finale and just under the epic fantasy’s May 4 season high of 7.2 million. Over two airings, the drama delivered 9.3 million […]
The second half of season five of MTV’s Teen Mom 2 returns on a new night, Wednesday, July 16 at 10p. On tap for the docu-series: another round of legal issues, health problems and broken relationships.
With the gap narrowing in the A25-54 demo between Today and ABC’s Good Morning America, the NBC morning show struck a deal with Matt Lauer that will keep him onboard for “multiple” years. “There is nobody I would rather have in the Today anchor chair than Matt,” said Deborah Turness, president of NBC News.
Fox yanked I Wanna Marry Harry and Riot from its Tuesday sked, replacing them with repeats of comedies Family Guy, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, New Girl and The Mindy Project. Harry and Riot pulled a .4 rating/1 share on Tuesday, the lowest ratings ever for an original series on the Big Four. Fox will make unaired eps […]
USA picked a second season of its first original half-hour comedy series, Sirens, averaging 1.62 million viewers for its freshman run. The show “resonated with a broad fan base, and we are excited to grow this new audience further,” said USA president Chris McCumber.