ESPN and ABC averaged 1.99 million viewers for its combined 101 game NBA telecasts this season, according to Nielsen. Viewership was even with last season and up five percent from two seasons ago. In addition, the NBA Saturday Primetime on ABC series averaged 3,414,000 viewers for its eight-game slate, up one percent from 3,389,000 viewers […]
CBS renewed its longest running scripted drama, NCIS, for a 17th season. The re-order comes on the heels of NCIS star and executive producer Mark Harmon’s new contract with the series. While franchise offshoots NCIS: Los Angeles and NCIS: New Orleans have yet to be picked up, it’s expected they will be.
Jake Gyllenhaal is set to star in and executive produce limited HBO series Lake Success, based on the book by Gary Shteyngart. The project, which has been put into development and marks Gyllenhall’s TV acting debut, hails from the actor and Riva Marker’s Nine Stories and Endeavor Content. Shteyngart and Tom Spezialy (Watchmen) are set […]
Discovery and Magnolia, the lifestyle brand led by Chip and Joanna Gaines, made their joint media venture official. The company, to be named soon, will comprise a linear television network and TV Everywhere app to be unveiled in summer 2020, as well as a subscription streaming service to debut at a later date. The Gaineses […]
Investigation Discovery gave a green light to Twisted Love (wt), a new original series exec-produced by Khloe Kardashian and the production team behind ID’s current Twisted Sisters series. The new six-parter explores what happens when love and affection spiral into a web of obsession and jealousy. Series is produced by 44 Blue Productions, a Red […]
FX Networks snapped up off-network rights to Fox series Family Guy, starting with season 16 (2017-18). The animated comedy launches on FXX on April 16, and will air Tuesdays (9-11p), Thursdays (12-1a) and Sundays (7-9p), as well as on new corporate sib Freeform in once-a-week, hour-long blocks starting April 17.
Sara Gilbert, creator and exec producer of CBS daytimer The Talk, is leaving the show at season’s end. The mother of three and producer and star of ABC’s The Conners explained during yesterday’s show that she realized she could not “do it all.” The announcement comes seven months after Julie Chen left in the wake […]
More news at the summit included an order for a third spinoff of AMC’s The Walking Dead, run by TWD’s Matt Negrete and co-created by chief content officer Scott M. Gimple. “We’re thrilled that the Dead will keep walking into a new corner of the post-apocalyptic world, a corner that will present stories and characters […]
BBC America ordered season three of Killing Eve just after the launch of its sophomore run, now simulcast on AMC and BBC America. Sarah Barnett, President of Entertainment Networks, saved the announcement for the end of AMC Networks’ “Story Matters” 2019 summit on Monday. Suzanne Heathcote will serve as new lead writer for the series. […]
Meanwhile, TBS’ Full Frontal with Samantha Bee’s second Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner will air Saturday, April 27 at 10p. Featuring Bee and celebrity guests, the special will bring together journalists, media representatives and other proponents of the First Amendment. “It’s bigger than just the Free Press this time around,” Bee said in a […]
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