NBC’s Sunday Night Football saw a Cowboys/Texans OT battle hand the franchise with its fourth consecutive week of double digit increases over 2017 numbers, with a 12.4/22 in overnight Nielsen numbers. That is up 17% from last year’s Week 5 and marks the best Week 5 overnight for NBC SNF since 2015.
21st Century Fox execs Peter Rice, Dana Walden, John Landgraf and Gary E. Knell are making the move to Disney. Rice has been named chairman, Walt Disney Television and co-chair, Disney Media Networks, while Walden will serve as chairman, Disney Television Studios and ABC Entertainment. Landgraf is chairman of FX Networks and FX Productions, and […]
Comic-Con: Star Trek: Discovery fans got a first look at Spock (Ethan Peck), and learned season two will take off Thursday, January 17 on CBS All Access….Syfy announced the launch date for school for assassins drama Deadly Class: Wednesday, January 16 at 10p. Series set in world of late 80s counter culture is based on […]
Naomi Watts will play former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson opposite Russell Crowe as Roger Ailes in Showtime’s upcoming limited series about Fox News founder Ailes….Justin Long (Dodgeball) will recur on ABC’s Roseanne spin-off The Conners, set to debut Tuesday, October 16 at 8p, as a love interest for Darlene (Sara Gilbert)…. ….Comedy Central Roaster […]
The Yankees/Red Sox continued their history as a viewership heavyweight, as TBS’ ALDS Game 2 on Saturday night averaged 5.1 million viewers to rank as the top program in primetime television. That number ranks as the most watched LDS on Saturday night since 2008, and peaked with 5.8 million viewers from 10-10:15p. Average viewership was […]
A Texas win in the Red River Showdown propelled FOX Sports to the top spot as the highest-rated sporting event on TV, according to the company’s Nielsen numbers. The 48-45 win over Oklahoma drew a 4.3 metered market rating, to rank as the network’s highest-rated college football game so far this season.
Meg Ryan is set to executive produce and possibly star in The Obsolescents, in development at NBC. Mystery comedy, from writer Andrew Gottlieb (The Dangerous Book for Boys), Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Video and Universal TV, is set a New Jersey suburb where the façade of peace and civility is disrupted by the stunning death of […]
TLC secured the rights to the latest royal wedding. The network will be the exclusive U.S. broadcast partner for the upcoming nuptials of Princess Eugenie of York and her partner of eight years, Jack Brooksbank, on Friday, October 12. The three-hour, commercial-free feed starts at 4.25a and will be immediately followed by an encore broadcast […]
Baseball’s good news continues, as MLB Network recorded a 6% increase for overall viewership in both total day and in prime time compared to 2017 as the regular season wrapped up. Also, every daily studio show saw year-over-year viewership growth. That included MLB Central, up +13%, and High Heat with Christopher Russo, with its best […]
Twitter and the National Women’s Hockey League (NWHL) today announced a partnership to live stream games for the second consecutive season. The “Twitter NWHL Game of the Week” will feature 16 regular season games, the 2019 NWHL All-Star Game and the Isobel Cup Playoffs. The games are produced by the NWHL and the streams are […]
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