T Group Productions has partnered with comedian Wanda Sykes and Page Hurwitz and their production company Push It Productions (Last Comic Standing) for competition format, Throw Mama from the Game Show, for the US television marketplace. The companies will be pitching the adult comedy project to broadcast and premium outlets this week.
The 2018 Radio Disney Music Awards are making a move. The event, which has taken place in April for the past five years, this year will be Friday, June 22 in a new location – the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. A telecast of the sixth annual show will be presented on Saturday, June 23 on […]
Alexa & Katie, Netflix’s first tween sitcom, will be returning for a second season. Season 1 of the series, about about two best friends eagerly anticipating the start of their freshman year of high school, launched March 23 and stars Paris Berelc (Mighty Med, Lab Rats: Elite Force), newcomer Isabel May and Tiffani Thiessen (White […]
Broadcast plans for the Stanley Cup Playoffs are locked and loaded for the NHL, with three first-round games hitting the ice tomorrow night on NBCSN and CNBC including a Game 1 doubleheader on NBCSN at 7p with Flyers/Penguins followed by Kings//Knights. CNBC’s Game 1 coverage also starts at 7p with Wild/Jets. In order to televise […]
CBS Sports’ final-round coverage of the 2018 Masters on Sunday, saw an average audience of 13.027 million television viewers on the network, an uptick of 18% over last year’s final round, according to Nielsen live plus same day fast national ratings. Coverage earned an average national household rating/share of 7.9/18, an increase of 16% from […]
Discovery also ordered Valley of the Kings, an excavation docu-series set in Egypt’s burial ground of the pharaohs. Valley is slated to premiere later this year on Discovery and Science Channel.
The first episode of MTV’s Jersey Shore Family Vacation scored a 2.88 Live+SD rating among P18-34, with the second ep growing 5% to a 3.03 in the demo, averaging a 2.96 to surpass the final season’s average 2.82 in 2012. It also more than doubled the rating of the original Jersey Shore debut in 2009 […]
At three-years old, The Players’ Tribune, owned by Derek Jeter, continues to make waves, announcing its expansion into Europe in recent weeks, as company officials look to lock in deals with networks, online streaming services and other content distributors. With offices in Barcelona and London opening this month, the company has now raised $58 million […]
With a bevy of stars in contention, the Masters surged for its broadcast partners last week, heading into Sunday’s final round. Saturday saw CBS Sports lay claim to a 24% spike over the same day in 2017, with an average Nielsen household metered market rating/share of 5.7/13. Top markets were led by Ft Myers-Naples at […]
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