NBC Sports Group reports that its presentation of Sunday’s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs race from Kansas Speedway averaged a Total Audience Delivery (TAD) of 2.77 million viewers across NBCSN and NBC Sports Digital platforms, according to Nielsen and Adobe Analytics. The NBCSN-only telecast averaged 2.76 million viewers, up 31% over NBCSN’s prior three […]
Showtime ordered a sixth season of Ray Donovan, and is moving the action from LA to NYC for the next run. “For our show, creatively, New York is exciting,” said showrunner David Hollander. “Fashion, media, finance, theatre, culture. It’s going to present new challenges for Ray Donovan which mean new opportunities for us as dramatists.” Season […]
Bebe Neuwirth is leaving CBS drama Madam Secretary, the actress announced via Twitter: “So grateful to @CBS for accepting my request to depart @MadamSecretary and writing a beautiful exit for me.” On Sunday’s show Neuwirth’s character, Chief of Staff to the Secretary of State, told her boss, “I love public service, but it’s gotten so […]
Snapchat parent Snap Inc. may have grossly overestimated the demand for Spectacles, the video-recording glasses the company introduced last year. The Information reports that hundreds of thousands of unsold Spectacles are currently sitting in a Chinese warehouse. According to the report, Snap ordered an overabundance of units due to a deceptively strong surge of early […]
This could wind up amounting to nothing – or it could be big, big deal. Facebook has been undertaking a new test in six countries: Instead of placing publishers’ content in users’ main News Feeds, the platform is shunting those stories off to the harder-to-find Explore Feed. The upshot: Users have to head to the […]
It appears to be closing time for ESPN and Barstool Sports. ESPN released a statement yesterday that it had pulled out of a 10-day-old partnership with Barstool Sports. The move comes after a single airing of the late night talk show Barstool Van Talk and criticism for the partnership, including from ESPN’s Sam Ponder, who […]
The NFL locked in Justin Timberlake to headline the Pepsi Super Bowl LII Halftime Show taking place on NBC at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minnesota on Feb. 4, 2018. The booking will mark Timberlake’s third time performing on the Super Bowl Halftime stage, giving him the distinction of having the most appearances by an individual […]
A spokesman for former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly slammed a New York Times article that appeared Saturday. The Times “printed leaked information provided by anonymous sources that is out of context, false, defamatory, and obviously designed to embarrass Bill O’Reilly and to keep him from competing in the marketplace,” said Mark Fabiani. The Times reported […]
CBS gave a pilot production commitment to a reboot of Magnum P.I., from master of revivals Peter Lenkov (writer of CBS updates Hawaii Five-0 and MacGyver), and Davis Entertainment (The Blacklist). CBS Television Studios is co-producing with Universal Television. The Tom Selleck original aired from 1980-1988.
Democratic senators Amy Klobuchar and Mark Warner unveiled new legislation that would require online political ads to follow the same disclosure rules as those that run on TV, radio, or satellite platforms. The proposal comes in the wake of revelations that Facebook, Twitter and Google ran Russian-bought political ads during the 2016 election. The bill, […]
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