ABC kicked off the college football season on a high, drawing a 4.1 overnight rating for the 3:30p game on Saturday. That marks its highest score for an opening Saturday in that slot on record. The combined overnights for the network’s 3:30p & 8p games tallied the channel’s second highest for Opening Sat ever and […]
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A bad joke about Beyonce and Jay Z’s 2-year-old daughter has landed a BET producer in hot water. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the exec was suspended after a remark about Blue Ivy’s hair aired during the network’s music video countdown show, 106 & Park. Guest host Karrueche Tran made a comment about the child’s […]
Famed comedienne Joan Rivers was rushed to New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital, after she stopped breathing during throat surgery on Thursday. According to reports, the 81-year-old host of Fashion Police was undergoing surgery on her vocal chords at a clinic on the Upper East Side. E! later announced that River’s condition had been upgraded from […]
Netflix has broken a few barriers when it comes to original content and is doing so again. The company is expanding into France next month as part of its efforts to expand its business in continental Europe and so is creating an original series, Marseille, in French. It is described, CNET reports, as “an eight-episode […]
With only days to spare before the official season gets underway, Dish Network settled its dispute with Fox Sports 1 over a few college football games that nearly didn’t get broadcast over its network. Break out the hot dogs, sports fans.
The 2014 Little League World Series ranked as the most-watched ever on ESPN networks (ABC, ESPN and ESPN2 combined), according to Nielsen numbers. The average audience of 1,724,000 viewers was up 71% from 2013 via 54 games. In addition, the 2014 Little League World Series ranked as the highest-rated on ESPN networks since 2002 with […]
Dish Network has worked out differences with FOX Sports and will now carry college games set to run this weekend on FOX Sports 1. In a statement, Dish said that it will now “deliver the full lineup of Fox Sports 1,” to subscribers to its America’s Top 200 programming package and above. Earlier this week, […]
Pop-up shop Central Perk opens in NYC’s SoHo Wednesday, September 17 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the premiere of Friends – and the brew’s free for a month, courtesy of Warner Bros. and Eight O’Clock Coffee. In addition to contests and giveaways, look for appearances by James Michael Tyler, who played barista Gunther on […]
History released vintage posters promoting the Great Harry Houdini, recreated with Adrien Brody as the master of illusion. Houdini miniseries, with Brody in the title role, airs Monday, September 1 and Tuesday, September 2 at 9p.