As for ratings, ESPN opened its World Cup game slate with the Brazil/Croatia telecast on Thursday with an average 2.8 rating and 4.435 million viewers on ESPN. That rating is 49% higher than the opening match in 2010 while viewership is up 55%. The game also drew a record audience on WatchESPN, 1.1 million unique […]
Fox yanked I Wanna Marry Harry and Riot from its Tuesday sked, replacing them with repeats of comedies Family Guy, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, New Girl and The Mindy Project. Harry and Riot pulled a .4 rating/1 share on Tuesday, the lowest ratings ever for an original series on the Big Four. Fox will make unaired eps […]
USA picked a second season of its first original half-hour comedy series, Sirens, averaging 1.62 million viewers for its freshman run. The show “resonated with a broad fan base, and we are excited to grow this new audience further,” said USA president Chris McCumber.
Comcast confirmed that its “YouTube competitor” online video platform will launch by the end of the year. The service, to live on the X1 set-top-box, would include both user-generated content and big-budget programming. It will be available only to select users at first before it opens up to the public.
Sony announced its first original series based on the comic book with the same name, Powers. The show was originally developed for the FX network, and Sony Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton told the Wall Street Journal the production budget and quality would be similar to programs on HBO and Showtime. The series will follow two […]
Despite the potential for a Kings sweep in the Stanley Cup Finals, NBCSN reports that Game 4 of the series became the third most-watched Stanley Cup Final in channel history, according to Nielsen. The matchup delivered 3.383 million viewers, to put the channel in the top spot in cable in primetime and among A18-49. Through […]
Hard Knocks has a new home, as HBO Sports, NFL Films and the Falcons announced that the all-access series would make Atlanta the focus of this year’s edition of the show. Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Atlanta Falcons will debut in August for the franchise’s ninth season with five episodes on Aug. 5 at […]
Exclusive: Microsoft is sponsoring Fusion’s daily The Soccer Gods: Brazil 2014 World Cup broadcast, with Microsoft’s Surface an integral part of the show. The one-hour program features breaking news, a recap of the day’s matches, celeb guests and features on all the partying going down in Brazil.
Starz gave an early pick-up to Power, which debuted to 462,000 viewers Friday and delivered over 2 million viewers over the weekend. How will the soph season measure up? “Viewers may be loving the start of season one now,” said exec producer Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, “but season two will blow them away.”