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20/04/2019
Primetime Ratings: Big Bang' Paces CBS to Win
CBS got the top spot in Thursday ratings, with The Big Bang Theory leading to a 1.1 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 5 share. In second was A...
20/04/2019
Natalie Morales Exiting Access
Just weeks after long-time Access executive producer Rob Silverstein was transitioned off of the entertainment magazine, co-host Natalie Morales also is departi...
20/04/2019
Weigel's WCIU Takes Over Chicago CW Affiliation in September
WCIU Chicago will become the CW affiliate in DMA No. 3 starting September 1. The station is owned by Weigel Broadcasting. The current CW affiliate in Chicago i...
19/04/2019
Fox Orders Another Season of Last Man Standing'
Photo courtesy of ABC Fox has renewed the comedy Last Man Standing for 2019-2020. Tim Allen stars in the show. Next season will be Last Man's second on Fox...
19/04/2019
Fox Cancels Comedy Rel,' Drama The Gifted'
Fox has canceled the first-year comedy Rel and the sophomore drama The Gifted. Rel debuted Sept. 30, a multi-camera comedy from 20th Century Fox Television. It ...
19/04/2019
Season Two of Strange Angel' on CBS All Access June 13
Drama Strange Angel debuts season two on CBS All Access June 13. The period drama centers on Jack Parsons, who straddled the worlds of science and the occult, p...
18/04/2019
CBS News Correspondent DeMarco Morgan to Anchor at KCBS
DeMarco Morgan DeMarco Morgan, CBS News correspondent, has been named co-anchor of KCBS Los Angeles' 4:30-7 a.m. and 11 a.m. newscasts. Morgan has been a C...
18/04/2019
TCA Summer Press Tour Starts July 23
The Television Critics Association (TCA) has set its summer Press Tour schedule. The tour begins July 23 and ends Aug. 8. July 23-28 will be CTAM, short for Ca...
18/04/2019
Queen of the South' Back on USA June 6
(Photo by: Felicia Graham/USA Network) Season four of Queen of the South begins on USA Network June 6. Alice Braga stars in the series, about Teresa Mendoza, w...
18/04/2019
Kevin Hunter Out as Executive Producer of Wendy Williams
In light of his divorce from Wendy Williams, Kevin Hunter is exiting as executive producer of her eponymous daytime talker, The Wendy Williams Show. He had been...
18/04/2019
Primetime Ratings: NCIS' Leads Way For CBS
CBS won the ratings race Tuesday, a soft night for the Nielsens, as NCIS led the net to a 0.9 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 4 share. That ...
18/04/2019
Superhero Series The Boys' Starts on Amazon July 26
Superhero series The Boys will premiere on Amazon Prime July 26. It is based on a comic book series by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, and is an irreverent lo...
18/04/2019
Netflix Grabs Mike Myers Comedy Series
Netflix has ordered a comedy series from Mike Myers. The project does not have a title, and little detail was shared about it. Myers will executive produce and ...
18/04/2019
The CW Shares Summer Premieres
The CW is premiering 11 series this summer, including six new shows and five returning ones. The network said the 11 are the most it has ever debuted in summert...
18/04/2019
James Holzhauer Breaks His Own Record for Total Cash Won in a Single Jeopardy! Game
In his 10th straight win, Jeopardy! contestant James Holzhauer broke his own rec...
17/04/2019
Homecoming: A Film by Beyonc' is on Netflix
Netflix has released Homecoming: A Film by Beyonc , a look at the singer's 2018 Coachella performance that paid homage to Americas historically black colleg...
17/04/2019
Showtime's Roger Ailes Series The Loudest Voice' Starts June 30
Showtime will premiere the Roger Ailes-focused limited series The Loudest Voice Sunday, June 30. The seven-part series is based on the book The Loudest Voice in...
17/04/2019
Christina on the Coast' Starts on HGTV May 23
HGTV Christina on the Coast, a docu-series starring former Flip or Flop star Christina Anstead, debuts on HGTV May 23. Anstead is a real estate expert and desi...
17/04/2019
Primetime Ratings: NBC Wins With Potent Voice'
NBC won the Monday ratings race, riding The Voice to the title. NBC had a 1.1 rating in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 5 share. That beat ABC ...
17/04/2019
Syndication Ratings: Shows Bounce Back as March Madness Comes to Close
Syndies rebounded in the week ending April 7 as the NCAA's annual college basketball tournament, March Madness, drew to a close with the finals between ulti...
17/04/2019
Disney Channel Orders Season Three of Big Hero 6'
Disney Channel has ordered season three of Big Hero 6 The Series, ahead of the animated series' season two premiere May 6. Based on the sci fi movie that ca...
17/04/2019
Mario Lopez, Sheryl Underwood Returning to Host Daytime Emmys
Extra's Mario Lopez and The Talk's Sheryl Underwood (pictured above) are returning to host the 46th annual Daytime Emmy Awards, taking place at the Pasa...
17/04/2019
Lorne Michaels, Fred Armisen Behind HBO Comedy Los Espookys'
Comedy Los Espookys, with Lorne Michaels and Fred Armisen producing, starts on HBO June 14. HBO is on board for six episodes of the series, which the network de...
16/04/2019
Season 10 of Archer' Starts on FXX May 29
FXX will start season 10 of animated comedy Archer May 29. The new season is called Archer: 1999 and will have nine episodes. Archer follows Sterling Archer, L...
16/04/2019
Paid Off with Michael Torpey' Returns to TruTV May 13
Paid Off with Michael Torpey, the comedic game show that sees contestants compete for money to pay off their student debt, returns to truTV with 16 episodes Mon...
16/04/2019
Over 17 Million Watch Game of Thrones' Premiere
The Game of Thrones final season premiere was watched by 17.4 million people on HBO April 14, surpassing the 16.9 million who watched the season seven finale an...
16/04/2019
Very Scary People' Gets Second Season on HLN
Very Scary People, which chronicles the lives of the most frightening individuals in recent history, is getting a second season on HLN. Donnie Wahlberg hosts. ...
16/04/2019
NBC Orders Second Season of Manifest'
NBC has renewed freshman drama Manifest. The series, about a mysterious flight where the world moves ahead five years during the few hours of the flight, is ave...
16/04/2019
Deborah Norville Returns to Inside Edition After Thyroid Surgery
Inside Edition's Deborah Norville returned to the show Monday after having surgery to remove most of her thyroid. "Im so grateful," Norville said. "Ive got...
16/04/2019
BET Networks Grabs Lena Waithe Comedy Twenties'
BET Networks has greenlit the Lena Waithe single-camera comedy Twenties. Created and written by Waithe when she was in her early 20s, the series follows the ad...
16/04/2019
James Holzhauer Becomes Second Highest Cash Winning Player in Jeopardy! History
James Holzhauer has climbed to second place on Jeopardy!'s all-time cash-winning list after just eight games. Holzhauer, 34, is now second only to Ken Jenni...
15/04/2019
Mets Broadcaster Ron Darling Takes Medical Leave
Ron Darling, baseball broadcaster on SNY and TBS, is taking a leave of absence due to a mass that was found in his chest. Darling shared during Saturday's N...
15/04/2019
Big Little Lies' Back on HBO June 9
Season two of HBO drama Big Little Lies starts June 9. There are seven episodes. HBO/Hilary Bronwyn Gayle The darkly comic show will explore the malignancy o...
15/04/2019
New Court TV Sets May 8 as Date for Launch
The new Court TV being created by E.W. Scripps' Katz Networks unit, will have its launch on Wednesday, May 8 at 9 a.m. ET, the company said. Court TV's...
15/04/2019
Hulu Orders Season Two of Shrill'
Hulu has renewed the comedy Shrill for a second season. It will have eight episodes and starts in 2020. Aidy Bryant stars and Lorne Michaels executive produces....
13/04/2019
Primetime Ratings: ABC Wins With Mighty Grey's'
(ABC/Jessica Brooks) ABC got top spot in Thursday prime ratings, Grey's Anatomy pacing the net to a 1.0 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a...
13/04/2019
Season Ten of Blue Bloods' a Go on CBS
CBS has ordered season 10 of drama Blue Bloods. The series will reach 200 episodes in the fall. Tom Selleck Tom Selleck stars in the family cop drama. The sho...
13/04/2019
Fox Grabs Dick Wolf's First Responders Live'
Credit: Evans Vestal Ward/NBC Fox has picked up unscripted Dick Wolf series First Responders Live. Josh Elliott, formerly of CBS News, will host. The show offe...
13/04/2019
American Idol' Offers Meet Your Finalists' April 22
Source: Disney|ABC ABC will air American Idol: Meet Your Finalists Monday, April 22. The special episode will go for two hours and will offer a deep dive into...
13/04/2019
NBC Orders Season Three of Good Girls'
Credit: Jordin Althaus/NBC NBC has ordered season three of drama Good Girls. The show, about three women who rob a supermarket to help them make ends meet, has...
13/04/2019
Its One and Done for Face the Truth
CBS Television Distribution's Face the Truth will not return for a second season in strip syndication, sources confirmed Friday, but The Doctors and DailyMa...
12/04/2019
HBO Gets Creative With Game of Thrones' Marketing
Courtesy of HBO So massive is HBO drama Game of Thrones that it may seem like the final season could flourish with House Stark dimwit Hodor overseeing the prom...
12/04/2019
Primetime Ratings: Fox Wins With Empire' and Star'
CR: Chuck Hodes Fox won the Wednesday ratings race, Empire leading the network to a 1.0 in viewers 18-49, according to the Nielsen overnights, and a 5 share. T...
12/04/2019
Simon Upped at 60 Minutes
Tanya Simon has been named executive editor of CBS Newss 60 Minutes. Tanya is fantastic journalist with two decades worth of reporting at 60 Minutes," said ...
12/04/2019
CBS Orders Season 17 of NCIS'
CBS has renewed NCIS, setting up a 17th season for the drama. NCIS is averaging 16 million viewers this season. NCIS has been a global juggernaut for almost t...
12/04/2019
Amazon Prime Renews Hanna' Series
Amazon Prime has renewed its freshman drama series Hanna, the streaming service said Thursday. The series, based on the 2011 film of the same name, will return...
11/04/2019
Upfronts: Discovery Pushing Premiere, Go Apps
A year after acquiring Scripps Networks Interactive to create a company with about 20% of cable viewing, Discovery really means business. Jon Steinlauf The th...
11/04/2019
Primetime Ratings: NBC Wins Weak Night
(Photo by: Trae Patton/NBC) NBC won the ratings race on a soft Tuesday night, The Voice leading the net to a 0.9 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, ...
11/04/2019
Univision to Premiere Supernatural Comedy Doa Flor y Sus Dos Maridos
Univision will premiere the romantic comedy series Do a Flor y Sus Dos Maridos (Do a Flor and Her Two Husbands) April 15. The network calls Do a Flor "a seducti...
11/04/2019
Sinclair Signs Lara Logan to Report on the Border
Lara Logan has joined Sinclair Broadcast Group as a special correspondent. Logan, formerly of CBS News, has taken a 90-day assignment with Sinclair, which begin...
