The Chicago Cubs finally overcame a 108-year world championship drought to win the World Series on Wednesday night as Major League Baseball and its broadcast network partner Fox reaped huge rewards with milestone ratings for its instant classic Game 7 of the “2016 World Series.” At 40.045 million viewers, the Chicago Cubs’ 8-7 win over […]
Fox winning Wednesday nights isn’t new — it regularly wins the evening whenever it airs “Empire.” But on this night, the network clearly dominated with Game 2 of “2016 World Series” featuring the Chicago Cubs and the Cleveland Indians, marking it Fox’s best Wednesday night ratings performance since Game 7 of the 2014 World Series […]
Fox again was the Wednesday winner overall with “Lethal Weapon” and a Mariah Carey-guested “Empire”. The freshman “Lethal Weapon” has been a consistent positive for Fox, dropping another mere 9 percent (in total viewers) in its third week compared to its second week. Runner-up to Fox in all key measures was ESPN with its telecast […]
Three episodes into the current season of anthology “American Horror Story” and FX has issued a renewal to Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk for season seven. “Ryan, Brad and their team of remarkable writers have done an amazing job of keeping “American Horror Story” endlessly inventive, shocking and entertaining, and we are honored to move […]
New original and off-network series titles for the month of October will appear on the streaming video services Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime. Hugh Laurie, mostly known to American TV audiences as Dr. Gregory House from ‘House’, returns to the medical field for his next series for Hulu, “Chance” which will air an episode each […]
Fox was the overall winner on Wednesday. “Empire”, which featured a police brutality storyline, remained as Wednesday night’s top telecast. Earlier in the evening, week two of cop-buddy action-dramedy “Lethal Weapon” retained much of its ratings from its week-ago series premiere telecast: Episode #2 of “Lethal Weapon” (Fox) erosion from series premiere: Total Viewers: -9 […]
On the third night of the 2016-17 traditional television season, it was one of the rare prime times where four networks could boast positive figures for its fall season or series premieres. Fox claimed victory overall with the third season premiere of “Empire.” Although far from the ratings juggernaut from early 2015, it still ranked […]
NBC dominated Wednesday night with the 2-hour 11th season finale of “America’s Got Talent” followed by the second season premiere of “Blindspot.” The season finale of “America’s Got Talent” (2.8/10 in 18-49, 14.4 million viewers overall from 8-10 p.m. ET): · Jumps +33% versus its year-ago finale in 18-49 (2.8 vs. 2.1 from 9-11 p.m. […]
Ryan Murphy, the creator of “American Horror Story” and “American Crime Story,” will add a third dramatic anthology series to his growing FX resume – “Feud.” The cable net has given a straight-to-series order for eight episodes, with the first season of “Feud” for Fox 21 Television Studios centering around the legendary backstage battle between […]
