Higher Ground Productions, President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s production company in partnership with Netflix, has announced a new slate of upcoming projects. The content encompasses a range of fiction, non-fiction and kids & family across both series and feature films. T Higher Ground Productions, which is co-led by Priya Swaminathan and Tonia Davis, along […]
Netflix has ordered a sketch comedy series featuring documentary elements focused on the government called “The G Word With Adam Canover.” The series is loosely based on Michael Lewis book “The Fifth Risk,” and is described as follows: The United States government affects our lives in countless ways, from the food we eat to the […]
Sometimes it seems like Netflix’s repertoire of original movies is like Russian roulette: you never know what you’re going to get. What starts as a regular movie quickly goes off the rails into another dimension and completely blows your mind. With so many hit-and-miss movies, it’s hard to know which ones are actually worth your […]
President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama have entered into a multi-year agreement to produce films and series with Netflix under their Higher Ground Productions banner, which could include scripted series, non-scripted series, documentaries and features. “One of the simple joys of our time in public service was getting to meet so many fascinating people from […]
In a truncated Tuesday prime time due to President Barack Obama’s farewell address, NBC was the night’s winning network with “The Wall” and, the night’s top scripted telecast, a new episode of “This Is Us.” Between 9-10 p.m. ET, a combined 34.08 million viewers watched Obama give his farewell address to the nation from Chicago, […]
CBS was tops on Saturday night in total viewers (4.79 million). TNT, with coverage of Game 1 of the 2016 Western Conference Semifinal between the San Antonio Spurs and the Oklahoma City Thunder, won among all key demos: approximately, a 1.3 rating in each adults 18-49, adults 18-34 and adults 25-54. President Obama’s final White […]
This Tuesday night was an abbreviated prime time in programming due to the 69-minute State of the Union address by President Obama. CBS was the most-watched network with 8.47 million total viewers while NBC and Fox tied for the lead among adults 18-49 with a 1.2 rating and 4 share. Cumulatively across multiple networks, the […]
CBS — the lone broadcast network to air all original programming in prime time — was, by far, the top network on television among total viewers (9.28 million), adults 18-49 (2.0 rating/7 share) and adults 25-54 (3.0/9). Its four comedies each rose to their best numbers in several weeks: The highly-promoted Sheldon-Amy hookup episode of […]
