Heading into this week, the Villanova Wildcats returned to the top spot in Monday’s new poll after an upset-filled week of Jan. 1 that included losses by No. 1 Michigan State and No. 2 Duke. The second-ranked West Virginia Mountaineers — which beat then-No. 7 Oklahoma Sooners and star freshman Trae Young last week — […]
Opening NFL Divisional Playoff weekend on Jan. 13, the defending NFC champion Atlanta Falcons visit the Philadelphia Eagles and will air on NBC. As of Jan. 7, the Eagles — helmed by backup quarterback Nick Foles since the season-ending injury to MVP-contending QB Carson Wentz — are the first-ever No. 1 seeded NFL team to […]
ABC ruled the final week of 2017 among adults 18-49 over its broadcast competition, beating CBS and Fox by 33 percent each, and NBC by 50 percent. Year to year, ABC was up the most among the major networks, jumping 20 percent in adults 18-49 over the year-ago week. Featuring primetime Christmas Day NBA […]
Fox has greenlit adventure series “The Gifted” for a second season, with an unconfirmed number of new episodes for 2018-19. The current first season finale, an expanded two-hour edition airing in the Monday 8-10 p.m. block on Monday, Jan. 15, marks the 13th episode of the series. Debuting on Oct. 2, “The Gifted” ranks as […]
For the first time this season, an original episode of “The Big Bang Theory” spinoff “Young Sheldon” surpassed its lead-in on Dec. 21 (although its parent show was a rerun on the night, but the spinoff hadn’t improved upon a rerun of the parent show previously). The telecast ranked third in total viewers for the […]
Heading into this week, the Michigan State Spartans, which haven’t lost since Nov. 14, are No. 1 for the first time since the 2015-16 season, the 12th time overall. Making the biggest jump in the poll this week are the Oklahoma Sooners (from 12 to 7) at their highest ranking since reaching No. 1 and […]
The National Football League announced its postseason television schedule on Sunday, December 31. Eight of the twelve current playoff teams hadn’t reached the playoffs in 2016-17; seven of them will play on Wild Card weekend. Wild Card weekend marks the kickoff to the NFL postseason on Jan. 6-7. ESPN and ABC will simulcast the first […]
In this final week of the NFL regular season, the playoff fates of those trans still mathematically in contention will be decided in games played in the late afternoon window on New Year’s Eve: The Atlanta Falcons can clinch a playoff berth with: 1) A Falcons win 2) A Seahawks loss 3) A Falcons tie […]
CBS won the week of Dec. 11 in viewers which included its most-watched Sunday of this fall with an average of 12.31 million viewers on Dec. 17, thanks to a 38-minute NFL runover (New England Patriots vs. Pittsburgh Steelers; 29.72 million). “60 Minutes” was the week’s #1 news program and the top non-sport program. “The […]
