The American Music Awards on ABC grew by double digits year to year in Total Viewers (+11 percent) and Teens 12-17 (+20 percent), while holding even with Adults 18-49. The 2017 AMAs drew ABC’s biggest entertainment audience in the Sunday 8-11pm time slot since February and highest young adult number since May – since The […]
Thanksgiving weekend for 2017 begins on Nov. 23 with two of the NFL’s most-watched game telecasts (on average) of the regular season annually: the early afternoon game in Detroit (this year, Minnesota Vikings at Detroit Lions on Fox) and the late afternoon game in Dallas (this year, Los Angeles Chargers at Dallas Cowboys on CBS). […]
Thanksgiving weekend features several in-state rivalries, highlighted by what’s projected to be its most-watched: No. 1 Alabama Crimson Tide at No. 6 Auburn Tigers on CBS on Nov. 25. The Alabama-Auburn matchup is known annually as the Iron Bowl. This year, an Auburn victory over the current No. 1 team in the country will most […]
When a TV series has been around for awhile, you start to question the reasons (both good and bad) that explain why the show continues. In the modern landscape of TV shows, the norm is that a show needs to start generating respectable audience ratings before they can be used as cash cows for networks […]
Musician, record producer and songwriter Sean “Diddy” Combs, record-producing hitmaker DJ Khaled, Grammy-winning recording artist and songwriter Meghan Trainor and record label executive Charlie Walk have joined the panel on Fox’s new singing competition series, “The Four: Battle for Stardom.” The six-episode event premieres Thursday, Jan. 4 from 8-10 p.m. The logline: These four top-notch […]
Two surprise division leaders in the NFC — the Los Angeles Rams at the Minnesota Vikings — face off in the early Sunday afternoon window on Fox on Nov. 19 NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” features the Philadelphia Eagles, who hold the best record in the NFC entering Week 11, play their division rival Dallas Cowboys.. […]
The lone matchup between two teams within the Top 25 will air on Fox at noon on Nov. 18: No. 24 Michigan Wolverines at No. 5 Wisconsin Badgers. Wisconsin, the only undefeated squad within the Big Ten amidst a subpar year for the conference overall, must win out the rest of the season for a […]
We live in a world saturated with entertainment options. The longstanding “Big 3” television networks (ABC, CBS and NBC), Fox, cable TV and movie channels, and digital media outlets like Netflix, Hulu and YouTube constantly barrage us with content to seduce our attention. Yet, among this deluge of programming choices, USA’s “Mr. Robot” (which currently […]
NBC begins its ‘Thursday Night Football’ coverage this season (in conjunction with NFL Network and Amazon) featuring an NFC West battle on Nov. 9 between the Seattle Seahawks and the Arizona Cardinals. Four potential playoff contenders face off in the early Sunday afternoon window on various Fox affiliates (check local listings): 45 percent of the […]
