Docuseries “The Rap Game,” which follows five young rappers competing to be signed to Jermaine Dupri’s So So Def Recordings, been renewed by Lifetime for a second season. In addition, Lifetime has ordered 10 additional episodes of the third season of “Bring It!” and an unspecified number of new episodes of the sixth season of […]
The upcoming four night, eight-hour reboot of classic miniseries “Roots” will launch on the networks of History, A&E and Lifetime on Memorial Day 2016. The cast includes Academy Award winners Forest Whitaker (“Fiddler”) and Anna Paquin (“Nancy Holt”); Laurence Fishburne (“Alex Haley”); Jonathan Rhys Meyers (“Tom Lea”); Anika Noni Rose (“Kizzy”); Tip “T.I.” Harris (“Cyrus”); […]
NBC and ABC shared leadership on this Saturday evening. “Dateline Mystery” helped make NBC Saturday’s most watched network with an average of 4.19 million total viewers. “NBA Saturday Primetime” featuring the Cleveland Cavaliers’ decisive 117-103 victory over the San Antonio Spurs helped ABC win Saturday night across several key demos — adults 18-34, adults 18-49, […]
CBS was Saturday night’s most-watched network with an average of 5.14 million total viewers. “NBA Saturday Primetime” on ABC propelled the network to win the night across prime-time broadcast and cable television on Saturday in all key adult and male demos, including 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54. Its debut edition delivered the most-watched and highest-rated non-Christmas […]
Saturday’s premiere of the Lifetime Original Movie “Toni Braxton: Unbreak My Heart,” starring Lex Scott Davis, averaged 3.6 million viewers, 1.8 million adults 25-54, 1.7 million adults 18-49, 1.4 million women 25-54 and 1.3 million women 18-49 in the 8-10 p.m. block on Jan. 23. Comparably, this is now cable’s number one original movie with […]
The Arizona Cardinals’ dramatic 26-20 overtime victory against the Green Bay Packers in Saturday night’s NFC Divisional Playoff game on NBC (Women 18-34: 6.6/27; Men 18-34: 10.6/42; Women 18-49: 7.9/26; Men 18-49: 13.4/42) ranked as the highest-rated Saturday primetime Divisional game ever, according to Nielsen. The NFL introduced primetime Saturday Divisional Playoff games in the […]
ESPN’s telecast of college football’s “Alamo Bowl,” featuring TCU coming back from a 0-31 deficit to beat Oregon 47-41 in triple overtime, brought the network its fifth prime time victory (among all of TV, including the broadcast networks) within six consecutive nights (Dec. 28-Jan. 2). More analysis, sub-demos and cable information to come in next […]
A special Saturday night edition of “Thursday Night Football” featuring the Washington football team clinching the NFC East division with a 38-24 win over the Philadelphia Eagles led NFL Network to rule the night on television. The network averaged 7.5 million total viewers and a 2.3 rating among adults 18-49 in prime time (8-11 p.m.). […]
ABC led this Saturday night among all TV networks in total viewers (8.03 million) and topped the Big 4 in all key measures — including adults 18-34 over UFC (Women 18-34: 0.6/3; Men 18-34: 1.1/6; Women 18-49: 0.8/3; Men 18-49: 1.4/6) coverage on Fox — with the third Democratic Presidential Debate (Women 18-34: 0.8/4; Men […]
