National Geographic has greenlit documentary “Blood on the Wall from Sebastian Junger and Nick Quested, which explores the internal and external influences on Mexico as it deals with the key issues of migrant caravans from Central America heading to the U.S., the dangerous but resilient traffickers fueling the cross-border drug trade and how corruption has […]
National Geographic has announced a scripted development deal with Appian Way Productions, in association with Warner Horizon Scripted Television, to adapt Tom Wolfe’s best-seller “The Right Stuff” into a scripted series. The project is from executive producers Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson, with Will Staples (“Call of Duty,” “Shooter”) serving as writer and executive producer. […]
Baltimore-New England on “Monday Night Football” helped give ESPN an all-around Monday victory — the 13th time in 14 weeks ESPN led a Monday night in all key adult and male demos and the 10th Monday this season they’ve won among households and total viewers. Ravens-Patriots delivered a total live audience (TV + Streaming) of […]
NBC wrestled the Monday night total-viewer crown away from ESPN with the combo of “The Voice” and “Timeless,” averaging 8.44 million total viewers in prime time. Indianapolis Colts’ walloping 41-10 Week 13 victory over the New York Jets on ESPN drew the second lowest viewership ever for a “Monday Night Football” game — 8.091 million […]
The Week 12 “Monday Night Football” game – a Green Bay Packers 27-13 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles – helped ESPN win the night among all networks (broadcast or cable) in households, viewers and all key male and adult demos (18-34, 18-49 and 25-54). (Source: ESPN) Including this game, ESPN has won the night among […]
ESPN led Monday night overall with the Houston Texans versus the Oakland Raiders in Mexico City on “Monday Night Football.” The game delivered the best “MNF” ratings since Giants-Vikings from Oct. 3. Nonetheless, it still fell way below year-ago levels: compared to Buffalo-New England from 11/23/15, Houston-Oakland was down 22 percent in households (6.93 rating […]
ESPN continued its Monday night winning streak among total viewers (approx. 10 million viewers from 8-11 p.m.) and all key demos with the Cincinnati Bengals at the New York Giants on “Monday Night Football.” Despite the highly-competitive nature of the game, it still fell below year-ago levels: compared to Houston-Cincinnati from 11/16/15, Cincinnati-N.Y. Giants was […]
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National Geographic Channel has greenlit a second season of global anthology series “Breakthrough,” which brings to life the stories, people and technology behind these breakthroughs, and shows how they are changing our world. Debuting on Nov. 1, 2015, it is produced by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer. Production has begun on the new season, which […]
National Geographic Channel is stepping into the scripted series game with a straight-to-series order for scripted anthology series called “Genius” from Imagine TV, Fox 21 TV Studios, OddLot Entertainment and EUE/Sokolow. Each season of the anthology will dramatize the fascinating stories of the world’s most brilliant innovators, and the first season will focus on famous […]
