Just two episodes in and NBC has renewed “Ellen’s Game of Games,” hosted by Ellen DeGeneres, for a second season. An unconfirmed number of new episodes have been ordered. Debuting on Dec. 18, 2017, “Ellen’s Game of Games” features contestants who compete in four individual games. The winner of each game advances to the game […]
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 […]
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 […]
Several NHL highlight games for the month of January: NBC Sports presents the 10th anniversary of the NHL’s signature regular-season game on New Year’s Day, as Jack Eichel and the Buffalo Sabres face off against Henrik Lundqvist and the New York Rangers in the 2018 Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic at Citi Field in New York City on Jan. 1, 2018, at 1 […]
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 […]
Manchester City, led by Kevin De Bruyne, enter New Year’s Eve weekend on an 18-match Premier League winning streak, the longest streak in top-flight history. Manchester City, atop the table by 15 points over the second place team, next visit Crystal Palace on Sunday, December 31, at 7 a.m. ET on NBCSN. On New Year’s […]
Following the success of the return of “Will & Grace” and a talk of a reboot of “The Office” comes words of a potential revival of NBC’s “Mad About You.” Sony Pictures Television Studios is working on a revival of “Mad About You” with Paul Reiser and multi-Emmy Award winner Helen Hunt to reprise their […]
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 […]
