With midseason officially here, the following is a timeline of notable events during the first 15 days in January. Listed in order of date (and incorporating network, digital, cable and syndication), included are new program announcements, series renewals, rating highlights, scheduling announcements, awards show winners, historical highlights, industry provider updates, celebrity news, executive news, casting […]
The Oscars
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by Douglas Pucci Comments are off
“The Shape of Water,” which entered the ceremony as the night’s leader in number of nominations with 13, won the most number of Oscars, with four including Best Picture, Best Director (to Guillermo del Toro) and Best Original Score (to Alexandre Desplat). The WWII drama “Dunkirk” was runner-up with three Oscars. As expected, Frances McDormand […]
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by Douglas Pucci Comments are off
Sunday night was all about ABC for Oscar night. Although the near four-hour “89th Academy Awards” ceremony, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, is projected to be the top entertainment (non-sports) program of the year, its 32.94 million viewers also ranked as the second least-watched Oscars of the modern era (since 1973). It was also the lowest-rated […]
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by Marc Berman Comments are off
On paper, there is nothing too shabby about a reported the reported 32.9 million viewers who tuned in for the “89th Annual Academy Awards” on ABC Sunday, based on the Live Fast National ratings. Comparably, this is now TV’s No. 1 entertainment telecast since last year’s “Oscars,” and it slipped by only four percent from […]
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by Marc Berman Comments are off
What follows are the fast affiliate results for Sunday, February 26, 2017 broken out by network and by each half-hour. Keep in mind that thse set of ratings for any live telecast is always approximate. -Total Viewers: ABC: 27.49 million, CBS: 4.93, NBC: 3.11, Fox: 2.54 -Adults 18-49: ABC: 7.4 rating/23 share, Fox: 0.7/ 2, […]
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Oscars 2017…And the Winners Were
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“La La Land,” as predicted, won the most number of Oscars, with six. But it was not named Best Picture. In a stunning turn, “Moonlight” won the top honor after “La La Land” was incorrectly named the winner by presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway. Members of the “La La Land” team were in the […]
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by Marc Berman Comments are off
Denzel! Casey! Emma! Viola! The stars! The fashions! The hoopla! It’s “The 89th Annual Academy Awards,” live on ABC this Sunday, as an array of considerably more diversified faces compete for the coveted statuette. Considering the audience erosion for the “Academy Awards” last year (34.3 million viewers in 2016 marked an eight year low and […]
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by Douglas Pucci Comments are off
ABC dominated Sunday night with coverage of “The Academy Awards” aka “The Oscars”. The positives for the 88th annual event, hosted by Chris Rock, were it grew from the year-ago Oscars with adults 18-34 (+1 percent) and across all key male demos: +20 percent males 18-34, +6 percent males 18-49 and +1 percent males 25-54; […]
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by Marc Berman Comments are off
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2016 Household Rating/Share ABC: 19.3 rating/30 share, CBS: 3.3/ 5, NBC: 2.0/ 3, Fox: 1.0/ 2 Percent Change From the Year-Ago Oscar Night (2/22/15): CBS: + 3, NBC: – 5, ABC: – 8, Fox: -23 Ratings Breakdown: It was all about “The 88th Annual Academy Awards” on ABC last night, which averaged […]