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NBC’s Sunday Night Football ran away as the night’s top rated and most watched show in primetime last night. The Los Angeles Rams’ 28-12 victory over the Seattle Seahawks was of much interest on the West Coast (especially in the L.A., Seattle and San Francisco 49ers markets), meaning the game’s 4.1 rating in the…

AMC has given an early season 5 renewal to its popular motorcycle travelogue Ride With Norman Reedus. The renewal for season five, which begins production on six episodes in early 2020, comes ahead of the show's season four debut on Sunday, March 8 at midnight ET/11c on AMC. Ride With Norman Reedus features The Walking…

Three days after the long-awaited merger of CBS and Viacom closed, the combined company has decided to sell off the fabled headquarters building of CBS known as “Black Rock.” Bob Bakish, CEO of ViacomCBS, confirmed the company is proceeding with the divestiture during an appearance at the UBS TMT Conference in New…

Avenue 5, we are go for launch. One day after its Sunday night veteran Silicon Valley wrapped its run, HBO said today that its new comedy from Veep creator Armando Iannucci starring Hugh Laurie and Josh Gad will lift off at 10 p.m. Sunday, January 19. Created and co-written by Iannucci, Avenue 5 is a space tourism…

Roger Ailes' shadow continues to loom large in U.S. politics but the Fox News boss will also have a presence at the 77th Golden Globe Awards after two separate projects about the controversial newsman scored nominations. Lionsgate feature film Bombshell and Showtime mini-series The Loudest Voice each picked up two…

Bill Hemmer will anchor an hour long newscast on Fox News Channel starting in January, filling the time slot after Shepard Smith’s departure. Fox News announced Hemmer as the permanent anchor in the 3 p.m. ET hour on Monday. Bill Hemmer Reports will launch on Jan. 20. Hemmer will exit Fox News Channel’s America’s…

Meryl Streep has extended her already record-breaking Golden Globe nomination record, earning her 34th nod today for her portrayal of Mary Louise Wright in the second season of HBO’s Big Little Lies.  Streep is nominated alongside Helena Bonham Carter (The Crown), Patricia Arquette (The Act), Emily Watson (Chernobyl)…

Comedian/writer Adam Conover is the new host of Nickelodeon's forthcoming family game show, The Crystal Maze, an all-new version of the UK series. The show premieres Friday, Jan. 24, at 7:00 p.m. (ET/PT). The Crystal Maze will feature Conover as the Maze Master, charged with guiding one family team through physical…

CBS is joining OpenAP, an advertising consortium that launched in 2017 as an effort to provide more data and insights to those selling ads across linear and digital platforms. Viacom, which last week closed its merger with CBS, had been a founding member of OpenAP, which also counts Fox, NBCUniversal and Univision as…

British prime minister Boris Johnson entered the final few days of election campaigning in Britain by launching a thinly-veiled attack on the BBC’s funding model. The Conservative Party leader, who is hoping to secure a majority in the UK general election on Thursday, suggested during a Q&A on Monday that the BBC’s…

Quibi has ordered The Rachel Hollis Show, a daily morning talk show hosted by Hollis, motivational speaker and New York Times best-selling author of Girl, Wash Your Face and Girl, Stop Apologizing, as part of the upcoming short-form video site's Daily Essentials programming slate. The series hails from The Hollis Compa…

Broadcast and cable networks once again provided coverage of Monday’s impeachment hearing, and there was some drama at the top. A protester interrupted the proceedings by shouting about the House Judiciary Committee’s chairman, Jerry Nadler. “We voted for Donald Trump, and they’re simply removing him because they…