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Baylor’s rout of Gonzaga in the 2021 NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship Game on Monday saw CBS’ viewership sink by 14% from 2019’s title tilt, averaging 16.92 million viewers. Its 9.4/21 household rating average was down by 19% from two years ago, when Virginia beat Texas Tech, 85-77, in overtime to win the title. The…

Saturday Night Live's April 3 telecast, with Daniel Kaluuya as host and St. Vincent as musical guest, drew a 3.6 household Live+Same Day rating in the 44 metered local markets and a 1.7 adults 18-49 rating in the 25 markets with local people meters. That was up in the demo and even in households from the season lows…

The return of Christopher Meloni’s Elliot Stabler to the L&O franchise boosted NBC on Thursday, with the double-shot of the Law & Order: SVU crossover and the series premiere of his Law & Order: Organized Crime finishing as primetime’s top two shows in the adults 18-49 demographic and total viewers. The anticipated…

Tina reached a total audience of 1.1 million viewers across linear and streaming, WarnerMedia said, in the best showing yet by a documentary on HBO Max. The Tina Turner portrait, which features a new interview with the singer at her home in Switzerland, is the top-rated HBO documentary since Leaving Neverland in…

News networks trumpeted their first-quarter ratings by keying in on their bright spots: CNN got the biggest bounce and topped the 25-54 demo, Fox News led in primetime in total viewers, and MSNBC ranked first in total-day viewers. But drill down to the month of March, and a slower news cycle versus a year earlier…

ABC News’ World News Tonight with David Muir topped ratings in the first quarter, but the period also showed viewership coming back down to Earth across all of the evening newscasts. World News Tonight averaged 9.6 million total viewers, a drop of 2% from 9.8 million in the first quarter a year earlier, a period…

A monthlong hiatus and the switch to daylight saving time took a toll on Saturday Night Live’s overnight ratings. The show’s March 27 telecast, with Maya Rudolph as host, Jack Harlow as musical guest and appearances by Martin Short, Tina Fey and Rachel Dratch, drew a 3.6 household Live+Same Day rating in the 44…

After a short hiatus caused by the NCAA men’s basketball tournament’s “March Madness,” the entrepreneurs and sharks are back on top of the Friday evening demos. Sharks Mark Cuban, Kevin O'Leary, Lori Greiner, Robert Herjavec and recurring Shark Daniel Lubetzky heard from entrepreneurs hawking plant-based milk, tattoo…

Ginny & Georgia took over the top spot on Nielsen’s weekly list of top streaming shows in the U.S. The Netflix original unseated Good Girls, racking up 953 million total minutes of streaming during the week of February 15 to 21. Universal Television drama Good Girls is in the midst of its fourth season on NBC, which…

The return of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament after a pandemic-related hiatus of a year was a solid draw on Friday night. But that had good news/bad news attached. The CBS coverage of the annual tournament to determine the college basketball championship saw the eye network clock in with an 0.8 and an average of…

UCLA’s overtime victory over Michigan State in a battle of marquee programs averaged 3 million viewers Thursday night on TBS, the best viewership for an NCAA Tournament First Four play-in game since the format was introduced in 2011, according to Nielsen. Overall, the First Four games to kick off the 2021 NCAA men’s…

In a sign of the complex media times, the Universal Television drama Good Girls has become a big draw for Netflix at the same time it is a multi-season hit for NBC. The show topped Nielsen’s streaming ratings for the week of February 15 to 21. The measurement firm ranks Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu and Disney+…