An executive producer behind the American Ninja Warrior franchise and Hell's Kitchen, Arthur Smith is always looking to break the mold and push limits within the reality competition space, doing so most recently with NBC's The Titan Games. Co-created by A. Smith and Dwayne Johnson, who also serves as host, and…

NBC’s regular-slot season premiere of American Ninja Warrior (1.0 rating in the adults 18-49 demograpic, 4.80 million viewers) was Wednesday’s No. 1 program in primetime, taking 8-10 PM in both metrics, though it opened down two tenths in the demo and about 600,000 in total viewers from its last launch. After Ninja War…

NBC has set premiere dates for a pair of its veteran summer series. Season 14 of America’s Got Talent will get a two-hour premiere at 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 28, and American Ninja Warrior will launch its eighth season at from 8-10 p.m. the next night before settling into its regular slot at 8 p.m. Monday, June 10. The AGT…

NBC has renewed three-time Emmy-nominated American Ninja Warrior for an eighth season. Production will begin this spring and a premiere date will be announced shortly, according to the network. Hosted again by Matt Iseman and Akbar Gbajabiamila, the popular obstacle course competition series will shoot in six cities…

UPDATED with final numbers: NBC’s two-hour season finale of American Ninja Warrior (1.2 rating in adult 18-94, 5.69 million viewers) was broadcast TV’s most-watched show Monday, its best rating in three months but off three tenths from last year’s season-ender. Also wrapping its season last night was Fox’s two-hour So…

A whopping three-hour edition of Bachelor in Paradise (1.1 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic, 4.18 million viewers) on Monday saw the ABC summer reality series dip to a season low in the demo. Still it was primetime’s top-rated program, giving the network a No. 1 finish for the Labor Day holiday in early Nielsen…

Carpool Karaoke: When Corden Met McCartney Live From Liverpool (0.6 rating in the 18-49 demo, 4.30 million viewers) clocked in Monday as CBS’ most watched Carpool Karaoke special to date. But ABC’s 8-10 PM Bachelor in Paradise (1.3, 4.73M) was tops in the demo for the night, clearing ABC’s way to take Monday in the…

Slow and steady wins the race. Like one of its own contestants gearing up to take on the Warped Wall, American Ninja Warrior's remarkable success story has been a matter of perseverance, grit, and the determination to be a disruptor despite myriad obstacles in its path. In a sense, the challenge Ninja has faced has…

Featuring the Monday premiere of Bachelor in Paradise (1.3 rating in adults 18-49, 4.54 million viewers) and the return of The Proposal (0.6, 2.45M), ABC shared first-place status with NBC in the demo, marking that network’s first first-place finish, sans sports, since May 14. From 8-10 PM BiP ranked as Monday's top…

Amid some controversy over Garrett Yrigoyen's online behavior and choices, Becca Kufrin accepted the suitor's proposal of marriage and brought Season 14 of The Bachelorette (1.8/9) to an conclusion — a happy ending, sorta. The finale worked out OK for ABC in the short term as the romance competition series’ three-hour…

In the penultimate episode of its fourteenth season, The Bachelorette (1.3/5) last night turned to its annual “Men Tell All” show where the significant rejects recount what they think really went down with Becca Kufrin. Needless to say, while the show sidestepped some off camera controversial behavior, the fellas who…

ABC's 8-10 PM The Bachelorette (1.6, 6.27M) headlined Monday in Total Viewers and in the demo for an eighth consecutive week. The hook-up show’s overall audience was its biggest so far this season. And Bachelorette dominated NBC’s American Ninja Warrior (1.1, 5.18M) in the two hours by more than 1M viewers and 36% in…