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The Season 12 premiere of American Ninja Warrior set the bar Monday night, delivering a 0.6 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and 3.50 million viewers. The NBC athletic competition was down from its Season 11 average but ticked up a tenth from last week’s all-stars special. NBC ended the night with a repeat of Dat…

After two weeks of the DNC and RNC, regular programming began to resurface in primetime Monday night. American Ninja Warrior returned with a special all-stars episode, leading the night with a 0.5 in the adults 18-49 demographic and 3.48 million viewers. It was followed by a rerun of Dateline, with both shows giving…

NBC is continuing to rejig its fall schedule with American Ninja Warrior moving into The Voice's slot in September. Season 12 of the reality competition series, which completed production during the pandemic, will launch from 8-10 p.m. Monday, September 7. Deadline understands that The Voice, which was set to occupy…

UPDATED, 12:20 PM: American Ninja Warrior has severed ties with last year’s winner Drew Drechsel following his arrest on federal child sex-related charges. NBCUniversal and producer A. Smith & Co released the following statement Wednesday: “We are shocked and disturbed to learn about the charges alleged against Drew…

UPDATED: Several reality/game shows are delaying production, shutting down or going without a studio audience. NBC’s American Ninja Warrior has postponed production for two weeks. The series was originally scheduled to start filming tomorrow, March 13. That date has now been pushed. Also postponed is start of…

American Ninja Warrior is returning for a ninth season. NBC said it has renewed the four-time Emmy-nominated series for a return this summer. Production will begin in the spring with a premiere date TBD. Hosted by Matt Iseman and Akbar Gbajabiamila along with sideline reporter Zuri Hall, the obstacle course…

Monday was a night to cut a rug, as ABC debuted its 28th season of Dancing With the Stars and Fox said goodbye to the 16th season of So You Think You Can Dance. There were many that had a lot to say about former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer on the roster for this season of DWTS (mostly not-so-nice things)…

The end of Labor Day weekend was fairly quiet when it came to primetime broadcast ratings, with ABC’s Bachelor In Paradise winning Monday in the adults 18-49 demographic and NBC’s American Ninja Warrior taking total viewers. Bachelor in Paradise (1.1, 4.07M) fell off a tenth with its two-hour show and led into Grand Ho…

CBS took a step back Monday with a lineup of reruns, leaving it to the other networks to vie for primetime’s top ratings spot, which went to ABC’s Bachelor In Paradise. The tropical romantic reality series ticked down a smidge from last week, garnering a 1.2 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and 4.55 million…

After its premiere last week, the tropical on-the-hunt-for-romance reality series Bachelor in Paradise topped Monday night despite dipping two-tenths with a 1.1 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and 4.3 million viewers. NBC’s American Ninja Warrior came in strong last night with a 0.9 rating and 4.71 million…

Repeats, reruns, encores or rebroadcasts – call them what you will, but they are the staples of summertime programming. So it was no surprise that a night filled with the “R” word saw a repeat showing come out on top in the demo wars. The two-hour American Ninja Warrior on NBC scored a solid 0.5/3 and 2.37 million…

ABC’s special The Bachelorette: The Men Tell All won Monday in primetime, pushing the network to the top spot in the ratings and viewers for the night. The special, on which contestants spill the beans about what happened on the show (behind the scenes and in front of the camera), hit its best numbers since 2015 with…