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It was time for a throwback episode at Fox’s WWE Friday Night SmackDown, as some of the league’s greatest matches and rivalries were relived in a trip down the archives. The memories were good for an 0.6, which led the night’s demo wars. Close behind on ABC was perennial Friday winner Shark Tank, which was down a tick…

Kids Say The Darndest Things, but the children’s’ odd and adorably clueless phrases host Tiffany Haddish has to deal were not enough for the CBS variety show to rule Wednesday’s ratings. Hosted by the Bad Trip and Tuca and Bertie actress, Kids Say The Darndest Things‘ CBS premiere on Wednesday dropped 67% in the 18-49…

EXCLUSIVE: CBS’ United States of Al has added The Big Bang Theory alum Brian Thomas Smith to its cast in a recurring role. Created and written by David Goetsch and Maria Ferrari, United States of Al is about the friendship between Riley (Parker Young), a Marine combat veteran struggling to readjust to civilian life in…

Ahead of the broadcast upfronts later this month, we are examining the chances of scripted series on the bubble whose renewal is in limbo. While ABC, NBC and Fox still have non-bubble series to pick up including Grey’s Anatomy (pending cast deals), Station 19, The Goldbergs, Black-ish, The Rookie, Law & Order: Organize…

It’s the first week of May, which is normally when Deadline does its final handicapping of the new crop of broadcast pilots’ pickup changes. As the TV industry — and the country — are starting to see the first signs of a return to normalcy, the broadcast networks are gearing up for the upfronts, in their usual…

EXCLUSIVE: Jamie McShane (Bloodline) is joining CBS’ CSI: Vegas, a sequel to the mothership CSI series, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, in a recurring role. Additionally, Paul Guilfoyle, who played Jim Brass on the original will return to reprise his role in the sequel series, appearing in two episodes. The sequel…

​Sen. Tim Scott underlined his controversial “America is not a racist country” comment today on CBS’ Face The Nation. The South Carolina Republican made that remark on America in his rebuttal last week to President Biden’s first address to Congress. His remarks drew fire and racist comments from those who disagreed…

The Amazing Race has been on the air for 20 years, and this year the CBS reality adventure competition series hit a major milestone: 1 million miles travelled. The 32nd season of the show, which premiered in October 2020, featured legs through the Amazon and across Kazakhstan as well as its first ever "mega-leg,&#8221…

With Tough as Nails, Phil and Louise Keoghan hoped to honor working-class people whose contributions to American society too often go overlooked. "Most of my family [is] working class," said co-creator, executive producer and host Phil Keoghan, speaking during a panel at Deadline's virtual Contenders Television…

It was farewell to CBS crime drama MacGyver on Friday night, as the series finale saw the team dealing with a mind control conspiracy, which leads them to question their commitment to the Phoenix Foundation. Despite that intriguing plotline, viewers failed to show up, as the series dropped in demos (0.4) and audience…

SPOILER ALERT: The following article contains details from the series finale of CBS’s MacGyver. On tonight’s series finale of MacGyver, MacGyver (Lucas Till) and Riley (Tristin Mays) stumble onto a mind control conspiracy, which leads them to question their commitment to the Phoenix Foundation. Directed by David…

Over a year that has seen the world turn upside down several times on several fronts, television ratings have proven resolute, sort of. While the numbers are down almost everywhere from the lows of the Super Bowl and the Oscars and all ports of call, it looks pretty certain that for the second year in a row Fox will…