President Trump kicked off his re-election campaign tonight in Orlando, Florida. While the crowd at his rally whooped and cheered, the president’s latest poll numbers are nothing to celebrate. Even Fox News, his most trusted network, delivered a dose of bad poll numbers that showed him being trumped by several…

CBS has entered the lifestyle programming sector with Dabl, a multi-platform network that will use the CBS station portfolio as the foundation of its linear launch on September 9. The ad-supported network is cleared in 70% of the country, including all of the top 10 U.S. markets and 23 of the top 25. Dabl (pronounced…

Fox’s coverage of the final round of U.S. Open scored a hole in one this weekend as it dominated weekend prime time. The telecast delivered a 5.2 metered market household rating/12 share, making it the best for final round coverage since 2013. The telecast, which aired 2 to 9:45 PM ET, was up +44% over 2018 (3.16/9)…

Producer Katherine “Katy” Textor, who collaborated with Morley Safer on nearly all of his reports over his last years on 60 Minutes, died of cancer Friday at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan. She was 45 and her death was reported by CBS. Textor came to CBS News in 2003 from ABC News, where she was a…

The summertime effect is kicking in to the Friday ratings game, and the slowdown is reflected in the lack of huge audience numbers being generated. No one show dominated the competition this week. At ABC, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. weighed in with an 0.4/3 and 2.22 million, with the two-hour 20/20 performing…

The third set of merger talks between CBS and Viacom is expected to ramp up as June winds on, and CBS board members are said to have met Friday to begin exploring some of the issues involved in reuniting the companies. The two companies certainly are familiar with each other, having been under the same corporate roof…

CBS has announced the premiere dates for its 2019-2020 fall season. As usual, CBS' is sticking to tradition, rolling out the bulk of its lineup (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday) during the official premiere week. Like it has done for the past few years, the network is kicking off Wednesdays with…

EXCLUSIVE: Erica Gimpel, who recurred last season on God Friended Me, has been promoted to series regular for season 2 of the CBS drama series from Greg Berlanti’s Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. TV. Created by Steven Lilien and Bryan Wynbrandt and starring Brandon Micheal Hall, God Friended Me is a humor-tinged…

EXCLUSIVE: Tom Szentgyorgyi (The Mentalist) has joined newly picked up CBS drama series Tommy, starring Edie Falco, as executive producer and showrunner. The series, from CBS TV Studios and Amblin TV, is created/executive produced by Homicide: Life On the Streets creator Paul Attanasio. He is known as a prolific…

Michelle Obama will join James Corden in London when he presents The Late Late Show in the British capital for a third time. The British entertainer has persuaded the former First Lady to play an international game of dodgeball during the four-part run. Corden is taking on Obama in a Team USA versus Team UK game that…

UPDATED with video: James Corden got the Tony Awards off to an electrifying start with a nearly 10-minute song-and-dance extravaganza that persuasively extolled the virtues of the live stage while smuggling a celebration of TV into theater’s biggest night. It was the CBS late-night host’s second outing hosting the…

The 73rd Annual Tony Awards took place Sunday night, live from Radio City Music Hall in New York and Hadestown stood out as the top winner taking the home eight trophies. James Corden hosted with an all-star roster of presenters including Jake Gyllenhaal, Josh Groban, Sara Bareilles, Samuel L. Jackson, Laura Benanti…