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It’s October, which means it’s time for the Major League Baseball playoffs to take center stage. Friday’s ratings reflected that, as Fox’s broadcast brought in a 1.1 in demos and 5.31 million viewers. Surprisingly (or maybe not so, given the fanaticism of its following) CBS crime drama Blue Bloods brought in a…

Wednesday night belonged to mysterious musicians and first responders as The Masked Singer topped the evening’s demo ratings and Chicago Fire walked away with the most viewers. After tying for second last week with Chicago Med, The Masked Singer returned as Wednesday’s highest-rated program drawing in a 0.9 in the…

EXCLUSIVE: Soul Food alumna Vanessa Estelle Williams has joined the Season 5 cast of Fox drama series 9-1-1 in a heavily recurring role. Williams will play Claudette Collins, a take-control 9-1-1 Call Center veteran who transfers back to the main Los Angeles station and shows the younger ones, including May Grant…

UPDATE: Per NBC, Sunday’s Bills-Chiefs game brought in an average Total Audience Delivery of 18.4 million viewers, 18% up from last year’s SNF match between the Minnesota Vikings and Seattle Seahawks. Even with adjusted numbers, the Bills-Chief match was way down from the previous week’s game, with a Total Audience…

The TV audience went swimming with sharks on Friday night, as ABC’s Shark Tank kicked off its Season 13, drawing an 0.5 and 3.55 million viewers. The demo score tied with the Fox WWE Friday Night SmackDown, which had an 0.5 for its visit to San Jose, Calif., but drew far less of a viewing crowd. Shark Tank saw the…

Fox touched down strong in Thursday primetime with its Thursday Night Football matchup between the Los Angeles Rams and the Seattle Seahawks, which saw the former earn a 26-17 victory on Fox. Per Nielsen fast affiliates, the game drew in a 2.1 rating in the 18-49 demo and 8.15 million viewers, easily surpassing the…

EXCLUSIVE: Melissa De Sousa (The Best Man franchise) and McKinley Freeman (Titans, Queen Sugar) are set for recurring roles opposite Morris Chestnut and Yaya DaCosta in Fox drama series Our Kind of People, from writer/executive producer Karin Gist and executive producer Lee Daniels. The role reunites De Sousa with…

SPOILER ALERT: The story includes details about the Oct. 5 episode of The Resident.  EXCLUSIVE: It was a bittersweet goodbye for Emily VanCamp on Tuesday night’s episode of Fox’s The Resident, as her character Nic Nevin succumbed to her injuries from an automobile accident. But VanCamp says she made the right decision…

EXCLUSIVE: Brave director Mark Andrews and his former Pixar colleague Andrew Gordon have teamed up with Israeli producer Oded Turgeman to develop an animated fantasy drama that is in the works at Fox. The network has closed a script deal, including back-up script, for Hawkmaster from the trio. The project is set in a…

Fox’s WWE Friday Night SmackDown once again topped the demo wars last night, coming in with an 0.6 to beat the field. But just behind the perennial Friday night wrestling winner was ABC’s two-hour special, The Most Magical Story on Earth, a celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Walt Disney World Resort hosted by The V…

With three days of playback factored in Premiere Week rankings have shifted a bit, with a number of popular returning series getting strong lifts. NCIS remained the second most-watched program of premiere week behind NBC’s Sunday Night Football, seeing the largest absolute gain in total viewers from Live+Same Day to…

EXCLUSIVE: Blu Hunt (The New Mutants) and Reno Wilson (Good Girls) are set as leads and Maximiliano Hernandez (Avengers: Endgame), Dawnn Lewis (Veronica Mars reboot), Derek Phillips (Blood of Zeus), Courtney Dietz (Beast Beast) and Troy Kotsur (The Mandalorian) also have been cast as series regulars in Fox pilot The La…