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UPDATED with final numbers: Ricky Gervais returned for his fifth (and final?) time as host of the Golden Globes on Sunday, taking shots at Hollywood throughout a night that saw period movies 1917 and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and TV series Succession and Fleabag take home the top prizes. The ceremony drew 18.325…

Sunday Night Football on NBC took a hit this week sans the Dallas Cowboys, with the Los Angeles Rams beating the Chicago Bears to keep their playoff hopes alive. In fast affiliate ratings that don’t include the West Coast — the game was played at the L.A. Coliseum — it drew a 4.3 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic…

Another day of the 2019-20 broadcast season, another new series opening to a 0.7 adults 18-49 Live+Same Day rating. This time it is Fox’s animated comedy Bless the Harts. At this point, because so many new shows are starting this year at a ratings level which series in the past had hit en route to swift cancellation…

EXCLUSIVE: Karine Vanasse (Cardinal, Revenge) has booked a recurring role on the upcoming second season of God Friended Me, 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…

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: Veteran writer-producer Robby Hull, who served as co-executive producer on the first season of CBS' drama series God Friended Me, has been promoted to executive producer and co-showrunner for season 2. Hull will serve as co-showrunner alongside God Friended Me creators/executive producers Steven Lilien and…

Airing in the teeth of HBO's 9 PM final Game of Thrones season opener,  broadcast networks had a remarkably steady Sunday. Ratings for HBO’s final-season starter won’t be in until Tuesday, but CBS’ Game of Thrones nodding 60 Minutes (0.9 demo rating, 8.537 million viewers) was Sunday’s most watched broadcast…

Adam Goldberg has been cast in recurring role as Simon Hayes, the techie billionaire Simon Hayes who may or may not be owner of the God Account on CBS series God Friended Me, EP Bryan Wynbrandt announced Wednesday at TCA. God Friended Me stars Brandon Micheal Hall as an outspoken atheist who receives a “friend&#8221…

CBS has ordered a second season of freshman hit drama God Friended Me for the 2019-2020 broadcast season. "We're thrilled with how God Friended Me has performed on Sundays. It's one of the top three new series on television, has improved its time period significantly, and continues a long tradition of prestige dramas…

CBS has handed back orders to three more freshman series, multi-camera comedy The Neighborhood and dramas Magnum P.I. and God Friended Me. The sizes of the pickups are not being revealed, but I hear that The Neighborhood‘s order is around nine episodes, which would bring its first season to a 22, and Magnum P.I. and Go…

CBS’ God Friended Me series opener (1.4 demo rating, 10.45 million viewers) appears to have been blessed, if not from above, by the NFL in overrun anyway. Also giving thanks to Sunday Night Football last night is Fox’s The Simpsons Season 30 starter (1.8, 4.85M), which was bestowed with an early fourth-tenths pop in…

Empire alum Malik Yoba is set for a recurring role opposite Brandon Micheal Hall in CBS drama series God Friended Me, from Alcatraz co-creators Steven Lilien and Bryan Wynbrandt, director Marcos Siega, Greg Berlanti's Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. TV. Written by Lilien and Wynbrandt and directed by Siega, God F…