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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…

EXCLUSIVE: CBS has topped primetime, daytime and late-night TV viewership for a second 52-week season in a row. While in a virtual dead-heat with NBC for overall total reach, the ViacomCBS-owned network averaged 6.32 million viewers in the highly valued 8-11 PM period for the 2019-2020 full-year season, says Nielsen…

CBS has been the most proactive among the Big 3 networks in making decisions on pilots coming off a 2020 pilot season decimated by the coronavirus pandemic. It has made calls on five projects, picking up three to series, The Equalizer reboot starring Queen Latifah, Silence of the Lambs sequel Clarice starring Rebecca…

CBS is taking a look at how it processes non-scripted series following the departure of Sharon Vuong. Vuong, who spent three years as head of unscripted at CBS and nine years at the network overall, left the broadcaster last month and joined NBC. During her time at CBS, she oversaw long-running reality franchises…

Bull star Michael Weatherly is receiving "leadership coaching," CBS Entertainment president Kelly Kahl revealed onstage today at the TCA. Showrunner Glenn Gordon Caron is in “leadership training” too, the exec added. "It is implied in the name that is how to be a leader on the set, it's how to be a positive example…

CBS has completed its upfront advertising sales, according to a person familiar with the discussions, posting CPM gains of 14% to 16% in primetime and volume gains of 20% in late night. On the strength of continuing tune-in for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and The Late Late Show with James Corden, CPMs in late…

A year ago, Les Moonves drew hearty applause from advertisers for fending off corporate turmoil. On Wednesday, the legacy of the former CEO reappeared in the venue he built into an annual display of his — and the network’s — power: the annual upfront presentation at Carnegie Hall. "Turns out Les Moonves was totally…

EXCLUSIVE: Just hours after longtime CBS Corp. CEO Les Moonves exited the company in September over sexual misconduct allegations, the company’s interim CEO Joe Ianniello assured staffers in an internal memo that CBS "has a steadfast commitment to diversity, inclusion and a safe and positive working environment." He…

At the summer TCA press tour in August, CBS Entertainment president Kelly Kahl faced a barrage of questions about the network’s culture just days after the first story about allegations of past sexual misconduct against CBS CEO Leslie Moonves came out. At the same event, Kahl also revealed that the network was in…

Facebook made its TCA debut in hopes of talking up Facebook Watch, but wound up swatting at questions about its distribution of conspiracy peddler InfoWars. Netflix and Amazon returned to the semi-annual TV confab after being MIA for two years. Broadcasters took a back seat, literally and figuratively, at this year’s…

CBS Entertainment chief Kelly Kahl is one of few broadcast entertainment division execs to brave a Q&A with TV critics at this summer’s TCA, facing mostly questions about sexual harassment allegations against his company’s CEO/President Les Moonves, CBS News (which Kahl does not oversee), and the possibly record…

UPDATED with comment from Rob Lowe: Fans of the CBS drama Code Black were pleased to hear Kelly Kahl, President of CBS Entertainment say that they were looking to bring back the medical drama. Show creator Michael Seitzman also said that they have reached out to streaming services to give Code Black a new home and…