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Big Brother, featuring Julie Chen’s dramatic first CBS appearance since CBS Corp’s ouster of CEO husband Les Moonves, was Thursday night’s highest-rated broadcast program in key demos by a considerable margin. BB (1.7 rating in the 18-49 demographic, 5.99 million viewers) jumped two tenths from its previous Thursday…

NBC kicked off NFL season (6.6 demo rating, 18.96 million viewers) and dominated Thursday, though the 45-minute rain-delayed play between Philly Eagles and Atlanta Falcons took a ratings plunge compared to previous year’s 7.7 demo rating, 21.79M viewers season starter. The Falcons/Eagles NFL kickoff was the top…

ABC has slated three premiere dates for the return of one of their popular game shows and two new series. The third season of the revival of the retro game show Match Game from FremantleMedia North America will premiere at 9 PM EDT June 21 with Alec Baldwin returning as the host. The hilarious panel game features two…

Ahead of tonight’s winter finales, ABC has set midseason return dates for Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal and How To Get Away With Murder, along with the premiere dates for Ricky Gervais’ new game show Child Support and the Season 3 return of Alec Baldwin-hosted Match Game. The Shondaland TGIT block remains intact with the…

ABC has renewed its game show Match Game, hosted by Alec Baldwin, for a third season. Additionally, Baldwin's company, El Dorado Pictures, has signed a two-year first-look deal with the network’s sibling ABC Studios. The announcement was made during ABC’s portion of the TCA summer press tour. While ranking below other…

An almost full night on the Big 4 saw movement up and down the ratings court Sunday as the NBA playoffs scored on cable. In early metered market results, ABC and ESPN saw double-digit increases from last year as reigning champs the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Indiana Pacers 106-102 and the Houston Rockets topped…

UPDATED: ABC is sticking with its game show lineup. The network has renewed the Steve Harvey-hosted Celebrity Family Feud for a third season, and picked up $100,000 Pyramid, Match Game and To Tell The Truth for Season 2, ABC president of entertainment Channing Dungey announced at the top of the network’s TCA executive…

NBC won Sunday among broadcast networks in the demo, and in overall audience, with coverage of U.S. Olympics Trials in track and field, and in gymnastics. From 7-8:30 PM ET, track and field coverage clocked 4.9M viewers, and a 1.1/5 demo rating/share. That’s up 38% compared to previous week’s Olympics Trials coverage…

Veteran game and competition reality producer Scott St. John has signed with ICM Partners. St. John has produced over 1,000 hours of alternative programming, including Deal Or No Deal and America’s Got Talent. He serves as executive producer and showrunner of ABC's new primetime revival of Match Game with host Alec…

In its second-season opener Sunday, Celebrity Family Feud was down from its breakout debut last summer but did solid business for ABC, flanked by the series premieres of two other classic game show reboots, $100,000 Pyramid and Match Game. $100,000 Pyramid, hosted by Michael Strahan — who has been in the headlines a…

ABC is adding another revival of a classic game show to its summer lineup: a new Match Game, from FremantleMedia North America, hosted and executive produced by Alec Baldwin. The 30 Rock alum, who is said to be commanding one of the highest game-show-hosting salaries ever, will be donating his talent fee to his wife…