EXCLUSIVE:MTV’s Video Music Awards led the way on Instagram last night with a total of 64 million social interactions. Those are “huge numbers,” according to a source with the social media app. For comparison’s sake, last night's VMAs generated 21.4 million tweets, which reached 11.8 million people, the Viacom-owned…
The 2015 MTVVideo Music Awards snared 9.8 million total viewers across 10 Viacom networks. That’s down from last year’s 10.3M, factoring in simulcasts on MTV, MTV2, VH1, Logo, etc., according to Nielsen stats.
MTV did not send stats for last night’s premiere of its annual orgy of excess. Last year’s VMAs clocked 8.3…
DVRs across the country will be paused tonight as viewers of MTV’s 2015 Video Music Awards rewind and freeze the sole gasp of the night: A flash of Miley Cyrus‘ bare left breast. As the show wore down, Cyrus, changing into a costume backstage while on camera, lost her grip on a carefully discreet curtain when a…
Saturday Night Live has slotted Tracy Morgan, Amy Schumer and Miley Cyrus as hosts in October.
Tracy Morgan will host SNL for the second time on October 17, his first appearance since a tragic vehicle accident that left him hospitalized and killed his friend and colleague James, "Jimmy Mac" McNair. A settlement was rea…
Two years removed from the VMAs performance that officially buried her Hannah Montana character forever, Miley Cyrus is taking over the trophy show. The erstwhile Disney sitcom star will help celebrate the best of the videos that MTV doesn’t show anymore as host of the affair, which will air August 30. Her…
With TV producers, executives, actors and agents descending on New York, here again is Deadline’s rundown of this year’s events, originally posted last week. There are a few changes from last year, like NBC’s upfront presentation returning to the Radio City Music Hall after giving Seth Meyers a lot of fodder with…
The 2014 MTV Video Music Awards snagged 8.3 million viewers in first telecast on MTV on Sunday night — down from last year's 10.1 million but nonetheless qualifying it as the summer’s most-watched cable telecast. Factoring in all the simulcasts on MTV, MTV2, VH1 and Logo TV, the debut clocked 10.3 million total…
The end of the July 4th holiday weekend was almost a full house in primetime. While CBS was the only one of the Big 4 to have the closest to full schedule of new shows, ABC and NBC threw their hats somewhat into the ring as well. On a night that saw TV usage down 5% from June 29, Fox went for all animation encores and…
EXCLUSIVE:James Ward Byrkit has signed with Alex Manugian to write the screenplay for Paramount's long-gestating thriller Wake. Wake chronicles the high school life and loves of Janie Hannagan, a teen who has the ability to enter other people's dreams. This project has been trying to find its form since it was first…
Because nothing says “celebration of TV industry” like a Monday in August, NBC and the TV Academy on Tuesday said they had picked August 25 as the airdate for this year's Primetime Emmy Awards. NBC yanking the Emmys out of its traditional night-before-the-start-of-the-TV season berth to make way for the…
The year 2013 was so jam-packed with TV controversies that, after Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson this month left A&E looking more or less like the spot marked with chalk where the accident had occurred, exhausted Reporters Who Cover Television slumped over in a surfeited sort of coma.
Here’s a look at some of…
