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Fox on Sunday aired a full night of Miss Universe Pageant (1.1 rating in the 18-49 demo, 4.19 million viewers), which clung to last year’s demo rating but fumbled 27,000 viewers compared with last year’s November broadcast. Meanwhile, ABC's annual The Sound of Music (0.7, 4.20M) broadcast ticked down in both metrics…

Monday's episode of the syndicated talker Steve Harvey focused on the host’s gaffe at the Miss Universe pageant last month, and it’s clear that the public remains interested. "Miss Universe: The Truth, Part I" drew a 2.6 rating in metered markets, hitting a high-water mark for the 4-year-old series. It was No. 1 in…

The UK's Channel 4 has greenlit comedy soap opera, The Windsors. In what's promised as a look at the imagined lives and loves of the royal family, the stories will be fictional, but inspired by real events. The six-part series will be written by Bert Tyler-Moore and George Jeffrie (Star Stories, Pete Versus Life)…

Azteca America has acquired the Spanish-language rights to air The 64th Annual Miss Universe Pageant on Sunday. Hosted by Vanessa Claudio and Poncho de Anda, the pageant will be broadcast simultaneously with Fox’s telecast beginning at 7 PM ET. The Spanish-language rights to the broadcast previously belonged to…

Sunday evening’s pileup of prominent TV events – including the NFL Pro Bowl, the SAG Awards, the Miss Universe pageant and a WWE pay-per-view – pushed past all but one thing to fill up the week’s Twitter TV Top 10 ratings by Nielsen. That one other thing, however, was President Obama’s State of the Union speech five…

On a quiet Sunday between the AFC Championship game and the Super Bowl viewers gravitated towards pageantry and silly videos. NBC’s three-hour broadcast of the 63rd Annual Miss Universe Pageant (2.0/6 in 18-49, 7.6 million viewers) was the top program of the night in the demo and earned the beauty pageant its top…