Jeff Daniels went on MSNBC’s Deadline: White House in a pre-Tonys roundtable today and basically took the Republican Party to the woodshed. The star of Broadway’s To Kill a Mockingbird harkened back to a previous role — that of cable news anchor Will McAvoy from HBO’s The Newsroom, for which he won an Emmy — as he…

Attorney General Bill Barr goosed cable news numbers Wednesday, testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee about Robert Mueller’s report. Fox News Channel dominated, clocking 2.157M viewers, including 304K in the news demo from 10 AM until 4 PM ET. MSNBC logged 1.687M viewers including 193K in that key 25-54 age…

Stephen Colbert’s Late Show will air live after both nights of the first Dem debate, Wednesday, June 26 and Thursday, June 27. The Late Show did not reveal Colbert’s guests for the broadcasts, saying that info would be parsed out at a later date. The first Democratic debate of the 2020 presidential primary will be…

Fox News Channel finished April as the No. 1 basic cable network for a 34th consecutive month in total day. The month the DOJ finally released special counsel Robert Mueller’s nearly two-year probe into Russian election interference and any Trump administration role, FNC also celebrated its 208th consecutive month as…

FNC outscored CNN's town-hall palooza Monday night. MSNBC did same in total viewers only, but fell short of CNN in the news demo. From 7 PM to midnight, FNC clocked 2.3M viewers and 380K in the 25-54 age bracket, besting MSNBC (1.8M, 2.85K) in both metrics and handily trumping CNN (1.2, 371K) in overall audience, with…

President Donald Trump spent Tuesday morning tossing more anti-CNN, MSNBC, and New York Times treats to his base, as his approval rating sank 5 points to tie his all-time low in wake of redacted Mueller report release. Trump kicked things off trashing “Fake New York TImes” economic columnist Paul Krugman who, POTUS…

Cable news viewers cast their vote on Kirsten Gillibrand Tuesday night; it wasn’t pretty, ratings-wise. MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell nearly quadrupled CNN's Kirsten Gillibrand town hall  at 10 PM. In the news demo, 25-54, MSNBC doubled CNN. Meanwhile, Fox News Channel trounced both. O'Donnell clocked…

2ND UPDATE, 1:04 PM: CNN is hosting the second Democratic debate of the 2020 presidential race, and the cable news outlet said today that it will be held July 30 and 31 in Detroit. See earlier story below for more details. UPDATED, March 28: The first Democratic debate of the 2020 presidential race will be held in…

Maybe it's all that "executive time" that Donald Trump spends watching, but Fox News Channel is once again having a victory march with its 69th consecutive quarter win in the cable newsers’ ratings battle. However, even though the Rupert Murdoch owned outlet was the clear winner in total day, primetime and overall for…

“The Mainstream Media is under fire and being scorned all over the World,” President Donald Trump  tweeted Tuesday morning. “For two years they pushed the Russian Collusion Delusion when they always knew there was NO Collusion,” he insisted. “They truly are the Enemy of the People and the Real Opposition Party!” he…

Fox News Channel was top rated among cable news nets on Friday when word broke that Special Counsel Robert Mueller had wrapped his investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and handed his report to Attorney General William Barr. From 5-6 PM ET, when the TV news landscape broke out in an eczema of…

Al Sharpton called for police to be held accountable Saturday on his MSNBC show Politics Nation, after prosecutors in Sacramento announced they would not charge the officers who fatally shot Stephon Clark, an unarmed African-American man. Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert held a news conference…