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For many, Friday night is Date Night. For NBC, Friday night was Dateline’s night, as the news show topped the 18-49 demo wars for the evening, coming in at 0.6/4 and 3.39 million viewers. Combine that with American Ninja Warrior’s strong 0.5/4 and 2.54 million for its 8-10 PM encore, and NBC breezed to the top of the…

Social media sensation Lilly Singh has set the first week's lineup for A Little Late with Lilly Singh, marking the debut of her NBC late-night series. The premiere episode on Monday will stream on the show’s YouTube site at 10 PM ET, three hours before its normal time slot on NBC. Guests for the first week: Monday, Sep…

EXCLUSIVE: Bobby Moynihan is returning to NBC. The Saturday Night Live alum has been cast in a lead role opposite Ted Danson on the network’s single-camera comedy series from the 30 Rock and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt duo of Tina Fey and Robert Carlock. The comedy, which has a straight-to-series order, is about a…

UPDATED, 11:48 AM: The candidates will be back onstage next month in a debate hosted  by CNN and the New York Times, but now we know how Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris and the rest did last night on ABC and Univision. Coming in strong in early metrics, the three-hour primetime Democratic…

Meet Saturday Night Live’s new cast additions for its upcoming 45th season. Chloe Fineman, Shane Gillis and Bowen Yang have been tapped as new featured players on NBC’s venerable late-night sketch comedy program. Yang joined SNL as a staff writer last season and is co-host of the Las Culturistas podcast. The promotion…

NBC can’t stop the music. The network has booked a return trip to Songland, renewing the summer songwriting competition series for a second season. Songland takes an inside look at the creative songwriting process. It provides one winner per episode the opportunity to have their song recorded for a global audience by…

UPDATED, 1: 35 PM: In what was the most lopsided Sunday Night Football score ever for the NBC and NFL show, the New England Patriots’ 33-3 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers last night has delivered its final numbers. And they are a lot like the 2018 SNF season opener and last week’s 100th-season opener between the…

It was the peacock network versus the alphabet network on Friday night. The peacock network won, as NBC once again rode its athletes and newsmag format to glory. A rerun of American Ninja Warrior had an 0.6/4 and 2.85 million audience for its two-hour broadcast, holding steady from its prior week. That led into Datelin…

EXCLUSIVE: India de Beaufort (Kevin Probably Saves the World), Michael Thomas Grant (Roadies), Kapil Talwalkar (American Princess), Alice Lee (Real Bros. of Simi Valley), and Stephanie Styles (Three Rivers) are set for season-long arcs opposite Jane Levy in Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist, NBC's musical dramedy series…

UPDATE, 12:47 PM: The NFL's 100th season is officially underway and last night's Green Bay Packers' winning kickoff game against the Chicago Bears looks to have gotten things off on the right foot. The match-up snagged an audience of 22.0 million for NBC from 8:23 – 11:30 PM on Thursday. That's up 15.7% over the…

In a competitive situation, NBC has landed TriBeCa, an hourlong drama based on the hit Korean original series Sky Castle, from Supergirl executive producers/showrunners Jessica Queller and Robert Rovner and Supergirl producers Berlanti Prods. and Warner Bros. TV. Written by Queller and Rovner, TriBeCa has received a…

EXCLUSIVE: NBC has put in development Brain Trust, a drama based on Carol Rigg’s book The Body Institute, from Ringer creators Eric Charmelo and Nicole Snyder, Neil Meron (Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert, Patsy & Loretta) and Universal Television, where Charmelo and Snyder are under an overall deal. Written by…