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It’s another Friday night triumph for Fox’s WWE Friday Night SmackDown. The program topped the demo wars with an 0.5, again leading the pack, as it has for several weeks. It also gave Fox the network crown on the evening with an 0.5 Universal Champion Roman Reigns and cousin Jey Uso ran into trouble against King…

EXCLUSIVE: NBC has handed a script commitment plus penalty to Lewisburg, a drama inspired by the life of actor Gbenga Akinnagbe (The Wire, The Deuce). The project hails from Akinnagbe, American Gothic creator/executive producer Corinne Brinkerhoff, Dan Lin’s Rideback, Craig Turk’s Thinking Hat, and CBS TV Studios. Lewi…

EXCLUSIVE: CBS has topped primetime, daytime and late-night TV viewership for a second 52-week season in a row. While in a virtual dead-heat with NBC for overall total reach, the ViacomCBS-owned network averaged 6.32 million viewers in the highly valued 8-11 PM period for the 2019-2020 full-year season, says Nielsen…

Jim Carrey is set to play Joe Biden in the upcoming season of Saturday Night Live as the NBC show adds three new featured players and will have a limited studio audience when it returns. The show will feature Carrey most likely as Biden. Michaels, speaking in an interview with Vulture, said, "Maya Rudolph is coming…

The whole gang is getting back together for season 46 of Saturday Night Live. NBC confirmed that all of the cast of season 45 including Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, Cecily Strong and Kenan Thompson will be returning as the sketch comedy series returns to Studio 8H on October 3. There had previously been some talk that…

UPDATE, 9:45 AM: Sunday Night Football's official season debut saw a win for the LA Rams against the always hyped Dallas Cowboys, but a loss for NBC and the NFL. Actually, now the final numbers are in, make that a multi-year loss for the league and the Comcast-owned network. With just 18.94 million viewers tuning in…

EXCLUSIVE: NBC has put in development a single-camera comedy written by and starring Talk Show The Game Show creator Guy Branum. It hails from Todd Milliner and Sean Hayes’ Hazy Mills and Universal TV, where the company is based. In the untitled project, which is based on Branum’s life, after his father’s death, a gay…

Fox’s WWE Friday Night SmackDown continues to dominate the night’s ratings, but this week, it faced a stiffer challenge from more network original programming. The wrestling show topped the night with an 0.6 in the prime demos. At the SmackDown, Roman Reigns teamed with cousin Jey Uso ahead of their Clash of Champions…

EXCLUSIVE: NBC’s This Is Us, broadcast TV’s highest-rated scripted series, is preparing to go back to production. I hear that the acclaimed drama is targeting Sept. 24 to begin shooting its upcoming fifth season. As is the case with any production during the pandemic, the date is tentative and subject to change. This I…

UPDATED, 12:25 PM: The game ended over 12 hours ago and now the final numbers are in from last night's NFL season opener. The primetime matchup between the victorious Kansas City Chiefs and the Houston Texans snared 19.3 million viewers on NBC. That's a fumble of 12.3% from the Green Bay Packers-Chicago Bears opening…

The NFL season — somehow, some way — is actually kicking off tonight in Kansas City with NBC’s broadcast of the Chiefs game against the Houston Texans. The return of pro football (plus select college games) is coming not a moment too soon for a television advertising business trying to end this tempestuous year on a…

Saturday Night Live will be back in the studio for its 46th season next month. The venerable NBC sketch comedy series will return on October 3 and will air live from Studio 8H in 30 Rock. This comes nearly seven months since the show's last in-studio appearance on March 7, hosted by Daniel Craig. The show pivoted to…