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While Will Forte was fully expected to reprise one of his best known Saturday Night Live characters, MacGruber, in his return to the late-night show as host, he also brought back a lesser-known skit from his time on the program. Forte, joined by Kristen Wiig — his former SNL colleague and current co-star on the MacGrub…

A cold winter’s night saw a unique divide between Sharks and Smacks, as ABC’s Shark Tank and Fox’s WWE Friday Night SmackDown tied atop the demo pool, each raising an 0.6. Shark Tank’s new episode saw Mark Cuban, Daymond John, Kevin O'Leary, Lori Greiner, Daymond John and Barbara Corcoran duel over entrepreneurs…

During the holiday break, which traditionally shuts down Hollywood for the final two weeks of the year, top broadcast network executives used to spend a significant portion of their time reading pilot scripts before kicking off pilot pickups at the start of January with early drama standouts. Broadcast business…

EXCLUSIVE: NBC is losing a Small Fortune. The network has canceled the Lil Rel Howery-hosted game show after one season. It comes after the series, which is based on a British format, aired between May and July last year. It is the latest unscripted cancellation at NBC this week; Deadline revealed on Tuesday that Ellen…

A strong and steady showing paid off for Chicago Med on Wednesday, as the NBC medical drama earned the top spot of primetime in both counts. Stable from the previous week, Chicago Med earned a 0.8 demo rating and 7.2 million viewers, per fast affiliates. Like last week, both Med and Chicago Fire (0.8, 7.08M) tied to…

Olympic gold medalist Lindsey Vonn is headed to the 2022 Beijing winter games as a primetime correspondent for NBC. The four-time Olympian and the winningest woman in alpine skiing World Cup history made her debut as part of the NBC Sports team this month. "As one of the greatest Olympic skiers of all time and a…

NBC has tweaked its midseason schedule, pushing the premiere of Eurovision offshoot American Song Contest by a month, from the previously announced Monday, Feb. 21 (8-10 p.m.) to March 21. Taking over the slot is new reality series America’s Got Talent: Extreme, which made headlines last fall when a contestant was…

Even a night full of repeats can’t slow CBS down. Featuring reruns of is various FBI series, CBS won the night’s biggest audience and led primetime alongside a new episode of NBC’s This Is Us. Per fast affiliates, This Is Us and a repeat showing of FBI were Tuesday’s highest-rated and most-watched program…

EXCLUSIVE: Ellen DeGeneres' game show Ellen's Game of Games is not coming back to NBC. Deadline understands that the fourth season of the unscripted primetime series will be its last on the network. The series launched with an eight-episode order in 2017 and its fourth season, which debuted in October 2020 and ran…

Organizers of next month’s Beijing Olympics said Monday that only select “groups of spectators” will be invited to watch the Winter Games in person, a move that further restricts attendance at the event. “Given the current grave and complicated situation of the Covid-19 pandemic and to ensure the safety of all…

The latest Sunday Night Football game, capping a weekend of playoff games, proved a strong one for both the NBC and the Kansas City Chiefs. Live SNF games were already an obvious winner for Sunday primetime, but the wildcard edition that saw the Chiefs beat the Pittsburgh Steelers 42-21 last nigth brought in…

Once again, everything was coming up fives in the Friday evening demo wars for the major networks. Six shows tied for the top spot in early demo numbers on the night, leaving it to total viewership to break any ties. The total viewer honors go to perennial champion Blue Bloods, which helped the CBS crime drama lineup…