NBC has set fall premiere dates for its new and returning series. New comedies Perfect Harmony starring Bradley Whitford and Sunnyside with Kal Penn will join the Thursday lineup, and the freshman Jimmy Smits drama Bluff City Law gavels in on Mondays after The Voice. Check out the list below. As for the veteran…

Fox’s coverage of the final round of U.S. Open scored a hole in one this weekend as it dominated weekend prime time. The telecast delivered a 5.2 metered market household rating/12 share, making it the best for final round coverage since 2013. The telecast, which aired 2 to 9:45 PM ET, was up +44% over 2018 (3.16/9)…

The summertime effect is kicking in to the Friday ratings game, and the slowdown is reflected in the lack of huge audience numbers being generated. No one show dominated the competition this week. At ABC, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. weighed in with an 0.4/3 and 2.22 million, with the two-hour 20/20 performing…

UPDATE, 1:45 PM: Sports fans love stats and the record slashing Game 7 of the 2019 Stanley Cup certainly provided a net full of data for the St. Louis Blues, NBC, the NHL and everyone else. First of all, the final numbers are in and the first ever championship win for the Missouri team over the Boston Bruins last…

An executive producer behind the American Ninja Warrior franchise and Hell's Kitchen, Arthur Smith is always looking to break the mold and push limits within the reality competition space, doing so most recently with NBC's The Titan Games. Co-created by A. Smith and Dwayne Johnson, who also serves as host, and…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is in explanatory conversations with Universal Television about picking up former NBC drama pilot Prism to series, I have learned. I hear there has been considerable interest but sources stress that talks are in very preliminary stages and may not lead to a deal. Prism, from Daniel and Ben Barnz's…

The sixth host in the history of The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon has spent much of the last 20 years within Rockefeller Center, always looking to provide as much energy, entertainment value and out-of-the-box thinking as possible. Joining Saturday Night Live in 1998, Fallon then turned to the late-night sphere, cutting…

The North concluded its NBA Finals visit to the Bay Area last night, and laid waste to the Golden State Warriors like the Game of Thrones’ Mother of Dragons did to King’s Landing. A Game 4 victory at 105-92 over the reigning champ Warriors puts Toronto one game from the title, an achievement which would be the…

NBC’s The Good Place is ending after its upcoming fourth season, creator/executive producer Michael Schur announced Friday night at the Television Academy in North Hollywood during a panel discussion dedicated to the critically-acclaimed comedy series. "After The Good Place was picked up for season two, the writing…

Traci Saulsberry is expanding her role at NBC with a promotion to SVP Entertainment Publicity. In her new position, she will continue to lead the unscripted publicity team for NBC Entertainment, reporting to NBC Entertainmen’s EVP Communications Chip Sullivan. "Traci is an invaluable member of our organization whose…

Anyone braving the standstill of Los Angeles rush-hour traffic last night to the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre would have found that they arrived to a tranquil and emotional oasis as Fox and NBC celebrated the music of This Is Us with performances by Mandy Moore and composer Siddhartha Khosla. Moore took the mic before…

EXCLUSIVE: We have the first big sale for the 2019-2020 broadcast development season. NBC has given a production commitment to Langdon, a drama based on Dan Brown’s thriller novel The Lost Symbol, from Daniel Cerone (Motive, Constantine), Imagine Television Studios, the TV arm of Ron Howard and Brian Grazer's Imagine…