A busy night on broadcast primetime saw the first night of the NFL Draft (1.2 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic, 4.88 million viewers) on ABC go up against the likes of CBS’ The Big Bang Theory (1.7, 11.55M) and Young Sheldon (1.4, 10.27M) as well as three finales. In the end, the three-and-a-half-hour NFL Draft…

CBS earned a pretty typical Friday win – its 23rd of the season in total viewers and 21st in the demo – with its slate of nostalgia dramas that drove Blue Bloods (0.8 demo rating, 8.00 million viewers) to the top spot for the night. At 8 PM, the network’s Macgyver (0.7, 6.26M) was first in both metrics, topping the…

Multi-network coverage of the NFL Draft, including Fox’s primetime coverage, contributed to dizzying drops for primetime heavyweights on Thursday night. Fox’s 8-11 PM three-hour coverage (1.1, 5.83M) nearly doubled its last week Live + Same Day performance, scored collectively by Gotham and Showtime at the…

CAA Sports padded its stats last night, with nine of its clients being selected in the first round of the NFL Draft. It says that ties the record for most by any agency, set by CAA Sports in 2009. The agency had three of the top 10 picks in Philadelphia on Thursday night: No. 3 Solomon Thomas from Stanford (San…

UPDATED, 1:35 PM: There will be more picks tonight, but the final numbers are in for Day 1 of the 2016 NFL Draft and it was not a win for ESPN. Down double digits from last year, the three-hour-plus broadcast of Round 1 from Chicago drew a total of 6.29 million total viewers and a 2.7 rating among adults 18-49. While…

UPDATE, 12:26 PM: The final scores for Day 1 of the big pick are in and it's a Bronze for ESPN this year. Day 1 of the NFL Draft drew 7.03 million total viewers and a 4.5 rating among Adults 18-49 last night. That's the third best Draft Day 1 has done since it was first broadcast by ESPN in 1980. It is also a 29% fall…

UPDATE, 12:41 PM: The final numbers are in and ESPN's live broadcast last night of Day 1 of 2014 NFL Draft has proven a big winner. The cable sports giant drew a record 9.943 million viewers and a 6.1 rating among Adults 18-49. Both of those results are the best ESPN has done on Day 1 of the Draft since it first…

Over the last three drafts, CAA Football has represented 25 first-round picks — more than any other agency. Here Tom Condon previews Thursday night's NFL draft with CBS This Morning and confirms status of the top two college quarterbacks: Andrew Luck to the Colts, Robert Griffin III to…

The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday granted the NFL’s request for a temporary stay on an injunction that lifted an owner-imposed lockout on players. That means the lockout is back on, just a couple of days after a Minneapolis judge’s decision had lifted it. Now the appeals court will review briefs by players…

The Sundance Film Festival will soon get underway, when filmmakers arrive with distribution deal dreams. Even those lucky enough to get such deals often watch the films they slaved over disappear or go straight to video, especially documentaries. That was the dilemma facing the makers of Everything In Between, a film…