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Attention all shoppers! ABC’s reboot of the classic grocery store game show Supermarket Sweep debuted Sunday night, overtaking all non-sports fare. Hosted by Leslie Jones, the season premiere delivered a 1.0 in the adults 18-49 demographic and 4.78 million total viewers. In addition to Supermarket Sweep, ABC’s Sunday…

UPDATE, 10:37 AM: We all know that Donald Trump is obsessed with ratings and his losing results of last night’s dueling town halls with Joe Biden may hurt almost as much as losing the election, almost. That’s a hypothetical leading to the November 3 vote, but with more numbers just in, we know for sure that the former…

Vaughn McClure, who covered the Atlanta Falcons beat for ESPN, died this week at his home near Atlanta. He was 48 and no cause of death was revealed. A former Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times sports writer, McClure joined ESPN in 2013 to cover the NFL, and became the Atlanta Falcons beat writer. He covered the…

Amazon Prime Video is stepping up its relationship with the NFL, agreeing to a deal to stream a playoff game in January. The wild-card game is being broadcast on CBS and Nickelodeon and ViacomCBS also has rights to stream it on CBS All Access, which by then will be known as Paramount+. Earlier this year, Amazon signed…

CBS was in the zone Tuesday as it dominated the night with an NFL matchup between the Buffalo Bills and Tennessee Titans. The game scored a 2.7 in the adults 18-49 demographic in fast nationals while 9.94 million viewers watched the Titans annihilate the Bills 42-16. The game was a good lead-in for FBI: Declassified…

If you were in Los Angeles on Sunday night there was plenty of reason to celebrate as the Lakers beat the Miami Heat in Game 6 of the NBA Finals to win the franchise’s 17th championship. The game on ABC delivered a 2.1 rating in the 18-49 demographic while 5.60 million viewers watched the Lakers’ 106-93 victory in the…

A new positive test for COVID-19 by a New England Patriots player has caused the National Football League to again postpone its scheduled Patriots-Denver Broncos game until next Sunday. The Patriots-Broncos game was already pushed to Monday at 5 p.m. The Broncos were scheduled to play the Miami Dolphins next Sunday…

A Thursday Night Football game that saw the Chicago Bears and Tom Brady’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers go down to the wire helped Fox to the top spot in Thursday’s primetime ratings, with the game scoring a 2.9 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and 10.07 million viewers. The Bears’ victory did see the broadcast well off…

UPDATE, 2:39 PM: Joe Biden is leading in the polls against Donald Trump and it looks like the former Vice-President has topped the ratings obsessed ex-Celebrity Apprentice host on the small screen too. Live from Miami in front of a masked and social distanced crowd, NBC Nightly News’ Decision 2020 Town Hall with Biden…

DraftKings shares sank nearly 7% after the sports betting firm offered weak guidance for the third quarter and indicated pressure on revenue from favorites dominating underdogs in NFL games. The guidance and disclosures came in an SEC filing in which the company announced that it was selling 16 million shares of Class…

UPDATE SUNDAY: The New England Patriots game against the Kansas City Chiefs has been officially moved to Monday night in Kansas City. The Patriots vs. Chiefs game originally scheduled for Sunday will now kick off Monday night at 7:05 p.m., according to ESPN, after the Patriots and Chiefs returned zero new positive…

UPDATE THURSDAY The NFL announced today that the already postponed Pittsburgh Steelers and Tennessee Titans game will be rescheduled again, now set to take place later this season after an additional Titans player and a personnel member tested positive for COVID-19. The new cases follow yesterday’s announcement of…