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The good news is that more people in the choice demos appear to be watching television. The bad news is the reason why, the coronavirus. For now, television is the great national comforter, and that was reflected in the large audience for its offerings on Friday during primetime. ABC’s Shark Tank was the overall…

The Friday night audience preferred swimming with Sharks to smacking down wrestlers, as the venerable ABC pitch session Shark Tank came in with an 0.8, tying Fox’s WWE Friday Night Smackdown in demos, but getting a slight edge by winning on total audience. The Shark Tank win propelled ABC to an overall victory in the…

Some midseason scheduling changes were revealed today as part of ABC’s TCA Winter Press Tour. Shark Tank, which currently airs at 9 PM on Sundays is returning to its Friday time slot at 8 PM on February 28, the spot currently held by American Housewife, which is moving to ABC's Wednesday comedy block beginning April…

UPDATE, 1:25 PM: Almost nobody loves statistics like NFL fans, and the league and NBC have one for you today straight outta Sunday Night Football. The final numbers are in for last night's white knuckler between the ultimately victorious Minnesota Vikings and the Dallas Cowboys – and they look good indeed when it…

Two people have died following an accident last weekend on a Canadian lake involving a boat owned by longtime Shark Tank panelist Kevin O’Leary. TMZ reported. that O’Leary was a passenger on a boat allegedly driven by his wife, Linda, on Lake Joseph in Ontario, when the accident occurred. The O’Leary boat smashed…

UPDATED with statement: Shark Tank star Daymond John will not be hosting a weekend event at a West Palm Beach, FL strip club, which has been advertising his appearance on billboards near the venue. A spokesperson tonight told Deadline that a report in the the Palm Beach Post that John will have a one-night stand…

ABC has handed early renewals to drama series The Good Doctor and A Million Little Things and veteran unscripted series Shark Tank. The Good Doctor has been picked up for a third season, A Million Little Things for a second and Shark Tank for an 11th. The Good Doctor, from Sony Pictures TV and ABC Studios, is…

The crashing defeat handed to current Super Bowl champions the Philadelphia Eagles by the New Orleans Saints on Fox may have grabbed a big chunk of the NFL spotlight yesterday, but NBC's Sunday Night Football suffered its own stumble too. While the Chicago Bears' 25-20 win over the Minnesota Vikings topped the night…

ABC's Shark Tank (0.6 rating in 18-49 demographic, 3.05 million viewers), started Season 10 at a series low Sunday. The series followed the season launch of Dancing With the Stars: Juniors (0.7, 4.98M), which barely built on its America's Funniest Home Videos (0.7, 4.71M) lead-in; AFHV kicked off ABC's night matching…

Tribeca TV Festival feted ABC reality juggernaut Shark Tank, which launched in the depths of the financial crisis in 2009 and is set to start its 10th season next month. Five of the “sharks” who evaluate entrepreneurs on the show — Mark Cuban, Daymond John, Barbara Corcoran, Laurie Greiner and Kevin O’Leary — joined…

Shark Tank star Daymond John is joining Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, Nick Cannon, Rebel Wilson and Zendaya in former first lady Michelle Obama’s college initiative at Temple University on May 2. About 8,000 students are expected to attend during what is National Signing Day. The day celebrates high school seniors…

Shark Tank star and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is denying a 2011 sexual assault allegation detailed this week in an Oregon newspaper. “It didn’t happen,” Cuban said in a terse email to the Associated Press. The allegation, detailed in police reports quoted Tuesday in Oregon’s Willamette Week newspaper, involved…