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As expected, Friends appears to be delivering the goods for HBO Max, with WarnerMedia revealing that it is the top show on the platform since its launch on May 27. The disclosure follows AT&T’s earnings call last week, when CEO John Stankey said the service has attracted 4.1 new signups, including through direct…

Jon Snow headed north. Selina Meyer got her presidential library. Sheldon and Amy got their global recognition. Litchfield Correctional became an ICE detention center. And the Pfefferman clan danced into the sunset. TV fans bid farewell to a brace of popular series in 2019. The final credits rolled on HBO’s Emmy-laden…

Mission accomplished! One of WarnerMedia brass’ top goals for the company’s upcoming streaming service HBO Max was to have the biggest comedy series of the past couple of decades, Friends and The Big Bang Theory — both produced by sibling Warner Bros. TV — at launch to help drive subscribers to the new offering. After…

EXCLUSIVE: The Big Bang Theory star Mayim Bialik will write and direct As Sick As They Made Us, a comedy drama feature film based on her own experiences that will mark her screenwriting and helming debut. Anne Clements (Stage Mother, Quinceañera) and Ash Christian (After Everything, Burn) are aboard to produce the…

With several big media companies gearing up for the launch of new streaming platforms, long-running broadcast comedy series are taking center stage as cornerstones of their offerings. NBCUniversal paid $500+ million for The Office, and HBO Max shelled out $425 million for Friends — both pulled away from Netflix…

In the abundance of this Peak TV era, it is inevitable that the anticipation of the Emmy nominations today would be exceeded by disappointment. While Game of Thrones, Fleabag‘s Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Killing Eve and Chernobyl have some extra bounce with their coffee this morning after The Masked Singer‘s Ken Jeong and T…

Fans of The Big Bang Theory can soon relive their favorite moments from the groundbreaking hit comedy series as part of Warner Bros. Studio Tour Hollywood. Some of the original sets from the show, including apartments 4A and 4B, the infamous elevator and the CalTech Physics Lab Cafeteria, will be added to the Studio…

In the latest edition of Deadline’s TV Talk podcast, we take on a biggie: Who will win the Emmy for Best Comedy Series this year? It’s a thorny question especially when you consider there are two defending champs. Last year’s winner, a big victor in only its first season, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, would be considered…

CBS is out with some final ratings numbers for The Big Bang Theory series finale, and the numbers are serious. The Jim Parsons-fronted comedy ended its 12-season run with 25.75 million total viewers in Live+7 for the episode and a 5.0 rating in the 18-49 demo. Broken down, that’s a 6.22 million-viewer lift in…

CBS will wrap the 2018-2019 TV season as the country's most watched broadcast network in primetime, making it 11 consecutive seasons on top. The network’s The Big Bang Theory ended its historic 12-year run as the season's most watched scripted series, repeating last year's feat. Its spinoff, Young Sheldon, is the next…

The Big Bang Theory’s 279th and final episode has aggregated an audience of 23.44 million viewers according to the just released Nielsen Live+3 day ratings. That’s up from the average of 18 million people who watched the series-finale episode of the history-making hit CBS comedy last Thursday night. The longest…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of Sunday’s Game of Thrones series finale. It must be both a good day and a sad day at HBO now that the final numbers are in for the series finale of Game of Thrones. Good because the viewership for last night's episode — “The Iron Throne,” written and directed by David…