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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…

The Big Bang Theory is now a part of television history, and soon will be a part of American history, thanks to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, which has acquired iconic pieces from the TV cast to add to its collection. Sheldon Cooper's Super Hero shirt, Howard Wolowitz's dickie and belt buckle…

With another potential delve into merger talks with Viacom on the horizon, CBS is looking to bulk up and has expressed an extemporary desire to acquire Starz. The whisper of such a deal certainly was an immediate boon for the premium cabler's parent company Lionsgate. News of the offer, first broken by the site The…

CBS' The Big Bang Theory series finale (3.1 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic, 17.99 million viewers) sucked much of the oxygen out of Thursday night in primetime, clocking its biggest crowd in more than three years and its best demo rating since the middle of last season. Spinoff Young Sheldon's season ender…

Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show scored its best Thursday, an overnight metered-market 3.8, playing host to the entire cast of The Big Bang Theory hours after CBS aired the longest running multi-cam comedy’s series finale. In addition to being Colbert’s best Thursday delivery yet, it’s his second highest metered market…