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UPDATE: Per NBC, Sunday’s Bills-Chiefs game brought in an average Total Audience Delivery of 18.4 million viewers, 18% up from last year’s SNF match between the Minnesota Vikings and Seattle Seahawks. Even with adjusted numbers, the Bills-Chief match was way down from the previous week’s game, with a Total Audience…

Over a year that has seen the world turn upside down several times on several fronts, television ratings have proven resolute, sort of. While the numbers are down almost everywhere from the lows of the Super Bowl and the Oscars and all ports of call, it looks pretty certain that for the second year in a row Fox will…

The Equalizer’s Queen Latifah and NCIS: Los Angeles star LL Cool J reflected on their trailblazing journeys through the music and entertainment industries, from breaking through to inspiring a new generation of artists. In a conversation at the virtual SXSW Film Festival moderated by Deadline’s own Dominic Patten…

UPDATED, 11:01 AM: With a rebroadcast tonight on CBS, the final numbers are not totally in for the agenda-setting Oprah with Meghan and Harry: A CBS Primetime Special. However, the March 7 royal sit-down now has clenched the crown of most-watched nonsports show of the television season so far. The release today of…

EXCLUSIVE: It's been a busy 2021 for Adrian Younge so far, and now the acclaimed musician is leaping into a new realm with his film directorial debut T.A.N. Constructed as a companion piece to Younge's poignant ‘The American Negro’ album that came out earlier this year, the piercing short film premieres on Amazon…

Queen Latifah is going to hunt more bad guys after CBS renewed The Equalizer for a second season. The renewal comes as the drama, a reboot of the 1980s series, is only four episodes into its 13-episode first season run and marks the network's first freshman series renewal of the season. "The Equalizer has proven more…

Queen Latifah kicked down the door and showed us her vigilante side with the premiere of The Equalizer on CBS. The crime drama debuted after the Super Bowl last week, but this past Sunday marked its time slot premiere. The series delivered a 0.9 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and netted 7.98 million…

EXCLUSIVE: CBS’ The Equalizer, coming off its high-profile premiere after the Super Bowl, has suspended filming. According to sources, a positive Covid-19 test result was produced yesterday as part of the show’s rigorous safety protocols. Immediate contact tracing began as outlined in the guidelines set by…

There was a lot of history at Super Bowl LV on Sunday. Unfortunately, not all of it looks good when it comes to how many people actually watched  – and we’re not just talking about Nielsen’s unprecedented delay in getting the actual data out. In figures released Tuesday morning by CBS Sports, the big game had a total…

CBS’ new drama The Equalizer dedicated its premiere to the series’ executive producer Richard Lindheim, who died Jan. 18 of heart failure at the age of 81. The post-Super Bowl debut, which likely attracted tens of millions of viewers, ended with a card that read, “Dedicated to the memory of Richard Lindheim.” (You can…

CBS dropped new trailers for its upcoming reboot for The Equalizer reboot starring Queen Latifah and the Silence of the Lambs follow-up series Clarice and during Super Bowl LV Sunday. The Equalizer hails from Take Two creators Andrew Marlowe & Terri Miller, Davis Entertainment, Flavor Unit, Martin Chase Productions…

EXCLUSIVE: In a sign of more streaming synergy to come, ViacomCBS is making use of its growing Pluto TV streaming service to amplify awareness of soon-to-debut CBS dramas The Equalizer and Clarice. The free, ad-supported platform will stream a two-week sampling of the premiere episodes of each show after their…