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ABC’s American Idol held steady Sunday with a 1.3 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and 7.20 million viewers, finishing as the night’s top-rated show. The two-hour episode led into The Rookie (0.8, 5.13M), which ticked up from last week and scored the series’ best audience numbers to date. The duo gave ABC the…

ABC on Sunday saw the return of The Rookie, which hit its highest rating in a year with a 0.8 in the adults 18-49 demographic and 4.89 million viewers, its second-largest viewership total ever. The Nathan Fillion-starring series benefited from American Idol (1.4, 7.46M) as its lead-in, with the reality singing…

ABC, the last network to make pickup decisions on its new fall series, has given back orders to comedy Mixed-ish and drama Stumptown. Additionally, the network has ordered additional episodes of sophomore drama The Rookie, which had a 13-episode pickup. I hear the Black-ish prequel has received an order for nine…

It was a sports-filled Sunday in broadcast primetime with Sunday Night Football on NBC and Game 5 of the World Series on Fox. But at the end of the night, it was football that sacked baseball’s fall classic. SNF, on which the Green Bay Packers beat the Kansas City Chiefs 31-24, scored a 5.1 rating in fast affiliates…

EXCLUSIVE: Once Upon a Time alumna Mekia Cox is returning to ABC with a series regular role on the upcoming second season of the network’s light cop drama The Rookie starring Nathan Fillion. Cox will play Detective Nyla Harper. After a four-year stint working undercover, Nyla Harper nearly lost herself. Now she's…

Another day of the 2019-20 broadcast season, another new series opening to a 0.7 adults 18-49 Live+Same Day rating. This time it is Fox’s animated comedy Bless the Harts. At this point, because so many new shows are starting this year at a ratings level which series in the past had hit en route to swift cancellation…

The actor accused of sexual misconduct by former The Rookie star Afton Williamson has spoken out personally three days after being cleared in an investigation by producers eOne. Westworld alum Demetrius Grosse took to social media tonight in his first direct public statement since being implicated with harassment by…

Afton Williamson, a former cast member on The Rookie, has responded to the findings of an independent investigation that found no wrongdoing regarding her claims of racial discrimination and sexual harassment on the set of the ABC series. “What saddens me the most is that the lengths that were taken to Deceive, Lie…

Less than six weeks after Afton Williamson revealed on social media that she left ABC's The Rookie over sexual harassment and racial discrimination incidents, producer eOne today released the results of its investigation to what happened on the LAPD drama starring Nathan Fillion. “As a result of the independent…

Worlds from TV and film will collide starting October 7 when ABC will present a week of reunions within its primetime lineup. “Cast from the Past” Week will feature reunited cast members and creative teams from iconic TV series and films on the network’s current shows. Actors from and behind-the-scenes talent from the…

EXCLUSIVE: We’re also hearing that Nathan Fillion will be starring in James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad at Warner Bros. The actor’s role is being kept under wraps. Fillion has a long history of working with Gunn: He played the voice of a monstrous inmate in Guardians of the Galaxy, Bill Pardy in Gunn’s 2006 horror comedy…

Afton Williamson is offering more details on her exit from ABC cop drama The Rookie. In a Monday evening Instagram post, the actress thanked her fans and friends for their support, and she reiterated her claim that she quit the series because of "sexual harassment" and "racial discrimination." In this latest post (read…