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NBC has handed a Season 2 renewal to The Titan Games, the athletic competition series hosted by Dwayne Johnson. In its first season that launched in January, The Titan Games scored a 1.7 rating in adults 18-49 with 6 million total viewers in Live+Seven Day. The series improved NBC's Thursday 8 p.m. timeslot by 19%…

EXCLUSIVE: Rupert Dobson is exiting his development executive post at American Ninja Warrior producer A. Smith & Co to join fellow reality TV producer Bunim/Murray as SVP Development. He will be tasked with developing formats for broadcast networks and streaming platforms, and will report to Entertainment and…

An executive producer behind the American Ninja Warrior franchise and Hell's Kitchen, Arthur Smith is always looking to break the mold and push limits within the reality competition space, doing so most recently with NBC's The Titan Games. Co-created by A. Smith and Dwayne Johnson, who also serves as host, and…

ABC's Grey's Anatomy (1.6, 6.941M) slipped slightly from its previous week mideason return, but easily topped Thursday night in the demo while CBS’s The Big Bang Theory took a night off from airing an original. After Grey's, ABC’s transplanted A Million Little Things (1.1, 5.440M) hit a new series high in total…

NBC took Thursday in the demo as its The Titan Games (1.8, 6.50M) launch scored the network's best demo performance in the slot, excluding sports in nearly two years. Marking a second strong unscripted series start this week, the Dwanye Johnson-hosted series launch handed NBC its first ever nightly win for a…

NBC said a couple of weeks ago that Season 6 of The Blacklist would have a two-hour premiere, but the network said today that it will be over two nights. The thriller starring James Spader and Megan Boone now will launch a day earlier, on January 3, 2019 and continue the next night. The two-day premiere will lead out…

NBC will be ready to play early next year. The network today unveiled premiere dates for Season 2 of Ellen’s Game of Games (January 8), new competition series The Titan Games (January 2) and the AGT winter spinoff America’s Got Talent: The Champions (January 7). Here are the shows’ rundown, per the Peacock: THE TITAN G…

If Sunday's NBC phone call with reporters is any indication, the network will spend a goodish chunk of Monday’s Upfront presentation touting its mid-season push on the reality-TV front. Calling it NBC's "most ambitious mid-season in years," network execs boasted about a slate that includes summer hit America's Got Tale…

Done “treading water” between editions of The Voice, NBC execs unveiled a midseason schedule thick with celebrity-studded reality TV series, including America’s Got Talent’s in-season debut. At this morning’s phone press call unveiling its new plans for the coming season, NBC called the strategy part of “its most…

NBC Universal's non-scripted studio, run by Paul Telegdy and Meredith Ahr, is looking to ramp up the number of shows it produces for third party broadcasters and digital services as it starts to move a number of its talent-led formats around the world. Telegdy and Ahr tell Deadline that they have moved into the next…

Dwayne Johnson is set to star in and executive produce The Titan Games, a new physical competition series, which has received a 10-episode order by NBC. Johnson made the announcement during an appearance on the post-Super Bowl edition of The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon.  Johnson said that he got the inspiration…