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The fate of The World's Best, CBS' high-profile entertainment format hosted by James Corden, remains up in the air but if it did get picked up the broadcaster would "tweak the format". The global talent competition, which featured RuPaul Charles, Drew Barrymore and Faith Hill as judges, launched after the Super Bowl…

Despite huge exposure following the Super Bowl, The World's Best (1.0 rating in the 18-49 demographic, 5.56 million viewers) stumbled out of the gate on its regular night Wednesday. World's Best did not make the same league as recent debuts of new The Masked Singer on Fox and The Titan Games on NBC. CBS’ James…

The final numbers for the lowest scoring Super Bowl in the NFL's history aren't in yet but CBS top man has already declared victory. In a memo sent out company-wide this afternoon, Acting CEO Joe Ianniello was full of praise for a day of programming that was "first class, both in front of and behind the camera." Just…

Mike Darnell hopes that there's no repeat of Super Bowl LI when the New England Patriots came back to beat the Atlanta Falcons in overtime as he prepares to launch The World's Best. The James Corden-fronted reality series has the post Super Bowl slot on CBS and Darnell admitted that he is nervous. "First of all, I'm…

CBS’ new talent competition series The World’s Best is reality TV guru Mike Darnell’s response to NBC’s America's Got Talent, he says. “When I was working at Fox, we did American Idol and a lot of singing shows came along,” Darnell told TV critics at TCA. The most successful, NBC’s The Voice added a “game show…

CBS has set the unscripted part of its midseason schedule, and it features three additions, new talent competition series The World’s Best hosted by James Corden, new obstacle course competition series Million Dollar Mile hosted by Tim Tebow, as well as the second season of Big Brother: Celebrity Edition, with Julie…

CBS this morning unveiled  plans to promote its late-night shows and new series in plum timeslots following the AFC Championship Game and Super Bowl LII. Stephen Colbert’s Late Show won the Super Bowl Sunday derby, nabbing a special episode to air on February 3. Colbert’s show will air after the post-game premiere of…

CBS’ high-profile upcoming reality series, The World’s Best, is getting the biggest launch platform possible. CBS has selected the global talent competition to premiere immediately after Super Bowl LIII on Sunday, February 3. Hosted by James Corden, with RuPaul Charles, Drew Barrymore and Faith Hill as judges, The Worl…

EXCLUSIVE: James Corden, Drew Barrymore, RuPaul Charles and Faith Hill are set to headline The World’s Best, CBS’ high-profile global talent competition reality series from reality TV heavyweights Mark Burnett and Mike Darnell, the forces behind two of the biggest talent competition reality series of the the last two…

EXCLUSIVE: CBS in entering the talent competition arena with a series pickup for The World’s Best. It hails from reality TV heavyweights Mark Burnett and Mike Darnell, the forces behind two of the biggest talent competition reality series of the current unscripted wave, The Voice and American Idol. Burnett is…