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*“Good Morning America” has topped the morning show wars for the first quarter of 2013 in total viewers and the adults 25-54 demographic, beating NBC’s slipping “Today” show. With an average audience of 5.389 million viewers, it marks the first time the top-rated morning show has won the quarter in total viewers since 1994; and [...]
*The numbers are in. Beyoncé’s halftime performance at the Super Bowl failed to pull in more viewers than Madonna’s record breaking 2012 appearance – likely due to fewer people watching Sunday’s matchup than the previous two championship games, according to figures released on Tuesday. Nielsen figures showed that Beyonce was watched by 104 million viewers, [...]
*The Hollywood Reporter sat down with Oprah Winfrey to chat about the huge reversal in fortune of her OWN cable channel and the lessons she’s learned. “I’m not doing the hula yet …but compared to a year ago, it feels like a sigh of relief,” says Winfrey between sips of iced tea on her sprawling [...]
*ABC is rearranging its afternoon programming for the September arrival of Katie Couric. Chef Carla Hall and her colleagues on “The Chew,” which replaced “All My Children,” made the cut for a second season, but “The Revolution,” with co-host Dr. Tiffanie Davis, didn’t fare so well. “The Chew,” a food-oriented talk show, has been on [...]
*Rosie O’Donnell shot a video to tamp down all the talk surrounding the cancellation of her talk show on Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network. “It was fair,” said O’Donnell from the Chicago set of The Rosie Show. “Listen: Oprah gave me an amazing shot at doing this. She really did. She put me back on TV. [...]
*CNN was the most watched network of all cable news competitors in the ratings for Whitney Houston’s funeral, averaging five million viewers during its coverage of the singer’s Baptist memorial on Saturday, according to Nielsen. The event was televised without commercial breaks from 12:15 to 3:45 p.m., resulting in a spike of 5.4 million viewers [...]
*Fox’s premiere of “In the Flow With Affion Crockett” trotted slowly out the gate on Sunday. A special 9 p.m. airing of the Jamie Foxx-produced sketch-comedy series drew 2.6 million total viewers, followed by the actual premiere of the series at 9:30 p.m., which dipped from the special airing to 2.2 million total viewers. ABC, [...]
*Oprah Winfrey had to take to her YouTube page yesterday to tell folks she cannot be Captain Save-a-Soap. Once ABC announced that its long-running soap operas “All My Children” and “One Life to Live” would be cancelled, fans of the shows began bombarding the talk show queen with requests for her to air them on [...]
*A number of recent high-powered guests have given “The Oprah Winfrey Show” its best ratings week in nearly three years. The daytime talk show drew a 6.1 rating from Nov. 7th-14th. That’s the highest rated week for the show since February 2008, reports the Huffington Post. The week included the four highest rated episodes of [...]
*Despite tons of criticism over his grandiose “Decision” to leave the Cleveland Cavaliers for the Miami Heat, LeBron James demonstrated on Tuesday that he still can draw a crowd. Tuesday night’s Miami Heat-Boston Celtics game just entered the history books as the most-watched regular season game in cable-TV history, attracting 7.4 million viewers and breaking [...]
*The LA Lakers’ victory against Boston Tuesday night in the NBA finals was good enough to become the highest rated Game 3 since 2004. The 91-84 win earned an 11.5 overnight rating, 14 percent better than the Lakers and Orlando posted in Game 3 last year. It was the highest-rated show on television Tuesday night, [...]
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