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Streaming Ratings: ‘3 Body Problem’ Repeats as Overall No. 1

hollywoodreporter.com Netflix’s 3 Body Problem delivered its second straight No. 1 showing among streaming titles, leading the rankings for the last week of March. The acquired series top 10 had…

DreamWorks Animation Dates Big Screen Version Of Netflix Streaming Series ‘Gabby’s Dollhouse’ For Fall 2025

deadline.com Universal Pictures will release DreamWorks Animation‘s Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie for Sept. 26, 2025. The studio already had the release date on hold for an untitled DWA…

‘Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie’ to Get the Big-Screen Treatment in 2025

hollywoodreporter.com Gabby and her cats are coming to the big screen next year. DreamWorks Animation and Universal revealed Thursday that Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie will open nationwide on…

‘Will Trent’ Season 2, Episode 3 Snags Show’s Biggest Audience Ever in Delayed Viewing

thewrap.com “Will Trent” Season 2, Episode 3 hit a series viewership high in delayed viewing, TheWrap can exclusively reveal. The episode, which initially aired March 5, has scored…

‘Shōgun’ Ends, ‘Baby Reindeer’ Takes Off, and a Thrilling Emmy Race Begins

vanityfair.com This year marks the 10th anniversary of Fargo and True Detective making their debuts at the Emmys, a watershed moment in the evolution of the prestige limited-series. These…

‘The Equalizer’ Renewed For Season 5 By CBS, ‘NCIS: Hawai’i’ Still In Limbo

deadline.com CBS has picked up a fifth season of drama The Equalizer, starring and executive produced by Queen Latifah, for 2024-25. As Deadline reported last week, the renewal was fully…

‘The Equalizer’ Grabs Season 5 Renewal at CBS

hollywoodreporter.com Robyn McCall will continue righting wrongs for another season. CBS has ordered a fifth season of The Equalizer, its drama series starring Queen Latifah (who also executive…

PBS Retro brings back your childhood favorite shows

fortune.com PBS knows there’s a strong market for nostalgia, especially when it comes to its programming. Now the network is cashing in on that. The home of many children’s classic TV…

Rogers partners with Amazon to stream NHL games on Prime Video

theglobeandmail.com For sports fans, Monday night is no longer all about football. Rogers Communications Inc. RCI-B-T announced it will broadcast Monday’s National Hockey League games…

Netflix will spend ‘vast majority’ of its $17 billion content budget on originals in 2024 despite a deluge of licensed hit shows up for grabs

aol.com Netflix has spent billions of dollars to license hit shows like Grey’s Anatomy, How I Met Your Mother, and Seinfeld, as studios gave up on beating the streaming leader and…

Ryan Gosling Brings ‘SNL’ Its Most-Watched Episode Ever on Peacock

variety.com As host of the April 13 episode, Ryan Gosling brought “Saturday Night Live” its biggest Peacock audience ever when accounting for seven days of viewership. While an exact…

‘The Spiderwick Chronicles’ Has Record Debut Weekend As Roku Channel’s Most-Watched On Demand Title Ever

deadline.com The Spiderwick Chronicles creeped out of the woodwork to become a resounding success for The Roku Channel. Debuting on April 19, the series became the most-watched on demand…

Why It’s Never Been Easier to Land in Director’s Jail

hollywoodreporter.com “I have no illusions,” Oscar winning-director Damien Chazelle said on a podcast in March. “I won’t get a budget of Babylon size any time soon, or at least not on this next…

Tickets on Sale Now for ONE 168: Denver on September 6 at Ball Arena

benzinga.com Mikey Musumeci vs. Kade Ruotolo and Liam Harrison vs. Seksan Added to Fight Card, Joining Stamp vs. Xiong Jing Nan and Jonathan Haggerty vs. Superlek SINGAPORE, April 24,…

Tubi Partners With Sports Streaming Platform DAZN

hollywoodreporter.com Tubi, Fox’s free, ad-supported streamer, has partnered with British streaming service DAZN to add new channels featuring live and recorded women’s football, or soccer, as…

"It's been here": Why women's sports aren't just a moment

axios.com "Women's sports are not having a moment," Mollie Cahillane, a reporter at Sports Business Journal said Tuesday at TN50: The Business of Women's Sports Summit. "Everyone else…

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race: Untucked’ Season 16 Dazzles With Highest Rating in 3 Years

thewrap.com You are reading an exclusive WrapPRO article for free. Want to level up your entertainment career? Go here for more information. The Season 16 finale of “RuPaul’s Drag Race:…

Media companies club together for a joint sport-streamer

economist.com MORE THAN 100m Americans will tune in on February 11th to the Super Bowl, the biggest event in the country’s sporting calendar—and in its television schedules. In 2023 the…

‘Rupaul’s Drag Race’ Season 16 Finale Sashays To Series’ Highest-Rated Episode In 13 Years

deadline.com RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 16 is one for the history books. The finale, which saw Nymphia Wind win the competition as America’s Next Drag Superstar, was the highest-rated…

When your company's newest board member is an AI

axios.com AI is forcing corporate boards to change how they operate, with the most aggressive companies appointing AI bots as observers to their boards and putting tech at the center…

‘Bluey’ Special Draws a Big Audience for Disney+

hollywoodreporter.com The much-discussed special episode of Bluey is also the most watched episode of the show on Disney+. The April 14 installment of the beloved preschool series, “The Sign,”…

‘Bluey’ Special ‘The Sign’ Scores Series-Best 10.4 Million Views in First Week on Disney+

thewrap.com You are reading an exclusive WrapPRO article for free. Want to level up your entertainment career? Go here for more information. “Bluey” special “The Sign” has scored 10.4…

Bill Maher Blasts The Left’s ‘Hypocrisy’ On Children In Stunning ‘Quiet on Set’ Rant: ‘DeSantis Wasn’t Wrong!’

mediaite.com Comic and pundit Bill Maher on Friday said that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis “wasn’t wrong” when he spoke about Disney sexualizing children, and that liberals were willing to…

‘Bluey’ Isn’t Done Yet: New Episode Follows “The Sign”

hollywoodreporter.com It turns out “The Sign,” the widely discussed and critically adored Bluey special, wasn’t a series finale after all. The beloved kids’ show has at least one more episode in…

‘CSI: Vegas’ & ‘So Help Me Todd’ Canceled By CBS

deadline.com CBS has canceled CSI: Vegas after three seasons and So Help Me Todd after two. The news is not surprising as Deadline revealed earlier this week that both dramas were…

‘CSI: Vegas’ and ‘So Help Me Todd’ Canceled at CBS

hollywoodreporter.com Paula Newsome in 'CSI: Vegas' and Skyler Astin in 'So Help Me Todd' After renewing 11 scripted shows for 2024-25, CBS has made its first cancellations of the spring. The…

‘FBI’ Showrunner Stepping Down After 6 Seasons

thewrap.com “FBI” showrunner Rick Eid is stepping down from his role after six seasons. The series, which is currently in Season 6, has been renewed by CBS through the 2026-2027…

NBA Regular Season: Flat Ad Spend At $670M, Ratings Inch Up

mediapost.com NBA 2023-2024 regular-season advertising revenues on its national TV networks was virtually the same as a year ago on its four TV networks -- $670.5 million versus $671.0…

Netflix is trying to prove to the world that it’s all grown up

aol.com Editor’s Note: A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. Sign up for the daily digest chronicling the evolving media landscape here. In…

Netflix is changing its own rules

fastcompany.com What a difference two years can make. In April 2022, after a heady era of staggering spending and explosive growth, Netflix posted its first subscriber loss in 10 years.…

Streaming Ratings: ‘Quiet on Set’ Delivers Max’s Biggest Showing Yet

hollywoodreporter.com The docuseries Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV posted Max’s best streaming numbers to date for its premiere week. The show, which streamed on Max concurrent with its…

‘Quiet on Set’ Becomes Max’s Most-Watched Streaming Title Ever With 1.25 Billion Viewing Minutes

thewrap.com You are reading an exclusive WrapPRO article for free. Want to level up your entertainment career? Go here for more information. “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV” has…

‘Quiet On Set’ Bests ‘The Last Of Us’ To Become Max’s Most Successful Title Ever On Nielsen Streaming Charts

deadline.com Road House and Quiet on Set brought some variety to the Nielsen streaming charts in March. During the week of March 18 to 24, there were four different streamers represented…

‘Elsbeth’ Renewed for Season 2 at CBS

variety.com “Elsbeth” has scored an early Season 2 renewal at CBS, Variety has learned. The news comes after the freshman series has aired just four episodes, with the fifth set to air…

New to The Street Signs Zapp EV to 6 Part Media Series, Agreement Includes Commercials and Billboard Ads

benzinga.com NEW YORK, April 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FMW Media's business TV show, New to The Street, announces the signing of a 6-part series for filming and broadcasting tailored…

New Rom-Com Wave Is Big on Imagining Real-Life Offline

hollywoodreporter.com I’m not embarrassed to admit that I consume all kinds of rom-coms: the good, the not-so-good, the somewhere in-between. (I draw the line at anything that stars Ashton…

CBS Renewal Status Report: ‘The Equalizer’, ‘NCIS: Hawai’i’, ‘Elsbeth’, ‘CSI: Vegas’ & ‘So Help Me Todd’

deadline.com Third in a series on broadcast network series renewals. CBS will have some painful cancellation decisions to make this spring. With three new drama series, NCIS: Origins,…

Billy Joel’s Madison Square Garden Special Reaches 5.7 Million Viewers on CBS

variety.com “Billy Joel: The 100th — Live at Madison Square Garden” reached 5.7 million viewers on Sunday night. Calculated from Nielsen’s measurement of linear viewers on CBS and live…

Netflix subscriber growth in focus as gains from password-sharing crackdown seen easing

aol.com Netflix's plan to maintain subscriber growth after two quarters of blockbuster increases will be in focus when it reports earnings on Thursday, with some analysts warning…

One chart shows just how much women's college basketball ratings have soared while men's have dipped

businessinsider.com The University of Iowa's Caitlin Clark has helped college women's basketball reach new levels of popularity. AP Photo/Michael Conroy Viewership for the women's NCAA…

Future of TV Briefing: Media Rating Council identifies ‘the problem of our time’ for measurement

digiday.com This Future of TV Briefing covers the latest in streaming and TV for Digiday+ members and is distributed over email every Wednesday at 10 a.m. ET. More from the series →…

WNBA Draft Reaches Largest Audience Ever, Up 374% Among Women

deadline.com The college basketball season may be over, but Caitlin Clark helped lead ESPN to one more audience record before going pro. The Iowa Hawkeyes superstar was the No. 1 pick in…

The Rise and Fall of Gerry Turner’s Stint as ABC’s First ‘Golden Bachelor’

hollywoodreporter.com The first-ever Golden Bachelor Gerry Turner and his wife Theresa Nist announced on Good Morning America that they have mutually decided to “dissolve our marriage.” This many…

CBS Research Chief Unpacks Post-Strike Ratings Growth

thewrap.com Coming out of a ratings low prompted by last year’s Hollywood strikes, broadcast networks have successfully regained their linear audience — and CBS is leading the charge.…

Women’s NCAA Tournament Boosts March Cable Viewership; ‘Love Is Blind,’ ‘The Gentlemen’ & ‘Avatar’ Dominate On Netflix, Nielsen Says

deadline.com Once again, TV usage was down in March with broadcast TV receiving the smallest percentage among the primary viewing categories. Broadcast TV saw a 6% usage decline from…

South Carolina coach Dawn Staley says women's basketball will get 'better and better'

cnbc.com Dawn Staley just finished leading South Carolina's undefeated season and witnessing the end of Caitlin Clark's record-breaking college career — and she thinks women's…

March TV Viewing: YouTube And Netflix Post More Gains, Streaming Up 12%

mediapost.com YouTube, Netflix, and Hulu posted viewing gains in March versus February contributing to streaming's continuing virtual dominance -- up 12% in persons age 18 plus viewing…

YouTube Sets New Record in Nielsen's March 2024 Gauge Report

thewrap.com You are reading an exclusive WrapPRO article for free. Want to level up your entertainment career? Go here for more information. YouTube was once again the breakout star of…

Nielsen's March 2024 Report of The Gauge™ Reveals Seasonality in Monthly TV Usage and Greater Shifts in Viewing Behavior Over Time

benzinga.com NEW YORK, April 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Nielsen today released , which revealed that TV usage changes from February to March were very similar to those exhibited in the…

March Madness, State of the Union Help Cable Stem Months-Long Viewing Decline

hollywoodreporter.com of Iowa is guarded by Jayla Hemingway of West Virginia during their NCAA tournament game on March 25. Cable outlets saw their share of viewing rise in March for the first…

‘The Rookie’ Renewed for Season 7 at ABC

thewrap.com “The Rookie” will continue its run on ABC. The drama series, which stars Nathan Fillion as the LAPD’s oldest rookie, was renewed for a seventh season, the network announced…

After Exploding In Streaming, ‘Suits’ Will Make Its Broadcast Debut This Fall On MyNetworkTV

deadline.com Suits, a long-running mainstay on cable’s USA Network that became a streaming phenomenon last year, will make its broadcast debut this fall on MyNetwork TV. The show’s slot…

‘Suits’ Heads to Broadcast Syndication After Streaming Conquest

hollywoodreporter.com After setting streaming records for months on end last year, Suits is heading to a new — or rather, old — frontier: broadcast syndication. The former USA Network series will…

‘The Gentlemen’ Stars Theo James, Kaya Scodelario & Daniel Ings Talk Prospect Of Second Season For Guy Ritchie’s Netflix Series

deadline.com When Guy Ritchie’s cheeky crime drama The Gentlemen debuted on Netflix in March, it came in at #1 Global Top 10 for English-Language Series, garnering 1.2B minutes viewed in…

AccuWeather's® Newest WeatherShow Enhancer™ Turbocharges Weather Presentations With More Motion, Greater Interactivity, Faster Severe Weather Information, and…

benzinga.com Visit the AccuWeather Booth SL5031 in South Hall at NAB STATE COLLEGE, Pa., April 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- AccuWeather® is unveiling powerful new updates to its popular…

‘La Casa de Los Famosos’ & ‘El Senor de Los Cielos’ Fuel Telemundo’s Primetime Ratings Success

deadline.com It’s been a strong few weeks for Telemundo. The Spanish-language network has been dominating primetime, placing No. 1 both in total viewers and in the 18-49 demographic,…

What you need to know about Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan B

marketplace.org Remedial student debt forgiveness: President Joe Biden has promised to take another shot at the issue ever since the Supreme Court blocked his plan to cancel debt for some…

What I Learned Searching For $25B In 2023 U.S. CTV Ad Spend

mediapost.com Last week I wrote about my perplexity in trying to understand where all of the claimed $25 billion spent on connected TV (CTV) advertising in the U.S. in 2023 actually ended…

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