TNT’s opening-night broadcasts for the NBA season Oct. 28, a double-header featuring the Boston Celtics in the first game and the Los Angeles Lakers in the second, had a 28% larger audience than last season’s first broadcasts, Multichannel News says,…
Discovery Channel will air “JFK: Inside the Target Car” on Nov. 16 to mark the 45th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The special employs cutting-edge forensics and film archives to prove that the only bullets fired…
ESPN Deportes next week will debut a sports commentary show similar to “Around the Horn,” including reporters from Spanish-language newspapers talking about sports topics, Multichannel News says. “Juego Cruzado,” which will be broadcast each weekday and will run 30 minutes,…
Dave Franco, whose credits include ABC Family’s “Greek,” will appear in multiple episodes of CW’s “Privileged” as the love interest of the character played by Lucy Hale, Entertainment Weekly says. Franco, whose older brother James Franco was most recently in…
David Tennant will step away from playing the title role in Sci Fi’s “Doctor Who” in 2010 after five years on the job, the London Times reports. Tennant, the 10th person to play the role since the U.K. show started…
Bad weather led to bad ratings as the 2008 World Series on Fox drew the smallest audience in its history. The five-game series concluded with the Philadelphia Phillies beating the Tampa Bay Rays 4-3 in the conclusion of Game 5,…
Sen. Barack Obama’s appearance on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” last night was the program’s most-watched episode ever. The episode attracted 3.6 million total viewers and a 2.6 household rating, besting its previous record—when Michelle Obama was…
More than 33.5 million viewers turned in to see Sen. Barack Obama’s paid political advertisement last night, which ran on seven networks in prime time, including NBC, Fox, CBS, MSNBC, BET, TVOne and Univision. The total beats the last political…
The powerful chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, U.S. Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., is calling on the national TV and cable news channels to hold off projecting the winner of the presidential election Tuesday night until all polls…
“The View” rode its wave of heated political discussions and other “Hot Topics” to its most-watched week ever. The 12-year-old ABC daytime hit averaged 4.24 million total viewers for the week of Oct. 20-24, according to data from Nielsen Media…