Donald Trump’s Miss USA pageant on NBC saw a ratings surge over last year’s broadcast, tying its highest rating in six years, MediaLife reported. Sunday’s telecast drew a 2.2 rating among viewers 18 to 49 years old, a 57% increase…
The Social 100, a weekly listing of the TV shows that are attracting the most chatter on social media, is a new analysis tool from Brooklyn, N.Y.-based startup SocialGuide.com, the Los Angeles Times reports. Last week’s edition listed the five…
It was another slow night in the ratings marked by a lot of repeat programming, but NBC came out on top, TVbytheNumbers.com reported. Airing the Miss USA Pageant, the Peacock Network managed an average rating of 1.8 for the night…
With Regis Philbin planning to leave the morning program "Live With Regis and Kelly" in November, three candidates have emerged to fill his shoes: "American Idol" host Ryan Seacrest; Bravo host Andy Cohen; and actor Mark Consuelos, who is also…
Al Jazeera English has found a home on the air in Los Angeles, even as it searches for cable distribution in the U.S., reports Elizabeth Jensen in The New York Times’ Media Decoder blog. KCET-TV, which dropped its PBS affiliation…
On a night when almost no new episodes of shows aired on network television, Fox’s fresh episode of "So You Think You Can Dance" won the night, TVbytheNumbers.com reported. Fox came out with a narrow win for the night overall,…
"America’s Most Wanted" ends its broadcast run on Fox this week after 23 years on television, and it’s possible the show will move to cable sibling Fox News Channel, reports the Associated Press. The show’s host, John Walsh, noted the possibility,…
OWN, Oprah Winfrey’s fledgling cable network, has fallen short of the audience levels it had promised to advertisers by nearly one-third, reports the New York Post. The network has averaged a 0.1 rating on a total-day basis, which is below…
Hit TV Land sitcom "Hot in Cleveland," which stars Betty White, opened the second part of its second season this week, attracting an audience about half the size of the audience that turned up for the series premiere last summer,…
One of the icons of 1960s television–an actress who also has had a successful film career, winning an Oscar in 1963–will join Lifetime’s new series "The Protector," reports TVLine.com. Patty Duke, who starred in the 1960s hit comedy "The Patty…