Critic's Notebook: Biden Sticks the Landing on Final Night of the Democratic Convention

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorCBS’ unscripted combo Big Brother and Love Island helped the network to the top ratings spot Thursday, on a night President Donald Trump’s 70-minute speech from the White House lawn in primetime wrapped the Republican National Convention.Big Brother scored a night-leading 1.0 rating and 4.01 million viewers, with the all-star edition off a tenth from Wednesday’s episode, which had matched season-best numbers in the demo.

Of course he had to have a crowd. The definitive image of the fourth and final night of the 2020 Republican National Convention was President Donald Trump standing at the White House’s South Lawn in front of 1,500 adoring loyalists, packed tightly together, mostly without masks.

Ted Johnson, Dominic Patten “Trump said he didn’t like POW’s who were captured, implied my father was burning in hell after he died and constantly trashed him while he was fighting brain cancer. This is how they have lost all decent people.” Subscribe to Deadline Breaking News Alerts and keep your inbox happy.Launch dates for broadcast, cable and streaming programsUp-to-date lists for broadcast, cable and streaming seriesPandemic-proof vs.

Ted Johnson Donald Trump will deliver scathing criticism of Joe Biden in his Republican National Convention acceptance speech on the South Lawn of the White House. That’s a given.The bigger question is whether Trump will address the unfolding crisis in Kenosha, WI, and how he frames the police shooting death of Jacob Blake.

David Muir has emerged as broadcast television's star of the summer.The “World News Tonight” anchor's nightly summary averaged 8.2 million viewers last week, more than any prime-time program on television, the Nielsen company said.ABC's prime-time interview of the Democratic ticket of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, conducted by Muir and Robin Roberts, reached 5.1 million viewers Sunday.Otherwise, coverage of the Democratic National Convention on MSNBC and CNN dominated the ratings.CBS' prime time

A diverse collection of Donald Trump's allies — his family, swing-state farmers and even a convicted bank robber — cast the president as the best hope for America's future Tuesday night as Republicans embraced a more optimistic tone on the second night of their scaled-down national convention.

Billie Eilishis asking everyone to vote for their "future." During the third night of the Democratic National Convention, the singer debuted "My Future" as part of the night's programming. Before her performance, Eilish made a plea to the audience.

The final night of the Democratic National Convention drew the event's biggest TV audience for nominee Joe Biden's acceptance speech. The 10 o'clock hour drew a combined 21.78 million viewers across ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News and MSNBC.

Will Thorne Staff WriterThe Democratic National Convention came to a close last night, with Democratic candidate Joe Biden finally taking to the stage to deliver his key address.Looking at the early numbers, night 4 could be on course for a similar total audience as night 3.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerTrevor Noah and his comedy team had some fun on the last night of the Democratic convention, tossing a few zingers at the serious doings on Zoom.The Democrats are the target this week, followed by the Republicans next Monday, Aug.

Joe Biden, who spoke to the nation for the first time since accepting the party's nomination for president.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is the host of the fourth and final night of the 2020 Democratic National Convention and she made some digs at President Trump while moderating the evening.

Ted Johnson Joe Biden delivers the most important speech of his political career tonight on the finale of the Democratic Convention, but he’ll also have a bit of counter-programming by President Donald Trump.In the hour before Biden delivers his acceptance speech, Trump is scheduled to be interviewed by Sean Hannity on Fox News’ Hannity, several hours after the president trekked to Biden’s childhood hometown of Scranton, PA to give a speech.The highlight of the Democratic Convention, to start at

Ted Johnson, Dominic Patten As Barack Obama delivered what was his harshest warning yet about Donald Trump, telling Democratic Convention viewers in a live speech that what is at stake is “our democracy,” the president went off on Twitter.“Donald Trump hasn’t grown into the job because he can’t,” Obama said in his speech. “And the consequences of that failure are severe.

Ted Johnson Barack Obama plans to deliver a convention speech on Wednesday that will offer biting criticism of his successor Donald Trump and characterize Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as just the people who can lead “this country out of dark times.”Obama will be one of the marquee speakers on the convention’s third night, which will finish with the convention’s acceptance speech.“I have sat in the Oval Office with both of the men who are running for president,” Obama plans to say, according to

Ted Johnson Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who gave brief remarks at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday, chided NBC News for a tweet that she called “malicious and misleading.”The furor was triggered by an NBC News tweet that went out after she gave a one-minute nomination speech for Sen.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was the subject of an extremely misleading tweet by NBC News during the Democratic National Convention last night.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is explaining what she said during the 2020 Democratic Convention.