Democratic Convention 2020 Night 1 Review: The Virtual Bidenathon Comes Out Swinging; Eva Longoria Hosts Fast-Paced Trump Bashing Event From Team Of Rivals

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

Action was the theme of the 2020 Democratic National Convention's third night — a surprisingly moving and satisfyingly substantive two hours of speeches and biographical montages. And if the first two nights of the DNC were largely dedicated to wooing centrists and promising national unity (through appearances by the likes of John Kasich and Colin Powell), Wednesday was all about energizing the base, particularly its youth.

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.

On the fourth and final night of the 2020 Democratic National Convention, Joe Biden had one main job: to convince voters that he’s not just the alternative to Donald Trump, but an honorable and worthy candidate in his own right. The Democratic primaries, which only ended this spring, were brackish and bruising, and the former vice president must know that he was far from the first choice of many in the party’s base.

Ted Johnson, Dominic Patten “Family, family, family.”That was the  motto of the video that introduced Joe Biden on the final night of the virtual Democratic National Convention, and showed just how the COVID-19 forced transformation of a national tradition could produce something in many cases more intimate.Far from the cheering crowd of delegates that have characterized American political conventions for decades, the former vice president’s big night was the culmination of finely tuned

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.

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 Speeches from Barack Obama and Kamala Harris likely helped boost TV viewership for the third night of the Democratic National Convention.According to early numbers from Nielsen, 21.4 million watched during the 10 PM ET hour across six networks, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox News, MSNBC and CNN. That is a boost from the 18.6 million who watched on Tuesday and the 18.7 million who watched on Monday.

Dominic Patten, Ted Johnson It was superstar time at the Democratic National Convention tonight, and there were fireworks going off, in Delaware, Pennsylvania and the White House“The Democrats will roll out their biggest guns yet,” declared ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos as the broadcast networks went live at 10 PM ET before speeches by former President Barack Obama and Vice-Presidential nominee Senator Kamala Harris.“I know a predator when I see one,” former prosecutor Harris proclaimed in a

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 Kamala Harris will deliver the most important speech, so far, in her career, at tonight’s Democratic National Convention, as she accepts the nomination for vice president.Pundits and analysts will pay particular attention to her ability to communicate effectively to a virtual audience, which more likely than not will be the way things will be as political season enters its final stretch in the fall campaign.A lot of people in Hollywood are watching: Harris has long cultivated ties to

John Legend brought his soulful sounds to night two of the 2020 Democratic National Convention on Tuesday. The EGOT winner backed Democratic nominee Joe Biden and took part in the virtual event. Introduced by Tracee Ellis Ross, Legend kicked off his performance by singing the powerful song “Never Break” from his latest album, Bigger Love. 

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

John Legend brought his soulful sounds to night two of the 2020 Democratic National Convention on Tuesday.

Dominic Patten, Ted Johnson “We begin tonight, this is now officially a Fox News alert, Night 2 of the worst infomercial ever made,” said Sean Hannity kicking off his show Tuesday by kicking sand in the face of the Democrats and their virtual Convention.“Informercials are a lot more interesting” added the Primetime cable newser host after a perky handoff from lead-in Tucker Carlson for what was another night of a token backdrop for more partisan bombardmentOnce again silently split screening the