Fox CFO Hints Company Could Drop ‘Thursday Night Football’

The FCC denied Fox Corp.’s request for permanent waiver to allow it to own WWOR-TV and the New York Post, as the Supreme Court is set to review rules that restrict common ownership of a newspaper and TV station in the same market.

The Los Angeles Chargers and Las Vegas Raiders went to overtime last night on Thursday Night Football, which helped spike the ratings for Fox’s midweek primetime game.

Baltimore Raven quarterback Lamar Jackson, who was the MVP of the 2019 NFL season and is considered one of the most fun and exciting players in the sport right now, is responding to some speculation over his mid-game absence last night!

Joe Otterson TV ReporterFox has given a straight-to-series order to a reboot of “Fantasy Island,” Variety has learned.The rebooted version of the classic series hails from writers and executive producers Liz Craft and Sarah Fain, with the series being a co-production between Sony Pictures Television, Gemstone Studios, and Fox Entertainment.

Fox’s Thursday Night Football game pitting the Los Angeles Rams against the New England Patriots scored a night-leading 2.3 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and 9.12 million viewers, returning to action after last week’s game was postponed because of positive Covid-19 tests.

Fox Corp. chief financial officer Steve Tomsic has a warning to outgoing President Donald Trump or anyone else looking to launch a new conservative cable news network to cut into Fox News' audience share.

When the calendar flips to December, the air of desperation for those teams on the NFL Playoff bubble becomes stronger. For both the Dallas Cowboys and the Baltimore Ravens, Tuesday night’s game at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore (8 p.m.

Will Thorne Staff WriterAfter shocking fans with a Patrick Dempsey cameo earlier this season, “Grey’s Anatomy” pulled the same trick again on Thursday night, as T.R. Knight’s character George O’Malley returned to Meredith’s (Ellen Pompeo) dreams.Last night’s surprising episode managed to win the broadcast ratings race, thanks in no small part to “Thursday Night Football” being benched.

ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy, which took another walk on the beach with Meredith Grey running into a new old friend, topped the night in Thursday’s primetime ratings with a 1.2 in the adults 18-49 demographic and 5.67 million viewers. It paired with Station 19 (0.8, 5.38M) and A Million Little Things (0.6, 3.84M) to give the network the overall victory in both the demo and viewers as the broadcasters mostly returned to originals after the Thanksgiving break.

NBC’s Sunday Night Football scored another primetime ratings win last night with its Green Bay-Chicago game — though some may argue it was barely a game with the Packers trampling the Bears 41-25. Nonetheless, SNF topped Sunday despite stumbling from last week’s numbers to a 4.1 in the adults 18-49 demographic and 13.92 million viewers. Those Nielsen Live+Same Day early numbers will likely be adjusted in finals.

Will Thorne Staff WriterThe wheels came off the “Supermarket Sweep” cart from a ratings perspective last night, as the ABC show fell to its lowest rating to date.The Leslie Jones revival scored a 0.5 rating among adults 18-49 on Sunday night, a 38% drop from the previous episode. Its 2.5 million total viewers was also down around 800,000 from the previous low.

Megan Fox's new ink is a nod to her boyfriend of six months, Machine Gun Kelly.

It looks like Megan Fox is making her love for Machine Gun Kelly permanent!

Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly went red carpet official on Sunday, November 22, when they walked the red carpet of the American Music Awards together. But the couple may have just gone official in another special way. During their red carpet appearance, fans took notice of the 34-year-old Jennifer’s Body actress’ new ink on her collar bone. When looking closely at the script, fans were able to determine that the newly-inked phrase on Megan’s body read “el pistolero.”

Tom Brady has been trending on Twitter for hours after a brutal loss on Monday Night Football to the Los Angeles Rams.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorAnother media outlet is getting ready to vie for fans of sentimental stories in the industry’s massive holiday-programming wars.Fox Nation, the streaming-video hub that is part of Fox News Media, will launch its first holiday movie, “Christmas in the Rockies,” later this week, part of a new holiday salvo that is expected to include two other projects, “Christmas on the Range” and “Christmas on the Coast.” “Rockies” will be available on Fox Nation starting