EXCLUSIVE: Investigation Discovery is bringing docuseries Murder Under The Friday Night Lights back for another down.
16.01.2022 - 00:25 / deadline.com
Once again, everything was coming up fives in the Friday evening demo wars for the major networks. Six shows tied for the top spot in early demo numbers on the night, leaving it to total viewership to break any ties.
The total viewer honors go to perennial champion Blue Bloods, which helped the CBS crime drama lineup top the network field. Blue Bloods scored a season-best 6.11 million total viewers in the live+ same day tallies, but had an 0.4 in the demos.
The momentum built early for CBS on the night, as 8 PM’s Undercover Boss had an 0.5 and 4.09 million viewers, up 10% from its season premiere. Magnum P.I. also had an 0.5 and 5.56 milliion viewership for the Eye Network.
At Fox, the WWE Friday Night SmackDown once had an 0.5 in its two-hour slot. “Head of the Table” Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins came face-to-face ahead of their title match at the Jan. 29 Royal Rumble as the Friday highlight.
ABC’s Shark Tank came in at an 0.5 to kick off the Alphabet Network’s night. Joined by UK Shark Peter Jones, the entrepreneur panel debated the merits of household tools, healthy food, men’s apparel, and wearable designs. Newsmag 20/20 scored an 0.5 for its look at the strange Murdaugh crime saga in South Carolina, a demo number that broke even with its arch-rival Dateline on NBC.
Speaking of the Peacock Network: A repeat of game show The Wall started off with an 0.4, but Dateline rebounded nicely with an 0.5, thanks to its examination of the life and death of casino mogul Ted Binion.
Finally, The CW had Penn & Teller: Fool Us come in with an 0.1, down a tick from its last measurement, but teen queen Nancy Drew was up to an 0.1 to balance things out.
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EXCLUSIVE: Investigation Discovery is bringing docuseries Murder Under The Friday Night Lights back for another down.
NBCUniversal has sold out all ad inventory for Super Bowl LVI across NBC, Telemundo and Peacock, with multiple 30-second spots fetching a record $7 million.
Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor“The Sound of Philadelphia,” a documentary on the 1970s “Philly Soul” sound and its masterminds Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff and Thom Bell, is coming from Warner Music Entertainment, Warner Chappell Music, and Imagine Documentaries, in partnership with Jigsaw Productions, the companies announced on Wednesday. The lushly orchestrated but soulful sound — exemplified by songs like “Love Train” by the O’Jays, “If You Don’t Know Me Now” by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, “Me and Mrs.
EXCLUSIVE: The story of Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff, and Thom Bell, who created the sound of Philly Soul, is to be chronicled in a new feature documentary.
Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterThe second season of “Euphoria” is a dream for HBO. Over the first three installments of its second season, the Zendaya-led drama has nearly doubled its Season 1 per-episode viewership, Variety has learned exclusively.The “Euphoria” Season 2 premiere, which first aired Jan. 9, has drawn 13.1 million viewers across multiple HBO and HBO Max to date, with Episodes 2 and 3 tracking similarly, per HBO.
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Eels release new album ‘Extreme Witchcraft‘, frontman Mark ‘E’ Everett has spoken to NME about his desire to “bury the hatchet” with actor Colin Firth.It’s been nearly 20 years since Firth uttered the line “I can’t stand eels” in Love Actually back in 2003, which Everett took to heart and then immortalised in his recent single ‘Good Night On Earth’“I have reached out to his people, and got no response,” E told NME. “So I think it’s true. He really can’t stand Eels.
Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year’s movie awards race.
Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentAsghar Farhadi, a two-time international Oscar winner for “A Separation” and “The Salesman,” is in the running for a third time with “A Hero,” which marks the Iranian auteur’s return to shooting in his country.It’s a drama about a man named Rahim (Amir Jadidi) who, while on furlough after being imprisoned for debt, returns a lost handbag full of gold coins. This apparently heroic act spirals out of control due to social media, which plays an important part in the pic as it exposes the pitfalls of media manipulation in Iran but also, by extension, the world. The fact that the movie made it up to this stage creates curiosity for audiences to watch the film.
Naman Ramachandran Netflix and Sky are co-producing for the first time on natural history series “Predators,” a six-parter that will follow six predators across changing landscapes. The series will premiere on Sky Nature in the U.K., Germany and Italy in winter 2022.
Parsifal III, sailing across the beautiful waters in Menorca, Spain.“When you go sailing, you never really know what the conditions are going to be like,” Captain Shephard says at the beginning of the trailer before the preview of the chaos aboard the luxury yacht plays out. Returning this season are chief stew Daisy Kelliher, chief engineer Colin MacRae and first mate Gary King.
Welcome back! The first look at season 3 of Below Deck Sailing Yacht brings plenty of drama — and that includes an unexpected make out session between Daisy Kelliher and Gary King.
A cold winter’s night saw a unique divide between Sharks and Smacks, as ABC’s Shark Tank and Fox’s WWE Friday Night SmackDown tied atop the demo pool, each raising an 0.6.
Cate Blanchett is getting candid about her career.