Friday Ratings: NBA Finals Top The Night, But There’s An Asterisk Attached To Its Win

CBS News interview from last year. Since then, Amazon canceled a 4-film deal with the “Annie Hall” director and four-time Oscar winner, and numerous stars all disavowed having worked with him, including Kate Winslet (“Wonder Wheel”), Mira Sorvino (“Mighty Aphrodite”), Elliot Page (“To Rome With Love”) and Colin Firth (“Magic in the Moonlight”).

The Colorado Avalanche and Tampa Bay Lightning continued the National Hockey League’s ratings triumph Friday night, pulling in a big 0.8 and total average audience of 3.44 million for ABC’s telecast.

‘Gordon, Gino and Fred’s Road Trip’ is coming back for a new series. Gordon Ramsay, Fred Sirieix and Gino D’Acampo are to reunite for a new season of their ITV travel show, despite previous concerns that Gordon's schedule might be too full due to the celebrity chef being a “victim of his own success”. A source told The Sun newspaper's TV Biz column: “He is something of a victim of his own success at the moment, and he has so much on it’s tricky fitting it all in.

WWE Chairman/CEO Vince McMahon was a winner and a loser this week.

The Golden State Warriors are the National Basketball Assn. champions, destroying the Boston Celtics by 103-90 at the TD Garden in Game 6 to win the series.

JAY-Z and Blue Ivy Carter — his adorable daughter with wife Beyoncé -- spent the evening hanging out and watching the Boston Celtics take on the Golden State Warriors on Monday.The duo made an appearance at Chase Center in San Francisco, California, for Game 5 of the NBA finals.

Blue Ivy Carter is sitting in courtside seats at the NBA Finals with her dad Jay-Z!

The once great Boston Celtics dynasty must be feeling pretty restoration right about now after last night’s 116-100 win over the Golden State Warriors in the Puritan City in Game 3 of the 2022 NBA Finals. However, when it comes to viewership, the league itself probably is a little meh.

Scottish stars Sam Heughan and Ncuti Gatwa are being honoured at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland's graduation ceremony next month.

EXCLUSIVE: Scarlett Johansson’s new movie, My Mother’s Wedding, that’s also Kristin Scott Thomas’ feature directorial debut has added BAFTA and Golden Globe nominee Sienna Miller, SAG ensemble winner Freida Pinto and Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Emily Beecham. Cameras are currently rolling, Deadline hears.

Angelique Jackson In its 26th year, the American Black Film Festival (ABFF) is more star-studded than ever, with a robust lineup of Black film and television stars and creators.After two years of COVID-related pivots, the festival returns to South Beach in Miami for a five-day engagement full of special screenings, panel discussions and events celebrating the Black film and television community. Among the talent joining ABFF festival ambassador Issa Rae, who will debut her new HBO Max series “Rap Sh!t” at the festival are Chanté Adams, Yahya Abdul- Mateen II, Kenya Barris, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Ben Crump, Michael Ealy, DeVon Franklin, Kasi Lemmons, Judge Greg Mathis, LisaRaye McCoy, Kyla Pratt, Trevante Rhodes, Kendrick Sampson, Robin Thede, Judge Lynn Toler, Susan Kelechi Watson and Salli Richardson Whitfield, among many others.

Top Gun: Maverick star Miles Teller has spoken about performing stunts while shooting the film, saying that he thought he was “going to die” during one particular moment.Teller, who plays Lieutenant Bradley ‘Rooster’ Bradshaw in the new film, was one of a number of actors to undergo a five-month training course delivered by co-star Tom Cruise to prepare them for the G-forces they would experience while filming scenes in planes.Of one scene, shot in an F-18 Hornet jet, Teller told LADBible: “I think when there’s that much adrenaline and a healthy bit of fear, I was able to hold [vomit] down. I guess that’s a secret skill I have.”“If anything I think it made me really appreciate how nice it is not to have to, you know, go 500 knots an hour all the time,” he said of his new appreciation for commercial flights.

Two great teams. Lots of big stars. An exciting game. Big television markets. Momentum from a ratings rise during the regular season and playoffs.

The suspicious death of a six-year-old profiled by ABC newsmag 20/20 and the WWE Friday Night SmackDown shared top demo honors as viewers begin to ease into summer.