Six months in, the strikes are over. Ten days out, the holidays begin. As for the movies—unfortunately, the most exciting part of the year is already behind us.
24.10.2023 - 22:23 / variety.com
Selome Hailu Everyone loves a villain. The series premiere of “House of Villains,” which aired on E! on Oct. 12, reached an audience of 1.2 million viewers over a course of seven days of multiplatform viewing.
This statistic accounts for viewing across E!, Bravo, Syfy, USA, VOD, TVE, NBCU cable apps and YouTube. 500,000 of those viewers fell into the key adults 18-49 demographic. That makes the episode E!’s most watched series premiere, according to Live + 7 data, since 2020, when “The Bradshaw Brunch” brought in 2 million viewers across all platforms in one week.
The 203% leap of “House of Villains” from 572,000 viewers in Live + Same Day viewership to 1.2 million after seven days marks the largest L+7 lift for any E! series this season. And the audience for “House of Villains” is continuing to grow. Live + 3 data shows that Episode 2 saw a 58% increase in total viewers and a 77% increase among adults 18-49 when compared to Episode 1, accounting solely for airings on E! as Episode 2 didn’t premiere across all platforms.
“House of Villains” unites 10 notorious villains from different reality franchises who must outsmart and out-scheme each other in a series of battle royale challenges testing their physical, mental and emotional strength in order to win a $200,000 cash prize. Joel McHale hosts, while cast members include Tiffany “New York” Pollard from “Flavor of Love,” Shake Chatterjee from “Love Is Blind,” Jax Taylor from “Vanderpump Rules, Corinne Olympios from “The Bachelor” and more. The series hails from Irwin Entertainment, and John Irwin, Dave Kuba, Eli Frankel and Matt Odgers executive produce.
.Six months in, the strikes are over. Ten days out, the holidays begin. As for the movies—unfortunately, the most exciting part of the year is already behind us.
The Beatles have topped the charts with their “final” track ‘Now And Then’ – six decades after they secured their first Number One.Released earlier this month, the track was billed as the last song from the Fab Four and stemmed from an old John Lennon demo tape – completed by Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr with the help of AI.It also came alongside both a short video documenting their time completing the project and a Peter Jackson-directed music video that included previously unearthed footage of the band.Now it has been confirmed that the long-awaited track has gone on to top the charts – 60 years since the band claimed their first Number One track.This feat means that McCartney and co. now boast the longest period between an artist’s first and last Number One single – with their first being ‘From Me to You’ in May 1963 (60 years and six months ago).
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A Scots road menace has been jailed for leading police on a high-speed chase after driving his car at a cop and forcing him to dive out of its path.
Glamour Women of the Year Awards kickoff on November 7 at Jazz Lincoln Center—a perfect mix of style and empowerment. The star-studded night featured our luminary headliners: , , , , , , and It was a night brimming with celebration, stunning fashion, and contagious laughter, thanks to our host, Michelle Buteau.
Next January, no bad good will go unpunished when Marvel Studios‘ latest Disney+ series “Echo” premieres. Subscribers to the streamer will already be available with Alaqua Fox‘s antiheroine from the 2021 series “Hawkeye.” But “Echo” is a standalone series for Lopez, seeing Echo take center stage as she squares off against Vincert D’Onofrio‘s Wilson Fisk, aka: Kingpin.
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Chinese spy balloon that was shot down after it had floated clear across America’s airspace — eight days and more than 4,000 miles after it first breached the US border.“Every year there is a new story that we are all fixating on,” Kaufman explained. “This year is what this one: the Chinese spy balloon? At first, no one knew what it was [or] why it was there — a floating balloon flying across the U.S.
Strictly Come Dancing fans were over the moon to see Kevin Clifton back on their telly, three years after he bid farewell to the popular dance competition. The 41 year old, who quit in 2020 after seven years, popped up on the show's spin-off It Takes Two for a surprise chat with host Fleur East on Tuesday, 31 October.
Yvette Fielding, often referred to as the 'First Lady of the Paranormal,' has undergone quite the transformation since her time in the I'm A Celebrity jungle eight years ago. Back then, she was known for her fiery red hair, but she now sports a two-tone hairdo and chic, thick-rimmed glasses. Yvette is best known for her role in the popular TV series Most Haunted, which she co-hosted with her husband, Karl Beattie.
Adult animation fans, feast your eyes on this: “Blue Eye Samurai” hits Netflix next week, from the husband and wife team of Michael Green and Amber Noizumi. Some may recognize Green’s name from writing credits on “Logan” and “Blade Runner 2049,” making easy to guess what this animated limited series has in store for audiences.
Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Oscar-winning director Giuseppe Tornatore’s vintage TV series “Il Camorrista,” starring Ben Gazzara as one of the fiercest bosses of the Neapolitan Camorra crime syndicate, is being unearthed from the vault 37 years after the mobster himself quashed the show before it aired. “Il Camorrista” was shot in 1985 as part of an innovative production mounted by Italy’s glorious Titanus shingle and Silvio Berlusconi’s ReteItalia. The production comprised both a Tornatore feature film by the same title and the five-episode TV show.
A Strictly Come Dancing favourite is making his much-anticipated return to the BBC dance contest next week for its spin-off show It Takes Two. Fans will be delighted to see Kevin Clifton, 41, make an appearance on the programme, which comes almost four years after he quit the main show.
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