Most-Watched Television Networks: Ranking 2020’s Winners and Losers

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The siege on the Capitol by pro-Trump supporters drew a spike in viewership to the major networks, with CNN reporting its most watched day in its history.

Would it be a brand new year if we didn’t have the unveiling of Steven Soderbergh’s watch list? At this point, if you’re a huge film fan, you probably come to expect the big release of everything the filmmaker watched over the past year, looking over every entry to try to piece together what Soderbergh loved and what he skipped. And in 2020, with the COVID-19 pandemic forcing him to not make a half dozen films, it appears that Soderbergh did a lot of film and TV watching.

EXCLUSIVE: Shantay you stay! RuPaul’s Drag Race slayed ratings records with its Season 13 premiere on January 1. The Emmy-winning reality drag queen competition rang in the “Ru year” with a gag-worthy new season that became the most-watched episode in the history of the franchise with a staggering 1.3 million total viewers.

2020 certainly helped companies such as Netflix as, with so many people stuck at home, they’ve taken to consuming as many films and TV series as possible.

George Clooney has a hit movie!

EXCLUSIVE: This year especially, film holiday bragging rights ought to belong to the streamers, as numerous big pictures fill the holiday corridor gap emptied by the pandemic. Trouble is, most of them resist transparency, even when the news is good.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeThe pandemic didn’t slow down the NFL, which once again dominated Variety’s ranker of the most-watched television telecasts of the year. No surprise, of course, Super Bowl LIV was easily the top program of 2020, with 102 million viewers on February 2.Actually, seven of the ten telecasts of the year came from the NFL, and 28 out of the top 100 of the year.

The Sunday Telegraph.   In her televised speech, the 94-year-old monarch paid tribute to the 'kindness of strangers' whose actions have inspired all and said that even the 'darkest nights' have a promise of a 'new dawn'.

Fall 2020 was unlike any start of a broadcast season. With the coronavirus pandemic grounding production for months, ABC, NBC and CBS’ first 2020-21 scripted originals started rolling out a month into the season, while Fox and the CW opted for fall lineups consisting largely of shows already in the can or acquisitions, except for Fox’s sports programming and a new season of The Masked Singer and the final episodes of the CW’s Supernatural.

Real Housewives.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeJust weeks after being tapped to head up Banijay’s North America and Latin America operations, Cris Abrego has just been handed another major responsibility: Abrego has been elected as chairman of the Television Academy Foundation, making him the org’s first-ever Latino chair.Abrego is among the newly-elected board officers of the Television Academy Foundation, all of whom will serve a two-year term starting Jan. 1.