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Survivor Season 45 went out strong.

EXCLUSIVE: Reacher Season 2 has been crowned No. 1 at Amazon.

EXCLUSIVE: Dateline continues to impress after 32 seasons.

The Buffalo Bills took the Dallas Cowboys to task on Sunday, easily topping Week 15 of the NFL regular season.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor The quest for a new way to measure TV audiences has taken years of tests, dozens of efforts to sample upstart technologies and hours of debates among big media companies, Madison Avenue buying firms and blue-chip advertisers. At present, no one seems to have devised a perfect solution. So Byron Allen decided to try.

It was another week with no billion-minute club honorees on the Nielsen streaming charts, as The Crown took the top spot.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Interpublic Group, the ad-holding company that has made a concerted bid to enlist new kinds of audience data into planning how and where commercials run, hopes to turbocharge its efforts in a new partnership with OpenAP, a consortium of the big U.S media companies that helps identify similar consumer audiences across different companies’ platforms. Under terms of the new pact, Interpublic Group’s Magna media-investment arm will be able to identify discrete group of consumer audiences and distribute commercials to reach them via OpenAP.

The week of November 6 to 12 appears to have been a slow one for streaming.

EXCLUSIVE: It’s the most wonderful time of the year — for Freeform, that is.

The audience for The Golden Bachelor finale has only continued to grow since Gerry Turner concluded his second-chance quest for love with an engagement last week.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis and the rest of the Republican field of presidential candidates aren’t the only ones who have something riding on the GOP’s next primary debate. The event will be telecast Wednesday between 8 and 10 p.m. eastern from the University of Alabama by the upstart cable-news outlet NewsNation, and has the potential to affect more than just votes and donations.

Selome Hailu NBC saw solid ratings on Wednesday night with the airing of two Christmas specials Airing from 8-10 p.m. on Nov. 29, the annual “Christmas in Rockefeller Center” special reached an audience of 7 million people when accounting for three days of delayed viewing across NBC, Peacock and digital platforms.

Selome Hailu 6.1 million viewers tuned in to see who Gerry Turner would propose to on Thursday night after two month of wooing women of a certain age. That marks not only a series high, but the most-watched episode of any series in the “Bachelor” franchise since the conclusion of Matt James’ season in 2021. When “The Golden Bachelor” premiered on Sept.

Gerry Turner saw his second chance at love come to fruition on Thursday night when he proposed to a very lucky lady on the inaugural season finale of The Golden Bachelor. 

Selome Hailu No Hard Feelings” landed on Netflix on Oct. 22, four months after its theatrical debut, and immediately took hold of the Nielsen Streaming Top 10. The Jennifer Lawrence movie was the most-streamed title during the week of Oct.

Audiences are appear to be paying tribute to Matthew Perry‘s life by revisiting one of his most famous roles.

CNN‘s debut of King Charles, the new show featuring Gayle King and Charles Barkley, premiered to 510,000 viewers, according to Nielsen fast national early numbers.

For the first time since June, Suits did not manage to surpass 1B minutes viewed during the week of October 23 to 29.

Emily Longeretta The ATX TV Festival is beginning to roll out its programming for Season 13. The event, taking place May 30-June 2 in Austin, Texas, will include both “Suits” and “Halt and Catch Fire” reunions. The creatives and cast of “Suits” will get back together, marking five years since the series finale.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor If movie and TV studios get nervous about advertising, so should everyone else. Advertisers loathe controversy, and often “pull” or “yank” their commercials from individual pieces of content that generate it.

EXCLUSIVE: Jimmy Kimmel Live is still delivering strong ratings, six weeks after late-night returned to the airwaves.

All hail, The Fall Of The House Of Usher.

NCIS: Sydney had a strong showing out of the gate on Tuesday night.

The Hollywood News Run by film fans for film fans! The Hollywood News The first Inside Out 2 trailer has landed with us and with it comes the revelation of a new emotion character in the film; Anxiety. One we can all relate to, me thinks.

The Fall of the House of…Suits?

Joe Otterson TV Reporter “Reacher” Season 2 has an official premiere date at Amazon Prime Video, with the streamer also dropping the first trailer for the new season of the popular series. The second season of “Reacher” will debut with the first three of its eight episodes on Dec. 15.

It’s starting to seem like Suits may never give up its throne.

Saturday Night Live hit a season best this Halloween.

Fox News again topped all the cable news networks in October, but only CNN and MSNBC gained viewers versus last year, as Israel-Gaza coverage and the House Speaker upheaval dominated the news cycle.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Lester Holt may be turning up more frequently in David Muir‘s rear-view mirror. During Muir’s tenure at “World News Tonight,” the ABC program has done something most TV programs cannot do in the streaming era: Add new linear viewers. Yet in recent weeks one of the evening-news program’s competitors has nibbled at its lead in a crucial audience category.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Marketers, mark you calendar: Google is bringing YouTube‘s Brandcast back to New York City during TV’s upfront ad-sales season for 2024 for a third year running. Next year’s YouTube Brandcast will be held Wednesday, May 15, 2024, starting at 6 p.m. at Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Nielsen appears to be trying to move forward with a new audience-measurement technology that many TV networks think still isn’t ready for primetime. The measurement giant in September backed off an effort to incorporate first-party data from Amazon in its study of the audience for the company’s streamcast of “Thursday Night Football.” The move would have marked a first step toward utilizing inputs from the companies Nielsen measures as it produces its widely used tabulation of national viewership, and many TV executives denounced the plan.

Watch out, Suits. Grey’s Anatomy is coming for the Nielsen streaming crown.

The NBA roared back onto the airwaves Wednesday night giving ESPN its most-watched opening night in 11 years.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Amazon kept the cash register ringing in the third quarter, including a strong 26% uptick in advertising revenue, turning in results that came in above Wall Street forecasts. Overall, Amazon reported Q3 revenue of $143.1 billion, up 13%, and net income up more than threefold to $9.88 billion (94 cents per share).

EXCLUSIVE: Comedian Patricia “Ms. Pat” Williams is commanding the court on BET.