The Mooch is back on the airwaves.
01.01.2023 - 19:23 / deadline.com
It’s hard to view the past year in the news business as anything other than testy and tumultuous.
What started as a rather promising job market instead ended with an ad slowdown dominated by news of layoffs and hiring freezes.
News networks and news divisions enter the coming year with the ramping up of a presidential cycle, but even with Donald Trump already on the ballot, there are doubts that audience numbers will match the blockbuster figures from late in the past decade.
It’s possible to outline, in broad strokes, what to watch for in 2023, but it’s a bit of a fool’s errand to predict. Over the past year, Ukraine’s resistance and resilience against Russia defied expectations. In politics, Democrats held their own in the midterms against historic trends. In government, the January 6th Committee surprised by delivering a series of TV-ready hearings, laying out a simple-to-understand narrative that included bombshells and surprise witnesses. In the celebrity sphere, the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial captivated attention, in part because a judge’s decision to allow cameras in the courtroom made it a daily soap opera.
So here is what to watch in the next 12 months:
Donald Trump’s campaign has already launched, even if it may not feel like it. After the first of the year, the focus of political media will shift to 2024, from what other GOP contenders enter the field to whether President Joe Biden decides to run for re-election. Early as it sounds, it is not unusual. The first Democratic debate of the 2020 cycle was on June 26, 2019. Well before that, in the 2008 cycle, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaigns were up and running by February 2007. News networks will look to the next
The Mooch is back on the airwaves.
Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr and NBA star Stephen Curry were the latest entertainment and sports celebrities to make an appearance at the White House daily briefing, this time to give brief remarks on gun violence prevention and the recent release of Brittney Griner.
FX Boss John Landgraf said today at the network’s TCA day thatRyan Murphy’s American Story spinoff American Sports Story is “heading toward production.”
Hound dogs! Kaia Gerber may not have walked the 2023 Golden Globes red carpet with boyfriend Austin Butler — but she was waiting in the wings to celebrate his big win.
The Golden Globes returned to broadcast television this year, not with a bang but with a whimper. NBC‘s Tuesday night telecast of the 80th annual ceremony brought in just 6.3M people, according to Nielsen data.
EXCLUSIVE: Three of the BBC’s most experienced news presenters are quitting the UK broadcaster as it ramps up plans to merge its international and domestic news channels.
A job well done! Hollywood’s leading ladies slayed at the 2023 Golden Globes.
A Golden Globes glow! Pregnant Kaley Cuoco and boyfriend Tom Pelphrey hit the 2023 awards show, and the Flight Attendant star’s baby bump was on full display.
Emily in Paris star Ashley Park and Haley Lu Richardson (The White Lotus) have been tapped to announce the 29th annual SAG Awards nominations on Wednesday, January 11. The nominations will be announced exclusively on Instagram Live (@sagawards) beginning at 10 a.m. ET / 7 a.m. PT.
Prince Harry’s tell-all with ITV’s Tom Bradby was watched in the UK by a disappointing 4.1M last night, with just one third of the audience who watched his and wife Meghan Markle’s Oprah interview tuning in.
In the first of a number of interviews promoting new memoir Spare, Prince Harry has said he’s “spent the last six years trying to get through to my family privately” before reaching the point of “fleeing my home country fearing for our lives.”
Romance is in the air! Hallmark Media is bringing more love to both Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries during its annual “Loveuary” lineup.
There has been no shortage of supposed Loch Ness Monster sightings in 2022 for those interested in capturing evidence of the mythical beast's existence.