‘This Is Us’ Snags Final Primetime Wins With Emotional Series Finale, Dominates Tuesday’s Demo & Audience

make the meeting a reality.Liana’s son, Misha, didn’t understand why his family had to journey across Europe following the destruction of their home, so she invoked his role model to encourage him to complete the move. And, on June 5, Cena obliged to fulfill the promise.Misha, a non-verbal teen with Down’s Syndrome, didn’t understand why his family had to flee Mariupol this year.To placate him, his mother told him they were travelling to meet John Cena.Cena heard… and went to Amsterdam to oblige.

Black Bird, featuring Ray Liotta’s final TV appearance.The actor, who died last month aged 67, stars in the psychological thriller series as the father of Jimmy Keene (Taron Egerton).Based on the 2010 true crime memoir In With The Devil: A Fallen Hero, A Serial Killer, and A Dangerous Bargain by James Keene and Hillel Levin, Egerton’s character is sentenced to 10 years in prison for dealing drugs. During his sentence, he’s offered early parole if he relocates to a prison for the criminally insane and befriends serial killer Larry Hall (Paul Walter Hauser).A synopsis reads: “Keene quickly realises his only way out is to elicit a confession and find out where the bodies of several young girls are buried before Hall’s appeal goes through.

John Cena has met a Ukrainian teenager with Down's syndrome who used him as inspiration while fleeing the country. The WWE legend travelled to the Netherlands to meet 19-year-old fan Misha Rohozhyn, who fled from Mariupol in March with his family amid the Russian invasion. During their journey, Misha's mother Liana motivated her son with a "motivational fantasy" that the Hollywood star would greet them at the end of their travels, and he was upset Cena wasn't there when they arrived in May.

Britain’s Got Talent viewers may be used to their Saturday night fix of the reality show, but they’ll have to wait until Sunday as ITV “cancelled” the live semi-final ahead of their grand final airing on Sunday. In last night’s show, hosts Ant and Dec told viewers that there would be no show on Saturday evening as usual.

Jeannie Mai Jenkins, Adrienne Houghton, Loni Love and Garcelle Beauvais wrapped the show's historic run.«I didn't think we would make it two seasons, so to make it to eight is great,» Love, joining her co-hosts by video conference, said.Beauvais, who joined the series in season 7, praised the other three ladies, who had all been on the show since the beginning.«I hope you guys take this moment to realize what you were able to do,» Beauvais said. «Eight seasons of a talk show with a panel of women of color! I mean, congrats, congrats, congrats, congrats.»While tears ran down her face, Houghton marveled that she'd «done a decade of my life on this show.» Mai Jenkins, meanwhile, reflected on how she's changed during the course of the series.«I started off this show so naive. I was very green to a lot of things.

Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterThe midseason finale of the sixth and final season of “Better Call Saul” grew 87% with three days of delayed viewership, according to Nielsen’s Live + 3 data.The May 23 episode, which is the conclusion of Part 1 of the “Breaking Bad” prequel’s final chapter, drew 2.2 million viewers including its initial linear airing on AMC, plus three days of mostly DVR viewing.According to AMC, viewership via streamer AMC+ was up 61% over the Season 6 premiere, and “Better Call Saul” currently stands as the top acquisition driver in the history of the SVOD.“The response to this final season of Better Call Saul, from viewers, critics, long-time fans and new arrivals to the series – on all platforms – has been everything we had hoped for,” said Dan McDermott, president of entertainment and AMC Studios for AMC Networks. “The series looks like nothing else on television, which is a tribute to the creative genius and excellence of Vince, Peter, Bob, Rhea, Giancarlo, Patrick, Jonathan, Michael, Tony, our partners at Sony and everyone else associated with this extraordinary effort.

Grey’s Anatomy celebrated it milestone 400th episode with a Japril return, numerous doctor exits and primetime victories.

announced Thursday during an investor briefing that hit PlayStation titles “Horizon Zero Dawn” and “Gran Turismo” are being developed as new scripted TV series. Additionally, Sony confirmed that Amazon Prime Video has secured the long-rumored “God of War” TV series.The “Horizon Zero Dawn” series is in development at Netflix while the planned “Gran Turismo” series has yet to finalize a distributor.These projects join a growing roster of popular PlayStation titles being leveraged for new on-screen content including: HBO’s “The Last of Us,” Sony’s blockbuster live-action “Uncharted” film, and the studio’s gestating feature adaptation of “Ghosts of Tsushima.”“Horizon Zero Dawn” comes from Amsterdam-based Guerrilla Studios and was released on Playstation 4 in 2017.

Ellen DeGeneres is officially done with The Ellen DeGeneres Show after 19 years in syndication.

This is it: The Ellen DeGeneres Show is coming to an end.

the full clip above. The penultimate episode of “The Ellen Show” airs Wednesday at 3 p.m. ET/PT on NBC. The finale episode of the show will air Thursday at the same time.

Runaway bride. New Amsterdam fans are reeling after the season 4 finale ended with Helen Sharpe leaving Max Goodwin at the altar.

Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterThe Pearsons have left the airwaves and their Tuesday farewell party put up big primetime returns for NBC.The series finale of “This Is Us” averaged a 1.2 rating among adults 18-49 and 6 million total viewers, according to preliminary Nielsen data. Final results will be in later Wednesday, at which time Variety will update this post.Last week, the penultimate episode of the Dan Fogelman-created family drama received a 0.95 rating in the advertiser-coveted adults 18-49 demographic and 5.3 million viewers, according to time-zone adjusted Live + Same Day ratings from Nielsen.

the emotional series finale -- and the tears were definitely flowing.The very last episode of NBC's award-winning drama had the tall task of closing the loop on the TV family we've all come to adore, while celebrating Rebecca's life and looking ahead to the future. Simply titled «Us,» the final hour was split among two periods of the Pearsons' lives — a lazy weekend with Jack, Rebecca and a young Big Three and the day of Rebecca's memorial service.Saying goodbye to the long-running NBC drama seemed to be what was hardest for fans, when they took to Twitter to bid farewell to the series after six seasons.«I am not okay #thisisus,» one person wrote of the series finale.«How are we going to not have you guys in our homes every week :(.

We’ll be seeing more of Dr. Elizabeth Wilder on NBC’s New Amsterdam. Sandra Mae Frank, who joined the series in the current fourth season as a recurring, has been promoted to series regular for the upcoming fifth and final season, Deadline has confirmed.

The International Coalition For Filmmakers At Risk (ICFR) has demanded “an end to a growing environment of fear and insecurity” in Iran after two documentary creators were arrested then released on bail, preventing them from travelling or working.

Justin Bieber has announced the final international dates for his record-setting Justice World Tour, including a new UK date. Having sold in excess of 1.3 million tickets so far, the Justice World tour will travel to over 30 countries.

Lise Pedersen An A-list panel was invited to discuss the question of animated film for adults in a conversation entitled “What Is Adult Animation Film’s Strategy and Where Is It Headed?” at the Cannes Film Market’s fourth edition of Animation Day on Sunday.Panelists included Dutch-born French filmmaker Jan Kounen (“Doberman,” “Blueberry,” “My Cousin”), who also presented his latest project “Epiphania” in the morning’s pitching sessions, alongside Sun Creature (“Flee”) co-founder and producer Charlotte de La Gournerie, Bruno Felix, founder and co-CEO of Amsterdam-based Submarine (“They Shot the Piano Player,” “Where Is Anne Frank?”), and Amel Lacombe, CEO and founder of Paris-based indie distributor Eurozoom. Asked whether the perception of adult animation is evolving, Lacombe, who heads Europe’s leading theatrical distributor of Japanese animation, alluded to the genre’s exponential growth over the past two years, saying: “Change will come with big money and big business.