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Donald Trump and his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, will take the stage Thursday to give it another go.The bar to improve upon their last prime-time meeting is low: Their first debate was punctuated by frequent interruptions, mostly from Trump, leaving the two men talking over each other and Biden eventually telling the president to “shut up.” A planned second debate didn’t happen after the Republican president was diagnosed with the coronavirus and refused to participate in a virtual format.

Donald Trump and his Democratic opponent Joe Biden drew 10 million fewer viewers than their first meeting.An estimated 63 million viewers tuned into the debate featuring Trump and Biden Thursday night, the Nielsen company said Friday. The debate was hosted at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee.The numbers were tallied between 15 networks that aired the debate.Fox News scored the most viewers compared to other networks with 14.7 million, according to Nielsen.

2020 presidential debates is just about here. After a chaotic first matchup between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, a more subdued (but still buzzy) vice presidential debate between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris, and dueling Trump-Biden town hall events in lieu of a second debate, the whole process has felt long and, at times, extremely disorderly.

The CBS newsmagazine 60 Minutes will interview President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden for next week's edition. Correspondent Lesley Stahl announced the interviews at the end of the newscast Sunday, promising "revealing,provocative conversations withthe two major party candidates for president." Stahl will interview Trump at the White House, while CBS Evening News anchor Norah O'Donnell will interview Biden in Delaware.

Saturday Night Live is tackling the dueling town halls between President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden.

Ted Johnson The opener of Saturday Night Live was a skewering of the competing town halls between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.It was an easy target: There was an outcry earlier this week when NBC scheduled a town hall with Trump against one already planned on ABC with Biden. But Savannah Guthrie, moderating the NBC News event, earned widespread praise for pressing Trump with questions and followups.Kate McKinnon, playing Guthrie, opened by saying, “Good evening America.

Jimmy Kimmel joined the chorus of Hollywood entertainers calling out NBC and its decision to air a “dueling” town hall for Trump directly against Joe Biden’s previously scheduled ABC event. With many of his fellow hosts on break, including NBC’s Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers, the face of ABC late night took solo shots at the Peacock network during his opening monologue Thursday.

Joe Biden and Donald Trump had town halls at the exact same time on Thursday (October 15) (despite petitions and protests from Hollywood stars to stagger the time slots), and Biden easily won in the ratings department.

Local television markets in the battleground states of Florida, Arizona, and Pennsylvania have become ground zero in the ferocious ad war between President Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden.

Joe Biden's Thursday night town hall is currently leading Donald Trump's in the ratings battle.

Will Thorne Staff WriterPresidential candidates Joe Biden and Donald Trump appeared in directly competing town halls on Thursday night, after the President dropped out of the second debate.Trump’s hourlong appearance on NBC, which drew criticism across the industry and even an angry letter from top talent and showrunners who work with NBCU, appears to be trailing Biden’s 90-minute session with ABC in the ratings, at least according to early numbers.Biden drew 12.7 million total viewers on the

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticAfter all the concerns about threats to democracy in the pursuit of ratings, Thursday’s dueling town halls between Donald Trump on NBC and Joe Biden on ABC ended up being a very good night for Savannah Guthrie, a very very good night for the Atlanta Braves and an excellent night for the former Vice-President.Sitting down with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos and voters at Philadelphia’s Constitution Hall on what should have been the night of the

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorPresident Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden will no doubt make news when they take part in dueling town halls this evening on NBC and ABC. But the networks broadcasting their events may be looking less at headlines the two politicians will generate and more at the money they will draw.NBC and ABC hope to take in hundreds of thousands of dollars in advertising revenue from their 8 p.m.

NBC is not backing down.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorPresident Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden will face off (sort of) tonight in dueling town halls live in primetime, simultaneously on broadcast networks NBC and ABC, respectively.Both events were scheduled on the night of the town hall-style second presidential debate, which was canceled after Trump would not agree to a virtual event following his COVID-19 diagnosis.The Trump event will air at 8 p.m.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVMore than 100 writers, actors, directors and producers are speaking out against NBC’s plan to air a town hall with President Donald Trump tonight at 8 PM directly opposite the Joe Biden town hall on ABC.In an open letter to Comcast CEO Brian Roberts, NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell and NBCU News Group chairman Cesar Conde, the Hollywood heavyweights are asking for the Trump town hall to be shifted from the time slot.

President Donald Trump on Sunday had one of his posts tagged by Twitter for — once again — sharing false information about the novel coronavirus. Trump tweeted, "A total and complete sign off from White House Doctors yesterday.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticChris Wallace wasn’t able to do it in the first and maybe only Presidential debate, but Twitter is now trying to reign Donald Trump in for election night and perhaps beyond.“We do not allow anyone to use Twitter to manipulate or interfere in elections or other civic processes, and recently expanded our civic integrity policy to address how we’ll handle misleading information surrounding these events,” the social media platform announced on its blog

Ted Johnson Facebook and Twitter each placed restrictions on President Donald Trump claim that COVID-19 is similar in severity to the flu.As he is recovering from the coronavirus with a regimen of treatments and an army of medical professionals, Trump appears to be switching back to a message that he had earlier this year, that COVID-19 is no worse than the flu.Trump tweeted on Tuesday, “Flu season is coming up! Many people every year, sometimes over 100,000, and despite the Vaccine, die from

Dominic Patten, Dino-Ray Ramos Joe Biden’s taken on a lot of opponents over the years but the NFL and COVID-19 threw out the David vs.