Gerry Turner, a retired restauranteur from Indiana, was dancing his way into a slew of dates on Thursday night’s opening episode of The Golden Bachelor.
19.09.2023 - 01:57 / variety.com
Selome Hailu Though “Yellowstone” is now in its fifth and final season on Paramount Network, its series premiere just landed on broadcast TV for the first time, bringing 6.6 million viewers to CBS on Sunday night. This marks a substantial leap from the episode’s 2.8 million viewers when it first premiered back in 2018 — though that was to be expected, as CBS reaches a larger audience than its sister cable networks, and “Yellowstone” has since become a major hit.
For a more recent comparison, Paramount Network’s airing of the Season 5 premiere in November drew 8.8 million viewers, and simulcasts across Country Music Television, TVLand and Pop TV brought that number up to 10.5 million. Sunday’s “Yellowstone” episode also benefitted from lead-in from “60 Minutes,” which aired right before and drew 11.4 million viewers.
The series will continue to air in order, with two episodes per week except on NFL doubleheader nights, when only one episode will air. CBS is airing “Yellowstone” and other titles from within the Paramount ecosystem as a way to fill out its fall slate amid the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.
For “Yellowstone” in particular, the move makes sense — Variety TV critic Aramide Tinubu wrote that the series’ “new broadcast home is precisely where the massive and wildly entertaining epic should have been from the beginning.” “Yellowstone” was the first Taylor Sheridan-created series for Paramount Global, but has since become a full universe. Prequel series “1883” premiered on Paramount+ in 2022, as did prequel series “1923,” which will return for a second season.
“Lawmen: Bass Reeves” will premiere on Paramount+ in November as a spinoff of “1883,” while “6666” heads to Paramount Network. “1944” is in development
.Gerry Turner, a retired restauranteur from Indiana, was dancing his way into a slew of dates on Thursday night’s opening episode of The Golden Bachelor.
Reese Witherspoon is out and about promoting her children’s book, Busy Betty and the Circus Surprise!
reconnected with her “Sweet Home Alabama” kids via social media in the comments section of a post honoring the rom-com.“@msmelanielynskey ❤️ proud to be one of your kiddos in this film.
Jaden Smith and his girlfriend Sab Zada are stepping out for a cozy lunch date!
Selome Hailu The second episode of “Yellowstone” brought an average 5 million viewers to CBS when it aired on Sunday night. This marks a 24% decrease from last week, when the Taylor Sheridan-created series made its debut on broadcast television with a strong 6.6 million viewers — though it should be noted that CBS did not air an NFL doubleheader on Sunday ahead of its own programming the way it did the week before.
BreAnna Bell The Kansas City Chiefs did more than take down the Chicago Bears during the Sept. 24 game. Sunday night’s telecast got the Taylor’s Version treatment and delivered a total audience of 24.32 million viewers and scoring the highest among female demographics across the ages of 12-17, 18-49 this week.
Selome Hailu After three years of anticipation and two renewals for extra seasons before audiences even got to see the show, Dan Harmon’s adult animated comedy “Krapopolis” finally arrived with two episodes on Fox on Sunday night, bringing a solid audience with it. An average 3.6 million viewers tuned in to the first episode of “Krapopolis” on Sunday night, according to Live + Same Day data from Nielsen.
In the lawsuit that she filed this week over the custody of their daughters, Sophie Turner listed August 15 as a pivotal day in the deterioration of her relationship with Joe Jonas.
Reese Witherspoon is looking back to her younger self.
“Yellowstone” fans have been anxiously awaiting news about the series as the final episodes of Season 5 are yet to be released. It’s been a wild ride for viewers as after the first half of the season, so much drama surrounding the show began. New reports suggest that at one point, Kevin Costner was begging to return to the series.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Howard Stern and Bill Maher are “no longer friends,” according to Stern. The SiriusXM radio host told listeners (via Entertainment Weekly) that Maher made a “sexist” comment involving Stern’s first wife and “was actually dumping on me” during an episode of Maher’s “Club Random” podcast. “He took a big shot at me,” Stern said.
Joe Otterson TV Reporter The Disney and Pixar film “Elemental” had a strong start on Disney+, with the film pulling in 26.4 million views in its first five days of streaming availability. Per Disney, that makes “Elemental” the most-watched movie premiere of the year on the service and among the top 10 movie premieres they have ever had. For context, Disney defines a view as total stream time divided by runtime, just like Netflix recently started doing.
Yellowstone made some noise with its broadcast debut on CBS.
back on set to wrap part two of Season 5.In April, Costner, Sheridan and the lead cast — Kelly Reilly, Cole Hauser, Luke Grimes, Kelsey Asbille, Wes Bentley, Gil Birmingham and Jacki Weaver — all skipped PaleyFest last-minute, upsetting fans who bought a ticket for the L.A. panel, and raising suspicions about behind-the-scenes tensions between Sheridan and Costner.Josh Lucas, Wendy Moniz, Mo Brings Plenty and Dawn Olivieri were ultimately brought in as backup.
The Only Way Is Essex star Diags - otherwise known as James Diags Bennewith - has found himself in hot water after it was revealed he kissed his co-star behind a new girl’s back.The 32-year-old has now got himself involved in a 'cheating scandal' with fellow TOWIE member Elma Pazar and newcomer Jodie Wells. Diags and Elma, who also appeared on Love Island, have been trying to rebuild their friendship after a short-lived romance played out on the show, but now The Sun has revealed there have been "drunken snogs" between the pair. “It's not technically cheating because Diags and Jodie aren't officially boyfriend and girlfriend, but she won't be pleased to find out Diags and Elma have had some secret kisses after a few drinks," a source told the publication, admitting it was behind Jodie's back.
“The Morning Show” makers wanted to do something grand for season three. So, showrunners Mimi Leder and Charlotte Stoudt told production designer Nelson Coates that “we’re doing all these environments. We’re going to space and it’s going to be right up front.”
Ryan Phillippe has a “sobering” update for his fans.
EXCLUSIVE: Writer-director Adam Anders has signed with Brillstein Entertainment Partners.
Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Here we are, just days away from the start of the 2023-24 television season… and the major networks still aren’t 100% sure what they’re doing. Just last week, several broadcasters scrambled to make even more last minute schedule changes — on top of other recently announced tweaks. The fall lineups that viewers tune into later this month will be remarkably different than the ones first announced in May.
sold her production company, Hello Sunshine, which she co-founded in 2012, for $900 million, a number that likely prompted rumors of a 10-digit net worth.In June, Forbes released a list of the wealthiest self-made women in various industries. Witherspoon slotted in at #59, just after singer Dolly Parton, with a net-worth of $440 million – while other women who reportedly had higher net worths have acted, she was the first woman on the list whose primary occupation was acting.Speaking of the success she has generated throughout her career, Witherspoon says the opinions of others are not valuable to her.“I think I started so young, and rejection was such an early piece of my life that I learned a long time ago that other people’s opinions of me are none of my business,” she shared.“I really don’t care what anybody thinks.