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‘Chicago Med’ Showrunners Stepping Down
NBC’s Chicago Med will have new leadership heading into its 10th season. Co-showrunners Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, who have been with the drama since it debuted in 2015, are stepping down at the end of the show’s current run. The married couple have helmed Med for nine seasons and more than 170 episodes to […]
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‘The Neighborhood,’ ‘NCIS’ Renewed at CBS
CBS is continuing to fill out its roster for the 2024-25 season. The network has picked up two of its Monday night staples, The Neighborhood and NCIS, for next season. The renewals will take The Neighborhood into its seventh season and NCIS to its 22nd. With Young Sheldon ending this season, The Neighborhood will also […]
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TV Ratings: Men’s NCAA Final Falls Short of Women’s Title Game for First Time
The audience for the NCAA men’s basketball championship ticked up from last year’s low — but for the first time, the men’s game drew a smaller TV crowd than the women’s final. Connecticut’s 75-60 victory over Purdue on Monday — a result that was not in doubt for most of the second half — averaged 14.82 […]
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‘FBI’ Scores Three-Season Renewal at CBS
CBS is locking in its FBI franchise for next season — and in the case of the flagship series, well beyond that. The network has given FBI a three-season renewal, which will take the series through its ninth season in 2026-27. Spinoffs FBI: Most Wanted and FBI: International each received single-season pickups for 2024-25, which will […]
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TV Ratings: NCAA Women’s Final Sets Another Record
For the third time in seven days, the NCAA women’s basketball tournament drew its largest audience ever. Some 18.87 million people watched South Carolina cap an undefeated season by beating Iowa, 87-75, in Sunday’s championship game, according to final same-day Nielsen ratings (that’s an uptick from 18.7 million in preliminary results). The audience is the […]
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Streaming Ratings: ‘The Gentlemen’ Has Solid Opening on Netflix
Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen opened with a bang on Netflix. The series, a spinoff of Ritchie’s 2019 film, delivered almost 1.21 billion minutes of viewing over its first four days (it premiered March 7), according to Nielsen’s streaming rankings for March 4-10. It ranked second among all streaming series for the week, behind Love Is […]
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Mindy Kaling Returns to Hulu With ‘Murray Hill’ Comedy
Mindy Kaling is plotting a return to Hulu. The Disney-owned streamer has landed Kaling’s next comedy series, an ensemble show titled Murray Hill. Hulu outbid several other outlets and has given a script-to-series commitment for the show, which is set in the titular Manhattan neighborhood and will follow five work-obsessed 20-somethings striving for professional success […]
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‘Will Trent’ Earns Season 3 Renewal at ABC
ABC is putting another building block in place for its 2024-25 season. The broadcast network has renewed its drama series Will Trent for a third season. The crime procedural’s second season has capably anchored ABC’s Tuesday night lineup this spring, showing sizable ratings growth compared to its inaugural run last year. Produced by Disney’s 20th […]
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Fox Sports, AEG Take Shot at New College Hoops Tournament
Fox Sports broadcast more than 300 college basketball games this season — but zero NCAA Tournament contests, as those rights are locked up by CBS and Warner Bros. Discovery. So the network, along with live event promoter AEG, is launching a tournament of its own. The two companies on Wednesday announced the College Basketball Crown, a […]
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ESPN’s Stand-Alone Streaming Service Will Be Available Through Disney+
ESPN’s planned streaming product will be part of the Disney bundle when it launches in 2025. CEO Bob Iger said during recorded remarks at Disney’s annual shareholder meeting that the stand-alone ESPN streamer will be available through Disney+ for subscribers who bundle their Disney streaming services. He compared the ESPN integration into Disney+ to that […]
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TV Ratings: Iowa-LSU NCAA Rematch Sets All-Time Record for Women’s Basketball
Last year’s NCAA women’s basketball championship set an all-time ratings record for a women’s game on ESPN. A rematch of that game — albeit two rounds earlier in the tournament — on Monday night drew an even bigger crowd. Iowa’s 94-87 victory over LSU averaged 12.3 million viewers for ESPN, the largest TV audience ever for […]
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‘Outlander’ Producers Nab TV Rights to Cork O’Connor Mystery Novels (Exclusive)
Two producers of Starz’s forthcoming Outlander prequel are taking on a different long-running book series for their next TV project. Story Mining & Supply Co., the production company founded by Jim Kohlberg, has acquired rights to Edgar Award-winning author William Kent Krueger’s Cork O’Connor mystery thriller novels, about a half-Irish, half-Ojibwe sheriff turned private investigator […]
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