Sunday, December 22, 2024

Television

“Keeping Up with the Kardashians” In Ratings Spiral as Numbers Have Dropped For 4 Consecutive Weeks, Now Fewer than 900K

The Kardashians are dropping in numbers faster than the stock market after a Trump brouhaha. Four weeks ago, the avaricious family returned to E! for...

Diahann Carroll Dead at Age 84: Timeless Beauty Was First African American Woman to Star in Own TV Series

Diahann Carroll has died at age 84, from cancer according to reports. She was the first African American women to star in her own...

Hillary Clinton Brought Rachel Maddow to a Huge Tie with Sean Hannity on Wednesday Night, and Win in Demos

Wednesday night cable slug fest: Rachel Maddow and Sean Hannity tied in total viewers: 3,869,000. And it wasn't just that Donald Trump is unraveling...

Ratings: “Empire” Drops to Lowest Ever, Under 3 Million Without Jussie Smollett, “The Conners” Has Lost Steam

TV ratings are not good these days. On Tuesday night, "Empire" had its second episode without Jussie Smollett. The numbers dropped to the lowest ever--...

Ratings: Sketchy Global Citizen Fest on MSNBC Scored Less than a Million Viewers, Tied with “A Very Brady Renovation” on HGTV

The Global Citizen Festival concert was a bust on MSNBC Saturday night. At the 8pm hour total viewers were 834,000. At 9pm, the number was...

Hogan Sheffer, “As the World Turns” Five Time Emmy Winning Writer Was 61, Once Profiled in the New Yorker

Hogan Sheffer, who won five Emmy awards for writing soap operas, has died at age 61. He won four of the Emmys writing the...

Saying Goodbye to the Great Johnnie Planco at the Hallowed Players Club: Enough Actors to Make a Hit Movie

Last Thursday afternoon, on the way to the Emmy Awards, I stopped by the Players Club on Gramercy Park to say goodbye to a...

Tuesday TV Season Debut Ratings: “Empire” without Jussie Smollett Lowest Numbers Ever, “The Conners” Returns Low, But “NCIS” Pops with Ziva”

Last night was Super Tuesday on TV. It marked the return of "NCIS," "The Conners," "Empire," and "This is Us." Not all of it...