Television

“This Is Us” and “The Masked Singer” have resumed their battle at the top of the delayed viewing charts. For the week of Oct. 26, the NBC drama managed to come out on top with its season 5 premiere. From a 1.4 rating among adults 18-49 in Live+Same Day, “This Is Us” grew 64% to

In today’s TV news roundup, CBS announced the premiere date for “SEAL Team,” and The CW announced a campaign with Boys & Girls Clubs of America to encourage youth safety and health amid the pandemic. DATES The premiere date for CBS’ “SEAL Team” has been pushed to Dec. 2. Season 4 will now begin with

Jacqueline Parkes will step down as chief marketing officer for ViacomCBS’ Entertainment and Youth Group by year’s end. Parkes, who is also executive VP of digital studios, has headed marketing for the channels group that includes MTV, VH1, CMT and Logo for the past five years. More recently she took on oversight of marketing for

D’oh! Homer’s in over his head on this Sunday’s episode of “The Simpsons,” and Oscar-winning actress Olivia Colman is to blame. (Scroll down for an exclusive clip.) In episode 689, “The 7 Beer Itch,” Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie head to her relatives’ home in Martha’s Vineyard, but with a catch: Homer isn’t invited. Left

Two simple words uttered on Fox News Channel Friday morning gave its audience obvious facts — and may have served to quell a nascent controversy about how the network intends to cover Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden if he should prove victorious in the 2020 election. After CNN reported Friday morning that it had reviewed

Raúl De Molina has been on U.S. television for nearly three decades. In that time, he’s seen a lot. He has worked for both Telemundo and Univision. He has watched as the Spanish-language U.S. broadcast audience grew in size and in importance to advertisers. And as the host of daytime“El Gordo y la Flaca,” which

Charles Barkley is out to conquer a new arena. The NBA Hall of Famer is exec producing his first scripted series, “The Line,” based on a bestselling exposé of the gambling scandal that nearly destroyed college basketball. RTG Features, the new sister studio to basketball media outfit SLAM, is producing the multi-episode one-hour historical drama, partnering with

Perhaps unsurprisingly, a season high number of viewers tuned in to “The Bachelorette” last night to see Clare Crawley exit the show having found love, and Tayshia Adams take her place. A total of 5.3 million total viewers watched last night’s episode, which represents a 15% jump from last week and a 300,000 increase on

Amid some skepticism from Wall Street, ViacomCBS executives spent most of the company’s third-quarter earnings call hawking its streaming capabilities and selling the investment community on Pluto TV, the rebranded Paramount Plus and its broader direct-to-consumer strategy. The company, which is coming up on its first-year anniversary of the merger between Viacom and CBS, also

(SPOILER ALERT: Do not read on if you have not watched the second episode of season 2 of Disney Plus’ “The Mandalorian.”)   Between sand dragons and ice spiders, Mando just can’t catch a break. The second episode of “The Mandalorian” season 2 began with Mando fighting off yet another batch of bounty hunters trying to

“Gentleman Jack” will be back on our screens in the not too distant future. The BBC and HBO historical drama has officially begun production on season 2 in the U.K. under local COVID-19 guidelines. Suranne Jones is set to reprise her role as Anne Lister, with Sophie Rundle returning as her new wife Ann Walker.

The latest episode of “Star Trek: Discovery” includes a storyline that viewers have almost certainly never seen before on a major television series: A romance between a non-binary character, a human named Adira, and trans character, a Trill named Gray. What’s more, Adira and Gray are played respectively by the non-binary actor Blu del Barrio

Al Roker, one of morning-TV’s most durable presences, told viewers of NBC’s “Today” Friday morning that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer and would be taking time off for surgery and recovery. “It’s a good news-bad news kind of thing,” Roker told viewers during the morning program’s Friday broadcast. “Good news is we caught

ViacomCBS released solid third-quarter earnings on Friday that showed signs of improvement in advertising sales and affiliate revenue as well as strong growth in its streaming operations. Paid subscribers for CBS All Access and Showtime standalone streaming services have climbed to 17.9 million, up from the 13.5 million subs disclosed earlier this year. The company

SPOILER ALERT:Do not read if you have not watched the Nov. 5 episode of “The Bachelorette.” For the first time in the “Bachelor” franchise’s two-decade history, the star of “The Bachelorette” was replaced. After months of rumors pouring out from the quarantined set, viewers finally learned that Tayshia Adams is taking over the leading lady

SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched the Nov. 5 episode of “The Bachelorette.” On the heels of last week’s episode, no one was happy in “The Bachelorette” bubble. The contestants hosted a group roast and titular Bachelorette Clare Crawley responded by interrogating each contestant about frontrunner Dale Moss. She ultimately

SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet seen “California Part 2,” the second episode of the sixth season of “Superstore.” Saying goodbye to any beloved character on a television series comes with a lot of tears, even if that series is a sitcom. In the case of NBC’s “Superstore,” the sadness wasn’t

Lesley Manville is facing some serious pressure. The longtime actor is taking over the role of Princess Margaret in the final two seasons of “The Crown” from Helena Bonham-Carter. “Of course I feel pressure! No pressure? All the pressure in the world,” Manville said in an interview with Variety’s Marc Malkin. “Everyone loves comparing, don’t

There has been yet another change behind the scenes at “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.” Head writer Rebecca Drysdale is exiting her role on the show, Variety has confirmed. In a private Facebook message obtained by the Chicago Sun Times, Drysdale explained that it was a mutual decision, after both parties agreed she “was not

In today’s TV news roundup, Peacock announced “TrollsTopia” and “The Mighty Ones” from DreamWorks Animation, and HGTV ordered renewed “Flip or Flop.” RENEWALS HGTV renewed “Flip or Flop” for a 10th season, ordering 15 new episodes of the reality series starring real estate agents Tarek El Moussa and Christina Anstead. The upcoming episodes, set for

After Election Night itself proved entirely indecisive, almost all the major broadcast and cable news networks continued their coverage into a second night. Whereas Fox News emerged victorious on Election Night, CNN topped the overall viewership rankings for night 2, drawing 7.1 million viewers in the primetime hours of 8-11 p.m. Fox News wasn’t all

Amid the ongoing pandemic, Roku’s third-quarter financial results topped Wall Street’s estimates Thursday afternoon as streaming hours spiked for another consecutive quarter, sending the stock up over 4% in after-hours trading, on top of a 4.4% gain during the regular trading session. Active accounts popped by 43% to 46 million, according to the company, while

When most people get too drunk, they might do an embarrassing dance or text someone they know they really shouldn’t be texting. When Gina (Annaleigh Ashford) gets too drunk, however, she becomes “Becky,” an enthusiastic hellion who ruins weddings, falls out of windows and, in a moment of enlightened benevolence, offers up her kidney to

A pair of spooky offerings broke into the Nielsen’s list of top 10 most-streamed shows in the U.S. a few weeks ahead of Halloween. For the week of Oct. 5, “The Haunting of Bly Manor” scared its way onto the list at number two, garnering an average of 1,175 million minutes in its first week.

Willliam Jackson Harper is set to lead “Love Life” Season 2 at HBO Max, Variety has learned. Season 2 will be set in New York City and focus on Harper’s character as he comes out of a years-long relationship with the woman he thought was going to be his person. The rug pulled out from under

Amid the ongoing election chaos, “The Masked Singer” kept the show going on Wednesday night. The Fox singing competition topped the ratings charts with a 1.6 rating among adults 18-49 and 6.3 million total viewers. That’s pretty much exactly even on the week before, which is not too shabby considering the election furore going on

Alumni of London’s elite Escape Studios, writer-director Sarah Andrews and assistant director, animation lead and sound designer Aaron Hopwood, participated in this year’s Cartoon Springboard project pitching sessions, looking to leverage the success of their short student film “Jerich0” into a short form series adaptation. “Jerich0” started life as a one-minute, third year VFX and

Meet the artisans behind the best looks, VFX, lenses and designs in film and TV in the last year, from sci-fi to contemporary productions, these behind the scenes craftspeople add dimensions and layers to the directors’ vision. Mandy Moore Showrunner Austin Winsberg found in Moore a choreographer who took his concept of a woman who

In terms of television trends, 2020 has ended up being something of an unexpected year full of new series about space travel, and Showtime’s “Moonbase 8” (premiering Nov. 8) is the latest entry into the canon of that very specific brand of 2020 series. Produced by A24, “Moonbase 8” isn’t the first space-themed comedy of

ESPN’s chief said the Disney sports-media division would eliminate 500 positions – 300 employees and 200 posts that are currently unfilled – in a bid to free up resources for streaming, digital and other kinds of video experiences designed for the new ways fans are engaging with sports. ESPN has already made cuts in recent