TV News Desk - Page 130

Universal City, California, October 5, 2017- Bring home the highly anticipated four part documentary, The Defiant Ones, available on Digital on November 21, 2017 and on Blu-ray and DVD on November 28, 2017 from UPHE Content Group.

Altice USA (NYSE: ATUS) and The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) today announced a comprehensive distribution agreement to deliver Disney's robust lineup of premier sports, news and entertainment content to Optimum video customers across television and streaming devices.

Due to positive viewer response, BUZZR will continue the network's special tribute to game show icon and avid philanthropist Monty Hall on Saturday, October 7th.

Universal Cable Productions' HAPPY! is based on New York Times best-selling author Grant Morrison and Darick Robertson's graphic novel of the same name. Check out the trailer below!

NBC Sports Group surrounds this weekend's NASCAR Cup Series and XFINITY Series Playoffs, with more than 20 hours of trackside coverage from Charlotte Motor Speedway, in Concord, N.C.

NBC Sports Group and Notre Dame will drop the puck on the 2017-18 Fighting Irish hockey season on Friday, October 6, at 7:30 p.m. ET on NBCSports.com and the NBC Sports app when Notre Dame hosts Alabama-Huntsville at the Compton Family Ice Arena in South Bend, Ind.

wo Offensive Rookie of the Year candidates will be showcased this weekend on NBC's Sunday Night Football, as Kareem Hunt and the undefeated Kansas City Chiefs (4-0) visit Deshaun Watson and the Houston Texans (2-2) at NRG Stadium. Coverage begins with Football Night in America this Sunday, October 8, at 7 p.m. ET on NBC.

CBS Television Studios and CBS All Access invite Star Trek fans from around the world to join the cast and executive producers of STAR TREK: DISCOVERY at New York Comic-Con Saturday, October 7 in The Theater at Madison Square Garden at 3:45-4:45pm ET.

With the premiere of its new Tuesday comedy lineup from 8:00-10:00 p.m. against NBC's The Voice / This Is Us and debut of Kevin (Probably) Saves the World at 10:00 p.m., ABC ranked No. 2 on Tuesday night in Adults 18-49 (1.3/5).

Wolfe will release PRINCESS CYD in New York and Chicago on November 3rd, and Los Angeles on December 1st.

Fox Inclusion today announced that the Fox Writers Lab (FWL) is now accepting applications for its 2018 program, designed to nurture experienced and emerging writers with unique voices, backgrounds and life experiences and create a strong pipeline of well-rounded talent for potential staffing as writers and/or story editors on Fox productions.

Bringing the best of Broadway to primetime, NBC has cast Tony Award winner and Dear Evan Hansen star Ben Platt as a guest star on NBC's WILL & GRACE The episode will air tonight, October 5 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on NBC.

CBS All Access, the CBS Television Network's digital subscription video on demand and live streaming service, today announced that its latest original series, STAR TREK: DISCOVERY, has pushed the service to a new record high for subscriber sign-ups in a single week.

During season premiere week (w/o 9/25/17) in the Live + Same Day numbers, ABC aired 5 of the Top 15 entertainment series in Adults 18-49: Grey's Anatomy No. 8, The Good Doctor No. 10, Modern Family No. 11, The Goldbergs No. 12 and American Housewife No. 15. ABC's The Good Doctor opened as TV's No. 1 new drama in Total Viewers and Adults 18-49.

During the week of September 25, 2017, Live with Kelly and Ryan topped the debut week of NBC's Megyn Kelly Today by 21% in Households (2.3/8 vs. 1.9/7) in the 56 U.S. Metered Markets and by 43% among the key demographic of Women 25-54 (1.0/8 vs. 0.7/6) in the 25 LPM Markets.

For the week of September 25, 2017, ABC's The Chew outdelivered CBS' The Talk for the 16th consecutive week in key Women 18-49 (+13% - 300,000/0.5 rating vs. 266,000/0.4 rating), including by double digits for the past 7 weeks in a row among the target demographic dates back to weeks of 6/12/17 and 8/14/17, respectively.

During the opening week of the new 2017-18 TV season (w/o 9/25/17), ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live jumped over the prior week by 13% in Total Viewers (2.298 million vs. 2.035 million) and 23% among Adults 18-49 (626,000 vs. 509,000) to its best performance since June since the weeks of 6/5/17 and 6/12/17, respectively.

With Dancing and the season's No. 1 new drama in The Good Doctor, ABC was the most watched network on Monday night (10.2 million) and nearly tied NBC for No. 1 in Adults 18-49 (1.9/7 vs. 2.0/7).

For the 2nd Monday in a row, ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live ranked as the No. 1 late-night talk show with Adults 18-49 (0.7/4) in the 25 LPM Markets, topping NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon by 17% (0.6/3) and CBS' The Late Show with Stephen Colbert by 20% (0.5/3).

Television's No. 1 new drama, The Good Doctor, has been given a full-season order, Channing Dungey, president, ABC Entertainment, said today.