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The Colorado Avalanche and Tampa Bay Lightning continued the National Hockey League’s ratings triumph Friday night, pulling in a big 0.8 and total average audience of 3.44 million for ABC’s telecast. The game no doubt lured a number of fans looking for a series-closing win by the Avalanche. But Tampa Bay said “Not…

ABC’s primetime telecast of the 2022 NBA Draft notched a 0.3 rating in the adults 18-49 demo Thursday, while a repeat of Young Sheldon on CBS was the night’s highest-rated scripted show. According to fast affiliate ratings from Nielsen, 1.77 million viewers tuned into the draft on ABC, which carried the first round…

Game 4 of the 2022 Stanley Cup Final proved a win for the Colorado Avalanche and ABC on Wednesday night. A goal by Avalanche center Nazem Kadri in OT of the matchup with reigning champs the Tampa Bay Lightning put Colorado one victory away from claiming its first Stanley Cup since 2001. All that drama on the ice in…

Stranger Things 4 Vol. 1 landed 102.26 million hours viewed in its third full week of release on Netflix, the streamer said Tuesday. That was down from 159.2 million in the second full week and 335 million for the first. Twenty-four days in, Duffer Brothers’ hit period series has amassed 883.30 million hours viewed…

The Tampa Bay Lightning’s victory over the Colorado Avalanche in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final scored another big win for ABC in primetime Monday among viewers and in key demos. From 9-11 p.m. ET, the network dominated in adults 25-54 (3.2 rating) and 18-49 (2.7) and drew 3.23 million viewers, according to Nielsen…

EXCLUSIVE: Father’s Day weekend was the ideal launchpad for Warner Bros’ Andy Garcia-Gloria Estefan romantic comedy Father of the Bride, which wound up being the biggest HBO Max movie premiere ever in its four days, specifically for a title that was exclusively made for the streaming service. Father of the Bride was…

A pair of reruns of 60 Minutes helped CBS to dominate Sunday in total viewers in broadcast primetime, while repeats of America’s Funniest Home Videos and Celebrity Family Feud kept ABC in the 18-49 winners circle. The only new programming Sunday was a fresh episode of Duncanville (0.1 rating in adults 18-49, 520,000…

WWE Chairman/CEO Vince McMahon was a winner and a loser this week. First, the bad news: He stepped down from his executive position with the WWE as an investigation into misconduct and secret agreements was surfaced by the Wall St. Journal. Now, the good news: He appeared at the start of Fox’s WWE Friday Night SmackDow…

Taking down the Boston Celtics 103-90 in Game 6 of the 2022 NBA Finals in the Massachusetts metropolis last night, the Golden State Warriors cemented their dynasty with their fourth championship in the past decade. Now well ensconced in the pantheon of basketball, the big win for Stephen Curry, Draymond Green, Klay…

Netflix’s original series take on popular author Michael Connelly’s The Lincoln Lawyer (previously the basis of a Matthew McConaughey feature) posted a dominant win on the U.S. streaming chart for the week of May 16-22. The 10-episode show cruised past Ozark, collecting 1.85 billion minutes of viewing. Fully one-third…

Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final on ABC was the big demo winner (0.9 rating) in primetime Wednesday, with more than 3.2 million viewers tuning in watch the Colorado Avalanche edge the Tampa Bay Lightning 4-3 in overtime. Game 2 is set for Saturday at 8 p.m. ET. CBS managed to get more eyeballs, however, on the night…

Three weeks in, NBC’s stalwart America’s Got Talent continues to tower over the summer competition. Down just a fraction from its first two episodes, the variety competition drew 5.95 million total viewers and a 0.7 rating among adults 18-49 in the fast nationals. AGT is being used to launch new viral video-inspired…