Jeff Gaspin Joins Netflix in Key Unscripted Post
Netflix has added former NBC Universal Television Entertainment chief Jeff Gaspin to its executive team. Gaspin will be vp unscripted series at the streamer, charged with curating and growing Netflix’s slate of reality programming. He joins Netflix a month after Jenn Levy, who previously oversaw unscripted series at the company, departed. Gaspin will report to […]
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‘Sirens’ Dark Comedy From ‘Maid’ Creator a Go at Netflix
Netflix has greenlit the next project from Maid creator and showrunner Molly Smith Metzler. The streamer has ordered Sirens, a limited series that’s described as a dark comedy that explores “women, power and class.” The series comes from Margot Robbie’s LuckyChap banner (which also produced Maid), and the Barbie star and producer is an executive […]
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‘My Octopus Teacher’ Filmmaker James Reed Boards Doc Series About De-Extinction Company Colossal
Colossal Biosciences, a company that aims to bring extinct animals back to life, is set to be the subject of a documentary series. The company has teamed with Oscar-winning My Octopus Teacher James Reed’s Underdog Films and Teton Ridge Entertainment to produce a “multi-year” docuseries about Colossal’s work. The firm bills itself as the world’s […]
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Sydney Sweeney, Josh Brolin Land ‘SNL’ Hosting Gigs
After a shortened 2022-23 season, Saturday Night Live returned a bit later than usual to kick off its 2023-24 run. The writers strike affected both the end of last season and the start of season 49; the end of the labor action on Sept. 25 meant a mid-October start for SNL — with former castmember Pete […]
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Peacock NFL Playoff Game Led Biggest Streaming Day Ever, Nielsen Says
The first streaming-exclusive NFL playoff game helped drive the biggest day on streaming platforms that Nielsen has ever measured. The ratings provider’s monthly profile of TV use for January shows a 3.7 percent uptick in January compared to December, and total time spent watching TV was the highest in four years, excluding the pandemic lockdown […]
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TV Ratings: ‘True Detective: Night Country’ Ends With Season High
The finale of True Detective: Night Country drew the season’s largest first-night audience, ending well above where the season began. On broadcast Sunday, Tracker fit seamlessly into CBS’ lineup in the first episode after its post-Super Bowl premiere. Sunday’s closing episode of Night Country brought in 3.2 million cross-platform viewers (for the first airing on […]
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HBO Delaying ‘Last Week Tonight’ Segments on YouTube
The 11th season of Last Week Tonight With John Oliver premiered on HBO Sunday night — but not on YouTube on Monday morning. Per both HBO and Oliver, the premium cable outlet is now holding back segments from the show for a few days after episodes premiere. That’s a change from past practice, when people could […]
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Jon Stewart’s ‘Daily Show’ Homecoming Has Ratings Halo Effect
Jon Stewart’s return to The Daily Show on Feb. 12 posted strong ratings — and may have helped the rest of the week’s episodes, as well. It’s an exceedingly small sample size, but the numbers for the three shows hosted by Jordan Klepper after Stewart’s inaugural show improved substantially on The Daily Show’s recent average. The […]
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TV Ratings: ‘Young Sheldon’ Opens Final Season With Multi-Year High
The final season of Young Sheldon began with the CBS show’s largest audience in several years Thursday, and Ghosts had its best first-night audience ever. The two comedies were the runaway leaders in primetime, continuing a strong premiere week for CBS. After an aggressive promo campaign during the Super Bowl (which had the largest TV […]
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Dennis Quaid to Play Serial Killer in ‘Happy Face’ at Paramount+
Paramount+’s drama Happy Face has found its title star. Dennis Quaid will star with Annaleigh Ashford in the series and will play very much against type in the role of a notorious serial killer nicknamed “Happy Face” because he drew smiley faces on evidence in boasting about his crimes. The series, from executive producers Robert […]
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Kids’ Streamer Noggin Shutting Down Amid Paramount Layoffs
Noggin, Paramount Global’s subscription video-on-demand service targeted at young kids, is shutting down. The platform is a casualty of a round of layoffs that saw 800 staffers across Paramount lose their jobs. CEO Bob Bakish said the layoffs are part of “streamlining costs” at the conglomerate. Noggin’s entire staff is among the 800 layoffs. The […]
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Streaming Ratings: ‘Bluey’ Leads Big Week on Nielsen Charts
The week of Jan. 15-21 was a big one for streaming. Seven titles — three original series, three acquired shows and one movie — each drew more than 1 billion minutes of viewing for the week, the most that have ever hit that mark in the four-year history of Nielsen’s streaming charts. The previous high was […]
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