ABC is No. 1 in Nielsen's Non-Sports Adult 18-49 November Sweep Averages
by Caryn Robbins - November 28, 2016 Excluding sports to level the playing field for the NFL and MLB-boosted averages, ABC ranked No. 1 for the 2016 November Sweep in Adults 18-49 (1.4/5-tied w/NBC), leading CBS by 8% (1.3/4) and Fox by 40% (1.0/4)....
ABC to Make New & Returning Series Available on Digital Platforms
by Caryn Robbins - October 17, 2016 ABC will make all episodes of new series from the current 2016-17 season and several returning shows available to authenticated viewers on ABC.com and the ABC app for desktop, mobile and connected TV devices...
SPEECHLESS Returns to Joe's Pub for One Night Only Event on August 15th!
by Nora Dominick - July 18, 2016 BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND "SPEECHLESS" ATTRACTING HI TECH CROWDS FOR MOCK POWERPOINT THROWDOWNS MONDAY, AUGUST 15th 7:30pm At JOE'S PUB ...
THE ILLUSIONISTS to Launch BROADWAY BALANCES AMERICA Season 3 on Lifetime
by BWW News Desk - August 02, 2016 The award-winning morning show THE BALANCING ACT on the Lifetime Channel will launch the third season of the 'Broadway Balances America' series with THE ILLUSIONISTS - LIVE FROM BROADWAY, presented by BroadwayAcross America, in a featured segment airing on Monday, August 8 at 7:30 a.m. (ET/PT)....
SJ Presents Brings LOVE JONES THE MUSICAL to New Jersey This Fall
by BWW News Desk - October 21, 2016 SJ Presents is proud to be one of the first to welcome audiences to the much-anticipated event, LOVE JONES THE MUSICAL Based on Theodore Witcher's 1997 cult classic film where the familiar story is retold in a concert-style setting featuring a star-studded cast including MUSIQ SOULCHILD, CHRISETTE M...
New York City's Best Mentalists to Present COMPLETELY MENTAL
by Ashlee Latimer - November 20, 2016 Completely Mental is a first-of-its-kind variety show that features New York City's finest and most talented mentalists, doing what they do best: performing feats of mind-reading and mental dexterity that leave audiences speechless. Conceived, presented, and hosted by the award-winning and criticall...
THE ILLUSIONISTS to Launch BROADWAY BALANCES AMERICA Season 3 on Lifetime
by BWW News Desk - August 02, 2016 The award-winning morning show THE BALANCING ACT on the Lifetime Channel will launch the third season of the 'Broadway Balances America' series with THE ILLUSIONISTS - LIVE FROM BROADWAY, presented by BroadwayAcross America, in a featured segment airing on Monday, August 8 at 7:30 a.m. (ET/PT)....
City Unveils its 2017/18 Prime-Time Schedule
by Caryn Robbins - June 06, 2017 Proven, powerful, and pedigreed. Today Rogers Media unveils City's 2017/18 programming schedule, building on last season's proven hits with bold new additions backed by some of the most creative minds in television today....
Stars of Prison Break, Dirty Dancing, and More Among PaleyLive LA Spring Season
by Julie Musbach - March 07, 2017 The Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills today announced it has selected four outstanding new television programs to be featured in the 2017 PaleyLive Spring Season. These four star-studded PaleyLive LA events highlight the cast and creative teams of new and highly anticipated series including: F...
ABC's BLACK-ISH Surges by Double Digits From Its Last Original 3 Weeks Ago
by Caryn Robbins - February 09, 2017 As “Modern Family” and “The Goldbergs” returned to originals for the first time in 1 month (since 1/11/17) and “Speechless,” “black-ish” and “Match Game” for the first time in 3 weeks (since 1/18/17), ABC won Wednesday over all-original competition among Adults 18-49...
LOVE JONES, THE MUSICAL Comes to the Morris Performing Arts Center
by BWW News Desk - August 26, 2016 LOVE JONES, THE MUSICAL, comes to the Morris Performing Arts Center on Wednesday, September 28, at 8:00 p.m....
SJ Presents Brings LOVE JONES THE MUSICAL to New Jersey This Fall
by A.A. Cristi - September 19, 2016 SJ Presents is proud to be one of the first to welcome audiences to the much-anticipated event, LOVE JONES THE MUSICAL Based on Theodore Witcher's 1997 cult classic film where the familiar story is retold in a concert-style setting featuring a star-studded cast including MUSIQ SOULCHILD, CHRISETTE M...
Defunkt Presents the Portland Premiere of HIR by Taylor Mac
by A.A. Cristi - September 16, 2016 Defunkt is thrilled to bring one of the most celebrated and exciting plays of the past ten years to Portland. As Christopher Isherwood of the New York Times writes "Perhaps no play this year inspired a greater sense of awe than Taylor Mac's audacious dive into the dysfunctional-family playpen of Am...
Maya Rudolph & More Original Cast Members to Reprise Their Roles for Disney XD's BIG HERO 6
by Caryn Robbins - November 03, 2016 Disney XD's upcoming animated series BIG HERO 6 based on Walt Disney Animation Studios' Academy Award-winning feature film inspired by the Marvel comics of the same name, will reunite much of the original cast for its 2017 debut....
ABC Is Only Network to Grow Its Audience on Wednesday Year Over Year
by Caryn Robbins - October 06, 2016 For the 3rd consecutive week this season, ABC earned the No. 2 position on Wednesday in Adults 18-49 (1.8/6) to an “Empire”-fueled Fox, beating CBS by an even greater 29% (“Survivor”/“Criminal Minds”/“Code Black” = 1.4/5) and NBC by 38%...
Leading Asian TV Drama to Receive Staged Reading
by A.A. Cristi - May 23, 2017 A staged reading of the groundbreaking new drama TV pilot, NISEI, is set to take place at the Japanese American National Museum on Saturday, May 27, 2017, at 2:00PM. The reading is open to the public. Museum members and valid ticket holders can make a reservation at rsvp@janm.org. ...
LOVE JONES THE MUSICAL Coming to Brooklyn This October
by BWW News Desk - October 22, 2016 SJ Presents will be one of the first to welcome audiences to the much-anticipated event, LOVE JONES THE MUSICAL, based on Theodore Witcher's 1997 cult classic film where the familiar story is retold in a concert-style setting, featuring a star-studded cast including MUSIQ SOULCHILD, CHRISETTE MICHEL...
ABC's MODERN FAMILY Scores Closest-Ever Finish With 'Empire' on Wednesday
by Caryn Robbins - November 10, 2016 Season to date, ABC is up on Wednesday by 1.9 million viewers (11.2 million vs. 9.3 million) and by 10% in Adults 18-49 (3.2/11 vs. 2.9/10), marking its most watched start to the season on the night in 5 years – since the first 7 weeks of Fall 2011....
Cloud Cult to Perform Full Score of Award Winning Film in Select US Cities This June
by Caryn Robbins - April 14, 2017 The indie rock band Cloud Cult will be bringing their new feature film The Seeker to the live stage in select US cities in June....
All Eight Writers Selected for Disney/ABC Writing Prgoram Staffed for 2016-17 TV Season
by Caryn Robbins - August 16, 2016 With the announcement of ABC's new primetime line-up came an abundance of support from new and returning showrunners striving to incorporate diversity into writers' rooms. For the sixth consecutive year, all eight of the writers selected for the Disney|ABC Writing Program have been staffed on DATG ...
ABC Gives Full-Season Orders to DESIGNATED SURVIVOR and SPEECHLESS
by A.A. Cristi - September 29, 2016 Two critically acclaimed new Wednesday series, “Speechless” and “Designated Survivor,” have been given full-season pickups, Channing Dungey, president, ABC Entertainment, announced today. Nine additional episodes of both series, from Twentieth Century Fox Television and ABC Studios, and The Mark Gor...
Broadway Vet Dale Soules Promoted to Series Regular on ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK
by Caryn Robbins - May 31, 2017 Dale Soules, who plays the role of no-nonsense inmate Frieda Berlin on the hit Netflix series ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, has been promoted to series regular for the upcoming sixth season....
Don Mardak's 'Armageddon and the 4th Timeline' Wins Gold Medal in the Readers Favorite Book Awards Competition
by Christina Mancuso - March 27, 2017 NEW BERLIN, WI - We live in uncertain times. With the chaotic and rapidly deteriorating conditions in the Middle East, the underlying threat of nuclear proliferation and the potential spread of weapons of mass destruction exist throughout the world. Add to that a collective consciousness that doesn'...
ABC's AMERICAN HOUSEWIFE Is First New Comedy This Season to Build on Lead-in
by Caryn Robbins - October 12, 2016 ABC was up from the same Tuesday last season by 35% in Total Viewers (4.6 million vs. 3.4 million) and by 27% in Adults 18-49 (1.4/5 vs. 1.1/4)....
For the Second Week in a Row, ABC Wins Wednesday With Its Comedies as the Top 4 TV Shows in Adults 18-49
by A.A. Cristi - January 12, 2017 ABC Wednesday Prime (8:00-11:00 p.m. – 5.8 million and 1.7/6 in AD18-49): ABC won the 2nd-straight Wednesday of 2017 in Adults 18-49 (1.7/6), beating Fox by 21% (1.4/5) NBC by 31% (1.3/5) and CBS by 55% (1.1/4). Also for the 2nd week running, ABC delivered Wednesday's Top 4 TV shows in the key yo... |