Nielsen Renews Push to Use Amazon ‘Thursday Night Football’ Audience Data in National Ratings (EXCLUSIVE)

Bryan Adams returns to the road for the second leg of his ‘So Happy It Hurts Tour’ with The Eurythmics’ Dave Stewart on select dates from January through March.Toward the end of the run, the 64-year-old Canadian rocker will swing into Newark, NJ’s Prudential Center on Saturday, March 16.At all shows, fans can expect a career retrospective from Adams’ storied catalog as well as an introduction to his Grammy-nominated 2022 album “So Happy It Hurts” that shares a name with the tour.And if you want tickets to rock out with your “first real six string” alongside Adams next year, you can snag your tickets as soon as today.Although inventory isn’t available on Ticketmaster until Friday, Nov. 17, fans who want to ensure they have tickets ahead of time can purchase on sites like Vivid Seats before tickets are officially on sale.Vivid Seats is a secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.They have a 100% buyer guarantee that states your transaction will be safe and secure and will be delivered before the event.A complete calendar including all 29 North American tour dates, venues and links to buy tickets can be found here:Adams has been touring all year long.Most recently, he’s played a handful of shows in Cape Town, South Africa.

first four episodes of the sixth season premiered on Netflix Thursday, and viewers are scratching their heads over the questionable scene showing the phantom of Diana (played by Elizabeth Debicki).The Princess of Wales died alongside her boyfriend, Dodi Fayed, in a car crash on Aug, 31, 1997. She was 36. While Part 1 of the show features the death scene (but not the crash itself), both Dodi’s and Diana’s spirits return to on-screen speak to their loved ones following the event.In the appropriately titled fourth episode, “Aftermath,” the aftereffects of the two dying is played out.Warning: Spoilers for Season 6 of “The Crown” below.Between the time of the Paris crash and Diana’s funeral at Westminster Abbey a week later, there are three separate instances when her or Dodi’s spirit appears.As then-Prince Charles (Dominic West) flies to France to retrieve Diana’s body, he contemplates the loss on a plane.“Paris,” he says.

EXCLUSIVE: German broadcasting network ARD has been accused of censorship following its decision to pull a scheduled broadcast of Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir’s 2017 feature Wajib due to the Israel-Hamas conflict.

Sony Pictures TV Studios’ SVP, Drama Development Andrew Plotkin has been promoted to EVP, Drama Development. In the Head Of Drama Development role he is succeeding Lauren Stein who was recently promoted to Head of Creative for SPT Studios. Plotkin, who will continue to report to Stein, will oversee development of scripted drama series for all platforms.

2024 is a big year for the “Alien” franchise, with Fede Álvarez‘s “Alien: Romulus” hitting theaters on August 16, 2024. But what about Noah Hawley‘s long-gestating “Alien” TV series for FX? Not according to TheWrap, with Hawley telling the outlet that show will air “somewhere in the in the first half of [2025],” given strike-related delays.

EXCLUSIVE: Korean American comedian, writer and producer Cathy Shim is the latest to join the cast of the film K-Pops! from first-time director and eight-time Grammy winner Anderson .Paak (who also stars). She will play Diamond, the energetic iconic host of a K-pop competition show in Seoul, and .Paak’s hard-to-please boss.

Unstable, the Netflix comedy starring Rob Lowe and his son John Owen Lowe, is heading back into production for its second season with a new showrunner.

“Chicken Run” was a breakout hit for Aardman Animations in 2000 after garnering a following in the UK and US for their “Wallace And Gromit” and “Morph” shorts. And twenty-three years later, “Chicken Run” remains the highest-grossing stop-motion animated film of all time.

No one knows when Taika Waititi‘s “Star Wars” movie will come out, but it’s still in the Lucasfilm pipeline. And outside of being in development, the only thing known about it is that it’ll come after Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Dave Filoni, and James Mangold‘s upcoming films hit theaters first.

TikTok announced today that it was removing videos that have popped up on the platform in which users of various ages and ethnicities promote Osama bin Laden‘s “Letter to America,” which he had written to justify the attacks on 9/11.

After a string of delays, one of Prime Video‘s most anticipated series finally has a release date. That’s right, all eight episodes of “Mr.

Prime Video has set a winter release date for Mr. and Mrs. Smith, its reimagining of New Regency’s 2005 Doug Liman-directed action comedy film that starred Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. All eight episodes will release on February 2, 2024, exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.

The nonprofit Sundance Institute today revealed an additional honoree of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival’s fundraiser, Opening Night Gala: Celebrating 40 Years,whichwill take place on January 18, 2024, at the DeJoria Center in Utah. 

Rejoice exhibition, because some wide releases are keeping their dates on the theatrical film schedule next year, despite it being wrecked by the actors strike. Disney had April 5 on hold and that’s being designated to 20th Century Studios’ psychological thriller The First Omen, the prequel to the classic 1976 horror film. 

A college in Tennessee is up in arms after a faculty member tried hosting a BDSM safety class on campus — and it has everyone divided!

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Before being linked to CBS‘ new late-night series “After Midnight,” Taylor Tomlinson had little connection to the world of broadcast TV and the ebbs and flow of nocturnal programming. She is best known as an up-and-coming comic who has found success with stand-up specials on Netflix and video clips on TikTok. So how did a comedian known for her digital presence land a spot in the linear media world? Executives at CBS have been hunting for months for someone to take over the network’s 12:30 a.m.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Netflix is ready to use “The Crown,” “Squid Game” and other signature series to take ad dollars from rival streamers. The company says it will start to offer so-called “title sponsorships” to advertisers ready to align with the new reality series “Squid Game: The Challenge” and the final season of “The Crown” as part of its bid to accelerate the utility of its ad-supported tier.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Lester Holt may be turning up more frequently in David Muir‘s rear-view mirror. During Muir’s tenure at “World News Tonight,” the ABC program has done something most TV programs cannot do in the streaming era: Add new linear viewers. Yet in recent weeks one of the evening-news program’s competitors has nibbled at its lead in a crucial audience category.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Warner Bros. Discovery will overhaul the executive structure of its global consumer products and franchises division, the unit that oversees the management of its intellectual property as well as DC Comics. Pam Lifford, president of the group, is stepping down to focus on a family member’s healthcare needs, the company said Wednesday, and Bruce Campbell, Warner’s chief revenue and strategy officer, who has oversight of the division, will have new direct reports.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Time for a different sort of commercial break. Any subscriber to the ad-supported version of Hulu is bound to encounter the usual assortment of TV commercials that regularly interrupt a binge-watch of anything from “Only Murders in the Building” to “NYPD Blue.” Sometimes, a different sort of pitch pops up. This one only surfaces when users stop the action on their own to take a call, grab a snack or hit the bathroom.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Robin Roberts, George Stephanopoulos and Michael Strahan will soon have to greet ABC’s morning viewers from a decidedly different locale. As part of a larger move by Walt Disney Co., all of the company’s New York properties are slated to move in 2025 to a building in downtown New York in a neighborhood known as Hudson Square. That will include some programs already ensconced in well known studios, such as “GMA” and “Live with Kelly and Mark.” The move won’t isn’t scheduled to take place for some time, but staffers are already coming to grips with how it might affect the program’s standing in TV’s non-stop morning-news wars.