Saturday, December 20, 2025

Television

Ratings: Sketchy Global Citizen Fest on MSNBC Scored Less than a Million Viewers, Tied with “A Very Brady Renovation” on HGTV

The Global Citizen Festival concert was a bust on MSNBC Saturday night. At the 8pm hour total viewers were 834,000. At 9pm, the number was...

Hogan Sheffer, “As the World Turns” Five Time Emmy Winning Writer Was 61, Once Profiled in the New Yorker

Hogan Sheffer, who won five Emmy awards for writing soap operas, has died at age 61. He won four of the Emmys writing the...

Saying Goodbye to the Great Johnnie Planco at the Hallowed Players Club: Enough Actors to Make a Hit Movie

Last Thursday afternoon, on the way to the Emmy Awards, I stopped by the Players Club on Gramercy Park to say goodbye to a...

Tuesday TV Season Debut Ratings: “Empire” without Jussie Smollett Lowest Numbers Ever, “The Conners” Returns Low, But “NCIS” Pops with Ziva”

Last night was Super Tuesday on TV. It marked the return of "NCIS," "The Conners," "Empire," and "This is Us." Not all of it...

HBO Takes the Most Emmys, 34, And Throws a Royal Pageant: Sansa Stark Says “The North is doing just fine now that there are...

HBO won a total of 34 Emmy Awards last night (and over the last two weeks), they're still the king of the hill despite...

Emmy Awards Tank in Ratings for Many Reasons: No Host, No Orchestra, No Celebration of TV, and Gwyneth Paltrow

Have you ever seen Oscar winner and entrepreneur Gwyneth Paltrow on TV? Well, maybe once, on "Glee." Oscar winner and movie star Michael Douglas?...

Emmy Awards Winners Shockers as Fleabag Takes Comedy, Other Awards

The Emmy awards were totally nuts this year. Fleabag won Best Comedy for Amazon Studios and swept the comedy awards. Veep in its last...

Getting Ready for The Emmys: Patricia Arquette, Henry Winkler Honored by Creative Coalition, BAFTA Brings the Brits

The Emmys, first of all, are not the Oscars. There isn't much buzz in Hollywood over Emmy weekend, just a low hum. The Television...