SPOILERS AHEAD: The Covid-shortened Survivor Season 41 finale was packed with two tribal councils, two immunity challenges one and a fire-making tie-breaker. Oh, and the final five contestants were forced to relocate to a new island with minimal comfort just days before the finale. After an initial tribal council and two immunity challenges, the final
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The night belonged to the crime-fighters and first responders of primetime as 9-1-1 and NCIS led the charge on Monday. Fox and CBS resumed their typical Monday programming after repeats last week leading into the Thanksgiving holiday. The latest episode of 9-1-1 on Fox earned a 0.8 demo rating and 5.24 million viewers, per fast
CBS will twang in the new year with Bobby Bones and Rachel Smith, who are set as the respective host and co-host of its holiday special New Year’s Eve Live: Nashville’s Big Bash. Airing from 8-11 p.m. and 11:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m. ET/PT and crossing multiple times zones, the five-hour welcoming of 2022 — and “see
Colbert opens the show by stating tonight is different, that there is something in the air that makes tonight special. “There’s a crispness in the air, and the magical sparkle that could only mean one thing: It’s infrastructure season,” he jokes. The infrastructure bill has been hot on everyone’s minds and today the bill passed.
ITV Secures Adele Special Having last month unveiled a CBS special, UK megastar Adele will now perform live in her native London for an ITV show at the Palladium. An Audience With Adele will see the icon performing her current single Easy On Me from fourth album 30 as she sings in front of a special audience of friends,
EXCLUSIVE: B Positive creator and co-showrunner Marco Pennette has left the sophomore CBS comedy. Deadline understands that former Mom co-exec producer Pennette exited the series, which he exec produced with Chuck Lorre and former Two and a Half Men executive producer/co-showrunner Jim Patterson, at the end of the first season. The show, which returned for
SPOILER ALERT: The following story contains details from the October 11 episode of NCIS. On Monday night, NCIS star Mark Harmon ended his run as a series regular on CBS’ long-running procedural drama, with his character, Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs, opting out of a future in law enforcement. Episode 1904, “Great Wide Open,” saw Gibbs
On tonight’s episode of Late Night With Stephen Colbert, Colbert celebrated the results of Arizona’s election audit, reaffirming Joe Biden’s victory in the state. The late-night host described this as “a crushing humiliation for the GOP,” before summoning Steve Kornacki, political correspondent for NBC News, claiming he’d been standing by since last November. Unfortunately, nearly 10
The 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards will air live Sunday beginning at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on CBS and, for the first time on a streaming service, Paramount+. Cedric the Entertainer is hosting the awards ceremony, which will take place in an air-conditioned tent on The Event Deck at L.A. Live in downtown Los Angeles
EXCLUSIVE: Drop Dead Diva creator/executive producer Josh Berman is taking a different, gender-related spin on the body swap genre with Drop Dead Dave, an hourlong series in development at CBS. A reboot of the hit Lifetime dramedy with all new characters, Drop Dead Dave hails from Berman’s Osprey Productions, former Drop Dead Diva director-producer Jamie
There was much cause for celebration on Monday’s episode of The Late Show, following New York City’s return to in-person schooling. “It’s an exciting day here,” said host Stephen Colbert. “For the first time in 18 months, kids can enjoy class without seeing their friends’ dads wandering behind them in boxers—if they’re lucky.” Naturally, Colbert noted,
One of the biggest cliffhangers heading into this coming broadcast season involves Mark Harmon’s NCIS character Special Agent Gibbs who was last seen swimming off after being thrown in the water by an explosion on his new boat. But even more suspenseful than Gibbs’ fate has been the future on-screen presence of Harmon who has
The Amazing Race is set to return to CBS this season. This comes after the long-running reality series, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, faced a long production delay due to Covid. “The Amazing Race will be back this season,” said Senior Executive Vice President, Programming, CBS Entertainment Thom Sherman during the network’s
Big Brother and CBS are back at the top of ratings as the latest episode of the reality series returned to win Thursday primetime ratings and viewership. Big Brother jumped up from Wednesday to bring in a 1.0 rating in the 18-49 demo and 4.32 million viewers, per preliminary fast affiliates. That’s a one tenth
EXCLUSIVE: The Lincoln Lawyer is heading to court, literally. In what could become both a very revealing and grueling affair for all concerned, A+E Studios subsidiary Frankl & Bob Films II, LLC have sued ViacomCBS for “millions of dollars” in losses over the latter’s spring 2020 decision not to go ahead with a series based
As the Delta variant drove infections across California to their biggest one-day jump of 2021 this week, Hollywood was not immune. The Los Angeles County Health Department reported an outbreak related to CBS’s S.W.A.T. at Santa Clarita Studios North of Los Angeles. Deadline confirmed with sources Friday evening that there were five cases on S.W.A.T.,
CBS has hired Jon Koa as EVP, Comedy Development following the departure of veteran exec Julie Pernworth. Koa was most recently SVP, Scripted Television for Condé Nast Entertainment, where he has spent the last six years. He was previously Executive Director, Comedy Programming and Development, for the ABC between 2009 and 2015. Koa will start at the
The 73st annual Primetime Emmy Awards nominations are being revealed Tuesday morning in a live virtual event beginning at 11:30 a.m. ET/8:30 a.m. PT. You can watch the livestream here. The father-daughter duo of Ron Cephas Jones and Jasmine Cephas Jones — who both won Emmys in 2020 in a first — will unveil the nominees in
UPDATED, 7 AM: CBS has set Sunday, April 3, 2022 for its inaugural broadcast of the CMT Music Awards. The ceremony will air live from Nashville from 8-11 PM ET/delayed PT, CBS said Thursday. The move follows ViacomCBS’ recent announcement that it was moving the annual country music awards show from cabler CMT to its
Love Island, the CBS show based on the steamy British format, is set to get a lot more saucy this season thanks to streaming. Paramount+ is to air a raft of exclusive programming from the the youth-skewing dating series as the show, now in its third season, starts to make more sense for the ViacomCBS
CBS is continuing to get its hands dirty with its non-scripted slate. The network has handed a bumper, two season renewal to its fledgling reality series Tough As Nails. The season three and season four renewal comes ahead of tonight’s season two finale for the competition series. The show celebrates everyday Americans who get their
The cast of CBS’ multi-camera comedy pilot The Three of Us, led by Oliver Hudson, Malin Akerman and Brent Morin, has been released. The options on the actors in two 2020 CBS comedy pilots, The Three Of Us and the single-camera Ghosts, were up today. They were not exercised on the CBS/CBS Studios’ The Three
Three weeks after Piers Morgan’s blistering attack on Meghan Markle’s CBS interview cost him his job hosting Good Morning Britain, the British firebrand is still mad as hell. Over the weekend, Morgan savaged CBS for its treatment of his friend Sharon Osbourne after she exited The Talk last week following her on-air dust-up with Sheryl
The 63rd annual Grammy Awards will kick off Sunday live on CBS and Paramount+ beginning at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT. Trevor Noah will host the 3 1/2-hour ceremony, which will celebrate the best of music during the past year. Grammy organizer the Recording Academy has already announced that the hybrid show will include performances
Last night, Dr. Anthony Fauci made his first Late Show appearance on a special “coronaversary” episode of Stephen Colbert. Throughout much of his sit-down with the late-night host, the White House Chief Medical Advisor—and Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases—was asked serious questions regarding the Covid-19 pandemic and the road back
President Biden is giving a primetime address on Thursday night and the networks are shuffling their schedules accordingly. The President will mark the one-year anniversary of the shutdowns linked to the Covid pandemic in the U.S., which has led to the death of over 525,000 Americans. ABC, NBC and Fox have confirmed to Deadline that
Stephen Colbert is the latest late-night host to mark the year-anniversary of the Covid-19 pandemic. The Late Show will air a special Friday night show on Friday March 12 – the one-year anniversary of the CBS show’s last show from the Ed Sullivan Theater. On March 12, 2020, the show suspended production due to the
In a competitive situation, ITV has secured the exclusive UK television rights to CBS’s blockbuster interview between Oprah Winfrey and defected British royals Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. ITV has fought off competition from the likes of Sky and Discovery to land the rights to what promises to be an explosive interview, in which Winfrey