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    Fox News scores big in primetime; Nielsen week in  review

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    Fox News Laura Ingraham takes a picture before boarding Air Force One to accompany President Donald Trump, at Green Bay Austin Straubel International Airport, Friday, Oct. 30, 2020, in Green Bay, Wis. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

    By David Bauder, Media Writer

    NEW YORK (AP) --

    Two of Fox News Channel's three primetime opinion hosts — Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham — reached their biggest weekly audiences ever during the week leading up to Election Day.

    The third host, Sean Hannity, had his second-best week, with only his coverage of the 2020 Republican national convention topping it, the Nielsen company said.

    With news ratings up overall, President Donald Trump could take heart that Fox News, the network that most appeals to his fans, outdrew MSNBC and CNN combined in prime time as Election Day drew near.

    The president did not seem particularly grateful. During an appearance on "Fox & Friends" Tuesday morning, he criticized the network. He suggested they showed his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, too much on the air; Fox's Brian Kilmeade said Fox was trying to show both sides.

    "I'm not complaining," Trump said. "I'm just telling people. It's one of the biggest differences of this season compared to last."

    Trump specifically exempted Carlson, Hannity, Ingraham and the "Fox & Friends" cast from his criticism, however.

    With two football games and the conclusion of the World Series dominating its schedule, the Fox broadcasting network was the most-watched network in primetime, reaching an average of 7 million viewers. NBC had 5.6 million, ABC had 4.1 million, CBS had 3 million, Ion Television had 1.2 million, Univision had 1.1 million and Univision had 910,000.

    Fox News averaged 5.03 million viewers for the week, easily topping the cable networks. MSNBC had 2.36 million, ESPN had 2.15 million, CNN had 1.95 million and Hallmark had 1.56 million.

    ABC's "World News Tonight" led the evening newscasts, averaging 9.2 million viewers for the week. NBC's "Nightly News" had 7.7 million and the "CBS Evening News" had 5.6 million.

    For the week of Oct. 26-Nov. 1, the 20 most-watched programs, their networks and viewership:

    1. NFL Football: Dallas at Philadelphia, NBC, 16.93 million.
    2. "NFL Post-Game," Fox, 13.6 million.
    3. "NFL Pre-Game," NBC, 13.52 million.
    4. World Series Game 6: Tampa Bay vs. L.A. Dodgers, Fox, 12.7 million.
    5. NFL Football: Atlanta at Carolina, Fox, 12.05 million.
    6. NFL Football: Chicago at L.A. Rams, ESPN, 10.91 million.
    7. "60 Minutes," CBS, 8.79 million.
    8. "The Voice" (Tuesday), NBC, 7.77 million.
    9. "The Voice" (Monday), NBC, 7.61 million.
    10. "Tucker Carlson Tonight" (Tuesday), Fox News, 7.59 million.
    11. "Hannity" (Monday), Fox News, 7.32 million.
    12. "This is Us," NBC, 7.31 million.
    13. "Football Night in America," NBC, 7.22 million.
    14. "NFL Pregame," Fox, 7.03 million.
    15. "Tucker Carlson Tonight" (Monday), Fox News, 6.78 million.
    16. College Football: Ohio St. at Penn St., ABC, 6.53 million.
    17. "Hannity" (Tuesday), Fox News, 6.42 million.
    18. "Tucker Carlson Tonight" (Wednesday), Fox News, 6.33 million.
    19. "The Masked Singer," Fox, 6.2 million.
    20. "Tucker Carlson Tonight" (Thursday), Fox News, 6.14 million.

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    Netflix’s “Missing You” lands in time for New Year binge watch

    Friday, December 27, 2024
    Ashley Walters, left, and Rosalind Eleazar pose for photographers at a photo call for the television series "Missing You," Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, in London. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

    It's Netflix's resolution every new year to give viewers a headscratcher in January.

    Since 2020, the streamer has released a U.K. miniseries based on thriller book by Harlan Coben over the holidays. It seems to have paid off: "Fool Me Once," starring Michelle Keegan, Adeel Akhtar and Joanna Lumley, launched this past January and became what Netflix says was one of their most watched shows of the year, amassing 108 million views.

    2025's seasonal suspense series is "Missing You," based on Coben's 2014 New York Times bestseller. It stars Rosalind Eleazar ("Slow Horses") as Detective Inspector Kat Donovan, a police officer who specializes in finding missing people — apart from the fiance that vanished 11 years earlier.

    "They know Jan. 1 is the sweet spot for them," says actor Richard Armitage, who has appeared in each winter Coben adaptation, which relocates the stories from the books' America to the north of England. "People have ownership over the show now, so like, 'I want my Harlan Coben show on New Year's Day. Give me my Harlan Coben fix.'"

    "It's perfect timing for the release, to be honest," says co-star Ashley Walters. "Most people are going to be hung over or, you know, just not have anything to do with the day."

    The show opens with the shock of Donovan's ex-fiance (Walters) popping up on a dating app, over a decade after she came home one day to find him gone.

    "I've ghosted people before," laughs Armitage. "Just people you don't want to talk to anymore. Not digitally though."

    Another star, Jessica Plummer, isn't a fan of those who disappear without saying goodbye, though.

    "I'd just feel too guilty," she admits, calling it "cowardly and lazy — sorry Richard!"

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