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    Inauspicious Start To Olympics Still Enough For NBC To Top Weekly Nielsens

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    The Olympic rings decorate the sail of Ukraine's Oleksandr Tugaryev as he prepares to compete in the men's RS:X at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2016. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

    By Lynn Elber, Television Writer

    BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) --

    The Rio Games had a less-than-golden start for NBC but were enough of a draw to allow the network to dominate the weekly ratings.

    The Summer Olympics opening ceremony had 26.5 million viewers, according to Nielsen company figures released Tuesday. That’s a 35 percent drop compared to the 40.7 million U.S. viewers who watched the opening of the London Games four years ago — although NBC is pointing to more time-shifted viewing and streaming as factors in the decrease.

    Still, Olympic broadcasts were the three most-watched programs of the week of Aug. 1-7. The opening spectacle and events including gymnastics combined with two episodes of “America’s Got Talent” to give NBC five of the top 10 shows, Nielsen said.

    The network led with an average of 15.3 million viewers, followed by ABC with 4.1 million. CBS had 3.9 million and Fox 1.7 million, the latter nudged closely by Univision with 1.6 million and Telemundo with 1.4 million. ION Television drew 1.2 million, followed by CW with 1 million viewers.

    In the evening-news contest, NBC’s “Nightly News” held the top spot with 8 million viewers, followed by ABC’s “World News Tonight” with 7.7 million. The “CBS Evening News” had 6.3 million.

    Below are primetime viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Aug. 1-7. Listings include the week’s ranking and viewership.

    1. Summer Olympic Games (Sunday), NBC, 29.8 million.

    2. Summer Olympics opening ceremony (Sunday), NBC, 26.5 million.

    3. Summer Olympics (Saturday), NBC. 20.6 million.

    4. “America’s Got Talent” (Tuesday), NBC, 11.6 million.

    5. “America’s Got Talent” (Wednesday), NBC, 9.4 million.

    6. “The Bachelorette,” ABC, 8.6 million.

    7. “The Bachelorette: After the Rose,” ABC, 8.1 million.

    8. “The Big Bang Theory,” CBS, 6.8 million.

    9. “NCIS,” CBS, 6.5 million.

    10. “Big Brother” (Thursday), CBS, 6 million.

    11. “American Ninja Warrior,” NBC, 5.9 million.

    12. “Big Brother” (Wednesday), CBS, 5.8 million.

    13. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 5.79 million.

    14. “CMA Music Festival,” ABC, 5.6 million.

    15. “Big Brother” (Sunday), CBS, 5.2 million.

    16. “NCIS: New Orleans,” CBS, 5.2 million.

    17. “Running Wild,” NBC, 5.1 million.

    18. “Rio Olympics Preview,” NBC, 5 million.

    19. “Night Shift,” NBC, 5 million.

    20. “Life in Pieces,” CBS. 4.9 million.

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    Raoul Peck Resurrects A Once-Forgotten Anti-Apartheid Photographer In “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found”

    Friday, November 22, 2024

    When the photographer Ernest Cole died in 1990 at the age of 49 from pancreatic cancer at a Manhattan hospital, his death was little noted.

    Cole, one of the most important chroniclers of apartheid-era South Africa, was by then mostly forgotten and penniless. Banned by his native country after the publication of his pioneering photography book "House of Bondage," Cole had emigrated in 1966 to the United States. But his life in exile gradually disintegrated into intermittent homelessness. A six-paragraph obituary in The New York Times ran alongside a list of death notices.

    But Cole receives a vibrant and stirring resurrection in Raoul Peck's new film "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found," narrated in Cole's own words and voiced by LaKeith Stanfield. The film, which opens in theaters Friday, is laced throughout with Cole's photographs, many of them not before seen publicly.

    As he did in his Oscar-nominated James Baldwin documentary "I Am Not Your Negro," the Haitian-born Peck shares screenwriting credit with his subject. "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is drawn from Cole's own writings. In words and images, Peck brings the tragic story of Cole to vivid life, reopening the lens through which Cole so perceptively saw injustice and humanity.

    "Film is a political tool for me," Peck said in a recent interview over lunch in Manhattan. "My job is to go to the widest audience possible and try to give them something to help them understand where they are, what they are doing, what role they are playing. It's about my fight today. I don't care about the past."

    "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is a movie layered with meaning that goes beyond Cole's work. It asks questions not just about the societies Cole documented but of how he was treated as an artist,... Read More

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