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    Winter Olympics Boost NBC To Weekly Ratings Win

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    In this Feb. 13, 2018, file photo, Chloe Kim, of the United States, celebrates winning gold after the women's halfpipe finals at Phoenix Snow Park at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

    By Lynn Elber, Television Writer

    LOS ANGELES (AP) --

    The aerial wizardry of snowboarders Shaun White and Chloe Kim lifted the Winter Olympics and NBC to a weekly ratings victory.

    Veteran White’s gold-medal comeback in the halfpipe gave NBC the most-watched night in prime-time last week, according to Nielsen ratings released Wednesday.

    Kim’s unprecedented combination of spins for a woman in competition captured gold for her and delivered almost as many viewers as tuned in the night of White’s performance.

    Altogether, Olympic broadcasts from Pyeongchang, South Korea, claimed seven of the week’s top 10 slots. In 8th place was CBS’ “60 Minutes” featuring Oprah Winfrey’s second round-table with Michigan voters, including supporters and opponents of President Donald Trump.

    Winfrey has downplayed suggestions that she consider a 2020 presidential run, telling “60 Minutes” in an online interview ahead of the broadcast that it’s “not in my DNA.”

    For the week of Feb. 12-18, NBC averaged 17.62 million viewers. That bested the combined viewership of the three other major broadcast networks by the largest margin for any regular season, non-Super Bowl week since electronic “people meters” came into use, the network said.

    CBS was second with 4.48 million viewers, followed by Fox with 1.65 million, Univision with 1.43 million, ION Television with 1.3 million, Telemundo with 1.18 million and the CW with 930,000.

    Fox News Channel was the week’s most popular cable network, averaging 2.23 million viewers in prime time. TNT had 2.4 million, MSNBC had 1.72 million, USA had 1.44 million and HGTV had 1.23 million.

    Among network newscasts, numbers don’t tell the full story. Because of the Olympics, NBC’s “Nightly News” was shifted hours earlier in a quarter of the country and affecting a head-to-head comparison.

    ABC’s “World News Tonight,” airing in its regular spot for five nights, drew 9.14 million viewers. Three of NBC’s newscasts averaged 8.77 million viewers, with two others drawing 8.1 million. CBS’ “Evening News” averaged 6.76 million.

    Below are primetime viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Feb. 12-18. Listings include the week’s ranking and viewership.

    1. Winter Olympics (Tuesday), NBC, 20.5 million.
    2. Winter Olympics (Monday), NBC, 20.3 million.
    3. Winter Olympics (Wednesday), NBC, 17.1 million.
    4. Winter Olympics (Friday), NBC, 16.6 million.
    5. Winter Olympics (Sunday), NBC, 16.4  million.
    6. Winter Olympics (Thursday), NBC, 16.2 million.
    7. Winter Olympics (Saturday), NBC, 14.5 million.
    8. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 7.5 million.
    9. “The Big Bang Theory” (Thursday), CBS, 7.4 million.
    10. “Young Sheldon,” CBS, 7.1 million.
    11. “NCIS,” CBS, 6.95 million.
    12. “The Big Bang Theory”(special, Thursday), CBS, 6.1 million.
    13. “The Bachelor,” ABC, 6 million.
    14. “Bull,” CBS, 5.6 million.
    15. “Big Brother” (Wednesday), CBS, 5.2 million.
    16. “Big Brother” (Monday), CBS, 5.16 million.
    17. “NCIS: New Orleans,” CBS, 5.1 million.
    18. “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” ABC, 5 million.
    19. “Mom,” CBS, 4.97 million.
    20. “Big Brother” (Sunday), CBS, 4.91 million.

    ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Co.; CBS is a division of CBS Corp.; NBC is owned by NBC Universal.

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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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