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    “60 Minutes” Tops Ratings With Coronavirus Report; Nielsen Week In Review

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    A passenger boards the N Train while wearing a face mask amid fears of the spread of the coronavirus, Wednesday, March 11, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Kevin Hagen)

    By David Bauder, Media Writer

    NEW YORK (AP) --

    There's only one television show that can stand atop the weekly ratings and say it did the same thing more than 40 years ago.

    That's CBS' venerable newsmagazine "60 Minutes," which was the week's most popular show with an episode that led with Dr. Jon LaPook talking about the coronavirus outbreak, the Nielsen company said. It was the show's first time in the top spot this television season.

    "60 Minutes" would have to dust off the history books to find the first week it was ever television's top-rated show. The newsmagazine finished as the top show for the entire TV season in 1979-80, back in its heyday with Mike Wallace and Morley Safer.

    The vast majority of people recover from the new virus, but for some, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia. 

    The Nielsen ratings were delayed for a day due to some unexpected problems checking the accuracy of data, Nielsen said.

    CBS won the week in prime time, averaging 5 million viewers. ABC had 4.4 million viewers, NBC had 4.1 million, Fox had 2.8 million, Univision had 1.4 million, ION Television had 1.3 million, Telemundo had 1.1 million and the CW had 600,000.

    News was dominant in cable again last week, claiming 38 of the 40 most-watched programs. "Curse of Oak Island" on History and an episode of "90 Day Fiancee" on TLC were the only exceptions.

    Fox News Channel led all cable networks with an average of 3.18 million viewers in primetime, MSNBC had 2.05 million viewers, CNN had 1.33 million, HGTV had 1.15 million and Discovery had 1.12 million.

    ABC's "World News Tonight" won the evening news ratings race, averaging 9.1 million viewers. NBC's "Nightly News" had 8 million and the "CBS Evening News" had 6 million.

    Nielsen's top 20 shows last week, their network and viewerships:

    1. "60 Minutes," CBS, 9.39 million.
    2. "The Voice" (Monday), NBC, 8.96 million.
    3. "Young Sheldon," CBS, 8.55 million.
    4. "Chicago Med," NBC, 8.32 million.
    5. "Chicago Fire," NBC, 8.28 million.
    6. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 7.32 million.
    7. "American Idol," ABC, 7.25 million.
    8. "Survivor," CBS, 7.1 million.
    9. "Chicago PD," NBC, 7.08 million.
    10. "Hawaii Five-0," CBS, 6.98 million.
    11. "The Masked Singer," Fox, 6.82 million.
    12. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 6.56 million.
    13. "The Bachelor," ABC, 6.4 million.
    14. "Grey's Anatomy," ABC, 6.32 million.
    15. "Station 19," ABC, 6.01 million.
    16. "God Friended Me," CBS, 5.9 million.
    17. "Mom," CBS, 5.83 million.
    18. "The Good Doctor," ABC, 5.67 million.
    19. "MacGyver," CBS, 5.65 million.
    20. "911: Lone Star," Fox, 5.62 million.

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    Is “Glicked” The New “Barbenheimer”? “Wicked” and “Gladiator II” Hit Theater Screens

    Thursday, November 21, 2024

    "Barbenheimer" was a phenomenon impossible to manufacture. But, more than a year later, that hasn't stopped people from trying to make "Glicked" — or even "Babyratu" — happen.

    The counterprogramming of "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" in July 2023 hit a nerve culturally and had the receipts to back it up. Unlike so many things that begin as memes, it transcended its online beginnings. Instead of an either-or, the two movies ultimately complemented and boosted one another at the box office.

    And ever since, moviegoers, marketers and meme makers have been trying to recreate that moment, searching the movie release schedule for odd mashups and sending candidates off into the social media void. Most attempts have fizzled (sorry, "Saw Patrol" ).

    This weekend is perhaps the closest approximation yet as the Broadway musical adaptation "Wicked" opens Friday against the chest-thumping sword-and-sandals epic "Gladiator II." Two big studio releases (Universal and Paramount), with one-name titles, opposite tones and aesthetics and big blockbuster energy — it was already halfway there before the name game began: "Wickiator," "Wadiator," "Gladwick" and even the eyebrow raising "Gladicked" have all been suggested.

    "'Glicked' rolls off the tongue a little bit more," actor Fred Hechinger said at the New York screening of "Gladiator II" this week. "I think we should all band around 'Glicked.' It gets too confusing if you have four or five different names for it."

    As with "Barbenheimer," as reductive as it might seem, "Glicked" also has the male/female divide that make the fan art extra silly. One is pink and bright and awash in sparkles, tulle, Broadway bangers and brand tie-ins; The other is all sweat and sand, blood and bulging... Read More

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