By David Bauder, Media Writer
NEW YORK (AP) --In this pandemic season, ABC's David Muir has emerged as broadcast television's star of the summer.
The "World News Tonight" anchor's nightly summary averaged 8.2 million viewers last week, more than any primetime program on television, the Nielsen company said.
ABC's primetime interview of the Democratic ticket of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, conducted by Muir and Robin Roberts, reached 5.1 million viewers Sunday.
Otherwise, coverage of the Democratic National Convention on MSNBC and CNN dominated the ratings.
CBS' primetime average of 3 million viewers topped the broadcast networks, followed by ABC at 2.6 million, NBC at 2.4 million, Univision at 1.3 million, ION Television at 1.24 million, Fox at 1.21 million and Telemundo at 1 million.
MSNBC led the cable networks with a 3.27 million average in primetime, Fox News Channel had 3.09 million, CNN had 2.77 million, TNT had 1.51 million and HGTV had 1.32 million.
ABC's "World News Tonight" won the evening news ratings race, averaging 8.2 million viewers, NBC's "Nightly News" had 6.8 million and the "CBS Evening News" had 4.9 million.
For the week of Aug. 17-23, the 20 most popular primetime programs, their networks and viewerships:
1. "60 Minutes," CBS, 7.23 million.
2. "Biden's Acceptance Speech," MSNBC, 6.24 million viewers.
3. "Democratic Convention" (Wednesday), MSNBC, 6.2 million.
4. "Democratic Convention" (Wednesday, 10 p.m.), CNN, 5.84 million.
5. "Democratic Convention" (Thursday), MSNBC, 5.69 million.
6. "Democratic Convention" (Thursday, 10 p.m.), CNN, 5.58 million.
7. "America's Got Talent" (Tuesday), NBC, 5.579 million.
8. "Yellowstone," Paramount, 5.16 million.
9. "America's Got Talent" (Wednesday), NBC, 5.14 million.
10. "Biden and Harris Interview," ABC, 5.11 million.
11. "Democratic Convention" (Wednesday, 8:56 p.m.), CNN, 4.89 million.
12. "Democratic Convention" (Monday, 10 p.m.), CNN, 4.86 million.
13. "America's Funniest Home Videos," ABC, 4.66 million.
14. "Democratic Convention" (Monday, 9 p.m.), CNN, 4.6 million.
15. "NCIS," CBS, 4.59 million.
16. "Hannity" (Thursday), Fox News, 4.56 million.
17. "Democratic Convention" (Thursday, 8:46 p.m.), CNN, 4.4 million.
18. "Democratic Convention" (Monday), MSNBC, 4.38 million.
19. "Democratic Convention" (Tuesday, 9 p.m.), CNN, 4.3 million.
20. "Tucker Carlson Tonight" (Thursday), Fox News, 4.29 million.
Carrie Coon Relishes Being Part Of An Ensemble–From “The Gilded Age” To “His Three Daughters”
It can be hard to catch Carrie Coon on her own.
She is far more likely to be found in the thick of an ensemble. That could be on TV, in "The Gilded Age," for which she was just Emmy nominated, or in the upcoming season of "The White Lotus," which she recently shot in Thailand. Or it could be in films, most relevantly, Azazel Jacobs' new drama, "His Three Daughters," in which Coon stars alongside Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen as sisters caring for their dying father.
But on a recent, bright late-summer morning, Coon is sitting on a bench in the bucolic northeast Westchester town of Pound Ridge. A few years back, she and her husband, the playwright Tracy Letts, moved near here with their two young children, drawn by the long rows of stone walls and a particularly good BLT from a nearby cafe that Letts, after biting into, declared must be within 15 miles of where they lived.
In a few days, they would both fly to Los Angeles for the Emmys (Letts was nominated for his performance in "Winning Time" ). But Coon, 43, was then largely enmeshed in the day-to-day life of raising a family, along with their nightly movie viewings, which Letts pulls from his extensive DVD collection. The previous night's choice: "Once Around," with Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfus.
Coon met Letts during her breakthrough performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?" on Broadway in 2012. She played the heavy-drinking housewife Honey. It was the first role that Coon read and knew, viscerally, she had to play. Immediately after saying this, Coon sighs.
"It sounds like something some diva would say in a movie from the '50s," Coon says. "I just walked around in my apartment in my slip and I had pearls and a little brandy. I made a grocery list and I just did... Read More