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    “America’s Got Talent,” Notre Dame Football Top Ratings; Nielsen Week In Review

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    Notre Dame’s Jafar Armstrong (8) celebrates his 4-yard touchdown run with Brock Wright (89) in the first half of an NCAA football game against Michigan in South Bend, Ind., Saturday, Sept. 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

    By Lynn Elber, Television Writer

    LOS ANGELES (AP) --

    TV viewers are idling away the final weeks of summer the way they started it: with reality programs.

    Half of last week’s 20 most-watched programs were unscripted contests, according to Nielsen Co. figures released Wednesday.

    The field was topped by NBC’s two episodes of “America’s Got Talent” and the Notre Dame-Michigan football game, helping make the network the most-watched for the ninth consecutive week.

    Notre Dame’s prime-time 24-17 victory drew the team’s biggest audience on NBC in 13 years, since a game against University of Southern California in 2005.

    Amid a somber week of tributes to the late Sen. John McCain, a rerun of “Saturday Night Live” provided a reminder of the politician’s trademark humor. The episode featuring him as host gave the show its biggest audience in six weeks, NBC said.

    NBC won the week in prime-time with an average of 5.1 million viewers. CBS had 3.5 million viewers, ABC had 3.7 million, Fox had 1.7 million, ION Television had 1.4 million, Univision had 1.18 million, Telemundo had 1.17 million and the CW had 780,000.

    Fox News Channel led the cable networks with an average of 2.2 million viewers. MSNBC had 1.8 million, USA had 1.36 million, HGTV had 1.3 million, ESPN had 1.2 million, History had 1.06 million and CNN had 1.05 million.

    ABC’s “World News Tonight” topped the evening newscasts with an average of 8.2 million viewers. The “NBC Nightly News” had 8.1 million and the “CBS Evening News” had 5.8 million.

    Below are primetime viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Aug. 20-26. Listings include the week’s ranking and viewership.

    1. “America’s Got Talent” (Tuesday), NBC, 10.78 million.
    2. “America’s Got Talent” (Wednesday), NBC, 9.9 million.
    3. Notre Dame Football: Michigan at Notre Dame, NBC, 7.1 million.
    4. “Sunday Night Kickoff,” ABC, 6.55 million.
    5. “American Ninja Warrior,” NBC, 5.86 million.
    6. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 5.84 million.
    7. “Big Brother” (Wednesday), CBS, 5.78 million.
    8. “NCIS,” CBS, 5.74 million.
    9. “World of Dance,” NBC, 5.06 million.
    10. “Dateline Classic,” NBC, 4.93 million.
    11. “Big Brother” (Thursday), CBS, 4.67 million.
    12. “Big Brother” (Sunday), CBS, 4.66 million
    13. “Bull,” CBS, 4.63 million.
    14. “Bachelor in Paradise” (Monday), ABC, 4.62 million.
    15. “NCIS: New Orleans,” CBS, 4.55 million.
    16. “Saturday Night Football: Louisville vs Alabama,” ABC, 4.54 million.
    17. “Bachelor in Paradise (Tuesday),” ABC, 4.16 million.
    18. “Mom,” CBS, 3.88 million.
    19. “Saturday Night Football Pre-Game,” ABC, 3.79 million
    20. “Making It,” NBC, 3.66 million.

    ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Co.; CBS is a division of CBS Corp.; Fox is owned by 21st Century Fox; NBC is owned by NBC Universal.

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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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