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    CBS Retains Ratings Lead; Nielsen Week In Review

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    This image released by CBS shows, from left, Mark Feuerstein, Liza Lapira, Linda Lavin, David Walton and Elliott Gould in a scene from the comedy series, "9JKL," premiering Oct. 2, on CBS. (Cliff Lipson/CBS via AP)

    By Frazier Moore,Television Writer

    NEW YORK (AP) --

    CBS continued to reign in the prime-time ratings race in the second week of the new fall season. And that was even without its new smash hit, “Young Sheldon,” whose Sept. 25 preview was watched by more than 17 million viewers. (“Young Sheldon” won’t be back until November.)

    According to Nielsen, CBS’ sitcom “9JKL” was the week’s strongest series premiere, ranking 22nd and drawing 8.2 million viewers (although the Linda Lavin comedy shed nearly 6 million of the 14 million viewers who were tuned to its powerhouse lead-in, “The Big Bang Theory”). In their second airings, CBS’ “SEAL Team” remained strong with 8.39 million viewers, as did its “Wisdom of the Crowd,” with 7.84 million.

    ABC’s “The Good Doctor” stayed healthy in its second week with 10.9 million viewers, to seize 10th place. NBC’s revived “Will & Grace” drew a solid 7.1 million viewers in what was likewise its second airing.

    But other premiering series didn’t fare so well. Fox’s “The Gifted” debuted with a puny 4.86 million viewers, while on ABC, “Kevin (Probably) Saves the World” scored only 4.17 million and “The Mayor” could claim just 4.09 million viewers.

    Overall for the week, CBS averaged 8.61 million viewers, while NBC had 7.36 million viewers. ABC had 5.3 million, Fox had 4.47 million, Univision had 1.48 million, Telemundo had 1.43 million, ION Television had 1.11 million and the CW had 780,000.

    ESPN was the most popular cable network, averaging 3.61 million in prime time. Fox News Channel had 2.39 million and TBS had 2.29 million. ABC’s “World News Tonight” remained the top evening newscast with an average of 8.5 million. 

    NBC’s “Nightly News” had 8.2 million and “CBS Evening News” had 6.5 million.

    Below are primetime viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Oct. 2-8. Listings include the week’s ranking and viewership.

    1. NFL Football: Kansas City at Houston, NBC, 16.53 million.
    2. NFL Football: New England at Tampa Bay, CBS, 15.43 million.
    3. “The Big Bang Theory,” CBS, 14.04 million.
    4. “NCIS,” CBS, 13.51 million.
    5. “The OT,” Fox, 12.89 million.
    6. NFL Football: Washington at Kansas City, ESPN, 12.03 million.
    7. “Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick,” NBC, 12.56 million.
    8. “This is Us,” NBC, 11.06 million.
    9. “The Voice” (Monday), NBC, 11.04 million.
    10. “The Good Doctor,” ABC, 10.88 million.
    11. “Bull,” CBS, 10.79 million.
    12. “The Voice” (Tuesday), NBC, 10.42 million.
    13. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 10.24 million.
    14. “Blue Bloods,” CBS, 9.49 million.
    15. “Football Night in America,” NBC, 9.28 million.
    16. “NCIS: New Orleans,” CBS, 9.23 million.
    17. “Dancing With the Stars,” ABC, 9.01 million.
    18. “Thursday Night NFL Pre-Kick,” CBS, 8.98 million.
    19. “Hawaii Five-0,” CBS, 8.53 million.
    20. “NCIS: Los Angeles,” 8.46 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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