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    CBS Tops Weekly Primetime Nielsens; “60 Minutes” Leads Way

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    UCLA guard Lonzo Ball passes the ball against Kentucky forward Edrice Adebayo in the second half of an NCAA college basketball tournament South Regional semifinal game Friday, March 24, 2017, in Memphis, Tenn. The CBS telecast of the game finished 7th in the week's Nielsens with 10 million viewers. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

    By David Bauder, Television Writer

    NEW YORK (AP) --

    CBS’ “60 Minutes” returned this week to a familiar place it hadn’t been accustomed to visiting that much lately: first place in the prime-time television rankings.

    The venerable newsmagazine hadn’t finished as the most-watched program of the week since November 2008, when newly elected Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, sat down for the first TV interview since their election.

    In its glory years, that was a familiar spot for “60 Minutes.” It finished the entire 1979-80 season as television’s top-ranked show, a feat that it achieved five times. The first week that it topped the ratings came in November 1978 – likely making it the show with the longest gap between the first and most recent first-place showing.

    This week’s show featured Scott Pelley’s story about fake news, Anderson Cooper’s report on the Islamic State’s first attack on U.S. soil and Sharyn Alfonsi’s feature about a chess program in rural Mississippi. The content was less important than the show’s lead-in: The newsmagazine started a half hour later than usual because of North Carolina’s regional final victory over Kentucky in men’s basketball, a game that came down to a last-second shot and was watched by 22.1 million people during its final 15 minutes.

    It has been a positive season for “60 Minutes,” which is up about 2 percent in viewership over last year.

    CBS easily won the week in primetime, averaging 7.4 million viewers. NBC had 5.6 million, ABC had 4.4 million, Fox had 2.8 million, Univision had 1.7 million, Telemundo had 1.31 million, the CW had 1.3 million and ION Television had 1.2 million.

    TBS was the week’s most popular cable network, reaching 3.27 million in prime-time with the help of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. Fox News Channel had 2.51 million, MSNBC had 1.77 million, HGTV had 1.63 million and USA had 1.62 million.

    NBC’s “Nightly News” topped the evening newscasts with an average of 8 million viewers. ABC’s “World News Tonight” was second with 7.8 million and the “CBS Evening News” had 6.4 million viewers.

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

    1. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 14.7 million.

    2. “Dancing With the Stars,” ABC, 12.09 million.

    3. “NCIS: Los Angeles,” CBS, 11.71 million.

    4. “The Voice” (Tuesday), NBC, 10.84 million.

    5. “The Voice” (Monday), NBC, 10.74 million.

    6. “The Walking Dead,” AMC, 10.54 million.

    7. NCAA Basketball: UCLA vs. Kentucky, CBS, 10 million.

    8. “Little Big Shots,” NBC, 9.81 million.

    9. “NCIS,” CBS, 9.36 million.

    10. NCAA Basketball: Kansas vs. Oregon, TBS, 9.31 million.

    11. “Madam Secretary,” CBS, 8.77 million.

    12. “Survivor,” CBS, 8.1 million.

    13. “Empire,” Fox, 7.95 million.

    14. “Grey’s Anatomy,” ABC, 7.8 million.

    15. “Criminal Minds,” CBS, 7.47 million.

    16. “Chicago Fire,” NBC, 7.21 million.

    17. NCAA Basketball: Michigan vs. Oregon, CBS, 7.13 million.

    18. “Bull,” CBS, 7.02 million.

    19. NCAA Basketball: Purdue vs. Kansas, CBS, 6.62 million.

    20. “NCAA Studio Show,” TBS, 6.52 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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