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    Chris Cuomo’s CNN Show On Ratings Ascent; Nielsen Week In Review

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    In this Dec. 9, 2018 file photo, CNN anchor Chris Cuomo attends the 12th annual CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute in New York. Cuomo has quickly established himself as the network’s most popular personality, despite airing in a difficult time slot against Sean Hannity and Rachel Maddow. His “Prime Time” is CNN’s most popular program. With 1.64 million viewers in January, the Nielsen company said Cuomo’s show had its best month. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

    By David Bauder, Media Writer

    NEW YORK (AP) --

    When CNN gave Chris Cuomo its 9 p.m. ET time slot last June, there was reason to fear it could be a television suicide mission.

    After all, that hour is where the big dogs roam. Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity and MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow are the top two personalities in cable television. They still are, but Cuomo’s “Prime Time” quickly established itself as CNN’s most-watched program and, with 1.64 million viewers in January, is having its best month, the Nielsen company said.

    “For certain, it was a challenge to begin with,” said Melanie Buck, the show’s executive producer. “I thought that going in there as the underdog gave us the chance to go in there without expectations that we would compete with them on a nightly basis. I think it took some of the pressure off.”

    For CNN, viewership in the time slot is up 49 percent over last January, when the network aired the second of two Anderson Cooper hours, Nielsen said.

    Cuomo’s show made news in January with a head-scratching interview by President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudolph Giuliani. Buck said she and Cuomo sought to build a show around the host’s expertise in law and politics, and skill in interviewing.

    Maddow led the 9 p.m. time slot, and all of cable news, with a January nightly average of 3.25 million viewers, Nielsen said. Hannity averaged 3.04 million.

    It was a big week for news: Fox News Channel, MSNBC and CNN were the three most-watched cable networks, including all of entertainment. Fox News also reached the 17-year mark as the top-rated network in cable news.

    Among the broadcasters, CBS won the week in primetime, averaging 5.7 million viewers. NBC had 4.9 million, ABC had 4.6 million, Fox had 3.2 million, ION Television had 1.44 million, Univision had 1.38 million, Telemundo had 1.2 million and the CW had 1.1 million.

    Fox News Channel averaged 2.36 million viewers in primetime. MSNBC had 2.01 million, CNN had 1.34 million, TNT had 1.3 million and Hallmark had 1.29 million.

    ABC’s “World News Tonight” topped the evening newscasts with an average of 9.7 million viewers. NBC’s “Nightly News” had 9 million and the “CBS Evening News” had 6.8 million viewers.

    Below are primetime viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Jan. 21-27. Listings include the week’s ranking and viewership.

    1. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 11.24 million.
    2. “America’s Got Talent Champions,” NBC, 9.71 million.
    3. “Chicago Med,” NBC, 9.42 million.
    4. “Chicago Fire,” NBC, 8.43 million.
    5. “The Big Bang Theory,” CBS, 8.33 million.
    6. “This is Us,” NBC, 8.23 million.
    7. “The Conners,” ABC, 7.74 million.
    8. “Ellen’s Game of Games,” NBC, 7.47 million.
    9. “FBI,” CBS, 7.4 million.
    10. “Chicago PD,” NBC, 7.23 million.
    11. “The Masked Singer,” Fox, 7.15 million.
    12. “Grey’s Anatomy,” ABC, 6.99 million.
    13. “NCIS: Los Angeles,” CBS, 6.75 million.
    14. “Bull,” CBS, 6.71 million.
    15. “NCIS: New Orleans,” CBS, 6.7 million.
    16. “America’s Funniest Home Videos” (Sunday, 8 p.m.), ABC, 6.56 million.
    17. “Fam,” CBS, 6.35 million.
    18. “The Good Doctor,” ABC, 6.28 million.
    19. “The Big Bang Theory” (Thursday, 9 p.m.), CBS, 6.16 million.
    20. “The Bachelor,” ABC, 5.98 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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