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    Colbert Scores Decisive Late Night Win; Nielsen Week In Review

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    This July 18, 2017 image released by CBS show host Stephen Colbert on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” The CBS “Late Show” host scored his largest margin of victory since his debut week nearly two years ago for shows that featured segments filmed during his recent trip to Moscow and St. Petersburg. (Scott Kowalchyk/CBS via AP)

    By David Bauder, Television Writer

    NEW YORK (AP) --

    Russia may represent bad news for President Donald Trump. But not for his late-night nemesis, Stephen Colbert.

    The CBS “Late Show” host scored his largest margin of victory since his debut week nearly two years ago for shows that featured segments filmed during his recent trip to Moscow and St. Petersburg.

    The Nielsen company said the “Late Show” average 2.87 million viewers last week, topping Jimmy Fallon’s “Tonight” show, which had 2.42 million. Jimmy Kimmel on ABC averaged 1.62 million viewers.

    Behind its summertime powerhouse, “America’s Got Talent,” NBC won another week in the ratings.

    NBC averaged 5 million viewers in primetime. CBS was second with 4.4 million, ABC had 3 million, Fox had 1.8 million, Univision had 1.7 million, Ion Television had 1.26 million, Telemundo had 1.25 million and the CW had 970,000.

    Fox News Channel was the week’s most popular cable network, averaging 1.88 million viewers in prime time. MSNBC had 1.79 million, Disney had 1.61 million, HGTV had 1.48 million and Discovery had 1.44 million.

    ABC’s “World News Tonight” topped the evening newscasts with an average of 7.5 million viewers. NBC’s “Nightly News” had 7.2 million and the “CBS Evening News had 5.6 million viewers.

    Below are primetime viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for July 17-23. Listings include the week’s ranking and viewership.

    1. “America’s Got Talent” (Tuesday), NBC, 12.57 million.
    2. “Game of Thrones,” HBO, 9.27 million.
    3. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 7.36 million.
    4. “World of Dance,” NBC, 6.91 million.
    5. “The Big Bang Theory,” CBS, 6.49 million.
    6. “NCIS,” CBS, 6.49 million.
    7. “The Bachelorette,” ABC, 6.22 million.
    8. “Big Brother” (Wednesday), CBS, 6.19 million.
    9. “Celebrity Family Feud,” ABC, 6.02 million.
    10. “Big Brother” (Sunday), CBS, 5.98 million.
    11. “Big Brother” (Thursday), CBS, 5.95 million.
    12. “Little Big Shots: Forever Young,” NBC, 5.82 million.
    13. “American Ninja Warrior,” NBC, 5.78 million.
    14. “Big Brother” (Friday), CBS, 5.45 million.
    15. “Bull,” CBS, 5.36 million.
    16. Movie: “Descendants 2,” Disney, 5.33 million.
    17. “NCIS: New Orleans,” CBS, 5.325 million.
    18. “The Wall,” NBC, 4.95 million.
    19. “Phelps vs Shark,” Discovery, 4.78 million.
    20. “Blue Bloods,” CBS, 4.67 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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