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    Country Music Awards, Football Top Week’s Nielsens

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    In this Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017, file photo, Carrie Underwood performs “Softly and Tenderly” during an In Memoriam tribute at the 51st annual CMA Awards at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

    By David Bauder, Television Writer

    NEW YORK (AP) --

    After two years of record low ratings, the Country Music Association Awards rebounded last week and was the most-watched entertainment program on television last week.

    Hoist a glass to the appeal of country music? Not so fast. The size of last year’s audience was depressed since it aired on the same night of an epic World Series seventh game between the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians.

    This year, the competition was much more manageable. The awards reached 14.3 million people last week for ABC, compared to 12.5 million the year before, the Nielsen company said.

    NBC won the week’s ratings race on the strength of two football games. Sunday night’s game between New England and Denver was the week’s most popular program, Nielsen said.

    CBS had eight of the week’s top nine most-watched scripted programs, with only NBC’s “This is Us” breaking the stranglehold.

    NBC averaged 8.1 million viewers in primetime. CBS had 7.6 million, ABC had 6.2 million, Fox had 4 million, Univision had 1.6 million, the CW had 1.34 million, Telemundo had 1.33 million and ION Television had 1.2 million.

    ESPN was the week’s most popular cable network, averaging 3.25 million viewers in prime time. Fox News Channel had 2.33 million, Hallmark had 2.11 million, MSNBC had 1.73 million and the USA Network had 1.31 million.

    ABC’s “World News Tonight” continued its winning streak atop the evening newscasts, averaging 9.2 million viewers last week. NBC’s “Nightly News” had 8.6 million and the “CBS Evening News” had 6.7 million.

    Below are primetime viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Nov. 6-12. Listings include the week’s ranking and viewership.

    1. NFL Football: New England at Denver, NBC, 17.51 million.
    2. “Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick,” NBC, 14.56 million.
    3. “CMA Awards,” ABC, 14.28 million.
    4. “The Big Bang Theory,” CBS, 13.8 million.
    5. “NCIS,” CBS, 13.47 million.
    6. NFL Football: Seattle at Arizona, NBC, 13.11 million.
    7. “Young Sheldon,” CBS, 12.39 million.
    8. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 11.27 million.
    9. NFL Football: Detroit at Green Bay, ESPN, 11.15 million.
    10. “Bull,” CBS, 10.77 million.
    11. “Football Night in America, Part 3,” NBC, 10.3 million.
    12. “The OT,” Fox, 10.18 million.
    13. “Blue Bloods,” CBS, 9.94 million.
    14. “This is Us,” NBC, 9.89 million.
    15. “The Voice” (Monday), NBC, 9.63 million.
    16. “The Voice” (Tuesday), NBC, 9.48 million.
    17. “Dancing With the Stars,” ABC, 9.32 million.
    18. “NCIS: New Orleans,” CBS, 9.22 million.
    19. “Hawaii Five-0,” CBS, 9.21 million.
    20. “The Walking Dead,” AMC, 8.69 million.
    20. “Thursday Night Pre-Kick,” NBC, 8.69 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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