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    ESPN Scores Ratings Touchdown; A Rundown of Last Week’s Nielsens

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    Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson (4) poses with the Orange Bowl trophy following an NCAA college football semifinal playoff game against Oklahoma, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2015, in Miami Gardens, Fla. (AP Photo/Joe Skipper)

    By Frazier Moore, Television Writer

    NEW YORK (AP) --

    Football games (and football chatter) ruled in the ratings arena last week, according to the Nielsen company.

    That meant cable’s ESPN ruled in audience over all the broadcast networks. In primetime overall for the week, it averaged 8.64 million viewers, nearly 2 million more than broadcast front-runner CBS. ESPN claimed 13 of the top 20 slots with its football coverage and adjoining pigskin punditry.

    Even so, NBC scored the week’s biggest show: its Sunday night NFL faceoff between Minnesota and Green Bay was seen by 24 million viewers.

    Among broadcast networks for the reruns-laden week, CBS squeaked out a victory with an average of 6.72 million viewers. NBC, in second place for the week, was right behind with 6.66 million viewers, while ABC had 4.1 million, Fox had 2.8 million, Univision had 1.9 million, Telemundo had 1.6 million, ION Television had 1.4 million, and the CW had 1.1 million.

    ABC had a rare win in the evening news race with its “World News Tonight with David Muir” drawing 9.7 million viewers, though it was a week that came with asterisks. Only Monday through Wednesday newscasts on the three networks were measured on this holiday week, and Kate Snow subbed for Lester Holt on NBC’s “Nightly News,” the runner-up with 9.3 million. The “CBS Evening News” had 7.9 million viewers.

    Here are primetime viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Dec. 28-Jan. 3. Listings include the week’s ranking and viewership.

    1. NFL Football: Minnesota vs. Green Bay, NBC, 24.29 million.

    2. College Football Semifinal: Michigan State vs. Alabama, ESPN, 18.55 million.

    3. College Football Studio (8:08 p.m. EST Thursday), ESPN, 18.09 million.

    4. “Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick,” NBC, 17.75 million.

    5. College Football Studio (8:01 p.m. EST Thursday), ESPN, 16.76 million.

    6. NFL Football: Cincinnati vs. Denver, ESPN, 15.81 million.

    7. College Football Semifinal: Oklahoma vs. Clemson, ESPN, 15.64 million.

    8. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 15.36 million.

    9. Rose Bowl: Stanford vs. Iowa, ESPN, 13.55 million.

    10. College Football Studio (4:56 p.m. EST Friday), ESPN, 13.22 million.

    11. “Prime-time New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” (Part 2), ABC, 13.02 million.

    12. “Football Night in America,” NBC, 12.81 million.

    13. College Football Studio (4:41 p.m. EST Friday), ESPN, 12.66 million.

    14. College Football Semifinal: Michigan State vs. Alabama postgame show, ESPN, 11.61 million.

    15. “NCIS,” CBS, 10.37 million.

    16. College Football Studio (3:59 p.m. EST Thursday), ESPN, 9.78 million.

    17. Fiesta Bowl: Notre Dame vs. Ohio State, ESPN, 9.76 million.

    18. Sugar Bowl: Oklahoma State vs. Ole Miss, ESPN, 8.94 million.

    19. College Football Studio (3:54 p.m. EST Thursday), ESPN, 8.17 million.

    20. “Prime-time New Year’s Rockin’ Eve,” ABC, 8.13 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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