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    “Game of Thrones” Season Finale Is Week’s Most Watched Drama

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    By David Bauder, Television Writer

    NEW YORK (AP) --

    The shock-filled season finale of "Game of Thrones" on HBO reigned as television's most-watched drama during a week when many eyes were watching the gripping NBA Finals between the Warriors and Cavaliers.

    The Nielsen company said 8.1 million people watched "Game of Thrones" on Sunday night, and it was likely to pick up significantly more viewers when the time-delayed audience is counted in. The episode of the blood-thirsty series featured the killing of a beloved character and an uncomfortable nude walk of another featured player.

    "Game of Thrones" was also the subject of some 436,000 tweets, Nielsen said.

    The basketball series continues to be a real winner for ABC, and is likely to finish as the most-watched NBA series in more than a decade. Game 5 on Sunday hit a peak of 20.9 million. ABC has one, possibly two, more games to go. The third game was the most tweeted-about, with 2.8 million individual tweets generated.

    ABC won the week in prime time, averaging 9 million viewers. CBS averaged 5 million, NBC had 4.9 million, Fox had 3.4 million, Univision had 2.3 million, Telemundo had 1.3 million, ION Television had 1.1 million and the CW had 930,000.

    USA was the week's most popular cable network, averaging 1.75 million viewers in prime time. HGTV had 1.65 million, the Disney Channel had 1.61 million, Fox News Channel had 1.45 million and the sister networks of TBS (1.422 million) and TNT (1.421 million) finished in a virtual tie.

    NBC's "Nightly News" narrowly won the evening news competition with an average of 7.9 million. ABC's "World News Tonight" had 7.8 million and the "CBS Evening News" had 6.5 million.

    For the week of June 8-15, the top 10 shows, their networks and viewerships: NBA Finals: Cleveland vs. Golden State, Game 5, ABC, 20.86 million; NBA Finals: Golden State vs. Cleveland, Game 4, ABC, 19.84 million; NBA Finals: Golden State vs. Cleveland, Game 3, ABC, 18.77 million; "America's Got Talent" (Tuesday), NBC, 10.44 million; "Game of Thrones," HBO, 8.11 million; "60 Minutes," CBS, 7.7 million; "NCIS," CBS, 7.153 million; "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 7.145 million; "American Ninja Warrior," NBC, 7 million; "NCIS: New Orleans," CBS, 6.61 million.

    Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for June 8-14. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.

    1. NBA Finals: Cleveland vs. Golden State, Game 5, ABC, 20.86 million.

    2. NBA Finals: Golden State vs. Cleveland, Game 4, ABC, 19.84 million.

    3. NBA Finals: Golden State vs. Cleveland, Game 3, ABC, 18.77 million.

    4. "America's Got Talent" (Tuesday), NBC, 10.44 million.

    5. "Game of Thrones," HBO, 8.11 million.

    6. "60 Minutes," CBS, 7.7 million.

    7. "NCIS," CBS, 7.153 million.

    8. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 7.145 million.

    9. "American Ninja Warrior," NBC, 7 million.

    10. "NCIS: New Orleans," CBS, 6.61 million.

    11. "Dateline NBC" (Thursday), NBC, 6.46 million.

    12. "The Bachelorette," ABC, 6.37 million.

    13. "NBA Countdown" (Thursday), ABC, 6 million.

    14. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 5.96 million.

    15. "Criminal Minds," CBS, 5.79 million.

    16. "48 Hours" (Tuesday), CBS, 5.57 million.

    17. "I Can Do That," NBC, 5.52 million.

    18. "The Odd Couple," CBS, 5.48 million.

    19. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 5.47 million.

    20. "NBA Countdown" (Tuesday), ABC, 5.45 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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