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    GOP Debate Draws 18M-plus Viewers; A Rundown Of Last Week’s Nielsens

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    In this Dec. 15, 2015 photo, Donald Trump, left, watches as Ted Cruz speaks during the CNN Republican presidential debate at the Venetian Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

    By Frazier Moore, Television Writer

    NEW YORK (AP) --

    The latest GOP debate edged out NFL football and beat everything else to score as last week’s most-watched prime-time program, leaving Democrats and even Adele in the dust.

    The Republican presidential faceoff (the party’s fifth, this time from Las Vegas on Dec. 15) drew 18.17 million viewers to CNN, according to the Nielsen ratings company.

    Sunday’s NFL game between Arizona and Philadelphia, aired on NBC, was the week’s runner-up with 18.11 million viewers.

    “Adele Live in New York,” also aired by NBC, ranked 11th. It was seen by 11.27 million viewers. The New Hampshire debate by Democratic presidential hopefuls, airing Saturday on ABC, drew 8 million viewers to rank 21st for the week.

    But overall, CBS led in prime time with an average 8.9 million viewers, with its series “The Big Bang Theory” (ranked No. 3) and “NCIS” (No. 4) the top scripted broadcasts. CBS could also claim the week’s top nine dramas.

    NBC, in second place for the week, averaged 7.7 million viewers, while ABC had 4.6 million, Fox had 2.9 million, Univision had 1.8 million, Telemundo had 1.5 million, ION Television had 1.4 million, and the CW had 1.1 million.

    ESPN was the week’s most popular cable network, averaging 2.7 million viewers in prime time. ABC Family had 2.3 million viewers, Fox News Channel had 2 million, Discovery had 1.98 million and the Hallmark Channel had 1.94 million.

    NBC’s “Nightly News” topped the evening newscasts with an average of 8.8 million viewers. ABC’s “World News Tonight” was second with 8.4 million and the “CBS Evening News” had 7.4 million viewers.

    Primetime viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Dec. 14-20. Listings include the week’s ranking and viewership.

    1. Nevada GOP Debate, CNN, 18.17 million.

    2. NFL Football: Arizona at Philadelphia, NBC, 18.11 million.

    3. “The Big Bang Theory,” CBS, 17.23 million.

    4. “NCIS,” CBS, 15.53 million.

    5. Nevada GOP Debate (Introduction), CNN, 15.38 million.

    6. “The Voice” (Monday), NBC, 14.03 million.

    7. “Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick,” NBC, 13.44 million.

    8. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 12.70 million.

    9. “The Voice” (Tuesday), NBC, 12.69 million.

    10. “NCIS: New Orleans,” CBS, 12.09 million.

    11. NFL Football: New York Giants at Miami, ESPN, 11.55 million.

    12. “Adele Live in New York,” NBC, 11.27 million.

    13. “Life in Pieces,” CBS, 10.27 million.

    14. “Football Night in America,” NBC, 9.65 million.

    15. “Survivor,” CBS, 9.46 million.

    16. “Scorpion,” CBS, 9.28 million.

    17. “NCIS: Los Angeles,” CBS, 9.22 million.

    18. “Anderson Cooper: 360,” CNN, 9.10 million.

    19. “Mom,” CBS, 8.95 million.

    20. “The Voice,” NBC, 8.47 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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