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    “Leaving Neverland” Draws Viewers For HBO; Nielsen Week In Review

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    This image released by HBO shows a young Wade Robson shaking hands with pop icon Michael Jackson in 1987, in a scene from the documentary “Leaving Neverland.” (Dan Reed/HBO via AP)

    By David Bauder, Media Writer

    NEW YORK (AP) --

    HBO’s “Leaving Neverland” is heading up the charts.

    The unsparing documentary about Michael Jackson and his alleged sexual abuse is already the third most-watched documentary of the past decade at the prime cable network, which takes pride in its documentary schedule. It’s likely to surpass “Bright Lights,” the movie about Debbie Reynolds and her daughter Carrie Fisher, which is currently in second place, the network said.

    The first half of the four-hour program on Jackson has been seen by 3.67 million people, the Nielsen company said. The second half stands at 2.45 million. Those totals are expected to go up as people catch up with the program through delayed viewing.

    HBO’s most-watched documentary over the past decade is “Going Clear,” about Scientology.

    CBS won another week in primetime behind the soon-to-depart comedy “The Big Bang Theory,” and its prequel, “Young Sheldon.”

    CBS averaged 5.8 million viewers in primetime. ABC had 5.3 million viewers, NBC had 4.7 million, Fox had 2.5 million, ION Television had 1.4 million, Univision had 1.3 million, Telemundo had 1.1 million and the CW had 960,000.

    Fox News Channel was the week’s most popular cable network, averaging 2.26 million in prime time. MSNBC had 1.92 million, HGTV had 1.33 million, ESPN had 1.26 million and USA had 1.24 million.

    ABC’s “World News Tonight” topped the evening newscasts with an average of 9.3 million viewers. NBC’s “Nightly News” had 8.6 million and the “CBS Evening News” had 6.3 million.

    Below are primetime viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for March 4-10. Listings include the week’s ranking and viewership.

    1. “The Big Bang Theory,” CBS, 13 million.
    2. “Young Sheldon,” CBS, 11.58 million.
    3. “The Voice” (Monday), NBC, 10.97 million.
    4. “The Voice” (Tuesday), NBC, 10.22 million.
    5. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 8.6 million.
    6. “Mom,” CBS, 8.3 million.
    7. “Blue Bloods,” CBS, 8.26 million.
    8. “American Idol” (Wednesday), ABC, 7.828 million.
    9. “This is Us,” NBC, 7.827 million.
    10. “NCIS,” CBS, 7.49 million.
    11. “The Bachelor,” ABC, 7.31 million.
    12. “American Idol” (Sunday), ABC, 7.27 million.
    13. “Hawaii Five-0,” CBS, 7.266 million.
    14. “Survivor,” CBS, 7.26 million.
    15. “The Good Doctor,” ABC, 6.73 million.
    16. “God Friended Me,” CBS, 6.63 million.
    17. “Grey’s Anatomy,” ABC, 6.57 million.
    18. “CBS News: Gayle King’s R. Kelly Interview,” CBS, 6.558 million.
    19. “Bachelor: Women Tell All,” ABC, 6.11 million.
    20. “New Amsterdam,” NBC, 5.83 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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    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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