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    LSU-Alabama Game Scores Ratings Touchdown For CBS; Nielsen Week In Review

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    LSU head coach Ed Orgeron celebrates with his players after defeating Alabama 46-41 in an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Nov. 9, 2019, in Tuscaloosa , Ala. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

    By David Bauder, Media Writer

    NEW YORK (AP) --

    Television viewers flocked to the showdown between LSU and Alabama over the weekend, making it the top-rated regular season college football game in eight years.

    The Nielsen company said 16.6 million people watched the game late Saturday afternoon, as LSU held off the Tide’s late charge. At 7 p.m. Eastern, just before its conclusion, the audience topped 20 million people.

    Similarly, the 6.7 million people who watched Minnesota beat Penn State earlier in the day was a winner for ABC. It was the network’s biggest audience for a noon college football game in three years. It was particularly appealing to Minnesota fans; the rating for the game was the highest in Minneapolis of any college game since at least 2000, when the market ratings became available, Nielsen said.

    A different form of combat helped ABC’s “The View” this week. The shout fest that ensued when Donald Trump Jr. came on the show to promote his new book gave the show its biggest audience in six months when former Vice President Joe Biden appeared.

    Behind the dominant force of “Sunday Night Football,” NBC won the week in primetime, averaging 7.1 million viewers. Fox averaged 6.7 million, CBS had 5.8 million, ABC had 4.3 million, Telemundo had 1.27 million, ION Television had 1.25 million, Univision had 1.2 million and the CW had 720,000.

    ESPN was the week’s most popular cable network, averaging 3.06 million viewers in prime time. Fox News Channel had 2.59 million, MSNBC had 1.89 million, Hallmark had 1.54 million and History had 1.01 million.

    ABC’s “World News Tonight” topped the evening newscasts with an average of 9 million viewers. NBC’s “Nightly News” was second with 8.2 million and the “CBS Evening News” had 5.7 million viewers.

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

    1. NFL Football: Minnesota at Dallas, NBC, 22.99 million.
    2. “NFL Sunday Night Pre-Kick,” NBC, 16.72 million.
    3. “NFL Sunday Post-Game,” Fox, 15.71 million.
    4. NFL Football: Dallas at N.Y. Giants, ESPN, 14.72 million.
    5. NFL Football: L.A. Chargers at Oakland, Fox, 13.85 million.
    6. “NCIS,” CBS, 10.89 million.
    7. “Little Mermaid Live,” ABC, 9 million.
    8. “Football Night in America, Part 3,” NBC, 8.89 million.
    9. “Young Sheldon,” CBS, 8.84 million.
    10. “FBI,” CBS, 8.55 million.
    11. “NFL Thursday Night Pre-Kick,” Fox, 8.27 million.
    12. “The Voice” (Tuesday), NBC, 8.16 million.
    13. “Chicago Med,” NBC, 8.1 million.
    14. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 7.98 million.
    15. “The Voice” (Monday), NBC, 7.89 million.
    16. “Chicago Fire,” NBC, 7.69 million.
    17. “NFL Monday Night Kick-Off,” ESPN, 7.61 million.
    18. “Blue Bloods,” CBS, 7.39 million.
    19. “Hawaii Five-O,” CBS, 7.13 million.
    20. “The Masked Singer,” Fox, 7.12 million.

    ABC and ESPN are owned by The Walt Disney Co.; CBS is a division of CBS Corp.; Fox is owned by Fox Corp.; 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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