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    MLB All-Star Game Draws Record Low Viewership But Still Finishes 2nd In Week’s Nielsens

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    Houston Astros George Springer (4) celebrates with his teammates at the end of the Major League Baseball All-star Game, Wednesday, July 18, 2018 in Washington. The American League won 8-6. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

    By Lynn Elber, Television Writer

    LOS ANGELES (AP) --

    Baseball’s All-Star Game edged down to a record low in viewership as it reversed last year’s increase.

    According to Nielsen ratings released Tuesday, Major League Baseball’s exhibition game last week drew 8.7 million viewers on Fox.

    That’s just under the previous record low of 8.71 million viewers in 2016, and about 6 percent less than 2017’s audience of 9.28 million.

    Although the game ranked as the week’s No. 2 program, it was topped by NBC’s “America’s Got Talent,” which drew 11.3 million.

    Maybe predictability is part of the problem: The American League beat the National League 8-6 for its sixth straight win. Those who skipped the game missed seeing a record 10 home runs, nearly double the previous high.

    Summertime series reruns have driven viewers into the arms of reality and competition shows, which claimed half of the top 10 spots.

    NBC was the week’s winning network in U.S. prime-time viewing, averaging 4.3 million viewers. CBS had 3.8 million, ABC had 3.4 million, Fox had 3.3 million, ION Television had 1.36 million, Telemundo had 1.17 million, Univision had 1.14 million and the CW had 790,000 viewers.

    ABC’s “World News Tonight” led the evening newscasts with an average of 7.8 million viewers. NBC’s “Nightly News” had 7.2 million and the “CBS Evening News” had 5.5 million.

    Fox News Channel was the week’s most popular cable network, averaging 2.38 million viewers. MSNBC had 1.89 million, USA had 1.39 million, HGTV had 1.28 million and Hallmark had 1.26 million.

    Below are primetime viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for July 16-22. Listings include the week’s ranking and viewership.

    1. “America’s Got Talent” (Tuesday), NBC, 11.33 million.
    2. MLB All-Star Game, Fox, 8.7 million.
    3. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 7.69 million.
    4. “The Bachelorette,” ABC, 6.3 million.
    5. “Celebrity Family Feud,” ABC, 6.08 million.
    6. “The Big Bang Theory,” CBS, 6.06 million.
    7. “World of Dance,” NBC, 5.9 million.
    8. “Home Run Derby,” ESPN, 5.6 million.
    9. “Big Brother” (Thursday), CBS, 5.56 million.
    10. “Young Sheldon,” CBS. 5.5 million.
    11. “NCIS,” CBS, 5.49 million.
    12. “Big Brother” (Sunday), CBS, 5.46 million.
    13. “Code Black,” CBS, 5.37 million.
    14. “Big Brother” (Wednesday), CBS, 5.25 million.
    15. “American Ninja Warrior,” NBC, 5.19 million.
    16. “$100,000 Pyramid,” ABC, 5.09 million.
    17. “Dateline NBC” (Monday), NBC. 4.89 million.
    18. “Bluebloods,” CBS, 4.4 million.
    19. “Bull,” CBS, 4.394 million.
    20. “NCIS: New Orleans,” CBS, 4.392 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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