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    NBC Tops Nielsens For 2nd Straight Week

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    Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger (7) throws a pass during the first half of an NFL football game against the Green Bay Packers in Pittsburgh, Sunday, Nov. 26, 2017. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

    By Lynn Elber, Television Writer

    LOS ANGELES (AP) --

    Powered by football and “The Voice,” NBC won a second consecutive weekly ratings contest and narrowed the gap with front-runner CBS among total viewers for the TV season so far.

    For the year to date, NBC has climbed within 902,000 viewers of CBS, the narrowest gap in 15 years, according to Nielsen figures released Tuesday. Longtime leader CBS has drawn 9.9 million viewers compared to NBC’s 9 million.

    Networks usually tout their showing among advertiser-favored young adults ages 18 to 49, but staying competitive among all viewers is important as broadcasters divvy up the pie with expanding cable and streaming outlets.

    NBC’s Thanksgiving week winners included NFL games, the sophomore drama “This Is Us” and two helpings of talent show “The Voice.”

    Viewers also sampled holiday cheer, with ABC’s “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” the highest-ranked entry with 6.68 million viewers.

    For the week of Nov. 20 to 26, NBC averaged 8.6 million viewers in primetime. CBS had 6.96 million, ABC had 5.37 million, Fox had 2.96 million, Univision had 1.43 million, CW had 1.31 million, ION Television had 1.28 million and Telemundo had 1.19 million.

    ESPN was the most-watched cable network, averaging 3.23 million viewers in primetime and posting cable’s No. 1 show with the NFL contest between the Seahawks and the Falcons.

    Hallmark, buoyed by its slate of holiday movies, was close behind with 3.11 million, while Fox News Channel had 1.72 million.

    ABC’s “World News Tonight” remained the evening news champion, averaging 8.56 million viewers. NBC’s “Nightly News” had 8.08 million and the “CBS Evening News” had 6.42 million.

    Below are primetime viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Nov. 20-26. Listings include the week’s ranking and viewership.

    1. NFL Sunday Night Football: Green Bay at Pittsburgh, NBC, 18.95 million.
    2. NFL Thursday Night Football: New York at Washington, NBC, 16.91 million.
    3. “Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick,” NBC, 13.32 million.
    4. “NCIS,” CBS, 12.54 million.
    5. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 12.23 million.
    6. “The Big Bang Theory,” CBS, 12.13 million.
    7. “Thursday Night NFL Pre-Kick,” NBC, 11.44 million.
    8. “Young Sheldon,” CBS, 11.43 million.
    9. NFL Football: Atlanta at Seattle, ESPN, 10.82 million.
    10. “Dancing With the Stars” (Monday), ABC, 10.15 million.
    11. “The Good Doctor,” ABC, 9.97 million.
    12. Football Night in America, NBC, 9.9 million.
    13. “Thursday Night NFL Pre-Game,” NBC, 9.54 million.
    14. “The Voice” (Tuesday), NBC, 9.36 million.
    15. “This Is Us,” NBC 9.34 million.
    16. “Dancing With the Stars (Tuesday),” ABC, 9.2 million.
    17.  “The Voice” (Monday), NBC, 9.15 million.
    18. “Bull,” CBS, 8.99 million.
    19. “The Walking Dead,” AMC, 8.28 million.
    20. “NCIS: New Orleans,” CBS, 8 million.
    NFL Football: Miami at Carolina, ESPN, 8.81 million.

    ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Co. CBS is owned by CBS Corp. CW is a joint venture of Warner Bros. Entertainment and CBS Corp. Fox is owned by 21st Century Fox. NBC and Telemundo are owned by Comcast Corp. ION Television is owned by ION Media Networks.

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    Harris Dickinson Toys With Ambiguity In “Babygirl” While Keeping a Secret From Nicole Kidman

    Tuesday, December 24, 2024

    Harris Dickinson was nervous to approach Nicole Kidman.

    This would not necessarily be notable under normal circumstances, but the English actor had already been cast to star opposite her in the erotic drama "Babygirl," as the intern who initiates an affair with Kidman's buttoned-up CEO. They'd had a zoom with the writer-director Halina Reijn, who was excited by their playful banter and sure that Dickinson would hold his own. And yet when he found himself at the same event as Kidman, shyness took over. He admitted as much to Margaret Qualley, who took things into her own hands and introduced them.

    "She helped me break the ice a bit," Dickinson said in a recent interview.

    On set would be an entirely different story. Dickinson might not be nearly as "puckishly audacious" as his character Samuel but in the making of "Babygirl," he, Kidman and Reijn had no choice but to dive fearlessly into this exploration of sexual power dynamics, going to intimate, awkward, exhilarating and meme-able places. It's made the film, in theaters Christmas Day, one of the year's must-sees.

    "There was an unspoken thing that we adhered to," Dickinson said. "We weren't getting to know each other's personal lives. When we were working and we were the characters, we didn't veer away from the material. I never tried to attach all of the history of Nicole Kidman. Otherwise it probably would have been a bit of a mess."

    His is a performance that reconfirms what many in the film world have suspected since his debut seven years ago as a Brooklyn tough questioning his sexuality in Eliza Hittman's "Beach Rats": Dickinson is one of the most exciting young talents around.

    Dickinson, 28, grew up in Leytonstone, in East London — the same neck of the woods as... Read More

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