By David Bauder, Media Writer
NEW YORK (AP) --For many Americans, the unrest sweeping through several cities this past weekend was reason enough to stay home and watch it on television.
The Nielsen company said 4 million people saw coverage of the demonstrations on Fox News Channel at 10 p.m. on Saturday, not usually a big TV-watching time.
An hour later, 3.2 million people were watching CNN's coverage.
In many cities, mostly peaceful demonstrations about police treatment of minorities became angrier once the sun went down.
On a big news week, Fox News Channel had more than double the audience of its sister broadcast network, which was largely devoted to reruns during the first week of the summer season.
For the week, CBS averaged 3.7 million viewers in primetime. NBC had 3.3 million, ABC had 3.1 million, Fox had 1.41 million, Univision had 1.4 million, ION Television had 1.1 million and Telemundo had 780,000.
Fox News led the cable networks with an average of 3.38 million viewers in primetime last week. CNN had 2.33 million, MSNBC had 2 million, History had 1.44 million and HGTV had 1.28 million.
ABC's "World News Now" led the evening news ratings race with an average of 9.3 million viewers last week. NBC's "Nightly News" had 8.3 million and the "CBS Evening News" had 5.7 million.
For the week of May 25-31, the top 20 shows, their networks and viewerships:
1. "America's Got Talent," NBC, 9.9 million.
2. "60 Minutes," CBS, 7.68 million.
3. "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," ABC, 6.07 million.
4. "NCIS," CBS, 5.63 million.
5. "Young Sheldon," CBS, 5.18 million.
6. "Man With a Plan," CBS, 5.06 million.
7. "World of Dance," NBC, 5 million.
8. "FBI," CBS, 4.998 million.
9. "Mom," CBS, 4.65 million.
10. "Celebrity Family Feud," ABC, 4.63 million.
11. "Broke," CBS, 4.45 million.
12. "Game On!," CBS, 4.44 million.
13. "Hannity" (Friday), Fox News, 4.34 million.
14. "America's Funniest Home Videos," ABC, 4.26 million.
15. Movie: "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade," CBS, 4.21 million.
16. "Tucker Carlson Tonight" (Thursday), Fox News, 4.14 million.
17. "Tucker Carlson Tonight" (Friday), Fox News, 4.13 million.
18. "90-Day Fiance: Before 90," TLC, 4.06 million.
19. "Floyd Protest Coverage" (Saturday, 10 p.m.), Fox News, 4.01 million.
20. "Holey Moley," ABC, 4 million.
Review: Writer-Director Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance”
In its first two hours, "The Substance" is a well-made, entertaining movie. Writer-director Coralie Fargeat treats audiences to a heavy dose of biting social commentary on ageism and sexism in Hollywood, with a spoonful of sugar- and sparkle-doused body horror.
But the film's deliciously unhinged, blood-soaked and inevitably polarizing third act is what makes it unforgettable.
What begins as a dread-inducing but still relatively palatable sci-fi flick spirals deeper into absurdism and violence, eventually erupting — quite literally — into a full-blown monster movie. Let the viewer decide who the monster is.
Fargeat — who won best screenplay at this year's Cannes Film Festival — has been vocal about her reverence for "The Fly" director David Cronenberg, and fans of the godfather of body horror will see his unmistakable influence. But "The Substance" is also wholly unique and benefits from Fargeat's perspective, which, according to the French filmmaker, has involved extensive grappling with her own relationship to her body and society's scrutiny.
"The Substance" tells the story of Elisabeth Sparkle, a famed aerobics instructor with a televised show, played by a powerfully vulnerable Demi Moore. Sparkle is fired on her 50th birthday by a ruthless executive — a perfectly cast Dennis Quaid, who nails sleazy and gross.
Feeling rejected by a town that once loved her and despairing over her bygone star power, Sparkle learns from a handsome young nurse about a black-market drug that promises to create a "younger, more beautiful, more perfect" version of its user. Though she initially tosses the phone number in the trash, she soon fishes it out in a desperate panic and places an order.
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