The suspicious death of a six-year-old profiled by ABC newsmag 20/20 and the WWE Friday Night SmackDown shared top demo honors as viewers begin to ease into summer.
21.05.2022 - 22:01 / deadline.com
The season finale of ABC’s Shark Tank and a shocking WWE Friday Night SmackDown were the top two demo winners this Friday night.
Sharks Mark Cuban, Lori Greiner, Kevin O’Leary, Barbara Corcoran and Kevin Hart scored an 0.4. They heard pitches on health products, game-worn athletic gear, a specialty boxing glove, and fast food vegan chicken. That didn’t help trailing newsmag 20/20, which weighed in with a 0.3 profile of a Texas man accused of killing his parents, a charge he steadfastly denies.
Fox’s WWE Friday Night SmackDown also claimed an 0.4. It saw The Usos overcome RK-Bro in the highly anticipated title unification match to become the undisputed WWE Tag Team Champions. But their victory was overshadowed by a stunning announcement on a WWE female tag team’s troubles.
At NBC, The Blacklist held steady at an 0.2, as Raymond Reddington finally learned who was responsible for Liz’s death. That gave a slight bump to newsmag Dateline, which offered an update to the murder case involving a former doctor accused of killing his wife. It came in with an 0.3.
CBS dance competition Come Dance With Me tapped out an 0.2, trailed by Magnum P.I. and Blue Bloods reruns.
The CW had the last days of Charmed and Dynasty, coming in with an 0.1 and 0.0, respectively.
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The suspicious death of a six-year-old profiled by ABC newsmag 20/20 and the WWE Friday Night SmackDown shared top demo honors as viewers begin to ease into summer.
A quiet pre-holiday Friday night saw plenty of action from the WWE Friday Night SmackDown, which topped the demos once again, this time with an 0.4, easily beating the competition.
Warning: Spoilers ahead!Better Call Saul fans are still not over the mid-season 6 finale, Plan and Execution, which saw the biggest cliffhanger of the show so far. The episode marked the end of Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) and Kim Wexler’s (Rhea Seehorn) mission to put a stop to enemy Howard Hamlin (Patrick Fabian), with a brutal cold-blooded murder as Howard was shot in the head by Lalo Salamanca (Tony Dalton) when confronting the Goodmans in their home about their plot to smear his name. But, as it turns out, some might have been expecting the moment to come, after Bob released a little spoiler in December last year.
The season-ending episode of “FBI” scheduled to air on Tuesday, May 24 has been pulled from the schedule.
According to TV Line, the show’s official Twitter account was still promoting the episode that “hits too close to home” for the show’s character, Jubal, at 5 p.m. ET.The tweet has since been deleted.
ABC News.“He shot and killed horrifically and incomprehensibly 14 students and killed a teacher,” Governor Greg Abbott said during a press briefing.The suspect also allegedly shot and killed his grandmother, ABC News reports. He was armed with a handgun and possibly also a rifle.The “FBI” episode was not made available for screening prior to its airing.
CBS has made the decision to pull tonight’s planned season finale of FBI.
The season finale of FBI has been pulled by CBS after the tragic school shooting in Texas.
CBS’ Monday slate had a fairly good night with nearly all series ticking up in both demo rating and viewership for their season finales.
A post shared by Dave Sirus (@davesirus)Michaels previously hinted that the next season of the long-running NBC sketch show would be “a year of change,” and Davidson was one of several cast members that were speculated as taking that leap of faith and leaving the show. Davidson, who co-wrote and starred in the semi-autobiographical and critically acclaimed “King of Staten Island,” already has the loosely autobiographical series “Bupkis” in the works at Peacock, with Edie Falco set to play his mother.
Saturday Night Live bid farewell to four veteran cast members tonight, Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, Pete Davidson and Kyle Mooney. McKinnon, Bryant and Davidson, who have all become household names since SNL launched their careers, all got individual sendoffs with some of their most popular recurring skits. Mooney, who has spent most of his time on the show as a valuable but underrated performer, made an understated — yet dramatic — exit.
Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorSurvive, from New York: “Saturday Night Live” will continue on without four prominent departing cast members, but most of them got a chance to offer up a few final laughs before the show completed its 47th season.Word that Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, Kyle Mooney and Pete Davidson planned to leave the venerable late-night series after Saturday’s broadcast leaked out late in the week. That made appearances by the actors all the more emotional during NBC’s broadcast of SNL’s season finale. McKinnon made one more run as Ms.
Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeIn a sign that perhaps the departing “Saturday Night Live” stars are returning to their greatest hits as they head out the door, this week’s cold open featured a wild sendoff for at least two of them. For Kate McKinnon, that meant her fan favorite alien abductee Ms. Rafferty, who once again shared a wildly inappropriate experience with NSA officers played by Aidy Bryant and Mikey Day.After showcasing her experience, McKinnon as Ms.
Pete Davidson is expected to announce he is leaving Saturday Night Live, according to a Variety report that cites “a person familiar with the matter”. The 28-year-old comedian was one of the youngest performers ever to be featured in SNL’s five decade history when he joined the cast in 2014. More recently, Davidson has become a tabloid mainstay as the boyfriend of Kim Kardashian, who he started dating after she hosted the sketch comedy series in October 2021.
There are now four Saturday Night Live cast members who will be leaving the show following the season finale this weekend.
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Thania Garcia This weekend’s season finale of “American Idol” is cooking up to be a star-studded event with performances by season four winner and current mentor on the program, Carrie Underwood, as well as Michael Bublé, Thomas Rhett and Sara Bareilles, among many others.The three-hour special will also welcome judges Katy Perry, Lionel Richie and Luke Bryan to the stage with additional performances by Ben Platt; Earth, Wind & Fire; Deana Carter; Flo Rida; Melissa Etheridge; Tai Verdes; “Idol” alum Gabby Barrett and James Arthur.This season’s three finalists — Noah Thompson, HunterGirl and Leah Marlene — will perform for one last time in hopes of bringing home the winning title, with one round dedicated to the music of Bruce Springsteen. Sunday night’s (May 15) episode of “American Idol” included performances from Fritz Hager and Thompson — both of whom had tested positive for COVID-19 in the weeks prior.Although Thompson made it through, Hager and Nicola Bozzo were eliminated during the semi-finals.Marlene expressed the most shock with the results of the finalist lineup following her performances of Journey’s “Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)” and Underwood’s “I’ll Stand By You.” She fell to the floor as her name was revealed by host Ryan Seacrest.Sunday night’s episode also featured a performance from Finneas who sang his funky pop single “Naked.”Season 20 of “American Idol” will wrap on Sunday, May 22 starting at 8 p.m.