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Total TV set viewing on YouTube hit one billion hours, according to the platform. In a blog post, the company said viewing time of sports content via TV sets saw a 30% lift in 2024 compared with 2023, “as users visit YouTube to get their lineup of clips, highlights, and post-game interviews, all in one place.” The post also announced the pilot of Watch Post, a feature that enables creators to provide live commentary, analysis, and real time reactions to games and events, for their audience, and a new parent code feature that gives parents the power to prevent kids from accessing content that might not be age-appropriate. YouTube also pointed to the rapid growth of podcast viewing, noting that viewers watched over 400 million hours of podcasts monthly on living room devices.
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The 97th Academy Awards ceremony will stream live on Hulu, in addition to its ABC broadcast, starting Sunday, March 2 at 7p. Nominations will be announced January 17.
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Nexstar, which controls 200 owned or partner stations in 116 US, is making staff cuts – but it won’t be extensive. “While it is difficult to make these sorts of changes, they will impact less than 2% of our workforce and allow us to focus on areas of growth for our viewers, partners and customers,” said the company said in a statement. “We are committed to managing through this period of unprecedented change in the media industry so that Nexstar continues to thrive for years to come.”
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HGTV has renewed “Zillow Gone Wild,” its highest-rated freshman series this year, for a 10-episode sophomore season. The show, which follows Jack McBrayer (“30 Rock”) as he takes viewers on tours of the weirdest properties on the market, attracted more than 12.5 million viewers across linear and streaming in its debut run. The new episodes are slated to premiere in 2025.
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Peacock scored the much-bandied-about reboot of “Friday Night Lights,” from the original’s showrunner Jason Katims, director Peter Berg, and producer Brian Grazer, to be produced by Universal Television. The series is now in development.
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Film and TV studio Fifth Season struck a multi-title deal with Hulu in the US across scripted and unscripted titles, including Roughcut TV comedy “Big Boys,” docuseries “Bad Host: Hunting the Couchsurfing Predator,” reality format “Hot Yachts,” and “Run the Burbs.”
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“Sullivan’s Crossing” has been picked up for a third season at The CW. The drama, based on Robyn Carr’s book series, is currently in production for a new run, set to premiere in 2025.
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JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot has inked a new first-look film and TV deal with Warner Bros. Television. The agreement follows a five-year exclusive deal signed in 2019.
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Peacock is celebrating the 50th season of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live”with docuseries “SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night.” The four-parter, which pulls back the curtain on everything from the writers’ room to the audition process, kicks off Thursday, January 16.
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Season five of adult animated series “Harley Quinn” debuts Thursday, January 16, followed by one new episode weekly through March 20 on Max. This season finds Harley (Kaley Cuoco) and Ivy (Lake Bell) in a new location: Metropolis, the home of all things Superman, Lois Lane, and the Daily Planet.
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New History Channel investigative nonfiction series “Hunting History with Steven Rinella” makes its debut on Tuesday, January 28 at 10p. Hosted and executive produced by author and outdoorsman Rinella (“MeatEater”), the series dives into some of American history’s most perplexing mysteries through a new lens.
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It’s all Dave, all day on Letterman TV, a 24/7 FAST channel on Samsung TV Plus that features curated moments and never-before seen commentary from David Letterman. “I’m very excited about this,” said Letterman, who hosted “The Late Show” for 22 years. “Now I can watch myself age without looking in the mirror!”
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Bethesda Softworks has teamed up with Google TV to promote its newest game, “Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.” The campaign will incorporate Indiana Jones throughout Google TV’s “For You” page including trailers, gameplay snippets and interactive topic pages.
Hosted by Julianne Hough and Alfonso Ribeiro, “Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade” airs Christmas morning at 10am.
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“American Masters – Brenda Lee: Rockin’ Around” premieres Monday, December 16 at 10p on PBS (check local listings). The film reveals the story behind Lee’s songs, including her Christmas classic “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” and explores how her early life in poverty and childhood stardom shaped her artistry.
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Freeform’s annual 25 Days of Christmas stunt launched with the net’s most-watched week of the year in both total day and primetime from December 1 to 8, with “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York” landing as cable’s top movie of the month among A18-49.
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After seven days of viewing on ABC, Disney+, Hulu and digital platforms,the season 33 finale of “Dancing with the Stars” rose to 7.95 million Total Viewers and a 1.55 rating in A18-49, growing +25% in Total Viewers and +36% in the demo over the show’s Live+Same Day audience.
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Actor Michael Cole died December 11. He was 84. Cole was best known to TV audiences for his role as one of three undercover cops in 1968-73 series “Mod Squad.”
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Mentalist The Amazing Kreskin, born George Kresge, died December 10. He was 89. In addition to dozens of talk show appearances, Kreskin starred in his own TV series, “The Amazing World of Kreskin,” from 1972-75.
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