Ratings: ABC’s ‘Don’t’ Premiere Does Quite Well

Harry Styles has been the victim of a break-in, after a man who was previously convicted of stalking the famous singer, was reportedly hit with new charges, entering into his home without authorization and assaulting someone in the process.The dangerous 28-year-old man currently has a restraining order, after being found guilty of stalking Styles, and was banned to be within 250 of the artist, or try to make contact with him directly or indirectly, including social media, as it was stated in court documents back in 2019.Pablo Tarazaga-Orero has now been accused of assault, after once again trying to enter Styles’ home in North London, and assaulting a woman who is part of the singer’s entourage, destroying a vase during the disturbing incident.It has also been reported that the man has to appear at Westminster Magistrates‘ Court, and is being charged with breaching the original restraining order, as he was not allowed to be close to “the victim’s house.” Additionally, he was charged with using violence as he tried to force his way into the property.During the first trial, it was stated that the man had been sleeping close to Styles’ home in London, and the singer offered him money for food.

Now the criticism is coming from within. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ plan to pre-tape Best Sound and other categories on this month’s Oscarcast has hit a sour note with a Music Branch governor.

EXCLUSIVE: Yash Raj Films, a key production house and distributor in India, has named Akshaye Widhani to the new role of Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately.

Kanye West is apparently fed up with his legal counsel — and now, hours before he is set to face off with Kim Kardashian in a courtroom meeting where she is expected to be made officially single once again, Ye is opting for a new lawyer.

Farrah Abraham is checking into a rehabilitation center and treatment facility to get past recent trauma.

The stars of Squid Game are back together again to chat up the success of the Netflix series at THR Awards Chatter Podcast Chapman University Taping at Chapman University on Monday (February 28) in Orange, Calif.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lead Congress in showing solidarity for Ukraine by wearing a blue blazer, as well as a pin with both the United States and Ukraine’s flags on it. Pelosi was one of many politicians showed their support for Ukrainians during the State of the Union address on Tuesday March 1. Many sported outfits that prominently featured the colors yellow and blue from the country’s flag.

Clayton Davis As one Oscar season comes to a close, another opens (at least to speculation) with Matt Reeves’ newest take on the Batman franchise starring Robert Pattinson, Jeffrey Wright, Zoë Kravitz, Paul Dano and Colin Farrell.The director and co-writer (along with Peter Craig) delivers a dark take on the world’s greatest detective as he battles villains the Riddler, the Penguin and (sorta, but not really) Catwoman. Receiving positive reviews from critics, will this new take on the Caped Crusader land major Oscar attention —  including best picture — following in the footsteps of “Black Panther” (2017) and “Joker” (2019)?But with a limited sense of what the rest of 2022 will have to offer the cinematic landscape, there are certainly two spots well worth considering “The Batman” for recognition: cinematography and original score.

Russia and Ukraine dating back to the collapse of the Soviet Union has become a full-out war with global — and commercial — reverberations. Russia’s booming film and TV industry, with its deep, government-backed coffers, lost its grip on the world stage virtually overnight amid growing fallout from Vladimir Putin’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine.Disney, Warner Bros., Sony and Paramount all paused distribution of new movies in Russia, and “SNL” opened last weekend’s show with a Ukrainian chorus in solidarity with the country under attack.

Jon Burlingame editorIt isn’t often that an Academy governor publicly criticizes the Academy itself, but that happened today when music-branch governor Laura Karpman issued a statement condemning the Academy’s plan to drop the music-score Oscar presentation from the live telecast on March 27.She was sharply critical of both the decision and the process. Her statement, issued this morning on all her social media accounts, reads: “I am shocked that the officers of the Academy denied the Board of Governors the opportunity to vote and participate in the decision to exclude the music branch in the live broadcast.“This is literally a wound in the heart of the music community,” she continued.

J. Kim Murphy Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar and Future are set to headline this year’s Rolling Loud Festival in July. The Miami-based music festival announced the trio of performers on Tuesday evening.Ye is set to headline the first night of the festival on Friday, July 22.

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment WriterOn its face, celebrating the year’s most popular films during the Academy Awards makes perfect sense — movies are a popular art, after all. But when the Academy announced that it would celebrate the Fan Favorite movies of 2021 with a Twitter poll, anyone who has spent roughly 15 minutes on Twitter could have predicted things would get weird.Narrator: “They got weird.”On Monday, the Academy announced 10 movies that made the cut for the #OscarsFanFavorite Leaderboard, selected via hashtags and submissions on an Academy website.

Robert Pattinson that he's Batman. Turns out, his inner circle also find it «really, really weird.»The 35-year-old actor spoke to ET's Rachel Smith at Tuesday night's premiere of at the Lincoln Center in New York City and the actor almost couldn't find the words to describe what it all meant to him.“It’s so surreal," he said. «I mean, it’s like, it’s literally … I was just texting somebody earlier, ‘I’m going to the premiere tonight’ and they were like, ‘Don’t you find it really weird that you’re Batman?’ I’m like, yeah.

did last week, but paired with “Holey Moley,” which was Thursday’s top-rated show, ABC still finished in first place.The Adam Scott-hosted physical game show dropped 33.3% from last week’s series premiere rating in the key adults 18-49 demo. The Ryan Reynolds-produced show dropped 800,000 total viewers.ABC was first in ratings with a 0.6 rating/4 share in the advertiser-coveted 18-49 demographic and in total viewers with an average of 3.6 million, according to preliminary numbers.

Univision was first in ratings with a 0.5 rating/3 share in the advertiser-coveted 18-49 demographic, but fourth in total viewers with an average of 1.6 million, according to preliminary numbers. The Spanish-language network aired a trio of telenovelas: “To Doy La Vida,” “Amor Eterno” and “Como Tu No Hay Dos.”NBC, CBS, ABC and Fox all tied for second in ratings, each with a 0.4.

Will Thorne Staff WriterAfter a highly promising debut four weeks ago, “Ultimate Tag” sank to its lowest rating and viewership total to date on Wednesday night.The Fox series tagged in with a 0.4 rating among adults 18-49 and 1.6 million viewers, which represents a decent drop-off from last week’s low of a 0.5 and 1.8 million viewers. It wasn’t exactly helped by a “Masterchef” replay lead-in which served up a 0.3 rating and only 1.4 million viewers.Meanwhile CBS’s new game show “Game On!” topped the night with a 0.6 rating and 3.3 million viewers.

Will Thorne Staff WriterNBC’s “World of Dance” waltzed its way to one of the highest ratings, as NBC comfortably won Tuesday night.The dance competition series scored a 0.9 rating (up from a 0.8 last time around) among adults 18-49 and drew 4.4 million total viewers. It was topped only by its “America’s Got Talent” lead-in which delivered a 1.3 rating and 8.4 million viewers.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterABC released its fall lineup on Tuesday, with the broadcaster planning to be back to business as usual despite the production shutdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic.Guidelines were recently issued on how shows can resume production despite the pandemic, though the vast majority of productions have not started up again yet.“We wanted to honor the current environment and be thoughtful, which is why we waited until this moment when we have more confidence in our ability to return scripted programming in the fall,” ABC Entertainment president Karey Burke tells Variety.Burke did acknowledge the chance that the schedule as it currently exists may not happen in a normal time frame, however.

Will Thorne Staff WriterAfter its no so greatest debut ever, “The Bachelor: The Greatest Seasons — Ever!” came in even with its second episode, as NBC won the night overall.“The Bachelor” highlights shows scored a 0.4 rating among adults 18-49 and drew 2.2 million total viewers, down a fraction from the 2.4 million viewers who tuned in for the premiere last week. Its numbers continue to aline more closely with another “Bachelor” spinoff series “Listen to Your Heart,” which averaged a 0.6 rating and 2.8 million viewers throughout its run.NBC’s unscripted lineup lost a little bit of steam from last week, but still topped the night.

ABC was first in ratings with a 0.7 rating/4 share in the advertiser-coveted 18-49 demographic and second in total viewers with an average of 4.3 million, according to preliminary numbers. The season finale of “America’s Funniest Home Videos” at 7 p.m.

NBC, Fox and Univision tied for first in ratings, each with a 0.5 rating/3 share in the advertiser-coveted 18-49 demographic. Despite airing all repeats, NBC was first in total viewers with an average of 10.2 million, according to preliminary numbers.

Also Read: Ratings: 'AGT,' 'World of Dance' Keep NBC Way Above 4-Way Tie for Second PlaceUnivision was second in ratings with a 0.5/3 and fourth in viewers with 1.6 million.CBS, ABC and Fox tied for third in ratings, each with a 0.4. CBS had a 3 share, ABC and Fox had 2 shares.

Also Read: Victor Cruz Lauds 'Titan Games' as Nothing Like That 'Awful' 2008 'American Gladiators' RebootNBC was first in ratings with a 0.6 rating/4 share in the advertiser-coveted 18-49 demographic and second in total viewers with an average of 3.3 million, according to preliminary numbers. “The Titan Games” at 8 p.m.

Will Thorne Staff WriterABC aired the first part of its summer stroll down Bachelor Nation memory lane, however, a much smaller audience than is usual for “The Bachelor” tuned in to watch.The premiere of “The Bachelor: The Greatest Seasons — Ever!” scored a 0.4 rating among adults 18-49 and drew 2.4 million total viewers. Compared with the lowest scored of the most recent season of “The Bachelor” (a 1.3 rating and 5.1 million viewers), those numbers don’t look so good, but they do aline more closely with the other “Bachelor” spinoff series “Listen to Your Heart,” which averaged a 0.6 rating and 2.8 million viewers throughout its run.

J. Kim Murphy editorIn today’s TV News Roundup, HBO announced the premiere date for its documentary “Welcome to Chechnya,” and Showtime announced it is developing a new documentary based on the largest and deadliest prison uprising in American history.HBO has announced its upcoming comedy special “Entre Nos: The Winners” will debut on June 19 at 9:30 p.m. The half-hour special features the winners of the “Latinos Stand-Up!” competition – Mark Viera and Alex Carabaño – performing for a live audience.

“L.A.’s Finest” have quietly been pulled from active duty, for the time being.Season 2 of TV’s “Bad Boys” offshoot, which was supposed to premiere Monday with three episodes via Spectrum’s On Demand service, has been pushed to an as-yet-specified “later date in 2020,” TVLine has confirmed.The news comes amidst weeks of nation- and worldwide protests against the officer-involved deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor — civil unrest that has been met by, in numerous instances, police violence that has in turn sparked calls for law enforcement reform.Starring Gabrielle Union and Jessica Alba, “L.A.’s Finest” Season 2 was greenlit in June 2019, just weeks after the procedural’s debut.

last week’s respective season-premiere ratings, but ABC was still able to top primetime in the key demo.NBC settled for third place for the evening, when the Season 7 premiere of “Hollywood Game Night” proved to be no winner.ABC was first in ratings with a 0.6 rating/4 share in the advertiser-coveted 18-49 demographic and second in total viewers with an average of 4.4 million, according to preliminary numbers. “America’s Funniest Home Videos” at 7 p.m.

struck gold with the latest return of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,” but the Jimmy Kimmel-hosted led comeback ended pretty strongly.Or at the very least, it’s no “Labor of Love.”ABC was first in ratings with a 0.7 rating/5 share in the advertiser-coveted 18-49 demographic and in total viewers with an average of 4.7 million, according to preliminary numbers. The “Millionaire” finale at 8 p.m.

Will Thorne Staff WriterThe final episode of Jimmy Kimmel’s special stint as host of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” finished with decent numbers on Thursday night.The finale topped the night with a 0.9 rating among adults 18-49 and drew 6.6 million total viewers, a season high for the quiz show. Rating-wise, the show’s biggest number was still a 1.1 from its season premiere.

By Will Thorne