Sunday’s Oscars telecast on ABC marked a three-year high for the show, drawing an average audience of 18.7 million total viewers and scoring a 4.0 rating among adults 18-49 based on Fast National Live+Same Day program data. Hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, the 95th Academy Awards Oscars is the strongest awards show telecast on any network …
Puerto Rico throws combined perfect game against Israel in World Baseball Classic
krisanapong detraphiphat/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Puerto Rico shut out Israel in the World Baseball Classic Monday night, beating them 10-0 in eight innings. Four pitchers retired all 24 batters they faced, marking the competition’s first-ever combined perfect game. Puerto Rico will next face off against Dominican Republic on Wednesday night. Watch highlights from Monday …
‘The Bachelor’ recap: Hometowns ends with a devastating departure
ABC/Craig Sjodin It was time for Zach to meet the families of the four remaining women on Monday’s episode of The Bachelor, which led to an emotional departure. Zach’s cross-country adventure to meet the families kicked off in Vermont, where he met Gabbi‘s family, most of whom were a little skeptical about the possibilities of Gabbi finding her Mr. …
‘Football City’: Nearly two dozen NFL players have come from one small South Carolina town
Freshman player J’Zavien Currence is shown during an interview with ABC News. (ABC News) (ROCK HILL, S.C.) — Friday night high school football games are an American tradition. But only one town — Rock Hill, South Carolina — calls itself “Football City.” That’s because the city of 75,000 says it has turned out more NFL …
Scoreboard roundup — 3/13/23
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Monday’s sports events: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL SPRING TRAINING INTERLEAGUE Atlanta 6, Baltimore 5 Washington 7, Houston 6 Oakland 8, Colorado 7 LA Dodgers 11, Cleveland 4 Arizona 11, Texas 8 AMERICAN LEAGUE Minnesota 1, NY Yankees 0 Baltimore 11, Detroit 7 Tampa Bay 9, Detroit 5 …
‘The Last of Us’ ends on another high
HBO/Liane Hentscher Sunday night’s first season finale of The Last of Us went out on a high note in the ratings. According to HBO Max, the show’s ninth chapter attracted a series-topping 8.2 million viewers across the streaming service and linear telecasts — that’s a 75% jump from its already strong January 15 debut. Based …
“Last dance”: Mark Ballas announces he’s leaving ‘Dancing with the Stars’
D’Amelio and Ballas — ABC/Andrew Eccles “I’m coming to a close tonight, this is gonna be my last dance.” That was the word from Dancing with the Stars hoofer Mark Ballas during Sunday night’s final performance of the DWTS tour. The 20-season veteran’s words were captured by a fan at the Pearl Concert Theater at …
Those we lost, twice: Family, fans miffed at this year’s forgotten stars in Oscars’ In Memoriam segment
BETTMANN/CONTRIBUTOR via GETTY IMAGES It’s nearly inevitable that in every awards show an in memoriam segment comes up short, and this year’s Oscars was no exception. While the Motion Picture Academy explained a special QR code was shown that included some forgotten names, it wasn’t enough to salve hurt feelings. “Paul Sorvino was one of …
Oscar winner Brendan Fraser talks lessons learned from his ‘The Whale’ character, Charlie
ABC Brendan Fraser‘s career comeback reached its apex Sunday evening when he reached for his Best Actor Oscar for his performance in Darren Aronofsky‘s drama The Whale. Backstage, an emotional Fraser explained the parallels he saw between his character’s struggles in life and his own. His character, Charlie, is a morbidly obese man trying to …
Rembrandts singer says ‘Friends’ theme success “killed our cool”
Kevin Mazur/WireImage The Rembrandts seemingly struck gold by performing the iconic Friends theme song, “I’ll Be There for You,” but a singer from the band says the opposite happened. Danny Wilde, who fronted the band with Phil Solem, told The Guardian that while the song’s popularity helped him put his kids through college, it “broke up the band.” “It all happened wildly …