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Awards shows have seen steep ratings declines in recent years, but the modest uptick for Sunday night's Tonys followed recent increases for the Oscars and the Grammys.
The Tonys drew an audience of 3.9 million viewers on CBS on Sunday, about a million viewers more than last year. It was the second-lowest viewership on record.
A dispute between television writers and their agents reached an impasse before a midnight deadline. "There is no settlement," the Writers Guild of America said.
After a "Game of Thrones"-worthy shake-up at Warner Media, he takes charge of entertainment at HBO, TNT and TBS. "I like a challenge," he said.
The trio won awards for "Jesus Christ Superstar" at the Creative Arts Emmys on Sunday, joining other entertainers who have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award.
Sunday night's telecast of the Tony Awards drew 6.3 million viewers on CBS, a modest uptick but a contrast to plummeting numbers for the Oscars and Grammys.
The network's entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt says NBC has learned how to generate more cash from digital views, and keep track of it.
David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, executive producers of "Game of Thrones," will write and produce a series of "Star Wars" films for Disney.
As part of its plan to spend more than $1 billion on original programming, it strikes a deal with the Oscar-winning writer and director.
Netflix is the clear leader in the streaming wars, but Disney's deal with 21st Century Fox changes things. Here's a look at the various streaming services.
The streaming service made the announcement two days after the show's star, Kevin Spacey, was accused of making an unwanted sexual advance on a boy in the 1980s.
Netflix said the show would end after its sixth season. That came shortly after Kevin Spacey was accused of making a sexual advance toward a 14-year-old boy in the 1980s.
Network executives are rolling out several shows with a strong military presence, while also focusing on true-crime sagas involving the Menendez brothers and Gianni Versace.
"Hairspray Live!" received good reviews but it had only nine million viewers, about 2.5 million fewer than last year's production of "The Wiz Live!"
The show's eighth season was broadcast in 2011; HBO did not announce when the ninth season would air.
The broadcast, which rode on the popularity of "Hamilton," also came on the heels of a mass shooting in Orlando; the host said, "Hate will never win."
The Fox production was the second-most-viewed of the recent live TV musicals; next up for the network is "The Passion," live from New Orleans, in March.
The musical, titled "The Passion," will be broadcast live from New Orleans on Palm Sunday.
The television movie "Coat of Many Colors" lifted NBC to the highest viewership of any network for the night.
NBC's latest live musical drew 11.5 million viewers on Thursday night, easily beating last year's live rendition of "Peter Pan."
A federal judge ruled that the Off Broadway play "3C," a darkly comic reimagining of the TV hit "Three's Company," did not infringe the copyright of that sitcom.
On Friday night, at Joe's Pub, a sold-out crowd took in a one-man show about Ms. Wintour called "Ryan Raftery is the Most Powerful Woman in Fashion."
On opening night of "The Library," no second thoughts from Steven Soderbergh about retirement.
Terrence McNally's latest play, "Mothers and Sons," attracted a spirited Broadway crowd that discussed what to call a same-sex significant other.
