By David Bauder, Television Writer
NEW YORK (AP) --It felt like a summer week on the Fox broadcasting network — and that’s not a good thing.
Bereft of hits and in the traditional April lull before the last big month of the traditional TV season, Fox averaged a paltry 2.2 million viewers last week. Its most popular show, “Empire,” aired a rerun that had barely over 3 million viewers.
Its most popular show last week, an episode of “Masterchef Junior,” ranked No. 49 for the week, the Nielsen company said.
As is becoming more frequent, as many people watched Fox News Channel in primetime as its corporate sister on broadcast.
Despite having many of its shows in repeats, CBS won the week in primetime with an average of 6.7 million viewers. NBC had 5.1 million, ABC had 4.1 million, Univision had 1.7 million, Telemundo had 1.6 million, ION television had 1.2 million and the CW had 660,000.
TNT was the week’s most popular cable network, averaging 3.08 million viewers with the help of the NBA playoffs. Fox News Channel had 2.24 million, HGTV had 1.402 million, MSNBC had 1.4 million and TBS had 1.32 million.
NBC’s “Nightly News” topped the evening newscasts with an average of 7.84 million viewers. ABC’s “World News Tonight” was second with 7.78 million and the “CBS Evening News” had 6.3 million viewers.
Below are primetime viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for April 17-23. Listings include the week’s ranking and viewership.
1. “NCIS,” CBS, 13.33 million.
2. “Dancing With the Stars,” ABC, 11.19 million.
3. “Bull,” CBS, 10.32 million.
4. “NCIS: New Orleans,” CBS, 10.16 million.
5. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 9.9 million.
6. “The Voice” (Monday), NBC, 9.57 million.
7. “NCIS: Los Angeles,” CBS, 9.44 million.
8. “The Voice” (Tuesday), NBC, 8.85 million.
9. “The Big Bang Theory,” CBS, 8.45 million.
10. “Little Big Shots,” NBC, 8.4 million.
11. “Survivor,” CBS, 7.92 million.
12. “Madam Secretary,” CBS, 7.87 million.
13. “Scorpion,” CBS, 6.59 million.
14. “Blue Bloods,” CBS, 6.56 million.
15. “Hawaii Five-0,” CBS, 5.96 million.
16. “Kevin Can Wait,” CBS, 5.91 million.
17. “Chicago Justice,” NBC, 5.63 million.
18. “The Great Indoors,” CBS, 5.47 million.
19. “Man With a Plan,” CBS, 5.42 million.
20. “The Middle,” ABC, 5.26 million.
Carrie Coon Relishes Being Part Of An Ensemble–From “The Gilded Age” To “His Three Daughters”
It can be hard to catch Carrie Coon on her own.
She is far more likely to be found in the thick of an ensemble. That could be on TV, in "The Gilded Age," for which she was just Emmy nominated, or in the upcoming season of "The White Lotus," which she recently shot in Thailand. Or it could be in films, most relevantly, Azazel Jacobs' new drama, "His Three Daughters," in which Coon stars alongside Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen as sisters caring for their dying father.
But on a recent, bright late-summer morning, Coon is sitting on a bench in the bucolic northeast Westchester town of Pound Ridge. A few years back, she and her husband, the playwright Tracy Letts, moved near here with their two young children, drawn by the long rows of stone walls and a particularly good BLT from a nearby cafe that Letts, after biting into, declared must be within 15 miles of where they lived.
In a few days, they would both fly to Los Angeles for the Emmys (Letts was nominated for his performance in "Winning Time" ). But Coon, 43, was then largely enmeshed in the day-to-day life of raising a family, along with their nightly movie viewings, which Letts pulls from his extensive DVD collection. The previous night's choice: "Once Around," with Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfus.
Coon met Letts during her breakthrough performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?" on Broadway in 2012. She played the heavy-drinking housewife Honey. It was the first role that Coon read and knew, viscerally, she had to play. Immediately after saying this, Coon sighs.
"It sounds like something some diva would say in a movie from the '50s," Coon says. "I just walked around in my apartment in my slip and I had pearls and a little brandy. I made a grocery list and I just did... Read More