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    Ratings Celebration For New Year’s Eve Shows; Nielsen Week In Review

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    Confetti flies after the Times Square New Year's Eve Ball drops in a nearly empty Times Square, late Thursday, early Friday, Jan. 1, 2021, in New York, as the area normally packed with revelers remained closed off to due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

    By Lynn Elber, Television Writer

    LOS ANGELES (AP) --

    Stuck at home on a pandemic New Year's Eve, TV viewers turned to Ryan Seacrest, Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen in big numbers for a virtual celebration, with Times Square largely empty as the ball dropped. 

    ABC's "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve" with host Seacrest drew 18.4 million viewers in the hour between 11:30 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. EST, an increase of 5% over 2020's audience. 

    CNN ushered in 2021 with its highest-rated New Year's Eve special on record, with 3.4 million people tuning in to share the evening hosted by Cooper and Cohen.

    The ABC special's first hour and an episode of CBS' "60 Minutes" were the only non-football programs to make last week's top 20 list of most-watched shows, according to Nielsen figures released Wednesday.

    NBC was the highest-rated broadcast network last week, averaging 4.6 million viewers in primetime. ABC had 4.1 million, CBS had 4 million, Fox had 2.8 million, Univision had 1.2 million, Ion Television had 980,000, Telemundo had 960,000 and MeTV had 740,000.

    ESPN was the week's most popular cable network, watched by an average of 6.2 million people in primetime. Fox News Channel had 1.7 million viewers, CNN had 1.6 million, Hallmark had 1.42 million, MSNBC had 1.4 million, HGTV had 1.3 million and TNT had 1.2 million.

    ABC's "World News Tonight" won the evening news ratings race, averaging 9.75 million viewers. NBC's "Nightly News" had 8.67 million and the "CBS Evening News" had 6.3 million.

    For the week of Dec. 28 to Jan. 3, the 20 most popular primetime programs, their networks and viewerships:

    • College Football Finals Semifinal: Ohio State at Clemson, ESPN, 18.9 million.
    • College Football Finals Semifinal: Notre Dame at Alabama, ESPN, 18.4 million.
    • College Football Finals Semifinal, ESPN, 16.6 million.
    • NBC Sunday Night Football, NBC, 16.5 million.
    • College Football Bowl Studio, ESPN, 16.1 million.
    • College Football Bowl Studio, ESPN, 14.4 million.
    • College Football Playoffs Semifinal, ESPN, 13.4 million
    • College Football Bowl Studio, ESPN, 13.5 million.
    • College Football Studio, ESPN, 12.3 million.
    • Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick, NBC, 12.1 million.
    • "Primetime New Year's Rockin' Eve" (part 2), ABC, 11.2 million.
    • "60 Minutes," CBS, 10 million.
    • College Football Studio, ESPN, 9.8 million.
    • Football Night in America (part 3), NBC, 9.7 million.
    • The OT, Fox, 9.4 million.
    • Peach Bowl: Georgia at Cincinnati, ESPN, 8.41 million.
    • "Primetime New Year's Rockin' Eve" (part 1), ABC, 8.4 million.
    • Orange Bowl: Texas A&M at North Carolina, ESPN, 7.58 million.
    • NFL Football: Buffalo at New England, ESPN, 7.6 million.
    • Monday Night Football (Dec. 28), ABC, 7.2 million.
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    Gifted Youth Signs Comedy Director Carlyn Hudson For U.S. Commercial Representation

    Tuesday, May 19, 2026

    Comedy director Carlyn Hudson has joined Gifted Youth for commercial representation in the U.S.

    Hudson’s branded collaborations include campaigns for Tinder, JIF, e.l.f., Cheerios, Nike, Google, Jack in the Box, Amazon, OGX, and the New York Festival of Advertising. Her unapologetic spot for Annovera, starring Whitney Cummings, earned a Cannes Lion. Three of her short films have premiered at SXSW, including horror-comedy Waffle which was nominated for the SXSW Grand Jury Award and went on to appear at 50 additional festivals. Hudson is a member of the WGA and has developed features for Netflix, Hulu, and others.

    Originally from Texas, Hudson got her creative start in dance and theater, and later attended the Stella Adler School of Acting program at NYU, before transferring to the University of Texas at Austin for film school. After graduation, Hudson began working in Austin’s independent film community with Richard Linklater and Andrew Bujalski. She later moved to Los Angeles to work with Funny or Die and CollegeHumor, where she cut her teeth directing dozens of sketches and branded pieces, and honed her distinct comedic dialogue and world-building style. Hudson approaches comedy with total cinematic conviction. Her films and campaigns find the absurd buried inside the ordinary, creating a disquietingly funny vision that’s entirely her own.

    “Carlyn’s work is both hilarious and human,” said Josh Morse, executive producer, Gifted Youth. “She’s able to establish realness and relatability, instantly drawing you in. We’re immensely happy to welcome her to our roster.”

    “I’m very excited to be in the company of my fellow Gifted Youth directors, and to work with Josh and the rest of the production team,” said... Read More

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