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    “Bachelor” Finale Engages Viewers; Nielsen Week In Review

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    Cast members Cassie Randolph, left, and Colton Underwood from the reality series, “The Bachelor,” appear during an interview in New York on Wednesday, March 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Gary Gerard Hamilton)

    By David Bauder, Media Writer

    NEW YORK (AP) --

    An unusual ending to ABC’s long-running attempted love matches on “The Bachelor” paid off for the network.

    Both parts of the finale to the 23rd edition of the series hit the Nielsen company’s top 10 last week, as bachelor Colton Underwood — who started his reign as a virgin — revealed he was dating contestant Cassie Randolph.

    That wasn’t initially the plan, since Underwood jumped a fence to abandon the two women who had been finalists to chase Randolph, who had left the show.

    The show’s performance led ABC to its fourth weekly win in a row among viewers aged 18-to-49, the demographic its advertisers chase. That’s ABC’s longest streak among this group in nearly four years.

    CBS won the week among all viewers, averaging 6 million people watching in primetime. ABC had 5.1 million, NBC had 4.5 million, Fox had 2.7 million, Univision and ION Television tied with 1.37 million, Telemundo had 1.1 million and the CW had 900,000.

    Fox News Channel was the week’s most popular cable network, averaging 2.33 million viewers in primetime. ESPN had 1.94 million, MSNBC had 1.82 million, HGTV had 1.28 million and History had 1.22 million.

    ABC’s “World News Tonight” topped the evening newscasts with an average of 8.6 million viewers. NBC’s “Nightly News” had 8.2 million viewers and the “CBS Evening News” had 6.1 million.

    Below are primetime viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for March 11-17. Listings include the week’s ranking and viewership.

    1. “NCIS,” CBS, 12.08 million.
    2. “The Voice” (Monday), NBC, 10.54 million.
    3. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 10.1 million.
    4. “FBI,” CBS, 8.96 million.
    5. “NCIS: Los Angeles,” CBS, 8.47 million.
    6. “Bachelor Season Finale” (Tuesday), ABC, 8.24 million.
    7. “The Bachelor” (Monday), ABC, 8.16 million.
    8. “Blue Bloods,” CBS, 7.84 million.
    9. “The Good Doctor,” ABC, 7.78 million.
    10. “This is Us,” NBC, 7.75 million.
    11. “God Friended Me,” CBS, 7.73 million.
    12. “The Big Bang Theory,” CBS, 7.64 million.
    13. “Survivor,” CBS, 7.54 million.
    14. “American Idol” (Sunday), ABC, 7.18 million.
    15. “NCIS: New Orleans,” CBS, 6.98 million.
    16. “Grey’s Anatomy,” ABC, 6.58 million.
    17. “Hawaii Five-0,” CBS, 6.54 million.
    18. “The Neighborhood,” CBS, 6.44 million.
    19. “Magnum P.I.,” CBS, 6.05 million.
    20. “New Amsterdam,” NBC, 5.99 million.

    ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Co.; CBS is a division of CBS Corp.; Fox is owned by 21st Century Fox; NBC is owned by NBC Universal.

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    Adam Driver Discusses Jim Jarmusch, “Megalopolis,” and A “Star Wars” Near-Miss

    Tuesday, October 21, 2025

    Props, mementos and photographs adorn Adam Driver 's Brooklyn office. There's an artwork Jim Jarmusch gave him for his 40th birthday, the doll from Leos Carax's "Annette" and dozens of on-set photographs, including one of Driver and his son in the Millennium Falcon.

    "A friend who saw all this said: 'Oh, so you care,'" Driver says, chuckling.

    Driver, 41, can come off as stoic but his passion for movies and, in particular, the filmmakers who make them, runs deep. In a relatively short amount of time, he's worked with a litany of one-name directors: Scorsese. Coppola. Spike. Mann. Spielberg. Jarmusch. Soderbergh.

    In a movie age where franchises, not filmmakers, have ruled the industry, Driver has stayed remarkably loyal to directors compelled to make personal films. He gamely followed Francis Ford Coppola into "Megalopolis" and helped Michael Mann realize his decades-long passion project, "Ferrari."

    This fall, he co-stars in his third Jarmusch movie, the Venice prize-winner "Father Mother Sister Brother." All Jarmusch needed to do was ask, Driver says, and he was in, no matter the role.

    While "Father Mother Sister Brother" was playing at the New York Film Festival, Driver met a reporter shortly before leaving to Budapest to shoot "Alone at Dawn" with Ron Howard. It's a meaningful film for Driver, a former Marine. In it, he plays John Chapman, an Air Force combat controller who was killed fighting in Afghanistan in 2002.

    "It deals with character and story and — just tying it with 'Father Mother Sister Brother' — that's why I like these filmmakers so much," Driver says. "They're seemingly few and far between and are making films that feel like they were directed by a person."

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