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    Adele, NFL perform well in ratings; Nielsen week in review

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    Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes (15) throws against the Las Vegas Raiders during the first half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Nov. 14, 2021, in Las Vegas. This Sunday Night Football game on NBC finished first in the week's NIelsen ratings. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)

    By David Bauder, Media Writer

    NEW YORK (AP) --

    Adele attracted 10.3 million viewers to a busy Sunday night special where she debuted new music, facilitated a marriage proposal and dished with Oprah Winfrey about her divorce and workout routine.

    The Nielsen company said the CBS show nearly had a bigger audience than April's Oscars ceremony and, when delayed viewers are eventually figured in, will likely exceed it.

    Probably the two most popular musicians of the day both had weekend television spotlights to hawk new material. Taylor Swift's 10-minute performance of her song "All of Me" on "Saturday Night Live" reached 5.8 million viewers, and the clip has already been seen more than 2.5 million times on YouTube.

    The Academy Awards reached 10.4 million viewers on the night it was televised in April, the audience increasing to 10.7 million adding people who saw it on tape within seven days.

    Live events generally do poorly in delayed viewing, leading to CBS' confidence that Adele will eventually pass Oscar. CBS is likely to rerun the musician's special, too.

    Sunday was strong for CBS. The late afternoon Green Bay-Seattle football game, with 22.7 million viewers, was the most-watched event on television all week. That helped "60 Minutes," which directly followed the football game, to its biggest audience since January.

    CBS led all of the networks with an average of 6.1 million viewers in primetime. NBC had 5.7 million, Fox had 3.83 million, ABC had 3.75 million, Univision had 1.5 million, Ion Television had 920,000 and Telemundo had 850,000.

    ESPN led the cable networks with a primetime average of 2.91 million viewers last week. Fox News Channel had 2.37 million, Hallmark had 1.44 million, MSNBC had 1.12 million and Paramount had 897,000.

    ABC's "World News Tonight" led the evening news ratings race with an average of 8.3 million viewers. NBC's "Nightly News" had 7.1 million and the "CBS Evening News" had 5.2 million.

    For the week of Nov. 8-14, the 20 most popular programs, their networks and viewerships:

    1. NFL Football: Kansas City at Las Vegas, NBC, 16.74 million.
    2. NFL Football: Baltimore at Miami, Fox, 12.92 million.
    3. "60 Minutes," CBS, 12.55 million.
    4. NFL Football: Chicago at Pittsburgh, ESPN, 12.11 million.
    5. "NFL Pregame," NBC, 11.83 million.
    6. "NFL Postgame," Fox, 11.34 million.
    7. "Adele: One Night Only," CBS, 10.33 million.
    8. "Football Night in America, Part 3," NBC, 9.56 million.
    9. "NFL Pregame," Fox, 7.68 million.
    10. "Yellowstone," Paramount, 7.49 million.
    11. "NCIS," CBS, 7.32 million.
    12. "FBI," CBS, 7.17 million.
    13. "NFL Pregame," ESPN, 7.07 million.
    14. "Young Sheldon," CBS, 7.04 million.
    15. "The Voice" (Tuesday), NBC, 6.85 million.
    16. "CMA Awards," ABC, 6.833 million.
    17. "Football Night in America, Part 2," NBC, 6.83 million.
    18. "Chicago Fire," NBC, 6.63 million.
    19. "Chicago Med," NBC, 6.46 million.
    20. "The Voice" (Monday), NBC, 6.18 million.

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    William Dafoe, Jonathan Bailey and Peter Dinklage join the voice cast for Starburn Industries’ “Lincoln in the Bardo”

    Friday, August 28, 2026
    Peter Dinklage (photo by Whitney Matewe)

    Actors Willem Dafoe, Jonathan Bailey and Peter Dinklage have joined the voice cast of Starburns Industries’ “Lincoln in the Bardo,” based on acclaimed author George Saunders’ New York Times bestseller and 2017 Booker Prize-winner.  Saunders adapted the screenplay, with Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Duke Johnson directing.  It was announced earlier that Tom Hanks stars as the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, in the live action portion of the film.  CAA Media Finance and WME Independent are handling sales at the upcoming TIFF: The Market.

    The film employs a unique blend of stop-motion animation and live action to explore one of the most intimate moments of Lincoln’s life, centering on his relationship with his recently deceased eleven-year-old son.  Blending history and imagination, the story unfolds through an unforgettable ensemble of characters – living and dead, historical and invented – to explore themes of love, empathy, and the human capacity for connection in the face of unimaginable grief.

    Reverend Everly Thomas – the ghost of a minister who died believing he would go to heaven, but, to his dismay, found out otherwise – is voiced by Dafoe.  Bailey is voicing Roger Bevins, the ghost of a young gay man who took his own life over a failed love affair and instantly regretted it.  Dinklage is voicing Hans Vollman, a ghost obsessed with his dream of being reunited with his much-younger wife.

    Four-time Academy Award nominee Dafoe’s credits include animated films “Finding Nemo,” “Fantastic Mr. Fox” and “The Boy and the Heron,” as well as “At Eternity’s Gate,” “The Florida Project,” “Shadow of the Vampire” and seminal Vietnam movie... Read More

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