UPDATED with quarterfinal results: The College Football Playoff bracket was finalized December 8, setting the stage for the first year of a 12-team postseason that will crown a national champion January 20 in Atlanta. After an intense final week of the regular season that saw No. 1 Oregon solidify…

Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest saw a year-over-year audience decline on Tuesday night but still managed to ring in 2025 with a ratings win as the most-watched of the televised NYE bashes. The annual special on ABC averaged 7.9M viewers in primetime from 8 p.m. to 11:30 p.m…

Welcome to Deadline’s annual list of premiere dates for new and returning TV series. The roster covers hundreds of broadcast, cable and streaming programs debuting throughout 2025, including many still listed as TBA (to be announced). It includes series premieres and season debuts, shows returning…

Although the holidays are barely over, ABC is ready to get back to class with a new teaser for Abbott Elementary‘s upcoming crossover with It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. In a new promo for the two-episode event, which begins Jan. 8 on ABC with a new episode of Abbott, the teachers and staff meet…

Midseason is the new fall. As Hollywood and the broader industry continue to recover from the debilitating dual actors and writers strikes, the 2024 television landscape is coming into focus. All of the broadcast networks have set return dates for most of their shows, but there’s no usual Premiere…

The incoming chairman of the FCC has fired off a letter to Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Iger referencing ABC’s recent settlement of a defamation lawsuit filed by Donald Trump, while also decrying the overall decline in public trust in the media, according to CNN. But Brendan Carr’s letter got into other…

UPDATED: The Jonas Brothers have joined the star-studded lineup for Dick Clark’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest. The trio will take the Times Square stage in New York for a special performance to ring in the new year as the clock strikes midnight. This is a return appearance for the Jonas Brothers, who…

ABC has agreed to contribute $15 million to Donald Trump’s presidential foundation and museum as part of a settlement reached in Trump’s defamation case against the network, according to a court filing today. Trump sued the network earlier this year over remarks that This Week anchor George…

EXCLUSIVE: Jenna Elfman, best known for her starring role in the 1997 ABC sitcom Dharma & Greg, is returning to the network with a recurring role on another multi-camera comedy series, the upcoming Shifting Gears, headlined by fellow ABC sitcom star Tim Allen. It is produced by the same studio, 20th…

And the 2025 streaming Oscar goes to … Hulu. ABC said today that the Academy Awards will stream live for the first time on its Disney sibling Hulu. That’s along with the 97th annual Oscarcast airing live coast-to-coast on the broadcast network for a 50th consecutive year, starting at 4 p.m. PT/7 p.m…

The brits are coming to Bluey. For the first time, the smash children’s hit will feature British voice actors as stand-up comics Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe, along with Last Leg co-host Alex Brooker, sign up for a bunch of new Bluey Minisodes. Watch a clip below. Bluey Minisodes is a…

NewsNation and CW parent Nexstar itself hasn't drawn the ire of the incoming president, but its CEO Perry Sook says Donald Trump's threats against big broadcasters, that the FCC could pull their licenses, is not really in the cards. "I think there is some animus or frustration with some of the…