NBC Renews America's Got Talent and Last Comic Standing
By B&C Staff -- Broadcasting & Cable, 8/6/2007 3:25:00 AM
Not surprisingly, given television viewers’ insatiable love affair with earnest amateur performers, NBC Entertainment and Universal Media Studios Co-Chairman Ben Silverman has given the green light to summer series America’s Got Talent, hosted by the reborn Jerry Springer (who replaced Regis Philbin). At the same time, Silverman has also signed up for more editions of Last Comic Standing.
For Talent, that means a third go-round. Last Comic Standing will be creating its sixth installment for the network. That’s nothing to laugh at (which of course is the main problem of the comics who are no longer standing).
Talent, airing 8 p.m. Tuesdays, has averaged a 3.6 rating/11 share in adults 18-49, with a 12.1 million viewers overall. That makes the series the top-watched summer show this year. The series has improved the 8-9:30 Tuesday slot by 21% in adults 18-49 versus last summer.
Comic hasn’t been quite that cosmic but it hit a six-month time-period high for NBC from 9-10 Wednesday, with an average 2.8/8 in the 18-49 demo and 6.7 million viewers overall. With Jim Benson
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