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NBC & Esquire Network To Share ‘American Ninja Warrior’ Again This Summer

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday April 8, 2013 @ 12:19pm PDTTags: American Ninja Warrior, Esquire Network, NBC
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G4 may have transformed itself into Esquire Network, but some things are staying the same — like the cable network’s obstacle course competition series American Ninja Warrior airing in a shared window with sibling NBC. The show will air weekly on Esquire  and then NBC on consecutive days, with original episodes on each network. Former NFL player and sports analyst Akbar Gbaja Biamila (NFL Network) will join the show as host alongside Matt Iseman, who is returning to the show for its fifth season on Esquire and its second full season on NBC. Jenn Brown (ESPN) will serve as a co-host, providing commentary and competitor interviews. Following a 2011 experiment, when NBC aired ANW‘s two-hour third-season finale to decent ratings, the two networks began sharing the series last summer. American Ninja Warrior began production on its new season on Friday in Los Angeles, features a four-stage course modeled after the Mt. Midoriyama from the original Tokyo Broadcast System series Sasuke and a few format tweaks. Arthur Smith executive produces.

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘Bachelor Pad’ Premiere Down Big, ‘Glass House’ Hits Low, ‘Ninja Warrior’ Finale Up

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday July 24, 2012 @ 9:04am PDTTags: American Ninja Warrior, Bachelor Pad, Hell's Kitchen, MasterChef, TV Ratings

Bachelor Pad Season 3Monday was a night of beginnings and endings. With hot tubs and cold intrigue for a $250,000 prize, ABC had the two-hour Season 3 premiere of Bachelor Pad (1.4/4) at 8 PM. That was down 36% from the 2011 Season 2 premiere on August 8 and a series low. ABC followed at 10 PM with a new episode of the legally challenged The Glass House (0.8/2). The sixth week of the reality show tied again for a season low. NBC aired the two-hour Season 4 finale of American Ninja Warrior (2.0/5), up 11% from last week. On Fox, it was Gordon Ramsay’s night again with Hell’s Kitchen (2.6/8) and MasterChef (2.7/7). Kitchen was down to the final eight contestants and even with last week. On MasterChef, it was Part 1 of the top six cooking contestants competing, with the show rising 4% from last week. Fox won the night among adults 18-49 and total viewers. Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘America’s Got Talent’ & ‘Bachelorette’ Down; NBC Tops The Night

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday May 29, 2012 @ 9:18am PDTTags: America's Got Talent, American Ninja Warrior, Ratings, The Bachelorette

America's Got Talent RatingsThere were a lot of primetime repeats on Memorial Day, but NBC decided to go ahead with new stuff. A new one-hour 8 PM episode of America’s Got Talent (2.7/8) was down 16% from last week. But with brass bands and other auditions out of Tampa, Fla, the show’s 10.03 million total viewers still easily won the night. Following at 9 PM, American Ninja Warrior (2.0/5) was also new and also down. The sports battle show fell 17% from last week’s Season 4 premiere. Read More »

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NBC Sets Premiere Dates For ‘Saving Hope’, ‘Love In The Wild’ & ‘American Ninja Warrior’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday March 15, 2012 @ 1:45pm PDTTags: American Ninja Warrior, Love in the Wild, NBC, Saving Hope
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NBC is firming up its summer plans, announcing premiere dates and slots for unscripted series Love In The Wild and G4′s American Ninja Warrior and Canadian drama import Saving Hope. Reality series Love In The Wild will open its … Read More »

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NBC & G4 To Share ‘American Ninja Warrior’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday January 24, 2012 @ 9:38am PSTTags: American Ninja Warrior, G4, NBC
Nellie Andreeva

With the broadcast networks struggling to successfully launch a reality series in the past couple of summers, NBC is reaching to its new corporate sibling G4 for original summer fare. NBC will share with G4 the upcoming fourth season of … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ Slips, NBC Plays Symphony With ‘Ninja Warrior’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday August 23, 2011 @ 9:27am PDTTags: American Ninja Warrior, Bachelor Pad, Hell's Kitchen, Ratings Rat Race, TV Ratings
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Fox (2.6/7 in adults 18-49, 6.2 million viewers) once again topped Monday night with a Gordon Ramsay lineup. After MasterChef wrapped its season last week, the … Read More »

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TV News Roundup: Grammy Boycott, A New PAC Man & ‘Ninja’ Alert

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday June 30, 2011 @ 7:09pm PDTTags: American Ninja Warrior, CBS, Comcast, Comedy Central, G4, Grammy Awards, NBC, Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report

A group of musicians protesting the Recording Academy’s move to drop 31 categories from the Grammy Awards is calling for a boycott of CBS, which airs the annual awards event, as well as the sponsors who advertise during the show, the Associated Press reported. The academy in April trimmed the number of categories from 109 to 78, saying the changes would hold for at least next year’s Grammys in February. …

Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert received approval today from the Federal Election Commission to start his own political action committee, which means he can raise money and produce and buy TV time for political ads. If the ads air anywhere but on his Viacom-owned show, they must disclose their funding sources. Colbert started the campaign to mock Citizens United, a PAC that won a Supreme Court case relaxing national campaign finance rules. “I don’t know about you but I do not accept limits on my free speech, I don’t know about you but I do not accept the status quo. But I do accept Visa, MasterCard and American Express,” he told a crowd in Washington DC after the ruling. …

NBC will televise the season finale of fellow Comcast network G4′s original series American Ninja Warrior on Aug. 22 as part of a two-hour primetime special. Read More »

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