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Conan O'Brien's Oscars and the Ratings Picture

Conan O'Brien hosted the 97th Academy Awards on 2 March 2025. The ratings ticked up. The question is whether the host delivered the number, or whether the number would have arrived regardless.

Casey Winters·16 May·4 min

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High Potential and the Return of the Broadcast Procedural

ABC's High Potential premiered in September 2024 to the strongest broadcast numbers of the season and built from there. The show is a throwback in ways that reveal what streaming has quietly stopped doing.

Priya Nair·4 Feb·7 min