Eric Adjepong invites three chefs from Hawaii to take on Alex Guarnaschelli in a competition celebrating the uniqueness of Hawaiian food. They will have to impress judges Roy Yamaguchi and Sheldon Simeon to beat Chef Alex and claim their prize. It happens at 8pm ET tonight on the Food Network.
It’s a tug of war for first place between ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Today in the key advertiser demo of Adults 25-54. This development has now extended into the fifth week, with NBC’s morning show emerging victorious in this go around. Today earned its largest lead over GMA in the demo in nine weeks, beating ABC News’ morning show by +42,000 A25-54 viewers. GMA still came out on top in total viewers for the week of May 8. Third place CBS Mornings, for the week of May 8, dropped by -3% in total viewers compared to the previous week to stand at 2.35 million total viewers on average, and saw a double-digit fall of -10% in the A25-54 demo to stand at 490,000 viewers.
ABC News has found its new co-anchors for Good Morning America’s third hour (GMA3): GMA Weekend co-anchor Eva Pilgrim and ABC News Los Angeles-based correspondent DeMarco Morgan. They’ll be joined on GMA3: What You Need to Know each afternoon by Dr. Jennifer Ashton, ABC News chief health and medical correspondent. Pilgrim joined ABC News in 2015 as a correspondent based in New York and has served as co-anchor of GMA Saturday and Sunday broadcasts since 2018.
BBC News has named Caitríona Perry a chief presenter broadcasting out of the Washington, D.C., bureau. She joins fellow chief presenter Sumi Somaskanda in the U.S. capital. Perry is familiar with the D.C. area, having served as the US-based correspondent for RTÉ, Ireland’s national public service broadcaster. Prior to this appointment, Perry was the anchor for RTÉ’s main evening news program and and fronted special event programming. In April, BBC soft relaunched its new single unified news network, the BBC News Channel. The unified news network combined BBC News, a U.K.-focused news channel, and BBC World News, its international channel.
CNN’s Republican Presidential Town Hall with former President Trump ranked No. 1 among all cable news broadcasts Wednesday in both total viewers and adults 25-54, and No. 2 in all of cable, behind only NBA Playoffs on TNT, according to Nielsen live plus same day data. Hosted by Kaitlan Collins, the Town Hall out of St. Anselm College in New Hampshire averaged 3.31 million total viewers from 8-9:15 p.m. ET. Fox News averaged 1.45 million and MSNBC averaged 1.4 million total viewers in the same time period. That said, Wednesday’s event came up short to CNN’s 2020 Joe Biden Town Hall, which averaged 3.465 million total viewers on Sept. 17, 2020.