America loves a parade. America also loves to learn from Oprah, to rock with Ryan Seacrest on New Year’s Eve and to belt out the hits with Billy Joel at Madison Square Garden. The list of the year’s top 25 most-watched entertainment specials is topped by NBC’s Turkey Day telecast of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day […]
The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade has been on the upswing in the post-pandemic streaming era, and this year was no exception. The holiday staple for NBC and its streaming sibling Peacock reached a record 31.3 million viewers on Thursday as Americans took in the annual Thanksgiving holiday with a dollop of TV tradition. The 98th […]
The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade drew its largest cross-platform audience on record Thursday. NBC says 31.3 million viewers watched the parade on NBC and Peacock, based on preliminary Nielsen ratings and streaming figures from Adobe Analytics. That’s up 10 percent from last year’s total of 28.5 million — which was the previous all-time high. The number […]
Cynthia Erivo has no problem with moviegoers singing along during screenings of Wicked. In fact, she fully supports it. On Thursday, the film’s star was at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York, where she gave an interview to Hoda Kotb, Al Roker and Savannah Guthrie, who hosted NBC‘s broadcast of the annual spectacle. […]
Despite the rain, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade forged ahead with its annual lineup of performances, oversize balloons and celebrities. The parade, which also was briefly halted due to a group of pro-Palestinian protesters, saw lots of ponchos and umbrellas as participants and spectators braved the wet weather to take part in the annual spectacle. […]
“Wicked” star Cynthia Erivo has weighed in on an internet debate about audience conduct: Should fans sing along to the film’s classic showtunes while seeing it at the movie theater? Erivo, who plays Elphaba, gave the OK to fans who were moved to sing along during an interview at Thursday’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade broadcast […]
