Fox have scored a touchdown with their freshman series ‘Empire’.

The Lee Daniels directed drama, which stars Terrence Howard and Taraji P. Henson, premiered last night and delivered mega ratings.

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‘OWN’s hit TV series ‘The Have & Have Nots’ continues to soar on a ratings front this year, recently reaching a brand new viewership peak when it returned for a second season this week.

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Days before the release of her new album, ‘Autobiography’ performer Nicki Minaj has set a ratings record with her recent appearance on NBC‘s ‘Saturday Night Live’, casting a hot pink shadow on efforts made by the series’ other guest stars.

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The showrunner that is Shonda Rhimes continues to give ‘ABC’ cause to worship the creative ground she walks on this week, after three of her TV shows took the network to record breaking highs last night.

Watching the latest episode of her hit series ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ pull in 8.3 million viewers, it wasn’t long before the network learned that its younger sister ‘Scandal’ had captured the gaze of 10 million TV lovers while the thrilling ‘How To Get Away With Murder’ showed up the party with a record breaking 9.8 million.

‘Entertainment Weekly‘ reports:

ABC points out the network won all four Thursdays in the adult demo during the November “sweeps” period—which hasn’t happened for the ABC in at least 23 years. The block was also up 20 percent over last year.

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Winning must be Shonda Rhimes‘ default mode.

For, that’s exactly what she continues to do week in and week out with the ratings of two of her prime-time properties – ‘Scandal’ and ‘How To Get Away With Murder’.

This week’s offerings of both shows delivered dynamite numbers for ABC.

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The Real Housewives Of Atlanta continues to defy the odds.

Season 7 of the Bravo hit premiered this past Sunday and it’s emerged that the episode has broken ratings records for the network.

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Congratulations are in order for ‘Love ‘Em All’ chanteuse K. Michelle!

Now the proud star of her very own Reality TV series ‘K. Michelle: My Life‘, the ‘Can’t Raise a Man‘ singer finds herself going from strength to strength this year, after the show’s opening episode pulled in 2.1 million viewers.

Yes, 2.1 million viewers.

Opening on VH1 on Monday night, ‘My Life’ comes courtesy of the masterminds behind the ‘Love & Hip Hop‘ TV empire, handing the singer her own spinoff after starring in its ‘Atlanta‘ arm and playing a supporting role in the latest season of its NYC serving.

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R&B singer Teairra Mari may have been enlisted to pull in viewing figures, but it would seem the lesser known ladies that are Masika Kalysha (above) and Nikki Mudarris have done a far better job at doing that for the show in which she stars in…’Love & Hip Hop Hollywood.’

For, after losing 190,000 viewers between the second and fourth episode of its first season, its fifth episode pulled in 2.39 million viewers when it touched on Monday night, making it the second highest viewed episode since its season premiere enjoyed the benefit of 2.80 million spectators on September 15th!

What changed? A shift in focus from a story line led by Mari and ‘Sexy Can I’ singer Ray J to Kalysha and Mudarris’ feud over fellow cast mate Jamal ‘Mally Mall’ Rashid, brought onto the Reality TV series as part of its recurring cast.

Will its episode six  fare just as well when it arrives on October 20th?

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More and more TV lovers are turning away from ‘Love & Hip Hop Hollywood’ it has emerged, seeing the show continue to slip and slide on a ratings tip four weeks into its run.

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When it was announced that Shonda Rhimes would “own” ABC’s Thursday night prime-time schedule with a whopping three shows (‘Scandal’, new series ‘How To Get Away With Murder’, and ‘Greys Anatomy’), many lauded praise on the TV writer.

And with the first back-to-back run of the shows having aired last night, the accolades looks set to keep rolling in.

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ABC‘s new freshman comedy ‘Black-Ish’ has debuted with quite the bang. A coup that will no doubt have its lead stars Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross smiling today.

For, despite ample debate surrounding the show – which follows a family’s struggle to gain a sense of cultural identity while living in a predominantly white, middle-class neighborhood – its premiere ratings have been a resounding success.

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It may feature a line-up of Hip Hop and R&B’s more recognisable faces, but it would seem ‘Love & Hip Hop Hollywood’ has a long way to go before it can even think of competing with its Southern sister ‘Love & Hip Hop Atlanta’, after failing to match or better ratings scored by the series.

Who, what, where and why?

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