RATINGS: CBS Daytime Up Week-to-Week in Total Viewers and Women 25-54

In a late Sunday night press release, CBS Corporation announced that it has agreed to acquire Australia’s Network Ten for an undisclosed amount. The deal includes the core linear broadcast network TEN, digital terrestrial television channel (DTT) ELEVEN, which CBS already owned a 33 percent stake in, the DTT channel ONE and Network Ten’s rapidly growing digital platform, TENPLAY. The broadcaster is home to the Australian airings of “The Bold and the Beautiful,” which filmed a number of episodes in the country earlier this year to coincide with its 30th anniversary.

Ratings Report for the Week of August 14-18, 2017

If you tuned into the Friday, August 25 episode of “Days of our Lives,” you discovered that Anjelica Deveraux had met her maker, marking the conclusion of portrayer Morgan Fairchild’s short run on the daytime soap.

The rich will be getting even more ruthless as UMC has renewed the Victoria Rowell (ex-Drucilla Winters, “The Young and the Restless”) created “The Rich and the Ruthless” for a second season.

While he turns 38 years old on Sunday, September 10, “The Bold and the Beautiful’s” Jacob Young (Rick Forrester) won’t let that pesky little detail stop him from performing at the South Point Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas as part of his big birthday celebration! The actor and musician has signed on to headline a Vegas show alongside fellow singer and friend Vanessa LeGrand.

After a leak of her appearance in a forthcoming episode of “Days of our Lives” hit the web recently, the show has officially confirmed Victoria Konefal’s casting as Ciara Brady. She first airs in early December.

Ratings Report for the Week of August 7-11, 2017

“The Bold and the Beautiful’s” Rome Flynn is departing the daytime drama series after a little more than two years. Does the soap plan to recast?

For the first time in 38 years, America will experience a total solar eclipse on Monday, August 21. In anticipation of the historic event, the broadcast networks, or in some instances, a number of their affiliated stations, will pre-empt regularly scheduled programming for live coverage.

Michael Einfeld shutters L.A. offices after reports of death threats and the social media response to his alleged remarks to a former assistant who quit after receiving an email saying “Uppity selfish c—” and “Someone should sew her vagina shut.”

Ratings Report for the Week of July 31 – August 4, 2017

Ratings Report for the Week of July 24-28, 2017