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Byron from Toronto 🇨🇦

Ratings for all TV networks this year, ranked with percentage increases or decreases vs 2018. I’m surprised Variety didn’t list TLC among its winners with its big YOY gains. https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/network-ratings-top-channels-fox-news-espn-cnn-cbs-nbc-abc-1203440870/

Tennis Channel’s linear audience grew 33 percent in 2019, one of the few channels, broadcast or cable, to show any growth at all. A tiny audience, certainly, but notable. Maybe the return of WTA play brought back lapsed viewers? https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/network-ratings-top-channels-fox-news-espn-cnn-cbs-nbc-abc-1203440870/

Wagner from Brazil 🇧🇷

Paul Anthony Stewart’s hubba-hubba-hubby

Kishen from Mumbai 🇮🇳

A very interesting, chart nerd history of how the song finally hit No. 1 after 25 years:

Batnasan from Mongolia 🇲🇳

Carson from Orange County 🇺🇸

Marcel from Columbus, Georgia 🇺🇸

Best ratings since May 2017, when Melissa McCarthy, fresh off her iconic Sean Spicer impersonation, hosted. Notably, it tied The Masked Singer’s fall premiere as the highest-rated entertainment series telecast in any daypart so far this season and was the highest-rated comedy telecast since The Big Bang Theory’s series finale!!!

One thing I will say is that if Marc is that openly contemptuous of Kenya in front of the cameras, one can only imagine how vicious he is behind closed doors. Ugh, these awful men and the women who are saddled to them with children for life...

Zach from Tel Aviv 🇮🇱

Javier from San José, Costa Rica 🇨🇷

I didn’t know about the dress-up for the goodbyes. I do love her characters. I think your Jan Hooks comparison is apt. For some reason, I hadn’t pegged Heidi for mid-30s. She seems younger.

Nasser from Doha City, Qatar 🇶🇦

I love Heidi Gardner. She’s the best new addition to the show in many, many years.

Oh dear.

Oof. Looks like next week is when Nene and Kenya almost come to blows on ATL. Interesting how Marc treats Kenya how Kenya treats the other women (“respect the conversation”). Somehow I just can’t see Kenya in a healthy romantic relationship.

Mohsin from Kolkata 🇮🇳

Erasmo from Brazil 🇧🇷