TV Ratings: American Ninja Warrior Returns Down But Still Dominates

RELATED STORIES In the latest TV ratings, NBC’s American Ninja Warrior Season 12 premiere delivered 3.5 million total viewers and a 0.6 demo rating, down sharply from its Season 11 averages (4.7 mil/0.9) but still good enough to dominate Monday in both measures. Over on ABC, Bachelor: GOAT (1.4 mil/0.2) hit and tied season lows […]

Might Clark Kent No Longer Be Super? Did Ninja Warrior Suggest Big Fail? Did Succession Son Get Real? And More Qs

We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about shows including the Arrowverse, Titans, The Righteous Gemstones and Dancing With the Stars! 1 | That late-night board meeting on Titans seemed rather unfazed by the young woman who crashed through their window, right? […]

American Ninja Warrior Finale Crowns Second-Ever Million Dollar Winner

RELATED STORIES Mt. Midoriyama has been conquered! For only the second time during American Ninja Warrior‘s 11-season run — and the first time since 2015 — a competitor has nabbed the $ 1 million prize after completing all four stages of the difficult obstacle course. On Monday’s season finale, Drew “Real Life Ninja” Drechsel impressively […]

Fists of fury: Warrior channels fierce fighting spirit of Bruce Lee

Andrew Koji plays Ah Sahm, a martial arts prodigy who immigrates to 19th-century San Francisco from China and gets caught up in the Tong Wars. In 1971, Hollywood lore has it that the legendary Bruce Lee pitched an idea for a TV series about a martial artist in the Old West. Skittish studio heads passed […]

American Ninja Warrior Sneak Peek: Will Najee Have to Beat the Water Walls to Help Team USA Beat the World?

It’s “USA vs. The World” this Sunday at 8/7c, as NBC’s American Ninja Warrior swings back onto your screens with its annual two-hour special. Can Najee Richardson stay afloat against the formidable Water Walls to lead Team USA to victory? In ANW: USA vs The World, top U.S.-based competitors from last year’s American Ninja Warrior go […]

American Ninja Warrior: Take a Deep Dive Into the First Underwater Obstacle

“For nine years, the entire goal of Ninja Warrior has been to stay dry,” host Matt Iseman points out. But in the Season 10 finale, Ninjas will be asked to swim for their buzzer-beating lives in the NBC series’ first underwater obstacle. And TVLine has an exclusive sneak peek. In Stage 2 of this year’s […]

American Ninja Warrior Sneak Peek: Can Meagan Martin Finally Win in Vegas?

Meagan Martin has some momentum going into Night 2 of American Ninja Warrior‘s Las Vegas finals — but then again, so did several favorites who braved the gauntlet last week, only to suffer from, well, premature ejection. “It’s one of the great things about American Ninja Warrior that also makes it tough — at any […]

Mayweather offers to help ‘warrior’ McGregor ahead of Nurmagomedov UFC fight

Boxing great Floyd Mayweather has offered to help former rival Conor McGregor ahead of the Irishman’s UFC mega-bout against Russian fighter Khabib Nurmagomedov in Las Vegas in October. Mayweather – who famously fought McGregor in a money-spinning boxing bout last summer – has offered the MMA star the use of his gym in Las Vegas […]

‘Magical Warrior Diamond Heart’ Has Young Women Facing Evil & Stealing Kisses

Sailor Moon fans may find themselves hopelessly smitten with the diverse cast of magical girl otome/yuri visual novel Magical Warrior Diamond Heart, a game about a young lady gaining the power to overcome evil with some close (potentially VERY close) friends. Valerie Amaranth is living a regular seventeen-year-old’s life when she comes into contact with […]

The South African Waste Warrior

In a bid to earn funding for their Uber-style startup — for consultants, not cars — Nomuntu Ndhlovu and her then business partner entered into a pact in 2016 to quit their well-paying Johannesburg jobs. Ndhlovu gave notice on Friday and heard nothing from her friend all weekend. “She called me on a Monday and […]