The Runaway Audience and the Changing World of Movie Exhibition Audiences To paraphrase 20th Century-Fox producer Jerry Wald, Hollywood's real problem in the 1960s was not so much "runaway production" as it was the "runaway audience." 1 A high point...

An audience is a group of people who participate in an experience or encounter a work of art, literature, theatre, music or academics in any medium. Audience members participate in different ways in different kinds of art; some events invite overt...

Bill Maher can add "security guard" to his job description alongside comedian and political commentator.Maher on Friday night helped security remove a rowdy protester from the studio during his weekly HBO show "Real Time with Bill Maher," and it was all captured on live television.Maher...

Despite a move to a new time slot and a massive marketing effort, Monday's newly repackaged Miss America Pageant got a smaller, albeit younger, audience.About 2.4 million viewers watched Country Music Television's prime-time crowning of Miss Oklahoma Lauren Nelson on Monday night, according to Nielsen...

The Washington National Opera will simulcast a live performance of Puccini's "La Boheme" next fall to at least 17 colleges and two high schools across the country, aiming to create a new generation of artists and audiences.The performance, which will also be shown on the...

Peyton Manning had a lot of witnesses to his soggy super win, with the estimated 93.2 million viewers representing the second most-watched Super Bowl broadcast ever.Only the 1996 Super Bowl between Dallas and Pittsburgh, which had 94.1 million viewers, had a bigger audience, according to...