‘World of Dance’ and ‘America’s Got Talent: The Champions’ Renewed

World of Dance and America’s Got Talent: The Champions have been renewed by NBC. World of Dance averaged a 1.2 rating in adults 18-49, said NBC, and 4.8 million total viewers in live plus seven day Nielsens.

Jennifer Lopez, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas & Benny Medina executive produce World of Dance. The series is produced by Universal Television Alternative Studio in association with Nuyorican Productions and World of Dance.

America’s Got Talent: The Champions, which brought together Got Talent stars from around the globe in its first season, averaged a 2.2 rating in adults 18-49 and 12.4 million viewers overall in live plus seven day ratings.

America’s Got Talent was created by Simon Cowell and is co-produced by Fremantle and Syco Entertainment. Cowell, Sam Donnelly, Jason Raff, Trish Kinane and Richard Wallace are the executive producers.

Michael Malone

Michael Malone is content director at B+C and Multichannel News. He joined B+C in 2005 and has covered network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television, including writing the "Local News Close-Up" market profiles. He also hosted the podcasts "Busted Pilot" and "Series Business." His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The L.A. Times, The Boston Globe and New York magazine.