Briefly

The contentious exchange between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump drew 84 million U.S. TV viewers Monday night, a new record viewership for a presidential debate, according to final Nielsen figures. The previous record was set in 1980, when then-president Jimmy Carter debated Ronald Reagan and 80.6 million viewers watched.

Nielsen’s first “most likely to succeed” list is out and it includes Michael Weatherley, Mandy Moore, Kiefer Sutherland and Kevin James. The best performer was Bull, the CBS series starring Weatherley as a trial consultant with 15.6 million viewers. Moore is in the cast of NBC’s This is Us and James in the CBS comedy Kevin Can Wait, which both finished among Nielsen’s Top 25 for their debuts. Sutherland’s Designated Survivor on ABC was the only one of the four to gather a bigger audience than the show it followed.

Alexander Hamilton is coming to Saturday Night Live. Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator and original star of Broadway’s Hamilton, will host SNL on Oct. 8.

Jennifer Lopez will be a judge for NBC’s new World of Dance competition series, a role she held on the cancelled American Idol. No air date has been announced.

The NBC show Timeless hasn’t aired its first episode yet, but it has already prompted a copyright infringement lawsuit by the makers of a Spanish-language series El Ministerio del Tiempo, who claims the U.S. show about a team that travels to the past to stop a criminal is an unauthorized version of their series.

Tom Petty will be honoured as the MusiCares Person of the Year next year. The Recording Academy announced Wednesday that Petty will receive the honour in Los Angeles on Feb. 10, 2017. Performers set to pay tribute to Petty will be announced at a later date. The Grammy Awards will air live Feb. 12, 2017.