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| Tonight’s Premieres Disney+: The Mandalorian, High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, The Imagineering Story, Forky Asks a Question, Encore, The World According to Jeff Goldblum, Marvel’s Hero Project Food Network: Chopped Junior at 8p History: The Curse of Oak Island: Digging Deeper at 8p, Kings of Pain at 10p OWN: Ambitions at 10p Tonight’s Finale AT&T Audience: Mr. Mercedes at 10p IN THE NEWS CBS and Viacom shook up content and digital leadership teams ahead of their merger, effective upon the deal’s closing. “ViacomCBS will be one of the largest premium content creators in the world, with the capacity to produce content for both our own platforms and for others,” said Bob Bakish, President and Chief Executive Officer, Viacom, who will hold the same roles at ViacomCBS. “This talented team of content leaders will work together to ensure we realize the full power of our brands, our deep relationships with the creative community and our intellectual property to drive our growth as a combined company.” On the content side, Jim Gianopulos will oversee Filmed Entertainment, continuing as Chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures; Chris McCarthy, President of MTV, VH1, CMT and Logo, will serve as President of Entertainment & Youth Brands, ViacomCBS Domestic Media Networks – adding Comedy Central, Paramount Network, Smithsonian Channel and TV Land brands and their respective content studios to his current portfolio; David Nevins, Chief Creative Officer, CBS, and Chairman and CEO, Showtime Networks, will oversee CBS Television Studios, the CBS Television Network’s Entertainment division, the Showtime Networks and Pop, as well as the programming of CBS All Access. He will also have oversight of CBS’ interest in The CW, a joint venture between CBS and Warner Bros. Entertainment. In addition, Nevins will oversee BET, which will continue to be led by Scott Mills as President of BET; Carolyn Kroll Reidy will lead the company’s publishing assets, continuing in her role as President and CEO of Simon & Schuster, Inc.; Brian Robbins, President of Nickelodeon, will oversee the company’s kids and young adult-focused offerings as President, Kids & Family Entertainment, ViacomCBS Domestic Media Networks. Leading ViacomCBS digital efforts, Marc DeBevoise , President and COO, CBS Interactive, will serve as Chief Digital Officer, ViacomCBS, and President and CEO, CBS Interactive; Kelly Day, President, Viacom Digital Studios, will continue to lead the digital content strategy; Phil Wiser, Chief Technology Officer, CBS, will serve as CTO for the combined company; Tom Ryan, CEO and Co-Founder of Pluto TV, will continue to lead Pluto TV. Leaving the company when the CBS/Viacom deal closes are Kent Alterman, who runs Comedy Central, TV Land and Paramount Network, and Sarah Levy, COO of Viacom’s Media Networks group. “We were given a rare opportunity to create and maintain our own culture within the confines of an ever-changing and challenging corporate environment,” wrote Alterman to colleagues. “While some might call me delusional, I contend that our ethos is defined by passion, respect, strong points of view, collaboration and kindness to each other. Dare I call it soulful? Maybe I just did.” ABC and NBC announced plans to pre-empt regular programming today and Friday for the first public hearings of the impeachment inquiry. CBS and PBS announced their live coverage last week. Think OTT, act locally . This could well be the new slogan among advertisers in a market where consumers no longer distinguish between linear and OTT viewing environments, and where the latter is magnetically drawing more and more viewers by the week. The onslaught of premium digital video services—many of them ad-supported or with an AVOD tier, and all with enhanced targeting abilities—provides a ripe opportunity for local advertisers . “The definition of what ‘local’ is has pivoted with technology,” says Rachel Williamson, President of Gamut, a media company specializing in local OTT advertising solutions, owned by Cox Media Group, adding that four years ago, “we started developing deep relationships with premium content providers and began to marry national content within local markets. This helped our local clients reach a bigger audience and complemented what they were doing with their local linear content.” For more on how advertisers are looking to maintain the reach of their local TV buys as OTT consumption, go to Cynopsis’ OTT Special Report. Cable, satellite and telco services will incur net losses of 1.5 million subscribers in 4Q19, forecasts Pivotal Research Group analyst Jeff Wlodarczak, versus a net loss of 2.1 million in 3Q19. Cable-based TV platforms will number 48 million in the fourth quarter, satellite will account for 26.5 million and telco 8.5 million, according to projections. PBS’ Nightly Business Report, launched in 1979 and produced by CNBC since 2013, will end production by the end of the year. “The NBR’ co-anchors, executive producer and entire CNBC team have been strong partners in delivering this trusted business news service,” said Cynthia Fenneman, President and CEO of American Public Television, the show’s distributor. “This is smart television which will be deeply missed.” |
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| PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT Amazon Studios inked a new first look deal with writer/director Will Graham and his Field Trip Productions. Graham has boarded Amazon original series Daisy Jones & The Six, from Hello Sunshine, as showrunner, and Field Trip is producing Amazon pilot A League of Their Own. Live action superhero series Titans , based on DC Comics’ Teen Titans, will return for season three on DC Universe in fall 2020. Are you, or is someone you know, a college student or recent grad interested in breaking into the media industry? We are calling college students, or grads within the last 12 months, to enter the Cynopsis Homecoming contest by answering one of these two questions: Do you think sharing OTT subscription passwords is cheating? Or: How can TV advertising be improved? All entries will be reviewed and judged by a Cynopsis editor; the winner will receive a $250 gift card, have their article published in a special edition on Friday, November 29 and be recognized at our awards event in Manhattan in February 2020. Entries should be 100-400 words; content and originality will be judged. Please submit entries to Lynn@cynopsis.com . Subject line: Homecoming Contest. Deadline is November 18. STREAMING Disney+ will have collected 101 million subscriptions by 2025 , projects Digital TV Research. Netflix will hit 235.6 million, according to the study, Amazon Prime Video will have amassed 135 million, HBO Max will have reached 30.1 million and AppleTV+ will have drawn 27.2 million. Roku is offering a bundle deal for subscribers of both Showtime and Starz , for a single monthly bill of $16.99. That’s a savings of $3 over separate subscriptions on other platforms. WGN America launched its own app , available to download from the App Store for iOS and the Google Store for Android. Latest episodes of WGN America original series will be available to fans after airing on the network, as well as exclusive content. NEW & RETURNING SERIES Highlights from CBS’s winter slate include new drama FBI: Most Wanted, premiering Tuesday, January 7 at 10p; Undercover Boss and Criminal Minds – heading into its 15th and final season - returning Wednesday, January 8 at 8p and 9p; the series premiere of Tommy on Thursday, February 6 at 10p; MacGyver back for season four on Friday, February 7 at 8p; and Survivor back for season 40 with a two-hour premiere on Wednesday, February 12 at 8p. No word yet on dates for returning comedy Man With a Plan, Amazing Race and new comedy Broke. E! is serving fresh episodes of The Soup, with a new host. Comedian and actress Jade Catta-Preta will oversee the reimagined version, set to debut in early 2020. Franchise premiered in 1991 as Talk Soup, with hosts Greg Kinnear (1991–1995), John Henson (1995–1999), Hal Sparks (1999–2000) and Aisha Tyler (2001–2002). The show was re-launched as The Soup in 2004 with host Joel McHale, and ran until 2015. Barron’s Group’s Barron’s and MarketWatch launched a live, weekly 10-minute digital show covering financial news. MarketBrief, hosted by Caroline Woods, tapes from the Nasdaq MarketSite in NYC’s Times Square at 9a on Mondays. New monthly series Stone Cold Steve Austin: The Broken Skull Sessions begins streaming on WWE Network immediately following Survivor Series on Sunday, November 24 at approximately 11p. Hosted and produced by Austin, series will feature one-on-one conversations with the biggest names in WWE history. You, transplanted from Lifetime to Netflix for season two, drops on the streamer Thursday, December 26, following Penn Badgley’s creepy character as he moves to LA. PBS will broadcast season one of World on Fire , starring Helen Hunt, starting Sunday, April 5, 2020, as part of Masterpiece. PBS is teaming with the BBC for season two of the Word War II drama. TECH TALK Advocacy group FreeWheel Council for Premium issued a call for industry-wide adoption of a universal ad ID , saying that increased fragmentation of TV and video viewing has resulted in an urgent need for universal creative standards. “Establishing a universal standard through Ad-ID is one of the most effective improvements that can be done to drive scale in a converged world of premium video,” said James Rothwell, VP, Global Agency, Brand and Industry Relations at FreeWheel. “This single step can have hugely positive implications on downstream processes and the performance of cross-screen campaigns and the FWC urges the industry to embrace this standard as soon as possible.” In addition to Comcast, FWC represents A+E Networks, Discovery, Fox, NBCUniversal, Turner and Univision. Google News Initiative is teaming with news provider Lee Enterprises and its digital technology subsidiary TownNews for a machine learning-based paywall. “Google ML, coupled with TownNews’ technology platform, is ideally suited to turn data we’re already gathering into action,” said Lee VP of Digital, James Green. “We know that users engage with local news in a variety of ways across our sites. Some visit daily, while others visit much less frequently. By applying artificial intelligence to information such as frequency of use, the type of content viewed, and the location of the user, we can better serve our readers and reach our audience goals.” Apple plans to release an AR headset in 2022 , and a sleeker pair of AR glasses by 2023, reports The Information. The timelines were discussed in an internal presentation to employees in October. Viewbix Inc., provider of video analytics and engagement platforms used by brands, agencies and networks, has been granted a US Patent relating to techniques enabling businesses to configure their video players to incorporate interactivity functions, such as call-to-actions, into their video publishing and delivery workflows. “By obtaining the patent, we want to elevate the usage of call-to-action solutions within video players,” said Hillel Scheinfeld, COO and Co-founder. “As more consumers are watching videos across various platforms, we gain a unique data set to truly understand audience engagement as well as offer a transformative experience where the viewer can proceed on their consumer journey without ever leaving the channel.” ADVERTISING The US ad market had its strongest September ever , according to Standard Media Index and MediaPost’s Ad Market Tracker. Demand from advertisers grew 8.2% over last September and was up 26.9% from August, second only to holiday-fueled November. COMING UP Amazon original film Troop Zero , starring Viola Davis and Allison Janney, will drop on Amazon Prime Video on January 17. The feature debuted at the Sundance Film Festival. Shania Twain will perform a medley of her greatest hits at the American Music Awards, the Man! I Feel Like a Woman!’s first time taking the stage for the event since 2003. Show broadcasts live LA on Sunday, November 24, at 8p on ABC. HITN TV announced Tú Cuentas! Census 2020 Town Hall , streaming live from Northeastern Illinois University tomorrow, November 13 at 6:30p. The Town Hall will include community leaders, educators, students and local elected officials for a discussion on the importance of accurate count in the Census 2020. French drama Balthazar launches on Acorn TV on Monday, November 25. Series focuses on a forensic pathologist. Emma Coronel Aispuro, wife of drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán , will make several appearances on VH1 docuseries Cartel Crew. The former beauty queen opens up about her life after El Chapo and her upcoming business venture. Her first appearance airs Monday, November 18 at 9p. CASTING Quibi comedy The Now added O’Shea Jackson Jr. (Just Mercy), Daryl Hannah (Sense 8) and Jimmy Tatro (America Vandal) in lead roles, and will also feature Alyssa Milano (Insatiable), Rob Yang (Succession) and Lex Scott Davis (Superfly) in recurring parts...Samantha Richelle (Syd) , Arthur Acuña (Princess and I), Nonie Buencamino (Sparks) and Ces Quesada (Invisible) have been added to the cast of WGN America’s upcoming drama Almost Paradise... Jake Borelli (Grey’s Anatomy), newcomer Niko Terho, Karamo (Queer Eye), Britt Baron (GLOW) and Peter Paige (Queer as Folk) will star in Freeform Valentine film The Thing About Harry, from director Paige...Ambyr Childers has been promoted to series regular in Netflix’s You. PODCAST POSTS PBS NewsHour launched Broken Justice , a five-part podcast mini-series focused on the public defense crisis that tells the story of a Missouri man’s 22-year quest to overturn his conviction. Gimlet scripted podcast Motherhacker , featuring Carrie Coon (Fargo) as a struggling single mother who starts phishing over the phone for a shady identity theft ring, launches tomorrow, November 13. GOING GLOBAL ITV has commissioned Spun Gold TV to produce a new format which pits previous high profile contestants of other major TV gameshows against each other. Quizmaster, a 90-minute special hosted by Jeremy Vine, sees 15 previous contestants competing in front of a large studio audience. Intaglio Films, the scripted drama joint venture between Beta Film and ZDF Enterprises , is developing two new English-language primetime drama series: international drama Doing Good and near-future surveillance thriller Concordia, for German public broadcaster ZDF. Hopster has secured a partnership with Sky New Zealand . The preschool digital platform launches this month through streaming services NEON and Sky Go. Endemol Shine Italy is creating a cooking format for Sky, Cook Academy . Series will air on Sky Uno and stream on Now TV, hosted by chef Antonino Cannavacciuolo. Cineflix Rights is partnering with independent content producer Goldfinch TV in a deal which gives the distributor exclusive global rights to a slate of five cooking series commissioned by ITV and produced by Goldfinch TV’s subsidiary Rock Oyster Media. Armoza Formats announced that Dance Revolution, the dance competition from Québecor Content and Fair-Play that originally aired on Canada’s TVA, has been taken in Poland by Golden Media Polska. |
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| RATINGS NBC’s Sunday Night Football averaged 23 million viewers , the 100th time over the past 10 years that the NFL series has topped an audience of 20 million. Shareablee Top 10 TV Shows for the week of November 4 Program, Network, Total Actions, Total Content, Actions per Content, Fans & Followers The Ellen DeGeneres Show (WB/syndicated) 15.8M, 116, 136,151, 190.7M E! News (E!) 11.7M, 820, 14,279, 36.4M Rick & Morty (Comedy Central) 4.1M, 31, 131,150, 9.4M Riverdale (The CW) 3.7M, 56, 66,634, 15.3M Grey's Anatomy (ABC) 2.2M, 64, 34,173, 33.9M The Walking Dead (AMC) 2.1M, 124, 16,916, 48.1M The Daily Show (Comedy Central) 2M, 134, 14,879, 21M Entertainment Tonight (WB/syndicated) 1.7M, 572, 3,036, 8.5M Today Show (NBC) 1.6M, 736, 2,107, 13.3M Supernatural (The CW) 1M, 26, 38,743, 22.6M TV Time's Shows on the Rise for the Week of November 4 The End of the F***king World (Channel 4) - 98.8% His Dark Materials (BBC One/HBO) - 97.4% She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (Netflix) - 96.2% Greenleaf (OWN) - 75.8% Queer Eye (Netflix) - 74.3% Dickinson (Apple TV+) - 60.6% The Morning Show (Apple TV+) - 53% See (Apple TV+) - 50.4% The Resident (FOX) - 48.5% We Are The Wave (Netflix) - 46.5% Methodology: Every week, millions of viewers around the world use TV Time to track their favorite series. “Shows on the Rise” is calculated by determining the week-over-week growth in episodes watched for a given program. Tunity Analytics Top Weekly National Out-of-Home Viewer Rankings for Entertainment Programs for the week of November 4 Program, OOH Viewers (000) The Simpson’s (Fox) 742 The Masked Singer (Fox) 376 Mom (CBS) 363 Bless The Harts (Fox) 275 Chicago Fire (NBC) 198 This Is Us (NBC) 194 The Voice 11/5 (NBC) 192 NCIS (CBS) 179 Blue Bloods (CBS) 177 FBI (CBS 172 Source: Tunity Analytics. Viewing estimates are derived from the Tunity mobile app usage. OOH impressions are calculated using Tunity Analytics propriety estimation model. Live + Same Day Viewers AA (millions): Friday, November 1 Time period averages Source: Nielsen Live+SD CBS: 7.02 million Hawaii Five-0 7.05, Magnum P.I 6.65, Blue Bloods 7.36 NBC: 3.66 million The Blacklist 4.19, Dateline 3.39 ABC: 2.59 million High School Musical: The Series 1.74, 20/20 3.01 FOX: 2.62 million WWE Friday Night Smackdown 2.62 TELEMUNDO: 1.32 million Exatlon 1.37, Final de Paraiso 1.44, Senor de Los Cielos 1.18 CW: 0.50 million Charmed 0.62, Dynasty 0.37 Friday A18-49 Ratings FOX 0.8/5, CBS 0.6/4, NBC 0.5/3, ABC 0.5/3, TELE 0.4/2, CW 0.1.1 EXECUTIVE MOVES Jennifer Chung has been promoted to General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer of AccuWeather. Chung had been Associate General Counsel. UK independent TV production company Zig Zag Productions announced the appointment of Emmy-winning executive producer and showrunner Ronnie Krensel as Executive Vice President Zig Zag USA, responsible for developing and pitching content and branded projects to international streamers, digital platforms and US networks. Kim Rozenfeld is leaving his job as head of scripted programming and unscripted at Apple, and will work with the company through his Half Full Productions via a new first-look deal. Rozenfeld, former head of current programming at Sony Pictures Television, joined Apple in 2017. Jason Bubenicek is joining Screen Engine/ASI as Senior Vice President, Data Intelligence . Most recently, he was at the Stagwell Group as Senior Vice President, Information Technology & Software Development. IN MEMORIAM Longtime NBC executive Rick Ludwin died November 10. He was 71. Ludwin, who worked with every Tonight Show host, and used funds from his specials budget to keep Seinfeld alive after it got off to a slow start, retired from NBC in 2011 after 31 years. “He was simply one of the best humans to ever work in television,” said former Late Night sidekick Andy Richter on Twitter. On This Day 1968 – The Supreme Court declared unconstitutional Arkansas’ law banning the teaching of evolution in public schools. Answer to our last trivia question In an episode of Seinfeld (1989-1998), Elaine won her boss, Mr. Pitt, a ticket to carry which balloon in the Thanksgiving Day parade? Woody Woodpecker. Kudos to: Mark DiPippa-The Centsables/NYC, FL, Alan Dorfman-Super Impulse USA/Bristol, PA, Steve Piluso-Media Storm/NYC, David Rubinsohn-American Public Television/Boston, Frank Nicotero/Studio City, CA, Susan Nessanbaum-Goldberg-M and S Entertainment/LA, John Baghdassarian-Olympusat/LA, Lorrie Shilling/El Segundo, CA, Eric Litt-Tribune Media/Chicago Today’s Trivia Question Which short-lived sitcom centered on a screenwriter whose mother tried to run over his father after he left her for a younger woman? (Email trivia@cynopsis.com with your answer and be sure to include your name, company, city and time zone. Unofficial rules: a limit of four answers per time zone.) |
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| TUESDAY NOVEMBER 12 ABC: The Conners, Bless This Mess, mixed-ish, black-ish, Dolly Parton: Here She Comes Again CBS: NCIS, FBI, NCIS: New Orleans CW: The Flash, Arrow FOX: The Resident, Empire NBC: The Voice, This Is Us, New Amsterdam PBS: Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates Jr., American Experience, Frontline Telemundo: Exatlon Estados Unidos, El Final del Paraiso, El Senor de los Cielos Univision: La Rosa de Guadalupe, Cuno de Lobos, El Dragon |
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