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PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT NCIS alum Pauley Perrette is heading back to CBS as a co-lead opposite Jaime Camil in comedy pilot Broke, from Jane the Virgin creator and EP Jennie Snyder Urman and Will & Grace EP Alex Herschlag, CBS TV Studios and Propgate. Written by Herschlag, the project centers on Miguel (Camil) a wealthy trust fund baby who is cut off by his father, so he and his wife move into the Reseda condo of her estranged sister Jackie (Perrette). USA Network picked up a third season of The Sinner. Bill Pullman is returning to reprise his role as Detective Harry Ambrose, with Matt Bomer (Doom Patrol, Will & Grace) joining as a series regular. AXS TV renewed WOW-Women Of Wrestling. The net upped its order to 24 additional episodes from the initial eight in its debut season. The show’s Season 1 finale airs Friday, March 8 at 9p. Brie Larson signed on to star in and executive produce an untitled drama that scored a straight-to-series commitment from Apple. The project is based on the real-life experiences of CIA undercover operative Amaryllis Fox and her upcoming memoir, Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA. In addition to Larson, Michael Ellenberg will also executive produce via Media Res, as well as Lynette Howell Taylor under her 51 Entertainment banner. Michael Schur reupped his overall deal with Universal Television with a multi-year contract. Schur, who is currently EP on NBC comedies The Good Place and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, will also serve as executive producer on upcoming series Abby’s, bowing Thursday, March 28. Netflix acquired the rights to Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude and is developing it into a Spanish-language series. Garcia Marquez’s sons, Rodrigo Garcia and Gonzalo Garcia Barcha, will serve as executive producers on the project. Imagine Kids & Family inked a deal with JIMMY Patterson Books to develop five children’s books written by author James Patterson into film, TV and digital properties. Projects in development include Patterson’s House of Robots, Treasure Hunters, and I Funny. OBB Pictures and Denver Broncos all-pro linebacker Von Miller are collaborating on Mars Martians, a half-hour animated comedy about the NFL’s first expansion team on Mars, according to Deadline. Miller will voice the lead role and serve as EP. Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories and Agatha Christie LTD joined forces on a new series centered on Christie’s iconic sleuth Miss Marple. The project is inspired by the author’s Miss Marple books and short stories and will be developed together with Endeavor Content. NEW & RETURNING SERIES Deadliest Catch returns for its 15th season on Tuesday, April 9 at 9p on Discovery. Freeform’s new drama, Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists, bows Wednesday, March 20 at 8p. Netflix announced an April 15 premiere date for No Good Nick. The multi-camera comedy, which stars Melissa Joan Hart and Sean Astin, received a 20-episode order in September. COMING UP Marcos Doesn’t Live Here Anymore debuts on PBS as a special presentation of Independent Lens, Frontline and Voces on Monday, April 15 at 9p (check local listings). The latest film from David Sutherland (The Farmer’s Wife, Country Boys, Kind-Hearted Woman) tells the story of Elizabeth Perez, a US Marine fighting to reunite her family after her husband is deported to Mexico. CASTING Gerald McRaney nabbed the lead opposite Kim Cattrall in Filthy Rich, Fox’s soapy drama pilot… Ron Perlman (Hellboy) and Famke Janssen (X-Men) will star in BBC One spy drama The Capture… Jon Beavers (The Long Road Home) and Grant Harvey (The Crossing) nabbed recurring roles in the fourth season of TNT’s Animal Kingdom… Ernie Hudson (LA’s Finest) landed a guest spot on The CW’s Arrow… … Rio Mangini (Everything Sucks) and Del Zamora (Mayans MC) were set as series regulars in The CW’s The Lost Boys pilot. Victor Rasuk was cast as the male lead in ABC’s romantic comedy pilot The Baker and the Beauty, reports Deadline, while Alexa Nisenson was upped from recurring to series regular in Season 5 of Fear the Walking Dead. Michael Angarano (This Is Us) and Briga Heelan (Great News) will headline CBS hybrid comedy pilot To Whom It May Concern. PODCAST POSTS Wondery is in talks with showrunners to adapt its latest hit Over My Dead Body. The company is developing a number of its serialized podcast series for the small screen. Among them: Business Wars, dark medical drama Dr Death, and Gladiator, the story of former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez. Over My Dead Body just wrapped its run atop the Apple podcast charts. TECH TALK It looks like Samsung might be getting closer to launching a fully wireless TV set, if a recent patent suggests anything about the company’s future plans. The patent, brought to light by Dutch publication Let’s Go Digital, shows a standard television monitor with a separate long, narrow bar that functions as a wireless power transceiver. The bar, which would magnetically attach to the TV, contains a wide power coil and potentially has speakers mounted on its ends. The TV would also use a separate box including a wireless power transmitter. It’s unclear how far the TV and transceiver could be located from the transmitter, but Samsung’s description in the patent indicatrs they would need to be fairly close together. Samsung describes the technology in the patent as a solution for obscuring wires hanging from wall-mounted TV sets. Google started testing shoppable ads within image searches that only apply to sponsored ads in a move aimed at capitalizing on “visual shoppers.” “Shoppers aren’t just doing their searches on Google.com,” wrote Surojit Chatterjee, VP of product management at Shopping, in a blog post. “We’ve seen that 50% of online shoppers said images of the product inspired them to purchase, and increasingly, they’re turning to Google Images.” DIGITAL DOINGS Shopify Studios launched two new digital series. Beauty Mark follows hosts Jess Sanchez and Rachel Hale as they travel to meet female entrepreneurs who have carved out their space in the beauty industry, while Unpacking Business with Shay Mitchell features Shay Mitchell heading to businesses across Los Angeles to meet the women behind them. Both projects debuted on YouTube yesterday as part of Shopify’s International Women’s Day Playlist. Take It There with Taylor Rooks bows on Bleacher Report this April. The weekly series features one-on-one conversations with top athletes, celebrities and influencers. A new streaming video service is launching this week. And not only is it free, it will pay users to watch it. TaTaTu, founded by movie producer Andrea Iervolino, will launch with around 900 titles, spanning some 1800 hours. The company will give registered users blockchain-based tokens for viewing content or sharing the app with friends. The token can then be redeemed for discounts, special prices and goods from participating companies. Creators who generate content for the platform can also receive tokens. Telemundo Desportes announced the first-ever Spanish language esports channel in the U.S., offering fans more than 2,000 streaming hours of content a year. The channel is available on Twitch and YouTube. The EA Sports FIFA19 Global Series is the first competition to stream on the channel, presenting exclusive coverage of the entire tournament, including the upcoming events from the Global Series and the Grand Final. Live coverage of the event begins with the Global Series’ EA FUT Champions Cup on Friday, April 5. GOING GLOBAL WAG Entertainment pre-sold series WW2 In Numbers and War Factories to broadcasters in UK, France, Germany, Italy, CEE, Nordics and Africa. The company is also expected to be closing deals for True Evil: Making of a Nazi. Essential Media Group is shooting Griff Off the Rails: Down Under, starring British comedian and travel enthusiast Griff Rhys Jones. The six-part factual series was acquired by ABC TV in Australia. Armoza Formats launched drama Muna for MIPTV. The series, which aired on Israel’s Kan, was created by Palestinian-Israeli musician Awad Mira and inspired by her controversial journey as Israeli’s representative at the Eurovision Song Contest. Food Network Canada’s culinary competition Top Chef Canada returns Monday, April 1 at 10p. |
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RATINGS Univision’s premiere of revamped morning show Despierta America on Monday averaged 671,000 Total Viewers, 242,000 A18-49, and 73,000 A18-34. Live + Same Day Viewers AA (millions) Tuesday, March 5, 2019 time period averages Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated Live+SD NBC: 7.90 The Voice 10.07, This Is Us 7.76, New Amsterdam 5.87 CBS: 5.57 NCIS 7.45, FBI 5.43, FBI 3.84 ABC: 5.25 The Bachelor 6.03, The Rookie 4.47 FOX: 2.07 MasterChef Celebrity Showdown 2.07 CW: 1.38 The Flash 1.69, Roswell, New Mexico 1.06 UNIVISION: 1.01 Jesus 1.07, Mi Marido Tiene Mas Familia 0.94, Amar a Muerte 1.02 TELE: 0.80 Exatlon Estados Unidos 0.86, Betty en NY 0.87, La Reina del Sur 0.66 Tuesday A19-49: NBC 1.5/7, ABC 1.3/6, CBS 0.6/3, FOX 0.6/3, UNI 0.5/2, CW 0.4/2, TELE 0.4/2 EXECUTIVE MOVES National Geographic Partners named Akilesh Sridharan, formerly Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategy for Fox Networks Group, as Chief Financial Officer. Shaftesbury appointed Dylen Postnikoff to the newly expanded position of Vice President, Global Brand Strategy. Postnikoff had been Head of TV Entertainment and Content Marketing at CBC. Mob Scene named Josh Beaumont and Chris Nesheim as Co-Creative Directors, Theatrical. Beaumont was previously a Producer and Senior Editor at Buddha Jones, while Nesheim had been a Senior Editor at Mob Scene since 2012. |
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This Day in History: 1958 – Charles Van Doren finally lost on game show Twenty One, after winning $129,000, in shows later revealed to be fixed. Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: Which main characters were on M*A*S*H (1972-1983) for all eleven seasons? Hawkeye Pierce, Father Mulcahy, Margaret Houlihan and Maxwell Klinger. Kudos to: Andrew Goldman-Fathom Events/NYC; Sandy Haberman-Sojern/NYC; Randy Ingram-WISH/WNDY-TV/Indianapolis, IN; Karyn Hecht-Trifecta Entertainment & Media/NYC; Tom Boyd-WGN-TV/Chicago, IL; Eric Litt-Tribune Broadcasting/Chicago, IL; Steven Iha-LBI Media/Dallas, TX; Cynthia New-Spectrum Reach/Cape Girardeau, MO; Cathy Korda/Honolulu, HI; Scott Cohn-Twiddlewater Media/Santa Cruz, CA; Len Klatt-The Winning Run/Los Angeles, CA; David Chill-Chill Research/Los Angeles, CA; Pete Hazell-Discovery Communications Europe/London. Today’s Trivia Question: Which 1970s title TV character drove a sport sedan nicknamed The Blue Ghost? (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.) |
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Responsible for delivering sales revenue, as well as cultivating and developing new advertisers for the station’s multi-platform properties. 1 yr sales exp. BA Deg or equiv work exp. Full info HERE (3/8) CUSTOMER SVC REP/Cynopsis/Norwalk CT: Play critical role w/marketing team and be a major support of events & logistics for all events. incl in-bound/out-bound calls with customers, event logistics and communications. comfortable in an "all hands-on deck" enviro a must. MS excel, word, outlook proficient a must. Full info HERE (3/8) ASST MEDIA MGR, SOCIAL & EMERGING MEDIA/AD COUNCIL/San Francisco: Mng the day-to-day management of accts & assist in evaluating & executing targeted media partnerships for our 40+ campaigns. 2+ yrs professional sales, mktg, or agency (media or acct mnemnt) exp. Full info HERE(3/8) |
WHAT'S ON TONIGHT - THURSDAY, MARCH 7 ABC: Grey’s Anatomy, Station 19, For the People [p] CBS: The Big Bang Theory, Young Sheldon, Mom, Fam, S.W.A.T. CW: Supernatural, Legacies FOX: Gotham, The Orville NBC: Superstore, AP Bio [p], Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Will & Grace, Law & Order: SVU PBS: This Old House Hour, Victoria on Masterpiece, Antiques Road Show Telemundo: Exatlon Estados Unidos, Betty en NY, La Reina del Sur Univision: Jesus, Mi Marido Tiene Mas Familia, Amar e Muerte |
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