Good morning. It’s Tuesday March 12, 2019 and this is your first early-morning briefing.

 

Tonight's Premieres:

Fox: MasterChef Junior at 8p

Univision: Por Amar Sin Ley at 10p

WE tv: Bridezillas at 10p

 

Tonight’s Finales:

ABC: The Bachelor at 8p

HGTV: Windy City Rehab at 9p

History: Project Blue Book at 10p

Science: How the Universe Works at 10p

 

 

IN THE NEWS

 

Daytimer Jerry O, hosted by Jerry O’Connell (Carter), will have a three-week summer run on select FOX-owned stations beginning August 12. The entertainment talk/comedy show from Debmar-Mercury and Funny Or Die will feature specially produced Funny or Die comedy segments. “I love daytime. I love watching it and have fallen in love with guest-hosting it,” said O’Connell. “I am thrilled to work with my friends at both Debmar-Mercury and Funny Or Die. I have been collaborating with both companies for years and am so excited to bring a little bit of the traditional – and something brand new – to the audience.” Said Frank Cicha, EVP of Programming for FOX Television Stations, “I’m always willing to give a fellow NY Jets fan a shot.”

 

NBC renewed The Blacklist for season seven - and with the show’s leads set to return, it looks like Red’s death sentence might not be so fatal after all, botched prison escape notwithstanding. The drama is averaging 0.6 among A18-49 and 4 million total viewers in this season’s new Friday timeslot, but jumps to a 1.2 in the demo and 7.3 million viewers in Live+7 numbers. The show also ranks as the season’s most upscale drama on the Big 4 nets among A18-49.

 

The hour-long series finale of CBS’s The Big Bang Theory will air Thursday, May 16 at 8p. Emmy-winning hit comedy debuted in 2007.

 

Thrive Global and ATTN: are announcing a new joint venture, Perform, that will combine Thrive Global’s focus on a science-backed approach to well-being with ATTN:’s visual storytelling expertise. A standalone brand of Thrive Global and ATTN:, Perform will include a digital platform, serialized video content for social and linear distribution, thought leadership, experiential events, pop-up activations and curated products. Video series currently in development include a docu-series on the topic of sleep, slated for streaming, and two mid-form series focused on LGBTQ parenting and life after burnout. “No one understands the nexus between well-being and success better than Arianna Huffington and the team at Thrive Global,” said ATTN: Co-Founder Matthew Segal.

 

The search is on! The call for entries has officially opened for our Cynopsis Top Women in Media Awards, honoring outstanding contributions by women in every facet of the media industry. To learn more and nominate by April 16, click here.

 

Rep. Ilhan Omar thanked Fox News for condemning remarks by host Jeanine Pirro, who questioned Omar’s loyalty to the Constitution since she wears a hijab. “We strongly condemn Jeanine Pirro’s comments about Rep. Ilhan Omar,” said FNC. “They do not reflect those of the network and we have addressed the matter with her directly.” Tweeted Omar, “Thank you, @FoxNews. No one’s commitment to our constitution should be questioned because of their faith or country of birth.”

 

Which TV genres drive the most pronounced lifts beyond linear airings? A Nielsen study leveraging its Total Content Ratings, focused on daily viewing over a typical month, found that cable dramas saw a 9% lift in viewing, while broadcast programming, sitcoms and reality shows each saw an 8% increase. Comedy talk shows had the lowest lift, 1%. Not surprisingly, consumers 18-24 led digital lift; the older a demographic group, the less the contribution lift on digital devices.

 

About 16 million U.S. homes get TV over-the-air via antennas, according to another Nielsen report. Milwaukee tops the country in OTA viewing at 29%, while Northeast markets have the lowest OTA penetration (7%). “We see a high concentration of OTA homes in the Southwest region, averaging 19% of households in those areas,” Nielsen said in an article accompanying the data. “This makes sense, since this area is popular among Hispanics - a group, according to our profile data - that is 48% more likely to have OTA status than the average U.S home.”

 

Writer deals are “challenging,” said CBS Television Studios President David Stapf. Speaking at the INTV gathering in Israel on Monday, Staf explained that there’s a premium on talent. But for a lot of writers, it’s not just about money, “it’s about getting their art seen,” said Stapf. “We haven’t entered into any of the bidding wars, we talk about it and consider it and evaluate each one. There will be those....We have about 100 writers on our roster – many of whom we’ll do everything we can to keep.”

 

Launching on March 15th: Cynopsis’ Upfront/Newfront Navigator, the go-to online source for buyers and planners during the 2019 Upfronts season, is almost here. To learn more about the Navigator and opportunities for coverage, please contact sales@cynopsis.com.

 

Peabody named five new members to its board of directors. Joining are Susanne Daniels, Global Head of Original Content at YouTube; Peter Roth, President and Chief Content Officer for Warner Bros. Television Group; Jennifer Salke, Head of Amazon Studios; Michael Schwimmer, President and CEO of Fuse Media; and Paul Telegdy, Co-Chairman of NBC Entertainment.

 

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PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT

 

DIY Network picked up season three of Holmes & Holmes, starring professional contractor Mike Holmes and his son, home renovation expert Mike Jr. Season two ratings were 136 percent higher than the net’s overall prime average and grew nearly 30 percent over its freshman run. The new 12-episode season is slated to air in late summer 2019.

 

Showtime ordered eight-part limited series Good Lord Bird, from Blumhouse Television, based on the novel by James McBride. Ethan Hawke will star as 19th-century abolitionist John Brown and is co-writing and executive producing with Mark Richard (The Ice at the Bottom of the World). Anthony Hemingway (Underground) will direct and executive produce. 

 

Showtime’s Penny Dreadful: City of Angels will get big bucks to move to California. The sequel(ish) is set to receive $24.7 million in tax credits to relocate from Dublin.  “Shooting in California obviously has many attractions, but without the state’s Film and TV tax credit it could become cost prohibitive,” said Showtime co-President of Entertainment Jana Winograde. “We couldn’t be happier about how things worked out or the benefits it will bring to the job market.”

 

Mike Judge (Silicon Valley) signed a new two-year exclusive deal with HBO, which has put two projects in development: Qualityland, a co-production between HBO and Lionsgage/3 Arts, and limited series A5, which asks the questions: why do a-holes exist, and can they be cured?

 

National Geographic ordered Legendary Catch, a six-episode series from Blackfin that will explore the planet’s most magnificent fish, starting Friday, March 15 at 10p. Series follows globe-trotting angler Carter “Big Boy” Andrews.

 

Racecar competition series Celebrity Grand Prix, from Mark Burnett, Tyrese Gibson (Fast & Furious) and MGM TV, is in development. Gibson will exec produce and host.

 

Robot-fighting series BattleBots got the go-ahead for a second season on Discovery and Science Channel. Sophomore run is slated to start this summer. BattleBots premiered on Comedy Central in 2000, was revived on ABC in 2015, and picked up by Discovery and Science for more metal-munching mayhem 2018.

 

9 Story Media Group inked a deal with King Bert Productions to develop and co-produce The World’s Worst Children, based on the children’s books written by David Walliams. The 2D animated series will be produced by King Bert and 9 Story’s animation studio Brown Bag Films.  

 

Amazon Studios ordered six-part travelogue Our Man In...Japan with James May, hosted by the Grand Tour star, reports Deadline. Series comes from Plum Pictures.

 

Cable TV? Social Media? How do you get your news fix? Let us know in the Cynopsis poll on www.cynopsis.com.

 

 

NEW & RETURNING SERIES

 

Discovery’s Street Outlaws is back for a new season Monday, April 1 at 9p. Ahead of the reality show’s return, two-hour standalone specials Street Outlaws Memphis and Street Outlaws OKC air March 18 and March 25, respectively, at 9p.

 

Freeform is transforming the Hollywood Athletic Club into a one-day experiential event for Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists. On Saturday, March 16, fans will “find themselves deep in a forest that is full of surprises.” Series debuts Wednesday, March 20 at 8p.

 

 

COMING UP

 

The 263^rd installment of Hallmark Channel’s Hallmark Hall of Fame, Love Takes Flight, debuts Saturday, April 27 at 8p. Nikki DeLoach (Reunited at Christmas) and Jeff Hephner (Chicago Fire, Chicago Med) star in the latest entry of the franchise, launched in December 1951.

 

MTV Spring Break is back for more fun in the sun March 23-28. Programming includes performances and themed editions of shows including Siesta Key (Tuesday, March 26 at 10p) and The Challenge: War of the Worlds (Wednesday, March 27 at 10p), as well as the Spring Break Reunion Special on Thursday, March 28 at 8p.

 

Paramount Network is holding a “007 Mission Marathon.”  Kicking off a week of James Bond movies is GoldenEye on Monday, March 18 at 7p and 11p.

 

MotorTrend is going live for 1000 Miles of Sebring, the sixth round of the 2018-2019 FIA World Endurance Championship season. Live coverage revs up on MotorTrend TV starting Friday, March 15 at 3:30p.

 

 

CASTING

 

Lucy Hale (Pretty Little Liars) will play the title role in CW’s Riverdale spin-off pilot, Katy Keene...Michelle Veintimilla (Gotham) landed a series regular role in ABC pilot The Baker and the Beauty, based on the Israeli series... Holly Chou (The Big Sick) will star in ABC’s untitled comedy pilot about a first-generation Chinese-American woman struggling to set boundaries with her maddening family...Bill Bellamy (Def Comedy Jam) won a series regular role on ABC comedy pilot Nana.

 

Michael David-Stahl (The Deuce), Trent Garrett (Andi Mack), Liza Colon-Zayas (Titans), Juani Feliz (Shades of Blue), Vered Blonstein (The Good Doctor) and Michael Benjamin Washington (30 Rock) join the cast of ABC romantic drama pilot Until the Wedding.

 

Kirby Howell-Baptiste (Killing Eve) will star in CBS All Access comedic drama Why Women Kill, joining Lucy Liu, Ginnifer Goodwin, Sam Jaeger, Reid Scott and Alexandra Daddario.

 

 

ADVERTISING & BRANDS

 

BEN Group announced that its influencer marketing and brand integration business, BEN, increased 2018 revenue by 52% over its 2017 performance, and delivered over 6,200 brand integrations during the year, representing an estimated total media value of over $1.5 billion – a 50% percent increase over 2017. “Our proprietary deep learning algorithms are continually improving the effectiveness of our client campaigns and the efficiency of our business,” said Ricky Ray Butler, CEO of BEN Group.  

 

Ad intelligence and sales enablement platform MediaRadar has introduced “RFP Predictor” to its suite of solutions. RFP Predictor reveals which brands will be reviewing proposals, to help ad sales teams anticipate the, on average, over 1,000 RFPs issued per quarter. “One of the most frustrating things for any publisher is learning that you only have a few days to complete a lengthy RFP,” said Todd Krizelman, CEO of  MediaRadar. “Our RFP Predictor solves this problem, empowering sales teams to be one step ahead.”

 

 

DIGITAL DATA

 

Streaming service NBC News Now will launch in early May with eight hours of programming, announced NBC News President Noah Oppenheim at the SXSW  conference. The free, ad-supported offering will include live updates every hour. “We will be doing original work that will be specific for the streaming service,” as well as drawing from the reporting on other NBC News properties like E! News and sports, said Oppenheim.

 

DirecTV Now is cutting its subscriber packages from five to two: DirecTV Now Plus, which offers 40+ channels for $50/month, and DirecTV Max, with 50+ channels for $70/month. Both options include HBO, but drop some cable entertainment channels. Existing customers can keep their existing packages for an increase of $10/month. AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said in December that the company would be refining the offerings and raising the price.

 

TEGNA is launching Vault Studios, a digital content studio offering storytelling from the company’s archive of investigative reports. Starting with podcasts, Vault projects will pull from real-life cases investigated by TEGNA’s  reporters across 41 markets. “Engaging with our audiences in new and innovative ways – across multiple platforms – is essential to our growth,” said Adam Ostrow, TEGNA’s Chief Digital Officer. Topics like true crime, cold cases and unsolved mysteries will “create new content offerings for today’s digital consumer,” he added.

 

Vault’s first podcast, Bomber, tells the story of how law enforcement hunted down the 2018 Austin serial bomber and brought 19 days of terror to a sudden, cataclysmic end. Hosted by TEGNA journalist Jason Puckett, the first episode, “A Loud Boom,” is set to debut on Friday, March 15.

 

 

TECH TALK

 

Slomo.tv, producer of SSD-based video record and replay systems, will launch its second generation Fulcrum AT/12G 4K instant replay server. The new version offers broadcast production companies 10 channels in replay mode at 4K resolution and up to 16 channels in replay mode for 3G/HD/SD, with a compact 4K server system that enables advanced slow motion and instant replay capabilities as well as direct recording of NLE Native video files for editing on site. The automatic creation of clips during instant replays is a Slomo.tv proprietary feature, which allows the operator to quickly create highlights/summary packages while working in instant replay mode.

 

Drive-to-store platform S4M is releasing a new ad format, the Pass-to-Store, offering advertisers a method to drive incremental in-store visits with smart proximity-based push notification retargeting. Shoppers download a card with a promotion or invitation offered by an advertiser, which is then saved into their mobile phone wallet. Once the card is saved in the user’s wallet, the Pass-to-Store ad can trigger a location-based notification to remind consumers of their available offer as they enter into a designated proximity of a store location or an event venue.

 

Apple sent reporters an invitation to a special event at the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino the morning of March 25. No details were offered, but best guess is the focus will be on the video content service, given the invite’s main line: “It’s show time.”

 

NVIDIA is acquiring chipmaker Mellanox for $6.9 billion, in a deal expected to close by year’s end. There have been reports that Microsoft and Intel were also interested in the company. NVIDIA, which collaborated with Mellanox on building supercomputers for the U.S. Dept. of Energy,  said it is interested in Mellanox to “optimize datacenter-scale workloads across the entire computing, networking and storage stack to achieve higher performance, greater utilization and lower operating cost for customers.”

 

 

MEASUREMENT

 

Nielsen’s Gracenote is launching its Global Video Data offering in the Middle East to help drive next-generation TV and movie search, discovery and navigation for emerging digital and IPTV platforms. Etisalat’s E-Vision, provider of TV content and advanced TV technologies, is one of the first pay-TV operators to deliver Gracenote-powered viewer experiences for IPTV, OTT & VOD platforms across TV and mobile applications reaching close to one million viewers in the region.

 

 

PODCAST POSTS

 

Austin-based founding_up announced the launch of 10 new podcasts centered on Austin’s business scene during SXSW. Topics covered include startup founders, health and wellness and more.

 

 

GOING GLOBAL

 

The China Institute for Innovation & Development Strategy, a non-governmental think tank, said it is searching for a UK production company to partner with on a new documentary project, Understanding China (wt). Project will focus on China's economic growth, development, and relationship with the world.  

 

Kew Media Group is teaming with Nordic Entertainment Group, operator of Nordic streaming service Viaplay, on international drama series Margeaux. Series created by Adi Hasak (Shades of Blue) is a reimagining of the Munich Olympic massacre from the point of view of an Israeli Mossad psychologist as well as the Palestinian co-ordinator behind the attack, and will be produced in multiple languages, including Hebrew, Arabic, English and German.

 

Japan’s Nippon Television Network Corporation will be heading to this year’s MIPTV with scripted formats including hour-long Without Family, May Tomorrow Bring Sunshine, The Happy Prince, and Love of My Life

 

RATINGS

 

SHAREABLEE SOCIAL TV RATINGS: Top US Shows Overall by Engagement for the week of March 4

Program, Total Actions (millions), Total Content, Actions per Content (000), Fans/Followers (000)

E! News (E!) 14543, 680, 21, 34976

Riverdale (CW) 4829, 22, 220, 13381

The Late Late Show (CBS) 3164, 129, 25, 5969

Entertainment Tonight (CBS/synd.) 2940, 705, 4, 7968

American Idol (ABC) 2382, 275, 9, 16583

Grey’s Anatomy (ABC) 2151, 75, 29, 33221

Shadowhunters (Freeform) 2097, 88, 24, 5038

Today (NBC) 1884, 724, 3, 13011

The Walking Dead (AMC) 1639, 86, 19, 48810

Jeopardy! (CBS/synd.) 1557, 14, 112, 1179

Based on Total Actions (reactions, comments, shares and retweets)

 

Tunity Analytics Top Weekly National Out-of-Home Viewer Rankings for Entertainment Programs for the week of March 4

Program, OOH Viewers (000)

The Simpsons (Fox) 373

American Idol (ABC) 367

The Bachelor (ABC) 321

The Bachelor (ABC) 314

Saturday Night Live (NBC) 311

The Voice (NBC) 263

Shark Tank (ABC) 248

FBI (CBS) 244

The Voice (NBC) 224

Love It or List It (HGTV) 194

Source: Tunity Analytics. Viewing estimates are derived from the Tunity mobile app usage. OOH Impressions are calculated using Tunity Analytics proprietary estimation model. 

 

Live + Same Day Viewers AA (millions) Friday, March 8 time period averages

Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated Live+SD

CBS: 7.36 million

Gayle King Interview with R. Kelly 6.60, Hawaii Five-0 7.24, Blue Bloods 8.24

FOX: 3.73 million

Last Man Standing 5.40 The Cool Kids 3.89, Proven Innocent 1.90

NBC: 3.40 million

Blindspot 3.15, The Blacklist 3.81, Dateline 3.25

ABC: 3.35 million

Fresh Off the Boat 3.09, Speechless 2.24, 20/20 4.03

UNI: 0.97 million

Jesus 0.96, Mi Marido Tiene Mas Familia 0.90, Amar a Muerte 1.05

CW: 0.92 million

Whose Line Is It Anyway? 0.93, Penn & Teller Fool Us 0.91

TELE: 0.78 million

Exatlon Estados 0.84, Betty en NY 0.83, Reina del Sur 0.68

 

Friday A19-49: CBS 1.0/5, FOX 0.7/4, ABC 0.6/3, NBC 0.5/3, TELE 0.4/2, UNI 0.4/2, CW 0.2/1

 

 

EXECUTIVE MOVES

 

Stephen Hackett is retiring as President of Sales at CBS Television Distribution. He will be succeeded by Jonathan Bingaman, promoted to EVP Domestic Licensing and Distribution. “The time is right for me to hand over the reins of the sales team to Bing,” said Hackett, who worked at CBS and former subsidiary King World for 30 years. “He will be terrific in his new role. I look forward to the next chapter in my life on my cattle ranch in Colorado.”

 

YouTube hired Lori Conkling as Global Head of Partnerships for YouTube TV and Google Fiber. Conkling was more recently EVP of Strategy and Business Development at NBCUniversal.

 

Erin Wehrenberg has been named SVP, Network Comedy, ABC Entertainment, starting March 25. Wehrenberg comes from Warner Bros. Television, where she was SVP and Head of Comedy Development

 

Netflix tapped David Kosse, formerly of STX, to head its new international film division.  John Friedberg, previously STX’s President of International Sales, was upped to President of STX’s international division, replacing Kosse.

 

Paramount Television hired Jenna Santoianni as EVP and Head of Development, and promoted Erin Einstein to SVP of Legal Affairs. Santoianni was formerly a Sonar Entertainment EVP.

 

Donna Lamar is returning to Twitter to serve as Executive Creative Director. Lamar joins after a year as Group Creative Director at Vice Media; she had been Creative Director at Twitter’s #Studio until February 2018.

 

Bleacher Report named Sam Toles as Chief Content Officer. Toles joins from MGM, where he was SVP of Digital & New Platforms.

 

Breakthrough Entertainment has added Aliy Brown as a Sales Executive. Brown joins from 108 Media Corp, where she started as Director of Distribution and Marketing.

 

This Day in History: 1973 - The final episode of Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In aired on  NBC.

 

Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: On which series was the very first “Special Guest Star” designation used? Lost in Space (1965-1968). Kudos to: Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/LA, David Westberg-SAG-AFTRA Federal Credit Union/Burbank, Susan Nessanbaum-Goldberg-M and S Entertainment/LA

 

Today’s Trivia Question: Edie Hart was the name of which TV detective’s girlfriend? (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.)

 

Answer to the Monday Anagram: Home Sock Ran Jab = BoJack Horseman. Kudos to: Simone Dvorskin-Benjamin N. Cardazo School of Law/NYC, Paul Blutter-Walk and Talk Production Rentals/Burbank

 

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MGR, MEDIA RESEARCH & STRATEGY/Spectrum Networks/NYC: Resp for providing support with Media Rsrch, Plan’g & Strategy functions within the Audience Insights Dept across traditional and digital media. 3-5 yrs of Media rsrch exp, agency, publisher and/or client side. Full info HERE (3/20)

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DIRECTOR, DEVELOPMENT/MY Entertainment/NYC: Create unscripted content for broadcast, cable and OTT. 8 years of development and/or production of factual series, specials formats and documentaries. Full info HERE (3/19)

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CNN MANAGER, BRAND & MULTIPLATFORM RESEARCH/ATL/NYC: Strengthen CNN brand appeal through qualitative and quantitative work looking at consumer news behavior and its connection to need states, attitudes and values. 5+ yrs exp and proficiency with both TV and digital data.Full info HERE (3/13)

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT - TUESDAY, MARCH 12
ABC: The Bachelor [f], Videos After Dark

CBS: NCIS, FBI, NCIS: New Orleans

CW: The Flash, Roswell, New Mexico

FOX: MasterChef [p]

NBC: Ellen’s Game of Games, This Is Us, New Amsterdam

PBS: Finding Your Roots with Henry Lewis Gates, Jr. [r], Ireland’s Wild Coast. [r], Ireland’s Wild Coast [r]

Telemundo: Exatlon Estados Unidos, Betty en NY, La Reina del Sur

Univision: Jesus, Mi Marido Tiene Mas Familia, Por Amar Sin Ley [p]