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| Good morning. It’s Monday March 18, 2019 and this is your first early-morning briefing. Tonight's Premieres: ABC: The Fix at 10p BYUtv: Show Offs at 8p Food Network: Spring Baking Championship at 9p Fox: 9-1-1 at 9p HBO: The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley at 9p Starz: Of Fathers and Sons at 9p TV One: The DL Hughley Show at 11p Tonight’s Finale: CW: Black Lightning at 9p IN THE NEWS Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is returning to Fox and National Geographic following an investigation into sexual misconduct allegations. "The investigation is complete, and we are moving forward with both StarTalk and Cosmos," Nat Geo said in a statement. StarTalk is set to return with its remaining 13 episodes in April on Nat Geo, while a return date for Cosmos has not yet been announced. One day after Hallmark Channel ended its relationship with Lori Loughlin, the actress is now out at Netflix, where the channel says she will not appear in its Fuller House final season. Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannulli were among 50 people indicted in a nationwide college admissions bribery case. Her part on the Full House reboot had been recurring. Jeanine Pirro's Fox News Channel program Justice with Judge Jeanine was replaced Saturday night with a docuseries repeat, shortly after FNC condemned remarks Pirro made a week ago about the national loyalty of Minnesota's Democratic representative Ilhan Omar. A network executive refused to comment on "internal scheduling matters." Members of a New York sketch troupe, Temple Horses, are accusing Saturday Night Live of stealing an idea for two sketches, one involving a pumpkin and one involving blinders for pets. "Imagine, one day you come home and it looks like somebody's robbed your house," Ryan Hoffman, co-founder of the troupe with Nick Ruggia, told Variety. "This isn't the kind of thing where you can just get it back or call your insurance company to have it replaced." Ruggia and Hoffman's attorney has sent a letter to NBC. SNL aired its sketches in October; Temple Horse's pumpkin sketch was first uploaded to YouTube, where the troupe has over 3,400 subscribers, in 2014. The pet blinders one was uploaded in 2011, while SNL aired its version in February. Ernie Hudson, who played Frankie’s (Lily Tomlin) love interest in past episodes of Grace and Frankie, will return to the Netflix comedy, fans learned at Paleyfest on Saturday. “The electricity between them was so vibrant,”said co-creator Marta Kauffman/. “We will be seeing him in season six.” ANNOUNCING: Your comprehensive guide + research tool during the 2019 Upfront and NewFronts season: http://www.cynopsis.com/upfronts. From Hot to Not star Mama June Shannon was arrested last week, days before the third season of her show premiered on WE tv. She and her boyfriend Geno Doak were arrested at an Alabama gas station. Shannon faces charges of suspicion of felony possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia, while Doak was arrested for possession of a controlled substance, drug paraphernalia and domestic violence. |
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| NEW & RETURNING SERIES American Gods has been renewed at Starz for a third season. Charles "Chic" Eglee has been hired to take over that season as showrunner and executive producer. He will be the third showrunner to oversee the series. Top 10 Weekend Domestic Box Office Estimates: March 15-17, 2019 Captain Marvel (Buena Vista) $69 million (week 2), cume revenue $266.2 million Wonder Park (Paramount) $16 million (opening weekend) Five Feet Apart (Lionsgate) $13.2 million (opening weekend) How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (Universal) $9.3 million (week 4), cume revenue $135.6 million Tyler Perry's A Madea Family Funeral (Lionsgate) $8.5 million (week 3), cume revenue $59 million No Manches Frida 2 (Pantelion) $3.9 million (opening weekend) Captive State (Focus Features) $3.3 million (opening weekend) The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (Warner Bros.) $2.1 million (week 6), cume revenue $101.3 million Alita: Battle Angel (Fox) $1.9 million (week 5), cume revenue $81.8 million Green Book (Universal) $1.3 million (week 18), cume revenue $82.6 million Source: comScore COMING UP Arrow showrunner Beth Schwartz has signed a multi-year overall deal with Warner Bros. TV as her series heads into its final season. The 2020 Golden Globe Awards will be held on January 6 on NBC, the second show covered as part of a new eight-year deal with the Hollywood Foreign Press, Dick Clark Productions, and the network. DIGITAL DATA Yahoo Finance is launching a new video series celebrating women, Global Change Agents with Lianna Brinded, head of Yahoo Finance UK. It will be executive produced by journalist Lara O'Reilly, and include interviews from women in power around different industries. The 18-episode series is set to premiere on April 3 and run twice a month. Facebook reported it blocked 1.5 million videos at the point of upload after a New Zealand shooter livestreamed his killing spree on Friday, and the site also removed any videos that appeared to support the shooting. 300,000 videos were not caught at upload. TECH TALK Cinedigm entered into a agreement to acquire OTT platform Future Today, one of the largest AVOD channel networks in the world, for $45 million in cash and $15 million in Cinedigm common stock. The acquisition increases Cinedigm’s OTT footprint to over 7.6 million Monthly Active Users and 67 million total apps. Future Today brands include Fawesome.tv and HappyKids.tv, and its cloud-based technology and ad-based monetization platform manages OTT services for more than 350 content owners, producers, distributors and major media companies. CASTING Freddie Prinze Jr. (24) will star opposite Kennedy McMann in the CW's untitled Nancy Drew pilot, inspired by the mysteries about the young detective. Prinze will play Nancy's father Carson Drew, an attorney estranged from his wife after the death of his wife...Joseph Lyle Taylor (Sneaky Pete) and David Fierro (The Knick) will star as regulars on CBS' new series Tommy opposite Edie Falco, who'll star as a former NYPD officer who becomes the first female Chief of Police in LA...Weeds actor Hunter Parris will co-star opposite Jacqueline Grace Lopez in Jane the Virgin anthology series spinoff Jane the Novela on the CW...Joe Tippett (Rise) and Alex Neusaedter (Colony) have been cast as series regulars in NBC's legal drama pilot Prism, which is inspired by the 1950s Japanese film Rashomon...ABC's pilot Nana underwent a major casting change following a table read, replacing Josh Cooke as the male lead opposite Katey Sagal with Ben Lawson (Designated Survivor)...Michael Mosley (Seven Seconds, Ozark) will star as a series regular on Fox's neXT AI thriller pilot. SVOD monthly subs have exceeded pay TV subs among US consumers. Are we abandoning the traditional ratings system in favor of the digital-first video landscape? Join industry experts to explore a path forward at the Cynopsis Measurement & Data Conference on June 11 in NYC. See the full agenda and register today. |
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| RATINGS Fox’s Last Man Standing topped the A18-49 demo on Friday with 0.9/5. CBS’s Blue Blood scored a winning 8.19 million viewers. Live + Same Day Viewers AA (millions) Friday March 15, 2019 time period averages Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated Live+SD NBC: 3.19 million Blindspot 2.83, The Blacklist 3.55, Dateline 3.20 CBS: 6.96 million MacGyver 5.96, Hawaii Five-O 6.73, Blue Bloods 8.19 ABC: 3.61 million Fresh Off the Boat 3.15, Speechless 2.42, 20/20 4.02 FOX: 3.25 million Last Man Standing 5.02, The Cool Kids 3.81, Proven Innocent 2.09 CW: .46 million Dynasty .55, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend .37, Friday A18-49: NBC .5/3, ABC .7/4, FOX .6/3, CBS .7/4, CW .1/1 IN MEMORIAM Richard Erdman, a character actor who appeared in Stalag 17 and on Community, died on March 16 at 93. On the TV series, he played Leonard, an elderly "hipster" student who'd recently had his hip replaced. Tom Hatten, former actor and KTLA host, died at 92 on March 16. He hosted the children's show Popeye and Friends from 1976-88, and KTLA's Family Film Festival from 1978-92. |
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| This Day in History: Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth opened at Madison Square Garden in New York City in 1881. Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: What was the name of the marina restaurant often frequented by the title character on Quincy (1976-83)? Danny's. Kudos to: Rev. Mark Wajda/Leesburg, FL; Andrew Goldman-Fathom Events/NY; Gerry Bixenspan-TV Marketing, Inc./NY; Dean Mandel-Syncbak/NY; David Garber-Loyola Marymount University/Playa Vista, CA; Mike May-PHIT America/Wellington, FL; Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/LA; Susan Nessanbaum-Goldberg-M and S Entertainment/LA; David Westberg-SAG-AFTRA/Burbank, CA Today’s Trivia Question: Family Guy actor Seth Green bases the voice of his character, Chris Griffin, off what 1990s horror film villain? (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 correct answers from each time zone will be selected.) |
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| WHAT'S ON TONIGHT - MONDAY, MARCH 18 ABC: American Idol, The Fix CBS: The Big Bang Theory [r], Man With a Plan, The Big Bang Theory [r], The Neighborhood [r], Bull CW: Arrow, Black Lightning FOX: The Resident, 9-1-1 NBC: The Voice, The Enemy Within PBS: Antiques Roadshow [r], POV TELEMUNDO: Exatlón Estados Unidos, Betty en NY, La Reina Del Sur (Edición Especial) [r] UNIVISION: La Rosa de Guadalupe [r], Jesús [r], Mi marido tiene más familia [r], Por amar sin ley [r] |
