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| Good morning. It’s Friday May 3, 2019 and this is your first early-morning briefing. Tonight's Premieres: MotorTrend: Junkyard Gold at 9p Netflix: Dead to Me, Flinch, Tuca & Bertie, Undercover Oxygen: Dateline: Secrets Uncovered at 8p Saturday’s Premieres: Cleo TV: Living by Design with Jake and Jazz at 12p OWN: Iyanla: Fix My Life at 9p Oxygen: The Disappearance of Susan Cox Powell at 7p Sunday’s Premieres: AXS TV: Rock & Roll Road Trip with Sammy Hagar at 8p Bravo: The Real Housewives of Potomac at 9p HGTV: Beach Hunters at 9p Starz: The Spanish Princess at 8p Weather Channel: World’s Wildest Weather at 9p Sunday’s Finale: NBC: World of Dance at 8p IN THE NEWS Discovery had good news for investors on Thursday, reporting first quarter net income of $384 million versus a net loss of $8 million in the previous year period. Part of the recipe for success was the 2017 acquisition of Scripps Networks Interactive in 2017. “In the first quarter we delivered a solid start to 2019, as we continue to power people’s passions through our loved brands and our owned global IP in genres that nourish audiences around the world,” said David Zaslav, President and CEO. “We are a differentiated media company and have the right strategy, assets, brands, and management team necessary to drive additional shareholder value.” CBS posted $4.2 billion in revenue for 1Q19, helped in part by Super Bowl LIII and strong increases in affiliate and subscription fee revenues, which was a quarterly record but under the $4.3 billion projected by Wall Street. “CBS has once again grown across all of our key financial metrics, while continuing to invest in our future as a global multiplatform premium content company,” said Joe Ianniello, CBS’ President and acting CEO. “We delivered higher profits and achieved double-digit revenue growth.... At a time when others are losing subscribers, our total number of subs across traditional MVPDs, virtual MVPDs and our direct-to-consumer services once again grew strongly during the quarter.” Elizabeth Banks (The Hunger Games) has been tapped to host ABC’s latest celeb-hosted game show revival, Press Your Luck. Series debuts Wednesday, June 12 at 8p, followed by Card Sharks, manned by Joel McHale (Community), at 9p. “Elizabeth Banks is exactly the type of woman we want on ABC – she’s a big star who’s smart, strong and funny,” said ABC Entertainment president Karey Burke. “She has everything we need as the host of Press Your Luck, one of our signature summer game shows. If anyone can ride herd on the Whammy, it’s Elizabeth!” Samsung TV has a name for viewers who consume video on both traditional TV and streaming: the “Total TV Watcher.” Samsung crunched the numbers and found that among households that own Samsung smart TVs, 68% stream video and 70% watch via cable and satellite. Total TV Watchers make up 38% of the audience, per Samsung TV, and consume 15% more TV than people who watch in a traditional manner - and 26% more than strictly streamers. “The industry is at a key inflection point and this balance isn’t likely to last,” said Tom Fochetta, VP, Samsung Ads. “It’s time to re-examine the way advertisers, content producers and publishers view TV audiences, moving beyond cord-cutters and traditional viewers. The combination of traditional and streaming content is a powerful one, and is presenting new opportunities to reach consumers on the household’s biggest screen.” NBCUniversal is the latest to be hit by lawsuit by Nick Sandmann. The Covington Catholic High School student’s lawyers accuse NBCU of defaming Sandmann during their coverage of an incident at the Lincoln Memorial on January 18. The $275 million lawsuit alleges NBCU relied on “biased and unreliable sources without conducting any reasonable investigation of the circumstances.” CNN and the Washington Post have already been slapped with defamation lawsuits. NBC opened submissions for the 2019-2020 Writers on the Verge class, an annual program for talented, rising writers of diverse backgrounds. The initiative comes from the network’s talent infusion programs, which advocate for onscreen and behind the scenes diversity by developing up-and-coming diverse talent. NBC sib Telemundo Global Studios is also looking to nurture media talent with the launch of the TGS Fellowship Program, a professional development project for scripted content producers in Hispanic media. The fellowship is part of Telemundo Academy, the company’s multimedia academic program designed to develop new talent pursuing careers in the media industry, which lives under the umbrella of Telemundo’s award-winning corporate social responsibility platform El Poder (The Power in You). Evangeline Lilly (Lost) landed the lead in sci-fi drama Albedo, for Walmart-owned VOD service Vudu. Lilly plays a detective cut off from Earth while investigating a scientist’s mysterious murder. |
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| PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT Julian Fellowes’ The Gilded Age, ordered by NBC in January 2018, has moved to HBO. “Given the opulent scope and scale of this richly textured character drama, HBO is the perfect home for The Gilded Age,” said Casey Bloys, President, HBO Programming. The epic drama was first put in development in 2012, but Fellowes got sidetracked by Downton Abbey. INSP greenlit Ultimate Cowboy Showdown, a reality competition series aimed at finding the ultimate modern day cowboy. Country music’s Trace Adkins will host the six-night event. Stampede inked a non-exclusive deal with reality producer Phil Gurin (Shark Tank) to develop unscripted and alternative programming for a global audience, reports Deadline. The partnership will be led at Stampede by Jay Judah. Dan Fogelman (This Is Us) renewed his relationship with 20th Century Fox TV with a new five-year deal. Under the pact, Fogelman will continue oversight of This Is Us as well as develop new series for the studio through his Rhode Island Ave. Productions. Now more than ever, networks need to understand what brands want and need. Join Jonathan Steuer, Chief Research Officer from Omnicom Media Group; Rob Jayson, EVP, Insights & Analytics at USIM; George Musi, EVP, Head of Data, Analytics & Insights at Blue 449; and Gabriella Mirabelli, EVP Consumer Insights and Brand Strategy at Valence Media at the Cynopsis Measurement & Data Conference June 11 in NYC. These industry leaders will be presenting case studies of their recent initiatives and discussing what matters to them, where they’re headed in 2020, and how networks can work with them so that both sides succeed. See the full agenda and register your team today. NEW & RETURNING SERIES FX set premiere dates for season four of Baskets (Thursday, June 13 at 10p), the third and final season of Legion (Monday, June 24 at 10p), and season three of Snowfall (Tuesday, July 10 at 10p). Paramount Network is expanding its “Rescue” franchise with Marriage Rescue, an unscripted series following Jon Taffer as he helps couples whose relationships are on the brink of failure. The six one-hour episode series premieres Sunday, June 2 at 10p. Streaming network PeopleTV is greenlighting Reality Check. Hosted by Lyndsey Rodrigues (TRL), the reality recap series premieres Monday, May 13. COMING UP Little Big Town will return to host the 2019 CMT Music Awards for the second consecutive year. The fan-voted award show airs live on Wednesday, June 5 at 8p. FOX Business Network is holding a special town hall event to discuss the economic impact of capitalist and socialist policies on Thursday, May 16at 2p. Charles Payne (Making Money) will moderate. CentroAméricaTV will air extensive coverage of the 2019 Panamanian general elections this Sunday, May 5, beginning at 12p, with a special live broadcast that starts at 8p. NEWFRONTS At Meredith’s NewFront event in downtown Manhattan Thursday, the company announced Katie Couric will host a weekly digital series, #SeeHer Story, that’s part of its slate of shows related to the #SeeHer movement. The series will be distributed across all of People’s outlets. Also in the slate: #SeeHer Style; season two of Badass Women; Parent’s Moms Mean Business; Health’s Wellness Warriors; Rachael Ray Every Day’s Like a Boss; and Shape’s Goal Crushers. Meredith also said it is doubling down on “the three Rs of celebrity,” red carpet, reality and royals, including a slate of 20 shows for Instagram’s IGTV vertical-video platform At its NewFront “Go Binge Yourself” reception in NYC, Tubi announced an exclusive deal for all 100 episodes of Debmar-Mercury and sib Lionsgate Television series Anger Management. The Charlie Sheen comedy, which had a record-setting premiere on FX at the time as the most-watched scripted cable comedy series debut, is available for free to Tubi customers. Tubi’s content library currently contains over 12,000 movies and TV series. Ellen Digital Network is collaborating with Lea Michele (Glee) on Well, Well, Well with Lea Michele, a new series offering health tips and a comedic take on trends. Also in the works: a celebrity-driven series with viral content creator Jay Shetty, and projects featuring mom-preneur Ayesha Curry, viral star Kalen Allen, YouTube star Hannah Hart, and Do Good Daniels with the Daniels family. “My digital studio is so fire, it’s lit… I can’t even,” said Ellen DeGeneres. “But I do know that just over the last two years, our slate of original programming has received over 1 billion organic views (and everyone knows organic is better). And we’re just getting started. I can’t wait for everyone to see what we’ve got this year.” Amid tables of dim sum at NYC’s Jing Fong Restaurant, Vice reported it is reaching 300 million consumers a month. CEO Nancy Dubuc said Vice understands how to connect with young consumers. “We really, deeply understand how they use media and how they understand your brands through media,” Dubuc told media buyers. “Because of how young this world is, we know that Vice’s megaphone as a brand is really just beginning to make an impact.” Changes at Vice include gathering brands like Vice News, Motherboard and Munchies on one site. TECH TALK Listen up: Spotify is testing voice ads. An ad for Unilever’s Axe brand encourages users to go to a podcast sponsored by Unilever by saying, “play now,” reports AdAge. Listeners can disable voice ads in their ad settings. Should I be worried, Alexa? According to a study by Microsoft, 41% of consumers are concerned about trust and privacy around digital assistants. Nevertheless, 85% are willing to share email addresses with digital assistants in exchange for personalized pricing/rewards, 82% for free or upgraded shipping, and 80% for expedited purchasing options, DIGITAL DATA Facebook execs including Mark Zuckerberg are being sued over alleged data privacy issues related to now-shuttered Cambridge Analytica that resulted in “extreme financial and reputational damage to Facebook,” said a shareholder in a complaint filed in Delaware. “This reputational harm undoubtedly translates into long-term damage to the company.” A company spokesperson said the lawsuit is “without merit.” In more Facebook news, the social media giant announced it has designated right wing extremists like Alex Jones and Milo Yiannopoulos as “dangerous” and will boot them from Facebook and Instagram. Facebook also said it would ban their official accounts, and remove pages or accounts created to represent them. Weeks after acquiring Gizmodo Media Group and The Onion from Univision, G/O Media laid off about 6% of its 400-person staff. Cuts include Susie Banikarim, former editorial director of Gizmodo Media Group. G/O CEO Jim Spanfeller described the layoffs as “not performance-driven but rather process-motivated.” Add iPad, Apple TV and Android TV to the devices and platforms now available for launched-last-year streaming service Locast. As a nonprofit, Locast, available in New York, Chicago, Houston, Dallas, Denver, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore and D.C., does not need a TV station’s permission to stream. AdMetv, a place-based DOOH advertising IoT device solution, has joined global OOH association DPAA. Said DPAA President & CEO Barry Frey, “AdMetv represents a great opportunity for venues to turn passive TV screens into revenue-generating devices that enable advertisers to target specific locations and audiences. They are adding another layer onto out-of-home’s digital presence, and a great opportunity for brands.” Want to hear more? As the fast growing digitalization of Out of Home advertising continues to accelerate, DPAA’s Barry Frey will lead an expert panel diving into the subject at Cynopsis’ That Big TV Conference. “This session will be a must-attend for anyone interested in the demand side for digital out-of-home,” says Frey. “Our panel of industry leaders will discuss new data sets, video opportunities, addressability and programmatic.” Details on the event are here. GOOD WORKS Cartoon Network and Pilot Corporation of America (Pilot Pen) are teaming for a two-year partnership to erase bullying that provides students with the platform and creative resources to share their stories of empathy and inclusion. The collaboration adds to Cartoon Network’s “Stop Bullying: Speak Up” “pro-social initiative with 826 National. Entertainment One is launching a digital album for its preschool animated property, PJ Masks. “Heroes Forever, will be released in English language and available globally on digital streaming and download platforms starting May 31. GOING GLOBAL NBCUniversal International Formats announced a deal with Russia’s CTC for a new local version of Celebrity Game Night. This is the 21st version of the format, which has also been produced in the UK, Sweden, France, Spain, Turkey, French Canada and across Eastern Europe. CTV landed the exclusive, multi-platform Canadian rights to the U.S. version of Love Island, in a deal with ITV Studios Global Entertainment. |
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| RATINGS In its move from Sunday to Wednesday, NBC’s Billboard Music Awards rose 83,000 year to year among total viewers, to 7.96 million, but dipped to a franchise low of 2.1 among A18-49. Travel Channel’s Friday, April 26 at 10p debut of Portals to Hell became the highest-rated and most-watched series premiere in network history for P2+, P25-54 and W25-54, delivering more than 922,000 P2+. The series premiere was +185% versus year-ago levels for P25-54 and +202% for W25-54. Live + Same Day Viewers AA (millions): Wednesday, April 24 time period averages Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated Live+SD NBC: 7.96 million Billboard Music Awards 7.96 CBS: 5.49 million Survivor 7.24, The Amazing Race 4.57, S.E.A.L. Team 4.65 ABC: 3.45 million The Goldbergs 4.46, Schooled 3.62, Modern Family 4.21, Single Parents 2.95, Whiskey Cavalier 2.74 FOX: 3.37 million Empire 3.73, Star 3.01 Telemundo: 0.72 million Exatlon 0.49, Betty en NY 0.67, La Reina del Sur 1.00 Univision: 0.97 million Jesus 1.03, Rosa de Guadelupe 0.99, Por Amar sin Ley 0.90 CW: 0.66 million Riverdale 0.73, Jane the Virgin 0.59 Wednesday A18-49 Rating: NBC 2.1/10, CBS 1.0/5, FOX 1.0/5, ABC 0.7/3, TELE 0.5/3, UNI 0.4/2, CW 0.2/1 EXECUTIVE MOVES Trusted Media Brands named Ion Mateescu as Vice President of Digital Data Strategy. Mateescu most recently served as Head of Analytics and Data Science for Thomson Reuters. IN MEMORIAM Sports television producer Gary Lang died April 21 after a brief illness. He was 53. Lang earned 17 Emmy Awards for his work at Fox Sports, and was VP of Production for Tennis Channel from 2012-2015. |
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| Friday Fun Fact: The international telephone area code for Antarctica is 672. This Day in History: 1937 – Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize for “Gone With the Wind”. Answer to our last trivia question: Which future M*A*S*H (1972-1983) star had a TV role as an insurance agent and a wife named Gladys? Harry Morgan, in December Bride (1954-1959) and its spin-off, Pete and Gladys (1961-1962). Kudos to: Cathy Korda/Honolulu, HI, Robin Goret-Corner of the Sky Communication Group/Scotland, Jim Kelly-Jim Kelly Consulting/Central Islip, NY, Linda Kitchens/Sanford, FL, Randy Ingram-WISH/WNDY-TV/Indianapolis, Andrew Goldman-Fathom Events/NYC, John Kukla-KDFW/Dallas, Kevin Moran-Blarney Productions/Pasadena, CA, John Amato-Good Day L.A./LA, Rick Pike-InterMedia Advertising/Woodland Hills, CA Today's Trivia Question: Which was the only Mary Tyler Moore Show character seen on spin-off Lou Grant (1977-1982)? (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 - FRIDAY MAY 3 ABC: Screen Time: Diane Sawyer Reporting at 8p, 20/20 at 10p CBS: MacGyver, Hawaii Five-0, Blue Bloods CW: Dynasty, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Whose Line Is It Anyway? FOX: Last Man Standing, The Cool Kids, Proven Innocent NBC: The Blacklist, The Blacklist, Dateline NBC PBS: Washington Week, Firing Line With Margaret Hoover, PBS Previews: Chasing the Moon Telemundo: Exatlon Estados Unidos, Betty en NY, La Reina del Sur Univision: Jesus, La Rosa de Guadalupe, Por Amar sin Ley |
