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| Good morning. It’s Monday May 6, 2019 and this is your first early-morning briefing. Tonight's Finales: AMC: Into the Badlands at 10p CBS: Man With a Plan at 8:30p Food Network: Spring Baking Championship at 9p Fox: The Resident at 8p Freeform: Shadowhunters at 8p HGTV: One of a Kind at 10p Nat Geo: Hostile Planet at 9p IN THE NEWS Disney on Friday finalized its deal to sell off 21 Fox regional sports networks to Sinclair Broadcast Group; the transaction is valued at $10.6 billion. Last year, the 21 channels delivered $3.8 billion in revenue across 74 million subscribers. Entertainment Studios chief Byron Allen is teaming with Sinclair as an equity partner in the newly formed Diamond Holding Group, which covers outlets serving major markets around the country. The RSNs have local rights to a total of 42 professional teams, comprising teams in Major League Baseball, the NBA and the NHL. Asserting the judge assigned to its lawsuit against Hollywood’s Big 4 talent agencies is “prejudiced,” the WGA Friday used its sole preemptory challenge and had LA Superior Court Judge Marc Gross removed from the case. The guild had previously asked Gross to voluntarily recuse himself from the case because his wife once worked for Endeavor before the agency’s 2009 merger with the William Morris Agency that created WME, a defendant in the suit. ABC News’ Good Morning America dropped the lineup for its 2019 Summer Concert Series. K-pop megagroup BTS will kick off the series on Wednesday, May 15. Other artists to be featured in Central Park include Bastille, Chance the Rapper, Ciara, Ellie Goulding, Hozier, Lady Antebellum, Keith Urban and Kane Brown & Marshmello. “Having an OTT service that doesn’t prioritize the viewer experience and discoverability is like hosting a party where the food tastes bad and you can’t get a drink because there aren’t enough bartenders,” says Dan Hurwitz, CEO of Penthera. So what’s an OTT provider to do? Hear more from Hurwitz in Cynsiders. CBS and The Young and the Restless took home the most trophies Friday at the Daytime Emmy Creative Arts Awards, hosted by David Osmond, who co-hosted the 2018 Cynopsis’ Imagination Awards. CBS scored 12 wins; Y&R notched five. Also at the ceremony, Jacques Pepin received a Daytime Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award. In his new tome, former Saturday Night Live actor Chris Kattan claims he broke his neck during an SNL sketch in 2001. In an interview with Variety, he said he told SNL exec producer Lorne Michaels and producer Ken Aymong about the accident and Aymong promised to “take care of it.” Kattan said NBC paid for two of the five surgeries he had over the years. Kattan’s book will be released tomorrow (May 7). The San Francisco house featured in the opening credits of Full House and the Fuller House reboot is on the market for $6 million. The home is 3,728 square feet, with four bedrooms and three and a half baths. |
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| “ In today’s competitive environment, networks must be innovative beyond what traditional data has historically provided. We need the kinds of insights that enable us to make smarter decisions about brand & editorial strategy, and determine the ideal content calibration in order to maximize revenue and ROI.” --Don Robert, EVP Research - A+E Networks (Featured speaker on the “Measurement Matters” Panel at That Big TV Conference on 9/10 in NYC) DON’T MISS OUT: www.thatbigtvconference.com |
| PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT Laurie Arent (NCIS: New Orleans) will write and exec-producer Kelly Ripa’s Freeform project based on the Jasmin Rosemberg book How The Other Half Hamptons, from Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment and Ripa and Mark Consuelos’ Milojo Productions. Project probes the sharehouse scenario in which young Manhattan-based fun seekers take part every summer. Writer/producer Jason Richman signed a new multiyear overall contract with ABC Studios, extending his relationship that includes working on his current studio projects and developing new ones for broadcast, cable and streaming. Stumptown, among ABC’s new drama pilots, is the brainchild of Richman, who created, wrote and show-runs the series. He also is co-writing and co-show-running The Rainmaker and Rogue Lawyer, the first two series in Hulu’s proposed John Grisham Universe franchise. Fulwell 73, production house behind The Late Late Show With James Corden, brought in Tracie Fiss as a head of talent, and notched an eight-part series for Quibi. Fiss is a 20-year veteran of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, was a co-producer on Leno’s talk show, and most recently served as head of talent for Lip Sync Battle. Michael Gilvary, a longtime writer/producer on NBC’s Chicago Fire who became an exec producer for season 6, inked a new overall deal with Universal Television, the studio behind the series. Should we abandon the traditional ratings system for the new world of digital-first video landscape? Hear from Jo Kinsella, EVP and Chief Revenue Office of TVSquared and Sue Hogan, SVP of Research and Measurement of IAB, and other industry experts discuss best practices for 2020 and beyond. Join us at the third annual Cynopsis Measurement & Data Conference June 11 in NYC. See the full agenda and register your team before May 17th -http://www.cynopsis.com/events/measurement-data-conference-2019 Three time’s a charm for both Revenge Body with Khloe Kardashian and Very Cavallari. The series each got a season 3 pickup at E!, which also renewed Dating #NoFilter for a second season with new eps coming later this year. Top 10 Weekend Domestic Box Office Estimates: May 3-5 Avengers End Game (BV) $145.8 million (week 2), cume revenue $619.7 million The Intruder (SGem) $11 million, opening weekend Long Shot (LG/S) $10.0 million, opening weekend Ugly Dolls (STX) $8.5 million, opening weekend Captain Marvel (Buena Vista) $4.3 million (week 9), cume revenue $420.8 million Breakthrough (Fox) $3.9 million (week 3), cume revenue $33.2 million The Curse of La Llorona (Warner Bros.) $3.5 million (week 3), cume revenue $48.1 milion Shazam! (WB) $2.5 million (week 5), cume revenue $135.2 million Little (Universal) $1.5 million (week 4), cume revenue $38.6 million Dumbo (Buena Vista) $1.4 million (week 6), cume revenue $109.6 million Source: Comscore NEWFRONT SEASON YouTube has 2 billion monthly unique users globally, CEO Susan Wojcicki shared last Thursday at its Brandcast event in NY. The number is up 5 percent from the 1.9 billion monthly users YT announced last summer. She said watch time of YouTube on TV screens was more than 250 million hours per day as of March 2019, a rise of 39 percent in less than a year and one that excludes viewing on internet pay TV service YouTube TV - a figure based on self-reported data. Allan Thygesen, Google president of the Americas, said across all platforms, YT reaches more A18-49 in an average week than all cable TV networks combined, In other toplines: * YT is going to make all original scripted and unscripted programming - including series Cobra Kai and Liza On Demand - available for free, ad-supported viewing starting later this year in post-SVOD windows. * YouTube TV’s 70 broadcast and cable channels are now available as a standalone option in Google Preferred (before, YouTube TV inventory was available only as part of a larger Google Preferred buy). * The company will update the Google Preferred proprietary algorithm (P-score) to include more content frequently watched on TV screens and “content that exhibits higher production value.” * In programming, Wojcicki teased a “top-secret” project with Justin Bieber slated for 2020, docs on Paris Hilton and Latin artist Maluma and the renewal of Kevin Hart’s unscripted What the Fit. Alicia Keys was on sight to tout a new talk show, Unwind, coming to her channel. Tiffany Haddish announced she’s launching a channel through which she’ll stage interventions for celebrity hoarders. NEW & RETURNING SERIES Living by Design with Jake and Jazz launched this weekend (May 4) on Cleo TV, featuring brother-sister duo Jake and Jazz Smollett. For the series the sibs team up to transform the living, work, and play spaces of millennial families and create simple solutions to everyday home design dilemmas. One mansion, two deaths and countless questions. Oxygen Media will dive into another tragic case in new limited series Death At The Mansion: Rebecca Zahau, premiering Saturday, June 1 at 6p. The new trailer for Netflix comedy It’s Bruno, from rapper/filmmaker Salvan “Slick” Naim, landed Friday to whet appetites for the show that follows the dog lover and his best canine friend on adventures in their Brooklyn neighborhood. The eight-ep series premieres May 17. CBS will bow Blood & Treasure, starring Matt Barr and Sofia Pernas as a brilliant antiquities expert and a cunning art thief who team up to catch a terrorist who funds his attacks through stolen treasure, on Tuesday, May 21 at 9p with a two-hour series premiere. In need of a feel good moment? Go check out the incredible winners and honorable mentions for our Social Good Awards, spotlighting the companies, programming, campaigns and people that are using media in innovative ways to help make the world a better place. Take a look at the projects, partnerships and people who utilized their position to make real change happen. The poster and a new trailer for upcoming Showtime drama series City on a Hill hit on Friday. The series, set in the early ‘90s in a corrupt and crime-ridden Boston, premieres Sunday, June 16 at 9p. COMING UP ABC News will probe the little-known story of Mary Jo Kopechne, the passenger who died after Sen. Ted Kennedy drove off a bridge near Martha’s Vineyard, escaped from the submerged car and failed to immediately report the accident. “The Girl in the Car” special episode airs Tuesday, May 7 at 10p. NBC’s fifth Red Nose Day Special, airing Thursday, May 23 at 8p, will bring together television, film and musical talent including Kelly Clarkson, Blake Shelton, Kate McKinnon and Lilly Singh to raise money for children in need. Viewers will also catch a mini-sequel of the film Four Weddings and a Funeral, titled One Red Nose Day and a Wedding. The film catches up with the characters played by Hugh Grant, Andie McDowell, Kristin Scott Thomas, Rowan Atkinson and more from the original cast, reuniting 25 years after the original release. Also featured will be a short film of Milo Ventimiglia (This Is Us) traveling to Kenya to see firsthand how Red Nose Day funds are changing lives. DIGITAL DATA AMC Networks Friday shut off public access to its database for its Sundance Now and Shudder subscription-streaming services after it inadvertently exposed the database on the open internet. The database includes 1.62 million total records including names, emails, and subscription plan details used internally by the company. Popular YouTube singer Austin Jones, 26, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for soliciting sexually explicit videos from his female teenage fans. Jones was arrested in 2017 and charged with two counts of production of child pornography, to which he pleaded guilty this February. TECH TALK Vice Media, which has undergone layoffs and consolidation of late, raised $250 million in debt from investors including George Soros, Fortress Investment Group, 23 Capital and Monroe Capital, money that will be used to bolster the media company. Mercedes-Benz has become the first automotive brand to offer an Instagram augmented reality filter in a campaign that launches its new CLA Coupe. The filter dovetails with a #PlayByYourRules short film the company created and is part of a larger social media campaign. Facebook’s upcoming Oculus Quest headset will not be supported by Viveport Infinity, HTC’s VR subscription service that has a similar model to Netflix. CASTING Jessica Rothe (Happy Death Day) will recur opposite John Cusack, Sasha Lane and Rainn Wilson in Utopia, Amazon's straight-to-series adaptation of the like-named British drama… Chris Greene (The Birth of a Nation) and Sofia Lama (NCIS: Los Angeles) nabbed recurring roles in the upcoming fourth season of USA Network's Queen of the South. |
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| Calling all innovators, game-changers, marketing mavens and analytical aces… Take your places at the podium at the Cynopsis Top Women in Media Awards This will be the biggest group of women being honored in the media space. Categories cover all levels of the industry and include excellence in leadership, community building, marketing, social media, content marketing, branded content, strategy, data mining, mobile, and more. There’s still time to get your nominations in before May 8th. |
| RATINGS ABC scored its highest-rated primetime NBA Conference Semifinals game broadcast since 2011 on Saturday, May 4. The net’s coverage of the Houston Rockets-Golden State Warriors in game 3 of their Western Conference Semifinals series was up 20 percent from last year's comparable window, according to Nielsen. Live + Same Day Viewers AA (millions): Thursday, May 2, 2019 time period averages Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated Live+SD NBC: 5.34 million The Voice 7.20, The Village 4.18, New Amsterdam 4.63 ABC: 3.17 million American Housewife 3.61, the Kids Are Alright 2.91, Black-ish 2.85, Splitting Up Together 2.49, The Rookie 3.60 CBS: 8.83 million NCIS 11.59, FBI 6.19, NCIS: New Orleans 6.74 FOX: 2.29 million MasterChef Junior 2.66, Mental Samurai 1.92 Telemundo: 1 million Exatlon .85, Betty en NY .99, La Reina del Sur 1.43 Univision: 920,000 Jesus .98, Rosa de Guadalupe .86, Por Amar sin Ley .91 CW: 700,000 The Flash 0.60, Roswell, New Mexico 0.82 Thursday A18-49 Rating: ABC .6/3, FOX .6/3, NBC .9/4, CBS .8/4, UNI .4/2, TELE .6/2, CW .2/1 EXECUTIVE MOVES Jeff Bader, formerly NBC Entertainment president of program planning, strategy & research, is getting an expanded role. In his new position of chief research officer, he’ll oversee NBC’s television portfolio and will launch a new research and strategy group at NBCU, to be run by Lisa Heimann, who was elevated to EVP, corporate research and strategy, reporting to Bader. The new division aims to develop unified cross-platform measurement to improve monetization and program insights across NBCU’s TV businesses. Longtime CBS head of casting Peter Golden is exiting the company after 23 years at the network. Golden’s name has been attached to several controversies related to CBS’ diversity record and corporate culture during the past few years. After two years in the post, Sharon Tal Yguado is stepping down as Amazon Studios’ head of genre drama. Sports streaming company DAZN hired Jamie Horowitz as EVP, content, North America. Horowitz had been a consultant at DAZN since 2018; he was fired by Fox Sports the prior year amid accusations of sexual harassment, and in 2014 he was fired by NBC after less than three months overseeing Today. |
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| This Day in History: 1877 - Chief Crazy Horse surrendered to US troops in Nebraska. Answer to our last trivia question: Which was the only Mary Tyler Moore Show character seen on spin-off Lou Grant (1977-1982)? Flo Meredith, played by Eileen Heckart. Kudos to: Andrew Goldman-Fathom Events/NY; Steve Iha-LBI Media/Dallas; Susan Nessanbaum- Goldberg-M and S Entertainment/LA; Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/LA; David Westberg-SAG*AFTRA Federal Credit Union/Burbank Today's Trivia Question: Which actor voiced both Speed Racer and his brother Racer X in the original Speed Racer series (1967-68)? (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 MAY 6 ABC: the Bachelorette, The Fix CBS: The Big Bang Theory, Man With a Plan, the Code, Bull CW: DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Arrow FOX: The Resident, 9-1-1 NBC: The Voice, The Enemy Within PBS: Antiques Roadshow, Antiques Roadshow, Independent Lens Telemundo: Exatlon Estados Unidos, Betty en NY, La Reina del Sur Univision: Jesus, La Rosa de Guadalupe, Por Amar Sin Ley |
