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PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT Cream Productions format History Erased landed a season two order from Corus Entertainment’s HISTORY, set to premiere in Fall 2019. Event series examines the butterfly effect of removing key individuals, ideas and inventions from a given nation’s history to highlight that country’s contributions to global culture and human history. Asylum Entertainment Group welcomed Clovis Entertainment to its family of companies. Clovis will exclusively develop and produce one-hour drama series as Asylum expands on their production of mini-series and television movies. Derek Stoops will run the company. Producing team Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz (Project Runway) announced a new media and content venture, Alfred Street Industries (Brain Games). Dan Volpe (Below Deck, Top Chef) will serve as SVP of content and production, and Erin Rott joins as Chief of Staff. Top 10 Weekend Domestic Box Office Estimates: May 31-June 2
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (WB) $49.0 million, opening weekend Aladdin (BV) $42.3 million (week 2), cume revenue $185.0 million Rocketman (Paramount) $25.0 million, opening weekend Ma (Universal) $11.3 million, opening weekend John Wicke – Chapter 3: Parabellum (LG/S) $11.1 million (week 3), cume revenue$125.8 million Avengers End Game (BV) $7.8 (week 6), cume revenue $815.5 million Pokeman: Detective Pikachu (WB) $6.7 million (week 4), cume revenue $130.6 million Booksmart (UAR) $3.3 million (week 2), cume revenue $14.4 million Brightburn (SGem) $2.3 million (week 2), cume revenue $14.2 million The Hustle (UAR) $1.3 million (week 4), cume revenue $33.2 million Source: Comscore NEW & RETURNING SERIES Every renovation series has its challenges, but chronicling pool builds can be especially tricky, Robert Horowitz, Juma Entertainment president, tells Cynopsis on the eve of Pool Kings’ season three premiere. “What you encounter with pools is completely different from your standard yard or home interior reno show,” says Horowitz. “A backyard or kitchen might require a week of filming. But with a swimming pool, you’re often talking 4 to 6 months. And even with the best coverage plans, weather comes into play. We never forget that all of our filming occurs outdoors.” That could be part of the viewer fascination with the genre. “What we didn’t expect was the amount of young people that follow our pool shows on-air and via social media,” says Horowitz. “The ratings also illustrate the point, with pool shows delivering one of the network's youngest skewing audiences.” In addition to DIY’s Pool Kings, debuting tonight at 9p, Juma is also producing two upcoming HGTV series, Supersize My Pool with Mario Lopez and Pool Hunters. Cupcake experts compete to craft exquisite treats in Food Network’s Cupcake Championship, starting Monday, July 1 at 9p. Showtime docu-series Shangri-la premieres Friday, July 12 at 9p. Four-parter is a collaboration from Morgan Neville (Won’t You Be My Neighbor), music producer Rick Rubin, and director Jeff Malmberg (Marwencol). Trust, temptation and commitment are issues that emerge in Snap’s Wrong Distance Relationship, following three couples trying to keep romance alive under difficult circumstances. Docu-series airs Tuesdays starting June 4. All eight episodes of Looking for Alaska, based on the 2005 bestseller by John Green, will be released on Hulu on Friday, October 18. TECH TALK Amazon positioned itself as a potentially serious competitor for Google’s ad business with the confirmation of its agreement to acquire the ad server operation of bankrupt ad tech firm Sizmek. Once the deal closes, Sizmek Ad Server and Sizmek DCO will operate separately from Amazon Advertising for the time being, said the company on its website. “Sizmek and Amazon Advertising have many mutual customers, so we know how valued these proven solutions are to their customer base,” said Amazon. “Sizmek has been searching for a buyer for Sizmek Ad Server and Sizmek DCO, and we are both committed to continuing serving their customers at the high standards they’ve come to expect.” Sizmek declared bankruptcy in March. Google is being investigated by the US Justice Department for possible anti-trust violations regarding search and advertising policies, reports the Wall Street Journal, based on complaints about its practices forwarded to the Justice Department by the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC closed an investigation into Google in 2013 after the company said it would make changes to its search practices. Foursquare has agreed to buy location-based measurement company Placed from Snap Inc. Placed Attribution will become Foursquare’s flagship measurement product, and Placed founder and CEO David Shim is joining Foursquare as president. Snap acquired Placed in 2017; its partnership with Foursquare, which powers Snap Geofilters, will continue. If you haven’t heard, Facebook is tweaking its news algorithm to make it feel more personal. Read more about it and more media tech news: http://www.cynopsis.com/techfronts/ COMING UP iHeartCountry will once again serve as the official radio partner of the 2019 CMT Music Awards, simulcasting the live show from Nashville on Wednesday, June 5, at 8p.
Descendants 3 premieres Friday, August 2 at 8p on Disney Channel and DisneyNOW. Hopes are high - the premiere telecasts of the first two Descendants movies, in 2015 and 2017, ranked as the most-watched cable movie of their respective years among Kids 6-11 and Tweens 9-14. OWN announced its first-ever behind-the-scenes primetime special OWN Presents: Inside WACO’s Wearable Art Gala, debuting Tuesday, June 11 at 10p. The annual event created by WACO (Where Art Can Occur) co-founders Tina Knowles Lawson and Richard Lawson is marking its third year by paying tribute to four honorees who have made significant impact on the world through their art, philanthropy, and entrepreneurial spirit, including Tyler Perry (The Haves and the Have Nots). Smithsonian Channel has six weeks of programming lined up to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing on July 20. First up: Six-part series Apollo’s Moon Shot, launching Sunday, June 16 at 8p. DIGITAL DATA Search engine Reelgood took samples from its most active users and found that 91% of Hulu subscribers, 77% of Prime Video subscribers and 51% of Netflix subscribers still pay for cable television. One reason older viewers went back to, or stayed true to, cable TV is that “switching between different streaming services, to see where a particular show or movie is available proved very frustrating and time-consuming for them,” reported Reelgood. Tinder announced a new version of Boost. The upgrade, Super Boost, will be offered to Tinder Plus and Tinder Gold premium subscribers, and gives users looking for love (or whatever) the chance to be seen by up to 100 times more potential matches. That’s versus Boost, which can increase views by up to 10 times. The dating app is testing different price points. AT&T added Locast’s interactive app on its DIRECTV and U-verse platforms. Locast, a public service application that offers viewers with broadband-connected receivers access to their local ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX and other broadcast stations streamed via the Internet, is currently available to 27 million users in nine markets: New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Dallas, Washington, Houston, Boston, Denver and Baltimore. “AT&T continues to offer consumers new ways to access the video content they want. We believe Locast's public service offering will make sense for many of them,” said the company, which will continue to offer its complimentary Local Channel Connector service when a local station is otherwise unavailable. CASTING Patrick J. Adams (Suits) will star in Nat Geo scripted series The Right Stuff, based on Tom Wolfe’s nonfiction book...Vanessa Lachey (Dads) landed a recurring role on Fox’s Beverly Hills, 90201 summer reboot, BH90210. GOING GLOBAL Korean format The Masked Singer, a hit in the U.S. on Fox, is headed to the UK. ITV ordered a remake from Bandicoot. AMC Networks International – Central and Northern Europe has renewed a distribution agreement for kids’ network Minimax with Telekom Romania. |
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RATINGS Game 1 of the NBA finals on ABC averaged out-of-home viewership of 6.8 million, skewing 80% male and 20% female versus last year’s 73% M / 27% F split. Sixty-five percent of viewers were in the A25-54 demo. Game one was down from an OOH average of 10.2 million viewers for the same game in 2018. TV Time's June 2019 Anticipation Report
New Series Euphoria (HBO) - 6/16/19 Too Old To Die Young (Amazon Prime Video) - 6/14/19 Grand Hotel (ABC) - 6/17/19 NOS4A2 (AMC) - 6/2/19 City on a Hill (Showtime) - 6/16/19 Returning Series Black Mirror (Netflix) - 6/5/19 DARK (Netflix) - 6/21/19 Big Little Lies (HBO) - 6/9/19 The Handmaid's Tale (Hulu) - 6/5/19 3% (Netflix) - 6/7/19 Methodology: Millions of viewers from around the world use TV Time to track and react to the cable, broadcast, and OTT shows they're watching. Based on global data from our users, these are the most anticipated series for June 2019. Live + Same Day Viewers AA (millions): Friday, May 31 time period averages Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated Live+SD CBS: 4.27 million Whistleblower 4.21, Hawaii Five-0 4.00, Blue Bloods 4.59 ABC: 3.17 Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 2.44, 20/20 3.54 NBC: 2.56 million Blindspot 2.66, Blindspot 2.07, Dateline NBC 2.95 FOX: 1.58 million Beat Shazam 1.76, MasterChef 1.40 CW: 1.40 Masters of Illusion 20th Anniversary Special 1.50, Whose Line Is It Anyway 1.31 Friday A18-49 Ratings: ABC 0.5/3, FOX 0.5/3, CBS 0.4/2, NBC 0.4/2, CW 0.3/2 EXECUTIVE MOVES Bryce Gama was promoted to Chief Financial Officer, NBCUniversal Content Distribution. Gama joined NBCUniversal Content Distribution in 2016 as VP, Pricing & Strategy. WarnerMedia handed oversight of Otter Media to Bob Greenblatt, head of entertainment and direct-to-consumer operations. Tony Goncalves, CEO of Otter Media, will also oversee the development of the new WarnerMedia direct-to-consumer service. Brad Bentley, the streaming service’s GM, is exiting. Dave Shull was named CEO of TiVo. Shull was most recently CEO of The Weather Channel. Shull takes over for interim CEO Raghu Rau, who will return to his role as Vice Chairman of TiVo’s board. Melinda Hage, EVP Current Programming for Warner Bros. Television, is retiring. Hage joined WBTV in 1994. A+E Networks promoted six executives across the Ad Sales Division: David DeSocio has been elevated to EVP, Ad Sales Marketing & Partnerships; Teryl Brown, Nicole Durette, Pam Gibbons and Mary Kang have each been elevated to SVP, Ad Sales; and Ethan Heftman has been promoted to SVP, Ad Sales Precision and Performance. Transform Films appointed Beth Fraikorn as Head of Content, Development and Partnerships. Fraikorn has worked for companies including Disney, NHK and Time-Life. This Day in History: 1976 – Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” went gold. Answer to our last trivia question: Who was the initial choice to play Jonathan Hart on Hart to Hart (1979-1984)? Cary Grant. Kudos to: Tim Overmyer-20th TV/Atlanta, Andrew Goldman-Fathom Events/NYC, Charles Lore/NYC, Mike Seidel-CSI Sports/Jersey City, NJ, Paul Blutter-Walk and Talk Production Rentals/Burbank, David Gabe-Loyola Marymount University/Playa Vista, CA, Melissa Azizi-Sparkwood/LA, Steve Iha-LBI Media/Dallas, Lorrie Shilling/El Segundo, CA Today's Trivia Question: What was the first series Dick Van Dyke starred in after The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961-1966)? (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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Full info HERE DIRECTOR, INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION & TRADE MARKETING/Viacom International Media/NYC: Plan & mng trade events. Mng Viacom’s international B2B branding. Min 7 yrs mktg exp within Product Licensing, Trade Marketing or Business to Business (B2B) mktg. Full info HERE (6/18)
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MANAGER, AD SALES RESEARCH/UPtv/NYC: Well-rounded & exp’d ad Sales rsrchr – adept at using ratings, mktg analytics & custom data to create a complete & accurate picture. 5+ yrs ad sales rsrch exp. Fast thinking, collaborative, data miner & strategic storyteller. Join an amazing Team & have an impact. Full info HERE (6/12)
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WRITER/E! People’s Choice Awards (E!)/Universal City: Write daily articles for PCA’s website on E! Online. Voting preparation in coord w/mktg on categories, celebs selection, voting tool entry & updating nominee’s lists. Min 1yr prior writing and/or editing exp pref an online ent news org. Strong knwldg pop culter ent news. Full info HERE (6/7)
MEDIA MGR, NATIONAL ACCOUNTS/Ad Council/NYC: Responsible for building/managing relationships w/existing & potential media partners that will help us drive impact for Ad Council’s 40+ social impact campaigns. Prospect new business w/a focus on growth areas such as streaming audio, OTT & new video platforms etc. Full info/apply HERE (6/7)
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PROJECT MANAGER/WideOrbit/NYC: Partner closely w/clients, overseeing large, complex implementation projects. 5+ yrs exp managing/delivering enterprise software or IT projects, Media indstry exp, Knwldg of proposal & inv mngmnt systems used by nat’l cable networks is highly desirable. Full info HERE (6/6)
FREELANCE STRATEGIC PLANNING & OPS COORDINATOR/Nickelodeon Velocity/NY: Support VP in all strategic planning ops, communications & training initiatives for Nick team that dvlps custom mktg campaigns for Advertising partners. Proactive/strategic thinker with excellent comm skills. 2-4 yrs of mktg or strategy plan’g exp. Full info HERE (6/6)
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WHAT'S ON TONIGHT - MONDAY JUNE 3
ABC: The Bachelorette, Celebrity Family Feud CBS: The Neighborhood, Man With a Plan, The Code, Bull CW: Masters of Illusion 20th Anniversary Special, Burden of Truth FOX: Beat Shazam, So You Think You Can Dance [p] NBC: Stanley Cup Final PBS: Antiques Roadshow, Antiques Roadshow, Independent Lens Telemundo: Un Poquito Tuyo, Betty en NY, La Reina del Sur Univision: La Reina Soy Yo, Silvia Pinal, Frente a ti, Por Amar Sin Ley |
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