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| Good morning. It’s Friday June 21, 2019 and this is your first early-morning briefing. Tonight's Premieres: Netflix: Girls Incarcerated Travel Channel: Ghosts of Morgan City at 9p Saturday’s Premieres: Nickelodeon: Lego City at 11:30a Sunday’s Premieres: Cartoon Network: Summer Camp Island at noon HGTV: Island Life at 10p and 10:30p Nat Geo: Wicked Tuna: Outer Banks at 9p, Yellowstone Live at 10p Oxygen: License to Kill at 7p, A Lie To Die For at 8p SundanceTV: Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter at 10a Sunday’s Finales: BBC America: Luther at 8p E!: Keeping Up With the Kardshians at 9p Starz: The Spanish Princess at 8p, Vida at 9:30p IN THE NEWS It’s a wrap on Upfront advertising sales at CBS, which posted CPM gains of 14 percent-16 percent in primetime and volume gains of 20 percent in late night. CPMs in late night saw increases in the mid- to high teens on the merits of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and The Late Late Show with James Corden, while in primetime the volume gains ranged between 5 percent and 6 percent. Across other dayparts, CPM gains were in the single digits. This year’s Upfront season was the first one overseen by acting CEO Joe Ianniello, who stepped in for disgraced former network chief Les Moonves. In related news, CBS has found its Love Island host. Actress and comedian Arielle Vandenberg will preside over the US version of the international hit unscripted series that will premiere with a 90-minute episode on Tuesday, July 9 at 8p. Important alert for Cynopsis’ That Big TV Conference: ticket prices will increase in one month (July 19). Register your team soon to save BIG! The Razzie Awards, the annual celebrating and roasting of the worst films of the year are headed to TV for the first time in their 40-year history, with Comedy Dynamics set to produce and air the event live on the Comedy Dynamics Network. The Golden Raspberry Awards were co-founded by film veterans John Wilson and Mo Murphy and traditionally have been held the night before the Oscars. At our deadline, the Association of Talent Agents’ negotiating committee was expected to meet last night or today to parse the WGA's declared impasse in their negotiations for a new franchise agreement. The WGA rejected the ATA’s offer of a new proposal, which included a new revenue-sharing offer, among other updates. Amid the ongoing standoff, House of Cards creator Beau Willimon will run unopposed for re-election as president of the WGA East. It's the second time Willimon has run unopposed for the role; the first time was when he was first elected in 2017. |
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| PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT Tyler Perry set his first series—White House drama The Oval—at BET as part of his multiyear content deal with network parent Viacom. Starring Ed Quinn, Kron Moore, Paige Hurd and Daniel Croix Henderson, series is slated to begin principal photography this summer at Tyler Perry Studios, home to its writer, director and exec producer. The Oval introduces a new family moving into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue who seem perfect on the outside but behind closed doors are rife with cheating, lies and corruption. John Wells Productions renewed its ties to Warner Bros. Television via a five-year overall deal that extends the producer’s tenure at the studio to nearly 40 years. The pact, reportedly in the nine figures and running through 2024, will see Wells’ company developing a range of content for various Warner Bros. TV imprints. What makes Facebook’s Showcase content ecosystem premium? Find out on Cynopsis’ brand new TechFronts site: http://www.cynopsis.com/techfronts/facebook-presents-showcase On the heels of the conviction of Keith Raniere for racketeering, sex trafficking and other crimes, Investigation Discovery committed to The Lost Women of Nxivm, a two-hour special from Ample Entertainment, slated to premiere on the network this December. Series takes viewers inside the active investigation to explore what really happened to Kristin Snyder, Gina Hutchinson, and other women of Nxivm, and tracks down past members, informants and eyewitnesses—many going on the record for the first time. Sports producer Whisper Films—set up by Formula 1 racing driver David Coulthard, sports presenter Jake Humphrey and Sunil Patel, is teaming with East Media for an entertainment venture. Whisper Films invested in East Media, which in turn will be looking for opportunities around live events, sporting series and documentaries within Whisper’s current portfolio. Wattpad Studios and Netherlands-based NL Film are in a new Dutch-language partnership that will see NL Film, part of EndemolShine Nederland, gaining exclusive first-look rights to adapt Dutch-language stories from Wattpad with a focus on developing young adult stories as TV series or films. Netflix is making moves around the globe. The streamer is adapting Scandinavian movie trilogy Snabba Cash (Easy Money) as a six-part series in partnership with screenwriter Oskar Soderlund and author Jens Lapidus. Series, set in Stockholm 10 years after the events depicted in the feature films, touches down in an environment where status and money have a stronger pull than ever, and the entrepreneurial jet set and the criminal worlds collide. Series is produced by Nicklas Wikstrom (A Man Called Ove)… Netflix also wrapped filming its first German Original film, Concrete Gold, starring David Kross (The Reader), Frederick Lau (Victoria) and Janina Uhse (Good Times, Bad Times). The UFA-produced thriller follows the rise and fall of three corrupt real estate agents, and is one of a slate of Netflix originals from Germany due to shoot this year. NEW & RETURNING SERIES MTV’s Nick Cannon Presents: Wild ‘N Out franchise continues to expand its footprint, with a summer road trip on sister net VH1 beginning Sunday, July 7 at 7p. New episodes will feature stars from VH1’s Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood and Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta, as well as Tiny Harris, Wiz Khalifa, Marlon Wayans, Swizz Beatz, T-Pain, Anderson .Paak and Ne-Yo. Then in August, the franchise will get its own Pluto channel, where each ep will pit the red & black teams, comprising returning and new cast members, against each other. Series is exec produced by Cannon and Michael Goldman for NCredible Entertainment. Nile Evans and Annie Gillies serve as showrunners and exec producers. Candida Boyette-Clemons is exec producer for MTV. A new season of Discovery Channel’s Fast N’ Loud revs up Monday, July 8 at 9p as Richard Rawlings and his team at Gas Monkey Garage hope to take their business to new heights and a new level of success in the hotrod world. Russell J. Holmes from Discovery’s Garage Hub will be joining the team this year, and the season will also feature a partnership with HGTV and The Brady Bunch to build a station wagon, with Barry Williams spearheading an incredible surprise for the entire Brady kids cast. A House Divided, a multigenerational family saga from AMC Networks’ UMC (Urban Movie Channel), starts streaming at www.UMC.tv on Thursday, July 12. Series, which expands UMC’s scripted content offering, follows the direct descendants of Letty Sanders, an enslaved woman who after arriving in LA in 1821, grew to become the wealthiest black woman in the newly formed city. Before Neil Armstrong became the first person to step foot on the surface of the moon, humankind’s earliest ancestors laid the groundwork to make this feat possible. Upcoming PBS series Ancient Skies reveals centuries of knowledge, experimentation and engineering that helped previous civilizations explore outer space. Three-part series premieres Wednesday, July 24 at 8p. From Peru, Laos and Morocco to Hawaii, Alaska and New Zealand, Gordon Ramsay is trotting the globe in search of culinary inspiration in National Geographic’s new series Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted, premiering Sunday, July 21, at 10p. The multi-Michelin-star chef and Ironman athlete will meet with indigenous people around the world to learn about the cultures, dishes and flavors unique to each location—and create new dishes from scratch. A&E Network will drop a new season of Intervention, which combats the drug epidemic in various cities and neighborhoods in Philadelphia, on Tuesday, August 6 at 9p. Six consecutive episodes will follow the stories of addicts as they work to overcome their opioid addictions as well as one of the most dramatic recoveries in one of the largest drug hubs on the East Coast. Monday, August 12 is the premiere date for Our Boys, the 10-part HBO limited series that will debut with two one-hour back-to-back episodes beginning at 9p, followed by single eps debuting subsequent Mondays. Our Boys is set in the summer of 2014, when an agent from the internal terror division of Israel’s Shin Bet investigates the murder of three Jewish teenagers who are kidnapped and slain by Hamas militants while at the same time parents of a Palestinian teenager from eastern Jerusalem who is burned and left dead in the woods begin their anguished journey toward justice. Also on August 12, AMC will launch season 2 of anthology The Terror: Infamy, for which the network yesterday trotted out a new trailer. The sneak peak begins with audio of FDR’s speech to Congress the morning after the December 7, 1941, bombing of Pearl Harbor. Showtime released the first-look teaser for the fifth and final season of Golden Globe-winning series The Affair, which bows Sunday, August 25 at 9p. Season 5 will chronicle the aftermath of last season’s horrific events and find the characters coming to terms with the consequences of their choices. COMING UP CBS Sports and the BIG3 announced the broadcast team for the 2019 season, which begins this Saturday, June 22 at 8p on CBS. The team will again feature longtime play-by-play announcer Brian Custer, analyst Jim Jackson and sideline reporter Michael Rapaport, who will all return for their third campaigns. The lineup also includes new adds Carter Blackburn, Brendan Haywood, Brandon Tierney, Avery Johnson and Ed Cohen. During the 11-week season, games will air live on CBS and CBS Sports Network on Saturdays and Sundays, with a champion crowned live on Sunday, September 1 at 3p. Forensic archaeologist Caroline Sturdy Colls goes in search of a Nazi SS camp constructed in secrecy on the British Channel island of Alderney during World War II in the special Adolf Island, premiering Sunday, June 23 at 10p on Smithsonian Channel. “Shining a spotlight on forgotten or misinterpreted history is the essence of what we try to do at Smithsonian Channel,” says David Royle, chief programming officer. A&E’s Biography episode JFK Jr.-The Final Year is slated to premiere July 16 at 9p. Steve Rotfeld Productions is marking the 50th anniversary of the moon landing with three projects. has announced three projects. The Apollo Chronicles, a four-hour doc that spans the years 1957-69, has been syndicated to broadcast stations covering over 90 percent of US households, and will premiere in most markets on Saturday, July 20, primarily on the CW. One-hour doc The Armstrong Tapes is based on 70 hours of never-before-heard audio interviews with Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon. A co-production between SRP and National Geographic Channel, it will air on Nat Geo Monday, July 8 at 9p. Finally, Countdown To Apollo is an archive-based format consisting of eight half-hour shows, where each episode explores short stories from the Apollo program. The series is part of SRP’s syndicated Saturday three-hour block Xploration Station block that airs on Fox stations throughout the US. Smithsonian Channel’s probing series America’s Hidden Stories, known for pulling back the curtain on history we thought we knew, puts the lens on Sir George Yeardley and a single year, 1619, during which Yeardley presided over the first democratic assembly in English-speaking America and purchased the first captive Africans for an English colony—opening America to the horrors of slavery. The Mystery at Jamestown ep airs on the 400th anniversary of the assembly, Monday, July 29 at 8p. TECH TALK Live Nation will begin streaming live events in augmented reality in September, starting with the Music Midtown festival in Atlanta. The event promoter and venue operator announced its new initiative at the Cannes Lions festival, where it also introduced Hyundai as the sponsor of the AR experience. The music content will still be streamed in traditional 2D, but will be presented alongside a few AR features. Live Nation also noted there will be a dedicated AR VIP mode that will offer fans access to unique camera angles. Grammy-nominated rapper Jeezy is teaming with telecom businessman Freddie Figgers, founder of Figgers Communications, to create and distribute tech products including a “F3” cellular phone and the “F-Buds” earpods at lower price points than found on many products in their verticals. The F3 phone features an edge-to-edge 4K display with 18 Megapixel dual cameras, and will retail for $449. F-Buds, at $49 a pair, are equipped with built-in microphones and designed to pair up with any Bluetooth device. ADVERTISING & BRANDS Sprite launched new campaign “Thirst For Yours,” featuring emerging hip-hop artist Kodie Shane and rising fashion designer Seth Giscombe in two 30-second spots. KIDS NEWS On Thursday, June 27, the Boomerang streaming service will debut Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?, with new eps will roll out weekly through the season finale Thursday, September 19. Starting in July, Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? also will air weekly on Cartoon Network in the US as well as roll out globally on Boomerang linear later this year. Where's Waldo? Kids will find out Saturday, July 20 at 10a when the new animated series from DreamWorks Animation bows on Universal Kids, bringing the iconic character to life in new adventures. Twelve-year-old Waldo (voiced by Joshua Rush) and his best pal Wenda (voiced by Haley Tju) are members of the Worldwide Wanderer Society who circle the globe celebrating cultures and solving problems through observation. Their mentor Wizard Whitebeard (voiced by Thomas Lennon) sends them on international missions, where they encounter perpetual trouble-maker Odlulu (voiced by Eva Carlton). Daddy Yankee will performs his song “Con Calma” on the episode of Nickelodeon’s All That this Saturday, June 22, at 8:30p. PODCAST POSTS Tenderfoot TV is launching its newest podcast series Monster Presents: Insomniac, which explores the dark world of serial killers. Series, produced for iHeartRadio Original Podcasts, comes on the heels of Tenderfoot’s hot Atlanta Monster and Up and Vanished podcasts. Today Gusto Worldwide Media president/CEO Chris Gusto will discuss food channel Gusto TV on the Tomorrow Will be Televised podcast. CASTING Jamie Neumann (The Deuce), Erica Tazel (The Good Fight) and Mac Brandt (Kingdom) will recur opposite Jonathan Majors, Courtney B. Vance and Jurnee Smollett-Bell on HBO's forthcoming drama Lovecraft Country… Grammy winners Big Boi of OutKast and Kid Cudi are joining the first season on Shudder’s revival of anthology horror series Creepshow… Salma Hayek and Owen Wilson will topline Bliss, an Amazon Studios sci-fi drama film. |
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| RATINGS The season 2 premiere of Paramount Network series Yellowstone reached record-high ratings for L+SD across demos including A25-54, M25-54, W25-54, A18-49 and M18-49. Across the night, Yellowstone earned a gross average audience of 3.9 million total viewers (includes Paramount Network premiere and encores, in addition to a CMT simulcast and TV Land encore) and ranked as the most-watched original cable premiere this summer. Live + Same Day Viewers AA (millions): Wednesday, June 19, 2019 time period averages Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated Live+SD ABC: 4.29 million Press Your Luck 4.84, Card Sharks 4.20, Match Game 3.82 CBS: 3.48 million The Amazing Race 4.78, NCIS: The Cases They Can’t Forget 3.00, S.W.A.T. 2.66 NBC: 2.92 million Ellen’s Game of Games 3.08, Ellen’s Game of Games 2.98, the InBetween 2.70 FOX: 2.40 million MasterChef 2.72, First Responders Live 2.08, Telemundo: 1.16 million Copa America 1.16 Univision: .86 million Reina Soy Yo .87, Silvia P. Frente a Ti mon .86, Por Amar sin Ley .86 CW: 0.70 million Penn & Teller: Fool Us 0.76, Jane the Virgin 0.64 Wednesday A18-49 Rating: ABC 0.9/5, TELE .7/4, FOX 0.6/3, NBC 0.5/3, CBS 0.5/3, UNI .4/2, CW 0.2/1 EXECUTIVE MOVES Nickelodeon named Paul J. Medford to the position of VP, unscripted, current series. Medford comes to Nick with production and casting knowledge across multiple genres and formats, including casting and producing for America’s Next Top Model, Project Runway, Skin Wars, and E!’s upcoming The Funny Dance Show. UK TV producer Krishnendu Majumdar will become the next chairman of BAFTA. Majumdar was appointed deputy chair June 3 and per the organization’s regulations will serve one year as deputy before he can segue into the two-year chair post. |
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| Friday Fun Fact: It would take 26 days for a commercial airplane to reach the moon at the speed of a normal flight on a Boeing 747, which is about 400 miles per hour. This Day in History: 1752 - Benjamin Franklin flew a kite for the first time to demonstrate that lightning was a form of electricity. Answer to our last trivia question: Which short-lived 1970s sitcom focused the supervisor of an NYC unemployment office? Calucci’s Department (1973), starring James Coco. Kudos to: Gerry Bixenspan-TV Marketing Inc./NY; Synda Kollman-Charter Marketing Group/Boca Raton, FL; Jon Krongard-Wonderamatv.com/NY; Charles Lore-Consultant/NY; Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/LA; Susan Nessanbaum- Goldberg-M and S Entertainment/LA; Lorrie Shilling/El Segundo, CA; David Westberg-SAG-AFTRA Federal Credit Union/Burbank Today's Trivia Question: Which guest set a viewing record for Inside the Actor’s Studio, with 1.14 million people tuning in?(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 JUNE 21 ABC: Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., 20/20 CBS: Whistleblower, Hawaii Five-0, Blue Bloods CW: Masters of Illusion, Masters of Illusion, The Big Stage, The Big Stage FOX: Beat Shazam, MasterChef NBC: American Ninja Warrior, Dateline NBC PBS: Washington Week, Firing Line With Margaret Hoover, American Masters, Great Performances Telemundo: Conmebol Copa America 2019, Concacaf Copa Oro 2019 Univision: La Reina Soy Yo, Silvia Pinal, Frente a Ti, Por Amar Sin Ley |
