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| Good morning, this is your first early-morning briefing. Tonight’s Premieres: CNBC: Cash Pad at 10p ID: Web of Lies at 9p Science Channel: Built by Hand at 10p Viceland: Most Expensivist at 8p IN THE NEWS In a case of network sibling synergy, Discovery Channel and Food Network are getting in on the action for HGTV’s upcoming A Very Brady Renovation. Episodes of Fast N’ Loud, Chopped, Worst Cooks in America, The Kitchen and Pioneer Woman will be inspired by the Brady Bunch’s iconic Studio City home. Cast members from the 1969-74 sitcom will appear in episodes to support the HGTV series, which Discovery and Food will start cross-promoting next month. “We imagined many ways to bring the Brady Bunch lifestyle to life under the Discovery umbrella - from replicating the television house and souping up the family station wagon to inviting cast members to serve as guest judges for ‘70s-themed food competitions or reminisce about their early years together as TV icons,” said Kathleen Finch, Chief Lifestyle Brand Officer, Discovery Inc. “We’ve been able to do all of that on HGTV, Food Network and Discovery Channel as only the Discovery family of networks can.” Sean Hayes (Will & Grace) will man the mic for the Comedy Central Roast of Alec Baldwin, taping September 7 and premiering on Sunday, September 15 at 10p. “It’s always been my dream to roast a Hollywood legend,” said Hayes, “so when they asked me to roast Alec Baldwin, I said ‘close enough.’” Anna Sorokin, the society scammer who sold her story to Netflix, may not get the payout she anticipated. The New York State Attorney General’s office said in court papers that the money is “profits from a crime,” and therefore should go to the victims, per a law that prevents criminals from making money from their crimes. Shonda Rhimes is attached to the project. Former Univision anchor Maria Elena Salinas has joined CBS News as a contributor. After leaving Univision in 2017, Salinas hosted The Real Story with Maria Elena Salinas for ID. “It is an honor to welcome Maria Elena Salinas to the CBS News team,” said CBS News President Susan Zirinsky. “We look forward to sharing her important voice and journalistic credentials with our audience in a critical time for this country.” The 25th anniversary of Friends will be commemorated with special edition Central Perk coffee and tea products. The drinks, courtesy of the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf chain and Warner Bros. Consumer Products, are available online now and in retail outlets starting July 31. NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations has teamed up with “WeRescue,” a free mobile iOS app, to help people to find pets that will be available for adoption through the stations’ 2019 Clear The Shelters campaign. WeRescue users can activate specific Clear The Shelters in-app features to help them locate pets available for adoption. |
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| PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT Adam Sandler is in business again with Netflix. Fresh off the steamer’s hit Murder Mystery, watched by a record 30 million accounts its opening weekend, Sandler and Happy Madison Productions are planning a Halloween comedy featuring Kevin James, Julie Bowen, Maya Rudolph, Ray Liotta, Steve Buscemi, Rob Schneider, Michael Chiklis and Kenan Thompson about a man trying to save the spooky holiday. Marketing platform Mailchimp is launching a docuseries in partnership with VICE. Second Act follows five people who’ve chosen a new direction in their careers (pizzarias, violin carvers) to define their own version of success. MTV renewed The Hills: New Beginnings for a second season. Season one of the revival launched June 24. NEW & RETURNING SERIES Dog’s Most Wanted premieres on WGN America Wednesday, September 4 at 9p. It promises to be an emotional roller coaster - in addition to hunting fugitives, Duane “Dog” Chapman and his wife, Beth, deal with Beth’s ultimately losing battle with cancer. But she would have wanted the show to go on, said Duane: “My wife is, was, and always will be the heart and soul of Dog’s Most Wanted… I am so proud of the legacy that she left behind. She lived and died for this show, and she would be so proud of how hard we worked bringing these criminals to justice.” Trained investigators search for signs of alien contact with Earth on Contact, launching Wednesday, August 7 at 10p on Discovery Channel and Thursday, August 8 at 9p on Science Channel. Seven new original preschool series are headed to Netflix. Arriving in 2019 are animated series DreamWorks Dragon Rescue Riders and Hello Ninja, while in 2020, animated series StarBeam, DreamWorks Go, Dog. Go! and What-To-Doodles, as well as non-fiction Izzy Bee’s Koala World and STEM series Emily’s Wonder Lab, are slated to launch. On the adult animation front, Netflix ordered Entergalactic, from Kenya Barris and Scott Mescudi (aka Kid Cudi), based on the upcoming album by rapper Mescudi. Telemundo released Reina del Sur in the Making: The Behind the Scenes You’ve Never Seen. Digital special gives fans a 26-minute look at the Spanish-language Super Series’ production, cast and locations. Ancient Skies premieres on PBS on the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11’s splash down, Wednesday, July 24 at 8p. Three-parter features experts decoding astronomical myths, and the science behind their origins. COMING UP Lifetime's annual holiday programming slate, “It’s A Wonderful Lifetime,” will kick off October 25 and run through December 25 with a record-setting 28 original movies. The stunt will feature non-stop holiday programming, seven days a week, and reunite cast members from shows including One Tree Hill, Sabrina The Teenage Witch, Sister, Sister, The Cosby Show, The Secret Life of The American Teenager and more, in addition to family-friendly flicks. It’s getting hotter on getTV. Beginning August 5, the net will air episodes of Hot in Cleveland at 6p. Comedy aired on TV Land from 2010-2015. STREAMING Streaming TV might not be stalling to a trickle, but a slowdown in vMVPD subscriber growth is likely, according to the new UBS Evidence Lab Streaming TV App Monitor. “While growth in streaming TV has helped stabilize video market declines in recent years, we expect streaming TV growth to slow with the recent price increases and a greater focus on profitability,” wrote UBS analyst John Hodulik. “Along with worsening traditional losses, we expect total video subs to fall 3.4% in 2Q, accelerating from -2.3% in 1Q and +0.2% this time last year.” Southeast Asia streaming video service IFlix said it has raised a new round of funding, and added new media companies as investors including MNC, Yoshimoto Kogyo and JTBC. “These investments are a clear affirmation of IFlix’s business model and growth prospects,” said Patrick Grove, co-founder and chairman of the upstart Netflix rival. IFlix said it has 17 million active users, up from 9 million just six months ago. TECH TALK Comparing year-over-year native advertising statistics from 1Q18 to 1Q19, MediaRadar found that 34% of companies running native ads in 1Q18 also did so in 1Q19. However, of the top 30 native advertisers from the quarter in 2018, all but one ran native ads in Q1 of 2019. The majority of advertisers who dropped off were smaller brands that use the format sparingly. The top three buyers of native ads in 2019 were Progressive, HomeServe and LendingTree. Looking at how the ads were being placed, “Our study found that the percentage of companies placing native ads programmatically is increasing,” said MediaRadar CEO Todd Krizelman. “In fact, 76% of native advertisers placed native ads programmatically in Q1 of 2019. In comparison, just 62% did so in Q1 of 2018.” Numerous deceptive practices were uncovered in a study, “50 Ways to Leak Your Data,” from the International Computer Science Institute and the University of California, Berkeley. In testing 88,000 apps in the U.S. Google Play Store, researchers found thousands that will bypass permission to collect user data, and third-party libraries that make use of the SD card as a covert channel. Google responded to the report by saying its next big update, Android Q, will address some of the issues noted. Microsoft and OpenAI announced a multiyear partnership to build new AI supercomputing technologies for Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform. Microsoft’s $1 billion investment makes the company OpenAI’s “preferred partner” in the commercialization of new AI technologies. Forget FaceApp – AI Portraits, from the MIT-IBM Watson Lab, can transform a photo into a classical (looking) portrait. As reported by The Verge, the tool uses a database of over 45,000 portraits to reconstruct faces in the style of artists like Rembrandt or van Gogh. And there are seemingly no privacy concerns because source images are deleted right away. SOCIAL GOOD NBC 4 New York / WNBC, Telemundo 47 New York / WNJU and Raymour & Flanigan are embarking on their third annual “Supporting our Schools” school supply drive. Continuing through Sunday, August 18, the Tri-State campaign will feature a special, one day call-to-action on Saturday, July 27 at Raymour & Flanigan locations . Supplies will be distributed to local students by the United Way and local Boys & Girls Clubs. GOING GLOBAL Viacom International Media Networks UK is getting Younger. VIMN acquired Darren Star’s comedy for Comedy Central UK from Endemol Shine International. The deal includes all six seasons of series, produced by Viacom’s TV Land in the U.S. Endemol Shine Group announced that Stripped has sold to Spain, the eighth territory to commission the series. Shine Iberia struck a deal for four locally made episodes to air on Antena 3. Hoho Rights preschool series Hana’s Helpline is launching in China on VOD channels Tencent and MangoTV. Insight TV and energy drink company Monster Energy have teamed to co-produce Jndia, The Fast Life, a documentary film about female drag-car racer Jndia Erbacher. Film premieres August 10 on Insight TV. CASTING PODCAST POST Premiere Networks and Country Radio Hall of Famers Lorianne Crook and Charlie Chase have launched iHeartRadio Original Podcast, Crook & Chase: Nashville Chats. The new weekly podcast will feature in-depth interviews country music stars, as well as archived conversations. First up: Luke Bryan and Keith Urban. |
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| RATINGS HGTV’s Property Brothers: Forever Home delivered a .74 Live+3 season-to-date rating among P25-54 on Wednesday. Since its premiere on May 29, the series has ranked as a top 3 cable program in the timeslot among upscale P25-54 and upscale W25-54, and also ranks as a top 5 cable program in its timeslot among W25-54 and in the top 10 in its timeslot among P25-54. ABC’s Celebrity Family Feud grew by double digits week to week in Total Viewers (+10% - 5.5 million) and A18-49 (+13% - 0.9/5) on Sunday, drawing its biggest audience since its season premiere and matching a best-since-premiere young adult number. For the first half of 2019, Sportsman Channel ranks as the fastest growing basic cable network with M25-54, notes the net, growing its average audience delivery by +32%. Sportsman Channel and Outdoor Channel were among the top 15% of all cable networks through the first half of 2019 that grew or remained even with M25-54 during total day compared to one year ago. Paramount Network’s Yellowstone ranked as the #1 cablecast on Wednesday, July 17 among total viewers (4.7 million viewers), P18-49 (1.76 rating), and P25-54 (2.5 rating), according to Nielsen Live+3, ranks based on Impressions). Wednesday’s episode was the second highest-rated episode in series history with P18-49, W18-49 (1.79 rating) and W25-54 (2.52 rating). TV Time's Shows on the Rise for the Week of July 15 Money Heist (Netflix) - 97.4% Queer Eye (Netflix) - 87.6% Veronica Mars (Hulu) - 57.3% You Me Her (Audience Network) - 50.2% Suits (USA) - 35.3% Younger (TV Land) - 14.1% Station 19 (ABC) - 10.4% Euphoria (HBO) - 10.1% The 100 (The CW) - 9.1% iZombie (The CW) - 9.0% *Methodology: Every week, millions of viewers around the world use TV Time to track their favorite series. “Shows on the Rise” is calculated by determining the week-over-week growth in episodes watched for a given program. Tunity Analytics Top Weekly National Out-of-Home Viewer Rankings for Entertainment Programs for the week of July 15 Program, OOH Viewers (000) The Bachelorette (ABC) 270 America’s Got Talent (NBC) 198 America’s Got Talent (NBC) 193 Buying and Selling with The Property Brothers (HGTV) 171 Fixer Upper (HGTV) 169 Big Brother (CBS) 153 Love It or List It (HGTV) 152 Property Brothers (HGTV) 145 Late Show (CBS) 140 Press Your Luck (ABC) 131 Source: Tunity Analytics. Viewing estimates are derived from the Tunity mobile app usage. OOH Impressions are calculated using Tunity Analytics proprietary estimation model. Shareablee Top 10 TV Shows for the Week of July 15 Program, Network, Total Actions, Total Content, Actions per Content, Fans & Followers E! News (E!) 11.2M, 594, 18,938, 35.9M The Ellen DeGeneres Show (WB/syndicated) 5M, 61, 81,951, 185M The Daily Show (Comedy Central) 2.9M, 143, 20,398, 20M Entertainment Tonight (CBS/syndicated) 1.7M, 824, 2,098, 8.4M Today Show (NBC) 1.7M, 635, 2,651, 13.2M The 100 (The CW) 1.4M, 47, 30,730, 4.4M The Bachelorette (ABC) 992K, 89, 11,151, 3.2M Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (ABC) 836K, 78, 10,718, 7.4M Good Morning America (ABC) 753K, 1,020, 738, 13.3M The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (CBS) 752K, 192, 3,918, 3.8M Live + Same Day Viewers AA (millions) Thursday, July 18 time period averages Source: Nielsen, Live+SD CBS: 2.95 million Love Island 2.25, Big Brother 3.79, Elementary 2.81 FOX: 2.70 million MasterChef 2.98, Spin the Wheel 2.43 NBC: 2.59 million The Wall 3.30, Hollywood Game Night 2.40, Law & Order: SVU 2.08 ABC: 2.50 million Holey Moley 3.16, Family Food Night 2.40, Reef Break 1.85 UNIVISION: 1.93 million Premios Juventad 1.93 TELE: 1.27 million Un Poquito Tuyo 0.71, Betty en NY 1.36, La Reina del Sur 1.74 CW: 0.63 million iZombie 0.71, The Outpost 0.54 Thursday A18-49 Ratings UNI 0.7/4, CBS 0.6/4, FOX 0.6/4, NBC 0.4/2, TELE 0.4/2, ABC 0.4/2, CW 0.2/1 EXECUTIVE MOVES A+E Networks promoted three senior execs on its Distribution team. Jane Rice has been elevated to Executive Vice President, Content Distribution and Marketing; Mark Garner has been named Executive Vice President, Content Licensing and Business Development; and Richard Shirley has been promoted to Senior Vice President, Distribution Business Development. Raj Shah, former deputy press secretary at the White House, has joined Fox Corp. as SVP, based in Washington, DC. Another Trump White House alum, Hope Hicks, now EVP at Fox, made the announcement. The Chimney Group tapped Chris Peterson to serve as EP of Longform Entertainment. As Chimney’s new Head of Film Outreach, Peterson will be leveraging his expertise in film finance, tax credit maximization and technical workflows to grow Chimney’s feature film and television capabilities. IN MEMORIAM Actor David Hedison died July 18. He was 92. Hedison most memorable TV role was as Captain Lee B. Crane in the 1964-68 series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. This Day in History 1827 – The first U.S. swimming pool opened, in Boston. Answer to Our Last Trivia Question Norman Lear’s short-lived Hanging In (1979) was led by which star of one of his previous hit shows? Maude’s Bill Macy. Kudos to: Aaron Paquette-Screen Engine/ASI/Fort Worth, TX, Charles Lore/NYC, Gerry Bixenspan-TV Marketing Inc./NYC, Paul Blutter-Walk and Talk Production Rentals/Burbank, Andy Pittman-TAMU/College Station, TX, David Garber-Loyola Marymount University/Playa Vista, CA, Carl Mayer-Active International/Pearl River, NY, Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/LA, Synda Kollman-Charter Marketing Group/Boca Raton, FL, Susan Nessanbaum-Goldberg-M and S Entertainment/LA Today’s Trivia Question In which sitcom were the main characters astronauts who traveled the universe in a winged car nicknamed the Space Hoopty? (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.) |
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| TUESDAY JULY 23 ABC: The Conners, American Housewife, Modern Family, black-ish, Modern Family, black-ish CBS: Love Island, NCIS, Blood & Treasure CW: Pandora, The 100 FOX: U.S. Champions: The Story of the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup, 9-1-1 NBC: America’s Got Talent, Bring the Funny PBS: American Experience, A Year in Space Telemundo: Un Poquito Tuyo, Betty en NY, La Reina del Sur Univision: La Reina Soy Yo, La Rosa de Guadalupe, Por Amar Sin Ley |
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