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| Good morning, this is your first early-morning briefing. Tonight’s Premieres: Netflix: Another Life IN THE NEWS HBO will up the number of hours of original programming by about 10% in 2020, said HBO head of programming Casey Bloys at TCA. But it’s still about quality, not quantity. With the addition of Monday night programming, “The big challenge for me and our team is to ensure that we weren’t just filling hours to fill hours,” said Bloys. “We have a lot more programming but there’s not one show that I wouldn’t have aired one year or five years ago.” Bloys also addressed the backlash received by the finale of HBO’s Game of Thrones. “There are very few downsides to having an immensely popular show, but one that I can think of is when you try to end it,” he said of the series, which wrapped on May 19. In any case, Bloys added, “Thirty-two Emmy nominations is nice validation.” TV Land renewed Younger for season seven. No surprise there – last month, the series had its highest-rated season premiere ever among P25-54 and W25-54 and was up +23% among total viewers, with 1.3 million tuning in. The series remains the top sitcom in cable for the third year in a row among W25-54 and W18-49. Also back for another run is Animal Kingdom, headed for season five on TNT. Drama starring Ellen Barkin hit nearly 18 million viewers across platforms for season four, and ranks as one of the year’s top ten cable dramas among A18-49. As its carriage dispute with AT&T continues, CBS reported a “dramatic spike in new subscribers” to CBS All Access, and said over 250,000 calls have come to a special telephone hotline for the viewers of CBS stations in the 14 markets that went dark. CBS also said it “remains ready and available to negotiate” to get back on DirecTV, DirecTV Now and U-verse – this despite AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson’s contention earlier that his company had heard “crickets” from CBS since its last offer five days ago. In more AT&T news, the company reported a loss of 946,000 video subscribers for DirecTV and DirecTV now in 2Q19. Still, video entertainment revenue was down just 1.7%, to $8.03 billion. Walt Disney Co. and the creators of Home Improvement settled a lawsuit, filed in 2013, weeks before the case was to go to trial. Wind Dancer Production Group, Matt Williams, Carmen Finestra, David McFadzean and Tam O’Shanter Productions accused Disney of selling syndication rights below the 1991-99 sitcom’s market value, and improperly accounting their share of profits. The amount of the settlement was not disclosed. Does Netflix’s negative earnings news signal an impending crisis, or is it just a blip? What does it mean for the streaming landscape? Cynopsis talked to one expert about a topic that will get plenty of play at the September 9-10 Big TV Conference. NYF’s Television & Film Awards are open for entries. New categories include religion & philosophy documentary, streaming promotion, social good and sustainable development. Awards gala will take place at the 2020 NAB show in Las Vegas on April 21. |
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| PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT Keenan Ivory Wayans (In Living Color) will serve as showrunner for the upcoming third season of TBS’s The Last O.G. He follows Saladin K. Peterson, who held the job for the comedy’s sophomore run. “We can’t wait to see where Keenen takes this series next,” said Brett Weitz , general manager of TBS, TNT and truTV. “It’s honestly a dream scenario to work with one of the true trail-blazers of social humor; he’s the perfect fit for The Last O.G.” Zanne Devine (EP of Disney Channel’s Kim Possible) has entered into an overall deal with Disney Channels Worldwide. Through the deal, Devine will develop and produce movies for Disney Channel and the upcoming Disney+ streaming service. "Working with Zanne on Kim Possible and Secret Society of Second Born Royals was such a thoroughly enjoyable and rewarding experience for everyone involved that there was no question that we wanted to extend our relationship with her," said Nancy Kanter, EVP, Content and Creative, Disney Channels Worldwide. HBO greenlit a documentary film that follows families who were separated at the U.S. border, exploring the traumatic effects on children of being taken away from their parents without their consent. Torn Apart: Separated At The Border comes from Ellen Goosenberg Kent (Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1) and Talos Films. Joseph C. Terry (Steve Harvey) has been named director of the upcoming nationally syndicated program The Kelly Clarkson Show, set to start airing in 100% of the country on Monday, September 9. UPtv is working with Brain Power Studios to develop a third installment of the A Very Country Christmas franchise to premiere in 2020. Based on a novel from Harlequin Publishing, A Very Country Christmas was the #1 UPtv premiere movie in 2017 with W25-54, and fresh off its July 6 debut, A Very Country Wedding now ranks as the #1 UPtv premiere movie with W25-54 in 2019 to date. Director Marc Webb inked an overall deal with ABC Studios to develop and exec produce projects via his Black Lamb production company, across all forms of television. John Krasinksi (John Clancy’s Jack Ryan) inked a three-year first-look deal with Amazon Studios to work with his Sunday Night company, along with Allyson Seeger and Alexa Ginsberg, to develop series for Amazon. “John’s talents extend behind the screen as a prolific writer, director and producer with a keen eye for creating original characters and stories with global appeal,” said Jennifer Salke, head of Amazon Studios. DIY rocketeers take their own path to space in new Science Channel series Homemade Astronauts (wt), now in production. Three self-financed teams will attempt to explore the final frontier on shoe-string budgets. Series set to take off in 2020. Fox Business Network launched Studio G, the new headquarters for FBN programming, yesterday. Aside from windows and new graphics, what’s new? Peter Blangiforti, SVP, Broadcast & Media Technology for FBN and Fox News, tells Cynopsis, “Studio G has been entirely redesigned with state of the art technology and customized graphics to enable anchors the ability to utilize three large Ultra High Definition LED video walls, five video columns with automated tracking to move across the studio floor, three LED tickers that traverse the studio and two 90” interactive touchscreens.” NEW & RETURNING SERIES WE tv is jumping on a new original tell-all series, Untold Stories of Hip Hop, featuring tales from the biggest names in the genre. Set to premiere this fall, the series from Creature Films (Biggie: The Life of Notorious B.I.G.) features interviews with Cardi B, Snoop Dogg, Queen Latifah, Ice Cube and more, hosted by radio personality Angie Martinez. Season three of HBO’s late night comedy, Room 104, checks in Friday, September 13. Show follows the stories of different characters who pass through a single room at a chain motel. Also returning to HBO, for a sixth and final season, is Silicon Valley, in October. No date was announced. The Little Couple returns to TLC on Tuesday, August 6 at 9p, as the family settles in to St. Petersburg, FL. TNT will start airing All Elite Wrestling’s live weekly matches on Wednesday, October 2 from 8-10p. Matches will take place in different cities each week. VH1’s Black Ink Crew: New York returns Wednesday, August 14 at 9p. Following the premiere, VH1 will debut Black Ink Crew: Compton at 10p. TNT released an extended trailer for upcoming series Chasing the Cure at WarnerMedia’s TCA presentation. Weekly live broadcast anchored and exec produced by Today alum Ann Curry will try to help people suffering from undiagnosed or uncured medical conditions. Show will be simulcast on TNT and TBS starting Thursday, August 8 at 9p. Fuse Media is bringing back Big Boy’s Neighborhood for a third season. Televised version of the nationally syndicated radio show starts season three on Thursday, August 1 at 7:30a; episodes premiere the day after the radio broadcast. COMING UP LMN has two new Friday night thrillers set to debut next month. A Lover Scorned premieres August 2 at 8p, followed the next week by Deadly Influencer. FilmRise has acquired Alex Wolff’s directorial feature film debut, The Cat and the Moon. Coming-of-age story explores the feelings of a seventeen-year-old transplant in New York City, navigating his late father’s life and legacy. Wolff is also the star and screenwriter of the film. Attention Floridians: ABC Studios and PopSugar are celebrating national Golden Girls Day and National Cheesecake Day with a one-day-only pop-up event at Vicky’s House in Coconut Grove, Florida, on Tuesday, July 30, from 12-10p. TECH TALK Facebook was hit with a record $5 billion fine as part of a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over its privacy policies. The FTC also mandated that Facebook create an independent privacy committee on its board of directors to remove “infettered control” by CEO Mark Zuckerberg. In separate action on Wednesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced it is charging Facebook with making misleading disclosures about the risk of misused user data. Facebook will pay $100 million to settle the charges, an SEC record. Was $5 billion a drop in the bucket for Facebook? Second quarter results posted after close of trading on Wednesday beat Wall Street expectations, with earnings per share hitting $1.99, versus a forecast of $1.88, and total revenue of $16.6 billion, up 28% over the previous year. The Justice Department confirmed a Wall Street Journal report of a broad antitrust review of big tech companies. The department said it is “reviewing whether and how market platforms have achieved market power and are engaging in practices that have reduced competition, stifled innovation, or otherwise harmed consumers.” Horizon Media is the first media agency to subscribe to Nielsen Advanced Audience, announced the measurement company. The suite of technology solutions (forecasting and posting) is aimed at unifying the planning, activation and measurement of audiences beyond age and gender. “For many years we have been believers of the importance of advanced audiences and have heavily invested time and resources to provide our clients a more holistic view of their total consumers,” said Michele Donati, SVP, Managing Director of WHERE, Horizon Media. “This agreement is an evolution of our commitment to advertiser-defined audiences.” Videa, an online marketplace for automated TV advertising, launched two new features for its platform: a forecasted ratings tool, and the ability to avail a full market regardless of the sell side’s access to Videa’s platform. “One of the most laborious and data-intensive processes for researchers and analysts is forecasting ratings,” said Shereta Williams, president, Videa. “When they are inaccurate, increased makegoods and more under-delivered spots can result...We’re making analysts more productive, giving them the information they need efficiently and most importantly, without sacrificing accuracy.” Another pain point is the ability to avail a full market, notes Mary Barnas, VP of platform adoption at Videa: “That’s why we’ve created this feature for the Videa platform that will give media buyers the ability to avail full markets without the need for the station they’re buying from to be associated with Videa.” Premium Media 360, the advertising data automation company offering pre-flight and in-flight campaign validation solutions for local broadcast, is partnering with Mediaocean, the foundational software provider for the advertising world. The collaboration is aimed at making media agencies’ local activation teams more efficient by automating the identification of campaign transaction errors and facilitating resolution, before the station invoice is created. For more on Nielsen, Premium Media 360 and Videa, go to Cynopsis’ TechFront News. Influencer marketing platform AspireIQ released Brand Access Manager, a solution to empower brands to turn branded content into paid advertisements on Facebook and Instagram. Brand Access Manger is complementary to tools like Instagram’s recently announced Branded Content Ads and is intended to build on top of these features, giving brands more options for partnering with influencers and creators to leverage original content as part of their paid social effort. Speaking of influencers... Fraud remains one of the top concerns for marketers and digital companies - a new study by cybersecurity company CHEQ found that 15% of all influencer ad dollars are spent on fake followers, costing brand advertisers a projected $1.3B globally in 2019. To learn more about fake influencer marketing, go to Measure Up. Vistar Media announced a partnership with GroupM and Kinetic as a preferred platform for digital outdoor media investment in the UK, delivering technology for data-driven campaigns. GroupM and Kinetic, a planner and digital innovator of OOH advertising, will be utilizing Vistar Media’s technology to deliver campaign execution capabilities which enable real-time decisioning. GroupM will be using Vistar’s demand-side platform (DSP) to purchase digital outdoor media programmatically. “With the rapid digitisation of assets, advancements in automation and shift to digital spend, the UK OOH market is primed for the next phase of growth, fueled by programmatic technology,” said Dominic Dunne, Managing Director, EMEA, Vistar Media. Snap shares closed at $17.58 on Wednesday, the first time they topped the IPO price of $17 in over a year. The 18% jump occurred after news that Snap handily beat expectations for earnings and user growth in 2Q19, with revenue increasing 48% to $388 million year-over-year, and additional 13 million daily active users, for a total of 203 million. “The growth in our community, engagement and revenue is the result of several transitions we completed over the past 18 months,” said Snap cofounder and CEO Evan Spiegel. STREAMING AT&T is planning a fourth streaming service, joining Direct TV Now, Watch Now and the upcoming HBO Max. The “entertainment experience,” called AT&T TV, will launch this summer, said AT&T in a statement. “We're piloting it in select markets this summer before expanding availability on a rolling basis throughout the year. We'll share more information in the coming weeks,” said the company. As for the aforementioned HBO Max, WarnerMedia set October 29 as the date to unveil the service. HBO Max will be rolled out in beta form by the end of the year and launch in spring 2020. In addition to series like Friends, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air and Pretty Little Liars, the service will host Warner Bros TV CW shows Batwoman, Katy Keene and a Riverdale spinoff. And eventually, there will be live sports and news, said AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson. fuboTV announced the expanded distribution of its fubo Sports Network to smart TV platforms Samsung TV Plus and LG Channels powered by XUMO. The network soft launched in June with distribution on XUMO and in fuboTV’s Standard base package; additional distribution partners will be announced. The launch of fubo Sports Network marks the first time fuboTV has developed a channel for distribution off of its platform. SOCIAL GOOD The Ad Council has formed a new arm, Ad Council Edge, a strategic consultancy that builds on the Ad Council’s history of developing purpose-driven marketing campaigns to advise companies and nonprofit organizations. “We’re taking what we do best and sharing our many decades of experience with partners who are equally invested in making the world a better place,” said Lisa Sherman, President and CEO of the Ad Council. “As the Ad Council’s consultancy arm, Ad Council Edge is uniquely positioned to leverage our seasoned approach to designing social issue strategies to drive measurable impact.” GOING GLOBAL all3media international and sister company all3media Deutschland inked a new format acquisition in Germany, with RTL II’s order of a local version of Lime Pictures’ Celebs Go Dating. |
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| RATINGS Live + Same Day Viewers AA (millions): Tuesday July 23 time period averages Source: Nielsen Live+SD NBC: 8.20 million America’s Got Talent 9.99, Bring the Funny 4.61 CBS: 2.68 million Love Island 2.25, NCIS 2.88, Blood & Treasure 2.92 ABC: 2.00 million The Conners 3.03, American Housewife 2.13, Modern Family 1.80, black-ish 1.61, Modern Family 1.73, black-ish 1.69 TELEMUNDO: 1.53 million Un Poquito Tuyo 0.82 , Betty en NY 1.68, La Reina del Sur 2.10 UNIVISION: 1.17 million La Reina Soy Yo 1.20, La Rosa de Guadelupe 1.16, Por Amar Sin Ley 1.14 FOX: 1.06 million USA Champions: The 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup 1.04, 9-1-1 1.09 CW: 0.59 million Pandora 0.64, The 100 0.54 Tuesday A18-49 Rating NBC 1.4/7, CBS 0.4/2, ABC 0.4/2, TELE 0.4/2, UNI 0.4/2, FOX 0.3/1, CW 0.2/1 EXECUTIVE MOVES Marketing consultancy Ebiquity tapped Travis Lusk to serve as the Director of Tech, North America. Lusk most recently served as Vice President, Global Brand Solutions at Integral Ad Science. Altice News appointed Keith Bowen as Chief Revenue Officer. Bowen previously served as Chief Revenue Officer for Spectrum Reach. TV measurement firm 605 announced the addition of Tom O’Sullivan as Vice President of Sales. Prior to joining 605, O’Sullivan served as Executive Vice President of Global Sales for Motista. Courtney Williams has been appointed to the newly created position of Head of Partnerships at Parrot Analytics. Williams had been the company’s European Regional Director. IN MEMORIAM Dutch actor Rutger Hauer died July 19 after a long illness. He was 75. Best known for his role in the 1982 film Blade Runner, Hauer more recently appeared on TV shows including HBO’s True Blood and ABC’s Galavant. This Day in History 1952 – Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth of the U.S. Answer to our last trivia question In which season did MTV series The Real World return to its original location of NY? Season 10. Kudos to: Melissa Friedman-Producers Guild of America, Tara Berman-CNBC/Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Gerry Bixenspan-TV Marketing Inc./NYC, Andy Pittman-TAMU/College Station, TX, Corey Lambert-Showtime Networks/NYC, Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/LA, David Prinz von Teck/Spokane, WA, Synda Kollman-Charter Marketing Group/Boca Raton, FL, Scott Jenkins-Gracenote/Queensbury, NY, David Westberg-SAG-AFTRA Credit Union/Burbank Today's Trivia Question For which series did Carol Burnett win her first Emmy? (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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| THURSDAY JULY 25 ABC: Holey Moley, Family Food Fight, Reef Break CBS: Love Island, Big Brother, Elementary CW: iZombie, The Outpost FOX: MasterChef, Spin the Wheel NBC: The Wall, Hollywood Game Night, Law & Order: SVU PBS: This Old House, Granchester on Masterpiece, Antiques Roadshow Telemundo: Un Poquito Tuyo, Betty en NY, La Reina del Sur Univision: La Reina Soy Yo, La Rosa de Guadelupe, Por Amar Sin Ley |
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