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| Good morning, this is your first early-morning briefing. Tonight’s Premieres: Food Network: The Flay List at 10:30p ID: Deadly Women at 9p, The Lies That Bind at 10p Netflix: Love Alarm TLC: Brides, Grooms and Emergency Rooms at 10p Tonight’s Finales: ABC: Holey Moley at 9p Food Network: BBQ Brawl: Flay V. Simon at 9p FX: Baskets at 10p History: Alone at 10p WE tv: Growing Up Hip Hop Atlanta at 9p IN THE NEWS
Among those expressing displeasure about the Dancing casting was host Tom Bergeron, who shared in a tweet that he had met with the show’s exec producer earlier this summer and said he’d hoped the season would be a “joyful respite from our exhausting political climate and free of inevitably divisive bookings from ANY party affiliations.” Bergeron said he left the lunch convinced they were in agreement, but, “subsequently (and rather obviously), a decision was made to, as we often say in Hollywood, ‘go in a different direction.” Hopefully, added Bergeron, fans will “enjoy the charismatic pro dancers, the unpredictable judges and the kitschy charm that has defined DWYS since 2005.” Station group Tegna confirmed that Apollo Global Management, a private equity company that made a deal for a majority stake in Cox Media Group in February and a deal with Northwest Broadcasting for 20 stations, has its sights set on Tegna. A letter of intent sent to Tegna indicated a deal that would combine Tegna with broadcasting assets Apollo is in the process of buying, and “would not have constituted a change of control of Tegna.” Comscore will lay off about 8% of its employees as part of a reorg plan, said the company in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. "In the second quarter, we took significant steps to better prioritize, refocus and invest in our product portfolio, and provide our customers with innovative technologies and services which we believe will drive us to a position of profitability and growth faster and more efficiently," said Dale Fuller, Director and interim CEO. “The management team is exploring all aspects of the business and is conducting a comprehensive strategic review of all our options.” |
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| PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT Rebel Wilson (Pitch Perfect) will host and EP the first Australian Amazon Original series, LOL: Last One. Six-part comedy/variety series will feature stand-up comics competing to make each other laugh. Richard Hammond (The Grand Tour) and Tory Belleci (Mythbusters) will star in an adventure series for Amazon. The so-far-untitled six-parter hails from Chimp Productions. Starz picked up the pilot for Shining Vale, about a dysfunctional family that moves into a house where atrocities have taken place. Horror comedy comes from Other Shoe Productions, Merman and Kapital Entertainment in association with Warner Bros. Television and Lionsgate Television, and is written and executive produced by Jeff Astrof (Trial & Error) from Other Shoe and Sharon Horgan (Divorce) from Merman. Lena Dunham (Girls) launched a new production company at HBO, where she is under an exclusive first-look deal. Good Thing Going will be overseen by Michael P. Cohen, President and Manager to Dunham; Liz Watson, Head of Development & Production based in NY and the UK; Marissa Diaz, Head of Development & Production based in LA; and Soham Joglekar, Development Coordinator in NY. Production has begun on Shook, a modern hip-hop dance focused short-form series starring Sofia Wylie (Andi Mack). Shook will be made available Saturday, September 28 on Disney Channel's YouTube. NEW & RETURNING SERIES Animated Lego Jurassic World: Legend of Isla Nublar premieres on Nickelodeon Saturday, September 14 at 11:30a. Miniseries is a prequel to the 2015 film, Jurassic World. Kids get lessons on friendship and following your dreams in Middle School Moguls, premiering Sunday, September 8 a 11a on Nickelodeon. The first special guest appearances for HGTV’s reboot of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition include Tarek El Moussa (Flip or Flop), Jasmine Roth (Hidden Potential) and Tamara Day (Bargain Mansions) as well as the star of the original, carpenter and craftsman Ty Pennington. Series hosted by Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Modern Family) launches in early 2020. Season two of USA Network’s Temptation Island premieres Thursday, October 10 at 10p. Mark L. Walberg is back to host the extended 12-episode second season, which will include a reunion special. MTV tapped Bachelorette alum Rachel Lindsay and recording artist Travis Mills to host its new docuseries, MTV’s Ghosted: Love Gone Missing, set to premiere on Tuesday, September 10 at 9p with back-to-back episodes. In the show, individuals track down a former lover, family member or friend and confront them about why they went MIA. Paramount Network franchise extender Ink Master: Grudge Match offers former contestants the opportunity to go head to head with their biggest rivals from their seasons. Competition begins Tuesday, October 1 at 10p. The first half of the fourth and final season of Netflix comedy The Ranch begins Friday, September 13. COMING UP NBC will air A Little Late with Lilly Singh: The Primetime Special on Wednesday, September 18 at 10p, two days following the premiere of Singh’s late-night show. The telecast, following the two-hour season finale of America’s Got Talent, will introduce primetime audiences to Singh as she takes part in sketches, interviews, games and interacts with the audience. TECH TALK Facebook is rolling out a new way for users to view a summary of the apps and websites that send Facebook information about their activity, and clear that information from their account if they wish. Users can also disconnect future off-Facebook activity from their accounts. “If you clear your off-Facebook activity, we’ll remove your identifying information from the data that apps and websites choose to send us. We won’t know which websites you visited or what you did there, and we won’t use any of the data you disconnect to target ads to you on Facebook, Instagram or Messenger,” said Erin Egan, Chief Privacy Officer, Policy and David Baser, Director of Product, Management, in a blog post. “We expect this could have some impact on our business, but we believe giving people control over their data is more important.” Data-driven television and analytics company FourthWall Media announced the market-wide release of Reveal Connect, a household matching product that enables the creation of custom audiences by connecting disparate datasets while preserving privacy. Reveal Connect, a key component of the Reveal analytics platform, is now being offered as a stand-alone product. “We have used Reveal Connect with many MVPDs, analytics partners, third-party data providers, and various unique custom datasets to power dynamic matching,” said Ellen Dudar, Chief Product Officer. “As more and more companies drive toward outcome-based analytics, we recognize their need to create detailed custom audiences while maintaining control of the process and control of their own customer data.” Who needs faster internet for streaming? Not most households, according to a study from the Wall Street Journal. Looking at the internet usage of 53 of its journalists across the country, the WSJ found the panel used only a fraction of their available bandwidth to watch multiple streaming services simultaneously, and quality didn’t improve significantly with higher speeds. Cox Communications, the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers and SCTE’s global arm, the International Society of Broadband Experts have partnered on a training program to provide Cox with a highly-skilled coax splicing workforce to support implementation of its fiber-deep strategy. The four-day Coax Splicing Boot Camp integrates existing SCTE•ISBE training with Cox needs to create a Cox-specific training program for new splicers. YouTube is finalizing plans to stop taking targeted ads on videos aimed at kids, reports Bloomberg. The Federal Trade Commission is looking into whether YouTube violated the Children’s Online Privacy Act by serving targeted ads to children under 13 without parental permission. In more YouTube news, the company is removing the ability to sharevideos via direct messages on YouTube, a feature it launched two years ago. “Since then, we've also focused on public conversations with updates to comments, posts, and stories,” said YouTube. “We’re constantly reevaluating our priorities and have decided to discontinue YouTube’s native direct messaging feature while we focus on improving public conversations.” Gmail is introducing new spelling and grammar correction capabilities. “As you type your message, Gmail will use artificial intelligence to make smarter spell-check suggestions while also detecting potential grammar issues. For some common spelling mistakes, we've also added as-you-type autocorrection for improved accuracy,” posted the company. Corrections will take place automatically as users type, and the feature can be disabled. STREAMING YouTube’s shift toward more unscripted programming isn’t limited to the U.S. At the Edinburgh International TV Festival, Luke Hyams, Head of Originals, EMEA, said, “We’re not looking for scripted material at the moment. We feel the unscripted space is really exciting at the moment, particularly as there’s so much ability to crossover with what the really successful talent are already doing themselves on YouTube.” Pluto TV struck a deal with the NFL for a new channel with content from NFL Films and NFL Media, as well as season recaps and replays. New content will be added to the NFL Channel, including NFL Top 100 Players, previews and press conferences. Asian video streaming service Viu inked a deal with Canada-based Wattpad to develop film and TV series under the Viu Original label. Wattpad, host of user-generated stories, has also struck deals with companies including Sony Pictures Television and Mediacorp. CASTING Singer/actress Demo Lovato has joined the cast of Will Ferrell Netflix comedy Eurovision, inspired by the global singing competition. GOING GLOBAL Sky is launching two new linear networks, Sky Crime and Sky Comedy. The crime net will feature programming from Comcast sib NBUniversal’s Oxygen, as well as crime documentaries from HBO. Among Sky Comedy’s offerings will be HBO’s Righteous Gemstones and Ballers, and NBC’s Will & Grace and The Tonight Show. At the Edinburgh Festival, Viacom’s Channel 5 announced a drama slate that includes three-part Penance; two-hour drama The Small Hand (wt) and the renewal of family saga Blood. Fremantlehas sold 10-part adventure seriesExpedition with Steve Backshall into over 140 territories. Following a pre-sale to France Télévisions, Fremantle secured deals across Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Canada and Latin America. Banijay Rightsstruck a first look development deal with production company Tigerlily Productions. The new agreement covers scripted programming developed, created and produced by Tigerlily for the UK and international markets. Kaltura’sCloud TV Platform will power the newly-launched TV service from Beeline Kazakhstan, reaching more than half of the nation’s population. The new platform will replace Beeline Kazakhstan’s legacy pay-TV service. This comes on the heels of Kaltura’s successful launch of Beeline TV in Russia, which now delivers personalized and targeted TV on any device to viewers across 11 time zones in Russia. KIDS CORNER Entertainment One announced that Nickelodeon in the U.S. will join the lineup of partners and is set to launch preschool series Ricky Zoom on September 9, including Super RTL (Germany), Clan TV (Spain), Gulli (France), RAI (Italy),Youku (China), and Discovery Kids (Latin America) with further deals in the pipeline. PODCAST POST As Poldark heads toward its fifth and final season on PBS, podcast Mining Poldark offers conversations with Robin Ellis, the original Ross Poldark from the 1970s adaptation, and Masterpiece’s Barrett Brountas. First episode is available now, with the rest of the season available on August 26. The final season of Poldark premieres on Masterpiece on PBS on Sunday, September 29. Parcast’s daily podcast Today in True Crime looks at the notorious murders, heists, crime hits and more that took place on the date each episode airs. |
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| RATINGS Live + Same Day Viewers AA (millions): Tuesday August 20 time period averages Source: Nielsen Live+SD NBC: 7.53 million America’s Got Talent 9.35, Bring the Funny 3.89 CBS: 4.22 million NCIS 4.663, FBI 4.04, NCIS: New Orleans 3.99 ABC: 23.22 million Bachelor in Paradise 4.10, Bless This Mess 1.63, black-ish 1.31 FOX: 1.41 million The Resident 1.35, First Responders Live 1.48 TELEMUNDO: 1.10 million Exatlon Estados Unidos 1.18, El Final del Paraiso 1.17, Preso No. 1 0.93 UNIVISION: 1.01 million La Reina Soy Yo 1.17, Juntos, el Corazon Nunca Se Equivoca 0.92, Sin Miedo a La Verdad 0.93 CW: 0.64 million Pandora 0.68, Mysteries Decoded 0.60 Tuesday A18-49 Ratings NBC 1.3/7, ABC 0/8/4, CBS 0.4/2, TELE 0.4.2, UNI 0.3/2, FOX 0.3/2, CW 0.2/1 EXECUTIVE MOVES CBS This Morning added to staff: Shanta Fripp has been promoted to director of CBS This Morning; Claudia Milne has come aboard as managing editor; and Jon Tower was upped to senior broadcast producer. Jennifer D'Alessandro has been named Senior Director of OTT/CTV Ad Sales at Future Today Inc/HappyKids.TV. She most recently served as Senior Director of Ad Sales, Midwest and Detroit at The Weather Channel. Future Today Inc/HappyKids.TV named Nunzio Appio to the post of Senior Director of OTT/CTV Ad Sales East. Previously, he was Vice President, Business Development at Beacon Media Group. Twitter picked up the Lightwellteam and named Suzanne Xie, the startup’s founder and CEO, as Director of Product leading Twitter’s Conversations initiative. “We are excited to welcome Suzanne and her team to Twitter to help drive forward the important work we are doing to serve the public conversation,” said Twitter VP of Product Keith Colman. This Day in History 1921 – J. Edgar Hoover became the Assistant Director of the FBI. Answer to Our Last Trivia Question Which actor shot some scenes as the Hulk in the original pilot for The Incredible Hulk (1982-1987), because EP Kenneth Johnson was concerned about Lou Ferrigno performing the drama? Richard Kiel. Kudos to: An Cheng-Telepictures/Burbank, Rev. Mark Wajda/Lakeland, FL, Dan Whitford-WTTW/Chicago, Rob Casalaina-ITN/NYC, Aprile Brown-NBB Media Solutions/Washington, DC, Charles Lore/NYC, Matt Fera-McGarryBowen/Chicago, LaKendra Kennedy-Sinclair Broadcast Group/Hunt Valley, MD, David Garber-Loyola Marymount University/Playa Vista, CA, Dave Hammargren-KCPQ-KZJO/Seattle, Steve Iha-Estrella TV/Dallas, Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/LA |
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| THURSDAY AUGUST 22 ABC: Holey Moley, Holey Moley [f], Reef Break CBS: Big Bang Theory, Young Sheldon, Big Brother, FBI CW: The Outpost, Two Sentence Horror Stories, Two Sentence Horror Stories FOX: NFL Football NBC: The Wall, Ellen’s Game of Games, Law & Order: SVU PBS: This Old House Hour, Koko – The Gorilla Who Talks, Antiques Roadshow Telemundo: Exatlon Estados Unidos, El Final del Paraiso, Preso No. 1 Univision: La Reina Soy Yo, Juntos, el Corazon Nunca Se Equivoca, Sin Miedo a La Verdad |
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