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| Tonight’s Finales: WE tv: Growing Up Hip Hop: New York at 9p IN THE NEWS A greater number of American customers intend to subscribe to forthcoming streaming service Disney+ than the company projected. This according to a new study from UBS, which found 43%of 1,000 US consumers surveyed intended to subscribe. Further, 57% of respondents said they will cancel at least one other subscription service once they subscribe to Disney+. MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell acknowledged he “shouldn’t have reported” a story Tuesday night about President Trump and bank loans with ties to Russian billionaires. “I made an error in judgment by reporting an item about the president’s finances that didn’t go through our rigorous verification and standards processes,” tweeted O’Donnell on Wednesday. Earlier in the day, Trump had threatened to hit NBCUniversal and O’Donnell with a defamation lawsuit over the claim. Grads from Warner Bros. Television Group’s Directors’ Workshop class of 2019 have all booked directing assignments on upcoming episodes of a WBTVG series. Since its inception in 2013, the Directors’ Workshop has helped launch or further the careers of more than 50 women and/or people of color. CBS Sports will fete College Football’s 150th anniversary with a season-long, multiplatform celebration across CBS, CBS Sports Network, CBSSports.com, CBS Sports HQ and its social media accounts that includes five original specials, and four new eps as part of the network’s “Four Sides of the Story” franchise. Series begins with Hail Flutie! on Saturday, October 19 at 2:30p. Rotten Tomatoes said it added 600 independently verified critics this past year as part of its drive to support under-represented voices in the TV and film commentary universe. Of the new crew, 55 percent are women, 60 percent are freelancers and 10 percent publish reviews via YouTube, podcasts and other emerging formats. |
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| PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT Producer/screenwriter Mark Boal (Zero Dark Thirty and The Hurt Locker) is onboard to adapt Mitchell Zuckoff’s book Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11 as a limited series for ABC. Slated to debut in 2021, the series will follow the book in chronicling stories of those who were lost, saved and forever altered by the heinous acts of terrorism. Lionsgate and 3 Arts Entertainment are producing studios. Netflix won the bidding war and gave a series order to drama The Girls on the Bus, from Legacies creator/exec producer Julie Plec, Berlanti Productions and Warner bros. TV. Inspired by the like-titled chapter of Amy Chozick’s book Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns and One Intact Glass Ceiling, project is based on the NYT journalist’s decade-long chronicle of Hillary Clinton’s pursuit of the presidency. Universal Television and producer Sherry Marsh (Pose, Vikings) optioned the rights to Bruce Holisinger’s new novel The Gifted School to develop into a TV series. Echoing the recent college admissions scandal, story embeds with a fictional enclave of over-entitled families and depicts parenting as a competitive sport. Although Mayans MC co-creator Kurt Sutter is handing creative control to Elgin James, he isn’t exiting the Sons Of Anarchy spinoff show entirely. Sutter said he always planned relinquish the day-to-day show-runner reins to James, who created the series with him, reports Deadline. NBCUniversal International Studios is adapting Emily St. John Mandel’s mystery novel The Glass Hotel into a television series. The studio acquired the rights to the tome, slated to be published in March 2020; Mandel will write the pilot. Home-reno series Good Bones will return for a fifth season on HGTV in summer 2020. Series stars mother-daughter duo Mina Starsiak Hawk and Karen E Laine as they buy crumbling Indianapolis properties, gut them down to the studs and turn them into gorgeous, functional family homes. Comedy Central gave a 10-ep second season to its scripted series South Side, midway through the series’ freshman outing. Penned by and starring Bashir Salahuddin (Glow) and Diallo Riddle (Marlon), South Side is set around Chicago’s the working class neighborhood Englewood. NEW & RETURNING SERIES Netflix dropped the trailer for limited series The Spy, starring Sacha Baron Cohen, and written and directed by Gideon Raff. Series, about an Israeli man who in his quest to be of service to his country finds it hard to strip off his double identity, will launch September 6. UPtv acquired the beloved family series Little House on the Prairie from NBCU. Series will make its new network bow Monday, September 16 and will air weekdays at 11a. Retro Report on PBS, a new one-hour magazine format series hosted by journalist Celeste Headlee and artist Masud Olufani and featuring New Yorker humorist Andy Borowitz, premieres Monday, October 7 at 9p. Series offers viewers a fresh perspective on current headlines. Starz released the official trailer for new five-part original docu-series Leavenworth. Series premieres on Sunday, October 20 at 9:30p after it world-premieres Sunday, September 15 at the Tribeca TV Festival on September 15. Four-part limited series Catherine the Great will make its royal bow on HBO on Monday, October 21 at 10p. Starring Helen Mirren and Jason Clarke, the HBO/Sky production follows the scandalous monarch toward the end of her reign and during her affair with Grigory Potemkin. HBO unveiled the first trailer for its upcoming Jude Law and John Malkovich drama The New Pope, which is slated to premiere at the Venice Film Fest on September 1. The first trailer for war drama World on Fire is out from the BBC and PBS. The Helen Hunt and Sean Bean starrer looks at WW2 through the eyes of people from all sides of the conflict. First seven-ep season will follow the first year of the war and is slated to launch later this year on BBC One and as part of PBS’ Masterpiece. Enamorándonos (Love is Calling), a reality show dedicated to finding true love, premieres Sunday, September 8, at 7p on UniMás with a special simulcast on Univision. The two-hour program will air Monday through Friday during the same timeslot on UniMás. New on Cooking Channel: Bakers on Freakshow Cakes, hosted by Zac Young and Vivian Chan, start whipping up wild confections starting Friday, October 4 at 11p. COMING UP In celebration of the 20th anniversary of The Parkers, TV One will host a "Parkers-Palooza" marathon of the series Friday, August 30 beginning at 8p. Sunday, September 1 at 9p Cinelatino will air the exclusive US premiere of Mexican box-office comedy Una Mujer Sin Filtro. Additionally, on Monday September 2, Cinelatino will air a programming lineup featuring some of the biggest Mexican films beginning at 11a. Drain the Oceans: Thai Cave Mission, airing on Nat Geo on Monday, September 2 at 9p, features the first and most extensive 3D mapping of Thailand’s Tham Luang cave system. Special will explain how the 12 boys and their soccer coach were trapped during last year’s incident, how they managed to survive and why it took three weeks to be freed. The trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s The Laundromat, slated to bow on Netflix October 18, is live. When her vacation takes an unthinkable turn, Ellen Martin (Meryl Streep) begins investigating a fake insurance policy and discovers questionable dealings that can be linked to a Panama City law firm and its vested interest in helping the world's wealthiest citizens amass even larger fortunes. AXS TV's sit-down series The Big Interview with Dan Rather returns for the second half of its seventh season on Tuesday, October 1 at 8p. Rather’s guests for this run include Brian Johnson (October 1), Bob Costas (November 12) and Bryan Cranston (December 3). The Major League Soccer championship match is heading back to ABC for the first time since 2008. ESPN will present the 2019 MLS Cup on Sunday, November 10 at 3p on ABC. The match also will be streamed live on the ESPN and ABC apps. Maren Morris tops the list of nominees for the 53rd CMA Awards, which will air live Wednesday, November 13 at 8p on ABC. Brothers Osborne, Dierks Bentley, Eric Church, Luke Combs, Dan + Shay, Scott Hendricks, Dann Huff, Greg Kurstin, Kacey Musgraves, Blake Shelton, Chris Stapleton and Carrie Underwood are among other finalists with multiple noms. KIDS NEWS Nick News: Nickelodeon greenlit holiday-themed competition series Top Elf, and ordered a full series pickup of The Substitute. Top Elf, which begins production in September on five one-hour eps, features kid contestants with extraordinary building and design skills. Hidden camera prank show The Substitute got a 10-ep series order following the strong performance of two specials that aired earlier this year. Series premiere is planned for October. Top Elf is created by Mike Duffy and Tim Duffy of Ugly Brother Studios; Substitute is produced by Industrial Media’s The Intellectual Property Corporation… Also at Nick, Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader returns with two new eps Friday, September 6starting at 7p. Disney Channel will air a special interactive live telecast of its series Just Roll With It: You Decide Live! on Friday, October 4 at 9p. Series blends scripted and improvisational comedy. During the Halloween-themed special—the first of its kind for the channel—viewers nationwide can join the studio audience in determining plot twists in real time. Raven-Symone (Raven's Home) and Miranda May (Bunk’d) guest star. STREAMING NEWS Streaming service and theatrical distributor MUBI nabbed worldwide rights to Luca Guadagnino's short drama film The Staggering Girl. It’s the company’s first global deal for a new movie. The Staggering Girl, which stars Julianne Moore, premiered at Cannes. Subscription streaming service Gaia will debut Rewired, featuring researcher and lecturer Dr. Joe Dispenza on September 23. Tubi announced plans to expand its free, premium service to Australia. Launching on September 1, the service will start with nearly 7,000 movies and television series. TECH TALK Mercedes-Benz is staging some AR action off the courts at the US Open. An official sponsor of the event, Mercedes is running its largest tech activation and first-ever AR experience, featuring 2017 US Open Champion and brand ambassador Sloane Stephens offering enthusiasts some tips on the game with the help of the Mercedes-Benz User Experience voice assistant (MBUX). Cynopsis got an early tour of the site and chatted with Nicholas Emma, supervisor of brand experience marketing at Mercedes-Benz USA, who said aside from marketing, the big “gets” from the activation are potential buyers’ email and ZIP code. Those who want to participate in the experience are asked two questions: Whether they are looking to purchase a new car, and what their purchase window is. If they answer positively to those prompts, their information is shared with a local dealer. If not… “There’s a very strong privacy policy,” Emma said. “If you don’t go to those questions and answer them, then the information doesn’t go to the dealer.” The brand will take the tech on the road directly after the tennis event, opening a site September 15 at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta for the Falcons’ first season game in an activation featuring quarterback Matt Ryan. Emma said the additional sporting events are on the horizon for the AR tech, as are activations at pop-up retail shops, which the company launched a few years ago. In a blog post outlining improvements in Siri’s privacy protections, Apple said the company will no longer retain audio recordings of Siri interactions, but continue to use computer-generated transcripts to help Siri improve. Second, users will be able to opt in to help Siri improve by learning from the audio samples of their requests. Those who choose to participate will be able to opt out at any time. Third, when customers opt in, only Apple employees will be allowed to listen to audio samples of the Siri interactions, and the team will work to delete any recording determined to be an inadvertent trigger of Siri. “Apple is committed to putting the customer at the center of everything we do, which includes protecting their privacy,” said the post. “We created Siri to help them get things done, faster and easier, without compromising their right to privacy. We are grateful to our users for their passion for Siri, and for pushing us to constantly improve.” Facebook is getting stricter about requirements for groups buying political ads. With the 2020 elections approaching, the social network will require advertisers to submit more information about their organization. “Now, with one tap, people will not only see information about the ad, but they’ll be able to see the information Facebook confirmed, such as whether an advertiser used an EIN or FEC identification number,” said Facebook in a blog post. “This will allow people to confidently gauge the legitimacy of an organization and quickly raise questions or concerns if they find anything out of the ordinary.” In more Facebook news, the company is developing a new messaging app, reports The Verge. Threads, designed as a companion app to Instagram, allows users to share private messages with their closest Instagram friends, inviting them to automatically share location, speed, and battery life as well as text, photo, and video messages. The app is being tested internally, according to the report. Gaming industry veterans Jamie Ottilie and Brian Waddle are rebooting Telltale Games, the studio behind the Walking Dead video game and Netflix’s Minecraft: Storymode Adventure series. The duo is hoping to monetize Telltale’s catalog and create new titles that follow its model of story-based episodic gaming. PODCAST POSTS Disney Music Group is getting into the podcast game with For Scores, an interview series featuring composers working in film, television and games with ties to the company. New series is produced by longtime Disney Music exec Maria Kleinman in conjunction with Treefort Media, and will drop a quartet of interviews at a time, hosted by journalist Jon Burlingame. The first run features Henry Jackman, Harry Gregson-Williams, Pinar Toprak and Alan Silvestri. Tegna announced the premiere of Bardstown, a 10-part podcast series by the company’s Vault Studios that dives into a string of unsolved murders in and around a rural Kentucky town. Produced in partnership with WHAS, Tegna’s ABC affiliate in Louisville, podcast tells each of five murder victims’ stories. ADVERTISING & BRANDS Hudson MX, a cloud-based software company, and Comscore formed a partnership that will enable buyers of local TV to buy inventory against IHS Markit (formerly Polk) automotive audiences at scale. Comscore’s IHS Markit automotive data will be seamlessly integrated into Hudson MX’s flagship product, BuyerAssist. CASTING Naomie Harris (Moonlight) will topline HBO and Sky drama The Third Day, joining previously announced Jude Law… Andrene Ward-Hammond (Claws) and Ellen Tamaki (Charmed) will recur opposite Melissa Roxburgh on the upcoming second season of NBC series Manifest… Henry Thomas will return for the second season of Netflix horror anthology series The Haunting of Bly Manor… Also at Netflix, Beau Garrett (Girlfriends’ Guide To Divorce) is set as a lead opposite Katherine Heigl in upcoming drama series Firefly Lane… Kendrick Sampson (How To Get Away with Murder) and Carra Patterson (Straight Outta Compton) are set as the leads in comedy anthology Showtime’s How To Make Love To A Black Woman (Who May Be Working Through Some Sh*t)… Joe Minoso (Chicago Fire) scored a recurring role opposite Chris O’Dowd and Ray Romano on the upcoming season 3 of Epix’s Get Shorty. DISTRIBUTION Disney and Dish avoided a blackout, at least for now, extending their talks regarding a new contract for Disney’s FX and National Geographic Channel. |
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| RATINGS TV Time’s September 2019 Anticipation Report: Most Anticipated New TV Shows: The Politician (Netflix) - 9/27/19 Stumptown (ABC) - 9/25/19 Prodigal Son (FOX) - 9/23/19 Unbelievable (Netflix) - 9/13/19 Emergence (ABC) - 9/24/19 Most Anticipated Returning TV Shows: Elite (Netflix) - 9/6/19 Titans (DC Universe) - 9/6/19 American Horror Story (FX) - 9/18/19 The Good Place (NBC) - 9/26/19 How to Get Away with Murder (ABC) - 9/26/19 *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 September 2019. Live + Same Day Viewers AA (millions): Tuesday, August 27 time period averages Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated Live+SD NBC: 7.17 million America’s Got Talent 8.90, Bring the Funny 3.71 CBS: 4.57 million NCIS 5.08, FBI 4.41, NCIS: New Orleans 4.20 ABC: 3.07 million Bachelor in Paradise 3.89, Bless This Mess 1.53, Black-ish 1.31 FOX: 1.39 million The Resident 1.31, First Respoders Live 1.46 Telemundo: 1.08 million Exatlon 1.15, Final del Paraiso 1.17, Preso No. 1 933,000 Univision: 1.0 million Reyna Soy Yo 1.30, Juntas, Corazon 1.09, Sin Miedo a la Verdad 980,000 CW: 570,000 Pandora 0.56, Mysteries Decoded 0.57 Tuesday A18-49 Rating NBC 1.1/6, ABC .8/4, CBS, .5/2, UNI .3/2, FOX .3/2, TELE .4/2, CW .2/1 EXECUTIVE MOVES CBS and Viacom named Anthony DiClemente as EVP, investor relations, ViacomCBS. DiClemente joined CBS in June 2019 as EVP, investor relations; prior to that he was senior managing director and fundamental research analyst at Evercore Group. IN MEMORIAM Pro racer Jessi Combs died while trying to break a land-speed record in Oregon’s Alvord Desert. She was 36. Combs was co-host of the Spike TV show Xtreme 4×4 from 2005-09, and appeared on shows including Overhaulin’, Mythbusters, The List: 1001 Car Things To Do Before You Die, All Girls Garage and Science Channel’s How to Build… Everything in 201. This Day in History 1945 – General Douglas MacArthur left for Japan to officially accept the surrender of the Japanese. Answer to our last trivia question The caffeine-addicted character in which series was a fan of sitcoms Green Acres and Mr. Ed? Dave Nelson on NewsRadio (1995-1999). Kudos to: Rev. Mark Wajda/Lakeland, FL, Gerry Bixenspan-TV Marketing Inc./NYC, Arthur Reinstein-Corus Entertainment/Toronto, Andrew Goldman-Fathom Events/NYC, Synda Kollman-Charter Marketing Group/Boca Raton FL, David Westberg-SAG-AFTRA Credit Union/Burbank, Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/LA Today's Trivia Question: Who composed Way Down in the Hole, the theme song for The Wire (2002-08)? (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 AUGUST 29 ABC: Holey Moley, Reef Break, Reef Break CBS: The Big Bang Theory, Young Sheldon, Big Brother, FBI CW: The Outpost, Two Sentence Horror Stories, Two Sentence Horror Stories FOX: MasterChef, Spin the Wheel NBC: The Wall, Hollywood Game Night, Law & Order: SVU PBS: The Old House Hour, Magical Land of Oz, Antiques Roadshow Telemundo: Exation Estados Unidos, En Final de Paraiso, Preso No. 1 Univision: La Reina Soy yo, Juntos, el Corazon Nunca Se Equivoca, Sin Miedo a la Verdad |
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