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| Tonight’s Premieres: ABC: Dancing With the Stars at 8p Acorn TV: Taken Down NBC: A Little Late With Lilly Singh at 1:35a Tonight’s Finales Food Network: Kids Baking Championship at 9p Fox: So You Think You Can Dance at 8p ID: Extreme Measures at 11p VH1: Girls’ Cruise at 9p IN THE NEWS CNN and the New York Times will co-host the next Democratic presidential debate, slated for mid-October. CNN’s Anderson Cooper and Erin Burnett, and the Times’ national editor Marc Lacey will moderate the event, held at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio. Eleven candidates have already met the criteria needed to make the cut; if more qualify by October 2, a second debate night will be scheduled. “We will not be doing a reunion show, we will not be doing a reboot,” said Friends co-creator and executive producer Marta Kauffman during the show’s 25th anniversary panel at the Tribeca TV festival on Friday. Kauffman offered two reasons to keep that door closed, in an era where other classic comedies are finding new life. “One of the reasons we won’t do a reunion is because this is a show about a time in your life when your friends are your family. And when you have a family, that changes,” she said. “The other reason is it’s not going to beat what we did.” Added co-creator David Crane, “We did the show we wanted to do. We got it right, and we put a bow on it. If you visited those characters now, it just would not be the same DNA and chances are, it wouldn’t be as good.” Among the highlights at the weekend’s 71st Creative Arts Emmys: ABC’s Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear’s All In the Family and The Jeffersons picked up the trophy for Outstanding Variety Special (Live), making 97-year-old Lear the oldest winner ever in the category... RuPaul landed his fourth consecutive Outstanding Host for a Reality or Competition Program win, for RuPaul’s Drag Race...Carpool Karaoke: When Corden Met McCartney took home pre-recorded variety special honors, while Carpool Karaoke won for short-form variety series...Seth MacFarlane tied the record for most Outstanding Voice-Over wins, with his fourth for Family Guy... Rachel Bloom – winner of an Emmy for music and lyrics for CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend – revealed she’s three months pregnant, “so that’s what’s next for me.” For a complete list of winners, go here. Local stations owned by NBC and Telemundo have moved to cost-per-impression measurement, from traditional ratings points, reports Axios. “Consumers no longer only watch TV in a traditional linear fashion – rating points only measure linear television,” reads an agency pitch document quoted by Axios. “Local TV needs to measure video viewing across all platforms.” CBS News upped Jim Axelrod from Senior National Correspondent to Chief Investigative and Senior National Correspondent. Axelrod joined CBS News in 1996. New SNL hire Shane Gillis apologized for a racial slur against Chinese people that surfaced in a YouTube video uploaded last year. “I’m a comedian who pushes boundaries,” tweeted Gillis. I sometimes miss....I’m happy to apologize to anyone who’s actually offended by anything I’ve said.” And he did call comedian Chris Gethard to apologize for a homophobic comment made during a podcast, Gethard told the NYTimes, adding, “the fact that he took some time to do that today, I give him credit.” Presidential candidate Andrew Yang, target of one of Gillis’ anti-Asian jabs, said he prefers “comedy that makes people think and doesn’t take cheap shots,” but added, “for the record, I do not think he should lose his job. We would all benefit from being more forgiving rather than punitive.” The announcement that Gillis was joining the NBC sketch show as a featured player was made last week. |
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| PRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT Ugly Betty’s Michael Urie and Becki Newton reteam to star as brother and sister in Fun, which landed a pilot production commitment from CBS. Funeral home comedy comes from Michael Patrick King (2 Broke Girls), former Ugly Betty EPs Tracy Poust and Jon Kinnally and Warner Bros. TV. Actor John Lithgow and director Jon Watts (Spider Man: Homecoming) have boarded the pilot of FX drama series The Old Man. Lithgow will star alongside Jeff Bridges in the project, which begins production this fall under the direction of Watts, who will also serve as an executive producer. Skydance Television today announced it has entered into an exclusive multi-year overall agreement with writer-producer David S. Goyer (The Dark Knight, Da Vinci’s Demons) and his Phantom Four production company led by President Keith Levine. Under the deal, Goyer will create, develop and produce original scripted series for the studio. Goyer currently serves as showrunner and executive producer on Skydance Television’s upcoming sci-fi drama series Foundation, based on Isaac Asimov’s bestselling book series of the same name. HBO Max gave a straight-to-series order for Americanah, based on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s best-selling novel about a woman born in Nigeria who leaves for America and her experiences with love, heartache, adversity and self-discovery. The 10-episode limited series will star Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave), with the pilot being written by showrunner Danai Gurira (Black Panther). Drama Backlash, from Lizzy Weiss (Switched at Birth), Jon Feldman and Jennifer Gwartz’s Random Hill Productions and ABC Studios, landed a put pilot commitment from ABC, reports Deadline. Show focuses on the aftermath of a high-profile child rescue. Top 10 Weekend Domestic Box Office Estimates: September 13-15 It: Chapter Two (Warner Bros) $40.7 million (week 2), cume revenue $153.8 million Hustlers (STX) $33.2 million, opening weekend Angel Has Fallen (Lionsgate) $4.4 million (week 43), cume revenue $60.4 million Good Boys (Universal) $4.3 million (week 5), cume revenue $73.3 million The Lion King (Buena Vista) $3.6 million (week 9), cume revenue $534.0 million Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (Universal) $2.8 million (week 7), cume revenue $168.3 million Overcomer (Affirm) $2.7 million (week 4), cume revenue $29.0 million The Goldfinch (Warner Bros.) $2.6 million, opening weekend The Peanut Butter Falcon (Roadside Attractions) $1.9 million (week 6), cume revenue $`5.0 million Dora and the Lost City of Gold (Paramount) $1.9 million (week 6), cume revenue $56.7 million Source: Comscore NEW & RETURNING SERIES Freeform’s Party of Five reboot, following five children whose parents are suddenly deported to Mexico, is set for a Wednesday, January 8 debut. The new iteration comes from original series creators Amy Lippman and Christopher Keyser. Nickelodeon’s Are You Afraid of the Dark? premieres Friday, October 11 at 7p. Three-parter based on the ‘90s kids cult classic has been reimagined for a new generation. Season two of ID’s Someone You Thought You Knew debuts Monday, September 23 at 9p. True crime series focuses on murders that aren’t as random as they might appear to be. Home improvement series George to the Rescue returns to NBC stations for season ten on Saturday, September 21 (check local listings). Series features George Oliphant and his team of contractors and designers taking on perplexing home improvement projects for families facing personal challenges. Kids series Super Dinosaur, based on the Robert Kirkman and Jason Howard comic book series, premieres launches on Amazon Prime Video on October 6. Docu-series Chasing the Sun, following the travels of filmmaker Stephen Friedman (The Blueprints), has two back-to-back premiere dates next month. Season two premieres on travel-focused AVOD channel JOURNY on Wednesday, October 2, while season one, which already aired on JOURNY, makes its debut on Ovation on Thursday, October 3. A&E’s Live PD is back for season four on Friday and Saturday, September 20 and 21, at 9p. The net’s Live Rescue returns with a new host, Matt Iseman, and new episodes on Monday, September 23 at 9p. A six-episode digital series, The Selection, offers viewers a storytelling link to the fourth and final season of NBC’s The Good Place. Written by the comedy’s staff, series focused on Shawn (Marc Evan-Jackson) and his demon team is available on the NBC App. The Good Place returns for its last hurrah on Thursday, September 26 at 9p. COMING UP After nine seasons, Discovery Family Channel will celebrate the series finale of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic with a 90-minute special on Saturday, October 12 at 8p. The day before, the net is offering making-of retrospective My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic – A Decade of Pony at 5p. TECH TALK Walt Disney and Microsoft are teaming for a five-year partnership to create, produce and distribute content using Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform. “The cloud has reached a tipping point for the media industry, and it’s not surprising that The Walt Disney Studios, which has its heritage based on a passion for innovation and technology, is at the forefront of this transformation,” said Microsoft president Kate Johnson. “The combination of Azure’s hyperscale capacity, global distribution, and industry-leading storage and networking capabilities with Disney’s strong history of industry leadership unlocks new opportunity in the media and entertainment space and will power new ways to drive content and creativity at scale.” Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Apple’s Tim Cook, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Google’s Larry Page were among the execs who received requests for documents and communications related to Congress’ bipartisan investigation into big tech companies. The detailed requests for information say investigators are looking into “whether dominant firms are engaging in anticompetitive conduct.” Imagine Communications announced a new generation of its Landmark Sales solution aimed at improving advertising management for UK’s ITV. The upgrade leverages existing API-based touch points that have been developed by Imagine for key ITV systems, streamlining the integration of Landmark II into the ITV advertising technology platform and wider linear ecosystem. ADVERTISING Cadillac is courting younger drivers with new models of subcompact sedan CT4 unveiled on Instagram. “We developed CT4 to appeal to youthful buyers in the luxury market who may be new to the Cadillac brand,” said Andrew Smith, executive director of global Cadillac design. A social media campaign for the vehicle “virtually puts viewers in the driver’s seat simulating the car’s liberating driving experience,” said Cadillac, and will continue for several weeks with posts on Instagram and other social media platforms. GOING GLOBAL Federation Kids & Family inked a deal with Disney Channel Latin America for all three seasons of tween drama series Find Me in Paris, produced by Cottonwood Media with ZDF, ZDF Enterprises, Be-Films, and the National Opera of Paris. Disney Channel Latin America is scheduled to broadcast on the first half of 2020. CASTING Alexander Skarsgard (Big Little Lies) will star in CBS All Access’ The Stand, based on the Stephen King novel. Skarsgard will play the sinister Randall Flagg. |
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| RATINGS Airing on both ABC (12.93 million, 2.1 A18-49 and 2.9 A25-54) and Univision (1.11 million, 0.3 A18-49 and 0.4 A25-54), the third Democratic debate, based on Nielsen’s Fast National, ranked as the #1 non-sports program for the evening. The two nights of Dem debate #1 in June, on NBC, MSNBC and Telemundo, drew 18.1 million viewers, while the second on CNN averaged 9.71 million. Animal Planet’s freshman series The Zoo: San Diego on Saturday, September 7 averaged a season-high across the 25-54 demo (Persons, Men and Women) and set a viewership record for the series to date with more than one million viewers (1.07 million). Season one of Spectrum Originals drama L.A.’s Finest has delivered over 3 million viewers to date. During the week of its release, the series debuted as a top-rated TV drama, becoming the #1 drama among broadcast series and #2 drama overall second only to Game of Thrones, and continues to add viewership through its 16th week, according to Nielsen. Live + Same Day Viewers AA (millions) Thursday, September 12 time period averages Source: Nielsen Live+SD ABC: 12.93 million Democratic Candidate Debate 12.93 CBS: 3.97 million Young Sheldon 4.50, Young Sheldon 4.21, Big Brother 4.56, FBI 2.62 FOX: 1.75 million MLB Baseball 1.75 NBC: 1.51 million Superstore 1.95, Superstore 1.47, The Good Place 1.29, The Good Place 1.08, Law & Order: SVU 1.78 TELEMUNDO: 1.21 million Exatlon Estados Unidos 1.33, El Final del Paraiso 1.36, Preso No. 1 0.96 UNIVISION: 1.11 million Debate Democrata 1.11 million CW: 0.54 million The Outpost 0.63, Two Second Horror Stories 0.55, Two Second Horror Stories 0.44 Thursday A18-49 Ratings ABC 2.1/12, CBS 0.7/3, FOX 0.4.3, TELE 0.4/2, NBC 0.3/2,UNI 0.3/2, CW 0.1.1 EXECUTIVE MOVES Courtney Sexton was promoted to Senior Vice President of CNN Films. Sexton joined the news net in 2013. IN MEMORIAM Musician Eddie Money died September 13 following complications from stage 4 esophageal cancer. He was 70. The “Two Tickets to Paradise” singer was diagnosed during filming for season two of his AXS TV reality show, Real Money. |
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| This Day in History 1997 – Apple Computer named Steve Jobs interim CEO. Answer to Our Last Trivia Question Who guested on the season 2 premiere of Blue Bloods along with Carrie Underwood and sang at a fund-raiser in the episode? Tony Bennett. Kudos to: Sandy Haberman-Sojern/NYC, Greg Moloznik-GLM Media/Scottsdale, Raj Moorjani-Disney/NYC, Rick Pike-InterMedia Marketing/Woodland, Hills, CA, Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/LA, Gail Goins-Videa/Atlanta, Suzanne Gordon-Viacom/Nashville, Brandon Lynch-GTB/Dallas, Ane Wettig-Fox/LA,Susan Nessanbaum-Goldberg-M and S Entertainment/LA Today’s Trivia Question Which short-lived, Florida-set crime series starred a former boxing champ as a detective’s sidekick? (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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| MONDAY SEPTEMBER 16 ABC: Dancing With the Stars [p], Beyonce Presents Making the Gift CBS: The Neighborhood, Big Bang Theory, Bull, Bull CW: Penn & Teller; Fool Us, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Whose Line Is it Anyway? FOX: So You Thnk You Can Dance [f] NBC: American Ninja Warrior, The NBC 2019 Primetime Preview Show PBS: Country Music, Country Music Telemundo: Exatlon Estados Unidos, El Final del Paraiso, Preso No. 1 Univision: La Rosa de Guadelupe, La Userpadora, Sin Miedo a la Verdad |
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