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| Tonight’s Premieres ABC: The Goldbergs at 8p, Schooled at 8:30p, Modern Family at 9p, Single Parents at 9:30p, Stumptown at 10p CBS: Survivor at 8p Comedy Central: South Park at 10p, Crank Yankers at 10:30p Fox: The Masked Singer at 8p FXX: It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia at 10p, Cake at 10:30p NBC: Chicago Med at 8p, Chicago Fire at 9p, Chicago P.D. at 10p YouTube: Liza on Demand Tonight’s Finales CBS: Big Brother at 9:30p INSP: Turquoise Fever at 9p PBS: Country Music at 8p USA: Suits at 9p IN THE NEWS Showtime is reviving weekly newsmagazine Vice with a 13-episode order for a new season set to premiere in the spring of 2020. The series, launched by Vice Media and HBO in 2013, has been nominated for 12 primetime Emmy awards across its previous six seasons, with two wins. The FCC has launched an investigation into Sprint over an apparent violation of the FCC’s rules on Lifeline broadband subsidies, which bring digital opportunities to low-income Americans. “The Federal Communications Commission has learned that Sprint Corp. claimed monthly subsidies for serving approximately 885,000 Lifeline subscribers, even though those subscribers were not using the service,” said the FCC. The issue was an error caused by new requirements implemented in 2017, said Sprint, adding that it would reimburse the government for any subsidy payments collected as a result of the error. Univision Communications. and Amazon are partnering in the U.S. to introduce new Spanish-language skills on Alexa, Amazon’s cloud-based voice service. Starting in early October, Alexa users will be able to access Univision’s Spanish-language content on Amazon’s family of Echo products, including live listening on all Uforia radio stations across the United States and Puerto Rico, national news briefs from Univision Noticias and sports briefs from TUDN. The Chuck Lorre Family Foundation has made a $200,000 pledge to double all gifts made September 24 through September 26 in support of public middle school applied science projects. The continuation of the foundation’s STEM celebrates the season three premiere of Lorre’s CBS comedy, Young Sheldon, on September 26 at 8p. Comscore agreed to pay a $5 million fine to settle SEC charges that it engaged in “a fraudulent scheme to overstate revenue by approximately $50 million and making false and misleading statements about key performance metrics,” based on transactions between February 2014 and February 2016. The measurement company said it “neither admits nor denies” the allegations, and pins the blame for the situation on former CEO Serge Matta, who has agreed to repay Comscore $2.1 million and pay the SEC a $700,000 fine. A U.S. soldier was arrested after discussing bombing a major news network’s headquarters, according to documents in Kansas federal court. While sources said the network was CNN, net president and chairman of WarnerMedia News and Sports Jeff Zucker assured employees they were not in danger. "I want to assure everyone that there was never any imminent threat to any CNN locations,” he said in an email to staff. “We continue to actively monitor these issues on a daily basis and work closely with our security teams around the world and our partners in law enforcement.” Fox is getting playful with a new voice on Twitter. “It’s about time I got a makeover! What do you think?” tweeted the net, calling out to rival programmers (“@nbc this isn’t us but I guess we can still be friends!”, and “@netflix so, this is what it’s like to have fun on Twitter,” to name two examples). The fresh voice coincides with Fox’s new on-air look and programming for the fall season. Fox News issued an apology on Monday after political commentator Michael Knowles, a guest on The Story, referred to 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg, who has Asperger’s syndrome, as a “mentally ill Swedish child” being “exploited by her parents and by the international left.” Saying it had “no plans” to invite Knowles back, Fox News called the comment “disgraceful” and apologized to Thunberg and to viewers. |
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| PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT The CW is developing an Arrow spinoff starring Katherine McNamara, Katie Cassidy and Juliana Harkavy reprising their Arrow roles. Potential series from Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television will air as a backdoor pilot during Arrow’s eighth and final season. Emmy winner Phoebe Waller-Bridge, creator, writer, executive produce and star of Fleabag, inked an overall deal with Amazon Studios to create and produce new TV content to premiere on Amazon Prime Video. “I’m insanely excited to be continuing my relationship with Amazon,” said Waller-Bridge. “Working with the team on Fleabag was the creative partnership dreams are made of. It really feels like home.” Shonda Rimes, Norman Lear, Steve Martin, author Jenny Han (To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before), Lindy West (Shrill) and songwriter Diane Warren have boarded Netflix anthology series Notes on Love, telling stories centered on marriage. Han, Martin, Warren, and West will exec produce their individual episodes; Rhimes and Betsy Beers will executive produce the series. Video company Jellysmack unveiled a new Creator’s Program, aimed at leveraging creators’ existing content libraries. “We’re enabling them to fully unlock their social potential by bringing premium and engaging content to new platforms that they haven’t always been concentrated on,” said Michael Philippe, CEO and co-founder of Jellysmack. Quibi greenlit traveling dance competition The Sauce, to be produced by The Front and featuring viral dance sensations Avo & Teo. Viewers will follow the best friends and brothers as they spotlight the diversity of dance culture in different cities. NEW & RETURNING SERIES Discovery Channel goes a rugged, remote region of Idaho for new survival series River of No Return, launching Sunday, October 6 at 9p. Details on Apple TV+ drama Servant will be revealed during New York Comic Con on Thursday, October 3 at 8p. Ahead of the event, M. Night Shyamalan tweeted about his upcoming mystery series, “I’ve been very quiet about what I have been working on with Apple TV+ but it has been one of the most incredible creative experiences. We’re so excited to show it to you.” AXS TV is moving Impact Wrestling from 10p Saturdays to 8p on Tuesdays, starting October 29. From October 1 until the show’s premiere, AXS TV will run “This Is Impact!” preview specials. The season 42 premiere of ABC’s 20/20 features the first prime-time interview with Siegfried & Roy (Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn) in over a decade. The duo open up about the infamous career-ending tiger attack that happened 16 years ago, with correspondent Deborah Robert, on Friday, September 27 at 9 p. Independent Lens opens its new season on PBS on Monday, October 28 with “Made in Boise,” focused on four women who decide to be reproductive surrogates. COMING UP Tom Hanks will receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 77th Annual Golden Globe Awards, airing Sunday, January 5 at 8p on NBC. Past winners of the award, honoring people who have made a lasting impact on the industry, include Steven Spielberg, Robert DeNiro, Harrison Ford, Sophia Loren and more. NGL Collective today announced the first round of official sponsors of the 10th Anniversary Hispanicize, held in LA from October 17-19 during Hispanic Heritage Month. Sponsors include Pepsi, HBO Latino, McDonald’s, Ad Council, Google, Maggi, CÎROC Ultra Premium Vodka, Colgate Optic White, Cantu – PDC Brands, Designated Player, Nickelodeon, Pluto TV, Tadin Herb & Tea, Unilever, Universal Music Latin, Voto Latino and Walmart. Oxygen special Uncovered: Killed by Hate premieres Sunday, October 20 at 7p. The latest installment of the “Uncovered” series explores some of the nation’s most brutal cases of hate crime. CASTING Blythe Danner (Will & Grace) has joined the season three cast of Starz drama American Gods for a story arc...Derek Theler (American Gods), Beth Riesgraf (Leverage), Usman Ally (On Becoming a God in Central Florida), Lamont Thompson (NCIS: LA), Artur Benson (Shooter) and Aaron Glenane (Picnic at Hanging Rock) have joined the cast of Paramount Network’s new scripted comedic drama series 68 Whiskey. STREAMING Samsung Ads had insights to share at Advertising Week:
CBSN Boston is the third of CBS’ 13 planned local direct-to-consumer streaming news services in major markets across the country to launch. In addition to anchored programming and coverage of live breaking news events in the region, the service includes a library of local news content that will be available for on-demand viewing. CBS was the first major media company to launch local OTT news service, when CBSN New York debuted in December 2018; CBSN Los Angeles went live in June 2019. “The early success of CBSN New York and CBSN Los Angeles continues to exceed our expectations,” said Peter Dunn, President, CBS Television Stations. The San Francisco Bay Area is next, with the rest of the markets debuting ahead of the 2020 political primaries and elections. Pulped, a free direct-to-consumer online video channel designed for Gen Z and millennial audiences, launched yesterday. The original programming is a blend of scripted and unscripted video series described as edgy, irreverent and presented through a comedic lens. “There is no shortage of content options or platforms, but what is missing is entertainment that embraces and celebrates the rebellious, provocative and diverse experiences of young adults in a raw and authentic way,” said Julian Nott, founder and CEO of Pulped. “Television formats haven’t changed much since the 1980s but young viewers have.” MEASUREMENT There was 43 minutes of ad time during Fox’s three-hour Emmy broadcast on Sunday, according to TV ad measurement and attribution company iSPot.tv. Streaming services accounted for 15 of 83 ad airings, while Fox took 19 slots. Top spending brands included Dovato, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Capital One Banking. TECH TALK Simulmedia and mobile attribution platform Kochava are partnering to leverage Simulmedia’s predictive daily insights into TV viewership and Kochava’s mobile data analytics and tools, to give marketers a precise view of their target users’ viewing habits by accessing their Kochava dashboard. “The Simulmedia/Kochava partnership will make a big difference for digital native direct-to-consumer marketers, the fastest growing segment of TV advertisers,” Simulmedia CEO and Founder, Dave Morgan, tells Cynopsis. “For the first time, D2C marketers can basically push a button and activate automated TV ad campaigns targeted and delivered across the top 100 TV networks optimized to cost-effectively reach targeted customer types that they identify in their mobile app analytics. This will enable the marketers to marry the best of digital analytics and TV ad platform automation.” Videa, an online buying and selling marketplace for automated TV advertising, announced the availability of free, transparent, TIP-based API specifications for programmatic transactions and software integrations. “Videa strongly believes in a platform agnostic future and is proud to help lead the industry by delivering an open source option for other solution providers that will ultimately make it easier for dollars to flow through to local TV,” said Shereta Williams, President of Videa. “We worked with Sinclair Broadcast Group and innovator Imagine Communications on the first proof of concept that will ultimately help deliver operational efficiencies and transparency that accelerate the broader industry to move forward at a far quicker pace.” SSIMWAVE, provider of viewer-centric video quality evaluation, announced the availability for cable system operators of SSIMPLUS Single-Ended HDMI-Out monitoring. The new product place-shifts end point analysis to the farthest reaches of the network, simplifying field monitoring by providing objective measurement of the video quality subscribers see. “By leveraging the AI capabilities of SSIMPLUS at the very last point in the delivery chain, operators can gain valuable new functionality: real-time, automated visibility into actual video quality that can inform business and operational decisions and can impact customer satisfaction and ROI,” said Dr. Abdul Rehman, CEO and Co-founder of SSIMWAVE. Google is not obligated under EU law to require search engines to censor results worldwide, ruled the Court of Justice of the European Union on Tuesday. A “right to be forgotten” rune was created in 2014, calling for search engines to remove embarrassing information about Europeans at their request, in the name of privacy. Google argued that no country should have the ability to censor the internet internationally. Live global streaming and on-demand audio service TuneIn is teaming with Apple to offer listeners access to TuneIn’s 100,000+ global radio stations on all Siri-enabled devices and Apple Music. The collaboration comes on the heels of Apple’s release of iOS13, which introduced a new radio experience to Apple devices, including iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, AirPods, CarPlay and HomePod. GOING GLOBAL Three international production companies have optioned Media Ranch’s recently-acquired gameshow entertainment Format, Watch!. Production partners Talpa Germany, WeMake from France and Matchbox Pictures, an NBCUniversal International Studios company from Australia, are set to play. Endemol Shine Group’s Swedish production company Meter has been commissioned by TV4 to produce a new run of reality format Big Brother, set to air in 2020 after a five-year break. Through its co-development deal with UK’s Touchdown Films, Banijay Rights has developed a new celebrity biography series, Artist to Icon, in partnership with US arts net Ovation. Celebrities in the documentary series, which mixes archive with insider interviews, include Madonna, Robin Williams and Cher, among others. Ovation will retain distribution rights in the Americas and Banijay Rights in rest of the world. Among the shows on display at MIPCOM from UK-based distributor DCD Rights will be factual series The Redemption Project, following the victims of life-altering crimes, and From Hell: Caught On Camera Series 2, which uses real-life footage to show things that can go wrong on the road, on vacations and on the job. Ireland’s ShinAwiL has been commissioned by Irish public broadcaster RTÉ to produce seasons four and five of Dancing With The Stars, as well as a sixth season of lifestyle series Home of the Year. ShortsTV, the platform dedicated to providing short entertainment to global audiences, announced an expansion onto India’s major DTH platforms with new partners Dish TV, d2h and Airtel Digital TV. Combined with its existing distribution in the U.S., Europe and Latin America, ShortsTV will now be available in more than 100 million homes globally. UK’s Drive revealed its largest-ever slate of factual content for MIPCOM 2019, including a new character-led transactional restoration series, The Restoration Yard (wt); The World’s Most Beautiful Railway, a docu-series that takes viewers for a ride on Scotland’s most picturesque railways; and documentary 10 Mistakes That Sunk the Titanic, among others. UK kids’ channel Tiny Pop is expanding its Sesame Street content offerings with Elmo’s World, debuting in January. The reimagined series consists of five-minute interactive episodes. Sinking Ship Entertainment has inked a deal with long-time partner Gloob for the upcoming sci-fi adventure series Endlings. Gloob nabbed exclusive broadcast rights in Brazil for the first season, launching in 2020. PODCAST POST Asylum Entertainment Group is adding a third company under the AEG banner, Audity, to create podcasts and audio-forward content. As with AEG’s The Content Group, Audity will focus on financial partnerships and creative collaboration as well as streamlined operations to help partners produce their projects. |
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| RATINGS E!’s Live From The Red Carpet: The 2019 Emmy Awards delivered significant audience growth over 2018, up 14% among A18-49 (201,000) and 27% among total viewers P2+ (587,000) versus Emmys 2018. The season three premiere of ABC’s The Good Doctor ranked as the #1 program in Monday’s 10p hour in total viewers (6.6 million) and A18-49 (1.0/5), and was the only program of the night to build over its lead-in in the demo, growing over its Dancing With the Stars lead-in by 25%. Fox’s Prodigal Son debuted as the #1 new show of the night, with 4.2 million total viewers and a 1.0/4 rating among A18-49. The net’s 9-1-1 was the night’s #1 scripted show, delivering its most-watched (7.0 million P2+) episode ever, excluding post-NFL. Among the new syndicated talk shows, The Kelly Clarkson Show (premiere week 1.6 Live+SD national Nielsen rating) had the biggest debut week of any first-run strip since 2012, behind only Ellen, Live and Dr. Phil. Tamron Hall (1.0), which has fewer secondary runs than Clarkson, drew over 1.3-million daily viewers; other than Clarkson, the Tamron rating was the highest debut week for any first-run show since 2016, with the exception of the Steve Harvey reboot. While national numbers for Mel Robbins (0.4/2 weighted metered market average), launched September 16, will not be available until October 1, its overnight ratings fell 50% from the program’s year-ago time periods. Discovery Familia announced it is the only entertainment network in the Spanish-language marketplace with growth among A18-49 as the 2018/19 broadcast season comes to an end. The net grew +23% with audiences in the demo, driven by the a broadened programming slate, including the addition of programming from Food Network and HGTV, in-language, available to Hispanic audiences for the first time. Telemundo reports it has retained its #1 rank in Spanish-language TV for the third consecutive season in Monday-Friday 8-11p prime, averaging 605,000 viewers A18-49 and 250,000 among A18-34. Univision reports it finished the 2018/2019 season as #1 Spanish-language network during Monday through Sunday prime, with 1.3 million total viewers 2+ and 528,000 A18-49. And UniMás finished the 2018/2019 season as the youngest broadcast network in primetime, regardless of language, with a 44 median age. Top 12 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of 9/9/19 ranked in order by HH Rtg Judge Judy (CTD) 6.7 AA Family Feud (CTD) 5.7 AA Jeopardy (CTD) 5.5 AA Wheel of Fortune (CTD) 5.3 AA The Big Bang Theory (WB) 2.9 AA Inside Edition (CTD) 2.6 AA Entertainment Tonight (CTD) 2.5 AA Dr. Phil (CTD) 2.3 AA Last Man Standing (2/T) 2.1 AA Hot Bench (CTD) 1.9 AA Live With Kelly and Ryan (DAD) 1.9 AA Ellen DeGeneres (WB) 1.9 Top 11 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of 9/9/19 ranked in order by A18-49 Rtg Family Feud (2/T) 1.3 AA Judge Judy (CTD) 1.3 AA Wheel of Fortune (CTD) 0.9 AA Jeopardy (CTD) 0.9 AA The Big Bang Theory (WB) 0.8 AA Modern Family (2/T) 0.7 AA Last Man Standing (2/T) 0.7 AA Family Guy (2/T) 0.7 AA Entertainment Tonight (CTD) 0.6 AA Inside Edition (CTD) 0.5 AA The Dr. Phil Show (CTD) 0.5 AA Top 10 Broadcast Programs Among A18-49 ratings/share for the week of September 16, 2019 NBC: NBC Sunday Night Football 6.1/27 NBC: Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick 4.3/19 NBC: Football Nt America Part 3 3.2/15 CBS: Home Depot College Football 2.5.15 CBS: 60 Minutes 1.9/8 FOX: Emmy Awards 1.7/7 NBC: America’s Got Talent (Tues) 1.6/8 NBC: America’s Got Talent (Wed) 1.5/8 CBS: Big Brother (Thurs) 1.3/5 ABC: Bachelor in Paradise (Tues) 1.3/7 TV Time’s Binge Report: Most Binged TV Shows for the week of September 16, 2019 (Show/Share of Streams) Elite (Netflix) - 4.57% Disenchantment (Netflix) - 3.54% NEW 13 Reasons Why (Netflix) - 2.92% Friends (NBC) - 2.41% Unbelievable (Netflix) - 2.22% NEW The Big Bang Theory (CBS) - 1.63% Lucifer (Netflix) - 1.61% Grey's Anatomy (ABC) - 1.45% How to Get Away with Murder (ABC) - 1.29% The I-Land (Netflix) - 1.20% NEW The weekly Binge Report ranks shows with the most binge sessions. A binge session is when four or more episodes of a show are watched and tracked in the TV Time app within a given day. Basic Cable for the week of September 16, 2019 Top 5 – Primetime (P2+) Fox News (2,451,000) ESPN (2,325,000) MSNBC (1,549,000) HGTV (1,163,000) USA (1,044,000 Top 5 – Total Day (P2+) Fox News (1,377,000) MSNBC (874,000) ESPN (867,000) HGTV (628,000) NICKELODEON (619,000) Source: Nielsen Late Night Shows Weekly Average Ratings week of September 16, 2019 CBS: The Late Show 2.64 million total viewers; 0.31/3 A18-49 NBC: The Tonight Show 1.79 million total viewers; 0.35/3 A18-49 ABC: Jimmy Kimmel Live 1.66 million total viewers; 0.31/3 A18-49 Live + Same Day Viewers AA (millions) Monday, September 23, 2019 time period averages Source: Nielsen Live+SD NBC: 7.47 million The Voice 8.84, Bluff City Law 4.73 ABC: 6.62 million Dancing With the Stars 6.63, The Good Doctor 6.61 CBS: 6.04 million The Neighborhood 5.73, Bob Hearts Abishola 5.88, All Rise 6.01, Bull 6.30 FOX: 5.57 million 9-1-1 6.96, Prodigal Son 4.18 UNIVISION: 1.51 million La Rosa de Guadalupe 1.53, La Usurpadora 1.75, Sin Miedo a la Verdad 1.26 TELEMUNDO: 1.15 million Exatlon Estados Unidos 1.33, El Final del Paraiso 1.21, Preso No. 1 0.91 CW: 0.80 million Penn & Teller: Fool Us 0.91, Whose Line Is It Anyway? 0.69, Whose Line Is It Anyway? 0.71 Monday A19-49 Ratings NBC 1.4/7, FOX 1.3/6, ABC 0.9/4, CBS 0.8/4, UNI 0.5/2, TELE 0.4/2, CW 0.2/1 EXECUTIVE MOVES Barry Poznick has been promoted to President, MGM/Orion Unscripted & Alternative Television. As part of the newly created position, the studio is re-branding and expanding its unscripted group under the leadership of Poznick. “I’ve worked very closely with Barry Poznick for over 14 years,” said Mark Burnett, Chairman of MGM’s Worldwide Television Group. “He is an extremely capable and well-liked television expert who has consistently delivered number one rated programs, series renewals and profits for the MGM Television group, making it one of the most successful growth divisions for the studio. His expanded responsibilities and promotion will continue that growth through creation, diversification and acquisition.” Stephen Davies has been appointed Managing Director of BBC Studios Consumer Products and Licensing in a move bringing together all of the BBC commercial subsidiary’s UK publishing and licensing businesses. Currently Director for Live Entertainment, Music and Motion Gallery at BBC Studios, Davies will take on the new role starting November 4. Justin Lacob has joined film and television studio XTR as Head of Development. Lacob was most recently Vice President of Original Series and Development at Paramount Network. WarnerMedia-owned Rooster Teeth named former Awesomeness CEO Jordan Levin as General Manager, and moved Co-Founder and former CEO Matt Hullum to the position of Chief Content Officer. IN MEMORIAM Emmy-winning producer J. Michael Mendel died September 23 at age 54. Tweeted Adult Swim of Mendel, who worked on Rick and Morty and The Simpson, “He guided and supported a generation of artists, writers and creators and his absence will be felt by our entire community.” This Day in History Happy 90th birthday, Barbara Walters! Answer to Our Last Trivia Question What was the only song the Hooterville volunteer fire department’s marching band knew how to play on Green Acres (1965-1971)? “There’ll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight.” Kudos to: Phyllis McQuillan-MSG Networks/NYC, Rev. Mark Wajda/Lakeland, FL, Gerry Bixenspan-TV Marketing Inc./NYC, Synda Kollman-Charter Marketing Group/Boca Raton, FL, Andy Pittman-TAMU/College Station, TX, Steve Iha-Etrella TV/Dallas, Tom Boyd-WGN-TV/Chicago, Dave Sikula-San Francisco State University, San Francisco, Ken DuBow-Bob’s Your Uncle/LA, David Garber-Loyola Marymount University/Playa Vista, CA, Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/LA Today’s Trivia Question Which short-lived sci-fi series featured a floating robot named Control? (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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| WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 25 ABC: The Goldbergs [p], Schooled [p], Modern Family [p], Single Parents [p], Stumptown [p] CBS: Survivor [p], Big Brother [f] CW: Mysteries Decoded, Hypnotize Me FOX: The Masked Singer [p] NBC: :Chicago Med [p], Chicago Fire [p], Chicago P.D. [p] PBS: Country Music [f] Telemundo: Exatlon Estados Unidos, El Final del Paraiso, Preso No. 1 Univision: La Rosa de Guadalupe, La Usurpadora, Sin Miedo a la Verdad |
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