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| Tonight’s Premieres BBC America: The Graham Norton Show at 11p Cooking Channel: Freakshow Cakes at 11p FBN: Barron’s Roundtable at 10p HGTV: What You Get For Your Money at 9p History: In Search of at 10p ID: Murder in Amish Country at 9p Netflix: Raising Dion, Peaky Blinders NBC: The Blacklist at 8p Oxygen: Relentless with Kate Snow at 8p Telemundo: Boxeo Telemundo at 11:35p Saturday’s Premieres Animal Planet: Crikey! It’s the Irwins at 8p, Pit Bulls & Parolees at 9p, Amanda to the Rescue at 10p Disney Channel: Star Wars Resistance at 10p Fuse: Collision at 9p Oxygen: Murder for Hire at 6p OWN: Ready to Love at 10p PBS: Austin City Limits at 8p Travel: Ghost Adventure: Serial Killer Spirits at 9p Sunday’s Premieres ABC: Kids Say the Darndest Things at 8p Amazon: Super Dinosaur AMC: The Walking Dead at 9p, Talking Dead at 10p CBS: Madam Secretary at 10p CW: Batwoman at 8p, Supergirl at 9p Discovery: Alaska the Last Frontier at 8p, River of No Return at 9p DIY: Building Alaska at 9p E!: E! True Hollywood Story at 9p PBS: Press on Masterpiece at 10p Travel: Witches of Salem at 10p TV One: Uncensored at 9p USA: Mr. Robot at 10p Sunday’s Finales Smithsonian: The Hunt for Eagle 56 at 9p Weather: Storm Stories: The Next Chapter at 8p IN THE NEWS Fox Television Stations grabbed rights to Pop TV’s Emmy-nominated comedy Schitt’s Creek in a two-year syndication deal with Lionsgate’s Debmar-Mercury. All seasons of Schitt’s Creek will begin airing in US broadcast markets in September 2020. The series returns for its sixth and final season in January 2020. The former assistant Robert De Niro and his Canal Productions sued for $6 million in August for embezzling company funds and underperforming, slapped De Niro with a $12 million gender discrimination, harassment and back pay suit. In a 19-page filing that links De Niro to “professional collaborator” Harvey Weinstein, Graham Chase Robinson accuses the Irishman star of treating her like an “office wife,” and notes “he does not accept the idea that men should treat women as equals.” And… Harvey Weinstein lost his bid to move his upcoming criminal trial for rape out of New York City. A NY court yesterday ruled the case, which begins January 6, will still take place in Lower Manhattan, noting, “It is ordered that the motion is denied in its entirety.” Spotlight the deserving star in your workplace… Cynopsis is searching for young game-changers to celebrate at the 5th Annual Cynopsis Rising Star Awards. These young execs, whose innovative spirit and determination signal enormous potential, will be honored at The Cynopsis Best Of The Best Awards gala (taking place this February in NYC). Nominations are due OCT 23 – Click here to learn more. CNN confirmed Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders will be on stage at the Democratic debate on Tuesday, October 15. The 78-year-old Vermont Senator underwent a heart stent procedure earlier this week to correct an artery blockage. That’s a no from me, dawg. CNN won’t air an ad from President Trump’s re-election campaign that posits claims about Presidential hopeful Joe Biden and Ukraine but also takes aim at network personalities including Don Lemon, Chris Cuomo and Jim Acosta. And another no. Twitter removed a video President Trump posted after the platform received a copyright notice from the band Nickelback. The tweet, which attacked Presidential hopeful Joe Biden and his son Hunter, featured an altered version of the band’s video for its song Photograph. An annual must for all digital innovators, the Cynopsis Digital Awards Breakfast (November 8 in NYC) has been honoring the best in online video content, advertising, talent and digital media's movers and shakers for 7 years running. Get ready to raise your mimosa to Model D winners and “It List” honorees. Register your team before 10/28. AMC will provide a deep dive into its upcoming third series in The Walking Dead universe at NY Comic Con tomorrow, but the net teased out a few first-look images at the series slated to debut in spring 2020, and shared a synopsis. The franchise “will feature two young female protagonists and focus on the first generation to come-of-age in the apocalypse as we know it.” |
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| PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT CBS came out on top in the scrum to land action drama The International. Project reunites Sylvester Stallone and Dolph Lundgren, who co-starred in The Expendables and Rocky IV; Lundgren stars and produces, and Stallone directs and exec-produces. Project, which hails from Flame Ventures, Stallone’s Balboa Productions and CBS TV Studios, centers on Anders Soto (Lundgren), who’s part negotiator, part international spy, and fully a one-man covert black-ops team working for the UN. NBC is developing another show from exec-producer Jason Winer and his Small Dog Picture Company. Network bought the script for comedy Forever Family, from writers Austen Earl and Joel Church-Cooper, which follows three families who discover their adopted children all share the same birth father. Winer inked a new overall deal with 20th Century Fox TV, now a part of Disney, earlier this year. It’s a marathon, not a sprint. CBS is continuing its relationship with Amazing Race host Phil Keoghan after giving a 10-ep order to his latest competition format Tough As Nails. Keoghan is producing with Louise Keoghan, and will host the series, which spotlights real people who are real tough as a result of their physically demanding jobs. Fox gave a script commitment with penalty to Opus, a family music drama starring and exec-produced by Nicole Ari Parker, who stars on the network’s winding-down Empire. From writer Felicia D. Henderson (Empire), producer Larry Taja and 20th Century Fox TV, series finds classical and urban music clash when Europe’s most celebrated and only African American conductor returns to Baltimore to reinvent her hometown’s crumbling symphony orchestra. Starz put in development a spinoff series based on Lionsgate feature Blindspotting; Jasmine Cephas Jones is on board to reprise her lead role from the film. Penned by Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs, who co-wrote, starred in and produced the original film, spinoff centers on Ashley (Jones), whose world is turned upside down when her partner of 12 years and father of their son is suddenly incarcerated. Quibi is onboarding horror anthology series 50 States of Fright, with a cast toplined by Rachel Brosnahan (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), Travis Fimmel (Vikings, Warcraft: The Beginning) and Christina Ricci (Monster, Z: The Beginning of Everything). First season of the series, from Gunpowder & Sky’s Alter horror brand, Diga Studios and exec producer Sam Raimi (Spider Man, Army of Darkness), will explore urban legends from around the country. Cast also includes Jacob Batalon (Spiderman: Homecoming), Ming-Na Wen (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D), Taissa Farmiga (The Nun, American Horror Story), Asa Butterfield (Sex Education), John Marshall Jones (The Last Revolutionary, Rectify) and Ron Livingston (Loudermilk, A Million Little Things). Pop TV renewed Florida Girls for a second season. Series debuted in July to critical acclaim for its bold comedic take on four friends making the most out of life while living below the poverty line in Clearwater, FL, inspired by the life of creator and star Laura Chinn. Gael García Bernal (Mozart in the Jungle) and Diego Luna (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) will exec-produce Amazon Studios and Amblin Television’s miniseries based on the saga of Hernan Cortes. Currently titled Untitled Cortes and Moctezuma Project, project stars Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men) in the title role. Exec producer Marie Leguizamo signed an overall development deal with Endemol Shine Boomdog to jointly develop and produce unscripted content. She’s also working with Endemol Shine North America’s English-language team on potential series. NEW & RETURNING SERIES Season 4 of Baroness von Sketch Show returns to IFC on Wednesday, October 30 at midnight, with two eps. The all-female sketch series performed and written by Carolyn Taylor, Meredith MacNeill, Aurora Browne and Jennifer Whalen teased out a trailer yesterday. HBO dropped a trailer for His Dark Materials, which premieres Monday, November 4 at 9p—and there’s a lot going on in the adaptation of the Philip Pullman universe. The short clip reveals demons in the forms of leopards, monkeys and, perhaps, in the form of one gigantic bear. From Ultimate Thanksgiving Challenge to Worst Cooks in America: Thanksgiving Redemption, Food Network will be talking turkey throughout November. On the menu: Five chefs face off to create the ultimate Thanksgiving dishes on Ultimate Thanksgiving Challenge, hosted by Giada De Laurentiis premiering Sunday, November 3 at 9p. On Monday, November 4 at 9p, Holiday Baking Championship returns followed by a new season of Christmas Cookie Challenge tat 11p. Worst Cooks in America: Thanksgiving Redemption debuts Sunday, November 10 at 10p, and Chopped Junior returns for a new season Tuesday, November 12 at 8p. New special Thanksgiving Pie Fight pops up Thursday, November 14 at 9p, while special Good Eats: Thanksgiving Special premieres Sunday, November 17 at 8p, followed by Macy's Thanksgiving Cake Spectacular at 10p. On Wednesday, November 27 at 10p, The Great Food Truck Race: Holiday Hustle debuts, followed November 28 with the premiere of Santa's Baking Blizzard 9p. CBS All Access dropped the official season 2 trailer and teaser art for the psychological thriller Tell Me a Story yesterday at NY Comic Con. Series returns Thursday, Dec. 5. COMING UP Starz acquired six titles on tap for premiere in Q4, including doc This Changes Everything from exec producer Geena Davis and a comedy from Idris Elba. Up first on October 5, The Professor and the Madman, starring Sean Penn and Mel Gibson, is true story of a murderer confined to an insane asylum and his unlikely bond with an Oxford professor. The River and the Wall, debuting October 21 from conservation filmmaker Ben Masters and NatGeo Explorer Filipe DeAndrade, explores the potential impacts of a Mexico border wall on the natural environment. Elba’s In the Long Run, inspired by his experience growing up in east London in the ‘80s, will premiere in November. Debuting December 14 is Stockholm, based on the1973 bank heist and hostage crisis in which hostages bonded with their captors. The Davis doc, set for December 16, looks at the history, empirical evidence and systemic forces that foster gender discrimination. My Days of Mercy, premiering December 27, centers on what happens when a female activist (Ellen Page) protesting the death penalty befriends a woman (Kate Mara) with opposing views. HGTV is adding to the guest-star lineup for its reboot of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Singer/songwriter LeAnn Rimes is the latest celeb to join a cadre of guests who will support massive community build and renovation efforts for local heroes. Series will debut on HGTV in early 2020. TECH TALK Entertainment and sports media company Whistle acquired Vertical Networks, a mobile-first content studio founded by Elisabeth Murdoch and backed by Snap. Whistle currently has 12 shows on Snapchat, including new Snap Originals Can’t Talk Now and Two Sides. Vertical Networks is known for Snapchat show Phone Swap, now in its seventh season, and the Snapchat Publisher Story Brother, which has 20 million subscribers. Activision Blizzard’s Overwatch League’s 2019 Grand Finals saw an uptick over their inaugural season. Based on average minute viewers, Grand Finals drew 1.12 million average viewers, up 16 percent from last year, according to the company. The Overwatch season was up 11 percent in viewership for the A18-34 demo. Indie mobile data marketplace The Kochava Collective partnered with Intent IQ, a cross-device identification platform, to bring web-to-mobile targeting capabilities to marketers and advertisers. Six alleged members of a NY drug-delivery service were arrested and charged earlier this week for distributing heroin and cocaine. Their service, “Mike’s Candyshop,” supplied the drugs that resulted in the death of Colin Kroll, the co-founder of the HQ Trivia app, in December 2018. STREAMING NEWS Kanopy, the streaming film service that is free for users through a network of library partnerships, is expanding. The company brought in Google veterans Dave Barney and Chase Rigby as CTO and chief product officer, respectively, and is expanding its facilities with new engineering digs in Orange County, CA. KIDS NEWS HBO Max knows how to get to Sesame Street. The WarnerMedia streaming platform will be the new SVOD home of the iconic series beginning with its 51st season. Series will relocate from HBO and its on-demand as part of a five-year deal between WarnerMedia and Sesame Workshop that includes five new 35-ep seasons, four new live-action and animated series, including an Elmo-hosted talk show and an animated Sesame Street spinoff. Deal also includes the show’s entire 50-year library of more than 4,500 eps, marking the first time the entire Sesame Street library has been made available. Future Today, in a partnership with One Animation, launched kids app Oddbods & Friends. Content, including OddBods, Antiks and Insectibles, is available across OTT channels including Roku, Apple TV and Amazon Fire TV. PODCAST POSTS ABC Audio is expanding its roster with The HeirPod. Hosted by ABC News royal contributor Omid Scobie, podcast dives into the latest stories from the House of Windsor with insider interviews and special guests. It’s available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Pandora, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn and the ABC News app, with new eps posting every Thursday. CASTING Tony, Emmy and Grammy winner Cynthia Erivo (Harriet, The Color Purple) will star as Aretha Franklin in the next installment of Nat Geo anthology series Genius: Aretha… Bernadette Peters landed a role in The CW’s upcoming Katy Keene, portraying a mother figure to Julia Chan’s Pepper Smith… Millicent Simmonds (A Quiet Place) landed a role in Freeform’s upcoming pilot Close Up… Garcia and Sol Rodriguez scored recurring roles in Freeform’s Party of Five reboot. Neil Patrick Harris will star in ‘80s AIDS-focused drama Boys for Channel 4 drama Boys… Original cast member Cynthia Harris will reprise her role in the upcoming limited series Mad About You for Spectrum Originals. Additionally, Cloris Leachman will also guest in the follow-up to the ‘90s NBC comedy… Jesse Williams (Grey’s Anatomy) landed a recurring role opposite Reese Witherspoon, Kerry Washington, Rosemarie DeWitt and Joshua Jackson in upcoming Hulu limited series Little Fires Everywhere. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Netflix’s UK profits rose by 37 percent during the past year, with UK revenue soaring 44 percent. The company, which has produced a raft of British series out of the UK including The Crown and Sex Education, has close to 50 live original projects based in the country. In related news, Netflix inked a seven-picture deal with local broadcasting giant Mediaset, run by the family of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi… and in less sanguine news, Italian authorities are investigating the streamer for potential alleged tax evasion in Italy after the company did not file a tax return this year. Kanal Drama has been added to the Movistar cable offering in Peru in a deal that extend the Turkish company’s presence in Latin America and adds more than 1 million subscribers. |
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| RATINGS Live + Same Day Viewers AA (millions): Wednesday, October 2, 2019 Time period averages Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated Live+SD NBC: 7.04 million Chicago Med 7.55, Chicago Fire 7.57, Chicago P.D. 6.00 CBS: 5.27 million Survivor 6.50, SEAL Team 5.23, S.W.A.T. 4.07 FOX: 4.85 million The Masked Singer 6.75, Almost Family 2.95 ABC: 3.80 million The Goldbergs 4.31, Schooled 3.39, Modern Family 4.30, Single Parents 2.92, Stumptown 3.95 Univision: 1.37 million Rosa de Guadelupe 1.40, Usurpadora 1.56, El Dragon 1.15 CW: 0.89 million iHeart Radio Music Festival Night 1 0.89 Telemundo: 0.73 million Exatlon .90, Final de Paraiso .79, No te Puedes Esconder .51 Wednesday A18-49 Rating FOX 1.4/7, NBC 1.0/5, CBS 0.8/4, ABC 0.8/4, UNI .4/2, TELE .2/2, CW 0.2/1 EXECUTIVE MOVES Blue Ant Media continues to bolster its North American presence with the appointment of Emmy-award winning producer Laura Michalchyshyn to chief creative officer and co-president, content production. Michalchyshyn served as president Sundance Productions, which she co-founded with Robert Redford. Katz Networks hired two TBS/TNT veterans for its top original programming slots. David Hudson, most recently SVP of late night and specials at TNT and TBS, joins as EVP of original programming. Sophia Kateris Kelley, who was VP overseeing digital at TBS, TNT and TCM, joins as SVP of original programming. A+E Networks named Steve MacDonald president, global content licensing & international. The 24-year Fox veteran most recently was EVP, general sales manager, basic cable, at Twentieth Television. Former SoulPancake exec Sarah North has been appointed head of Shopify Studios. Additionally, Jason Badal has been elevated to lead business affairs, distribution and partnerships for Shopify Studios. Former ESPN host Michael Smith joined (Co)Laboratory, a startup backed by film producer Basil Iwanyk, as EVP and chief content officer. He also will also have an on-air role. 360i appointed Leah Meranus as EVP & managing director, integrated media. She previously was global chief experience officer at media agency Initiative. ABC News expanded leadership roles in its DC bureau. Matt Hosford becomes director of content & platform integration, Andrea Owen takes on an expanded portfolio in her role as director of operations, George Sanchez becomes director of newsgathering, and Audrey Taylor becomes director of bureau planning & strategy. |
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| This Day in History 1976 - Barbara Walters joined Harry Reasoner at ABC Evening News anchor desk for the first time. Friday Fact The US Department of Commerce estimates consumers spent $513.61 billion online in 2018, up 14.2 percent from 2017. Answer to our last trivia question What was the first animated series produced for TV? Crusader Rabbit. Kudos to: Charles Lore/NY; Synda Kollman-Charter Marketing Group/Boca Raton, FL; Andy Pittman-TAMU/College Station, TX; Brad Stern-Carbondale, IL; Dennis Aimino-ABC/LA; Susan Nessanbaum-Goldberg-M and S Entertainment/LA; Tom Moore -Kalt Productions/LA; Richard Quan-Heat/San Francisco; David Westberg-SAG AFTRA Credit Union/Burbank Today’s Trivia Question Who was the first female guest host of Saturday Night Live? (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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| FRIDAY OCTOBER 4 ABC: American Housewife, Fresh off the Boat, 20/20 CBS: Hawaii Five-0, Magnum P.I., Blue Bloods CW: Masters of Illusion, The Big Stage, Peaking, Peaking FOX: Friday Night Smackdown NBC: The Blacklist, Dateline NBC PBS: Washington Week, Firing Line, Great Performances, Ruben Salazar: Man in the Middle Telemundo: Exation Estados Unidos, El Final de Paraiso, No te Puedes Esconder Univision: La Rosa de Guadelupe, La Usurpadora, El Dragon |
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