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| Tonight’s Premieres The CW: Arrow at 9p Fuse: Made From Scratch at 11p ID: Relatively Evil at 9p Paramount Network: Battle of the Fittest Couples at 11p Syfy and USA: The Purge at 9p, Treadstone at 10p IN THE NEWS Sarah Silverman landed a stand-up comedy special and a late-night series pilot order from HBO. Silverman, Judd Apatow and Amy Zvi serve as executive producers on the pilot, which Silverman says involves “weighing in on the mishagas of of the week and taking live video calls.” Silverman won an Emmy for her 2013 HB0 special, Sarah Silverman: We Are Miracles. NBC News President Noah Oppenheim didn’t mince words in an email to staff on Monday addressing allegations in Ronan Farrow’s book, “Catch and Kill”. While Farrow claims that NBC News management knew about, and took steps to hide, Matt Lauer’s sexual misconduct before his firing in 2017, “Matt Lauer’s actions were abhorrent, and the anger and sadness he caused continues to this day,” Oppenheim told employees. “As we’ve said since the moment he was fired, his abuses should never have happened. Ronan Farrow’s book takes that undeniable fact and twists it into a lie – alleging we were a ‘company with a lot of secrets.’...Farrow’s effort to defame NBC News is clearly motivated not by a pursuit for truth, but an axe to grind. It is built on a series of distortions, confused timelines, and outright inaccuracies.” Farrow, who has alleged NBC stopped his reporting on Harvey Weinstein, responded to the email on CBS This Morning, saying, “I’ll let the reporting in the book stand on its own.” Fox News also found itself batting back, after former FNC reporter Carl Cameron reacted to the exit of Fox News anchor Shepard Smith by telling MSNBC’s Ari Melber that without Smith’s show, much of the rest of the net’s programming was “propaganda, and that’s the stuff of Third World nations.” In a statement to MediaLite, Fox News said, “Tell that to Jennifer Griffin whose report just went viral this week. Or Chris Wallace, Bret Baier, Bill Hemmer, Martha MacCallum or Catherine Herridge who have all done outstanding journalism. Carl Cameron left the network because he was no longer able to show up to work each day – he has a very short memory for our endless compassion.” A violent video shown at a conference of President Trump supporters at Trump National Doral in Miami was not Trump-endorsed, said a campaign spokesman. In the video, a gunman walks through the “Church of Fake News” stabbing and beating members of the media as well as Trump rivals and critics. White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said the president had not seen the video, but “based on everything he has heard, he strongly condemns it.” Call for Judges: Entries are ramping up for the Inaugural Cynopsis Best Of The Best Awards and we are currently screening industry experts who are passionate about the space to join our judging panel. If you’re interested, please fill out this brief survey to apply. Judges will be recognized during the event, as well as appear in our program guide. Winners will be announced at the awards gala, taking place in February of 2020 in NYC. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders offered a plan on Monday to “end corporate corruption and greed” that includes breaking up monopolies, and singled out Disney’s acquisition of 21st Century Fox and the merger deal between T-Mobile and Sprint as examples of “gross concentration of power.” Sanders noted that had his plan been in effect last year, Amazon would have paid $3.8 billion in taxes, instead of nothing. Nonfiction producers’ organization NPACT has kicked off its annual network-ranking survey asking producers to rank their favorite and least favorite networks and streaming/digital platforms across 11 categories. New to the list of commissioners for the survey are AMC; Facebook; Freeform; Fuse; Hallmark; Nickelodeon; Quibi; Snapchat; Sundance; TV One; USA; Motortrend; and Viceland. |
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| PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT ABC picked up game show series The Hustler, hosted by Craig Ferguson (Celebrity Name Game). Each episode of The Hustler will follow five contestants as they collaborate to answer a series of trivia questions. One of the five contestants already knows the answers but must keep their identity a secret. Studio Lambert project begins production this fall. Patrick Moran, who exited his post as President of ABC Studios last summer, inked an overall deal with Amazon Studios to develop TV series. “Amazon Studios, known for bold groundbreaking storytelling, is the perfect place to embark on my next chapter as I look to be more closely aligned with the creative process,” said Moran. Apple TV+ ordered Ted Lasso, starring, co-written and exec produced by Jason Sudeikas. Comedy is based on the character the SNL vet played in NBC Sports videos - an American football coach hired to manage an English football club, who has no knowledge of soccer. Smithsonian Channel will examine famous murders, suicides and freak diseases in The Curious Life and Death Of..., a new series ordered from Blakeway Productions for 2020. Roy Ackerman is executive producer and Claire Lasko serves as showrunner for Blakeway; Tim Evans and David Royle are EPs for Smithsonian Channel. UK’s Objective Media Group is launching a new quiz and game show label with Ed de Burgh(5 Gold Rings) and Ben Shephard (Tipping Point). The as-yet unnamed label will be a home for quiz and game ideas within OMG. Insight TV is expanding its content production and sales operations to the US, with Insight TV Studios developing and producing original content for broadcasters and digital platforms. “We will be seeking co-production partners that complement our high technical standards and continue our work with US brands like Monster Energy to produce exciting content targeted for millennial and Gen-Z audiences,” said Rian Bester, CEO, Insight TV. Bear Grylls (Running Wild with Bear Grylls) is launching The Natural Studios with Delbert Shoopman and Banijay. Focus will be on adventure TV series and films across platforms. “At its heart this is about building the ultimate home of adventure programming worldwide,” said Grylls. “The Natural Studios will be providing a home for the best adventure talent to help them create shows with us that inspire and move people to go for it in their lives and to never give up.” Too often good work goes unnoticed. Help us shine light on these 30 and under media rock stars by nominating the most promising member of your team (or yourself) for the 2019 Cynopsis Rising Star Awards. Nom’s due by OCT 23 – get started, here. Hearst Magazines struck a multi-year agreement with Crain Communications to operate Autoweek as a digital and experiential brand. Hearst Autos, a division of Hearst Magazines, will produce the digital publication on Autoweek.com, which will be hosted on Hearst Magazines’ proprietary content platform, MediaOS. NEW & RETURNING SERIES CNBC’s The Profit is back for season seven on Tuesday, November 5 at 10p. Ladies First with Grace Helbig, an eight-part series starring the YouTube creator, debuts on Facebook Watch Tuesday, October 22. Helbig will talk with “empowered women” about how they’re making an impact. A nail artist with a massive social following and her Italian family are the focus of Unpolished, a reality series debuting Sunday, November 11 at 10p on TLC. COMING UP An interview with Hunter Biden will air tonight on ABC News. The chat, Biden’s first since news broke of President Trump asking the president of Ukraine to investigate Biden’s work at a gas company there, airs the same night as his dad’s presidential debate. Showtime stand-up comedy special Celeste Barber: Challenge Accepted premieres Friday, November 1 at 9p. Barber went viral with #celestechallengeaccepted, an Instagram photo series in which she recreated celebrity photos. The Daily Show with Trevor Noah will go live tonight on Comedy Central, to offer commentary on the Democratic debate. “Votegasm 2020: The Field Narrows From 10 to...12?” airs at 11p. What are the workplace issues vexing millennials and Gen Z right now? Cynopsis has partnered with Situation Interactive on Season 3 of podcast STUCK, hosted by Damian Bazadona and Rachelle Pereira, to help solve career conundrums. Episode 1, “Define Doormat,” looks a someone who’s stellar at her job - but that competency has made her a catch-all for endless to-dos outside of her role. How to be great at what you do - without doing everything - is the subject of the season’s first installment of STUCK (https://stuckpod.com/subscribe). If you’re stuck and have a dilemma please let us know your issue(anonymous or not) by filling out the quick questionnaire here. TECH TALK Just 34% of Gen Z women say they are optimistic about tech’s impact on society, 15 points below US women overall, and 61% report finding it hard to take breaks from their digital devices, 20 points higher than women overall, according to GfK’s Global Consumer Life survey. That said, younger women prefer products that offer the latest tech features by eight percentage points over women overall. President Trump has joined Amazon Twitch. POTUS used the live-streaming platform in his Minneapolis rally last week, and plans to stream his October 17 Dallas event as well. Twitch, once just for video games, has expanded to become an all-purpose platform. Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders beat Trump to the Twitch punch, creating a channel in June that now has almost 90,000 followers. Centro announced the availability of a two-way API integration with FreeWheel, pairing Centro’s Basis digital media activation and management platform with FreeWheel’s Strata platform for finance management. Basis sends contracts, media activation and delivery data into Strata for billing and reconciliation in real-time, with the information automatically rationalized and formatted. “With industry complexity continuing to increase and brands attempting to pay agencies less for their services, it’s critical that software companies work together to automate as much of the manual processes as possible,” said Shawn Riegsecker, founder and CEO, Centro. “The FreeWheel integration with Basis is a huge first step in marrying platforms for traditional media and digital media, so agencies can focus on value-additive, strategic and important work.” A new integration allows sharing of text, link and image-based posts on iOS from Reddit’s “Safe for Work” to Spapchat. Reddit users who have Snapchat installed in their device can tap the “Share” icon on posts in the Reddit iOS app, and select the Snapchat option. “With this integration, Snapchatters will be able to share interesting posts they find, adding new context and conversation-starters to their Snaps,” said Ben Schwerin, VP of Partnerships at Snap Inc. “As shared Snaps drive engagement back to Reddit - this helps advance the power of community and connection across both platforms.” Snapchat is the first platform partner for the content sharing test. STREAMING SNIPPETS Tubi shared two pieces of news: The service will launch in the UK in early 2020, and Tubi Kids, a new area of Tubi that will feature a free library of children’s content in a dedicated section built for families, arrives October 21. “We’re ramping up our international expansion with the UK launch being the first of several forthcoming territories and look forward to announcing them soon,” said Farhad Massoudi, CEO of Tubi. “The launch of Tubi Kids reinforces our dedication to offer an age-appropriate viewing environment – super-serving kids and families with a robust amount of content.” Poker Central’s direct-to-consumer OTT subscription service, PokerGO, will provide coverage of World Series of Poker Europe events from October 16-31. Action takes place in Rozvadov, Czech Republic. |
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| PODCAST POSTS Seventy-five percent of advertisers and marketers are discussing the potential of podcast advertising, according to a study from Advertiser Perceptions, up from 70% in May and up 41% when the survey was first administered in September 2015. Thirty-nine percent of agencies or marketers are currently advertising in podcasts, up from 32% in May 2018. A good podcast starts with compelling material – but according to Tyler Moody, VP & GM, WarnerMedia Podcast Network, that’s just the beginning. To launch a successful podcast, Moody says you need four things, outlined in Cynsiders. KIDS CORNER Moonbug signed a content deal with Nordic Entertainment Group, operator of Viaplay, the on-demand streaming service in the Nordics. The company will debut original series Mia’s Magic Playground across the Nordic region exclusively on Viaplay in early 2020. Video on Demand 365, provider of branded OTT TV channels via Freeview, YouView, Freesat, mobile and smart TV devices, inked a content deal with kids IP Aardman for Wallace & Gromit: Cracking Contraptions, Shaun the Sheep: Mossy Bottom Shorts, Learning Time With Timmy, as well as Munki & Trunk from Sunrise Productions and distributed by Aardman. Genius Brands International “Genius Brands” formed a strategic co-production partnership with Alibaba Group’s video streaming platform, Youku, to co-produce a new children’s animated series. Stan Lee’s Superhero Kindergarten will star Arnold Schwarzenegger. GOING GLOBAL A+E Networks has signed a new slate of broadcasters for season 2 of Project Blue Book. Additional markets include Viasat World (15+ Pan CEE markets) and RTL (Germany), bringing the total number of countries airing the series to 165. Endemol Shine Group’s latest non-scripted format to be co-developed by Endemol Shine China and content producer and broadcaster Hunan TV is Sing or Spin. Format was developed as part of Hunan TV’s Biu Project, an initiative set up to create a new pipeline of pilots for the leading Chinese linear channel. MIPCOM MENTIONS Deals reached for Asia by all3Media include the company’s first collaborations with U-NEXT and Disney in Japan and Catchplay in Taiwan...ITV Studios deals included pre-sales for its leading launch title at Mipcom, Noughts and Crosses, and new sales for WWII drama World on Fire... ITV Studios also inked a deal to co-develop a new game show format, Trust Me I’m A Six-Year-old, with Atresmedia Studios... Japan’s Nippon Television Network Corporation announced that Turkey’s MF Yapim has acquired the scripted format rights to one-hour drama series Abandoned. The company will be remaking the series in Turkish... DCD Rights’ new drama The Hunting has been acquired by French broadcaster, W9. A Dance Revolution has been licensed in Russia by Channel 1, announced Armoza Formats... Blue Ant inked four licensing deals and four renewals, including three new titles for NHK: Turtle Beach, UFO’s: The Lost Evidence and Rooted.... Orange Smarty entered into a new representation partnership with TI Productions that kicks off with a four-show deal, under which two new Stacey Dooley-fronted documentaries will be added to Orange Smarty’s catalogue of shows.... GRB Studios’ announced celebrity-driven programming deals that include documentary Remembering Whitney to Globosat in Brazil... Game show Catchpoint has been commissioned in a third territory - ITV Studios Global Entertainment secured a deal with Alpha TV for the format to launch in Greece. APC Kids secured the first sales for Riki Group’s new animated series Dinocity, produced in partnership with Animax studio. DeA Kids in Italy has picked up exclusive pay-TV rights to the Russian-produced series while YLE Finland has secured TV rights for the territory... Fremantle announced an exclusive deal with Australian broadcaster SBS for shows including Dublin Murders, Israeli drama The Attache, and Scandi series’ Face to Face and Seizure... Dutch VoD-focused production company NewBe secured global remake rights to 1990s Australian teen drama Heartbreak High. BBC Studios landed its first commission from Netflix. Untitled doc focuses on groundbreaking surgeons...Big Brother is coming back to Greece, after ten years – the Endemol Shine series will be produced and broadcast by Skai, reports....AGC Television announced gameplay/talent hybrid format The Fandom, calling for fans to compete and be tested for being the most passionate about their favorite music artist. Beta Film is taking a majority stake in Finnish film and TV production company Fisher King and simultaneously launching Swedish-based Beta Nordic Studios. The group will serve as an umbrella for Beta’s production activities in Scandinavia. |
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| RATINGS WE tv announced 3Q19 ratings gains. In Nielsen Live+3 primetime viewing, ratings increased 11% among total viewers, 9% among W18-49, 8% among W25-54, 7% among A25-54 and 6% among A18-49. Including Sports, Fox ranks #1 in A18-49 over the first three weeks of the broadcast season in preliminary Most Current ratings for the first time in network history. Fox is the #1 broadcast network in the demo across four nights (Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday-t); with entertainment programming only, the net ranks #1 for the first time since 2012 and is the only network to be up year-over-year (1.6 rating, +7%). Tunity Analytics Top Weekly National Out-of-Home Viewer Rankings for Entertainment Programs for the week of October 7 Program, OOH Viewers (000) The Simpsons (Fox) 784 Saturday Night Live (NBC) 369 Bob’s Burgers (Fox) 344 God Friended Me (CBS) 188 This Is Us (NBC) 185 NCIS: New Orleans (CBS) 179 NCIS (CBS) 172 Desert Flippers (HGTV) 166 FBI (CBS) 166 The Voice (NBC) 163 Source: Tunity Analytics. Viewing estimates are derived from the Tunity mobile app usage. OOH impressions are calculated using Tunity Analytics propriety estimation model. TV Time’s Shows on the Rise – Week of October 7 Batwoman (The CW) - 99.9% The Hook Up Plan (Netflix) - 96.9% Insatiable (Netflix) - 96% Haunted (Netflix) - 92.8% Coronation Street (ITV) - 87.8% All American (The CW) - 86.9% Legacies (The CW) - 86.9% Super Dragon Ball Heroes (YouTube) - 84.9% Riverdale (The CW) - 80.2% Mr. Robot (USA) - 76% Methodology: Every week, millions of viewers around the world use TV Time to track their favorite series. “Shows on the Rise” is calculated by determining the week-over-week growth in episodes watched for a given program. Live + Same Day Viewers AA (millions): Friday, October 11, 2019 Time period averages Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated Live+SD CBS: 6.70 million Hawaii Five-0 6.95, Magnum P.I 6.41, Blue Bloods 7.55 NBC: 3.75 million The Blacklist 3.78, Dateline 3.73 FOX: 2.90 million Friday Night Smackdown 3.87 ABC: 2.56 million American Housewife 3.44, Fresh Off the Boat 2.33, 20/20 2.40 Univision: 1.46 million Rosa de Guadelupe 1.39, La Usurpadora 1.65, El Dragon 1.32 CW: 0.58 million Charmed 0.70, Dynasty 0.46 Friday A18-49 Rating FOX 1.0/6, CBS 0.7/4, NBC 0.6/3, ABC 0.4/2, UNI 0.5/3, CW 0.2/1 EXECUTIVE MOVES Abhishek Dutta has been named Senior Director and Network Head – Kids, overseeing Cartoon Network and POGO in South Asia. Most recently, Dutta was Senior Kids Programming Director at Viacom1. A+E Networks International Division has promoted Glen Hansen to Senior Vice President of Content Sales in the Asia-Pacific region, and Ellen Lovejoy to Senior Vice President and Head of Sales in the Americas and Formats. Both report to Managing Director, Content Sales & Co-productions Richard Tulk-Hart IN MEMORIAM TV writer and playwright Sam Bobrick died October 11. He was 87. Among Bobrick’s numerous small screen credits were Saved By the Bell, which he created, The Flintstones and The Andy Griffith Show. On This Day 1977 – Debbie Boone’s “You Light Up My Life” hit number one on the music chart. Answer to our last trivia question Which long-running show was called A Legal Mind as it was being developed, but had a name change before premiering? Suits (2011-2019). Kudos to: Ken DuBow-Bob’s Your Uncle/Cannes, John Ferlazz/London, Rory Rosegarten-The Conversation Company/Roslyn, NY, Barbara Potasky-NBCUniversal/NYC, Gerry Bixenspan-TV Marketing Inc./NYC, Andy Pittman-TAMU/College Station, TX, Synda Kollman-Charter Marketing Group/Boca Raton, FL, Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/LA, Susan Nessanbaum-Goldberg-M and S Entertainment/LA, David Westberg-SAG-AFTRA Credit Union/Burbank Today's Trivia Question Which two series had the same name – one a short-lived comedy in the 1990s, and the other a drama that launched seven years later and lasted seven seasons? (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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| TUESDAY OCTOBER 15 ABC: The Connors, Bless This Mess, mixed-ish, black-ish, Emergence CBS: NCIS, FBI, NCIS: New Orleans CW: The Flash, Arrow [p] FOX: The Resident, Empire NBC: The Voice, This Is Us, New Amsterdam PBS: Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates Jr., Retro Report on PBS, Frontline Telemundo: Exatlon Estados Unidos, El Final del Paraiso, El Senor de los Cielos Univision: La Rosa de Guadalupe, La Usurpadora, El Dragon |
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