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| Tonight’s Premieres BET: Tyler Perry’s The Oval at 9p, Tyler Perry’s Sistas at 10p PBS: Life From Above at 10p Tonight’s Finales HBO: 24/7 College Football at 10p Hulu: Wu-Tang: An American Saga IN THE NEWS Don’t bet against Katzenberg. Quibi, the short-form mobile service Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman are launching next April says it has sold out its $150 million in advertising inventory for its first year. Discover, General Mills, T-Mobile and Taco Bell are among brands newly announced yesterday, who join previously committed buyers including Procter & Gamble, PepsiCo, Walmart and Google. Launch advertisers have one year of category exclusivity on the service. Quibi ad units will be sold in 6-, 10- or 15-second preroll increments. French production behemoth Banijay reportedly is close to completing a $2.2 billion takeover of Endemol Shine Group, with the deal expected to close this week. Endemol Shine Group currently is jointly owned by Disney and private equity group Apollo Global Management. In a deal expected to close by year’s end, Roku is buying Dataxu, the platform that provides marketers with automated bidding for buying video ad campaigns and software to manage it. The deal, reported at $150 million in cash and stock, provides Roku with a complement its existing ad platform. Actress Lori Loughlin and her husband, designer Mossimo Giannulli, yesterday were indicted on a charge of conspiring to commit federal programs bribery in connection with allegations they paid $500,000 to get their daughters into the University of Southern California. That charge carries a maximum prison time of 10 years; the pair already face charges of conspiring to commit mail fraud and money laundering, to which they have plead not guilty. Verizon trotted out a promotion that will give wireless customers a free year of Disney+. The wireless carrier will be the exclusive purveyor of such a deal, open to all new and existing 4G LTE and 5G unlimited, Fios Home Internet and 5G Internet customers. Disney+ launches November 12 at $7 a month or $70 for a full year. Wall Street’s reaction? Netflix shares dropped nearly 3 percent yesterday morning after the announcement. Call for Submissions: Cynopsis is producing its annual Holiday Programming Guide, which comes out on November 7 and will be sent to all Cynopsis subscribers. If your network has holiday programming airing from November 7 through January 1, please send your listing to Lynn@Cynopsis.com and JanetDiLauro@gmail.com no later than Monday, October 28 with the subject line: Holiday Guide. To be included, programs must be listed by date, title of program, and start times, in the following format: “Thursday, November 14: UPtv: My One Christmas Wish at 9a, Paper Angels at 11a, 12 Days of Giving at 1p, A Christmas Kiss at 3p, A Very Country Christmas at 5p, Christmas on the Coast at 7p, A Christmas Cruise at 9p”. Holiday-related programs only! A confirmation email will be sent following each submission (if you don’t receive a confirmation email, please resubmit). CBS named the four executives who will helm its 2019-20 Directors Initiative. Drama directors Shaz Bennett, Jill D’Agnenica, Leena Pendharkar and Ian Truitner lead this year’s class of the program, which enables directors to gain access to showrunners, managers and agents, and shadow CBS Television Network and CBS Television Studio shows throughout the year. |
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| PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT NBC won the bid for Mavenhood, giving the workplace drama a script commitment with penalty. From NCIS: Los Angeles co-exec producer Jordana Lewis Jaffe, Brownstone Productions and Warner Bros. TV, project unfolds after a mysterious person threatens to reveal the dark secrets of a group of social media entrepreneurs. Cynopsis is proud to announce that the 7th annual Digital Model D Awards event will spotlight Luminary Award honoree and Host of NBC Sports’ Premier League coverage, Rebecca Lowe, for the impact she's made in the sports industry. Learn more about this award and the event, here (register by 10/28). Read more in the press release here. Michael Mann will direct the pilot ep of drama series Tokyo Vice, starring Ansel Elgort and Ken Watanabe, for HBO Max. Mann potentially could direct additional eps, and he will serve as exec producer alongside J.T. Rogers, John Lesher, Emily Gerson Saines, Alan Poul, Elgort, Destin Daniel Cretton and Watanabe. In related news, HBO Max greenlit travel docuseries Birth, Wedding, Funeral as part of a new overall deal with Lisa Ling. Each ep will immerse viewers in a different country to reveal their cultures through the lens of the three universal rituals. Deal marks an expansion of Ling’s relationship with WarnerMedia. She hosts CNN series This is Life with Lisa Ling. Hugh Laurie is developing a television adaptation of an Agatha Christie novel for the BBC, though the exact title he’s at work on is, well, a mystery. The Night Manager and House star is working through ITV-owned Mammoth Screen. Argentinian mob drama The Cleaning Lady is headed to the States via a script commitment from Fox. Miranda Kwok, currently a writer on The CW’s The 100; Stargirl exec producer Melissa Carter; Shay Mitchell’s Amore & Vita Productions and Warner Bros. Television are behind the project. The CW is developing drama series Good Christian Bitches, based on Kim Gatlin’s like-titled book. From Glamorous writer Jordon Nardino, Darren Star and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment, series is described as the film Clueless, but set in a Christian high school in Dallas. Comedy Central is teaming with All Things Comedy to produce a doc about the late comedian Patrice O’Neal, who died in 2011 at age 41. Michael Bonfiglio (Gary Gulman: The Great Depresh) will direct and exec produce alongside Bill Burr, Al Madrigal and Michael Bertolina of All Things Comedy, and O’Neal’s fiance at the time of his death, Von Decarlo. Pop artist Charli XCX takes center stage in a new doc series for Netflix. I’m With The Band: Nasty Cherry is about the formation of the titular group, which Charli XCX is not a member of but rather put together and signed it to her own record label. Series launches November 15 and will run for six parts. Life’s a Bitch(in’) at MotorTrend. The network is expanding its franchise, revving up competition series Bitchin’ Boot Camp, starring automotive designer Dave Kindig and Kevin Schiele of its series Bitchin’ Rides. New show will see contestants competing for one full-time job at Kindig’s Kindig-It Design company in Salt Lake City. Comedian Markus Stoll’s Der Beischlafer (The Bedfellow) will be Amazon’s newest German original to launch on Amazon Prime Video in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Stoll will play lead Charlie Menzinger in the six-part series. Stacey Dooley, Strictly Come Dancing star and BBC documentary personality, launched a production company in association with Keshet-owned Greenbird Media. Little Dooley will serve as a home for her own documentaries and series. Quibi and Vox Media Studios are partnering to produce a daily culture and gaming news show. Produced by Polygon, Vox Media’s culture and gaming network, series will present an injection of gaming news as part of Quibi’s Daily Essential lineup. NEW & RETURNING SERIES PBS tonight (October 23) premieres four-part series Life From Above at 10p. Made in conjunction with BBC Studios’ Natural History Unit, series tells stories of our planet from a perspective that few ever see – from space. LeBron James and Maverick Carter’s Uninterrupted is back in business with DAZN for a three-ep docuseries about boxers Canelo Alvarez and Sergey Kovalev. It’s the latest installment of DAZN’s 40 Days franchise, and showcases the fighters before their big rumble in Vegas. The first ep debuts this week on DAZN, the streaming outlet founded by former ESPN president John Skipper. COMING UP Sea of Shadows, National Geographic’s Sundance award-winning doc, will debut on the network Saturday, November 9 at 9p. Film, produced by Terra Mater Factual Studios in association with Leonardo DiCaprio and Appian Way, Malaika Pictures and Wild Lens Collective, just wrapped a limited theatrical release in the US, Mexico, the UK and Austria. John Crist, son of a pastor and one of eight homeschooled children, examines the weakness of millennial culture, how to be a "good" Christian, modern dating culture and more in new Netflix special John Crist: I Ain't Prayin'. Special bows November 28, 2019. Upstart pro football league XFL posted its inaugural schedule of games on Fox, ABC, ESPN, ESPN 2, FS1 and FS2. Revived by WWE head Vince McMahon to satisfy fans’ year-round appetite for football, XFL kicks off Saturday, February 8, with games on ABC and Fox. STREAMING SNIPPETS Food Network Kitchen is live in the US via a partnership with Amazon. The recently announced direct-to-consumer subscription platform is designed to help with meal prep and grocery shopping, boost culinary skills and make cooking a more joyous and convenient experience. It features 25 live and interactive classes each week, and grocery ordering and delivery straight from the app. Additionally, customers can stream live cooking classes with two-way interaction, view hundreds of instructional videos and check out a curated selection of Food Network shows, with corresponding recipes. App also features access to Food Network talent and including Bobby Flay, Rachael Ray, Giada De Laurentiis, Guy Fieri, Martha Stewart, Alton Brown and ina Garten. It’s available across Amazon Alexa and Echo Show, Fire Tablets, Fire TV streaming media devices and Fire TV Edition smart TVs, as well as iOS and Android mobile devices. Amazon rolled out its anticipated ad-supported news video service. The new service will be available on Fire TV devices and Fire tablets, and be fueled by content from publishers including Bloomberg, CBS News, Cheddar, Entertainment Weekly, Huffington Post, People, Reuters and Yahoo, among others. Discovery this week bows ad-funded streaming service Dplay in the UK and Ireland. Service will feature content from Discovery’s free-to-air portfolio of channels and will feature shows. GETTING SOCIAL Snap Inc. beat Q3 projections from Wall Street, as the company continues to gain momentum after a difficult 2018. Total revenue of $446 million in the period rose 50 percent from the same quarter a year ago and beat analysts’ consensus forecast by more than $11 million. Additionally, Snapchat gained 7 million new daily active users, reaching 210 million, up from 203 million in Q2 and 186 million in Q3 2018. PODCAST POSTS The Marvel Universe is heating up in the podcast realm. Marvel Entertainment and SiriusXM inked a multiyear deal to create original podcasts for SiriusXM and Pandora. Agreement includes multiple podcasts including original scripted series based around established Marvel characters plus unscripted original shows and themed live events slated to bow in 2020. Among characters to be featured are Wolverine, Hawkeye, Black Widow, and Star-Lord, as well as a fifth series in which all four team up. Unscripted podcasts will look at Marvel’s history through a modern-day lens of pop culture. Vice News and Spotify are partnering on three original podcast series. Comprising long-form narrative, talk and investigative audio across a breadth of international stories, the shows are: Uncommitted: Iowa 2020 (bows November 12), a 12-ep series that probes the idiosyncratic process and history behind the Iowa Caucuses; an untitled series about the opioid crisis (bows in 2020); and an untitled series (bows late 2020) exploring global politics, building on Vice News’ international coverage. Lit Hub and the Podglomerate are teaming on the Storybound podcast, a radio theater program hosted by Jude Brewer. Podcast, which launches December 3 and will run for 10 weeks, features voices of literary icons reading their essays, poems, and fiction. CASTING Lee Pace (Halt and Catch Fire) and Jared Harris (Chernobyl) will topline Foundation, Apple TV+'s upcoming drama series based on Isaac Asimov's sci-fi novel trilogy… Austin Crute (Daybreak, Booksmart), Nik Dodani (Atypical), Andrew Jacobs (Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones) and Chloe Levine (The OA) will recur in the second and final season of Netflix’s YA series Trinkets. GOING GLOBAL CBS series Evil will debut in Spain via a deal between CBS Studios International and Syfy. Series, a psychological mystery that examines the origins of evil along the dividing line between science and religion, will bow on Syfy in Spain in January 2020. Broadcaster, EBS acquired rights to air several seasons of Entertainment One kids series PeppaPig in South Korea this year. |
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| RATINGS Syndication scenario: Despite breaking news coverage of the California wildfires, which caused some programs to be preempted and a massive intentional power cut in certain West Coast markets, The Kelly Clarkson Show (three-week high 1.4 live plus same day national Nielsen rating, up 8% from the week before) and Tamron Hall (1.0, steady) continued to clobber all of the season’s new strips by widening margins in the session ended October 13. Clarkson was syndicated television’s clear No. 1 newcomer, pulling in more than 1.8-million viewers on average each day. Hall was also sharp, holding its season high ratings and snaring over 1,200,000 daily viewers. A third talk newcomer, Mel Robbins (0.4, up 33%), was far behind the top two averaging just under 500,000 viewers. The freshman court show competition was no contest as Jerry Springer’s Judge Jerry (0.9, down 10%) presided over the new gavelers for the fourth consecutive week. Personal Injury Court (0.5, up 25%) and Protection Court (0.3, unchanged) followed. %). Top 10 Broadcast Programs P2+, Live + SD for the week of October 14 NBC: NBC Sunday Night Football (10/20) 21.5 million NBC: Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick (10/20) 16.3 million FOX: Fox + NFLN Thursday Night Football (10/17) 14.0 million CBS: NCIS (10/15) 10.9 million NBC: Football Night America Night 3 (10/20) 10.4 million NBC: Chicago Med (10/16) 8.9 million CBS: FBI (10/15) 8.8 million NBC: Chicago PD (8/16) 8.6 million FOX: Fox + NLFN Thursday Night (Pre-Kick (10/17) 8.5 million NBC: Chicago Fire (10/16) 8.2 million Top 10 M-F Syndicated strip Series for the week of October 7 ranked in order by HH Rtg Judge Judy (CTD) 6.3 AA Jeopardy (CTD) 5.9 AA Family Feud (2/T) 5.7 AA Wheel of Fortune (CTD) 5.6 AA Dateline Weekly (AT) 3.3 AA The Big Bang Theory (WB) 2.9 AA Inside Edition (CTD) 2.8 AA Entertainment Tonight (CTD) 2.6 AA Dr. Phil (CTD) 2.4 AA Live With Kelly and Ryan (DADT) 2.1 AA Hot Bench (AT) 2.1 AA Top 10 M-F Syndicated strip Series for the week of October 7 ranked in order by A18-49 Rtg Family Feud (2/T) 1.4 AA Judge Judy (CTD) 1.2 AA Jeopardy (CTD) 0.9 AA Wheel of Fortune (CTD) 0.9 AA The Big Bang Theory (WB) 0.9 AA Dateline Weekly (AT) 0.8 AA Modern Family (2/T) 0.8 AA Last Man Standing 0.7 AA Family Guy (2/T) 0.7 AA Entertainment Tonight (AT) 0.6 AA TV Time’s Shows on the Rise – Week of October 14 Living With Yourself (Netflix) - 100% Modern Love (Amazon) - 99.9% Watchmen (HBO) - 99.9% Baby (Netflix) - 98% The House of Flowers (Netflix) - 95.8% Impulse (YouTube Premium) - 92.1% The Purge (USA) - 86.% Saint Seiya (TV Asahi) - 65.9% Arrow (The CW) - 57.5% Charmed (The CW) - 41% *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. Late Night Shows Weekly Average Ratings Week of October 14 NBC: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 2.38 million total viewers 964,000 A18-49 CBS: The Late Show With Stephen Colbert 2.11 million total viewers; 38,000 A18-49 ABC: Jimmy Kimmel Live 2.04 million total viewers; 434,000 A18-49 Basic Cable Top 5 – Primetime (P2+) ratings for the week of October 14 ESPN: 2.85 million Fox Sports 1: 2.78 million FNC: 2.69 million CNN: 2.02 million MSNBC: 1.84 million *Corresponding Data from Nielsen Media Research Basic Cable Top 5 – Total (P2+) ratings for the week of October 14, 2019 FNC: 1.46 million MSNBC: 1.13 million ESPN: 977,000 CNN: 902,000 Fox Sports 1: 745,000 *Corresponding Data from Nielsen Media Research Live + Same Day Viewers AA (millions): Monday, October 21, 2019 Time period averages Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated Live+SD ABC: 6.84 million Dancing With the Stars 7.09, the Good Doctor 6.33 NBC: 6.55 million The Voice 7.96, Bluff City Law 3.72 CBS: 5.64 million The Neighborhood 5.70, Bog Hearts Abishola 5.22, All Rise 5.44, Bull 6.04 FOX: 4.87 million 9-1-1 6.31, Prodigal Son 3.43 Telemundo: 1.48 million Exatlon 1.44, Final de Paraiso 1.46, Senior de los Cielos 1.51 Univision: 1.34 million Rosa de Guadelupe 1.55, Cuna de Lobos 1.46, El Dragon 1.03 CW: 0.93 million The All American 0.96, Black Lightening 0.90 Monday A18-49 Rating FOX 1.1/5, ABC 1.0/4, NBC 1.0/5, CBS 0.7/4 UNI .5/2, TELE .5/2, CW 0.3/1 EXECUTIVE MOVES Longtime Marvel exec Jeph Loeb, who helped the company segue to the small screen with series including Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., will exit his post as Marvel Television head by year’s end. No word yet on is next venture. Matt Cohen is joining Entertainment Tonight as a full-time correspondent and co-anchor of ET's weekend show. He recently served as a guest correspondent for ET. Gary Newman, former co-chairman of Fox, joined Attention Partners as executive partner. Attention Partners was founded by former Fox ad chief Joe Marchese, former Snapchat content head Nick Bell and former Palantir exec Ashlyn Gentry. Connie Orlando has been promoted to EVP, Specials, Music Programming & Music Strategy, at BET Networks. IN MEMORIAM James Schmerer, veteran TV writer whose credits include MacGyver, CHiPs, Vega$, Fantasy Island and Starsky & Hutch, died October 4 at his home in Eugene, OR, following a stroke. He was 81. Schmerer’s numerous scripts defined much of the television culture of the ‘70s and ‘80s. He also wrote for Logan’s Run, Hawaii Five-0, The Six Million Dollar Man, The High Chaparral, The Rookies, T.J. Hooker and The Fall Guy, among others. In addition to writing, Schmerer was a producer on several series, including the1973 Stephen J. Cannell-created drama Chase. This Day in History 1973 - President Richard M. Nixon agreed to turn over the subpoenaed tapes concerning the Watergate affair. Answer to our last trivia question What was the first Norman Lear-produced show to air on ABC? Hot l Baltimore (1975). Kudos to: Gerry Bixenspan-TV Marketing Inc/NY; Dennis Dorfmeister-Showtime/Hauppauge, NY; Charles Lore-consultant/NY; Michael Gioscia-NBCUniversal/NY; Synda Kollman-Charter Marketing Group/Boca Raton, FL; Dennis Maguire-Apple/Tampa; Phyllis McQuillan-MSG Networks/NY; Aaron Paquette-Screen Engine/ASI/Fort Worth, TX; Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/LA; Susan Nessanbaum-Goldberg-M and S Entertainment/LA; Lorrie Shilling/El Segundo, CA; Richard Quan-Heat/SF Today's Trivia Question: Who played the role of Chandler’s father on Friends? (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 OCTOBER 23 ABC: The Goldbergs, Schooled, Modern Family, Single Parents, Harry & Meghan: An African Journey CBS: Survivor, SEAL Team, S.W.A.T. CW: Riverdale, Nancy Drew FOX: 2019 World Series NBC: Chicago Med, Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D. PBS: Nature, NOVA, Life From Above Telemundo: Exatlon Estados Unidos, El Final del Paraiso, El Senor de los Cielos Univision: La Rosa de Guadelupe, Cuna de Lobos, El Dragon |
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