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| Tonight’s Premieres Hulu: Zomboat! Netflix: The Kominsky Method Tonight’s Finale Cooking: Freakshow Cakes at 11p Saturday’s Premiere Travel Channel: Destination Fear at 10p Saturday’s Finale Great American Country: Texas Flip N Move at 10p Sunday’s Premieres HBO: Silicon Valley at 10p, Mrs. Fletcher at 10:30p HGTV: Caribbean Life at 9p Oxygen: Killer Siblings at 8p Sunday’s Finales Food Network: Halloween Wars at 9p ID: Deadline: Crime With Tamron Hall at 8p Smithsonian: Rise of the Supercarrier at 9pm Travel: Witches of Salem at 10p IN THE NEWS Jeff Zucker, WarnerMedia news and sports chief and head of CNN, yesterday addressed reports he’s next in line to become CEO of WarnerMedia now that John Stankey has been elevated to the No. 2 role at parent AT&T. Talking with CNN’s Brian Stelter at the CNN-sponsored Citizen event in NY, Zucker said, “There were a lot of stories that I was going to get fired, too. I didn’t believe those and I don’t believe these.” Zucker also said he’s “very open” to talking with Shepard Smith, who abruptly exited Fox News a few weeks ago, about a role at CNN. Fox revealed midseason premiere dates for the net’s new and returning series. Season 8 of Last Man Standing, dislodged from its Friday night slot by WWE SmackDown, returns with back-to-back eps January 2 at 8p, followed by the series premiere of cop drama Deputy at 9p. New family comedy Outmatched joins the lineup Thursday, January 7 at 8:30p. Thus far missing from the schedule is drama Almost Family, about which Fox hasn’t yet made an official decision. “We’re not doing the same strategy that Netflix and the people chasing Netflix have adopted,” NBCU CEO Steve Burke told analysts yesterday regarding the company’s upcoming Peacock streaming service. During the company’s Q3 earnings call, Burke said launching Peacock as an ad-supported service “will cut the investment pretty substantially because I think we’re going to get to cruising altitude much more quickly than a subscription service.” Peacock also will be prominently featured on Comcast’s Flex video platform, he said. Speaking of the company’s third quarter, Comcast flexed its muscle and beat projections, with earnings per share of 79 cents and total revenue of $26.83 billion. Cable earnings were a strong spot for the quarter. Amazon, on the other hand, had a less sanguine day on the Street. While the company reported total revenue of $70 billion for Q3, up 24 percent from the same period a year ago and more than $1 billion ahead of Wall Street analysts’ estimates, downturns in operating and net income missed analyst estimates. Operating income slid to $3.2 billion from $3.7 billion a year ago, and net income fell to $4.23 per share on a diluted basis, below estimates of $4.62 and down from $5.75 in the 2018 period. Twitter also didn’t have a banner day. Technical glitches in its ad technology caused the company to miss analyst projections by a long shot. Total revenue of $824 million were up 9 percent over the 2018 period, but short of Wall Street’s anticipated $874 million. This, despite the service noting it reached 145 million “monetizable” daily active users in Q3, up 17 percent from the same period a year ago. The Hollywood Radio and Television Society unveiled its first-ever Diversity Guide, aimed at supporting marginalized communities in the industry. Announced during the HRTS’ second annual “How Inclusion, Representation, and Diversity Drive Innovation” event, the guide outlines TV industry programs designed to promote inclusion, equality and representation. It will be available to all HRTS members on the org’s website. It’s a triple play for the Daytime Emmy Awards, which next year will add a third night to its evenings celebrating daytime programming. The 2020 events will be held Friday, Saturday and Sunday, June 12-14. |
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| PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT Dakota Johnson and former Netflix development exec Ro Donnelly launched TeaTime Pictures. The venture, which will develop television and film projects, includes a first-look TV deal with Platform One Media with a YA musical as the first title under the pact. Barry Levinson’s The Levinson Fontana Co. is on board with interactive video company eko for a live-action drama series in which the viewer decides the course of the story. The Jury Room (wt), to be directed by Levinson, is pegged for release in 2020 on eko’s platform. Script takes place in the trial of a domestic terror event, in which viewers take on the role of one of the jurors. It’s happening. The long-awaited prequel to the CW’s The 100 got a backdoor pilot production order at the network. From Jason Rothenberg, The 100 exec producer/showrunner, potential prequel is set 97 years before the events of the original series and is will be intro’d in the upcoming final season of The 100. Exec producers Lashan Browning (Love & Hip Hop Atlanta), Adam Gonzalez (Teyana and Iman, America’s Next Top Model) and Tiffany Lea Williams (Are You the One?, Teen Mom franchise) all scored overall deals at MTV Studios. HBO Max greenlit four original unscripted projects from CNN. Four-part Heaven’s Gate explores the religious movement and circumstances that culminated in the biggest mass suicide to ever take place on US soil; Generation Hustle (wt) is a 10-part series about the lengths young people will go to for fame, fortune, and power; feature The Scoop (wt) follows the lives of CNN’s female political reporters as they cover the most unpredictable presidential campaign in American history; and feature Persona (wt) probes the unexpected origin story of America’s obsession with personality testing. Also at the WarnerMedia streaming service, the second season of Rooster Teeth’s animated series gen:Lock is headed to HBO Max. Starring Michael B. Jordan (Creed, Black Panther), series focuses on a near-future dystopia undergoing a tech-driven world war. Sylvester Stallone’s Balboa Productions is getting into the ring with sports streaming outlet DAZN. The new partnership will see an initial series of feature docs under the banner One Night. Lightbridge Entertainment and writer Ron Bass (Rain Man) are adapting Evan Thomas’ best-selling biography Being Nixon: A Man Divided for the small screen. Bass will pen the six-hour series and serve as an exec producer alongside Lightbridge Entertainment founder and CEO Terry Botwick. Prison Break creator Paul Scheuring boarded the third season of Amazon thriller series Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan as exec producer and showrunner. Season 2 of the series premieres November 1. Carlton Cuse, who served as showrunner on the first two seasons, stepped back from daily duties in March. The Dodo will be the anchor animal brand for Quibi’s Daily Essentials programming suite. Built around The Dodo’s audience insights, show will offer unique animal stories emotionally tailored to what people need on each day of the week. Call for Submissions: Cynopsis is producing its annual Holiday Programming Guide, which comes out on November 14 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). Disney is developing a reboot of 1993 cult classic feature Hocus Pocus for streaming platform Disney+. The project would be written by Jen D’Angelo (Happy Together, LA to Vegas, Workaholics) and is a strong nod to the original film, which starred Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy. Oggy Oggy, a CGI remake of 21-year-old kids cartoon Oggy And The Cockroaches, will be Netflix’s first original animated series from France. The service ordered the title from Paris-based animation house Xilam Animation. New incarnation follows cat Oggy, who after being freed from the tyranny of the cockroaches sets off on new adventures with other felines. Eric Rochant, the creative force behind French TV series The Bureau (Le Bureau Des Legendes), signed with Brillstein Entertainment. The creator, showrunner and director of the acclaimed show recently wrapped its fifth and final season, and is now looking to mine similar roles in the US market. NEW & RETURNING SERIES A couple new series bows are headed to Acorn TV on Monday, November 4. Long-running UK dramedy Mount Pleasant depicts the lives of a tightly knit family in Manchester, including their everyday struggles and hurdles. Then, Slings & Arrows chronicles the backstage shenanigans of a troubled theater company as they embark on a production of Hamlet at a Shakespeare festival. Court Cam, an eight-ep series that gives viewers a seat on the bench for some outrageous moments in America’s courtrooms, will debut Thursday, December 5 at 9p on A&E. Series hails from Live PD host Dan Abrams and Law & Crime Productions. Showtime dropped the official poster and trailer for The L Word: Generation Q, premiering Sunday, December 8 at 10p. Sequel to The L Word continues to follow the intermingled lives of original crew and introduces some new characters as they experience love, heartbreak, sex, setbacks and success in LA. Limited drama series Forgiven, starring Ferinaz Mousavi and Carl Jackson, will debut in spring 2020 on Tubi and TheGrid Network. The story unfolds as a coveted career advancement sets unfavorable circumstances between two workplace friends. COMING UP Ricky Martin will join Roselyn Sanchez and Paz Vega to host the 20th annual Latin Grammy Awards. Event will be broadcast live on Univision on Thursday, November 14 at 8p. Kristin Stewart will host the November 2 episode of NBC’s Saturday Night Live, with musical guest Coldplay. Harry Styles will double as host and musical guest on November 16. PBS is decorating its holiday schedule with traditional fare including Christmas With the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Christmas at Belmont, annual fan fave Call the Midwife Holiday Special and a month of Great Performanes dedicated to “Broadway’s Best” every Friday night in November. TECH TALK Michael “Shroud” Grzesiek, former pro Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player and a star of the Twitch platform, is joining Microsoft’s Mixer as an exclusive streamer. He announced the news via Twitter. STREAMING NEWS Crackle original series Going From Broke, from executive producer Ashton Kutcher, Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment and Matador Content, reached 1 million views in just five days. Series, which debuted on ad-supported Crackle on October 17, puts a spotlight on the student loan epidemic. Streaming service Mubi and UK distributor Curzon are in a partnership through which they’ll divide streaming rights on two initial titles. First up is Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir, which Curzon released day-and-date August 30 in UK cinemas and on its VOD service Curzon Home Cinema, and Mubi will launch on its service today (October 25). KIDS NEWS PBS Kids will air A Nature Carol, a one-hour holiday special from its series Nature Cat, on November 29. In this homage to A Christmas Carol, Nature Cat (voiced by Taran Killam) is visited by the spirits of Nature Past (voiced by Kate Micucci), Present (voiced by Kate McKinnon) and Future (voiced by Bobby Moynihan). Nickelodeon will celebrate 20 years of SpongeBob SquarePants with a new balloon at the 93rd Annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Nick will also have a new float inspired by new preschool series Blue’s Clues & You!, which premieres November 11 at 1p. PODCAST POSTS Two more Reelz original series are headed to PodcastOne with the launch of Autopsy: The Last Hours of… on Wednesday, October 30 and Copycat Killers on Thursday, November 21. Both were originally slated to debut in 2020, but moved up thanks to the success of the net’s Murder Made Me Famous podcasts. Tegna launched five-ep series Amy Should Be Forty. From Tegna’s Vault Studios, podcast chronicles the kidnapping and murder of Amy Mihaljevic, a case that continues to draw national attention 30 years later. As Me with Sinead, the second weekly series from the new podcast network Lemonada Media, debuts this week. Hosted by Irish activist and academic Sinead Burke, series features conversations with diverse and notable guests that explore the human condition. CASTING Amber Gray, Tony Award-nominated star of Hadestown, landed a supporting role in Amazon’s upcoming limited series The Underground Railroad… FX drama pilot The Old Man, starring Jeff Bridges, added cast members Leem Lubany and E.J. Bonilla... Maureen McCormick (A Very Brady Renovation) will join Alison Victoria (Windy City Rehab) to co-host special White House Christmas 2019, for HGTV... Hallie Todd, Robert Carradine and Jake Thomas are set to reprise their roles as Jo, Sam and Matt McGuire, joining previously announced Hilary Duff as Lizzie, in the Disney+ revival Lizzie McGuire. GOING GLOBAL The BBC got a double dose of bad news from British regulator Ofcom. For one, the 57-page annual report noted the broadcaster is facing the prospect of a “lost generation” of viewers and “may not be sustainable in its current form” unless it can wrestle back young viewers from streaming services. Among key findings, for the first time fewer than half (49 percent) of people aged 16-24 watched the BBC’s TV channels in an average week. But that’s not all. The BBC will be investigated for breaking its commitment to report separate financials for its production business and distribution division. Ofcom warns the BBC has “reduced the granularity of reporting” and only provided a “superficial” explanation of the change in the wake of the BBC merging BBC Studios and distribution unit BBC Worldwide. Meanwhile, Netflix launched a low-cost, mobile-only plan in Malaysia to spur growth. Plan costs roughly $4/month and enables subs to watch its content in standard definition on one smartphone or tablet at a time. |
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| RATINGS Tyler Perry’s The Oval and Tyler Perry’s Sistas scored a combined 2.9 million total viewers across BET, BET Her and VH1 during premiere night Wednesday, October 23 from 9pm-11p. Engagement was at an all-time high on BET, with Sistas retaining more than 85% of its lead in series, The Oval. Live + Same Day Viewers AA (millions): Wednesday, October 22, 2019 Time period averages Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated Live+SD FOX: 11.78 million The 2019 World Series 11.78 NBC: 7.39 million Chicago Med 7.67, Chicago Fire 7.81, Chicago P.D. 6.69 CBS: 5.08 million Survivor 6.77, SEAL Team 4.64, S.W.A.T. 3.83 ABC: 3.11 million The Goldbergs 3.92, Schooled 3.17, Modern Family 2.42, Single Parents 2.48, Meghan & Harry: An African Journey 3.34 Telemundo: 1.31 million Exatlon 1.35, Final de Paraiso 1.28, Senor de los Cielos 1.30 Univision: 1.25 million Rosa de Guadelupe 1.39, Cuna de Lobos 1.29, El Dragon 1.08 CW: 0.86 million Riverdale 0.91, Nancy Drew 0.81 Wednesday A18-49 Ratings FOX 2.9/13, NBC 1.2/6, CBS 0.9/4, ABC 0.6/3, UNI .4/2, TELE .4/3, CW 0.2/1 EXECUTIVE MOVES Fox Nation, the on demand subscription-based streaming service, signed Kacie McDonnell as a lifestyle and sports host. McDonnell previously served as an anchor for the New England Sports Network. Former Universal Pictures exec Amit Dey has been tapped as SVP, head of Valence Media’s new non-fiction division at MRC. Katz Television Group promoted Joni Sinelli to EVP, director of sales overseeing the Midwest region.Sinelli is a 23-year veteran of Katz. ITV America promoted twice Emmy-winning executive Danielle Gervais to EVP, casting and talent. Former Microscope gaming exec Mike Ybarra is joining Blizzard Entertainment as EVP/GM. This Day in History 1881 - Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain. Friday Fact The nine-inning length of a baseball game was determined in 1857. Prior to then, games were of indeterminate time length and number of innings. Answer to our last trivia question What was the highest-rated sitcom in the A18-49 demo from 2001-2005? Will & Grace Kudos to: Cheri Rice-Moroch/Atlanta; Kristine Beebe-Amplifi/Culver City, CA; Paul Blutter-Walk and Talk Production Rentals/Burbank; Chip Lanners-Hulu/LA; Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/LA; Coleen Raymann-Disney/Burbank Today’s Trivia Question What kind of animal stalked Elisha Cuthbert’s character Kim Bauer in season 2 of 24 (2001-10)? (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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| FRIDAY OCTOBER 25 ABC: American Housewife, Fresh off the Boat, 20/20 CBS: Hawaii Five-0, Magnum P.I., Blue Bloods CW: Charmed, Dynasty FOX: 2019 World Series NBC: The Blacklist, Dateline NBC PBS: Washington Week, Firing Line, American Masters, Songwriting With Soldiers Telemundo: Exation Estados Unidos, El Final de Paraiso, El Senor de los Cielos Univision: La Rosa de Guadelupe, Cuna de Lobos, El Dragon |
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