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| Tonight’s Premieres AXS TV: Impact! at 8p Tonight’s Finales Food Network: Chopped at 9p PBS: Retro Report on PBS at 9p Travel Channel: Most Terrifying Places at 10p IN THE NEWS ABC gave full-season orders to freshman series mixed-ish and Stumptown, and issued a spring pick-up to sophomore drama The Rookie. Mixed-ish ranks as the season’s number one new comedy, growing to a 1.8 rating among A18-49 across platforms in Live+7 Nielsens, while Stumptown is averaging 9.7 million total viewers and a Live+7 rating of 2.18 in the demo. Season to date, The Rookie is improving its new Sunday time slot by 214% in viewers and 175% in A18-49, making it ABC’s most-watched series in the time slot in four years. Discovery, Inc. and Comscore announced multi-year agreements for the use of Comscore's audience measurement and consumer insights tools across Discovery's platforms. “Discovery is committed to changing the current measurement paradigm in order to more accurately and efficiently capture video consumption across multiple platforms,” said Keith Kazerman, EVP, Digital Sales, Advanced Advertising and Research, Discovery, Inc., citing Comscore’s ability to “bring new thinking and new energy to what is the weakest link in today's industry value chain.” NBCUniversal is taking ShoppableTV out of beta. The ad unit, which allows viewers to buy, from their phone, products featured on a show, has been tested with sponsors like Lacoste during the French Open and Walmart on Today. Shoppable ads will now be used across unscripted programming, including Sunday Night Football. NBCU said the average conversion rate for Shoppable TV experiences is 30% higher than the industry benchmark for e-commerce conversion. AT&T announced earnings per share of 94 cents in its 3Q19 earnings call, beating estimates by one cent, while total revenue added up to $44.6 billion versus a forecast of $45 billion. The company also said total pay-TV subscriptions dropped by 1.36 million, and outlined a three-year strategic plan that includes paying off 100% of its acquisition debt from its Time Warner deal, and “no major acquisitions.” A letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other company execs, signed by several hundred employees, criticized Facebook for its decision to allow politicians to post claims known to be false. The letter, printed in the NY Times, said, “Misinformation affects us all. Our current policies on fact checking people in political office, or those running for office, are a threat to what FB stands for. We strongly object to this policy as it stands. It doesn’t protect voices, but instead allows politicians to weaponize our platform by targeting people who believe that content posted by political figures is trustworthy.” Zuckerberg has contended it is better for users to determine the credibility of Facebook’s political ads, rather than the company. There’s no Friends reboot in the offing, but the stars of NBC’s 1994-2004 comedy are “working on something,” Jennifer Aniston teased on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Monday. Not that Aniston needs a job – her Apple TV+ series, The Morning Show, debuts Friday, November 1. Fox Corporation inked a multi-year deal that renews station affiliation agreements for six Tegna markets, including three stations acquired last month from Nexstar Media Group. The new agreement includes full carriage of the Fox broadcast network, as well as continued carriage of Tena’s Fox affiliates’ local station programming on all major streaming platforms. LAST CALL: 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 today, October 29 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). Wheel of Fortune and Latitude Margaritaville are teaming for a second year to hand a viewer the keys to a new home valued at $350,000. The “Home Sweet Home Giveaway” is running now through November 1. |
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| PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT Dante’s Inferno, a drama series inspired by the 14th century epic poem, is in development at Freeform. Reimagining comes from Ethan Reiff & Cyrus Voris (Knightfall), Nina Flore & John Herrera (The Handmaid’s Tale), Danielle Claman Gelber (One Chicago) and Studio 71. Stitcher’s documentary podcast Heaven’s Gate will be the basis for a four-part docuseries about the cult and its mass suicide, to be produced by CNN Originals. Glynn Washington will host the series, part of HBO Max’s first CNN Originals program slate. "They represent the future of a dynamic industry, demonstrating the kind of ingenuity, passion and commitment that drives businesses forward. We are honored to celebrate both these exceptional individuals, and the companies that are encouraging and empowering them." – Robbie Caploe, CYNOPSIS Publisher. Know a colleague who fits the bill? Nominations for the Cynopsis Rising Star Awards are due tomorrow night. Click here to learn more and get started on that nomination! Comedy Central ordered a new season of animated comedy Blark and Son, focused on a single dad and his internet-addicted son. In addition to eight new short-form digital episodes, the net also ordered a linear pilot script. Superman & Lois is in development at CW. DC series starring Tyler Hoechlin (Supergirl) and Elizabeth Tulloch (Grimm) comes from Todd Helbing (The Flash), Greg Berlanti and Warner Bros. Television. Big Bad Boo Studios inked a partnership with children’s media brand Highlights for Children, Inc. The two will work together to develop, finance, produce and distribute some of Highlights’ characters and properties into animated series. STREAMING AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson forecasts streaming service HBO Max will reach 50 million US subscribers in its first five years. In A&T’s quarterly earnings call, Stephenson said, “This is a product that’s going to be very different from any other product you’ve seen in the market so far. This is not Netflix, this is not Disney. This is HBO Max. It’s going to have a very unique place in the marketplace.” HBO Max is slated to launch next spring. Netflix announced a new test feature that lets viewers speed up or slow down content on their smartphones - a move that drew objections from some creators. “We give you nice things. Leave them as they were intended to be seen," tweeted Judd Apatow, co-creator of Netflix series Love. Season one of Canadian dramedy Slings & Arrows lands on Acorn TV on Monday, November 4. Season two drops November 25, with season three arriving December 16. KARE 11's feature-length documentary Love Them First: Lessons from Lucy Laney Elementary is now available for streaming on www.LoveThemFirst.com and on Prime Video. Film follows a Minneapolis school where an estimated 90 percent of students live near or below the poverty line. NEW & RETURNING SERIES A five-week run of entertainment magazine Central Ave kicks off on Fox Television Stations on Monday, November 4. Will Packer Media is teaming with Debmar-Mercury and Fox on the series, which D-M will take into national syndication if all goes well. “This is not a gossip show or a mean show, but it’s a show that will be a little more edgy than the other shows out there,” said Packer. “Our hosts will make sure we get unfiltered opinions from real people, celebrities and influencers.” BET’s Julissa Bermudez and Olympic track star Sanya Richards-Ross host. HGTV’s Love It or List It is back for a new season on Monday, November 18 at 9p. The real estate/renovation series racked up over 17 million viewers last season. November notes on ID: Season ten of On the Case with Paula Zahn premieres Sunday, November 3 at 10p. The next night brings the season two debut of The Devil Speaks at 9p, followed by the season four launch of People Magazine Investigates at 10p. New series The Object of Murder, examining the emotional power associated with crimes, kicks off Thursday, November 7 at 9p. COMING UP ION Television is offering six new holiday movies kicking off Sunday, December 1, with A Christmas Princess at 7p. In 2018, ION Television’s holiday lineup averaged 845,000 households in primetime. Mexican superstar Gloria Trevi will open Premios de la Radio 2019, the awards show celebrating Regional Mexican Music. Event airs November 7 at 8p on EstrellaTV. TECH TALK Ad tech and services company Canoe Ventures has added Frontier Communications to its footprint of VOD-DAI enabled television distributors. Under the agreement, Canoe will integrate its current national programmers to begin running VOD-DAI campaigns across Frontier’s VOD-enabled subscriber base with Canoe service assurance, which includes ad map management, monitoring, resolution, and analytics. Frontier joins Charter Communications, Comcast Corporation, and Cox Communications as the fourth MVPD to utilize Canoe’s nationwide Service Assurance platform. Digital audience marketing platform Kubient announced its acquisition of Fidelity Media, a programmatically driven supply-side platform and publishers' yield-optimization platform. The deal enhances Kubient's ability to sell digital advertising inventory and expand their supply-side marketplace offerings with direct publishers, display ad capabilities, and proprietary header bidding technology, as well as enhancing Kubient's video advertising reach by integrating their existing video advertising capabilities into Fidelity's platform. Fidelity's fmxSSP platform will be integrated into Kubient's Audience Cloud marketplace. It also expands Fidelity's offerings to support video, digital out-of-home, audio, and native ad formats. Appear TV, a provider of next-generation video processing platforms for broadcast and streaming, has launched Zixi input and output support on the X platform. The Appear TV X Platform is a dedicated solution for high speed video networking, enhanced IP security, video distribution and contribution. “Our partnership with Zixi allows our customers to tap into the Zixi cloud service for broadcast-quality video delivery over public IP networks, presenting a natural extension to our X platform,” said Thomas Lind, product management director, Appear TV. ADVERTISING The problem with the advertising business is ... people don’t like ads, according to a report from Forrester, which warns that the industry must “disassemble what remains of their outmoded model.” Rewarding consumers for viewing ads isn’t enough, said Forrester. Advertisers also need to incorporate “data-driven, tech-fueled approaches and platforms into the creative process and tool kit.” As for agency jobs, 80% will be transformed by automation and learning technologies by 2030, forecasts the report. Nexstar Broadcasting is transitioning its advertising sales to a cost-per-impression model. “This strategic move represents the next step in the natural evolution of audience measurement,” said Tim Busch, President, Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. “Our sales force will be able to talk to all advertisers - big or small, national or local - in an informed, fact-based manner about maximizing the reach and effectiveness of their spending across every available media channel.” Nexstar began working with Comscore in 2018 to develop a viewer measurement metric that aggregates unduplicated audiences across all video platforms. A commercial campaign spanning linear, digital and social, with a broader initiative to #SaveTheBeyond, shines a light on the destruction of the environment. The advertising partnership between A+E Networks and Citizen Watch highlights the trend of one-stop-shops for content creation and activation, with History producing a short form series of commercial content showcasing three individuals who work to generate awareness of protecting the environment. The last of the spots will air in 4Q19; partnership culminates with a consumer event held tonight in NYC. The media landscape of today is very different compared to even the last election, with candidates using new ways to engage their constituents. Karen Ring, Head of Research for software platform Telara, offers insights on political advertising trends – and explains why TV is still reigns supreme for reaching voters, in Cynsiders. Advocacy and corporate social responsibility groups replaced CPG and retail as the dominant advertisers on the first two games of the World Series, accounting for 14.8% of spots, according to Advertising Analytics. Some of those ads are likely aimed at catching the eyes of D.C. leaders tuned into games between the Washington Nationals and the Houston Astros. Automobile ads came in a close second, with 14.4% of ads. CASTING Elaine Hendrix (Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll) joins the season three cast of CW’s Dynasty as Alexis. She takes over the role originated on the reboot by Nicollette Sheridan, and temporarily played by Elizabeth Gilles...Added to the cast of Nat Geo anthology series Genius: Aretha are Malcolm Barrett (Timeless, Preacher), Patrice Covington (Broadway’s The Color Purple), Kimberly Hébert Gregory (Vice Principals), Rebecca Naomi Jones (The Big Sick) and Sanai Victoria (black-ish). Cynthia Erivo (Harriet) stars as the Queen of Soul...Bollywood’s Preity G Zingta and Vir Das (Whiskey Cavalier) will guest on an episode of ABC’s Fresh Off the Boat, which could result in a spin-off series centered on an Indian family. GOING GLOBAL Red Arrow Studios International has secured a trio of new deals in Europe for Old People’s Home for 4 Year Olds. Canal+ in France has commissioned a four-episode local version, which will be produced by A Tableau Productions to air in 2020; in Sweden, Meter is producing four episodes to air on TV4 during 2020; and Fremantle Portugal is in production on a four-episode local version for RTP, to premiere in 2019. UK-based Magnify Media has licensed NRK’s short-form comedy series Couples Therapy to DR Denmark, which is already in production on a local version of the format. |
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| RATINGS WWE announced it has surpassed 50 million subscribers on YouTube. WWE’s YouTube channel is the #4 most-viewed channel in the world behind only T-Series, SET India and Cocomelon - Nursery Rhymes. SHAREABLEE TOP 10 TV Shows for the week of October 21 Program, Network, Total Actions, Total Content, Actions per Content, Fans & Followers The Ellen DeGeneres Show (WB/syndicated) 13.4M, 102, 131,693, 189.8M E! News (E!) 8.4M, 618, 13,607, 36.4M Riverdale (The CW) 6M, 47, 127,578, 15.2M Grey's Anatomy (ABC) 5.3M, 80, 65,747, 33.9M Entertainment Tonight (WB/syndicated) 2M, 553, 3,640, 8.5M The Walking Dead (AMC) 1.8M, 135, 13,690, 48.2M Good Morning America (ABC) 1.2M, 1,126, 1,043, 13.4M The Rachel Maddow Show (MSNBC) 1M, 82, 12,672, 12.4M Saturday Night Live (NBC) 1M, 65, 15,433, 12.6M Tunity Analytics Top Weekly National Out-of-Home Viewer Rankings for Entertainment Programs for the week of October 21 Program, OOH Viewers (000) Program, OOH Viewers (000) WWE Special (Fox) 354 God Friended Me (CBS) 293 Saturday Night Live (NBC) 252 FBI (CBS) 221 NCIS: Los Angeles (CBS) 212 NCIS (CBS) 204 NCIS: New Orleans (CBS) 201 The Voice (NBC) 198 Blue Bloods (CBS) 184 Bull (CBS) 182 Source: Tunity Analytics. Viewing estimates are derived from the Tunity mobile app usage. OOH impressions are calculated using Tunity Analytics propriety estimation model. Live + Same Day Viewers AA (millions): Friday, October 25 Time period averages Source: Nielsen Live+SD FOX: 11.74 million World Series 11.74 CBS: 6.44 million Hawaii Five-0 6.55, Magnum P.I 5.93, Blue Bloods 6.85 ABC: 3.28 million American Housewife 3.34, Fresh Off the Boat 2.42, 20/20 3.67 NBC: 3.22 million The Blacklist 3.57, Dateline 3.05 TELEMUNDO: 1.36 million Exatlon 1.37, Final de Paraiso 1.35, Senor de Los Cielos 1.11 UNIVISION: 1.20 million Rosa de Guadelupe 1.27, La Usurpadora 1.22, El Dragon 1.28 CW: 0.62 million Charmed 0.77, Dynasty 0.48 Friday A18-49 Ratings FOX 2.6/14, CBS 0.6/3, ABC 0.6/3, NBC 0.5/3, TELE 0.4/2, UNI 0.4/2, CW 0.2/1 EXECUTIVE MOVES Michael Grau has been appointed Chief Financial Officer of Altice USA. Previously, Grau held various leadership roles in finance at Cablevision for 15 years. He succeeds Charles F. Stewart, who was named Chief Executive Officer of Sotheby’s. WarnerMedia Entertainment has named Corie Henson EVP, Head of Unscripted Programming for TBS, TNT and truTV. Henson joins from Fox Broadcasting Company, where she served as EVP of Alternative Entertainment. Fuse Media promoted Fernando Romero to Head of Advertising Sales. Romero joined Fuse Media as VP, digital sales, in July of 2018 Steve Handler has joined Infinitive as the Digital Advertising & Advanced Practice Principal. Handler was most recently SVP, Ad Sales Planning and Monetization at NBCUniversal. FreeWheel has appointed Jon Whitticom as Chief Product Officer. Whitticom joins from WPP’s GroupM, where he was most recently EVP of products for [m]Platform. On This Day 1923 – Turkey declared independence. Answer to our last trivia question Which sitcom focused on a group that plotted to rob celebrities, starting with Mick Jagger? The Knights of Prosperity (2007). David Garber-Loyola Marymount University/Playa Vista, CA, Dan Haberer-Creo Entertainment/Playa del Rey, CA, David Westberg-SAG-AFTRA Credit Union/Burbank, Paul Blutter-Walk and Talk Production Rentals/Burbank, Eric Rankin-CoxReps/NYC, Charles Lore/NYC, Andrew Goldman-Fathom Events/NYC, Jamie Euster-Endeavor/NYC, Luke Watson-Essential TV/NYC Today’s Trivia Question Which was the first sitcom to star a real-life married couple, whose baby was played by their own child? (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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| TUESDAY OCTOBER 29 ABC: The Conners, Bless This Mess, mixed-ish, black-ish, Emergence CBS: NCIS, FBI, NCIS: New Orleans CW: The Flash, Arrow FOX: World Series NBC: The Voice, This Is Us, New Amsterdam PBS: Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates Jr., Retro Report on PBS [f], Frontline Telemundo: Exatlon Estados Unidos, El Final del Paraiso, El Senor de los Cielos Univision: La Rosa de Guadalupe, Cuno de Lobos, El Dragon |
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