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| Tonight’s Premiere IFC: Baroness von Sketch Show at 12a Tonight’s Finale A&E: Ghost Hunters at 10p IN THE NEWS NBC News plans to go 24/7 with its NBC News Now streaming service. The move involves hiring more than 70 staffers to bolster digital operations, while a vertical devoted to science and climate reporting will get cut and become daily coverage, and “Left Field,” a unit devoted to experimental video, will be phased out. The OTT service has been running Monday-Friday between 3p-11p. Sony is planning to shut down its PlayStation Vue skinny-bundle TV service and hone in on its videogame business. The move goes into effect on January 30. Films and TV programs will still be accessible via the PlayStatonStore and partner apps. “Unfortunately, the highly competitive Pay TV industry, with expensive content and network deals, has been slower to change than we expected,” the company wrote in a blog post. “Because of this, we have decided to remain focused on our core gaming business.” Sony will launch the fifth-generation PlayStation during the 2020 holiday season. WarnerMedia streaming service HBO Max will launch in May 2020, and the company plans “to use the enormous AT&T footprint” to scale it quickly, said WarnerMedia Entertainment Chairman Bob Greenblatt at WarnerMedia’s investor day. After the launch of an HBO Max subscription offering next year, an ad-supported version will debut in 2021. Among the highlights at Univision's "Leading the Change" forum for marketers in NYC on Tuesday was a presentation by Stacie de Armas, VP, Strategic Initiatives & Consumer Engagement at Nielsen, who shared findings from Nielsen's Latinx research study that should have advertisers on alert: US Hispanic GDP is the eighth largest, over India, Italy, Brazil and Canada; 28 is the median age for US Hispanics, versus 44 for non-Hispanic White homes; and 72% will pay more for brands they trust. Tech entrepreneur/author Josh Linkner offered 5 pieces of advice on spurring growth, among them "break the rules to get the jewels," and "fail seven times, stand eight." P!nk will be honored with The People’s Champion of 2019 award at the E! People’s Choice Awards. The philanthropist /musician will be recognized for work for No Kid Hungry, Make-a-Wish Foundation, Planned Parenthood, REVERB, Autism Speaks and Human Rights Campaign, as well as an ambassador for UNICEF. P!nk is also nominated for Female Artist of 2019 and Concert Tour of 2019. The awards show will be broadcast live on Sunday, November 10 at 9p. The 53rd Annual CMA Awards announced additional performances and collaborations for its upcoming show. Joining the talent pool will be Kelsea Ballerini, Brooks & Dunn with Brothers Osborne, Garth Brooks with Blake Shelton, Dan + Shay, Kacey Musgraves with Willie Nelson, Lady Antebellum and Halsey, Old Dominion, Blake Shelton, and Thomas Rhett. The ceremony airs Wednesday, November 13 at 8p on ABC. What is the most valuable thing a company can provide its employees? Here’s what Cynopsis Digital “It List” Honoree & SHOWTIME Sports’ SVP, Brian Dailey, had to say: “Create a genuine, mutual feeling of commitment, investment and appreciation. Building an environment and relationship that employees will feel motivated, inspired and proud to be part of. Providing all employees with the opportunity to grow and advance.” Hear more from Brian, and our other incredible honorees, on November 8 at the Cynopsis Digital Awards Breakfast in NYC. Click here to register. |
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| PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT Sony Pictures Television picked up The Good Dish, a new syndicated daytime series from The Dr. Oz Show producers. The spinoff, which grew out of weekly cooking segments on The Dr. Oz Show, will be hosted by Daphne Oz (MasterChef Junior), Vanessa Williams, Gail Simmons (Top Chef) and Jamika Pessoa (The Next Food Star). Another Life will live on. The Katee Sackhoff-led sci-fi space drama was picked up for a 10-episode second season by Netflix. Production is slated to begin in Vancouver in 2020. CBS is moving forward with The Trail, a one-hour drama about an elite unit of investigators within the U.S. National Park Service, reports Deadline. The series hails from writer David Harrington Miller (Rosewood), Wilmer Valderrama and his WV Entertainment, and CBS Television Studios where WV is under an agreement. UK production house World Media Rights’ documentary series Greatest Events of World War Two in HD Coulour was acquired by Netflix in 190 countries. The project, a co-production between WMR and ZDF Enterprises, is a follow-up to World War Two in HD Colour, which was narrated by Robert Powell and sold in over 55 countries. Potty Talk, hosted by fashion designer Alexander Wang, has been set at Quibi. The traditional talk show format is flushed in the new project, which has Wang dishing it out with some of the biggest celebrities inside restrooms of the most sought-after events in entertainment, fashion and pop culture. All3Media producer Lime Pictures is adapting Hollow Pike for TV, after inking a deal with Hachette Children’s Group. The company will adapt Juno Dawson’s project into a live-action drama series for teenagers with a supernatural twist. Georgia Lester is attached as a head writer, while Dawson is expected to write an episode. BBC Two greenlit a five-part series about former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s political party. New Labour (wt), produced by BBC Studios, will examine how Blair and his colleagues took control of the party before being elected and chart their leadership of the country through a tumultuous period. CBS ordered We The Jury, a half-hour comedy from 9JKL co-creator Dana Klein, writer Stephanie Darrow and UK Producer Bit Talk Productions and CBS Television Studios, according to Deadline. Written by Klein and Darrow, the project centers on a group of jurors sequestered together until they can all agree on a verdict. The Game of Thrones prequel written by Jane Goldman and starring Naomi Watts is no longer happening. Showrunner Goldman has been emailing cast and crew alerting them that show won’t go on, reports Deadline. Calling all college students! Enter the Cynopsis Sports Homecoming contest by answering one of these two questions: Do you think sharing OTT subscription passwords is cheating? Or: How can TV advertising be improved? All entries will be reviewed and judged by a Cynopsis editor; the winner will receive a $250 gift card, have their article published in a special edition on Friday, November 29 and be recognized at our awards event in Manhattan in February 2020. Entries should be 300-400 words; content, originality and grammar will be judged. Please submit entries to lynn@cynopsis.com. Subject line: Homecoming Contest. COMING UP Ovation TV announced airdates for upcoming episodes of Inside the Actors Studio. LaTanya Richardson Jackson (A Raisin in the Sun) interviewing Alfre Woodard airs Sunday, November 10 at 10p; Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird, Little Women) interviewing Laura Dern airs Sunday, November 17 at 10p; and Kelsey Grammer interviewing James Burrows (Cheers) airs Sunday, December 1 at 10p. Cinelatino set its spook-tacular movie lineup for Halloween. Programming kicks off with Mas Negro Que La Noche, a modern take on the 1975 Mexican classic by Carlos Enrique Taboada, on Thursday, October 31 at 5:20p. CASTING Tony award-winner Jeffrey Mays guests stars on NBC’s The Blacklist on Friday, November 1… Lynn Chen (Saving Face, Go Back To China) and Idar Victor (Rizzoli & Isles) will recur on Showtime’s upcoming 10th season of Shameless. PODCAST POSTS Producer Dick Wolf is taking his brand of storytelling to the podcast medium with Wolf Entertainment’s Hunted, headlined by Parker Posey. Produced in partnership with Endeavor Audio, project follows a Deputy U.S. Marshal (Posey) charged with leading one of the most treacherous manhunts in U.S. history. KGW and Vault Studios will launch true crime podcast Urge to Kill on Thursday, November 5, telling the story of the rape and murder of 23-year-old Kaylee Sawyer and her killer’s subsequent crime spree. Electric Entertainment started new podcast network Electric Surge. Video versions of its podcasts will be available on the newly announced ElectricNOW linear channel. Crooked Media launched What A Day daily news podcast. Hosted by author, comedian and Crooked contributor Akilah Hughes and political journalist Gideon Resnick, the show tackles big national news stories, U.S. politics, pop culture, business and more. STREAMING Jane the Virgin star Jaime Camil launched his official YouTube Channel on Tuesday. “I decided to create my YouTube channel to give my fans more direct access to my life and experiences. I think my fans not only want to see men on red carpets and doing interviews, but that they would like to know more about what happens once we go into an event. Now they will get to see my travels to a Canelo fight, come with me to an LAFC game or simply join me in a coffee shop,” said Camil. Ryan ToysReview, one of YouTube’s largest kids’ channels, was renamed Ryan’s World. The channel stars 8-year-old Ryan Kaji. True Royalty TV is leveraging Vimeo’s OTT technology to accelerate its direct-to- consumer business in all markets including the U.S., U.K., Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The technology platform is providing True Royalty TV with access points and in-app purchase functionality on iOS, Android, Apple TV and the Roku app, as well as with “live” streaming capability for events and shows. TECH TALK Whistle Wise, the new research arm from entertainment and sports media company Whistle, released a new infographic with findings from a study about Gen Z’s preferred content platform recommendation algorithms. Highlights of “The Algorithm Gets Me” include: Gen Z is more likely to watch content recommended from YouTube (65%) than Netflix (35%); YouTube’s algorithm recommends better content for Gen Z than their friends and family; and 77% of Gen Z says that personalized and curated video recommendations are a welcome part of their viewing experience. Lotame launched Lotame Cartographer, a new people-based ID solution. The ID graph delivers privacy compliant data connections to power people-based marketing for global brands and publishers, at three levels: ID-level, Individual-level and Household-level. GOING GLOBAL Kanal D Drama launches in the US, starting Friday, November 1, via Comcast’s Xfinity Latino TV tier. The global network is produced by THEMA and Kanal D International, exporter of Turkish dramas worldwide. Media Ranch closed 10 major territory deals for Watch!, Banijay Group’s Bunim/Murray Productions acquired the format for the U.S, RDF/Fizz for the U.K, Warner for Denmark, ITV for Sweden, and Endemol-Shine for Italy, Spain and Portugal. Armoza Formats and Chinese broadcaster Hunan TV teamed to launch Dance Smash. Dance competition is based on Quebecor Content and Fair-play’s format Revolution Dance, which originally aired on Canada’s TVA. |
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| RATINGS Judge Judy (6.3, Live+SD national rating/steady week before) made it 12 weeks in a row as syndications #1 show, and was the dominant court show for 1,204 weeks in a row, despite preemptions for the California wildfires and coverage of the Columbus Day parade in NY. Although the week ending October 20 featured few programs in the plus column, Access Hollywood (88-week high 1.5, up 7%) was the sole magazine on the upswing, drawing nearly 2 million daily viewers on average. Top 10 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of October 14 ranked in order by HH Rtg Judge Judy (CTD) 6.3 AA Family Feud (CTD) 5.9 AA Wheel of Fortune (CTD) 5.8 AA Jeopardy (CTD) 5.7 AA The Big Bang Theory (WB) 3.1 AA Inside Edition (CTD) 2.8 AA Entertainment Tonight (CTD) 2.6 AA Dr. Phil (CTD) 2.3AA Hot Bench (CTD) 2.1 AA Live With Kelly & Ryan (2/T) 2.0 AA Last Man Standing (2/T) 2.0 AA Top 14 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of October 14 ranked in order by A18-49 Rtg Family Feud (2/T) 1.4 AA Judge Judy (CTD) 1.2 AA Wheel of Fortune (CTD) 1.0 AA Jeopardy (CTD) 1.0 AA The Big Bang Theory (WB) 0.9AA Modern Family (2/T) 0.7 AA Entertainment Tonight (CTD) 0.6 AA Last Man Standing (2/T) 0.6 AA Family Guy (2/T) 0.6 AA Inside Edition (CTD) 0.5 AA Dr. Phil (CTD) 0.5AA Live With Kelly & Ryan (2/T) 0.5AA The Goldbergs (SPT) 0.5AA TMZ (WB) 0.5AA Top 10 Broadcast Programs Among A18-49 ratings/share for the week of October 21 NBC: NBC Sunday Night Football 5.7/23 FOX: FOX + NFL Thursday Night Football 4.0/19 NBC: Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick 3.6/15 FOX: FOX World Series Game 1 3.1/15 FOX: FOX World Series Game 2 3.0/15 NBC: Football Night America Part 3 2.9/13 FOX: FOX World Series Game 3 2.8/16 FOX: FOX World Series Game 5 2.7/11 FOX: FOX World Series Game 4 2.3/12 FOX: FOX + NFL Thursday Night Pre-Kick 2.1/12 Late Night Shows Weekly Average Ratings week of October 21 CBS: The Late Show 2.91 million total viewers; 0.38/2 A18-49 ABC: Jimmy Kimmel Live 1.84 million total viewers; 0.34/2 A18-49 NBC: The Tonight Show 1.82 million total viewers; 0.41/3 A18-49 Live + Same Day Viewers AA (millions) Monday, October 28 time period averages Source: Nielsen Live+SD NBC: 5.93 million The Voice 8.04, Bluff City Law 3.81 CBS: 5.86 million The Neighborhood 5.80, Bob Hearts Abishola 5.66, All Rise 5.45, Bull 6.52 ABC: 5.26 million Dancing With the Stars 6.86, The Good Doctor 3.65 FOX: 4.75 million 9-1-1 6.05, Prodigal Son 3.45 TELE: 1.42 million Exatlon Estados Unidos 1.48, El Final del Paraiso 1.46, El Senor de los Cielos 1.31 UNI: 1.24 million La Rosa de Guadalupe 1.37, Cuna de Lobos 1.20, El Dragon 1.16 CW: 0.64 million All American 0.75, Black Lightning 0.52 Monday A19-49 Ratings NBC 1.0/5, FOX 1.0/5, ABC 0.9/4, CBS 0.8/4, TELE 0.5/2, UNI 0.4/2, CW 0.2/1 EXECUTIVE MOVES Ace Entertainment Films appointed Marielle Zuccarelli to the newly created position of President, Global Sales. She was previously COO and Head of Global Television and Distribution for GRB Entertainment. Mercury hired Shannan Siemens as a Managing Director at its NYC office. Siemens was formerly Senior Producer at CNBC. This Day in History 1938 – Orson Welles’ radio performance of “War of the Worlds” caused mass hysteria. Answer to Our Last Trivia Question Which was the first sitcom to star a real-life married couple, whose baby was played by their own child? Mary Kay and Johnny (1947-1960). Kudos to: Gerry Bixenspan-TV Marketing Inc./NYC; David Westberg-SAG-AFTRA Credit Union/Burbank, CA; Susan Nessanbaum-Goldberg-M and S Entertainment/Los Angeles, CA; Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/Los Angeles, CA. Today’s Trivia Question On which show did the first Muppet, Rowlf the Dog, make his initial appearance? (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 30 ABC: The Goldbergs, Schooled, Modern Family, Single Parents, Stumptown CBS: Big Brother, SEAL Team, S.W.A.T. CW: Riverdale, Nancy Drew FOX: The Masked Singer, Almost Family 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 |
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