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05.04.15
Good morning. It’s Monday May 4, 2015, and this is your first early morning briefing.
Tonight’s Premieres:
AHC: Surrender: The Fall of the Reich at 9p
HGTV: Two Chicks and a Hammer at 11p
Tonight’s Finale:
FOX: Gotham at 8p
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NBC ordered to series mystery drama Blindspot from Warner Bros. Television, and Universal Television’s medical drama Heartbreaker and Chicago Fire spin-off Chicago Med. The net unveils its 2015-2016 slate on May 11.
Streaming devices aren’t detracting from TV viewing time, according to a new report from the Council for Research Excellence. A follow-up study conducted a year after households purchased new media technology found that smart TVs stimulated group viewing, and most households increased their streaming consumption, either as additional total viewing time or as a replacement for live TV viewing. What’s the takeaway for content providers? “It’s a cliche, but it’s true: Content is king,” Brad Adgate, chair of CRE’s Digital Research Committee and senior vice president, research, Horizon Media, tells Cynopsis. “Consumers are screen agnostic and will seek out content, but there has to be a compelling reason to watch it. If you’re watching great content, you’re not going to be on other devices, you’re not going to be inattentive. And cut as many content deals as you can.”
President Barack Obama will be a guest on CBS’s Late Show with David Letterman tonight. It’s his third appearance as POTUS; his first appearance was as an Illinois senator in 2004. Meanwhile, over at ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, “Mash Up Monday” unites REO Speedwagon and Imagine Dragons.
Saturday night’s 12-round battle between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiano could be the richest payday in PPV history, with $400 million in revenues on HBO and Showtime. High demand caused service outages in much of the country, forcing a delay of the match.
HBO picked up pilot Brothers in Atlanta to series. Created by and starring Diallo Riddle and Bashir Alahuddin and produced by Lorne Michaels, comedy is centered on two best friends/struggling entertainers.
Discovery picked up reality series Naked and Afraid for season three. Sophomore run launched April 19 with 2.2 P25-54, up 32 percent versus last season’s premiere, and pulled in 3.5 million total viewers, up 29 percent.
Travel’s Breaking Borders has moved from 9p to 11p Sundays. Series follows a journalist and a chef as they travel to conflict zones to break bread and explore divisive issues with people on opposing sides.
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FX Networks ordered the drama pilot for Snowfall from John Singleton. Singleton will direct the pilot based on a script he co-wrote with Eric Amadio. Production begins this summer.
Top 10 Weekend Domestic Box Office Estimates: May 1-3, 2015
Avengers: Age of Ultron (Disney) $187 million, opening weekend
The Age of Adeline (Lionsgate) $6.3 million, cume revenue $23.4 million
Furious 7 (Universal) $6.1 million, cume revenue $330.5 million
Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (Sony) $5.6 million, cume revenue $51.2 million
Home (20th Century Fox) $3.3 million, cume revenue $158.1 million
Cinderella (Disney) $2.4 million, cume revenue $193.7 million
Ex Machina (A24 Films) $2.2 million, cume revenue $10.9 million
Unfriended (Universal) $2.0 million, cume revenue $28.5 million
The Longest Ride (20th Century Fox) $1.7 million, cume revenue $33.2 million
Woman In Gold (The Weinstein Company) $1.7 million, cume revenue $24.6 million
Source: Rentrak Corporation
Discovery Life focuses on mental health May 25-May 29 during “Psych Week.” Programming will profile people with a spectrum of issues including agoraphobia, sexsomnia and bipolar disorder, among others.
Van Halen makes its first appearance on an awards show at the 2015 Billboard Music Awards Sunday, May 17 at 8p on ABC. Ludacris and Chrissy Teigan host.
Season two of truTV competition series Fake Off premieres Wednesday, May 6 at 10p. Corbin Bleu (High School Musical) hosts.
UP marks Mom’s Day with a slate of special slate of movies on Sunday, May 10, starting with The Brady Girls Get Married at 10:30a and including five consecutive eps of reality show Shannon & Sophie, centered on wife-of-Gene Shannon Tweed Simmons and her daughter.
Hilton signed on as sponsor of Travel Channel’s fourth annual “We Are Summer” programming event. Summer-themed programs premiere all season, with special line-ups for the Memorial Day, July 4 and Labor Day holidays. Kicking things off: competition series xx on Saturday, May 23 at 2p and 3p.
Alberto Rosende (Blue Bloods) and Emeraude Toubia (Tu Dia Alegre) have joined the cast of ABC Family’s Shadowhunters. Series from Constantin Film is based on the young adult book series The Mortal Instruments.
Helene York, who recurred on season one of Masters of Sex as hospital secretary Jane Martin, returns to the Showtime period drama for season three, launching Sunday, July 12 at 10p.
INSP will be available to Cox customers in San Diego and Santa Barbara beginning May 20, on channel 153.
Centroamerica TV, targeting the Central American community in the U.S., has entered into a wide ranging agreement with an affiliate of Salvadoran broadcast network group TCS to acquire exclusive U.S. rights to programs from the top broadcast stations in El Salvador (Channels 2, 4 and 6). TCS programming began airing on Centroamerica TV on Friday.
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ABC spin-off reality series Beyond the Tank debuted with a strong 1.5/6 A18-49 rating on Friday at 9p, according to early Nielsens. The season five finale of CBS’s Blue Bloods at 10p earned 1.3/5 in the demo, a 7 percent dip from season four, and was tops in viewers for the night with 11.02 million.
Investigation Discovery was the number 10 net in ad-supported cable in the W25-54 in Prime for the month of April, and number 3 Total Day, according to Nielsen Live+3 data. The net boasts its best April ever in Prime among P2+ (907,000), HH (729,000), P25-54 (387,000), P18-49 (305,000), W25-54 (259,000) and W18-49 (206,000).
Exclusive: Azteca America was the fastest-growing Spanish-language broadcast network in primetime among A18-49 for the fifth consecutive month, up 65 percent year-over-year and reaching 2.7 million viewers in the demo, according to Nielsen. The network reached 4.9 million total viewers for the month of April.
PBS’s Wolf Hall averaged 4.4 million viewers in Live+7 for its April 5 premiere episode. Masterpiece miniseries airs Sundays at 10p through May 10.
NBC’s Today inched ahead of ABC’s Good Morning America in the A25-54 demo the week of April 20 for the first time since December. On Wednesday, Today beat GMA by 174,000 A25-54 viewers, its best single day win since September 2014.
Sunday Morning News Shows April 26, 2015
CBS: Face the Nation 3.70 million total viewers; .9 and 1.08 million A25-54
ABC: This Week 2.48 million total viewers; .6 and 759,000 A25-54
NBC: Meet the Press 2.61 million total viewers; .7 and 786,000 A25-54
CBS: Face the Nation-2 2.21 million total viewers; .6 and 664,000 A25-54
FOX: Fox News Sunday 1.19 million total viewers; .3 and 368,000 A25-54
Source: Nielsen, NTI Total Viewers and A25-54 Live+SD
Broadcast Morning Shows Weekly Average Ratings (week of April 20, 2015)
ABC: Good Morning America 5.083 million total viewers; 1.5/12 and 1.765 million A25-54
NBC: Today 4.809 million total viewers; 1.5/12 and 1.793 million A25-54
CBS: This Morning 3.724 million total viewers; .9/7 and 1.057 million A25-54
Source: The Nielsen Company, NTI Total Viewers and A25-54 Live+SD
Late Night Talk Shows Weekly Average Ratings (week of April 20, 2015)
NBC: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 3.22 million viewers, .92/4 A18-49
CBS: Late Show With David Letterman 3.0 million total viewers; .52/2 A18-49
ABC: Jimmy Kimmel Live 2.53 million total viewers; .66/3 A18-49
Source: The Nielsen Company, NTI Total Viewers and A18-49 Live+SD
Thursday A18-49 Analysis: ABC won the most A18-49 viewers Thursday with 2.0/7, according to final primetime national ratings from Nielsen. CBS earned a 2.7/10 average at 8p for Big Bang Theory and The Odd Couple, versus 2.5/9 for the first hour of ABC’s McDreamy-less Grey’s Anatomy. Grey’s took the lead at 9p with 2.7/8, followed by a 1.9/6 average for CBS’s Mom and Big Bang rerun. CBS’s Elementary and Telemundo’s Premios Billboard tied for first at 10p with 1.2/4.
A18-49:ABC 2.0/7, CBS 1.9/6, TELE 1.2/4, UNI 1.0/3, NBC .9/3, FOX .8/3, CW .4/1, ION .2/1
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Thursday, April 30, 2015 time period averages. Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.
CBS: 5.6/10
Big Bang Theory 8.5/15, The Odd Couple 5.5/9, Mom 5.4/9, Big Bang Theory [r] 4.9/8, Elementary 4.6/8
ABC: 4.9/8
Grey’s Anatomy 6.0/10, American Crime 2.5/5
NBC: 3.3/6
The Blacklist [r] 2.2/4, The Blacklist 4.2/7, Dateline 3.4/6
FOX: 2.3/4
Bones 2.8/5, Backstrom 1.8/3
TELEMUNDO: 1.5/3
Premios Billboard 1.5/3
UNIVISION: 1.4/2
Amores con Trampa 1.2/2, Hasta Fin Del Mundo 1.6/3, Que to Perdone Dios 1.3/2
ION: .9/2
Blue Bloods .9/2, Blue Bloods 1.0/2, Blue Bloods .9/2
CW: .7/1
Vampire Diaries .8/1, Reign .6/1
Breakthrough Entertainment named Chantal Jackson as Head of Development, Alternative Content. Jackson has developed, produced and consulted on numerous series on networks including HGTV, Food, TLC and CMT.
This Day in History: 1626 – Dutch explored Peter Minuit landed on what is now Manhattan.
Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: Which sitcom featured a mannequin that offered philosophical advice with the pull of a cord? The Monkees (1966-1968). Kudos to: Paul Blutter-Walk and Talk Production Rentals/Burbank, David Stern-BARD Entertainment/NYC, Susan Nessanbaum-Goldberg-M and S Entertainment/LA, Linda Grillo-Viacom/NYC, Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/LA, Jerry Jones/San Francisco, Joe Norsky-Red Arrow Industries/Knoxville, TN.
Today’s Trivia Question: What was the name of the summer camp DJ, Stephanie and Michelle attended on Full House (1987-1995)? (Email trivia@cynopsis.com with your answer and be sure to include your name, company, city and time zone. Unofficial rules: Only the second four correct answers from each time zone will be mentioned; and once you’ve been mentioned in any of the Cynopsis editions, you can’t be mentioned again that calendar week.).
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – MONDAY MAY 4, 2015
ABC: Dancing With the Stars, Castle
CBS: 2 Broke Girls, Mike & Molly, The Big Bang Theory [r], David Letterman: A Life on Television
CW: The Originals, Jane the Virgin
FOX: Gotham [f], The Following
NBC: The Voice, The Night Shift
PBS: Antiques Roadshow, Antiques Roadshow [r], Independent Lens
Telemundo: Avenida Brasil, Tierra de Reyes, El Senor de los Cielos
Univision: Amores con Trampa, Hasta el Fin del Mundo, Que te Perdone Dios…Yo No
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