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08.24.15 Good morning. It’s Monday August 24, 2015, and this is your first early morning briefing. Tonight’s Premieres:
A&E: The First 48: Deadly Misfortune
Food: Rachael Ray’s Kids Cook-Off at 8p
Nick and Nick Jr.: Shimmer and Shine at 7:30p
Weather: Weather Underground at 6p Tonight’s Finales:
Lifetime: Devious Maids at 9p
TNT: Murder in the First at 10p
Univision: La Sombra del Pasado at 7p
Jane the Virgin won for best primetime comedy and Jane star Gina Rodriguez for best actress at Friday’s 2015 Imagen Awards, honoring positive portrayals of Latinos. Gael Garcia Bernal (Mozart in the Jungle) was best actor, and Law & Order: SVU nabbed best drama.
A change.org petition calling on Jon Stewart to moderate a presidential debate, started by a high school social studies teacher in New Jersey, had gathered close to 300,000 signatures by Sunday. Among Stewart’s qualifications cited: During his 16-year run as host of The Daily Show, he interviewed 15 heads of state, 22 members of the United States cabinet and 32 members of the United States Senate, and the late nighter received Peabody Awards for coverage of the 2000 and 2004 elections under his watch. Stewart, who signed off Comedy Central on August 6, hosted WWE PPV event SummerSlam last night.
Three years after entering the U.S. market, Atlantic Broadband has claimed a spot as the country’s 12th largest cable operator, following its $200 million acquisition of MetroCast from Harron Communications. “This transaction enhances our growth profile through the planned launch of new residential services such as TiVo and Metro Ethernet for business,” said Louis Audet, CEO of Canada’s Cogeco Cable, owner of Atlantic.
A preview of the first episode of season two of El Rey’s From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series is now available on select VOD platforms in advance of the drama’s linear debut tomorrow (August 25). Subscribers of Comcast’s Xfinity TV, Dish and Time Warner Cable, among others, will also have access to season one in its entirety, as well as bonus content.
The Casting Society of America announced TV, theater, web and short film nominees for its 31st annual Artios Awards. Nods for TV drama went to Bloodline, Empire, Game of Thrones, House of Cards and The Good Wife. Comedy candidates are Episodes, Orange Is the New Black, Silicon Valley, Transparent and Veep.
OWN is extending into the online retail space with the O Store, at Oprah.com/OStore. The exclusive outlet for OWN loot “is the next step in connecting with our most loyal supporters,” said net president Erik Logan. In addition to tote bags and Super Soul Sunday mugs, the site offers learning courses, including “Forgiveness with Iyanla.”
Stuntwoman Jane Austin was the surprise winner in the race for president of SAG-AFTRA’s LA local. The Membership First candidate beat Unite for Strength incumbent Clyde Kusatsu by just 105 votes. In an upset victory Thursday, Austin was also elected SAG-AFTRA’s national Secretary-Treasurer. Ken Howard was re-elected president of the union, defeating Membership First’s Patricia Richardson with 53.7 percent of the vote.
Exclusive: CW tops the list for the most time-shifted network on television, with 77 percent of primetime programming time-shifted. Fox is next with 71 percent, then CBS (61 percent), ABC (59 percent) and NBC (55 percent), according to the TiVo Research Q2 2015 State of TV Report. In cable, Bravo ranked first (66 percent), followed by fyi (60 percent), Lifetime (58 percent), AMC (58 percent) and BBC America (57 percent). Not surprisingly, kids and sports nets saw the least time shifting Sprout’s was 15 percent, while ESPN checked in at 19 percent. To receive the full TiVo Research State of TV report, send an email request to [email protected].
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ABC gave a pilot order to Marvel’s Most Wanted. Starring Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Adrianne Palicki and Nick Blood, superhero series centers on their S.H.I.E.L.D. characters.
Simon Helberg, who plays Big Bang Theory’s Howard, struck a two-year deal with Big Bang studio Warner Bros. Television. Pact calls for Helberg and his wife, Jocelyn Towne, to develop series through their production banner, Wildline Entertainment.
CBS gave a put pilot commitment to Sawyer & Huck, a reimagining of classic Mark Twain characters Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. Project comes from Josh Berman (Drop Dead Diva) and CBS Television Studios.
With his black-ish going strong at ABC, creator Kenya Barris inked a three-year overall deal with ABC Studios. Barris will remain exec producer of the comedy, as well as developing new projects for network, cable and streaming services.
Shondaland sold comedy Splitsville to ABC. Writers for the project are Trophy Wife creators Emily Halpern and Sarah Haskins.
Call for Cynsiders: It’s a turbulent time in the television industry, and the ride is only going to get wilder with monetization models threatened, new players competing for market share and more and arguably better content than ever before. Cynopsis is looking for thought leaders to help make sense of it all, offering insights and addressing issues of the day in the worlds of programming, marketing and measurement in our weekly column, Cynsiders. Please email [email protected] if you’d like to jump into the conversation with our 200,000+ readers from the media industry.
There will be a change at the top for upcoming Chicago Fire spin-off Chicago Med. “Andrew Dettmann won’t be continuing as an executive producer on Chicago Med,” said NBC and Universal Television. “The network and studio value their relationship with Andy and plan to continue on other projects together.” The cause is reportedly “creative differences.” The Dick Wolf drama, originally slated to launch midseason, was pushed up to Tuesday, November 17 when fellow hospital series Heartbreaker was delayed due to star Melissa George’s pregnancy.
Imagine TV (Empire) landed a put pilot commitment from NBC for a family drama focused on Cuban exiles in Miami, written by Ian Edelman (How to Make It in America) and directed by David Frankel (The Devil Wears Prada).
Top 10 Weekend Domestic Box Office Estimates: August 21-23, 2015
Straight Outta Compton (Universal) $26.8 million, cume revenue $111.5 million
Mission: Impossible – Rogue (Paramount) $11.7 million, cume revenue $157.8 million
Sinister 2 (Focus) $10.6 million, opening weekend
Hitman: Agent 47 (20th Century Fox) $8.2 million, opening weekend
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (Warner Bros.) $7.4 million, cume revenue $26.6 million
American Ultra (Lionsgate) $5.5 million, opening weekend
The Gift (STX Entertainment) $4.3 million, cume revenue $31.1 million
Ant-Man (Buena Vista) $4.1 million, cume revenue $164.5 million
Minions (Universal) $3.7 million, cume revenue $320.0 million
Fantastic Four (20th Century Fox) $3.7 million, cume revenue $49.6 million
Source: Rentrak Corporation
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PBC – The Next Round returns to Bounce TV on Friday, September 18 at 9p with a main event featuring middleweight boxers Fernando Guerrero and Caleb Truax. Fred Hickman (ESPN) hosts.
RFD-TV’s Rural Town Hall hosts GOP presidential candidates Dr. Ben Carson tonight (August 24) at 8p and Senator Lindsay Graham on Thursday, August 27 at 10p. The program, addressing issues affecting rural America, is conducted in a town hall format in West Des Moines, Iowa.
Fall Preview Listing call for submissions: Cynopsis is running a special Fall Preview Report online, coming out in early September. Listings for series premiering September-November can be sent to [email protected] in the following format: Name of series/returning or new/date and time, under the subject line FALL PREVIEW. Deadline is August 27. If you do not get a response, please re-submit to ensure inclusion.
Wilson Bethel (The Astronaut Wives Club) will recur on new ABC drama Blood & Oil, premiering Sunday, September 27 at 9p.
Jackson Rathbone (Twilight) landed a recurring role on MTV’s Finding Carter, returning with new episodes Tuesday, October 6 at 10p.
Ben Robson (Vikings) will star in TNT’s Animal Kingdom. Drama pilot focuses on a 17-year-old who moves in with his bank robbing grandma (Ellen Barkin) and uncles.
Which upcoming Saturday Night Live host are you most excited about: Miley Cyrus, Tracy Morgan or Amy Schumer? Let us know in the new Cynopsis poll.
Upcoming ABC drama Blood & Oil is getting a big promotional push, with 201 national TV ads from June 1-August 21 worth $7.84 million, according to iSpot.tv. NBC’s Blindspot was second with 675 promos on NBCU nets worth $7.77 million, followed by ABC’s Quantico, with 216 ads worth $6.4 million.
Seventy-eight percent of telecom marketers are going to divert more dollars to programmatic ads, according to a report from ad platform Rocket Fuel. Fifty-six percent plan to snip their print budgets, followed by 31 percent for radio and 28 percent for television. The survey of 32 advertisers and marketers took place between 4Q14 and 1Q15.
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The season four premiere of Bravo’s Don’t Be Tardy… earned 1.7 million total viewers, 1.1 million P25-54 and 904,000 P18-49, according to Nielsen Live+3 data. The episode was up 19 percent, 30 percent and seven percent, respectively, from the prior season premiere and was the highest-rated season premiere of the series among all key demos.
Telemundo’s Premios Tu Mondo on Thursday ranked number one in Spanish-language television, with a best-ever performance of 2.36 million total viewers (up 24 percent versus 2014) and 1.159 million A18-49 (up 9 percent).
The season two finale of Starz drama Power packed a punch, hitting a network series record in Live+3 of 2.39 million viewers, up 51 percent from the season one finale.
History’s Alone delivered a series high 2.4 million viewers for its season one finale on Thursday. The closer also earned series bests in A25-54 (1.1 million) and A18-49 (804,000).
Thursday A18-49 Analysis: CBS won the most A18-49 viewers Thursday with 1.3/5, according to final primetime national ratings from Nielsen. CBS combo Big Bang Theory and Mom averaged 1.3/6 to win 8p, followed by .9/4 for NBC’s Food Fighters. CBS maintained the lead at 9p with 2.0/7 for Big Brother, followed 1.2/4 for NBC’s Dateline. Dateline snatched the lead at 10p with 1.3/5; Telemundo was second with 1.0/4 for Premios Tu Mundo.
A18-49:CBS 1.3/5, NBC 1.1/4, TELE .9/4, UNI .7/3, ABC .7/3, FOX .5/3, ION .3/1, CW .2/1
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Thursday, August 20, 2015 time period averages. Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.
CBS: 3.4/6
Big Bang Theory [r] 4.3/8, Mom [r] 3.5/6, Big Brother 3.7/7, Under the Dome 2.7/5
NBC: 3.3/6
Food Fighters 2.5/5, Dateline Mystery 3.7/7
ABC: 2.5/5
Astronaut Wives Club 2.7/5, Mistresses 2.4/4, Rookie Blue 2.5/5
FOX: 1.3/2
Boom 1.2/2, Bones [r] 1.4/3
UNIVISION: 1.1/2
Amores con Trampa 1.1/2, Lo Impernodable 1.2/2, Yo No Creo en Hombres 1.1/2
ION: 1.1/2
Blue Bloods .9/2, Blue Bloods 1.1/2, Blue Bloods 1.2/2
TELEMUNDO: 1.0/2
Premios Tu Mundo 1.3/2
CW: .5/1
Beauty and the Beast .6/1, Arrow [r] .5/1
Ranker added two execs to bolster its new Ranker Video division. Inger Lund Carter, former Yahoo! Front Page Editorial Director, has been named Vice President, Content and Programming, while David Cohn, previously of Askmen and Crave Online.com, has been appointed Executive Vice President, Sales.
Production company True Entertainment promoted Lauren Eskelin from Senior Vice President to Executive Vice President of programming, and Lorraine Haughton to Vice President, programming, reporting to Eskelin.
Actress Melody Patterson died August 20 after multiple organ failure. She was 66. Patterson appeared on numerous TV series, most memorably as Wrangler Jane on F Troop.
Oscar-nominated producer Karolyn Ali died August 18 of natural causes. She was 70. In addition to film work, Ali produced commercials for Coca-Cola and McDonalds, and hundreds of music videos with Renge Films.
This Day in History: 79 – Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying Pompeii and Herculaneum in volcanic ash.
Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: What folk duo did Jordan have a poster of hanging in her kitchen on Crossing Jordan (2001-2007)? Indigo Girls. Kudos to: David Woolfson-Screenvision/NYC, David Stern-Bard Enterainment/NYC, Synda Kollman-Charter Marketing Group/Boca Raton, Judy Margolis-The Ad Place/Dallas, Paul Blutter-Hollywood Depot Rentals/Burbank, David Westberg-SAG-AFTRA/Burbank, Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/LA, Jerry Jones/San Francisco.
Today’s Trivia Question: On which NYC-set sitcom did The Brady Bunch’s Robert Reed and Eve Plumb each guest, on separate occasions? (Email [email protected] with your answer and be sure to include your name, company, city and time zone.).
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – MONDAY AUGUST 24, 2015
ABC: Bachelor in Paradise, Bachelor in Paradise: After Paradise, The Whispers
CBS: 2 Broke Girls [r], The Odd Couple [r], Scorpion [r], NCIS: Los Angeles [r]
CW: Penn & Teller: Fool Us, Whose Life Is it Anyway?, Significant Mother
FOX: So You Think You Can Dance
NBC: American Ninja Warrior, Running Wild With Bear Grylls
PBS: Antiques Roadshow [r], Antiques Roadshow [r], POV
Telemundo: Avenida Brasil, Bajo el Mismo Cielo, El Senor de los Cielos
Univision: Amores con Trampa, Lo Imperdonable, Yo No Creo en los Hombre
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