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‘Nigel Lythgoe is making his dance floor digital,’ Variety proclaims, with DanceOn’s new show ‘Every Single Step’
‘So You Think You Can Dance’’ creator Nigel Lythgoe and DanceOn just debuted choreography competition series ‘Every Single Step’’ exclusively on go90. The 10-episode series, starring acclaimed dance mentor Brian Friedman, will be to choreographers what ‘Project Runway’ was to fashion designers with its fast-paced themed challenges and celebrity judges.
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Good morning. It’s Tuesday December 1, 2015, and this is your first early morning briefing.
Tonight’s Premieres:
A&E: Married at First Sight at 9p
Bravo: The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills at 9p, Girlfriends Guide to Divorce at 10p
Destination America: Full Throttle Saloon at 10p
FYI: Married at First Sight at 9p
HGTV: Fixer Upper at 9p
Travel: Planet Primetime at 11p
Tonight’s Finales:
Showtime: A Season With Notre Dame Football at 10p
Velocity: Bitchin’ Rides at 9p
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.Consumers would be less likely to cut the cord if their existing pay-TV service made it easier to find something to watch, according Digitalsmiths 3Q15 Video Trends Report. While 46.5 percent of respondents said they are likely to in some way change their video service in the next six months, 48.2 percent of those respondents said advanced search capabilities could entice them to stay. But operators had better move quickly of those surveyed who do not subscribe to a pay-TV service, 19.3 percent had just cut the cord in the past year.
Add original executive producer Nigel Lythgoe to the American Idol alums set to return during the Fox music competition’s 15th and final season. Variety reports Lythgoe, who was let go in 2013 and is awaiting word on the fate of his So You Think You Can Dance, will exec produce the series finale. Original judges Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson will also be among those dropping in.
GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump isn’t backing down from his claim, made on the campaign trail, that he saw TV footage of “thousands and thousands” of people in Jersey City cheering on 9/11 when the World Trade Center fell. Instead, on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Monday, Trump blamed lack of video evidence on “ancient technology,” promising, “They’re going to find something.”
CBS tacked seven more episodes onto its Supergirl order, for a 20-episode season. The freshman drama is averaging 11.24 million viewers and 2.8/8 among A18-49, improving on the year-ago time period by 46 percent in viewers and 40 percent in the demo. The net had already upped its orders for new series Limitless, Life in Pieces and Code Black.
Telemundo has become the first Spanish-language TV network to surpass 1 million subscribers on YouTube. Year-over-year, the channel added 613,000 subscribers and increased the number of views during that period by 262 percent.
CNN sports reporter Rachel Nichols is heading back to ESPN, where she’ll serve as anchor and reporter. Nichols arrived at CNN in 2013; her low-rated show, Unguarded with Rachel Nichols, was canceled in October 2014.
Now on the Board of Trustees at Paley Center for Media: Yannick Bollore, Chairman and CEO, Havas Group; Aryeh B. Bourkoff, CEO, LionTree LLC; Alfonso de Angoitia, Executive Vice President, Chairman of the Finance Committee, Grupo Televisa; Susan M. Gianinno, Chairman, North America, Publicis; John H. Josephson, Chairman & CEO, SESAC; Jay Penske, Chairman & CEO, PMC; Robert Schumer, Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP; and Devin Wenig, CEO, eBay.
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Nat Geo is partnering with Mike Medavoy (Platoon) and Ways and Means Productions to develop a global scripted mini-series based on NY Time best-seller, The Long Road Home. Story focuses on harrowing “Black Sunday” in 2004, when a newly-arrived platoon from Texas was ambushed in Baghdad.
Is Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings) directing an episode of BBC drama Doctor Who? Jackson fuels speculation with this video featuring series star Peter Capaldi….
ABC Family’s Shadowhunters, based on the YA fantasy book series Mortal Instruments, arrives Tuesday, January 12 at 9p. Series is produced by Constantin Film and exec produced by Ed Decter and McG.
The cast of ABC’s Nashville will be honored with the inaugural “International Impact Award” during the 2015 CMT Artistis of the Year special on Wednesday, December 2 at 8p. Country music drama airs Wednesdays at 10p.
Fusion is taking climate change seriously, with coverage across digital, social and OTT platforms of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21). Reports will also air on America with Jorge Ramos. At the conference, Fusion is offering a virtual reality tour of Greenland that demonstrates how climate change is imperiling landlocked ice.
CBS unveiled its winter schedule. Undercover Boss is back for season seven on December 20, the first of three Sunday broadcasts before the reality show moves to Fridays at 8p; the 28th edition of Amazing Race slips into that slot starting February 12. Season six of Mike & Molly launches Wednesday, January 6 at 8:30p, following 2 Broke Girls in a new time period. Survivor returns for round 32 Wednesday, February 17 at 8p, two weeks before the series premiere of Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders at 10p. The Odd Couple starts its sophomore run Thursday, April 7 at 8:30p.
Amazon Prime members got a head start on season two of Transparent last night, with an exclusive showing of the premiere. Full season drops Friday, December 11.
Disney XD ordered season three of animated series Star Wars Rebels from Lucasfilm. Currently in production, landing is expected in 2016.
ABC Family picked up The Fosters for a fourth season. Family drama returns with new season three eps on Monday, January 25 at 8p (at which point home will be Freeform). Over its summer season, The Fosters ranked as cable’s number one scripted series Mondays at 8p in total viewers (2.1 million) and across the A18-34 and A18-49 demos.
Looks like comedian Patton Oswalt (The King of Queens) will play the son of an evil henchman on Kickstarter-funded reboot Mystery Science Theater 3000. “Even though we won’t start working on contracts until after the Kickstarter ends, it seems pretty safe to say that Patton will be on board with us, on camera and as a special guest writer,” said series creator Joel Hodgson.
Microsoft is onboard CNN’s ninth Heroes special as a sponsor. Recorded November 17, the uplifting multiplatform event airs Sunday December 6. Anderson Cooper will be shown using Microsoft’s Surface device, and its Skype service will also be featured. Subaru is along for the ride again (and will match up to $500,000 in donations toward the Heroes program), as well as GEICO and Humana. CNN’s new branded content studio, Courageous, is creating sponsor content.
With a boost from the Summer Olympics and the presidential elections, MoffettNathanson Research projects overall TV ad growth of 4.8 percent in 2016, with local TV stations up 10 percent in revenue. Local cable is expected to rise 7.4 percent, national cable 1.2 percent and the Big Four, 6 percent. During 3Q15, national TV networks saw a 1 percent gain (projections had called for a .7 percent decline), thanks to strong scatter market sales.
Super Bowl advertisers may or may not be getting their $5 million worth for a spot during the big game, but CBS is amping up the excitement with two Super Bowl ad specials. Hosted by CBS Sports’ Boomer Esiason and Katharine McPhee, Super Bowl’s Greatest Commercials 2016 counts down the top 50 spots on Tuesday, February 2 at 8p. Four days later, Super Bowl’s Greatest Commercials All-Star Countdown, hosted by Entertainment Tonight’s Kevin Frazier, offers a look at the top 10 spots from the first special, as well as sneak peeks at ads to air during Super Bowl 50 on February 7. Both specials are produced by Juma Entertainment & IMG Productions. Exec producers Robert Horowitz tells Cynopsis, “What started as an idea triggered at a Super Bowl viewing party, where I saw more interest in the commercials than the game, has evolved into a CBS franchise.”
BBC Worldwide and Amazon Prime Video greenlit The Collection, an eight-part fashion drama from Lookout Point. Series will launch exclusively in the 2016 for Amazon Prime members in the UK.
Alfred Haber, Inc. secured rights for two-hour special Sinatra 100 – an All-Star Grammy Concert for UK’s Channel 5, Canada’s Rogers Media, Turner in Latin America, SVT/Sweden, Japan’s WOWOW, Africa’s M-Net and NRK in Norway, among others. Show airs Stateside Wednesday, December 2 on CBS.
Canada’s Family Channel launches new teen block F2N on Monday, January 4 at 9p. Series geared to the Gen Z audience will be anchored by Awesomeness TV’s Degrassi: Next Class. The next installment of the Degrassi franchise also debuts on Netflix January 15.
Second seasons of Keshet International formats Master Class China and Rising Star Indonesia will go into production, slated for 2016 premieres. “Bringing two of our flagship talent shows to air in Asia was a milestone for us,” said Karen Shahar, managing director, distribution at Keshet. “Another season is even more gratifying.”
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Up against NBC’s Sunday Night Football and CBS’s NFL overrun, ABC had Sunday’s top entertainment broadcasts among A18-49 with Once Upon a Time (hitting a series low 1.3/4), according to Nielsen fast nationals. Quantico clocked in with 1.2/4 to tie for second, but the freshman drama has had such big playback lifts, ABC is projecting a Live+7 rating of 2.5.
The premiere of The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar on Disney Channel was the number one primetime cable TV telecast of 2015 with Kids 2-5 (1.4 million), and the top animated telecast across kid cable TV nets in total viewers (5.4 million) and A18-49 (1.8 million), according to Live+3 data.
The season eight finale of TV One’s Unsung ranked as the #1 cable telecast on its premiere night, Wednesday, November 18 at 8p, among all key Black demos. Overall, the finale posted total audience delivery across the following key demos: W25-54 (.6/177,000), P18-49 (.41/249,000) and W18-49 (.47/145,000). Season nine launches on TV One in early 2016.
NBC’s Meet the Press finished first in total viewers (3.44 million) and among A25-54 (963,000/.8) in the November sweep for the first time in four years, and the first time since Chuck Todd took over as host in September 2014. CBS’s Face the Nation was second in viewers (3.40 million) and ABC next in the demo (911,000) for the time period.
Late Night Shows Weekly Average Ratings week of November 16, 2015
NBC: Tonight Show, 3.32 million total viewers and 1.0/5 A18-49
CBS: Late Show, 2.62 million total viewers and .56/3 A18-49
ABC: Jimmy Kimmel Live, 2.42 million total viewers and .58/3 A18-49
Source: Nielsen, NTI
Broadcast Morning News Shows Weekly Average Ratings week of November 16, 2015
ABC: GMA 5.17 million total viewers; 1.5/12 and 1.76 million A25-54
NBC: Today 5.02 million total viewers; 1.7/14 and 2.00 million A25-54
CBS: This Morning 3.55 million total viewers; 0.9/7 and 1.04 million A25-54
Source: Nielsen, NTI
Sunday Morning News Shows Ratings November 22, 2015
ABC: This Week 3.426 million total viewers; .8 and 964,000 A25-54
NBC: Meet the Press 3.400 million total viewers; .7 and 887,000 A25-54
CBS: Face the Nation 3.199 million total viewers; .6 and 729,000 A25-54
FOX: Fox News Sunday 1.940 million total viewers; .5 and 550,000 A25-54
CBS: Face the Nation-2 1.801 million total viewers; .4 and 440,000 A25-54
Source: Nielsen, NTI
SHAREABLEE SOCIAL TV RATINGS: Top U.S. Shows Overall by Engagement for the week of November 23, 2015
Program, Date, Total Actions (000), Total Content, Actions per Post (000), Fans/Followers (000)
The Ellen DeGeneres Show (Warner Bros./synd.) 8742, 79, 111, 93014
The Walking Dead (AMC) 4741, 140, 34, 40297
Pretty Little Liars (ABC Family) 3007, 181, 17, 21070
The Tonight Show (NBC) 2736, 175, 16, 12355
Dancing With the Stars (ABC) 1921, 187, 10, 7914
Good Morning America (ABC) 1519, 620, 2, 8068
TMZ (Warner Bros./synd.) 1437, 803, 2, 10064
Today Show (NBC) 1229, 406, 3, 8927
Doctor Who (BBC America) 931, 167, 6, 5549
Empire (Fox) 920, 140, 7, 5612
Source: Shareablee Inc. The total actions metric includes the total volume of post-level likes, shares, favorites, retweets and comments. Total content includes all posts, tweets and media posted by each TV property across all platforms. Actions per post metric notes the average e number of actions garnered by each TV property. Total fans/followers includes Facebook and Twitter and Instagram followers.
NIELSEN TWITTER TV TOP TEN for the week of November 23, 2015
Program, Date, Unique Audience (000), Tweets (000)
The Walking Dead (AMC) 11/29, 3666, 488
2015 Soul Train Awards (BET) 11/29, 2908, 471
Dancing With the Stars (ABC) 11/24, 1786, 130
Empire (FOX) 11/25, 1619, 216
The Voice (NBC) 11/24, 1601, 614
Dancing With the Stars (ABC) 11/23, 1493, 120
WWE Monday Night RAW (USA) 11/23, 1363, 127
Keeping Up With the Kardashians (E!) 11/29, 1213, 39
Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood (VH1) 11/23, 1128, 114
The Voice (NBC) 11/23, 1004, 76
Source: Nielsen. Nielsen Social captures relevant Tweets from three hours before through three hours after broadcast, local time. Unique Audience measures the audience of relevant Tweets ascribed to a program from when the Tweets are sent until the end of the broadcast day at 5am. The data includes new/live primetime and late fringe programming only and excludes sports events. For multicast events, networks are listed alphabetically and metrics reflect the highest Unique Audience across all airing networks.
Wednesday A18-49 Analysis: FOX delivered the most A18-49 viewers Wednesday with 2.2/8, according to final primetime national ratings from Nielsen. The first of two Survivor hours placed CBS in first at 8p with 1.8/7, followed by 1.3/5 for ABC’s The Middle and The Goldbergs. Fox jumped to the lead at 9p with 3.2/11 for Empire, versus 1.8/6 for Survivor. CBS’s Code Black earned 1.3/5 and 1.4.5 in its half hours to lead at 10p; NBC’s SNL Thanksgiving was close behind with 1.3/4 and 1.2/4.
A18-49: FOX 2.2/8, CBS 1.6/6, ABC 1.0/4, NBC .9/3, UNI .8/3, TELE .7.2, CW .4/2, ION .2/1
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: November 25, 2015 – time period averages. Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.
NBC: 2.1/4
Making of The Wiz 1.9/3, SNL Thanksgiving 2.2/4
CBS: 4.6/8
Survivor 4.6/8, Code Black 4.6/9
FOX: 4.3/8
Rosewood 3.0/6, Empire 5.6/10
ABC: 2.5/5
The Middle [r] 3.5/6, The Goldbergs [r] 3.1/5, Modern Family [r] 2.8/5, black-ish [r] 2.4/4, Jimmy Kimmel Live Star Wars 1.6/3
UNIVISION: 1.1/2
Antes Muerta Lichita .9/2, Pasion y Poder 1.1/2, Yo No Creo En Hombres 1.2/2
CW: 1.0/2
Planes, Trains and Automobiles 1.0/2
TELE: 1.0/2
Celia 1.0/2, Bajo El Mismo Cielo .9/2, Senora Acero 1.0/2
ION: .8/1
Law and Order 0.8/1, Law and Order 0.8/1, Law and Order 0.8/2
Discovery Communications announced appointments at Eurosport in advance of the Olympic Games. The Games strategy team includes Jean-Thierry Augustin (Commercialization), David Schafer (Operations & Planning) and Geraldine Filiol (Olympic Relations & Coordination). Leadership for Engineering/Technology and Production have yet to be named. The company won multiplatform broadcast rights to the 2018-2024 Games across Europe.
This Day in History: 1913 – The first drive-in auto service station opened.
Answer to Our Last Trivia: How many times did Nancy remarry during the run of Weeds (2005-2012)? Three. After Nancy’s husband Judah died, she married Peter Scottson, Esteban Reyes and Rabbi David Bloom. Kudos to: Greg Cavaluzzo-Assembly/NYC, David Westberg-SAG-AFTRA Federal Credit Union/Burbank, Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/LA, Dan Haberer-Creo Entertainment/Playa del Rey, CA, Lorrie Shilling/El Segundo, CA.
Today’s Trivia: How did mutt Stinky come to own his own dog, Nunzio, on Dharma and Greg (1997-2002)? (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 – TUESDAY DECEMBER 1, 2015
ABC: The Muppets, Fresh Off the Boat, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Shark Tank [r]
CBS: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Limitless [r], NCIS: New Orleans [r]
CW: The Flash, iZombie
FOX: Grandfathered, The Grinder, Scream Queens
NBC: The Voice, Chicago Med, Chicago Fire
PBS: American Pharoah [r], Jerusalem: Center of the World [r]
Telemundo: Celia, Bajo el Mismo Cielo, Senora Acero
Univision: Antes Muerta que Lichita, Pasion y Poder, Yo No Creo en los Hombres [r]
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