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| A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE | | Following the money? The 2018 Cynopsis Salary Survey of media employees found that age, most likely a reflection of seniority or experience, is reflected in average salaries. Those 46+ years report an average salary of $149,800. In contrast, younger employees earn $97,800, on average. Download the full report here . |
PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT Bounce’s Saints & Sinners was renewed for a fourth season, set to premiere in the summer of 2019. The net also announced a new licensing agreement that will make previous seasons of the drama available on Hulu. Get ready for more tricks and illusions. Syfy has ordered a fifth season of The Magicians, ahead of the drama’s fourth season debut tonight. Henry Alonso Myers was upped to co-showrunner for the next chapter. BBC picked up Our Girl for a fourth season. The war drama, starring Michelle Keegan and produced by BBC Studios, is returning to BBC One and takes place one year after Georgie Lane’s (Keegan) last tour in Bangladesh. TLC’s 90 Day Fiancé was renewed for a seventh season. The series hit record highs in its sixth go-round, with its two-part tell-all episodes averaging a 2.95 rating among W25-54. Our Cartoon President received a 10-episode renewal from Showtime. The animated comedy’s second season is slated to debut later this year. Edward Burns and his Marlboro Road Gang Productions are partnering with Radar Pictures to develop Tosca Lee’s upcoming thriller novel, The Line Between, into a TV series. The first book is set to be released later this month from Simon and Schuster. The Line Between explores an ancient disease that re-emerges from the melting permafrost to cause madness in its victims. Jamie Sives (Game of Thrones) and Mark Bonnar (Catastrophe) are teaming on Guilt, a crime caper for BBC. Written by Neil Forsyth (Eric, Ernie And Me), the project will be the first drama for BBC Scotland’s new digital channel and will air on BBC Two. Sives and Bannar play brothers Max and Jake, who accidentally run over and kill an old man while driving home from a wedding. Verance Corporation teamed with Fincons Group to expand the development of Next Gen TV experiences in the U.S. and Europe. The partnership combines Fincons Group’s Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV applications with the Verance Aspect watermark technology, which allows Next Gen TV experiences to reach 100% of ATSC 3.0 and HbbTV-connected TVs, regardless of distribution path. COMING UP TLC airs a marathon, Dr. Pimple Popper: The Poppy Bowl, on Sunday, February 3, from 5p to 11p. Event includes behind-the-scenes stories, pop-up factoids and updates on some of the good doctor’s most memorable patients. American Dad returns for its 16th season on Monday, February 11, at 10p on TBS. FOX Sports Films explores the rivalry between NASCAR’s seven-time champion Dale Earnhardt and four-time champion and FOX NASCAR analyst Jeff Gordon in Unrivaled: Earnhardt vs. Gordon. Sixty-minute documentary bows Thursday, February 14, on FSI at 10p. 20/20 presents a documentary on Dennis Rader, the notorious BTK serial killer, who tormented Wichita, KS, for decades. The two-hour episode, which features the first television interview with the killer’s daughter, Kerri Rawson, bows Friday, February 1, at 9p on ABC. FOX Business Network host Trish Regan interviews Vice President Mike Pence tonight, January 23, at 8p on Trish Regan Primetime. NATPE NEWS 25 Words or Less, hosted and produced by Meredith Vieira, has been sold in 75% of the country in advance of its debut this fall. Launching on the FOX Television Stations, the half-hour game show was sold into 125 markets including to station groups Sinclair, Gray, Hearts, CBS, Scripps, Northwest and Tribune. The show pits two teams composed of celebrities and civilians against each other in a word game. Endemol Shine North America is teaming with Michael Strahan’s SMAC Entertainment to develop a U.S. version of hit global game show The Money Drop. The format has been produced in 54 global territories and currently airs as a five-day-a-week series in the UK. Strahan will serve as an executive producer on the show. The new Court TV added five journalists, four of whom are lawyers, to its on-air news team as the network builds to its launch in May. Seema Iyer and Julie Grant will join Vinnie Politan at the Court TV anchor desk, while Chanley Painter was named legal correspondent and veteran crime and justice journalists Ted Rowlands and Julie Jenaé were tapped as field producers and reporters. Bill Geddie, who co-created The View, was named executive producer of the new syndicated daytime talk show hosted by Tamron Hall. Distributed in national syndication by Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer and International, the show has been sold in over 70% of the country for fall 2019. The Kelly Clarkson Show has been sold in more than 80% of the U.S. for its fall 2019 debut. The new daily one-hour talker will air as a lead-in to Ellen on NBC-owned television stations. The show will also air on station groups across the country including Scripps, Hearst, Meredith, Sinclair, Gray, Hubbard and more. Parrot Analytics announced that The Walking Dead was the most-in-demand TV series in the world in 2018, during NATPE’s inaugural Global TV Demand Awards. Cast members Josh McDermitt and Pollyanna McIntosh and producer Denise Huth were on hand to accept the award. A+E Networks and Trifecta Entertainment & Media announced the broadcast syndication renewal of History series Pawn Stars. Highlighted by the Tribune Station Group and CBS’ WCBS/WLNY renewal of the Monday-through-Friday strip, the series will return for the 2019-2020 season with 100 additional new episodes. MGM Worldwide Television Distribution’s half-hour syndication strip Personal Injury Court was picked up by multiple CBS-owned stations nationwide including WLNY New York, WPSG Philadelphia and WUPA Atlanta, as well as CBS-owned stations in San Francisco, Tampa and Seattle. CASTING Aloha, Joan Collins. The Dynasty icon is set to guest on CBS’ Hawaii Five-0… Peter Sarsgaard landed the lead in Fabrik Entertainment’s upcoming CBS All Access true-crime drama series Interrogation… Bradley James (Merlin, Damien) was cast as the lead in Netflix’s World War II drama series The Liberator… Hosea Chanchez (The Game) will recur on The CW’s Black Lightning… TNT’s Animal Kingdom tapped Leila George (Mortal Engines) to recur during its fourth season. PODCAST POSTS Pinna, the kids programming-focused paid listening service that originally launched in 2017 under the Panoply umbrella, is being spun out into a stand-alone company. CEO Maggie McGuire, a vet of children-focused media divisions including Scholastic, Viacom’s Nickelodeon and Cablevision, will lead the new entity. Westwood One and Suze Orman launched season two of Suze Orman’s Women & Money, an original podcast with an interactive approach. New episodes air twice a week. DIGITAL DATA The Expanse, which was canceled by Syfy and picked up by Amazon Prime Video, debuts its third season on Friday, February 8. The weekend combination of Star Trek: Discovery’s second season premiere and Sunday’s AFC Championship Game pushed CBS All Access new subscriber sign-ups and unique viewers to record levels. According to CBS Interactive, CBS All Access added more subscribers in a single weekend than ever before and broke the previous record set during the 2017 series premiere of Star Trek: Discovery by +72%. Mobile news publisher NowThis launched a new division that creates a distinction between NowThis News Group and NowThis Originals. The News Group will focus on award-winning journalism, original reporting and political coverage while continuing to bring daily news stories via video to social feeds.
GOING GLOBAL HBO Asia is set to debut 10-part Taiwanese crime drama The World Between Us on Sunday, March 24, with back-to-back episodes. The series, which will launch on the linear channel, HBO Go and Catchplay On Demand, is produced by Taiwanese broadcaster Public Television Services. |
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The premiere of In Pursuit with John Walsh garnered 1.87 million viewers on average for Investigation Discovery, ranking the net as #1 in ad-supported cable for delivery of P25-54 (excluding sports networks) and W25-54. It was ID’s second-best series debut ever, for a regular series, behind only Evil Lives Here. TV Time’s Shows on the Rise Report for the week of January 14, 2019 Roswell, New Mexico (The CW) 99.90% The Passage (FOX) 99.80% Marvel’s The Punisher (Netflix) 94.90% Masterchef (IT) (Sky Uno) 91.00% Grace and Frankie (Netflix) 89.70% True Detective (HBO) 89.20% Star Trek: Discovery (CBS All Access) 89.20% The Grand Tour (Prime Video) 89.10% The Resident (FOX) 63.80% A Million Little Things (ABC) 61.60% Every week, viewers around the world use TV Time to track their favorite series. “Shows on the Rise” is calculated by determining the week-over-week growth in episodes watched for a given program. Live + Same Day Viewers AA (millions) Monday, January 21, 2019, time period averages Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated Live+SD NBC: 7.53 million America’s Got Talent: The Champions 9.66, Manifest 5.40 ABC: 6.09 million The Bachelor 5.96, The Good Doctor 6.21 CBS: 5.79 million Big Brother: Celebrity Edition 5.40, Magnum P.I. 5.27, Bull 6.69 FOX: 4.84 million The Resident 5.37, The Passage 4.30 CW: 1.07 million Arrow 1.25, Black Lightning 0.88
Monday A18-49: ABC 1.5/6, NBC 1.4/6, CBS 1.0/5, FOX .0/5, CW 0.3/1 EXECUTIVE MOVES Jennifer Lopez and Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas’ Nuyorican Productions named Alex Brown as Production Executive. Brown has been with the company for four years, working in both scripted and unscripted television and its movie productions. ESPN hired former NFL Media executive Brian Lockhart as Executive Producer, ESPN+ Original Content. Paula Kaplan expanded her role as Executive Vice President, Talent Development, Viacom Digital Studios, to now oversee talent for Nickelodeon. Kin promoted Aimee Legault to Director, Integrated Marketing. In addition, the company hired Stephanie Mediati, formerly of Quebecor, as Integrated Marketing Strategist, and Jason Yanth, who previously worked at CBC’s The Goods, as Branded Content Producer and Project Manager. Meghan Medlock was named Client Engagement Director for The Creative Engagement Group. Medlock was previously Senior Director, Committees & Conferences at the Association of National Advertisers. David Rosner joined Collab in the newly created position of Executive Vice President, Head of Marketing. He had been a Partner at Visual Machine. Endeavor Content tapped Tim Robinson as Chief Operating Officer. Robinson was most recently Chief Operating Officer at Avalon. Cuebiq hired Dave Simon as Vice President Programmatic Data Sales. He joins from Oath, where he was Head of U.S. Agency Platform Sales. Culture Trip appointed Dmitry Shishkin, previously Digital Development Editor at BBC News, as Chief Content Officer. Anne Bourgeois-Vignon, who last served as Global Digital Director at Magnum Photos, was hired as Executive Creative Director. Claire Finn joined Ireland’s animation house Lighthouse Studios as Managing Director. She last served as Head of Content and Executive Producer of Branded Entertainment for London-based Firecracker Films. IN MEMORIAM Kaye Ballard, who starred in the 1960s sitcom The Mothers-in-Law, died on Monday, January 21, in Rancho Mirage, CA. She was 93. Kevin Barnett, Co-Creator and Executive Producer of FOX comedy Rel, died on Tuesday, January 22, while vacationing in Mexico. The writer/comedian was in his early 30s. This Day in History: 1976 – The Donny and Marie Variety Show premiered on ABC. Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: How old was violinist Itzhak Perlman when he made his debut on The Ed Sullivan Show (1948-1971)? 13. Kudos to: Marc Bauman/Wilton, CT; Rev. Mark Wajda/Leesburg, FL; Gerry Bixenspan-TV Marketing Inc./NYC; Synda Kollman-Charter Marketing Group/Boca Raton, FL; John Kukla-FOX TV/Dallas, TX; Andy Pittman-TAMU/College Station, TX; Paul Blutter-Walk and Talk Production Rentals/Burbank, CA; Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/Los Angeles, CA; David Westberg-AFTRA-SAG Credit Union/Burbank, CA; Susan Nessanbaum-Goldberg-M and S Entertainment/Los Angeles, CA. Today’s Trivia Question: Who guest-starred as the pastor from whom Donna and Eric received couples’ therapy on That ’70s Show (1998-2006)? (Email [email protected] 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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WHAT'S ON TONIGHT - WEDNESDAY JANUARY 23
ABC: The Goldbergs, Schooled, Modern Family, Single Parents, Match Game CBS: Big Brother: Celebrity Edition, SEAL Team, Criminal Minds CW: Riverdale, All American FOX: Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell and Back, The Masked Singer NBC: Chicago Med, Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D. PBS: Nature, NOVA, The Dictator’s Playbook Telemundo: Exatlón Estados Unidos, Jugar con Fuego, Senora Acero Univision: Jesus, Mi Marido Tiene Mas Familia, Amar e Muerte |
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