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PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT FX’s Better Things, directed by, produced by and starring Pamela Adlon, was renewed for a fourth season to air in 2020. “With every season, Better Things becomes more vital, engaging and revelatory, cementing Pamela Adlon’s status as one of the most accomplished creative forces in television today,” said John Landgraf, Chairman of FX Networks and FX Productions. Back Roads Entertainment partnered with former NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf to produce Busts, a documentary series examining some of the sports world’s biggest disappointments. NFL bust Leaf is set to host the series, which will feature one-on-one interviews with former athletes and reveal the trials they faced trying to rise from the ashes. MTV ordered 90 additional episodes of Nick Cannon Presents Wild ‘N Out ahead of its Season 13 premiere, this summer, reports Deadline. The move takes the comedy improv competition series through Season 16. Director-producer Jake Kasdan and his producing partner Melvin Mark inked a new four-year overall deal with 20th Century Fox Television. The pair, who have been with the studio since 2012, will continue to develop and produce, while Kasdan will continue to direct projects for network, cable and streaming platforms with their company The Detective Agency. Tiffany Haddish landed a series of curated stand-up specials at Netflix. The Girl Trip’s star will host Tiffany Haddish Presents: They Ready, which features six comedians handpicked by Haddish. Wanda Sykes, Page Hurwitz and Haddish are executive producing each half-hour episode. Karla Souza (How to Get Away with Murder) is set to star in Amazon drama El Presidente. The eight-part series, produced by Pablo Larrain’s production company Fabula (A Fantastic Woman), Narcos producer Gaumont and Argentine producer Kapow, also stars Andres Parra (Pablo Escobar: El Patron del Mal) and Paulina Gaitan (Diablo Guardian). The project is inspired by the real-life characters and events behind the 2015 “FIFA Gate” corruption scandal. TFI, France’s top commercial network, is teaming with Netflix to co-finance Le Bazar de la Charite, according to Variety. Co-produced by Quad Television and TFI, and written by Catherine Ramberg (The Source) and Karine Spreuzkouski, the eight-part period series takes place in Paris in November 1987. The story centers on the consequences of a devastating fire at the Bazar de la Charite, resulting in over 130 deaths. A new season of Odd Squad, the live-action series from Fred Rogers Productions and Sinking Ship Entertainment, is back in production and set to roll out on PBS Kids in winter 2020. The show will take a t urn as new agents join the squad and travel to locations around the globe to tackle oddness as a mobile unit. NEW & RETURNING SERIES CBS set premiere dates for a trio of series. New action-adventure Blood and Treasure debuts with a two-hour premiere on Tuesday, May 21 at 9p; the final season of Elementary kicks off on Thursday, May 24 at 10p; and season 2 of Instinct bows Sunday, June 16 at 9p. Discovery Channel unravels mystery and myth in Mummies Unwrapped. Host Ramy Romany guides viewers around the world as he investigates secrets of the most fascinating burial sites, mass graves and ancient tombs on earth. The series bows Wednesday, April 10 at 10p, following the premiere of Expedition Unknown at 9p. Jordan Klepper heads to the frontlines of American activism in Comedy Central’s new documentary series, Klepper. The premiere episode, airing Thursday, May 9 at 10:30p, spotlights veterans using wrestling to cope with PTSD. Animal Planet premieres Fish or Die on Sunday, April 21 at 10p. Series follows extreme fishermen and friends Chris Owens, Brian Jill, Thad Robison and Jay Johnson as they journey through remote regions, meeting locals and trailing some of the most elusive fish in the world. COMING UP TV One airs the 50th NAACP Image Awards: Tribute Special on Saturday, March 30 at 8p, immediately preceding the live telecast of the 50th NAACP Image Awards at 9p. Hosted by Urban One founder and chairperson Cathy Hughes and sponsored by Toyota, the special honors this year’s nominees, past winners and significant moments and features interviews with Salli Richardson-Whitfield, John Legend and more. AXS TV presents two classic concert premieres from The Eagles, beginning with The Eagles: Farewell I Tour – Live from Melbourne on Sunday, March 31 at 9p. The 1994 cable special The Eagles: Hell Freezes Over bows Sunday, May 5 at 9p. Oprah Winfrey presents her new book, The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life’s Direction and Purpose on a special edition of SuperSoul Sunday, debuting Sunday, March 31 at 11a. Great Performances at the Met: La Traviata premieres nationwide Friday, April 5 at 9p on PBS (check local listings). Oxygen Media presents The Piketon Family Murders on Sunday, March 31 at 7p. Hosted by Beth Karas, two-hour special delves into the 2016 massacre that stunned the small town of Piketon, OH, when seven members of the Rhoden family and Hannah Gilley, the fiancée of one of the victims, were found murdered.
Dish is offering a free preview of Smithsonian Channel to all of their subscribers from Thursday, March 28 to Tuesday, April 30. CASTING Hugh Dancy (Hannibal) will guest star on a multi-episode arc of Season 8 of Showtime’s Homeland…On the pilot front, Michaela Watkins (Casual) nabbed a lead in CBS’ comedy The Unicorn… Zane Holtz (Hunter Killer, From Dusk Till Dawn TV series) and Katherine LaNasa (Imposters, Satisfaction) joined The CW’s Riverdale spinoff Katy Keene… Omar Benson Miller (Ballers) and Maya Lynne Robinson (The Conners) were set as series regulars on CBS’ The Unicorn. DIGITAL DATA Oxygen Media released The Dark Web Exposed. The six-part multi-platform digital series explores new, bizarre and viral crime trends, amplified by social media networks, which have taken on a second life outside the traditional police narrative. Discovery en Espanol and Discovery Familia GO Apps are now available on Roku devices, offering series including Discovery en Espanol’s Alaska: La ultima frontera, Mexicanicos and El duo mecanico and Discovery Familia’s Todo en 90 dias, Una gran familia and Hermanos a la obra. Pluto TV launched new channel Pluto TV Travel on its platform on Tuesday, giving viewers a ticket to the world’s most exotic destinations. iHeartMedia struck a multi-year agreement with digital media company LiveXLive. The partnership gives LiveXLive exclusive global livestreaming rights to 17 iHeartRadio events this year, as well as licensing and streaming rights for select iHeartRado Theater shows. The deal also features new co-produced and co-promoted video content for fans, including a co-created iHeartRadio channel on LiveXLive. TECH TALK Spotify announced plans to acquire scripted-entertainment podcast studio Parcast. It’s the streamer’s third podcast pickup of 2019, following its acquisitions of producer Gimlet Media and services provider Anchor FM Inc., last month. Spotify expects its latest deal to close in the second quarter of 2019. The streamer told investors it expects to invest between $400 million and $500 million in podcasting this year. Mozilla’s free password manager, Firebox Lockbox, landed on Android. The standalone app offers a simple – and did we say free? – way for users to access from their mobile device their logins in their Firefox browser, and can be locked with facial recognition or a fingerprint. The Federal Trade Commission sent letters to Comcast, Google, T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T ordering them to share details of their data collection practices. “The FTC is initiating this study to better understand Internet service providers’ privacy practices in light of the evolution of telecommunications companies into vertically integrated platforms that also provide advertising-supported content,” said the agency. Microsoft and Adobe announced a data-sharing integration, called Account Based Experience, that involves sharing Marketo data. “With these new account-based capabilities, marketing and sales teams will have increased alignment around the people and accounts they are engaging, and new ways to measure that business impact,” said Steve Lucas, SVP and head of the Marketo team at Adobe. ADVERTISING The Video Advertising Bureau released Address For Success, a guide for marketers that analyzes aspects of addressable TV including investment projections and real-world case studies provided by companies like Xandr, Comcast Spotlight, Verizon Fios, Spectrum Reach and others. Among the findings: U.S. addressable TV ad spending is projected to grow to $3.3 billion by the end of 2020, a 343% increase from 2016-2020. The U.S. footprint for addressable TV has increased 30% since 2017, eclipsing streaming/OTT services, such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, HBO, Roku and others. The U.S. addressable TV audience P2+ has grown 27% to over 162 million over the past two years – a larger audience than Twitter, Instagram Snapchat, MSN and many other digital platforms. GOING GLOBAL The Jim Henson Company finalized deals for its preschool content. Spain’s TV 3 and Ireland’s TG4 acquired season 5 of Dinosaur Train, while Australia’s ABC, France’s Piwi+, Spain’s TV3 and Ireland’s TG4 acquires season 2 of and DOT. Red Arrow Studios International is heading to MIPTV with a slate of new programming including Vienna Blood, Departure, Renovate Don’t Relocate and New York Times current affair series The Weekly. APC, Danish production company Sweet Chili Entertainment and French production company Make It Happen Studio secured a deal with Orange Studio for Unpunished. The series explores the phenomena of Artificial Intelligence and cyber warfare. Channel 4 is developing a UK version of NBC’s songwriting competition reality series Songland. The British broadcaster is remaking the format with NBC-backed producer Monkey Kingdom, whose hits include Made In Chelsea. |
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RATINGS Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Awards 2019 simulcast was the week’s number one program on broadcast and cable across kid demos. The ceremony averaged 3.5/860,000 Kids 2-11 and 3.1/491,000 Tweens 9-14, and was basic cable’s number-one kids program with Total Viewers (1.9 million). The first week of daylight savings time saw syndicated shows take a dip in the session ending March 17, and making things were worse were preemptions for coverage of President Trump’s veto of the attempt to reverse his national emergency declaration for a border wall. Game shows were hit hard with leader Jeopardy (6.3 Live+SD national Nielsen rating) down 9% from the previous week, Wheel of Fortune (6.2) down 6% and Family Feud (5.9) down 9%. Among talk shows Dr. Phil (2.8, down 10%) was mostly in reruns, but still topped for the 132nd week in a row. Live with Kelly and Ryan (2.3, down 4%) ranked second for the third consecutive week. Top 10 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of 3/17/19 ranked in order by HH Rtg Judge Judy (CTD) 6.9 AA Jeopardy (CTD) 6.3 AA Wheel of Fortune (CTD) 6.2 AA Family Feud (2/T) 5.9 AA The Big Bang Theory (WB) 4.5 AA Entertainment Tonight (CTD) 3.1 AA Inside Edition (CTD) 3.1 AA Dr. Phil (CTD) 2.8AA Last Man Standing 2.4 AA Live with Kelly and Ryan 2.3 AA Top 11 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of 3/17/19 ranked in order by A18-49 Rtg Family Feud (2/T) 1.6 AA The Big Bang Theory (WB) 1.6AA Judge Judy (CTD) 1.4 AA Jeopardy (CTD) 1.1 AA Wheel of Fortune (CTD) 1.1 AA Last Man Standing 0.9 AA Modern Family (2/T) 0.9 AA Family Guy (2/T) 0.9 AA Entertainment Tonight (CTD) 0.7 AA Inside Edition (CTD) 0.6 AA Dr. Phil (CTD) 0.6 AA Broadcast Evening News Shows Weekly Average Ratings week of March 18, 2019 ABC World News Tonight 8.57 million total viewers; 1.4/7 and 1.73 million A25-54 NBC Nightly News 7.86 million total viewers; 1.4/7 and 1.68 million A25-54 CBS Evening News 6.27 million total viewers; 1.0/5 and 1.26 million A25-54 Broadcast Morning News Shows Weekly Average Ratings week of March 18, 2019 ABC: Good Morning America 3.91 million total viewers; 1.0/10 and 1,171,000 A25-54 NBC: Today 3.82 million total viewers; 1.1/12 and 1,315,000 A25-54 CBS: This Morning 3.11 million total viewers; 0.7/7 and 793,000 A25-54 Late Night Shows Weekly Average Ratings week of March 18, 2019 CBS: The Late Show 2.94 million total viewers; 0.37/3 among A18-49 NBC: The Tonight Show 2.15 million total viewers; 0.43/3 among A18-49 ABC: Jimmy Kimmel Live 1.93 million total viewers; 0.34/2 among A18-49 TV Time Binge Report: Most Binged TV Shows for the week of March 18, 2019 (Show/Share of Streams) Love, Death & Robots (Netflix) 5.78% Friends (NBC) 2.24% Grey’s Anatomy (ABC) 2.14% Brooklyn Nine-Nine (FOX) 1.98% The OA (Netflix) 1.88% Riverdale (The CW) 1.78% The Umbrella Academy (Netflix) 1.73% Game of Thrones (HBO) 1.56% How I Met Your Mother (CBS) 1.36% The Order (Netflix) 1.32% The weekly Binge Report ranks shows with the most binge sessions. A binge session is when four or more episodes of a show are watched and tracked in our TV Time app within a given day. Top 15 Broadcast Programs Among A18-49 ratings/share for the week of March 18, 2019 NBC: The Voice 1.7/8 NBC: This Is Us 1.7/8 CBS: NCAA Basketball Championship – Saturday 1.7/9 CBS: NCAA Basketball Championship – Friday 1.7/10 CBS: 60 Minutes 1.6/7 CBS: Survivor 1.4/6 ABC: Grey’s Anatomy 1.4/7 ABC: American Idol – Sunday 1.2/5 ABC: American Idol – Monday 1.2/5 FOX: 9-1-1 1.2/5 NBC: Ellen’s Game of Games 1.2/6
ABC: The Goldbergs 1.2/6 CBS: NCAA Basketball Championship 1.2/6
FOX: Empire 1.2/6
CBS: NCAA Basketball Championship 1.2/6
Live + Same Day Viewers AA (millions) Monday, March 25, 2019 time period averages Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated Live+SD NBC: 7.08 million The Voice 8.93, The Enemy Within 5.22 FOX: 5.27 million The Resident 4.87, 9-1-1 5.66 ABC: 5.14 million American Idol 6.35, The Fix 3.92 CBS: 5.11million The Neighborhood 6.32, Man with a Plan 5.34, Magnum P.I. 5.63, The Mueller Report: A Turning Point 3.13 UNI: 0.95 million
Jesus 1.00, Mi Marido Tiene Mas Familia 0.97, Por Amar Sin Ley 0.88 CW: 0.85 million Arrow 1.05, Penn & Teller: Fool Us 0.64 TELE: 0.82 million Exatlon Estados Unidos 0.78, Betty en NY 0.88, La Reina del Sur 0.79 Monday A18-49: NBC 1.4/6, ABC 1.0/5, FOX 1.0/5, CBS 0.7/3, TELE 0.5/2, UNI 0.4/2, CW 0.2/1 EXECUTIVE MOVES Susan Levison was named Senior Vice President and Head of WWE Studios. She previously served as Executive Vice President, Original Programming & Production at VH1. TEGNA’s Premion announced the appointment of John Vilade as Head of Sales and Vice President. He joins from TRUSTX, where he was Chief Revenue Officer. |
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Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: Which short-lived 1972 series, based on a hit Broadway show, featured the original star of the stage version? Anna and the King, based on The King and I, starred Yul Brynner. Kudos to: Dan Phillippi/Buies Creek, NC; Andrew Goldman-Fathom Events/NYC; Gerry Bixenspan-TV Marketing Inc./NYC; Anthony Salerno-Horizon Media/NYC; Mark Whitfield-9th Wonder/Huston, TX; John Kukla-FOX 4/Dallas, TX; Gretchen Brady-KTVT/KTXA-TV/Dallas, TX; Steve Iha-LBI Media/Dallas, TX; Tom Moore-Kalt Production/Los Angeles, CA; Amy Kessler-Merola Opera Program/San Francisco, CA; David Westburg-SAG-AFTRA, Burbank, CA; Lorrie Shilling/El Segundo, CA. Today’s Trivia Question: Who was the original actor chosen to voice Charlie on Charlie’s Angels (1976-1981)? (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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SR. NEWS DESK ASSOC/E! Entertainment/NYC: Resp for newsgathering for all E! platforms, should be a multi-tasker, have proven editorial judgment, be a forward thinker with a strong work ethic. Passion for pop culture is a must. Self-starter who can work independently and quickly in a fast-pace news environment. Must have newsroom exp and able to handle breaking news while working under tight deadlines. Full Info/Apply HERE (4/4)
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ACCT EXECUTIVE/CNN Airport Network/NY: Resp include identifying prospects, generating leads and penetrating client companies/agencies at all levels. Primary function is to drive new business for the network. Req include 5+ yrs in media sales, ability to exceed targets and building sr level client/agency relationships. Team player who works well in a large multi-platform sales organization. Full Info/Apply HERE (3/31)
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AD SALES ASSISTANT/Crown Media Family Networks/NY: Provide support to Ad Sales by working W/ Acct Execs to service clients. Including sales orders, move requests and media schedules. Detail oriented w/orgnzt’l skills to keep manage fast paced, time sensitive environment. BA/BS req. Full info/apply HERE (3/29)
DIRECTOR, LEGAL & BUSINESS AFFAIRS/TV One/NYC: As secondary mgr, you are responsible for providing business and legal support to all departments of TV On. Structure, negotiate and draft a variety of content acquisition agreements minimum of 7 years of television industry experience pref’d. Full info HERE (3/29)
PRODUCER, DIGITAL & SOCIAL MEDIA/TV One/Silver Spring MD: Build promotional & original digital content to build the TV One digital brand.Dvlp/prod promotional content (incl articles, videos & any other media) to support our orig. 3+ yrs exp in building, managing, and growing a website for a medium/large size org. Full info HERE (3/29)
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ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE /NBC/TELEMUNDO/PHILADELPHIA: Self-motivated well organized team player to identify, target, develop and secure new business for NBC10 and Telemundo62 through a variety of platforms including on-air, on-line, mobile and out-of-home. Min of 3 yrs exp in media sales. Full info HERE (3/28)
DIRECTOR of MEDIA, SOCIAL & EMERGING/Ad Council/San Francisco: Manage daily responsibilities with existing social & digital media partners. 5+ yrs digital & traditional media/cross-platform sales experience with a track record of developing and executing successful strategic partnerships. Full info HERE (3/28)
DIR, LEGAL AFF/GSN/Santa Monica: 5+ yrs. w/law firm or TV exp. Member of CA bar or eligible for registration. Structuring, negotiating & closing a heavy volume of production deals. Day-to-day legal support. Drafting & negotiating documents & agreements. Reviewing & approving advertising/marketing materials. Full info HERE (3/28)
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DIGITAL PRODUCER /Spectrum News/NYC: Produce new & innovative content series for non-linear platforms. Proficiency at multi-tasking and must have the ability to prioritize, work independently and meet strict deadlines. 3+ yr TV new exp. Full info HERE (3/28)
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WHAT'S ON TONIGHT - WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27
ABC: The Goldbergs, Schooled, Modern Family, Single Parents, Whiskey Cavalier CBS: Survivor, Million Dollar Mile [p], SEAL Team CW: Riverdale, Jane the Virgin [p] FOX: Empire, Star NBC: Chicago Med, Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D. PBS: Nature, NOVA, Secrets of the Dead Telemundo: Exatlon Estados Unidos, Betty en NY, La Reina del Sur Univision: Jesus, Mi Marido Tiene Mas Familia, Por Amar Sin Ley
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