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IN THE NEWS It’s one and done for Valor. The CW has officially canceled the military drama starring Matt Barr, which underperformed in ratings and failed to receive a back-nine order. The network has also pulled the plug on midseason dramedy Life Sentence, opting not to renew it for a sophomore season. Star Lucy Hale shared the news with her fans on Twitter. It looks like Lethal Weapon star Clayne Crawford won’t be returning to the FOX series if it gets a third season renewal. It’s been reported that FOX and Warner Bros. are actively looking for a replacement for Crawford, following complaints about his on-set behavior. Apparently, the future of the series hinges on a suitable replacement being found. CNN and PBS are launching new late-night public affair series Amanpour & Company in July on PBS (check local listings). Christiane Amanpour will lead the conversation with contributions from Walter Isaacson, Michel Martin, Alicia Menendez and Hari Sreenivasan, featuring in-depth conversations with global thought leaders and cultural influencers on issues impacting the world. HBO’s documentary about Arizona senator and former POW John McCain has been given a title and a premiere date. John McCain: For Whom the Bells Tolls will air on Memorial Day, Monday, May 28 at 8p. Discovery reported financial results for the first quarter ending March 31, 2018, noting revenues of $2,307 million increased 43% on a reported basis compared with the prior quarter. Excluding the impact of foreign currency transactions and the Scripps Networks Interactive, The Enthusiast Network and the Oprah Winfrey Network transactions, revenues increased 14% as International Networks grew 28% and U.S. Networks grew 3%. |
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PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT FOX issued its first pilot to series order to The Passage, starring Mark-Paul Gosselaar. The project, based on Justin Cronin’s best-selling fantasy book trilogy, comes from Liz Heldens, Matt Reeves, Scott Free and 20th Century Fox TV. Hulu gave a 10-episode straight-to-series order to Light as a Feather from AwesomenessTV, Wattpad and Kelsey Grammer’s Grammnet. Based on a story by Zoe Aarsen, the project follows five teen girls dealing with the supernatural fallout from playing a game of Light as a Father, Stiff as a Board. Homeland EP Ron Nyswaner inked a multi-year exclusive overall deal with FremantleMedia North America. His first project with the studio is Bounty, a crime thriller based on Louisa Luna’s novel, Two Girls Down. Adult Swim issued a pilot order to Three Busy Debras from Amy Poehler and her Paper Kite production company. The comedy, created, written and starring Sandy Honig (Isn’t It Romantic), Mitra Jouhari (Miracle Workers) and Alyssa Stonoha (The Special Without Brett Davis), follows three disturbed housewives and their fellow residents in an affluent Connecticut suburb. A mini-series about the Chateau Marmount from John Krasinski and Aaron Sorkin, which was originally in the works and planned at HBO back in 2011, is moving forward, reports Deadline. The new incarnation will be spurred on by Shawn Levy’s biography on the Hollywood hotel, The Castle on Sunset. “We just bought the rights to the book and we’re going to give it another show,” said Krasinski.” Netflix ordered a third season of Santa Clarita Diet, scheduled to launch in 2019. The entire main cast of the dark comedy, including Drew Barrymore, Timothy Olyphant, Liv Hewson and Skyler Gisondo, are set to return. Drake Doremus inked a two-year overall deal with Paramount TV to develop new projects and direct some existing projects for the studio. It marks a return to Paramount for Doremus, who directed the studio’s 2011 release Like Crazy. NEW & RETURNING SERIES Love Is __ debuts Tuesday, June 19 at 10p on OWN. One-hour romantic drama, set primarily in 1990s Los Angeles against the backdrop of Black Hollywood, follows Nuri and Yasir, a couple from seemingly opposite worlds as they chase their dreams and learn to follow their hearts. CNBC’s The Profit is back to rescue small businesses on Tuesday, June 12 at 10p. Fredrik Eklund, Ryan Serhant and Steve Gold return for another season of drama and deals when Million Dollar Listing New York returns Tuesday, June 12 at 10p on Bravo. WGN America’s The Disappearance, bows Thursday, July 12. Crime series centers on a 10-year-old boy who goes missing, shaking a close-knit community to its core. COMING UP Investigation Discovery special Dead North follows the search for alleged female serial killer Chris Regan. Doc bows Monday, May 28 at 9p. Cinelatino secured exclusive U.S. pay TV premieres of Turkish hits El Factor Marido 1 and 2, to air back-to-back on Sunday, May 13 in celebration of Mother’s Day. TLC celebrates the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle with two days of special programming. Stunt begins Friday, May 18 with Prince Harry: Wild No More at 8p, followed by Meghan Markle: A Royal Love Story (wt) at 9p and Secrets of the Royal Wedding at 10p. On Saturday, May 19 TLC’s Royal Wedding Live four-hour feed begins at 5a. That night, TLC’s Royal Wedding Revealed airs at 10p. CASTING Emma Greenwell (Love and Friendship, The Path) was tapped to lead Starz’s The Rook. Also starring in the supernatural spy thriller series are Joely Richardson (Nip/Tuck), Olivia Munn (X-Men:Apocalypse, The Newsroom) and Adrian Lester (Riviera, Hustle). Josh Hopkins (Quantico) and Jodi Balfour (The Crown) and Lonnie Chavis (This Is Us) will recur in the third season of HBO crime anthology True Detective…. Fiona Dourif (Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency) nabbed a recurring role in upcoming series The Purge for USA Network and Syfy. DIGITAL DATA The UFC landed a major media partner with a multi-year agreement with ESPN, which will showcase the sport on its new direct-to-consumer subscription service. The deal takes effect in January 2019, and while terms were not disclosed, sources pegged the pact at $150 million for five years. The BBC is eyeing a revival of its aborted digital service Project Kangaroo, to combat the competition of global SVOD services including Netflix and Amazon. The British public broadcaster is back in talks with rival broadcasters ITV and Channel 4 as well as NBC Universal to launch its own UK streaming service. The move comes almost 10 years after Project Kangaroo, a planned video-on-demand between the broadcasters and the BBC’s commercial arm, was blocked by the British Competition Commission. Comedy Central signed a non-exclusive digital development deal with Bento Box Entertainment (Bob’s Burgers). Bento Box will develop and produce short-form series for digital/social platforms including Facebook Watch and YouTube, working with new and established talent that has caught the network’s attention. If the network produced a linear series, Bento Box will have first opportunity rights to animate and EP it. Poker Central and CakeWorks’ new documentary series INSIDERS: Super High Roller Bowl 2018 bows Thursday May 10 on PokerGO. Show features poker regulars Daniel Negreanu, Brandon Adams and Seth Davies as they prepare for the Super High Roller Bowl. Travels with Darley debuts on Amazon Prime Video on Friday, May 11, as host Darley Newman joins local experts and guides to reveal bucket list of adventures. Telemundo Desportes secured a first-ever augmented reality experience partnership with Panini America for The 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia. The AR content will live in the Telemundo Desportes En Vivo app, featuring new posts on a weekly basis.
GOING GLOBAL After a successful 75-episode run and ratings growth across all key demos, Nickelodeon Latin America announced a second season of musical series Kally’s Mashup. GRB Entertainment sold several lifestyle-focused programs. In Africa, Ignition (One Africa Television) picked up Arabia Motors, while Secret Guide To Fabulous went to ETV. Discovery will air Hayden Quinn in the Middle East and North Africa territories. Foxtel added six seasons of BBQ Pitmasters in Australia and New Zealand. My Channel in the UK and Uganda bought five seasons of My First Home. |
RATINGS Competition with and preemptions from April 26 news coverage of the Bill Cosby’s guilty verdict helped send many syndicated shows lower in the session ending April 29, which included the first two weekdays of the May sweep. The frame’s most successful syndicated program was Judge Judy (7.0 Live+SD national Nielsen rating, up 6% from the week before). Judy averaged 9.8-millions viewers each day. The only other court strip in positive territory for the week was Hot Bench (2.3, up 5%). Only two of the 15 talk shows managed to improve from the week before: Leader Dr. Phil (3.2, up 3%), which scored a three-week high and finished first in talkers for 86 consecutive weeks, and the fifth place Wendy Williams (1.3, up 8%). In a dead heat for second place were Live with Kelly and Ryan (2.1, down 5%) and Ellen DeGeneres (2.1, down 5%). On the heels of ratings success in 1Q18, Sportsman Channel continues to experience ratings delivery success in the key demo A25-54, during primetime and weekends, with double-digit gains thus far in 2Q. The network delivered increased ratings of +40% in primetime in the demo, as well as an increase of +20% in the same demo during weekend viewing compared to last year. Among A25-54 Discovery Channel had its highest rated April ever on Wednesdays (up 60% over last year) and Fridays (up 50%). The network owned cable’s #1 series across four nights of the week in M25-54 and M18-49: Fast N’ Loud on Monday, Deadliest Catch on Tuesday, Street Outlaws: No Prep Kings on Wednesday, and Gold Rush: Parker’s Trail on Friday. HGTV ranked as the #4 cable network among W25-54 and ranked #9 among A25-54 in April. Among upscale viewers, HGTV was the #2 cable network with W25-54 and took the top spot among both upscale !25-54 and W25-54 during weekends. Food Network delivered its highest rated April among A25-54 in four years, and the network was a hit with millennials, growing ratings 25% over last April. The network ranked #6 among W25-54 and #7 among upscale W25-54 for the month. FOX’s Empire (2.5/11 Live+7, +47% from Live+SD) and Star (1.6/6 Live+7, +33% from Live+SD) were Wednesday’s top two scripted programs.
TV Binge Report: Most Binged TV Shows for the week of April 30, 2018 (Show/Share of Streams) Riverdale (The CW) 3.55% Grey’s Anatomy (ABC) 3.14% The 100 (The CW) 2.22%
La Casa de Papel (Netflix/Antena 3) 1.85% The Big Bang Theory (CBS) 1.80% 3% (Netflix) 1.61% Lucifer (The CW) 1.59% The Flash (The CW) 1.49% Shadowhunters (Freeform) 1.48% Friends (NBC) 1.40% Top 10 Broadcast Programs Among A18-49 ratings/share for the week of April 30, 2018 ABC: Roseanne 2.6/12 CBS: The Big Bang Theory 2.4/11 ABC: NBA Playoffs on ABC 2.2/11 CBS: Young Sheldon 1.9/8 ABC: American Idol 1.8/8 NBC: The Voice 1.7/7 FOX: Empire 1.7/8 ABC: Grey’s Anatomy 1.6/7 CBS: Survivor 1.5/7 NBC: The Middle 1.5/7
Top 11 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of 4/23/18 ranked in order by HH Rtg Judge Judy (CTD) 7.0 AA Family Feud (2/T) 6.5 AA Jeopardy (CTD) 5.9 AA Wheel of Fortune (CTD) 5.8 AA The Big Bang Theory (WB) 4.5 AA Dr. Phil (CTD) 3.2 AA Inside Edition (CTD) 3.1 AA Entertainment Tonight (CTD) 3.0 AA Hot Bench (CTD) 2.3 AA Live With Kelly and Ryan (DAD) 2.1 AA Ellen (WB) 2.1AA Top 10 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of 4/23/18 ranked in order by A18-49 Rtg The Big Bang Theory (WB) 1.7 AA Family Feud (2/T) 1.7 AA Judge Judy (CTD) 1.5 AA Wheel of Fortune (CTD) 1.1 AA Jeopardy (CTD) 1.1 AA Family Guy (2/T) 1.1 AA Modern Family (2/T) 0.9 AA The Goldbergs (SPT) 0.8 AA The Cleveland Show (2/T) 0.7 AA Entertainment Tonight (CTD) 0.7 AA
Broadcast Evening News Shows Weekly Average Ratings week of April 30, 2018 ABC World News Tonight 7.73 million total viewers; 1.3/7 and 1.54 million A25-54 NBC Nightly News 7.47 million total viewers; 1.3/7 and 1.63 million A25-54 CBS Evening News 5.72 million total viewers; 1.0/5 and 1.16 million A25-54 Broadcast Morning News Shows Weekly Average Ratings week of April 30, 2018 ABC: Good Morning America 4.12 million total viewers; 1.1/10 and 1,268,000 A25-54 NBC: Today 4.05 million total viewers; 1.2/11 and 1,397,000 A25-54 CBS: This Morning 3.23 million total viewers; 0.7/7 and 837,000 A25-54 Broadcast Sunday Morning News Shows Ratings May 6, 2018 NBC Meet the Press 3.42 million total viewers; 0.7 and 889,000 A25-54 ABC This Week 2.89 million total viewers; 0.6 and 763000 A25-54 CBS Face the Nation 2.84 million total viewers; 0.6 and 687,000 A25-54 CBS Face the Nation-2 1.78 million total viewers; 0.4 and 426,000 A25-54 FOX News Sunday 1.19 million total viewers; 0.3 and 334,000 A25-54 Late Night Shows Weekly Average Ratings week of April 30, 2018 CBS: The Late Show 2.92 million total viewers; 0.41/3 among A18-49 NBC: The Tonight Show 2.33 million total viewers; 0.52/3 among A18-49 ABC: Jimmy Kimmel Live 2.87 million total viewers; 0.36/2 among A18-49 Live + Same Day Viewers AA (millions) Monday, May 7, 2018 time period averages Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated Live+SD NBC: 5.99 million The Voice 8.30, Running Wild with Bear Grylls 3.68 ABC: 5.75 million Dancing With the Stars 7.64, The Crossing 3.85 CBS: 4.52 million Kevin Can Wait 5.42, Man with a Plan 4.94, Superior Donuts 4.35, The Big Bang Theory 3.34, Elementary 4.56 FOX: 3.42 million Lucifer 2.86, The Resident 3.98 UNI: 1.08 million
El Rico y Lazaro 1.20, Papa a toda madre 0.96, Por Amar Sin Ley 1.08 CW: 1.21 million Supergirl 1.59, iZombie 0.82 TELE: 0.84 million Mi Familia Perfecta 0.61, Al otro lado del muro 0.81, Enemigo Intimo 1.11
Monday A18-49 Analysis: NBC 1.3/5, ABC 0.8/3, FOX 0.8/3, CBS 0.7/3, UNI 0.5/2, CW 0.4/2, TELE 0.5/2 EXECUTIVE MOVES Vedia Ayvaz was named Senior Vice President, Brand Creative at Comedy Central. She joins from A+E Networks, where she was Vice President, Head of Creative for 45th & Dean. Dick Clark Productions announced three promotions. Rika Camizianos was upped Vice President of Creative Content and Post Production, Magdalena Mango was named Vice President of Brand Strategy and Integrated Marketing, and Michael Nieporent was appointed Vice President of Brand, Marketing and Digital Strategy. John Skipper, former President of ESPN, joined UK sports media firm Perform Group as Executive Chairman. ICM Partners promoted Shade Grant and Courtny Catzel to Co-Heads of New York Non-Scripted Programming. Motista expanded its executive leadership team, hiring Tim O’Sullivan as Executive Vice President of Sales and Linda Vetter as Vice President of Marketing. O’Sullivan last served as Senior Vice President of Global Business Development at Analytic Partners, while Vetter led marketing at Yes Lifecyle Marketing. ITV America launched new crime and investigation unit Good Caper Content, with Kathryn Vaughan taking the helm as President. In addition, ITV Entertainment appointed Alex Dundas as Executive Vice President. Benjamin Katz was tapped as Head of Engineering and CIO of dataxu. He joins from Cinch Financial, where he was CTO. Ingenious Media hired Will Harrison as Managing Director. He was previously COO for the Harry Potter franchise at Warner Bros. This Day in History: 1946 – The first hourlong entertainment program, Hour Glass, premiered on NBC. Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: How was Ida’s disappearance explained on Rhoda (1974-1978) during the period actress Nancy Walker left to do sitcoms The Nancy Walker Show and Blansky’s Beauties? Ida and her husband Martin were traveling the country in an RV. Kudos to: Norman Leung-Viacom/Nickelodeon/NYC; Rev. Mark Wajda/Leesburg, FL; Holly Hearn-H2 Concierge Marketing/Sarasota, FL; Andy Pittman-TAMU/College Station, TX; Ken Klatt-The Winning Run, Los Angeles, CA; Susan Nessanbaum-Goldberg-M and S Entertainment, Los Angeles, CA; David Westburg-SAG-AFTRA Federal Credit Union/Burbank, CA; Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/Los Angeles, CA; John Ferlazzo/London, UK. Today’s Trivia Question: What caused Ned’s mother to die, permanently, on Pushing Daises (2007-2009)? (Email [email protected] with your answer and be sure to include your name, company, city and time zone. Unofficial rules: a limit of four.) Answer to Our Last Anagram: Scalable Turtle = Better Call Saul. Kudos to: Synda Kollman-Charter Marketing Group/Boca Raton, FL Today’s Anagram: Cocoa Airlift Inn (Email [email protected] with your answer; first three respondents with the correct answer who aren’t in trivia will be posted in tomorrow’s newsletter.) |
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WHAT'S ON TONIGHT - WEDNESDAY MAY 9
ABC: The Goldbergs, Alex, Inc., Modern Family, American Housewife, Designated Survivor CBS: Survivor, SEAL Team, Code Black CW: Riverdale, The Originals FOX: Empire, Star NBC: The Blacklist, Law & Order: SVU, Chicago P.D. [f] PBS: Nature, NOVA Wonders, NOVA Telemundo: Mi Familia Perfecta, Al otro lado del muro, El Senor de los Cielos Univision: El rico y Lazaro, Papa a toda madre, Por Amar Sin Ley
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