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PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT Paul Rudd will topline new Netflix comedy Living With Yourself from Timothy Greenberg (The Daily Show with John Stewart), Likely Story and Jax Media. Created and written by Greenberg, the project centers on a man (Rudd) who undergoes a novel treatment to become a better person and ends up replaced by a new, improved version of himself, who’s his own worst enemy. Glee’s Matthew Morrison is set to star in Simon Cowell’s The Greatest Dancer with Cheryl Tweedy (Girls Aloud) and Oti Mabuse (Strictly Come Dancing). The trio will comprise the Dance Captains in the BBC One show, hosted by Alesha Dixon and Jordan Banjo. Mark Wahlberg’s Unrealistic Ideas inked a deal to produce McMillions. The true crime original documentary series, which is in development, explores the story of the rigged McDonald’s monopoly game and will be shopped to broadcast and cable networks. Top 10 Weekend Domestic Box Office Estimates: August 10-12, 2018 The Meg (Warner Bros.) $44.5 million, opening weekend Mission: Impossible – Fallout (Paramount) $20.0 million (week 3), cume revenue $162.0 million Disney’s Christopher Robin (Buena Vista) $12.4 million (week 2), cume revenue $50.0 million Slender Man (Sony/Screen Gems) $11.3 million, opening weekend Blackkklansman (Focus Features) $10.8 million, opening weekend The Spy Who Dumped Me (Lion’s Gate) $6.6 million (week 2), cume revenue $24.6 million Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again! (Universal) $5.8 million (week 4), cume revenue $103.8 million The Equalizer 2 (Sony) $5.5 (week 4), cume revenue $89.6 million Hotel Transylvania (Sony) $5.1 (week 5), cume revenue $146.9 million Ant-Man and the Wasp (Buena Vista) $4.0 million (week 6), cume revenue $203.5 million Source: comScore NEW & RETURNING SERIES Crisis on Wall Street: The Week That Shook the World debuts Wednesday, September 12 at 10p on CNBC. The doc explores the most tumultuous days of the historic financial crisis of 2008. A&E’s Nighwatch Nation, an expansion of the net’s Nightwatch, premieres Thursday, August 16 at 10p. Rasha Drachkovitch, Co-Founder & CEO of 44 Blue Productions and Executive Producer of Nightwatch Nation, talks about how – and why – this iteration is different, in the new Cynsiders. COMING UP CBS News presents Sunday’s Best: Celebrating 40 Years of CBS Sunday Morning on Friday, September 14 at 8p on CBS. The primetime special, anchored by Jane Pauley, spotlights original reporting on the arts, humanities, entertainment, music and more. Disney will premiere Under the Seas: A Descendants Story, a new live-action short-form special for premiere on Friday, September 28. Project stars Dove Cameron and China Anne McClain, who are reprising their roles as Mal and Uma in the special about arch nemeses facing off in an underwater showdown. CASTING On the Netflix front, Max Jenkins (The Mysteries of Laura) and Luke Roessler (Legion) nabbed series regular roles in the streamer’s straight-to-series dark comedy, Dead to Me.... Meanwhile, drama series Central Park Five revealed its leading men: Chris Chalk (Gotham), Ethan Herisse (Miss Virginia), Marquis Rodriguez (Chicago Fire), Caleel Harris (Goosebumps 2) and newcomers Freddie Miyares and Justin Cunningham…. Colleen Ballinger will reprise her Haters Back Off! role, Miranda Sings, in a new comedy special. Mark Consuelos’ son, Michael Consuelos, will play his Riverdale character Hiram Lodge in a Season 3 flashback episode of The CW series… Chris Vance (Transporter) is set to recur in the fifth season of Amazon drama Bosch… Christy Carlson Romano and Patton Oswalt have joined the cast of Disney Channel original movie Kim Possible. VIDEOS IN SHORT Unity and DisneyTelevision Animation announced new series of shorts, Baymax Dreams. Based on Big Hero 6 The Series, the 2 to 3 minute long shorts will debut on DisneyNOW and Disney Channel You Tube on Saturday, September 15. DIGITAL DATA FOX is rolling out new mobile video game show FN Genius, a response to the viral success of HQ Trivia, and is already live in app stores and has been pitched in sales meetings dating back to May, according to Deadline. Jordan L. Jones, who stars in the network’s comedy, Rel, is hosting the short-form show, which will award cash prizes to players who download the app and play along. In an effort to double its monthly video starts to 8 million and grow loyal app users, NBCUniversal is putting video clips front and center on its NBC News mobile app. The new version launches today and replaces a text-heavy newsfeed design with titles of clips. Clips at the top of the app will be previewed automatically without sound, which also increases the chances of being watched. Roku is expanding its channel and posting stronger overall revenue and advertising TV results. Its second quarter revenues rose 57% to $156.8 million, with net income at break even, $526,000, versus a $15.5 million loss year ago. Meanwhile, the company expects 35% revenue growth in the third quarter. Licensing revenue of the Roku platform to TV manufacturers now accounts for 58% of all revenue, up 84% from a year ago. As for specific hardware sales of it set-top boxes, Roku has 24% higher revenues to $90.3 million, while its active accounts grew 46% to 22 million. Club Mickey Mouse, which launched on Disney Digital Network last September, is adding former Mouseketeer JC Chasez as a mentor in an upcoming back-to-school special. Ahead of the special, he appeared in a music video that debuted on Friday. GOING GLOBAL Bomanbridge Media sold Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s From Above documentaries to public broadcasters in Asia Pacific. Endemol Shine International secured a deal with Prosieben in Germany for Younger. The agreement includes all five seasons the TV Land series produced to date. The Bridge producer Lars Blomgren is looking to bring remakes of the hit Scandinavian crime drama in China and India. British pay-TV operator Virgin Media and UKTV, a joint venture between Discovery and BBC Studios ended the carriage dispute that led to a blackout of all UKTV channels on the Liberty Global-backed service. A new agreement was reached between the two companies restoring channel service. |
RATINGS The Sunday, August 5 second season premiere of 90 Day Fiance: Before the 90 Days? was the highest-rated season premiere in franchise history with ratings and delivery for W25-54/18-49/18-34 as well as P2+.The episode averaged 1.9 W25-54 rating, a 1.6 W18-49 rating, a 1.3 W18-34 rating and 2.2 million Total Viewers. Driven by the success of Sunday’s season premiere of Keeping Up with the Kardashians and Very Cavallari, E! ranked as the #1 ad-supported cable network in primetime among P18-34. The Kardashians delivered 2.2 million Total Viewers, 1.4 million P18-49 and 785,000 P18-34, ranking as the top cable program of the night among all key demos. Live + Same Day Viewers AA (millions) Thursday, August 9, 2018 time period averages Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated Live+SD CBS: 6.61 million The Big Bang Theory 7.29, Young Sheldon 7.07, Big Brother 7.42, S.W.A.T. 4.64 NBC: 4.88 million America’s Got Talent 6.79, Trial & Error 4.95, Trial & Error 4.25, Law & Order: SVU 3.53 ABC: 4.12 million The Gong Show 4.21, Match Game 4.47, Take Two 3.68 FOX: 4.00 million MasterChef 4.00 CW: 1.08 million Supernatural 1.12, Black Lightning 1.03 TELE: 0.95 million Exation Estados Unidos 0.71, Sin Senos Si Hay Paraiso 1.00, El Senor de los Cielos 1.15 Univision: 0.87 million El Rico y Lazaro 1.07, La Bella y Las Bestias 0.85, La Piloto 2 0.68 Thursday A19-49 Analysis: CBS 1.5/7, NBC 1.1/5, FOX 1.1/5, 0.9/5, TELE 0.6/3, ABC UNI 0.4/2, CW 0.3/1 EXECUTIVE MOVES David Ozer is leaving his post as President of IDW Entertainment to become an independent producer. This Day in History: 1967 – The film Bonnie and Clyde, starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, made its U.S. premiere. Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: Who played the troubled woman The Love Boat (1977-1986) delivered to Fantasy Island (1977-1984) in a crossover episode? Loni Anderson. Kudos to: Doug Boynton-Boynton Media Partners/Virginia Beach, VA; Gary Bixenspan-TV Marketing Inc./NYC; Rev. Mark Wajda/Leesburg, FL; Cynthia New-Spectrum Reach/Cape Girardeau, MO; Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/Los Angeles, CA; David Westburg-SAG-AFTRA Federal Credit Union/Burbank, CA. Today’s Trivia Question: Which show’s scriptwriter, following the series’ ending, filed a lawsuit against Screen Gems claiming that she had submitted a similar premise to them called Baker’s Half-Dozen? (Email [email protected] with your answer and be sure to include your name, company, city and time zone. Unofficial rules: a limit of four correct answers from each time zone will be selected.) Answer to Our Last Anagram: Stereo Hymns = My Three Sons. Kudos to: Karen Van Vleet-Horizon Media/NYC; Michael Strauss-Gamut/NYC; Paul Blutter-Walk and Talk Production Rentals/Burbank, CA. Today’s Drama TV Anagram: I Readily Tone (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 – MONDAY AUGUST 13 ABC: Bachelor in Paradise, The Proposal CBS: Mom, Life in Pieces, Salvation, Elementary CW: Penn & Teller: Fool Us, Who’s Line Is It Anyway?, Who’s Line Is It Anyway? FOX: So You Think You Can Dance NBC: American Ninja Warrior, Dateline NBC PBS: Antiques Road Show, Frontline Telemundo: Exation Estados Unidos, Sin Senos Si Hay Paraiso, El Senor de los Cielos Univision: El Rico y Lazaro, La Bella y Las Bestias La Piloto
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