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| Tonight’s Premieres ID: The Object of Murder at 9p IN THE NEWS It’s Game On! at CBS. The network ordered the comedy/game show series from exec producers James Corden and Ben Winston that’s based on UK series A League of Their Own. Keegan-Michael Key is onboard to host, with tennis champ Venus Williams and New England Patriots baller Rob Gronkowski serving as team captains and actor/comedian Bobby Lee (Mad TV) The Late Late Show With James Corden writer Ian Karmel serving as panelists. Democratic Presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard struck back at co-host and frequent critic Joy Behar and other regulars at the round table on ABC’s The View when she guested on the show yesterday. “Recently… some of you have accused me being a traitor to my country, a Russian asset, a Trojan horse or a useful idiot, I think is the term that you used,” she said, then went on to describe herself as a patriot and a “strong and intelligent woman of color… I have dedicated almost my entire adult life to protecting the safety, security and the freedom of all Americans in this country.” The December Democratic debate is at UCLA no longer. An ongoing dispute between the school and the main labor union repping University of California employees led the Democratic National Committee to move away from the university’s Royce Hall. A new venue has not yet been selected for the debate, hosted by PBS NewsHour and Politico. Comcast Spotlight, the ad sales division of Comcast Cable, officially rebranded as Effectv. What’s in the name? “Our new name, Effectv, emphasizes our focus on partnering with clients to drive measurable results,” Maria Weaver, CMO, Comcast Advertising, tells Cynopsis. “Now clients can find and target audiences, then report on and prove the impact of their campaigns. The new brand underscores our long association with TV, connecting brands with consumers, and reinforces that TV is an effective and powerful medium. At Effectv, we combine the precision of digital with the reach of TV. While others are talking about it, we are doing it.” Fox Corp. bested Wall Street estimates for its fiscal first quarter. With total revenue of $2.67 billion and adjusted earnings per share of 80 cents, the company beat analysts’ consensus estimate for 69 cents. Fox’s cable and broadcast operations divisions posted single-digit growth. Cable network programming revenue was up 2 percent to $1.3 billion. Roku also beat the Street. Its users streamed more than 10 billion hours of entertainment in Q3, which led to sizable digital advertising. The company generated $260.9 million in revenue during the quarter, compared with a YoY figure of $173.4 million. This despite accelerating losses and a small decline in hardware revenue. Net losses for the quarter came in at $26.5 million, compared to $7.9 million for Q3 2018. Univision Q3 revenue rose 8.5 percent to $681.4 million, compared to $628.2 million for the same period last year. The company cited strong soccer and digital viewership as key assets, as well as its return to Dish Network after almost nine months. Digital video views of Univision rose 70 percent, which led to a 45 percent rise in digital ad revenue. Sinclair Broadcast Group reported a 47 percent revenue rise in Q3, the period in which the company closed its $9.6 billion acquisition of 21 regional sports networks formerly owned by Fox. But the second-largest owner of local TV stations saw a net loss of 64 cents a share during the quarter. |
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| PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT Happy Birthday Avery Scott, a drama based on the book The Year We Turned Forty by Lisa Steinke and Liz Fenton, is in development at ABC. From writer/producer Rina Mimoun (Mistresses), Anna Fricke (Valor), Secret Hideout and CBS Television Studios, series follows a woman facing a midlife existential crisis who gets the do-over of a lifetime. Ava DuVernay and her Array Filmworks and Kat Candler are developing an untitled drama series for TNT centered on the fatal aftermath of a Texas refinery accident and one woman’s move to seek justice through an unprecedented labor action. DuVernay and Candler work together on OWN drama Queen Sugar. HBO is back in business with Leaving Neverland director Dan Reed. The net, Reed and the BBC are onboard for Reed’s latest doc, antibiotic film Superbug, which explores the past, present and future of antibiotics via a hybrid documentary and scripted film. It’s slated to air on HBO and the BBC in 2021. The CW is developing Kung Fu, a reboot of the ‘70s David Carradine-starring TV series with a female lead. From the Blindspot team of Christina M. Kim, Martin Gero, Greg Berlanti & Sarah Schechter and Warner Bros. TV, reimagined series sees a young Chinese-American woman, who dropped out of college for a life-changing journey at an isolated monastery, return to her hometown where she uses her martial arts skills to combat crime. Writer/director Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Love Actually, Yesterday) is teaming with Locksmith Animation to create an animated feature for digital platforms based on a series of Christmas children’s books he penned. The Empty Stocking will be produced by Bonnie Arnold (How to Train Your Dragon, Toy Story) alongside Locksmith heads Sarah Smith and Julie Lockhart. ITV is developing an adaptation of Lindsey Davis’ Falco Roman private detective novels. Project, initially at the BBC, is now being overseen by ITV drama chief Polly Hill. Kids entertainment producer Driver Digital and Driver Media are uniting under the new umbrella Driver Studios. The company is home to digital native brands under the Cool School moniker including Storytime with Ms. Booksy, The Stupendous Drew Pendous and Crafty Carol. NEW & RETURNING SERIES The full second season of Chasing the Sun launched this week on streaming service Journy. Series follows adventure-seeker, and former pro surfer and model Stephen Jake Friedman as he travels the world; this season he hits up Asia with stops in Malaysia, Vietnam, Bali and more. AXS TV is entering a new field with fantasy football series All AXS Fantasy Football. Launching Sunday, November 10 at noon, series features a round-table of experts led by host Dave Farra providing gridiron guidance to help viewers dominate their Fantasy Football matchups…In more AXS sports news, the net and Fight Network inked a deal with Combate Americas to become the exclusive English-language broadcaster of the Hispanic mixed martial arts franchise’s events in the US and Canada. They’ll air at least 35 MMA events in 2020, plus carry related programming. I’ll Have What You’re Having, starring digital creator Alonzo Lerone and from Studio71, launches on Facebook Watch on Monday, November 11. Eight-ep series follows Lerone as he visits unique food locations in LA. Overhaulin’ returns to the MotorTrend App on Saturday, November 16 with new eps on the subscription streaming service. Car designer Chip Foose, co-hosts Chris Jacobs and Adrienne Janic and the crew reunite to transform timeworn rides into works of fresh, four-wheeled art. Four-part Hulu original series The Accident drops Friday, November 22. Script follows the political and familial drama that ensues after an accident rips apart a fly-over community that had hinged hopes for betterment on a construction project. COMING UP E! announced talent appearing on stage at the E! People’s Choice Awards, airing Sunday, November 10 at 9p. Alex Morgan, David Spade, Jenna Dewan, Jeremy Scott, Joey King, Kelly Rowland, KJ Apa and Terry Crews are among presenters. As previously announced, Jennifer Aniston will receive the People’s Icon Award, Gwen Stefani the Fashion Icon Award, and Pink the People’s Champion Award. Camila Cabello, Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa and Lizzo will perform at the 2019 American Music Awards, slated to air live on Sunday, November 24 at 8p on ABC. Event marks Eilish’s first awards show performance. Cozi TV is welcoming some “Unexpected Guests” for Thanksgiving. Starting Thursday, November 28 at 8a, the net will air a four-day marathon including of guest appearances in shows including The Office, Will & Grace and The Nanny. AMC streaming service Sundance Now gobbled up rights to five international dramas from Banijay Rights. Among the bounty are Norwegian detective series Wisting, starring Carrie-Anne Moss, which will launch December 18. Also, German-New Zealand thriller The Gulf (December 4), Denmark’s Couple Trouble and French drama The Red Shadows. TECH TALK Tumblr launched group chats, a new mobile product aimed at helping people on Tumblr connect with their communities in real-time. The chats, available in the Tumblr Dashboard, are public spaces where users can explore interests in topics from art to entertainment to social issues and identity. Full Frontal with Samantha Bee is back in the proverbial political game. The show rolled out Full Frontal’$ Totally Unrigged Primary via the Apple App and Google Play stores, enabling players to join their favorite 2020 Democratic candidate’s team and complete “fun and/or dumb” daily challenges to earn their candidate points. PODCAST POSTS Is the podcast market ready to face the music? Atypical Artists is teaming with musical theater scribes Brett Ryback, Jeff Luppino-Esposito and Matt Sav on In Strange Woods. Scripted podcast follows an 18-year-old girl in Minnesota’s north woods who’s reeling from the death of her older brother, and weaves in the investigation, taped interviews and a folk-pop score. CASTING Lifetime found its top-lining duo for its upcoming Salt-N-Pepa biopic. GG Townson (In the Cut, Everybody Hates Chris) will play Cheryl “Salt" James and Laila Odom (The Bobby DeBarge Story, Undercover Brother 2) will portray Sandra “Pepa” Denton… Also at Lifetime, singer/singwriter J.T. Hodges scored a role in the film Christmas Stars. STATS & RESEARCH New research from video platform Imagen suggests a generational shift is happening among sports fans across the major US pro leagues, with Millennial and Gen Z fans showing a desire to interact with sports content beyond live games, and a strong preference for more personalized engagement with content. Four times as many Millennial and Gen Z fans watch more than three hours of non-game sports content each week compared to Baby Boomers, 78 percent of fans enhance their live experience with non-game content by dual screening while watching a live game and 39 perecent of Millennials are willing to pay for exclusive online sports content. What’s the takeaway for the TV industry? “The study we conducted surfaced a number of interesting insights for content owners and rights-holders across the sports media landscape,” Ryan Rolf, Imagen CRO, tells Cynopsis. “Game broadcasters should do more to embrace second screening through official companion apps and social streams or otherwise risk fans consuming content in-game via competing platforms. While influencer content and traditional TV formats should not be thought of as isolated entities, instead influencers should be embraced for their authenticity by implementing them into programming that breaks down the traditional wall between teams, and their fans. Then when it comes to sporting archives, our research suggests rights holders would benefit by giving direct access to fans and embracing the short-form formats so popular on YouTube.” In other sports-engagement news, a new study from Telemundo Deportes in partnership with Turnkey Intelligence-MarketCast reports that Hispanic fans show 15 percent higher propensity to support sponsors than non-Hispanics, by trying, buying, or recommending a product or service, according to the study. Additionally, 57 percent of Hispanic sports fans who consume Spanish-language media would try, buy, or recommend a product or service—a 22 percent lift over non-Hispanics. Among other study highlights: *More than three-quarters of Spanish-language media consumers consider FIFA Men’s World Cup a “can’t miss event.” * 81 percent of Hispanic sports fans watch sports on television, predominantly at home, and were somewhat less likely than non-Hispanic fans to follow sports elsewhere (eg, streaming services, online news, or social media). STREAMING Wurl, a provider of streaming video distribution and ad services for connected TV, expanded into Europe via an agreement to deliver programming and advertising to Samsung’s TV Plus streaming service in Europe. GOOD WORKS In a campaign that spans its brands including History, A&E and Lifetime, A+E Networks extended of its long-standing campaign to honor veterans with History’s new talent-heavy PSA “Thank Our Veterans” as the cornerstone. Kevin Bacon, Jon Hamm, Scarlett Johansson, Toby Keith, Matthew McConaughey, Olivia Munn and Andy Samberg are among those onboard for the 30-second spot, that aims to bring awareness to the ways in which viewers can support veterans. |
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| RATINGS With three consecutive months of double-digit growth in Prime year on year, UPtv is heading into the holiday season with strong momentum. October Prime L3 is up 65 percent from year ago in W25-54, driven by new eps of Bringing Up Bates and the start of the Christmas season including the UPtv Premiere Movie A Christmas Movie Christmas. An all-day Christmas movie marathon on Sunday, October 27 reached over 2 million viewers. Tuesday night’s The Wonderful World of Disney Presents The Little Mermaid Live! scored a 2.6 rating/12 share in A18-49 and delivered ABC the highest-rated made-for-TV musical on any network in nearly four years, since Fox’s Grease in January 2016. Live + Same Day Viewers AA (millions): Tuesday, November 5 Time period averages Source: Nielsen Live+SD CBS: 8.63 million NCIS 10.74, FBI 8.54, NCIS: New Orleans 6.61 ABC: 7.14 million Disney Presents: The Little Mermaid Live! 8.98, Emergence 3.47 NBC: 6.61 million The Voice 8.11, This Is Us 6.69, New Amsterdam 5.01 FOX: 2.96 million The Resident 3.42, Empire 2.49, Telemundo: 1.40 million Exatlon 1.55, Final de Paraiso 1.44, Senior de los Cielos 1.22 Univision: 1.25 million Rosa de Guadelupe 1.42, Cuna de Lobos 1.33, El Dragon 1.01 CW: 0.91 million The Flash 1.20. Arrow 0.62 Tuesday A18-49 Rating FOX 0.7/4, ABC 2.0/9, NBC 1.1/5, CBS 0.8/4 TELE .5/2, UNI .4/2, CW 0.3/2 EXECUTIVE MOVES WarnerMedia Entertainment and Direct-To-Consumer tapped Lucinda Martinez as head of multicultural marketing, brand and inclusion strategies. Martinez joined HBO more than 17 years ago and most recently served as EVP, brand marketing. NBCUniversal Content Distribution promoted Jonas Blank to SVP, business and legal affairs. Citizen Pictures, producer of Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives, hired former Dorsey Pictures exec Katie Alvord as VP, Development. GSN Games appointed Wilhelm Taht as SVP/GM for Bingo Bash. Taht most recently was EVP, games, at Rovio Entertainment. Vivian Lien has been elevated to VP, labor relations at the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. She joined the AMPTP in 2013 and most recently served as senior counsel. David Brindley, who headed factual and factual entertainment for the BBC, joined ITV Studios-backed Twofour Group in the UK as creative director. He fills the void at Twofour left by the departures of Melanie Leach and Andrew Mackenzie. Production and distribution services provider Deluxe is emerging from Chapter 11 and named Eric Cummins as its new CEO. Cummins joined Deluxe in 2018; before that he was CFO of Harland Financial Solutions. This Day in History 1874 - The Republican party was first symbolized as an elephant in a cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly. Answer to Our Last Trivia Question What was the first national color television broadcast? The 1954 Tournament of Roses Parade. Kudos to: Gerry Bixenspan-TV Marketing Inc./NY; Synda Kollman-Charter Marketing Group/Boca Raton, FL; Charles Lore/NY; Rev. Mark Wajda/Lakeland, FL; Andy Pittman-TAMU/College Station, TX; Paul Blutter-Walk and Talk Production Rentals/Burbank; Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/LA Today's Trivia Question Which country’s adaptation of Everybody Loves Raymond became its most-watched comedy, surpassing the American original in number of eps aired? (Email trivia@cynopsis.com 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.). |
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| THURSDAY NOVEMBER 7 ABC: Grey’s Anatomy, A Million Little Things, How To Get Away with Murder CBS: Young Sheldon, The Unicorn, Mom, Carl’s Second Act, Evil CW: Supernatural, Legacies FOX: NFL Football NBC: Superstore, Perfect Harmony, The Good Place, Will & Grace: Law & Order: Special Victim’s Unit PBS: This Old House Hour, Life From Above, Antiques Roadshow Telemundo: Exatlon Estados Unidos, El Final del Paraiso, El Senor de los Cielos Univision: La Rosa de Guadelupe, Cuna de Lobos, El Dragon |
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