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PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT Animal Planet is working with Coyote Peterson, host of YouTube’s Brave Wilderness channel, to develop a new long-form TV series featuring wild expeditions and rare up-close animal experiences. Series will premiere in 2019 and target Peterson’s 13 million-strong “Coyote Pack” as well as Animal Planet’s global audience. Christopher G. Cowen, who served as an exec producer on CNN’s Decades series, is launching a TV, feature documentary and branded content company, Station 10 Media, as part of a joint venture with Boardwalk Pictures. Boardwalk will supply production and post-production support for Station 10 projects. “There has never been another time in the history of television or film where more opportunities for creators have existed,” said Cowen. FX has put in development crime drama Piety, from Wes Brown (Preacher) and Noah Hawley’s 26 Keys Productions. From new holiday specials and original Christmas movies to Rudolph and the Grinch, the Cynopsis Holiday Guide offers a comprehensive list of festive programming this season. Find your favorites here. Medical drama Family Emergency is in development at CBS. Project comes from Michael Rauch (Instinct), Jennie Snyder Urman (Charmed) and CBS Television Studios. NBC gave a script commitment to The Bone Collector, based on the Jeffery Deaver bestsellers and 1999 movie, from VJ Boyd and Mark Bianculli (S.W.A.T.), Universal Television and Sony Pictures Television. Netflix renewed animated comedy Big Mouth for season three. Series follows middle schoolers with emotional baggage. Fox gave a script commitment plus penalty to comedies Uncle Joey, starring comedian Joey Diaz, and Significant Brother, written by Scott King (Difficult People) and Moe Jelline (You Again). Both come from Lionsgate and 3 Arts Entertainment. Top 10 Weekend Domestic Box Office Estimates: November 16-18, 2018 Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (Warner Bros.) $62.0 million, opening weekend Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch (Universal) $38.2 million (week 2), cume revenue $126.5 million Bohemian Rhapsody (Fox) $15.7 million (week 3), cume revenue $127.9 million Instant Family (Paramount) $14.7 million, opening weekend Widows (Fox) $12.3 million, opening weekend The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (Buena Vista) $4.7 million (week 3), cume revenue $43.9 million A Star Is Born (Warner Bros.) $4.4 million (week 7), cume revenue $185.8 million Overlord (Paramount) $3.9 million (week 2), cume revenue $17.7 million The Girl in the Spider’s Web: A New Dragon Tattoo Story (Sony) $2.5 million (week 2), cume revenue $13.3 milion Nobody’s Fool (Paramount) $2.3 million (week 3), cume revenue $8.9 million Source: comScore RETURNING SERIES Season two of Showtime’s SMILF premieres Sunday, January 20, at 10:30p. Among the comedy’s guest stars for its sophomore run are Melanie Griffith (Working Girl), Ally Sheedy (Psych) and Trump accuser Stormy Daniels. Season three of Young Justice: Outsiders premieres Friday, January 4, on the DC Universe streaming platform. First two seasons of the animated series aired on Cartoon Network from 2010-2013. COMING UP Ken Jeong, BuzzFeed, Sony Pictures Television and YouTube are teaming for a 30-minute Christmas special. In Ken Jeong Cracks Christmas, the Community star is joined by celeb pals to explore unexpected stories behind the big holiday. Show debuts on BuzzFeed’s YouTube channel on Wednesday, December 12. Fasten your seat belts, it’s Rough Air Ahead on The Weather Channel tonight. In the 9p special, correspondent and producer Dave Malkoff explores the science behind airplane turbulence. Our inaugural Top Women in Sports call for entries deadline is two weeks away! We’ll be honoring the game changers who are elevating the sports industry with drive and innovation. Who do you know that fits the bill? You can nominate them here by December 4. Claire Foy (The Crown) will host NBC’s Saturday Night Live for the first time on December 1. Anderson Paak, also making his SNL debut, will be the musical guest. DIGITAL DATA Seventy-four-year-old Seventeen is going digital first after the December 2018/January 2019 issue. The fashion and lifestyle magazine’s website will cover content previously found in the print edition, supplemented by stand-alone special issues. Circulation for Seventeen dropped from ten times a year to six in 2016. Android users experienced a brief Instagram outage on Saturday. The bug was fixed and users still having issues were told to clear their cache and reinstall the app. WarnerMedia’s cult fave streaming service FilmStruck, which offers access to classic films from the Criterion Collection, is set to shutter at the end of the month, but fans will soon have another option - through an arrangement with WarnerMedia. In Spring 2019 the Criterion Channel will launch as a free-standing streaming service. The library of films will also be part of WarnerMedia’s direct-to-consumer platform, slated for a 4Q19 launch. Streaming service BritBox will celebrate “Britmas” next month, with original programs, premieres, and live broadcasts featuring celebrities including Mary Berry (Mary Berry’s Absolute Favorites), Kenneth Branagh (Upstart Crow Christmas Special), Hugh Bonneville (Mr. Stink), Patrick Stewart (Snow Queen), Rowan Atkinson (Maigret) and John Cleese (Hold the Sunset Christmas Special), among others. ADVERTISING Google Ads is letting advertisers run an experimental ad format to promote Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals. Ads will show at the top of search results and be included as parts of the ads that have Promotion Extensions. To participate, advertisers add Promotion Extensions for Black Friday and Cyber Monday and create ad groups with relevant keywords and creatives. In a new survey by Clinch, 79% of consumers said Facebook was the most effective social media platform to reach them, and 70% purchased a product or service after seeing an ad on social media. But only 31% said they felt ads were tailored to them at least 75% of the time. GOING GLOBAL Samira Mighty (Love Island) will host the UK remake of Facebook Watch game show Confetti, from Thames. CASTING Two and Half Men star Jon Cryer will recur as evil genius Lex Luthor on CW’s Supergirl, starting in early January….Nadine Cole (Casual) landed a recurring role in NBC’s upcoming The Village, focused on residents in a Brooklyn apartment building….John Marshall Jones (Smart Guy), Richard Burgi (General Hospital) and Adrian Pasdar (Heroes) will recur on ABC drama Grand Hotel. |
A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE | Celebrating the women who elevate sports media The Cynopsis Top Women in Sports Awards This is the perfect opportunity to show members of your team how much their contributions to sports media are valued. The program honors women from all aspects of the space, including: Technology, On-Air Talent, Production, Social Good, Social Media, Sports-Centric Brands, Marketing and Operations. [ NOMINATE BY DEC 4 ] |
RATINGS Opposite the NFL on Fox, ABC’s TGIT winter finales gave the net its best Thursday results in five weeks. Leading the trio was Grey’s Anatomy, which hit a season-high 7.3 million viewers and best-since-premiere 1.7/7 among A18-49, and had a crossover episode with Station 19. The 19th Annual Latin Grammy Awards delivered an average audience of 2.7 million Total Viewers 2+, 1.2 million A18-49 and 511,000 A18-34 to Univision. During the show’s final hour, the net drew more A18-49 and A18-34 viewers than ABC, NBC, and CBS. Live + Same Day Viewers AA (millions) Thursday, November 15, 2018 time period averages Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated Live+SD FOX: 11.68 million NFL Football 11.68 CBS: 8.47 million The Big Bang Theory 12.56, Young Sheldon 10.77, Mom 7.93, Murphy Brown 5.96, S.W.A.T. 5.13 ABC: 5.44 million Grey’s Anatomy 7.30, Station 19 5.91, How to Get Away With Murder 3.13 NBC: 2.95 million Superstore 3.31, The Good Place 2.69, Will & Grace 2.93, I Feel Bad 1.90, Law & Order: SVU 4.00 UNIVISION: 1.73 million Latin Grammys 1.73 CW: 1.28 million Supernatural 1.48, Legacies 1.08 TELEMUNDO: 0.81 million La Sultana 0.89, Falsa Identidad 0.85, Senora Acero 0.69 Thursday A18-49: FOX 3.4/14, CBX 1.3/5, ABC 1.2/5, UNI 0.9/4, NBC 0.8/3, CW 0.4/2, TELE 0.4/2 EXECUTIVE MOVES Brad Carr has been named Senior Vice President, Production at Endemol Shine North America. Carr was most recently SVP, Production at Critical Content. |
A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE | Save the Date! The 2nd Annual Cynopsis Short Form Video Festival March 6, 2019 | SVA Theatre | New York City Screen the winning videos chosen by our expert panel of jurors, and enjoy thought-provoking and idea-rich panel discussions with producers, directors, marketers, and more. Panels will address topics including: Finding the right platforms for premium short form video and what advertisers ant from short-form. |
This Day in History: 1872 – The first U.S. patent for a calculator was awarded, to E.D. Barbour. Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: What was the name of Peyton’s website on One Tree Hill (2003-2012)? Punk and Disorderly. Kudos to: Andy Pittman-TAMU/College Station, TX, Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/LA. Today’s Trivia Question: Which fictional TV reporter was the proud winner of the "Silver Sow" award? (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.) Monday Kids Show Anagram: In Ran Auditors (Email [email protected] with your answer and be sure to include your name, company, city and time zone. First three responses will be included.) |
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WHAT'S ON TONIGHT - MONDAY NOVEMBER 19 ABC: Dancing With the Stars [f], The Good Doctor CBS: The Neighborhood, Happy Together, Magnum P.I., Bull CW: Arrow, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow FOX: The Resident, 9-1-1 NBC: The Voice, Manifest PBS: Antiques Roadshow, Julia Louis-Dreyfus: The Mark Twain Prize, Independent Lens TELEMUNDO: La Sultana, Falsa Identidad, Senora Acero UNIVISION: Jesus, Mi Marido Tiene Mas Familia, Amar a Muerte |
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