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03.24.17
Good morning. It’s Friday March 24, 2017 and this is your first early morning briefing.
Tonight’s Premieres:
Disney: Tangled at 7:30p
VH1: RuPaul’s Drag Race at 8p
Saturday’s Premiere:
Travel: Ghost Adventures at 9p
Saturday’s Finales:
BBCA: Planet Earth II at 9p
Nat Geo WILD: The Incredible Dr. Pol at 9p
Sunday’s Premieres:
AHC: UFOs: The Lost Evidence at 10p
ID: Disappeared at 10p
Sunday’s Finale:
DIY: Salvage Dawgs at 9p
Cinemax cancelled The Knick. Clive Owen had previously said he was done with the series. “After a critically acclaimed two-season run of The Knick on Cinemax, we will not be going forward with additional episodes of the series,” said In a Kary Antholis, president, HBO miniseries and Cinemax programming. “Despite our pride in and affection for the series, as well as our respect for and gratitude towards Steven Soderbergh and his team, we have decided to return Cinemax to its original primetime series fare of high-octane action dramas, many of which will be internationally co-produced.”
Mario Lopez is joining the game show circuit as host of CBS’s Candy Crush, based on the mobile game franchise. “Mario Lopez is a perfect fit to host Candy Crush. As a big fan of the game and a competitor by nature, his larger-than-life enthusiasm matches the size and scope of our show,” said EP Matt Kunitz.
FOX is cutting Lucifer’s Season 2 run short and saving the final four episodes for Season 3. The move trims the show’s sophomore tally to 18 episodes and moves its finale to Monday, May 29.
ESPN announced that Suzy Kolber, Samantha Ponder and Trey Wingo will be the new NFL studio hosts for the 2017 season. The trio are replacing veteran Chris Berman, who has been with the network since 1979, and announced in January that he would be scaling back his role.
Telemundo partnered with Atencion Atencion, a children’s entertainment and education company founded by teachers and music therapists, to provide five seasons of children’s content, available now on Telemundo on Demand. The deal marks the first time that children’s programming is available on Telemundo’s VOD service.
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.Spike renewed Ink Master for a tenth season and greenlit new special, Ink Master Angels. Season 10, which was picked up for 16 one-hour episodes, goes into production later this year to air on the rebranded Paramount Network in 2018. One-hour special Ink Master Angels features four of Season 8’s top female competitors – Ryan Ashley, Kelly Doty, Nikki Simpson and Gia Rose – as they travel the country and go head to head with some of America’s most talented tattoo artists.
CBS announced early renewals of 18 series for the 2017-2018 season. Five freshman shows, Bull, Kevin Can Wait, MacGyver, Man With A Plan and Superior Donuts, made the cut. Also on the list were Blue Bloods, Hawaii Five-0, Life in Pieces, Madam Secretary, Mom, NCIS: New Orleans, NCIS: Los Angeles, Scorpion, Survivor, 48 Hours and 60 Minutes; as well as the previously announced NCIS and The Big Bang Theory.
Influencers are undoubtedly an effective marketing tool, but it’s time to "flip the script," urges Douglas Simon, CEO of D S Simon, and turn your own experts into influencers rather than recruit outsiders. To hear why going in-house makes good sense, check out the latest Cynsiders.
History’s new unscripted series Road Hauks, following the creation of custom off-road vehicles, premieres Saturday, April 8 at 10p, after all-new back-to-back episodes of Counting Cars at 9p.
E!’s Second Wives Clubs bows Thursday, May 4 at 9p. The eight-episode docu-series follows six women – Shiva Safai, Katie Cazorla, Veronika Obeng, Shawna Craig, Tania Mehra and Morisa Surrey – who are married or engaged to wealthy, powerful men.
Puppy Dog Pals debuts Friday, April 14 at 10:30a on Disney Channel with two back-to-back episodes. Series will also be available that day on the Disney Junior app and YouTube page. Show follows two pug brothers, Bingo and Rolly, whose thrill-seeking appetites take them on adventures throughout their neighborhood and around the globe.
AXS TV airs Blondie on Sunday, April 2 at 10p. Original band members Debbie Harry, Clem Burke and Chris Stein perform classic hits and modern favorites, live from WTTW’s intimate Grainger Studio in Chicago, in the special.
EPIX presents the world television premieres of two thrillers in April. Nerve bows Sunday, April 2 at 8p and Our Kind of Traitor premieres Sunday, April 9 8p. The net is also featuring an April Fools’ Day Movie Marathon on April 1, kicking off with Drillbit Taylor at 6a.
The season finale of The Game of Dating airs as a special episode on Tuesday, March 28 at 8p on TV One, as Atlanta transplant Mychal Patterson goes on two different blind dates.
Morgan Freeman returns to host the final four episodes Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman beginning Tuesday, April 25 at 10p on Science Channel. Freeman will challenge audiences once again to think about daring questions, while taking a deeper look at the science behind topics such as hidden forces in the universe, aging, the future of Earth, and gun violence.
Hulu/MGM’s The Handmaid’s Tale and National Geographic’s Genius are among the highlights of this year’s Tribeca TV, the second annual television slate of the Tribeca Film Festival. Some 15 shows, including a sneak peek at PBS’ Ken Burns and Lynn Novick docu-series The Vietnam War, will screen during the festival which runs from April 19 to 30.
Entertainment Studios, Inc. struck an agreement with DISH to distribute its Justice Central.TV cable television network. Library includes Justice With Judge Mablean, America’s Court With Judge Ross, Justice For All With Judge Cristina Perez and more.
National Geographic announced the cast of its global scripted event series The Long Road Home, based on Martha Raddatz’s New York Times best-seller. Leading the cast are Michael Kelly (House of Cards, Taboo), Jason Ritter (Parenthood, Girls), E.J. Bonilla (Unforgettable), Kate Bosworth (Blue Crush, The Art of More), Sarah Wayne Callies (Prison Break, The Walking Dead), Noel Fisher (Shameless) and Jeremy Sisto (Suburgatory, Law & Order). Production begins this month at Fort Hood, TX.
Deadline reports that Oscar winner Adrien Brody was tapped for a role on the 4th season of BBC Two drama Peaky Blinders. His character is being kept under wraps.
Eliza Dushku (Buffy The Vampire Slayer) joins Bull on Tuesday, May 9. She’ll play J.P. Nunnelly, the savvy head of the best criminal defense firm in New York, on the CBS series.
Talulah Riley was upped to series regular in Season 2 of HBO drama Westworld. She recurred as Angela, the host who welcomes guests to Westworld, in Season 1.
Saturday Night Live vet Bobby Moynihan signed on to voice Happy the Horse, the title character in Syfy pilot Happy! The series is based on Grant Morrison and Darick Robertson’s graphic novel.
Laura Dern, Dayeed Diggs, Rachel Dratch, Ray Liotta, Andrea Martin and Maya Rudolph were tapped to guest star for Season 3 of Netflix comedy, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
Netflix is moving forward with Messiah, a present-day Jesus drama series from writer Michael Petroni (The Book Thief) and producers Mark Burnett and Roma Downey. The project is part of Burnett and Downey’s faith-based programming efforts.
Comedian and talk show host Chelsea Handler is back with a new season of Chelsea, premiering Friday, April 14 on Netflix.
Amazon’s Tumble Leaf Spring-A-Ling Surprise premieres on Prime Video in the US and UK on Tuesday, April 4.
UK based distributor Magnify Media made its first move into scripted formats with Mental from Finland’s state broadcaster YLE. The show tells the real life-based stories of four teenagers who end up in a locked psychiatric unit.
International distribution and production company Rooftop Content Group will unveil a slate of new programming at this year’s MIPTV 2017. Included are docu-drama The Great Arab Revolt and sports documentary Pass The Ball.
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Dr. Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet scored a season high in ratings among both A25-54 (0.48) and Women 25-54 (0.63) on Saturday, March 18 at 9p, averaging 1.5 million viewers. It helped Animal Planet break into ad supported cable’s Top 10 in both Total Viewers (#8) and Women 25-54 (#10) in its timeslot. At 10p, The Zoo averaged a series high of 1.3 million viewers and also broke into cable’s Top 10 (#10) among Total Viewers in its timeslot.
The season premiere of WE tv’s Braxton Family Values” on Thursday, March 16 at 9p was the #1 cable telecast on Thursday night in Prime among women 18-49 and 25-54 and African-American viewers. The show delivered 1.45 million total viewers in Nielsen Live+3 ratings, up double digits from last year’s corresponding premiere and 43 percent from finale.
All six Scripps Networks Interactive channels saw increased primetime ratings Tuesday night, led by HGTV which ranked No. 2 in cable among P25-54 and No. 1 among W25-54. HGTV’s Fixer Upper was the top cable show of the night, while Home Town was the second highest rated series premiere in network history. Food Network posted a 5% increase over year ago, led by a new episode of Chopped. Travel Channel enjoyed a 15% jump; DIY Network saw a 9% increase; Cooking Channel had a 70% lift; and GAC beat last year’s numbers by 139%.
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 time period averages.
Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD
CBS: 4.3/8
Survivor 4.8/9, Criminal Minds 4.8/8, Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders 3.2/6
FOX: 4.0/7
Shots Fired One 3.1/6, Empire 4.9/8
NBC: 3.4/6
Blindspot 2.8/5, Law & Order: SVU 3.3/6, Chicago P.D 4.1/8
ABC: 2.6/4
The Goldbergs 2.7/5, Speechless 2.3/4, Modern Family 2.5/4, blackish 2.0/3, Designated Survivor 3.3/6
Univision: 1.0/2
Pequenos Gigantes USA 0.9/2, Vino el Amor 1.2/2, La Piloto 1.0/2
CW: 0.8/2
Arrow 0.9/2, The 100 0.6/1
TELE: 0.8/1
La Fan 0.5/1, La Dona 0.8/1, El Chema 1.1/2
Wednesday A19-49 Analysis: FOX 2.5/9, CBS 1.6/6, NBC 1.4/5, ABC 1.2/4, UNI 0.7/3, TELE 0.6/2, CW 0.4/1
Source: Nielsen
Lifetime hired Lauren Celinski as Vice President, Unscripted Development and Programming. She was previously Director of Programming and Development at E!
Friday Fun Fact: If two full moons occur in one month, the second one is called a blue moon.
This Day in History: 1980 – Nightline was first broadcast.
Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: Who voiced London Tipton’s dog in The Suite Life of Zach and Cody? Emma Stone. Kudos to: Stephanie Williams-National Geographic/Washington, D.C.; Rev. Mark Wajda/Leesburg, FL; Natasha Manners Floy-ABC-TV/Disney/NYC; Synda Kollman-Charter Marketing Group/Deerfield Beach, FL; Susan Nessanbaum- Goldberg-M and S Entertainment/Los Angeles CA; David Garber-Loyola Marymount University/Playa Vista, CA; Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/Los Angeles, CA.
Today’s Trivia Question: Which sitcom began naming episodes after a song by a rock band in its fifth season? (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: Card Rep Sank = Parks and Rec. Kudos to: Claire Heinichen-CMT/Nashville, TN; Keith Marder/Halstead, NY; Christine Allen-McGee Media/NYC.
Classic TV anagram: Get Whet Wins (Email [email protected]; 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 – FRIDAY MARCH 24, 2017
ABC: Last Man Standing, Dr. Ken, Shark Tank, 20/20
CBS: 2017 NCAA Basketball Tournament, 2017 NCAA Basketball Tournament
CW: The Originals, Reign
FOX: Rosewood, Sleepy Hollow
NBC: Grimm, Dateline NBC, Dateline NBC
PBS: Washington Week, Charlie Rose – The Week, Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration, American Masters
Telemundo: La Fan, La Dona, El Chema
Univision: La Piloto, Futbol Central, Eliminatorias Copa Mundial 2018
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