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The Cynopsis Measurement & Data Conference
Thursday, August 2nd | 10am – 3:30pm | Dream Downtown, NYC
Sponsored by TV Time
Consistent measurement in the video world, regardless of device, remains the single most difficult puzzle in today’s media landscape, and is far from being solved. That’s why the Measurement & Data Conference will advance the conversation by having leading thinkers and doers examine the thorniest points in the discussion so we can all move forward – successfully.
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PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT
CBS gave series orders to comedies starring Damon Wayans Jr. and Cedric the Entertainer. The untitled Wayans show focuses on a couple who reconnect with their younger, hipper selves when an emerging pop star moves in, while Welcome to the Neighborhood follows a nice guy from the Midwest who moves into a rough LA area and finds an acerbic neighbor, played by Cedric.
ABC gave a formal series order to The Rookie. Castle’s Nathan Fillion stars as the oldest rookie in the LAPD, reuniting him with Castle EP Alexi Hawley and ABC Studios. Hawley, Fillion and Entertainment One’s Mark Gordon EP with Michelle Chapman and Jon Steinberg.
Also picked up to series by ABC is A Million Little Things, from DJ Nash (Growing Up Fisher). Drama comes from ABC Studios and Kapital Entertainment.
FX and Hulu grabbed first-run North American rights to The Weekly, a documentary news program produced by the New York Times and Left/Right. Series premieres later this year on FX, with Hulu holding exclusive day-after streaming rights. “Our ambition with The Weekly is to bring the authority and excellence of New York Times journalism to the largest possible television audience. Partnering with FX and Hulu together for distribution represents an entirely new and uniquely powerful way do just that,” said Meredith Kopit Levien, COO of The New York Times Company. 21st Century Fox is parent to FX and co-parent, with Comcast, Disney and Time Warner, to Hulu.
TruTV is keeping it funny with a 2018-19 programming slate that includes a series pickup for its Tacoma FD (wt) pilot, set in a firehouse in the wettest city in America. A new comedic medical advice show from Ken Jeong and an animated series from comedian Jo Koy received pilot commitments, and the net ordered new seasons of Adam Ruins Everything, Hack My Life, and Laff Mobb’s Laff Tracks. “We’ve reached a point in our illustrious four-year history as a comedy network where we have a fully-balanced portfolio, proven results and are firing on all cylinders,” said net president Chris Linn. “Our mix of returning hits, new series, plus scripted and unscripted formats in development, and a wholly-owned library of originals gives us a distinct advantage in the marketplace. Against all odds and in a challenging landscape, truTV continues to deliver premium experiences for our fans and our advertising partners, and combined with our all-in commitment to reduced commercials, we plan to keep raising the bar.” Linn talks more about the net’s Limited Commercial Interruption strategy in the new Cynsiders.
For details on truTV’s programming news, as well as more updates and Upfront announcements, go to the Cynopsis Upfronts portal, this season’s go-to guide for media buyers and planners.
Showtime is developing Yellowjackets, following a girls’ high school soccer team transformed into warring clans after a plane crash in the wilderness in 1975. Project comes from Entertainment One, producer Drew Comins and writer-producers Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson.
Which sounds a world away from a scripted drama from soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo, Liz Garcia and Josh Harto (Memphis Beat) and wiip, also centered on a high school girls’ soccer team, that nabbed a series commitment from Facebook Watch. This series has the team’s community rallying around the language of the game.
Netflix ordered a new comedy from Ricky Gervais. After Life focuses on a man who decides to punish the world after his wife’s sudden death by saying and doing whatever he likes. Gervais will star, write and direct all 6 episodes, as well as serve as an EP. The streamer also ordered its first original anime set in Mexico; Seis Manos comes from Viz Media LLC and Powerhouse Animation.
Lionsgate struck a deal with Overboard producer and star Eugenio Derbez and Benjamin Odell’s 3Pas Studios to extend their relationship to TV, calling for 3Pas to produce English- and Spanish-language series for Lionsgate’s television and streaming platforms.
NEW & RETURNING SERIES
Music City Fix, focused on house flippers in Nashville, premieres Thursday, June 7 at 11p on HGTV.
Season two of ID’s The Real Story with Maria Elena Salinas bows Monday, June 4 at 10p. The season debut follows a woman who followed her heart to Dallas only to wind up the subject of a homicide investigation.
Onboard as subjects for the first season of PBS’s Breaking Big, debuting Friday, June 15 at 8:30p, are Trevor Noah, Lee Daniels, Eddie Huang, Kirsten Gillibrand, Gretchen Carlson and Michael Strahan. Series centers on people who took an “unexpected journey” to success in their field.
COMING UP
Correction: Investigation Discovery special Dead North follows the search for alleged female serial killer Kelly Cochran. Doc airs Monday, May 28 at 9p.
Discovery’s Bering Sea Gold moves to a new time starting Friday, May 11 at 9p.
Nat Geo ordered docs Prince Harry’s Story: Four Royal Weddings (those would be Charles and Diana, Charles and Camilla, William and Kate and Harry and Meghan), airing tonight, and Operation Royal Wedding, airing May 23, from Spun Gold. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding, in case you haven’t heard, is May 19.
Two-parter Drinks, Crime and Prohibition airs on Smithsonian Channel Monday, June 11 and Monday, June 18 at 8p. Weapons experts, historians, museum curators and mixologists weigh in on “the failed experiment” of a country gone dry.
Just in time for summer, Cooking Channel’s Beach Bites with Katie Lee launches Thursday, June 7 at 10p.
In Defense Of premieres on Oxygen Saturday, June 23 at 7p. True crime series explores the complex relationships between notorious defendants and the attorneys who represent them.
ADVERTISING
A+E Networks is including business outcome-based guarantees in some of its Upfront deals, focused on the number of website visits of store traffic. “What we felt was missing was the last frontier, to go a step further and guarantee the outcomes that the client cares about the most,” Peter Olsen, EVP ad sales, told Television News Daily. A+E is working with analytics companies including Data+Math, Millward Brown, Catalina, Axciom and iSpot.tv to determine how ads are performing.
CASTING
Judy Greer (Arrested Development) will head the voice cast of new PBS Kids animated series Let’s Go Luna, launching Wednesday, November 21….Kate Walsh (Private Practice) landed a recurring role on Netflix’s upcoming The Umbrella Academy, based on the graphic novels….Francesca Reale (Haters Back Off) nabbed a recurring role on season three of Netflix’s Stranger Things.
DIGITAL DATA
Disney’s pending deal to acquire assets from 21st Century Fox does not impact the company’s plans for a direct-to-consumer streaming service, said CEO Bob Iger during an earnings call. While the $52.4 billion deal would enhance the service, Iger said it was in the works before the Fox deal emerged. “It has to become the destination for watching Disney, Marvel, Star Wars and Pixar product,” said Iger.
More viewers are turning to TV sets to stream TV content, according to a report from Conviva. “The Secret Life of Streamers Part II” found that connected TV sets accounted for 48% of 9p-10p episodic video plays last year, up from 35% in the 2016 survey. Viewing on personal computers slipped to 19%, from 39%. The average viewing session on connected TVs was 77 minutes, twice as long as viewers on computers and mobile.
During Dish Network’s earnings call, chairman Charlie Ergen said of Wall Street skepticism about the vMVPD business and Sling TV, “We’re going to take some arrows, so be it,” adding, “Sling has a tremendous technology. So we have a lot of value in that technology. We can do things that other people can’t.” That said, “We’re not going to go where there’s just no money.” Sling TV now counts over 2.3 million subscribers.
GOING GLOBAL
Silverlining secured UK-based Emporium Productions’ first commission for A+E Networks, for Harry and Meghan: Royal Rebels. Special will include interviews and archive footage.
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Calling for the best in Kids, Tween and Teen Media. Entries are now open for the 7 th Annual Cynopsis Imagination Awards. Award Categories range from guest appearances, live events, comedies, short form content, apps, and more to cover all of the innovations that have been made in the children’s media market.
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RATINGS
The finale of Telemundo’s Enemigo Intimo ranked as the #1 Spanish-language program in 8p-11p prime among A18-49 and A18-34, averaging 1.64 million total viewers, 864,000 among A8-49 and 319,000 among A18-34.
E!’s multi-platform coverage of the 2018 Met Gala delivered a record-breaking 47 million total engagements across TV, digital and social (+18% versus 2017).
CBS’s NCIS hit a season high 14.8 million viewers for Tuesday’s episode, featuring the final appearance of Pauley Perrette, with a 1.6 rating among A18-49 that was the highest since the season premiere.
Disney Channel’s DuckTales on Friday hit new series highs in Total Viewers (1.25 million), Kids 6-11 (366,000/1.5 rating), Girls 6-11 (214,000/1.8) and Boys 6-11 (152,000/1.2).
Bounce drama Saints & Sinners was the most-watched program in all of television on Sunday in the delivery of target audience of African Americans (P25-54) between 9p-10p.
Live + Same Day Viewers AA (millions) Tuesday, May 8, 2018 time period averages
Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated Live+SD
CBS: 11.64
NCIS 12.12, Bull 10.32, NCIS: New Orleans 8.11
NBC: 5.62
The Voice 7.48, Rise 3.83, Chicago Med 5.85
ABC: 4.69
Roseanne 10.29, The Middle 5.88, Blackish 4.32, Splitting Up Together 3.53, For the People 2.05
FOX: 2.24
Lethal Weapon 3.15, New Girl 1.32
CW: 1.41
The Flash 1.74, The 100 1.08
UNIVISION: 1.02
El Rico y Lazaro 1.13, Papa a Toda Madre .97, Por Amar Sin Ley .94
TELE: 0.94
Mi Familia Perfecta 0.62, Al Otro Lado del Muro 0.83, El Senor de los Cielos 1.36
Tuesday A19-49 Analysis: CBS 1.2/5, ABC 1.2/5, NBC 1.0/4, FOX .7/2, TELE .6/2, CW .5/2, UNI .5/2,
EXECUTIVE MOVES
Brett Wilson, the former CEO and co-founder at TubeMogul and current Vice President of Adobe Advertising Cloud, is joining Tubi’s Board of Directors.
This Day in History: 1994 – Nelson Mandela was sworn in a South Africa’s first black president.
Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: What caused Ned’s mother to die, permanently, on Pushing Daises (2007-2009)? She kissed Ned goodnight. Kudos to: Gerry Bixenspan-TV Marketing Inc./NYC, Evan Williams-Roger Wilco Productions/New Canaan, CT, Douglas Hochstadt-Disney-ABC/NYC, Wendy Stone-Golf/Orlando, Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/LA, David Westberg-SAG-AFTRA Federal Credit Union/Burbank, Lorrie Shilling/El Segundo, CA, Elizabeth Wendorf-Blackwood Seven/LA
Today’s Trivia Question: Which two TV series, which aired 26 years apart and didn’t last past their first seasons, had the same name? (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: Cocoa Airlift Inn = Californication. Kudos to: Charlene White-A+E Networks/Stamford, CT, Mandy Ledbetter-Discovery/NYC, Paul Blutter-Walk and Talk Production Rentals/Burbank
Game Show Anagram: Etch Black Toe (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 – THURSDAY MAY 10
ABC: Grey’s Anatomy, Station 19, Quantico
CBS: The Big Bang Theory [f], Young Sheldon [f], Mom [f], S.W.A.T.
CW: Supernatural, Arrow
FOX: Gotham, Showtime at the Apollo
NBC: Law & Order: SVU, Chicago Fire
PBS: This Old House Hour, The Tunnel: Sabotage [r], Antiques Roadshow [r]
Telemundo: Mi Familia Perfecta, Al otro lado del muro, El Senor de los Cielos
Univision: Futbol Mexicano Primero Division
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