A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM SPIKE
188 million streams Hosted by LL COOL J with color commentary from Chrissy Teigen
New Episodes Thursday July 9th 10/9c SPIKE: THE ONES TO WATCH
Sources: 1. Nielsen 4/2-5/28/15, Thu 10-10:30p, MC P18-49 (000), Cable only; 2. Nielsen, 4/2-5/28/15, All airings, 1 Minute Qualifier; 3: Youtube 4/5-4/19/15; 4: Youtube, Facebook, Omniture
CYNOPSIS
06.22.15
Good morning. It’s Monday June 22, 2015, and this is your first early morning briefing.
Tonight’s Premieres:
A&E: The First 48: Deadly Sexual Encounters at 8p
AHC: Auschwitz: Hitler’s Final Solution at 10p
Azteca America: Todo o Nada at 7p
History: The Woodsmen at 9p, Forged in Fire at 10p
PBS: POV at 10p
Tonight’s Finale:
GAC: Toy Hunter at 10p
The White House is moving to LA. Handed $6.5 million in tax credits by California, Veep is relocating production after four years in Maryland, announced HBO. “Maryland has been home to many vital HBO projects, from The Corner to The Wire to Game Change, and the support has always been extraordinary,” said a net spokesperson. “We look forward to returning with another production in the future.” The tax incentive was part of a new $330 million program intended to bring projects and jobs back to Hollywood.
“When it really matters, you can depend on him,” says the new promo for NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt, which launches tonight. Holt, who has filled in for suspended Brian Williams since February, was named permanent anchor on Thursday.
And the winner of the International Audience Award for comedy at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival is…wait for it…CBS’s How I Met Your Mother, the first time a series won the award after leaving the air. Given to the top-rated shows globally, Audience Awards also went to CBS’s Bold and Beautiful, in the soap opera category, and NCIS for drama.
Also taking trophies at the festival: Best International Comedy Welcome to Sweden, which airs on NBC Stateside, and Steven (Bruce who?) Van Zandt for Outstanding Comedy Actor in Norway’s Lilyhammer, on Netflix.
NBA League Pass plans to offer slimmer packages for the 2015-2016 season. League Pass customers who now pay $200 per season for access to all out-of-market live games will be able to buy individual games, or specific team packages. League Pass is available through pay-TV operators and as a standalone streaming service; details and pricing will be announced in July.
MTV is promoting Scream, premiering Tuesday, June 30, with an interactive online game. “Choose Your Own Murder” positions users in horror movie set-ups, with different options (“Run for the door,” Go out window”) as the game progresses.
A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE
and Deepen Your Audience
Thursday, June 25, 2015 I 1:30PM to 3:00PM (ET)
Featured speakers include Kerry Perse, Director of Social Media Onboard at
OMD; Alan Beard, Co-founder of Fullscreen’s social agency McBeard; and Alexis G Zall, a social influencer (Twitter, YouTube, Snapchat, Facebook) with over 300k followers!Please click
here for more information or contact Trish Pihonak.Elizabeth Guber Stephen signed an overall deal with Warner Bros. Television and cable division Warner Horizon to develop projects for network and cable through her Gables Media.
A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM NCM
NCM’s 13.1 A18-49 rating last week makes movie theatres the hottest spots in America.
NCM is your ticket to the BIG SCREEN. Get in front.
Click
here for more information.Top 10 Weekend Domestic Box Office Estimates: June 19-21, 2015
Jurassic World (Universal) $102.0 million, cume revenue $398.2 million
Inside Out (Buena Vista) $91.1 million, opening weekend
Spy (Fox) $10.5 million, cume revenue $74.4 million
San Andreas (Warner Bros.) $8.2 million, cume revenue $132.2 million
Dope (Open Road) $6.0 million, opening weekend
Insidious Chapter 3 (Focus) $4.1 million, cume revenue $45.4 million
Pitch Perfect 2 (Universal) $3.3 million, cume revenue $177.5 million
Mad Max: Fury Road (Warner Bros.) $2.8 million, cume revenue $143.6 million
Avengers: Age of Ultron (Disney) $2.7 million, cume revenue $451.0 million
Tomorrowland (Buena Vista) $2.0 million, cume revenue $87.7 million
Contestants in locked rooms win the big bucks by solving puzzles and unraveling clues in Race to Escape, a game show premiering on Science Channel Saturday, July 25 at 10p. Comedian Jimmy Pardo hosts.
Shark attack! Nat Geo WILD’s third annual Sharkfest launches Sunday, July 5 at 8p (same time as Discovery’s Shark Week). NGW’s week-long event kicks off with Shark Alley, following sharks hot on the trail of shape-shifting sardine packs.
No RSVP needed: Home & Family lifestyle expert Paige Hemmis and musician Jason Short, of Australian group ARIA, get married on a special primetime episode of the Hallmark Channel weekday talker, tonight at 8p. “I am so lucky I get to marry the man of my dreams, at my dream wedding in front of the people I love most,” Hemmis tells Cynopsis. “I am giddy with excitement and feel blessed beyond belief!”
It’s “Flash Forward Wednesday” on ABC Family July 8. On Melissa & Joey at 8p, Mel and Joe are frozen and wake up 100 years later, then Baby Daddy’s Ben sees what Emma’s future would be like if she were raised by Bonnie, Tucker and Danny.
Dan Rather’s back with The Big Interview on AXS TV Tuesday, July 7 at 8p. In the first of six new eps, the newsman talks to country legend Emmylou Harris.
Cartoon Network’s Regular Show returns Monday, June 22 at 6p with a week of premieres. Season six finale airs Thursday, followed on Friday by a season seven “first look.”
The season premiere of Sportsman’s Sheep Shape airs Thursday, June 25 at 8:30p. Hunting locations this go-round include Alaska, the Yukon and Northwest Territories.
Russell Tovey (Being Human), Alistair Petrie (Utopia) and Douglas Hodge (Penny Dreadful) have been added to the cast of The Night Manager. The mini-series, co-produced by AMC with BBC One and The Ink Factory, is an adaptation of the John le Carre 1993 novel.
Shalita Grant and Daryl Mitchell have been promoted to season regulars on CBS’s NCIS: New Orleans. Sophomore run of the drama launches Tuesday, September 22.
Disney animated movie Inside/Out opened this weekend after a national TV ad spend, starting in early May, of about $24.4 million, according to iSpot.tv. The week before opening ate up $8.3 million, for 1641 spots. Most ad dollars went to ABC ($4.61 million), while the most airings for an individual show went to Nickelodeon’s SpongeBob SquarePants (196).
Turner Classic Movies has been added to Sling TV’s “Hollywood Extra” pack. The net joins EPIX, EPIX2, EPIX3, EPIX Drive-In and SundanceTV.
A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE
by August 7, 2015
The season two finale of Hallmark Channel original scripted series When Calls the Heart drew a 2.1 HH rating and 2.1 total viewers in Live+3, making the net the most-watched at 8p on Saturday, June 13 among HHs and total viewers.
ABC’s Astronaut Wives Club debuted Thursday at 8p to 5.5 million viewers and 1.1/5 among A18-49, according to Nielsen, down from the recent 1.5 debut of the net’s The Whispers but its highest non-sports summer delivery in the hour since August 2013.
Thursday A18-49 Analysis: CBS won the most A18-49 viewers Thursday with 3.5/6, according to final primetime national ratings from Nielsen. A 1.4/6 average for Big Bang Theory and The Odd Couple gave CBS the top spot at 8p, followed by NBC’s Dateline with 1.3/5. CBS kept the lead at 9p with 1.2/4 for Mom and Mike & Molly, versus .9/3 for Univision’s Lo Imperdoable. Telemundo’s Senor de los Cielos was first at 10p with 1.1/4; Uni’s Que te Perdone Dios…Yo No was next with .9/3.
A18-49:CBS 1.1/4, ABC .9/4, UNI .9/3, NBC .8/3, FOX .7/3, TELE .7/3, CW .2/1, ION .2/1
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Thursday, June 18, 2015 time period averages. Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.
CBS: 3.5/6
Big Bang Theory [r] 4.7/9, The Odd Couple [r] 3.3/6, Mom [r] 3.6/6, Mike & Molly [r] 3.6/6, Elementary [r] 2.8/5
ABC: 3.1/6
Astronaut Wives Club 3.7/7, Mistresses 2.8/5
NBC: 2.5/5
Dateline 4.2/8, Aquarius 2.2/4, Hannibal 1.2/2
FOX: 1.9/4
U.S. Open Golf 1.9/4
UNIVISION: 1.4/3
Amores con Trampa 1.3/3, Imperdonable 1.4/3, Que te Perdone Dios…Yo No 1.5/3
ION: 1.1/2
Blue Bloods .9/2, Blue Bloods 1.1/2, Blue Bloods 1.3/2
TELEMUNDO: .9/1
Avenida Brasil .6/1, Tierra del Reyes .8/1, Senor de los Cielos 1.2/2
CW: .5/1
Beauty and the Beast .6/1, Vampire Diaries [r] .4/1
Rick Patton joins Rural Media Group as Executive Vice President, Agriculture Sales & Marketing, and Rhonda Ludwig as Midwest Accounts Manager. Previously, Patton had been Executive Director/Publisher at Vance Publishing and Ludwig had been National Accounts Manager at Penton Farm Progress.
Comcast founder and Chairman Emeritus Ralph Roberts died June 18 of natural causes. He was 95. The entrepreneur and philanthropist started Comcast in 1963, with the purchase of a small cable system in Tupelo, Mississippi.
This Day in History: 1969 – Judy Garland died at age 47.
Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: Which supporting sitcom character suffered the nicknames “Buffalo Butt” and “Booger”? Building superintendent Nathan Bookman on Good Times (1974-1979). Kudos to:? Crystal Bennett-CNN/NYC, Alexandra Baierlein-Fox Networks Group/NYC, Brielle Urssery-BET Networks/NYC, Karen Yaldoo-Comcast Spotlight/Bingham Farms, Anita Johnson-WMAQ/Chicago, Derek Crownover-Dickinson-Wright Entertainment Law Group/Nashville, Eric Litt-Tribune Broadcasting/Chicago, John Wood-Wood Agency/LA, Wendell Foster-ABC Entertainment Group/Burbank, Amy Kessler-KDIA/KDYA Radio/Richmond, CA, Dennis Aimino-ABC-TV/LA.
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06.22.15
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A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM SPIKE
188 million streams Hosted by LL COOL J with color commentary from Chrissy Teigen
New Episodes Thursday July 9th 10/9c SPIKE: THE ONES TO WATCH
Sources: 1. Nielsen 4/2-5/28/15, Thu 10-10:30p, MC P18-49 (000), Cable only; 2. Nielsen, 4/2-5/28/15, All airings, 1 Minute Qualifier; 3: Youtube 4/5-4/19/15; 4: Youtube, Facebook, Omniture
CYNOPSIS
06.22.15
Good morning. It’s Monday June 22, 2015, and this is your first early morning briefing.
Tonight’s Premieres:
A&E: The First 48: Deadly Sexual Encounters at 8p
AHC: Auschwitz: Hitler’s Final Solution at 10p
Azteca America: Todo o Nada at 7p
History: The Woodsmen at 9p, Forged in Fire at 10p
PBS: POV at 10p
Tonight’s Finale:
GAC: Toy Hunter at 10p
The White House is moving to LA. Handed $6.5 million in tax credits by California, Veep is relocating production after four years in Maryland, announced HBO. “Maryland has been home to many vital HBO projects, from The Corner to The Wire to Game Change, and the support has always been extraordinary,” said a net spokesperson. “We look forward to returning with another production in the future.” The tax incentive was part of a new $330 million program intended to bring projects and jobs back to Hollywood.
“When it really matters, you can depend on him,” says the new promo for NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt, which launches tonight. Holt, who has filled in for suspended Brian Williams since February, was named permanent anchor on Thursday.
And the winner of the International Audience Award for comedy at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival is…wait for it…CBS’s How I Met Your Mother, the first time a series won the award after leaving the air. Given to the top-rated shows globally, Audience Awards also went to CBS’s Bold and Beautiful, in the soap opera category, and NCIS for drama.
Also taking trophies at the festival: Best International Comedy Welcome to Sweden, which airs on NBC Stateside, and Steven (Bruce who?) Van Zandt for Outstanding Comedy Actor in Norway’s Lilyhammer, on Netflix.
NBA League Pass plans to offer slimmer packages for the 2015-2016 season. League Pass customers who now pay $200 per season for access to all out-of-market live games will be able to buy individual games, or specific team packages. League Pass is available through pay-TV operators and as a standalone streaming service; details and pricing will be announced in July.
MTV is promoting Scream, premiering Tuesday, June 30, with an interactive online game. “Choose Your Own Murder” positions users in horror movie set-ups, with different options (“Run for the door,” Go out window”) as the game progresses.
A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE
and Deepen Your Audience
Thursday, June 25, 2015 I 1:30PM to 3:00PM (ET)
Featured speakers include Kerry Perse, Director of Social Media Onboard at
OMD; Alan Beard, Co-founder of Fullscreen’s social agency McBeard; and Alexis G Zall, a social influencer (Twitter, YouTube, Snapchat, Facebook) with over 300k followers!Please click
here for more information or contact Trish Pihonak.Elizabeth Guber Stephen signed an overall deal with Warner Bros. Television and cable division Warner Horizon to develop projects for network and cable through her Gables Media.
A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM NCM
NCM’s 13.1 A18-49 rating last week makes movie theatres the hottest spots in America.
NCM is your ticket to the BIG SCREEN. Get in front.
Click
here for more information.Top 10 Weekend Domestic Box Office Estimates: June 19-21, 2015
Jurassic World (Universal) $102.0 million, cume revenue $398.2 million
Inside Out (Buena Vista) $91.1 million, opening weekend
Spy (Fox) $10.5 million, cume revenue $74.4 million
San Andreas (Warner Bros.) $8.2 million, cume revenue $132.2 million
Dope (Open Road) $6.0 million, opening weekend
Insidious Chapter 3 (Focus) $4.1 million, cume revenue $45.4 million
Pitch Perfect 2 (Universal) $3.3 million, cume revenue $177.5 million
Mad Max: Fury Road (Warner Bros.) $2.8 million, cume revenue $143.6 million
Avengers: Age of Ultron (Disney) $2.7 million, cume revenue $451.0 million
Tomorrowland (Buena Vista) $2.0 million, cume revenue $87.7 million
Contestants in locked rooms win the big bucks by solving puzzles and unraveling clues in Race to Escape, a game show premiering on Science Channel Saturday, July 25 at 10p. Comedian Jimmy Pardo hosts.
Shark attack! Nat Geo WILD’s third annual Sharkfest launches Sunday, July 5 at 8p (same time as Discovery’s Shark Week). NGW’s week-long event kicks off with Shark Alley, following sharks hot on the trail of shape-shifting sardine packs.
No RSVP needed: Home & Family lifestyle expert Paige Hemmis and musician Jason Short, of Australian group ARIA, get married on a special primetime episode of the Hallmark Channel weekday talker, tonight at 8p. “I am so lucky I get to marry the man of my dreams, at my dream wedding in front of the people I love most,” Hemmis tells Cynopsis. “I am giddy with excitement and feel blessed beyond belief!”
It’s “Flash Forward Wednesday” on ABC Family July 8. On Melissa & Joey at 8p, Mel and Joe are frozen and wake up 100 years later, then Baby Daddy’s Ben sees what Emma’s future would be like if she were raised by Bonnie, Tucker and Danny.
Dan Rather’s back with The Big Interview on AXS TV Tuesday, July 7 at 8p. In the first of six new eps, the newsman talks to country legend Emmylou Harris.
Cartoon Network’s Regular Show returns Monday, June 22 at 6p with a week of premieres. Season six finale airs Thursday, followed on Friday by a season seven “first look.”
The season premiere of Sportsman’s Sheep Shape airs Thursday, June 25 at 8:30p. Hunting locations this go-round include Alaska, the Yukon and Northwest Territories.
Russell Tovey (Being Human), Alistair Petrie (Utopia) and Douglas Hodge (Penny Dreadful) have been added to the cast of The Night Manager. The mini-series, co-produced by AMC with BBC One and The Ink Factory, is an adaptation of the John le Carre 1993 novel.
Shalita Grant and Daryl Mitchell have been promoted to season regulars on CBS’s NCIS: New Orleans. Sophomore run of the drama launches Tuesday, September 22.
Disney animated movie Inside/Out opened this weekend after a national TV ad spend, starting in early May, of about $24.4 million, according to iSpot.tv. The week before opening ate up $8.3 million, for 1641 spots. Most ad dollars went to ABC ($4.61 million), while the most airings for an individual show went to Nickelodeon’s SpongeBob SquarePants (196).
Turner Classic Movies has been added to Sling TV’s “Hollywood Extra” pack. The net joins EPIX, EPIX2, EPIX3, EPIX Drive-In and SundanceTV.
A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE
by August 7, 2015
The season two finale of Hallmark Channel original scripted series When Calls the Heart drew a 2.1 HH rating and 2.1 total viewers in Live+3, making the net the most-watched at 8p on Saturday, June 13 among HHs and total viewers.
ABC’s Astronaut Wives Club debuted Thursday at 8p to 5.5 million viewers and 1.1/5 among A18-49, according to Nielsen, down from the recent 1.5 debut of the net’s The Whispers but its highest non-sports summer delivery in the hour since August 2013.
Thursday A18-49 Analysis: CBS won the most A18-49 viewers Thursday with 3.5/6, according to final primetime national ratings from Nielsen. A 1.4/6 average for Big Bang Theory and The Odd Couple gave CBS the top spot at 8p, followed by NBC’s Dateline with 1.3/5. CBS kept the lead at 9p with 1.2/4 for Mom and Mike & Molly, versus .9/3 for Univision’s Lo Imperdoable. Telemundo’s Senor de los Cielos was first at 10p with 1.1/4; Uni’s Que te Perdone Dios…Yo No was next with .9/3.
A18-49:CBS 1.1/4, ABC .9/4, UNI .9/3, NBC .8/3, FOX .7/3, TELE .7/3, CW .2/1, ION .2/1
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Thursday, June 18, 2015 time period averages. Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.
CBS: 3.5/6
Big Bang Theory [r] 4.7/9, The Odd Couple [r] 3.3/6, Mom [r] 3.6/6, Mike & Molly [r] 3.6/6, Elementary [r] 2.8/5
ABC: 3.1/6
Astronaut Wives Club 3.7/7, Mistresses 2.8/5
NBC: 2.5/5
Dateline 4.2/8, Aquarius 2.2/4, Hannibal 1.2/2
FOX: 1.9/4
U.S. Open Golf 1.9/4
UNIVISION: 1.4/3
Amores con Trampa 1.3/3, Imperdonable 1.4/3, Que te Perdone Dios…Yo No 1.5/3
ION: 1.1/2
Blue Bloods .9/2, Blue Bloods 1.1/2, Blue Bloods 1.3/2
TELEMUNDO: .9/1
Avenida Brasil .6/1, Tierra del Reyes .8/1, Senor de los Cielos 1.2/2
CW: .5/1
Beauty and the Beast .6/1, Vampire Diaries [r] .4/1
Rick Patton joins Rural Media Group as Executive Vice President, Agriculture Sales & Marketing, and Rhonda Ludwig as Midwest Accounts Manager. Previously, Patton had been Executive Director/Publisher at Vance Publishing and Ludwig had been National Accounts Manager at Penton Farm Progress.
Comcast founder and Chairman Emeritus Ralph Roberts died June 18 of natural causes. He was 95. The entrepreneur and philanthropist started Comcast in 1963, with the purchase of a small cable system in Tupelo, Mississippi.
This Day in History: 1969 – Judy Garland died at age 47.
Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: Which supporting sitcom character suffered the nicknames “Buffalo Butt” and “Booger”? Building superintendent Nathan Bookman on Good Times (1974-1979). Kudos to:? Crystal Bennett-CNN/NYC, Alexandra Baierlein-Fox Networks Group/NYC, Brielle Urssery-BET Networks/NYC, Karen Yaldoo-Comcast Spotlight/Bingham Farms, Anita Johnson-WMAQ/Chicago, Derek Crownover-Dickinson-Wright Entertainment Law Group/Nashville, Eric Litt-Tribune Broadcasting/Chicago, John Wood-Wood Agency/LA, Wendell Foster-ABC Entertainment Group/Burbank, Amy Kessler-KDIA/KDYA Radio/Richmond, CA, Dennis Aimino-ABC-TV/LA.
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – MONDAY JUNE 22, 2015
ABC: The Bachelorette, The Whispers
CBS: 2 Broke Girls [r], Mike & Molly [r], Scorpion [r], NCIS: Los Angeles [r]
CW: The Originals [r], Jane the Virgin [r]
FOX: So You Think You Can Dance
NBC: American Ninja Warrior, The Island
PBS: Antiques Roadshow, Antiques Roadshow [r], POV [p]
Telemundo: Avenida Brasil, Tierra de Reyes, El Senor de los Cielos
Univision: Amores con Trampa, Lo Imperdonable, Que te Perdone Dios…Yo No
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – MONDAY JUNE 22, 2015
ABC: The Bachelorette, The Whispers
CBS: 2 Broke Girls [r], Mike & Molly [r], Scorpion [r], NCIS: Los Angeles [r]
CW: The Originals [r], Jane the Virgin [r]
FOX: So You Think You Can Dance
NBC: American Ninja Warrior, The Island
PBS: Antiques Roadshow, Antiques Roadshow [r], POV [p]
Telemundo: Avenida Brasil, Tierra de Reyes, El Senor de los Cielos
Univision: Amores con Trampa, Lo Imperdonable, Que te Perdone Dios…Yo No
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