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11.16.15
Good morning. It’s Monday November 16, 2015, and this is your first early morning briefing.
Tonight’s Premieres:
AHC: Nuremberg: Nazi Judgment Day at 10p
Food: Guilty Pleasures at 10p, Top 5 Restaurants at 10:30p
As world landmarks were alight with the colors of the French flag, the outpouring support for Paris after Friday’s horrific terrorist attacks in that city that left 129 dead included a moment of silence opening Saturday’s Democratic debate on CBS. Ahead of Army football’s game Saturday, West Point cadet Caleb McNeill carried the French flag along with the American flag, and a moment of silence was held before the weekend’s NFL games. U2 cancelled concerts scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, including one slated to air on HBO. “We are fully resolved to go ahead with this show at an appropriate time,” said the band, which laid flowers by a makeshift memorial near the Bataclan theater.
A Supergirl episode that included a series of bombings and an NCIS: Los Angeles episode involving ISIS recruitment have been replaced on CBS’s schedule tonight with different installments of the shows. NBC canceled the live episode of Undateable planned for the same day as the Paris attacks, running a repeat instead.
Spike Lee, accepting an honorary Oscar at Saturday’s 7th annual Governor Awards, noted, “It’s easier to be president of the United States as a black person than to be the head of a studio.” As for why his next film, Chi-Raq will be Amazon’s first feature release, Lee earlier told the Hollywood Reporter, “They’re a great company. And also everyone else said no.”
Broadcasters scored a victory Thursday when a U.S. District Court judge in D.C. ruled that FilmOn X cannot claim a compulsory license to air their programming, as cable companies can. That contradicts a July ruling in California that was in FilmOn X’s favor. Fellow streamer Aereo was brought down by a Supreme Court ruling in June, 2014 that decided the service violated broadcasters’ copyrights.
Comcast also had a victory in court last week, when a federal judge overturned an Oklahoma jury’s $19 million dollar decision against the cable company. The class action lawsuit accused Comcast of forcing customers to lease set-top boxes, but “There simply is no evidence from which a reasonable jury could determine that that arrangement led to a foreclosure of commerce,” said the judge.
Hulu is in talks to sell a stake in the company to Time Warner, reports the Wall Street Journal. A deal would make Time Warner co-owner with Comcast, Walt Disney and 21st Century Fox. Elbowing into Netflix territory, Hulu added an $11.99/month ad-free option in September.
Jamelle Bouie is CBS News’ new Political Analyst, contributing to all platforms, including 2016 campaign coverage. Bouie had been a regular contributor on Face the Nation.
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Film producer Joel Silver (The Matrix) and his Silver Pictures Television struck a multi-year first-look television deal with Lionsgate. Kicking things off: a put pilot commitment from CBS for vampire drama Bathory, and from Fox for basketball drama Soar. The partnership is designed to capitalize on Silver’s relationship with A-list talent. “Joel has created some of the biggest franchises of all time and established an incredible network of relationships with top writers and other world-class creative talent,” said Lionsgate Television Group chairman Kevin Beggs. “We’re thrilled at the opportunity to team with him as he focuses his creative genius on the world of television with the same emphasis on exciting, high-profile branded properties that have been his signature in the film world.”
Discovery Communications is going for gold in Poland. The company has been invited to document investigations into what might be buried treasure at the possible site of a legendary German armored train, underground for 70 years. In partnership with the town of Walbrzych, Discovery will be following work by the Department of Geophysics at the University of Science and Technology into “what could be one of the most significant World War Two archaeological finds ever made,” said Marjorie Kaplan, president of content for Discovery Networks International.
Karla Hidalgo and Christopher Martin have formed a new production company, TV Dinner Productions. The MTV Networks vets have already produced a special for Lifetime, celebrating People magazine’s 2015 selection of “The Sexiest Man Alive,” as well as a series of documentary programs for History under the title Christmas Through the Decades. They’ve also contracted with VH1 to produce a new series airing in the spring of 2016.
Fox is developing a New Orleans-set family drama/procedural, Crooked, exec produced by Peter Horton (American Odyssey). Studio is 20th Century Fox Television.
Rashida Jones and Will McCormack’s (A to Z) Le Train Train comedy project about a girl who decides to live the rest of her life without regrets has found a berth at NBC. 20th Century Fox Television is the studio.
Top 10 Weekend Domestic Box Office Estimates: November 13-15, 2015
Spectre (Sony) $35.4 million, cume revenue $130.7 million
The Peanuts Movie (Fox) $24.2 million, cume revenue $82.5 million
Love, The Coopers (Lionsgate) $8.4 million, opening weekend
The Martian (20th Century Fox) $6.7 million, cume revenue $207.4 million
The 33 (Warner Bros.) $5.8 million, opening weekend
Goosebumps (Sony) $4.7 million, cume revenue $73.5 million
Bridge of Spies (Disney) $4.3 million, cume revenue $61.7 million
Prem Ratan Dhan Payo (Fox International) $2.4 million, cume revenue $2.8 million
Hotel Transylvania 2 (Sony) $2.4 million, cume revenue $165.2 million
The Last Witch Hunter (Lionsgate) $1.5 million, cume revenue $26.1 million
Source: Rentrak Corporation
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“We will never leave this mountain!” is the rallying cry on Outsiders, WGN’s gritty scripted drama about an Appalachian family that lives off the grid and outside the law. WGN has given the show an airdate, Tuesday, January 26 at 9p, as well as an extended trailer.
A concert celebrating the music of John Lennon will air on AMC Saturday, December 19 at 9p. The event, produced by Blackbird Presents and taped at the Theater at Madison Square Garden on December 5, will feature performances by Eric Church, Sheryl Crow, Brandon Flowers, Peter Frampton, Kris Kristofferson, Train’s Pat Monahan, Willie Nelson, The Roots and Steve Tyler, among others.
Bryan Cranston goes Inside the Actors Studio on Wednesday, November 25 at 8p on Bravo. The Breaking Bad star discusses how he drew inspiration from his father to play Walter White.
NBC Universo is premiering Heroes on Wednesday, November 18 at 8p. It’s the U.S. Spanish-language debut of the sci-fi series.
Author Michael Pollan busts food myths in In Defense of Food, premiering on PBS Wednesday, December 30 at 9p (check local listings).
Singer Nicki Minaj will be an honoree at toast-and-roast special VH1 Big in 2015 with Entertainment Weekly, premiering Monday, December 7 at 9p. Queen Latifah presides.
An 11-foot-long mako shark was captured on film in Blue Water Savages, airing Thursday, November 19 at 11p on Outdoor Channel. “She wasn’t interested in the chum we had around us, but did explore my underwater camera a couple times with her mouth,” said one of the deep sea divers – who filmed the encounter without benefit of a cage. “As long as it wasn’t me, I’m ok with that!”
HDNET Movies offers three Quentin Tarantino movies on Saturday, December 5, starting at 7p with Kill Bill Vol. 1. A week later it’s Meryl Streep night, with five films by the Oscar winner kicked off by Music of the Heart at 5p.
Seventeen-year-old YouTube fashion influencer Maddi Bragg released an app in partnership with Victorious. Beginning this week, exclusive video content will be released over the “Maddi Bragg” app, available for download on IOS and Android. Bragg boasts 1.1 million followers on YouTube.
U.S. Hispanics account for $1.3 trillion in purchasing power, but lag behind other Americans when it comes to financial savvy. Telemundo is aiming to remedy that with a new initiative – learn more from Rocky Egusquiza, VP, community affairs, in the new Cynsiders.
TNT renewed Murder in the First for season three. The crime drama starring Taye Digs and Kathleen Robertson averaged 2 million viewers in season two.
Added to the cast of Epix spy drama, Berlin Station: Tamlyn Tomita (Resurrection), Leland Orser (Ray Donovan), Richard Dillane (Wolf Hall) and Bernhard Schütz (A Most Wanted Man).Shooting will take place in Berlin for a fall 2016 premiere.
The Cynopsis Model D Awards were presented Friday in NYC, honoring the best in online video content. For a list of winners, go here.
Grey New York has formed a new department, Grey TLC, for talent, licensing and casting services. The new division be embedded within Grey’s Activation & PR practice, led by Amy Tunick and Michelle Overall. “Grey TLC will address the growing need to merge powerful entertainment content with dynamic personalities,” said Michael Houston, Grey North American CEO.
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Bravo earned the highest-rated Sunday night of the year among all key demos, thanks to the season premieres of The Real Housewives of Atlanta, Untying the Knotý and Watch What Happens Live, according to ýNielsen Live+3 data. Housewives garnered 3.7 million total viewers, 2.4 million P25-54 and over 2.2 million P18-49, ranking #1 in the 8p hour in ad-supported cable networks. Watch What Happens Live drew 2.8 million total viewers, 1.8 million P25-54 and 1.7 million P18-49, and the season two premiere of Knot scored over 1.7 million total viewers, 1.1 million P25-54 and 954,000 P18-49.
Lifetime’s Project Runway Junior premiered to 1.2 million total viewers on Thursday.
Auto restoration show Mexicanos, which returned to Discovery es Espanol November 9, averaged 153,000 viewers A18-49 and 266,000 total viewers, pay-TV’s number one telecast among Spanish-language nets in the timeslot.
Thursday A18-49 Analysis: ABC won the most A18-49 viewers Thursday with 2.1/7, according to final primetime national ratings from Nielsen. CBS topped 8p with a 2.8/10 average for Big Bang Theory (3.7) and Life in Pieces (1.8), versus 2.2/8 for ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy. ABC’s Scandal was first at 9p with 2.2/7, followed by CBS’s Mom (1.5) and 2 Broke Girls (1.6), and NBC’s The Blacklist (1.5/5). ABC kept its lead at 10p with 1.9/7 for How to Get Away With Murder; Telemundo’s Senora Acero was next with 1.0/3.
A18-49:ABC 2.1/7, CBS 1.7/6, NBC 1.1/4, FOX 1.0/3, UNI .9/3, TELE .7/2, CW .5/2, ION .2/1
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: November 12, 2015 time period averages. Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.
ABC: 5.2/9
Grey’s Anatomy 5.6/9, Scandal 5.3/9, How to Get Away With Murder 4.8/9
CBS: 4.9/8
Big Bang Theory 8.9/15, Life in Pieces 4.9/8, Mom 4.5/7, 2 Broke Girls 4.0/7, Elementary 3.3/6
NBC: 3.0/5
Heroes Reborn 2.4/4, Blacklist 4.2/7, Player 2.3/4
FOX 2.5/4
Bones 3.2/5, Sleepy Hollow 1.9/3
UNIVISION: 1.2/2
Antes Muerta Lichita 1.1/2, Pasion y Poder 1.4/2, Yo No Creo en Hombers 1.2/2
ION: 1.0/2
Blue Bloods 1.1/2, Blue Bloods 1.1/2, Blue Bloods .9/2
TELEMUNDO: 1.0/2
Celia 1.1/2, Bajo Mismo Cielo .8/1, Senora Acero 1.0/2
CW: .8/1
Vampire Diaries .9/1, Originals .7/1
This Day in History: 1933 – The U.S. and the Soviet Union established diplomatic relations.
Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: Which series was focused on a floating casino that, at the sponsor’s request, was transformed into a more respectable floating restaurant? Mr. Lucky (1959-1960). Kudos to: Mark Wajda-Catholic Community of St. Paul/Leesburg, FL, Joe Guarnieri-ESPN/Bristol, CT, Gloria L. Price-CBS News/NYC, Linda Grillo-Viacom/NYC, Joe Leydon-Cowboys & Indians Magazine/Houston, David Garber-Linzack Entertainment/Chatsworth, CA, Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/LA, Richard Lawrence-Rebel Entertainment Partners/LA, Dayna McCallum-DMC Inc./Studio City, CA.
Today’s Trivia Question – Family Theme Week: What were the names of Ben Matlock’s daughters on Matlock (1986-1995)? (Email [email protected] with your answer and be sure to include your name, company, city and time zone.).
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – MONDAY NOVEMBER 16, 2015
ABC: Dancing With the Stars, Castle
CBS: Supergirl, Scorpion, NCIS: Los Angeles
CW: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Jane the Virgin
FOX: Gotham, Minority Report
NBC: The Voice, Blindspot
PBS: Antiques Roadshow [r], Antiques Roadshow, Independent Lens
Telemundo: Celia, Bajo el Mismo Cielo, Senora Acero
Univision: Antes Muerta que Lichita, Pasion y Poder, Yo No Creo en los Hombres [r]
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