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| Wednesday February 19, 2020 |
Tonight’s Premiere
IFC: Year of the Rabbit at 10:30p
Tonight’s Finales
CBS: Criminal Minds at 10p
National Geographic: To Catch A Smuggler at 10p
Science Channel: Impossible Engineering at 9p
IN THE NEWS
The fun and games will continue at NBC. The net renewed Ellen’s Game of Games for a fourth season, news the talk show host revealed on The Ellen DeGeneres Shows on Tuesday. “I’m so excited. I love this show so much,” said DeGeneres. “It makes me so happy. I love games. It combines all my favorite things: prizes and surprises.” Last season’s run of the alternative series reached a total of over 66 million viewers and was primetime’s #1 game show.
Stephen Colbert is heading to CBS sib Pop TV, according to Deadline. The cable net will carry exclusive next-day encores of CBS’ The Late Show With Stephen Colbert starting Tuesday, February 25, with the previous night’s episode of The Late Show airing on Pop at 9a.
SNL star Kenan Thompson will host and Hasan Minhaj will repeat his 2017 gig as featured entertainer at The White House Correspondents’ Association’s annual dinner. Last year, dinner was served without a comedian, after a controversial appearance by Michelle Wolf in 2018; instead, historian Ron Chernow was featured. The D.C. event, being held on Saturday, April 25, will be handled by Bob Bain Productions, producer of the Critics’ Choice Awards, the Creative Emmys and the Teen Choice Awards.
Telemundo launched Decision 2020, a national year-long multi-platform news and civic engagement initiative that will deliver election news and campaign coverage, as well as polls focused on the Latino electorate in the U.S. and key political markets. Decision 2020 kicks off with an exclusive “Telemundo Poll: State of the Latino Vote in Nevada,” which precedes Noticias Telemundo’s coverage of tonight’s Las Vegas Democratic presidential debate hosted by NBC News and MSNBC with The Nevada Independent.
A+E Networks announced that Matthew McConaughey has joined the lineup of HISTORYTalks, a traveling speaker series of live events exploring newsworthy topics and historical milestones through conversations with global leaders, trailblazers, historians, authors and filmmakers. The inaugural event, “Leadership & Legacy,” will include a session with President Bill Clinton and President George W. Bush in conversation with presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, on Saturday, February 29 at NYC’s Carnegie Hall. In “A Conversation with Matthew McConaughey,” the actor will speak about the personal choices people make that impact their legacies.
The National Hispanic Media Coalition hosts its annual Impact Awards Gala on Friday, February 28. The event recognizes talent and executives who advance equality and opportunities for the Latinx community in media and entertainment. This year’s honorees include Jay Hernandez (Magnum P.I.), Outstanding Television Performance Impact Award; In The Heights (Warner Bros. Chair and CEO Ann Sarnoff; cast), Visionary Impact Award; Roberts Aguirre-Sacasa (Archie Comics, COO), Outstanding Executive Producer Impact Award; and Freeform’s Party of Five (Amy Lippman, EP; cast) Outstanding Television Impact Award.
Food Network Kitchen and Sur La Table have joined forces on a content and marketing partnership aimed at amplifying the reach of both brands through co-branded cooking classes at Sur La Table stores nationwide and live on the Food Network kitchen app, as well as FNK trial subscriptions to customers. “Partnering with Sur La Table is an excellent opportunity for Food Network Kitchen to reach additional at-home cooks across the country and provide them with even more expert instruction than is already provided on Food Network Kitchen,” said Peter Faricy, CEO, Global Direct-to-Consumer, Discovery, Inc. |
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| PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT
Streamer BET+ handed a second season renewal to Bigger, the comedy series from Will Packer and Will Packer Media . “I am so proud of this show,” said Packer. “And I can’t wait for new audiences to follow the shenanigans of this wild and crazy group of black thirtysomethings.”
Showtime is developing and has ordered multiple scripts of horror-comedy The Auteur, starring Jude Law. Directed by Taika Waititi (Jojo Rabbit, The Mandalorian), who will also write with Peter Warren (Ghost Team), half-hour series is based on the graphic novel by Rick Spears, James Callahan and Luigi Anderson that focuses on a film producer desperate to make a great horror movie after a massive bomb, who accidentally traps his production on a backlot with a serial killer.
Melissa Leo will lead FOX’s Blood Relative, lifting the cast-contingency on the pilot order. Crime drama hails from writer-producer Chris Levinson and producer Liza Chasin, Paramount Television Studios and Anonymous Content, which will co-produce with Fox Entertainment.
Netflix greenlit Painkiller, a limited series about the opioid crisis from Eric Newman, who has an overall deal with the streamer. Newman has been examining the drug trade in Colombia and Mexico as showrunner of Narcos and Narcos: Mexico.
Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights, The Leftovers) will direct all episodes of the series, which is being written by A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood scribes Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster.
Raoul Peck is partnering with HBO on Exterminate All the Brutes. Four-part hybrid docuseries will explore the exploitive and genocidal aspects of European colonialism. Culled from the books Exterminate All the Brutes by Sven Lindqvist, An Indigenous People’s History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Silencing the Past by Michel-Rolph Trouillot, the series will draw from documentary footage and archival material, as well as animation and interpretive scripted scenes. Josh Harnett will play the lead role in the latter sections.
The Ink Factory entered a partnership with Endeavor Content that will see Endeavor acquire a minority stake in the studio and set up a development fund for Ink to draw on. Endeavor will have a formal first-look agreement covering both film and TV to sell forthcoming Ink projects internationally.
NEW & RETURNING SERIES
VH1’s Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta returns Monday, March 16 at 8p. The new season takes a deep dive in the daily lives of its cast as they navigate relationships, upcoming nuptials and more.
Oxygen’s highest-rated series, Cold Justice, is back with eight new episodes starting Saturday, March 14 at 6p. The true crime series has helped bring about 20 convictions and 45 arrests, five of the arrests which will be seen in this upcoming batch of new episodes.
A&E investigates a double dose of paranormal on Wednesday, April 8. Things kick off with the sophomore season premiere of Ghost Hunters at 8p, followed by the series debut of the reimagined Celebrity Ghost Stories at 10p. The latter centers on psychic medium Kim Russo as she brings big names in entertainment back to the sites of their previous paranormal experiences for a reunion with the ghosts of their past.
Starz original series Vida bows its third season on Sunday, April 26 at 9p. The East LA-set drama will air weekly on Starz in the US and Canada and on StarzPLay across Europe and Latin America.
Netflix set Wednesday, March 11 as the premiere date for Season 3 of On My Block. The coming-of-age comedy from Eddie Gonzalez and Jeremy Haft centers on four street-savvy friends navigating their way through high school in the rough inner city.
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COMING UP
Olympic figure skating gold medalist Scott Hamilton is featured on MeTV’s Collector’s Call, airing Sunday, February 23 at 9:30p. Hamilton’s collection of vintage pinball machines, as well as guitars autographed by rock and roll legends, are showcased.
American Masters – Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool premieres Tuesday, February 25 at 9p on PBS in honor of Black History Month. The documentary explores the six-decade career of Davis, with Quincy Jones, Carlos Santana, Clive Davis and others weighing in on his life and career.
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CASTING
Freddy Miyares (When The See Us) will reteam with Ava DuVernay for her upcoming HBO Max pilot DMZ… Tzi Ma (The Man in the High Castle) and Kheng Hua Tan (Crazy Rich Asians) nabbed series regular roles in The CW pilot Kung Fu… Auden Thornton (This Is Us) has been cast as a lead opposite Odette Annable, Chris Wood and Patrick Fugit in ABC pilot thirtysomething(else).
PODCAST POSTS
Cadence13 partnered with content creators and brothers Ethan and Grayson Dolan, aka The Dolan Twins, to launch their first-ever podcast, Deeper with The Dolan Twins, debuting Tuesday, February 25. The siblings have over 60 million combined followers across all platforms.
The Coach Mike Podcast with Mike Bayer launched on Tuesday with an exclusive interview with Jessica Simpson. Simpson opens up about her life, from sobriety to surviving sexual abuse and more. The first of Stage 29 Podcast Productions podcasts is available to listeners across all leading distribution platforms. For more, go here.
STREAMING SNIPPETS
Video streaming services are on pace to nearly double total advertising media value to $2.3 billion in 2020, according to iSpot.tv. The media research company estimates that number could go even higher when counting Quibi’s projections to spend $400 million to $500 million in 2020. Total advertising media value includes all advertising placement, notes ISpot.tv – paid-advertising spending and advertising placed by media companies that own TV networks. The latter would include video streaming platforms like CBS All Access, Disney+, ESPN+ and Peacock, among others.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars returns for its final season on Friday, February 21 on Disney+.
New Snap Original docuseries Mind Yourself is currently available on Snapchat. It paints an honest intimate portrait of a young person suffering or recovering from a mental health issue.
Complex Networks’ food brand, First We Feast, celebrates Mexican cuisine in Tacos Con Todo. Hosted by standup comedian Jesus Trejo, new series bows Tuesday, February 25 at 11a on First We Feast’s YouTube channel.
TECH TALK
Twitter has acquired Chroma Labs, co-founded by Instagram Boomerang inventor John Barnett. Chroma Labs’ Chroma Stories app allows users to fill in stylish layout templates and frames for posting collages to Instagram Stories, Snapchat and more. Twitter plans to split the Chroma Labs squad up to work on its product, design and engineering teams. While the Chroma Stories iPhone app won’t be shut down it, it won’t receive more updates.
Canoe ended the year up about 4% year-over-year in VOD ad impressions, with most networks starting to hit their ceiling with available inventory, according to the company’s 2019 Year End Insights Report. Its dynamic ad insertion capabilities cover 38 million homes, up from 36 million one year ago. Canoe, owned by Comcast, Charter and Cox, ran 10,071 campaigns in 2019, up from 7476, 86% of which were of external advertisers. For more, go here.
Jellyfish is expanding its digital offerings with the introduction of Optics: Creative Intelligence, an automated creative content analysis tool. The solution utilizes the Google Cloud Vision API to make recommendations for existing video and dynamic ads correlated to performance by automating the process of analyzing a brand’s entire creative set.
Haystack TV is expanding its worldwide distribution through a new technology integration agreement with Hisense, the global television and appliance manufacturer. Hisense, the third-largest TV manufacturer, will pre-install and place the Haystack TV app prominently on the new VIDAA smart TV platform.
GOING GLOBAL
Sony Pictures Television secured a deal to take a minority stake in The Whisper Group, a sports production company that covers Formula 1 racing for British broadcaster Channel 4. Sony will replace Channel 4 as Whisper’s minority investor. The broadcaster first backed the company in 2015 as part of its Indie Growth Fund.
Splash Entertainment partnered with KiXi Entertainment, Germany’s leading kids’ streaming service. KiXi is set to distribute Splash content beginning with Growing Up Creepie, Hero 108 and Sabrina: Secrets of a Teenage Witch. |
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| RATINGS
History’s six-hour, three-night miniseries event Washington kicked off on Sunday, February 16 with 2.6 million Total Viewers, based on Live+SD viewing, according to Nielsen Fast Nationals. Night one became the #1 nonfiction miniseries premiere on all cable in nearly three years.
A new format for the NBA All-Star Game on Saturday night delivered an 8% gain in viewership to a Nielsen-measured 7.3 million viewers on TNT and TBS. The NBA All-Star game had seen two consecutive years of TV declines – 6.8 million (2019) and 7.7 million (2018)
Tunity Analytics Top Weekly National Out-of-Home Viewer Rankings for Entertainment Programs for the week of February 10
Program, OOH Viewers (000)
The Simpsons (FOX) 371
The Bachelor (ABC) 306
Bob’s Burgers (FOX) 239
American Idol (ABC) 227
FBI (CBS) 216
Buying and Selling with The Property Brothers 2/12 (HGTV) 188
Home Town 2/10 (HGTV) 178
The Good Doctor (ABC) 171
Chicago Fire (NBC) 169
Home Town 2/16 (HGTV) 168
Source: Tunity Analytics. Viewing estimates are derived from the Tunity mobile app usage. OOH Impressions are calculated using Tunity Analytics proprietary estimation model.
SHAREABLEE SOCIAL TV RATINGS: Top US Shows Overall by Engagement for the week of February 10
Program, Total Actions (millions), Total Content, Actions per Content (000), Fans/Followers (millions)
E! News (E!) 18.4, 1,055, 17, 37.1
The Ellen DeGeneres Show (Warner Bros./synd.) 10.2, 116, 88, 196.1
Riverdale (CW) 4.2, 49, 86,15.9
Today Show (NBC) 3, 843, 4, 13.5
Entertainment Tonight (CBS/synd.) 2.6, 742, 4, 8.8
Grey’s Anatomy 2.1, 60, 35, 34.1
The Rachel Maddow Show (MSNBC) 1.5, 95, 16, 12.5
Good Morning America (ABC) 1.3, 1,112, 1, 13.6
Hannity (Fox News) 1.2, 318, 4, 8.6
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (NBC) 1.1, 113, 10, 25.5
Based on Total Actions (reactions, comments, shares and retweets)
TV Time Binge Report: Most Binged TV Shows for the week of January 20 (Show/Share of Streams)
Sex Education (Netflix) 13.18%
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (Netflix) 5.59%
You (Netflix) 2.77%
Friends (NBC) 1.77%
Brooklyn Nine-Nine (NBC) 1.67%
Grace and Frankie (Netflix) 1.62%
Titans (DC Universe) 1.25%
Grey’s Anatomy (ABC) 1.00%
Lucifer (Netflix) 0.95%
How I Met Your Mother (CBS) 0.90%
*The weekly Binge Report ranks shows with the most binge sessions. A binge session is when four or more episodes of a show are watched and tracked in our TV Time app within a given day.
Broadcast Nielsen Ratings for Monday, February 17
Show, P2+ 0000s, (A18-49)
ABC: The Bachelor 6.59 (1.8), The Good Doctor 5.20 (0.9)
CBS: The Neighborhood 6.44 (0.9), Bob Hearts Abishola 6.06 (0.7), All Rise 5.32 (0.6), Bull 6.23 (0.6)
CW: All American 0.76 (0.3), Black Lightning 0.37 (0.1)
FOX: 9-1-1 Lone Star 6.69 (1.2), Prodigal Son 3.58 (0.7)
NBC: America’s Got Talent 7.30 (1.1), America’s Got Talent 7.84 (1.2), Manifest 3.78 (0.7)
Source: Nielsen, live + same day time period averages
EXECUTIVE MOVES
Joan Barrett was appointed President and General Manager of WCNC, TEGNA’s NBC affiliate in Charlotte, NC, effective March 10. She joins from Nexstar Media Group, where she has been Vice President and General Manager of KDVR and KWGN, Nexstar’s FOX and CW-affiliated duopoly in Denver.
IN MEMORIAM
Actress Esther Scott, whose career included roles in The Birth of a Nation, Boyz n the Hood, The CW’s Hart of Dixie and more, died February 14 in Los Angeles, after suffering a heart attack. She was 66. |
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This Day in History
1960 – Bill Keane’s Family Circus cartoon strip debuted.
Answer to Our Last Trivia Question
Which two series won five consecutive Best Comedy Emmys? Frasier (1993-2004) and Modern Family (2009-present). Kudos to: Andrew Goldman-Fathom Events/NYC; Rev. Mark Wajda/Lakeland, FL; Charles Lore/NYC; Gerry Bixenspan-TV Marketing, Inc./NYC; Eric Litt-Multicast Networks/Chicago, IL; Andy Pittman-TAMU/College Station/TX; Paul Blutter-Walk and Talk Production Rentals/Burbank, CA; Susan Nessanbaum Goldberg-M and S Entertainment/Los Angeles; David Westberg-SAG AFTRA Credit Union/Burbank, CA; Len Klatt-The Winning Run/Los Angeles, CA;
John Ferlazzo/London, England.
Today’s Trivia Question
Which actor asked, “Who wrote this sh**?” during his audition for a 70s/80s sitcom? (Email [email protected] with your answer and be sure to include your name, company, city and time zone. Unofficial rules: a limit of four.) |
MGR, DIGITAL AUDIENCE DVLPMNT
A + E Networks
NYC
Manage day-to-day push notifications, email acquisition, CRM experiences, Social advertising and other digital marketing efforts. 3 – 5yr exp in a CRM development/execution role or a direct marketing / customer acquisition role with a proven track record of success. Full info HERE (3/4)
SR ANALYST, RESEARCH >>
Warner Media/NYC: Track/analyze/report advertising trends & dvlpmnts, especially as they are projected to affect ad sales. 3+ yrs relevant work exp incl linear, digital & social media mktplace knwldg. V-Lookups, Index-Match, Pivot Tables, Data Connections/Queries, etc.; VBA/Macros a +. Full info HERE (2/27)
MANAGER, AD SALES MARKETING >>
Crown Family Networks/NYC: Dvlp 360-degree advertiser-driven mktg programs while ensuring our brand value proposition, network voice & pgrmng priorities anchor every proposal. 3-5yrs ad sales mktg or related field. Flawless att to detail a must. Full info HERE (2/28)
AD SALES MARKETING COORDINATOR >>
Crown Media Family Networks/NYC: Responsible for supporting the Ad Sales team with client communication materials, event coordination, advertiser sponsorship opportunities, premiums and promotions. Min 2 yrs exp mktg or advertising at an entertainment co. Full info HERE (2/28)
SALES SERVICE SUPERVISOR >>
A+E Networks/NYC: Responsible for training of all new SSR’s, responding to system issues & questions from users & reinforce all Policies & Procedures necessary to provide the best possible customer service to both internal and external client. Full Info HERE (2/28)
DIRECTOR, DIGITAL CONTENT >>
INSP/Charlotte NC: Oversees all website & digital content initiatives. Proven successful exp mngng creative digital-first content, creating websites & digital properties a must as well as . proven track record showing strong growth. 5+yrs exp leading mngmnt of a website property. Relo pkg avail. Full info HERE (2/26)
SALES DIRECTOR >>
VENN/NYC/LA: Entrepreneurially minded self-starter to come in & help drive rev through brand partnerships. Passion for media biz & 5+ yrs track record of success as individual contributor in media sales. Familiarity w/digital & linear media landscape, technologies, platforms & brands. Full info HERE (2/26)
SALES PLANNER >>
VENN/NYC/LA: Passionate self-starter to play key role in our revenue org to help drive our business forward. Partner w/sales team to create proposals, presentations & media plans to bring to mkt. 2+ yrs track record of exp in similar role at media co. Familiarity w/dig & linear landscape. Full info HERE (2/26)
INTEGRATED MARKETING MGR >>
VENN/NYC: Ideal candidate will work cross-functionally with Sales & Prod to ideate/oversee execution of breakthrough creative opps for brand partners across Media, Content and Experience. Must be creative thinker & problem solver. Track record of success in similar role at media company, working with video and experiential assets. Full info HERE (2/26)
DIRECTOR, PRICING STRATEGY & INVENTORY >>
Pluto TV/NYC: Play a meaningful role in Ad Sales driving revenue growth through improved yield. Partner w/SVP of Nat’l Ad Sales & other key ad sales execs within the org. 8-10yrs in a pricing, plan’g or revenue operations dept specializing ad sales @ linear ntwk or online video digital publisher. Full info HERE (2/26)
WRITER PRODUCER EDITOR >>
NBCU Entertainment/Universal City CA: Talented Writer/Producer/Editor brilliant at crafting promos & trailers as they are social & digital videos, with a keen ability to tell different types of stories on diff platforms. Min 3 yrs brdcst network or ent cable network exp on-air promo as a writer/prod/editor. Full info HERE (2/25)
SPECIALIST, MUSIC & MEDIA CLEARANCES >>
MLB Network/Secaucus NJ: Resp to help ensure that assigned media content & products, whether licensed, library, stock or original are cleared for air. 1- 3 years’ work exp at a TV, Film, Licensing or Media Company. Full understanding of music licensing is req’d. Full info HERE (2/25)
DIRECTOR MEDIA RELATIONS >>
FX Networks/NY: Resp for launching/sustaining new & returning shows, planning/executing goal-focused PR campaigns, contributing to the advancement of PR objectives, and cultivating media support and awareness of FX Networks. Min 7 yrs exp in media/PR – previous exp in TV, network or studio a + Full info HERE (2/21)
SALES ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE >>
(NBC/TLMD Chicago): Primarily responsible for delivering sales revenue, as well as cultivating and developing new advertisers for the station’s multi-platform properties. Min 3 yrs exp in sales and/or marketing roles start-up, media company exp. Full info HERE (2/21)
SR DIRECTOR, CONSUMER MARKETING >>
INSP/Charlotte NC: Relocation package offered. Responsible for leading INSP’s consumer mktg strategy, campaign dvlpmnt & executional oversight to effectively drive awareness, reach, and ratings for all off-channel initiatives.7-10 yrs exp ent, brand mktg, ad cable/streaming. Full info HERE (2/21) |
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Wednesday February 19, 2020
ABC: The Goldbergs, Schooled, Modern Family, Single Parents, Stumptown
CBS: Survivor, Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds [f]
CW: Howie Mandel’s Fifth Annual All-Star Comedy Gala, Whose Line Is it Anyway?
FOX: The Masked Singer, LEGO Masters
NBC: Chicago Med, Democratic Candidates Debate
PBS: Nature, NOVA, Expedition with Steve Backshall
Telemundo: Exatlon Estados Unidos, La Dona, Operacion Pacifico
Univision: Ringo, Amor Eterno, Rubi |
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