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03.07.14
Good morning. It’s Friday, March 7, 2014, and this is your first early morning briefing.
Tonight’s Premieres:
Discovery Fit & Health: Sydney ER at 9p, Vegas ER at 10p
HGTV: Extreme Homes at 11a
Nat Geo Wild: Cesar 911 at 9p
WE tv: Marriage Boot Camp at 9p
Tonight’s Finales:
ID: Imposters at 10p
Saturday’s Premieres:
Discovery: Timber Kings at 10p
DIY: Vanilla Ice Project at 10p
Food: Heartland Table at 10:30a
HUB: Spooksville at 5p
NBC: Dateline Saturday Night Mystery at 8p
Saturday’s Finales:
ID: Scorned: Love Kills at 10p
Sunday’s Premieres:
ABC: Resurrection at 9p
American Heroes Channel: Codes and Conspiracies at 10p
Bravo: Online Dating Rituals of the American Male at 10p
Food: Chopped Tournament of Stars at 9p
Fox, FX, Nat Geo: Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
History: No Man’s Land at 10p
OWN: Oprah Prime at 9p, Lindsay at 10p
Spike: Catch a Contractor at 10p
TLC: Long Island Medium at 9p, My Five Wives at 10p
Sunday’s Finales:
DIY: West End Salvage at 8p
HBO: True Detective at 9p, Looking at 10:30p
HGTV: Scoring the Deal at 5p and 5:30p
Telemundo: Top Chef Estrellas at 8p
E! greenlit its first original scripted series, The Royals, about a fictional British royal family. "The Royals will… imagine the private, lush, fun, sexy world of the most-watched celebrity family on the planet," said Jeff Olde, EVP of original programming & development. "It’s a perfect series to introduce E! viewers to scripted pop culture programming on the network." The Lionsgate drama, starring Elizabeth Hurley (Bedazzled) and William Moseley (The Chronicles of Narnia), premieres in 2015.
CBS News vet Bill Whitaker has been named a 60 Minutes correspondent. Whitaker, who has reported regularly for CBS News broadcasts and interviewed luminaries as varied as Barbra Streisand, Mike Tyson and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, will start appearing on the show in fall 2014.
AMC and Next Games are cooking up a mobile game based on The Walking Dead, with a debut timed to the smash zombie drama’s season five debut in October. Said Next Games CEO Teemu Huuhtanen, former of Rovio (Angry Birds), "We want to find that sweet spot where gameplay and narrative inform and reinforce each other."
ABC inked a deal with Disson Skating for four two-hour ice skating specials. 1992 gold medalist Kristi Yamaguchi and three-time U.S. National champ Michael Weiss will host; 1988 gold medalist Brian Boitano and this year’s Olympics ice dancing gold medalists (and Dancing with the Stars contestants) Meryl Davis and Charlie White will be among the performers. The first two specials are slated for late 2014, the second two in 2015.
Discovery named its Naked and Afraid aftershow Naked After Dark (wt was Discovery After Dark), and enlisted comedian/aftershow vet Josh Wolf (Shark After Dark) as host. The (fully-clothed) companion show launches Sunday, March 16 at 10:30p.
Writer/producer/director Judd Apatow will receive the 2014 Paleyfest Icon Award at the Paley Center for Media on Monday, March 10. Tickets on sale at www.paleyfest.org.
Charter launched Showtime Networks‘ authentication service, Showtime Anytime, allowing subscribers free, unlimited on demand access to the network’s programming on computer, tablet, phone, Kindle Fire or Roku streaming players.
Don’t Miss Out… The call for entries in the third annual Cynopsis Kids !magination + People Awards is now open. The Awards honor the best children’s and family multiplatform programming and marketing, plus the outstanding execs in kids entertainment. This year, we will also be honoring an elite group of Animation Innovators. Entry deadline is Friday, March 14, and we will salute all winners on June 11, 2014, at the !magination Awards ceremony in NY. Please visit the awards website for info: http://www.cynopsis.com/events/kids-awards.
E! greenlit its first original scripted series, The Royals, about a fictional British royal family. "The Royals will… imagine the private, lush, fun, sexy world of the most-watched celebrity family on the planet," said Jeff Olde, EVP of original programming & development. "It’s a perfect series to introduce E! viewers to scripted pop culture programming on the network." The Lionsgate drama, starring Elizabeth Hurley (Bedazzled) and William Moseley (The Chronicles of Narnia), premieres in 2015.
Starz and the BBC are co-producing limited series The Missing. Now filming in Brussels, the drama from New Pictures and Company Pictures in association with Two Brothers Pictures and Playground will air on Starz in the U.S. and BBC One in the U.K. in fall 2014.
Universal Cable Productions inked exclusive development deals with Steve Carell‘s Carousel Productions and Jessica Biel‘s Iron Ocean Productions. Dawn Parouse Olmstead, EVP development, noted the "undeniable comedic flair and wit" and "strong female sensibility" of the respective companies, explaining, "Diversified product is a key component of our development strategy."
Russell Brand opens up to Oprah Winfrey about his struggle with heroin addiction on the debut of OWN‘s Oprah Prime Sunday, March 9 at 9p. The new series from Harpo Studios looks at issues and current events through the lens of both newsmakers and real-life families.
HBO Boss documentary Bruce Springsteen’s High Hopes debuts April 4 at 9:30p, two days before the rock icon starts the North American leg of his tour. The doc, with studio and rehearsal footage, follows Bruce and the E-Streeters as they create their 18th studio album.
D-Day’s Sunken Secrets tells the stories of unsung heroes in the 1944 invasion, with new information gleaned from underwater exploration of the landing beaches of Normandy. Documentary airs on NOVA Wednesday, May 28 at 9p.
VH1 takes viewers behind the scenes at an iconic New York hip hop radio station in a new unscripted series. This Is Hot 97 shows the "lovingly dysfunctional family" churning out the music starting Monday, March 31 at 10:30p.
Amy Poehler (Parks and Recreation) brings the funny to a new Old Navy spot as a "cat criminal attorney" fixated on a potential employee’s pants, one of a series of ads set to run through summer. "We gave her a lot of creative control," Ivan Wicksteen, global CMO at Old Navy, told AdAge. "We’re not dictating what she has to say in advertisements."
Among the guests at the Samsung Blogger Lounge at SXSW 2014, a partnership between video company What’s Trending and the tech brand, will be El Rey‘s Robert Rodriguez and stars from the net’s From Dusk Till Dawn (March 8) and the cast of HBO‘s new comedy Silicon Valley (March 10). For the action in Austin, visit www.whatstrending.com or follow @SamsungTweets.
Comcast started running ads for medical marijuana on Monday, in states where it’s legal. The spot, for MarijuanaDoctors.com, promotes going through a doctor, not a dealer, for marijuana, and airs after 10p and before 5a.
Animal Planet is bringing Pit Bulls & Parolees back for season six. Produced by 44 Blue Productions and Rive Gauche Television, the series about a pit bull rescue operation returns later this year.
HGTV‘s Flip or Flop returns for a second season on Tuesday, April 8 at 9p. The series, about a young couple who turn over houses for profit, attracted over 9 million viewers P25-54 during its freshman run.
Mountain Monsters is set for a sophomore session on Destination America. On its first outing, the docu-series, following the Appalachian Investigators of Mysterious Sightings, was DA’s best series ever among all key demos in delivery. Season two launches Friday, April 4 at 10p; new after show Mountain Monsters: Behind the Hunt follows on DestinationAmercia.com.
Sundance TV will launch season two of critically acclaimed Rectify on Thursday, June 19 at 9p.
Kroll Show landed a third season on Comedy Central. Premiere eps of the sketch comedy series are averaging 1.1 million viewers Tuesdays at 10:30p.
FremantleMedia International completed a deal with OWN for worldwide distribution rights to the net’s eight-part documentary series about Lindsay Lohan, Lindsay. Show premieres on OWN Sunday, March 9 at 10p.
Netflix acquired Robert Rodriguez series From Dusk Till Dawn to air weekly in Canada, Ireland, The Netherlands, Nordic European countries and the U.K. starting March 12, and Latin America starting March 19. The 10-ep series premieres in Stateside Tuesday, March 11 at 9p on El Rey.
More Lilo news: Lindsay Lohan guests on CBS‘s 2 Broke Girls as an indecisive bride-to-be on Monday, April 14 at 8p.
Paul Reiser (Mad About You) will recur on upcoming FX comedy Married, bowing this summer. Nat Faxon and Judy Greer star.
MTV announced nominees for the 2014 MTV Movie Awards. In addition to the usual suspects (Amy, Leonardo, Matthew), fans can vote for James Franco, Ashley Benson and Vanessa Hudgens for Best Kiss (!), or Ethan Hawke for Best Scared-as-S**t Performance. Conan O’Brien-hosted trophyfest airs live Sunday, April 13 at 9p.
Win or lose, ACM Award nominees Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Miranda Lambert, Blake Shelton, George Strait, Keith Urban and The Band Perry will take the stage at the 49th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards as performers. Ceremony will be broadcast live from Las Vegas Sunday, April 6, at 8p on CBS.
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Entry Questions: Peter Romas | Sponsorships: Mike Farina.The Little Couple scored big numbers for TLC on Tuesday. The return of season six at 10p was the number one ad-supported primetime cable program and the series’ highest-rated episode ever among HH (3.0), W25-54 (2.3) and P2+ delivery (3.9M P2+ viewers).
ABC‘s Good Morning America won the February 2014 sweep in total viewers (5.851 million), according to Nielsen. It was GMA’s seventh consecutive sweeps win and its first back-to-back February win since February 1993 and 1994.
Fox‘s American Idol was first in A18-49 Wednesday night, but ABC‘s Modern Family was the night’s top program in the demo with 3.4/10. CBS points out Criminal Minds, Wednesday’s most watched program, matched its closest-ever competitive position to Idol in A18-49 (2.6/7 versus 2.7/8).
ABC‘s This Week was number one for the second straight week in total viewers and A25-54, its first back-to-back wins in viewers since 1998 and in the news demo since 2009.
Wednesday’s The Arsenio Hall Show saw a 56 percent bump from its February sweep average rating, to 1.4/3, with sole guest Prince. Among A18-49, Arsenio (.6/2) surged 50 percent to tie ABC‘s Jimmy Kimmel Live (.6/3).
CBS‘s Let’s Make a Deal 1 averaged a best-ever February audience of 3.23 million, up 8 percent versus a year ago. Let’s Make a Deal 2 had its largest audience (3.8 million, up 11 percent) and W25-54 rating (1.2/1, up 9 percent).
Broadcast Morning News Shows Weekly Average Ratings (week of February 24, 2014)
ABC: GMA 5.85 million total viewers; 1.9/13 and 2.31 million A25-54
NBC: Today 5.81 million total viewers; 2.0/14 and 2.35 million A25-54
CBS: This Morning 3.2 million total viewers; .9/6 and 1.08 million A25-54
Source: Nielsen, NTI
Broadcast Sunday Morning News Shows (March 2, 2014)?
ABC: This Week 3.67 million total viewers; 1.1 and 1,284 A25-54
CBS: Face the Nation 3.34 million total viewers; .8 and 953,0000 A25-54
NBC: Meet the Press 3.19 million total viewers; .8 and 946,000 A25-54?
CBS: Face the Nation-2 1.85 million total viewers; .4 and 424,000 million A25-54?
FOX: Fox News Sunday 1.32 million total viewers; .4 and 416,000 million A25-54
Source: Nielsen, NTI
Wednesday A18-49 Analysis: FOX won the most A18-49 viewers Wednesday with 2.7/8, according to Nielsen. Fox’s American Idol led at 8p with 2.8/9, followed by 2.4/8 for the CBS’s Survivor. Idol remained in first for the 9p hour with 2.8/8 versus a 2.6/7 average for ABC’s Modern Family and Mixology. At 10p, CBS’s Criminal Minds grabbed the top spot with 1.7/5, versus 1.5/5 for NBC’s Chicago PD and 1.5/4 for ABC’s Nashville.
A18-49: FOX 2.7/8, CBS 2.2/7, ABC 1.9/6, NBC 1.5/4, UNI 1.2/3, CW .6/2, TELE .4/1
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Wednesday, March 5, 2014 time period averages. Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.
FOX: 6.4/10
American Idol 6.4/10
CBS: 6.3/11
Survivor 5.9/10, Criminal Minds 7.0/11, CSI 6.1/11
ABC: 3.8/6
The Middle 4.6/8, Suburgatory 3.6/6, Modern Family 5.6/9, Mixology 3.0/5, Nashville 3.4/6
NBC: 3.7/6
Revolution 3.1/5, Law & Order: SVU 4.0/6, Chicago PD 4.0/7
UNIVISION: 1.6/3
Por Siempre mi Amor 1.3/2, Que Vida me Robo 2.0/3, Que Pobres Tan Ricos 1.5/3
TELE: .7/1
Impostura .6/1, En Otra Piel .7/1, Camilia la Texana .7/1
National Geographic Channel announced a pair of promotions: Kelly Jones was upped to Vice President, Ad Sales Marketing from Executive Director, Ad Sales Marketing and Eric Kracht moved to Vice President, Sales at National Geographic Channel and FX Networks, from his prior position as Nat Geo and Fox Cable Entertainment account executive.
Comedy Central promoted Cory Stern to Senior Director of Development on the East Coast. Stern had been Director of Development.
Game show host Geoff Edwards died on March 5 of complications of pneumonia. He was 83. Edwards, who also worked as a DJ and actor, hosted shows including Treasure Hunt and Jackpot.
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Friday Fun Fact: The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
This Day in History: 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for the telephone.
Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: Where was the final pit stop for the inaugural season of The Amazing Race? The Unisphere at Flushing Meadows Park in New York. Kudos to: John Licardi-Talent Partners/NYC, Lori Paterson-Time Warner Cable Media/NYC, Cristin DeVries-CBS/NYC, Marc Wollis-NBC Sports Group, NYC.
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – FRIDAY MARCH 7, 2014
ABC: Last Man Standing, The Neighbors, Shark Tank, 20/20
CBS: Undercover Boss, Hawaii Five-0, Blue Bloods
CW: Whose Line Is it Anyway? [r], Whose Line Is it Anyway? [r], Star-Crossed [r]
FOX: Bones [r], Enlisted, Raising Hope
NBC: Dateline NBC, Grimm, Hannibal
PBS: Washington Week, Charlie Rose, From Dust to Dreams:Opening Night at the Smith Center for Performing Arts [r]
Telemundo: La Impostora, En Otra Piel, Camelia La Texana
Univision: Por Siempre Mi Amore, Lo Que la Vida Me Robo, Que Pobres Tan Ricos
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