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Good morning. It’s Tuesday, March 18, 2014, and this is your first early morning briefing.
Tonight’ Premieres:
A&E: Storage Wars at 9p, Barry’ Treasure at 10p
Oxygen: Chasing Maria Menounos at 10p, Celebrities Undercover at 10:30p
Tonight’ Finales:
ID: Obsession: Dark Desires at 10p
Reelz: Hollywood Hillbillies at 9p
Syfy: Foxy & Co. at 10p
TNT: Rizzoli & Isles at 9p, Perception at 10p
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Will this lead to a ratings "bump"for NBC‘s Today? Co-anchor Savannah Guthrie announced Monday morning that she got married over the weekend to her fiance, Mike Feldman – and is four months pregnant. "We set the date, I bought my dress, and then I found out," said the mom-to-be. "I’m so happy to tell the world because I can’t suck in this gut anymore!"
Gwyneth Paltrow returns to Fox‘s Glee as substitute teacher Holly Holliday tonight, March 18, for the show’s 100th episode. The Oscar winner (and Emmy winner, for her Glee guest role) sings Pharrell‘s "Happy."
Oprah Winfrey is selling the studio in Chicago where she taped her long-running talk show, reports Crain’s Chicago Business. Price tag: about $32 million. Harpo Studios will be leased back to Harpo for two years, and continue to produce programming for cable channel OWN.
Pivot, the network targeting Millennials, has secured the TV rights to the George Foster Peabody Awards. In addition to airing a special about the annual event, honoring achievement in electronic media, Pivot will produce and televise primetime specials about the winners.
Auditions for ABC summer reality series Rising Star start in Dallas on March 29, moving to Atlanta, Chicago, Nashville, LA, NY and Boston. Aspiring singers can visit www.ABC.com/RisingStar for audition info. The international hit Keshet format gives the audience the final say, in real time, on who advances in the competition.
A&E is returning as a development partner for the tenth annual New York Television Festival, with a twist. This time the A&E Unscripted Development Pipeline will include a guarantee that the winning entry will have the chance to produce a pilot presentation, with a minimum $25,000 budget. Artists can submit presentations for unscripted formats from April 7-May 28, 2014.
Fox Sports 1 is launching America’s Pregame on April 7, airing nightly at 6p. "We’ll discuss in detail the night’s most compelling games… using our roster of broadcasters and reporters throughout the country for live interviews, regardless of which network is carrying it," said the net’s EVP of news, Scott Ackerson.
The April 8 Cynopsis webinar, Creating the Perfect Media Pitch: The New Secrets to Selling to Advertisers brings agency, brand and network experts together on Tuesday, April 8 to explain the new partnering opportunities advertisers expect, must-haves for today’s sales calls and best practices for determining a brand’s goal. Please go here for more details.
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ABC Family gave the green light to three new drama pilots: Alice in Arabia, about a kidnapped teenager; Recovery Road, based on the young adult novel about addiction, and Unstrung, focused on the cutthroat world of tennis. Comedies Melissa & Joey and Baby Daddy were picked up for fourth seasons.
Captain Kirk is getting a new patio. DIY started production on The Shatner Project, a five-ep series chronicling the gut renovation of William Shatner‘s (Star Trek) 1970s-style home, including a space for outdoor parties. "I am embracing change," said the actor. "Our home will be unfamiliar territory for a while but I am excited by it."
Esquire ordered 10 eps of Lucky Bastards, featuring Italian prince/former The Bachelor star Lorenzo Borghese and five pals. The True Entertainment production is slated for a 10p premiere Wednesday, April 16.
FremantleMedia International and director/writer Roland Joffe (The Mission) announced a co-development partnership for TV series Ugly, a retelling of The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Content Media Corporation struck a deal with Beijing-based Seven Stars Entertainment and Media, Ltd. that includes the acquisition by Content of the Alive Group.Content will distribute its library of film and television rights through the Alive Group to the Chinese market.
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.
Lifetime has its first global premiere event with the debut of Return to Zero. The film, starring Minnie Driver (About a Boy) in a real-life story about a grief-stricken couple, bows in the U.S. Saturday, May 17 at 8p.
Protection – from goats, coyotes or an apocalyptic event – is the goal in upcoming Destination America reality show, Prepper Hillbillies. Docuseries about home protection, South Georgia style, bows Saturday, April 5 at 10p.
Leave it to Syfy. On Saturday, April 19 at 9p, the home of Sharknado presents Big Ass Spider!, about a giant alien spider that escapes from a military lab to terrorize Los Angeles.
Overhaulin’ returns Sunday, March 23 at 9p, when Velocity brings back the auto restoration show, along with iconic car designer, Chip Foose, for its third season on the net. "Our viewers crave top experts within their programming choices, and Foose, along with his A-team, are satisfying fans’ appetites," said Velocity GM Bob Scanlon.
Al Jazeera‘s Fault Lines will present "On the Front Lines with the Taliban" and "This Is Taliban Country," with reporting from a correspondent embedded with a Taliban unit. Two-part series airs Friday, March 21 and March 28 at 9p.
Through an exclusive partnership with The Broadway Channel, Tribune Broadcasting‘s New York CW affiliate, PIX11, will air quarterly special Broadway Profiles, as well as weekly "What’s Hot on Broadway" content on-air, on PIX11.com and via livestream.
Golden Globes disrupter – and Muppets Most Wanted bad guy – Ricky Gervais stars in new Audi ads as part of the car company’s "stay uncompromised" campaign touting the 2015 A3. Calling Gervais a "natural alignment" for the brand, Loren Angelo, Audi’s director of marketing, tells AdAge, "He has a point of view. And he sticks to it. That’s clearly what Audi does." Ad buys include the NCAA basketball tournament, the NBA playoffs and the spring finale of AMC‘s The Walking Dead. Agency: Venables Bell & Partners.
The television business seems to be changing by the day. What’s the biggest mistake someone can make on a sales call right now? "Thinking the point of the meeting is to present the deck," says Linda Ong, president and brand strategist for TruthCo., and panelist for the April 8 Cynopsis webinar, "Creating the Perfect Media Pitch: The New Secrets to Selling to Advertisers." "First and foremost, clients are looking for thought partners who can help make them successful. There is so much confusion in the industry right now, the FIRST thing you should do is ask the client about their brand and their business – not talk about yours. You should be gathering valuable information that you can use to construct a customized, efficient and impressive solution (either on the spot or better yet, give you a valid reason to follow-up). If you engage your client into such a collaborative, problem-solving conversation that you never pull out the deck, consider that a HUGE win!"
Hat Trick International sold factual entertainment series I Bought My Own Rainforest to SBS Australia, and Viasat for pan Scandinavian and pan Central and Eastern Europe broadcast. The Keo Films production centers on a wildlife photographer who used his own money to purchase a section of Peru’s rainforest.
Learn about the Hispanic market and digital initiatives from brands and networks at the Cynopsis webinar on March 27:Reaching Today’s U.S. Hispanic Connected Audience Through Digital, Social Media and Web Video. You can register at here.
Programming produced in Poland will be the focus of a Showcase event at NATPE Europe on Wednesday, June 25 in Prague. "The growth and development of Poland’s TV industry represents a host of opportunities to the international market alongside a wealth of valuable experience for its neighboring regions," said NATPE president Rod Perth.
A+E Networks UK launched History on Latvian pay TV platform Lattelecom. The channel is now available on Lattelcom’s Basic package.
Off the Fence will represent syndicated lifestyle series Raw Travel, from AIM TV, licensing the show at media outlets outside the US.
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ABC‘s Resurrection took an eight-tenths dip in the A18-49 demo from its week-ago debut, but still scored a strong 3.0 Sunday night. Fox‘s Cosmos delivered 1.9 in the adult demo, down ten percent for its second time out. NBC‘s Believe earned a 1.4 A18-49 rating in its 9p time slot premiere; the net’s new Crisis debuted to a 1.6 at 10p.
While ABC‘s The Bachelor topped the Twitter Top Ten chart for serials and specials (see below), the Houston Rockets/Miami Heat match-up on ABC was the number one sports event. The game drew 207,000 event-related tweets, seen by a Unique Audience of 4.5 million people.
Discovery‘s season two premiere of Naked and Afraid delivered 2.85 million total viewers P2+ on Sunday, with a live after show, Naked After Dark, drawing 1.41 million. Both shows generated trending topics on Twitter.
The season two finale of action drama Banshee drew 733,000 for its first run on Friday, making it Cinemax‘s most-watched original series ever. Tack on numbers for the 11p airing and the show was watched by 968,000 viewers.
NIELSEN TWITTER TV TOP TEN for the week of 3/10/24-3/09/2024
Program, Date, Unique Audience (000), Tweets (000)
The Bachelor (ABC), 3/10, 6594, 742
The Walking Dead (AMC), 3/16, 5638, 655
Pretty Little Liars (ABC Family), 3/11 3549, 325
Teen Wolf (MTV), 3/10, 3215, 388
The Voice (NBC), 3/10, 2297, 96
Scandal (ABC), 3/13, 2108, 321
30 for 30 (ESPN), 3/16, 1993, 36
Bracketology (ESPN2), 3/16, 1871, 23
WWE Monday Night Raw (USA) 3/10, 1693, 185
2014 mtvU Woodie Awards Special (MTV) 3/16, 1554, 11
Source: Nielsen SocialGuide. SocialGuide captures relevant Tweets from three hours before, during and three hours after an episode’s initial broadcast, local time. Unique Audience measures the audience of relevant Tweets ascribed to an episode from when the Tweets are sent until the end of the broadcast day at 5am. The data includes new/live primetime and late fringe episodes only and excludes sports events. Nielsen Twitter TV Ratings are only available for English-language U.S. Broadcast and Cable Networks
TV PLAYBACK RANK, based on the difference between Nielsen’s first-reported Live + Same Day and the final Live + 7 Day rating for the week of 2/24/14
Program/Live+SD A18-49 US AA%/Live+7 US AA%/+7 Minus SD Contribution)
The Big Bang Theory (CBS) 5.0/7/7/2.7 (54%)
Modern Family (ABC) 3.1/5.5/2.4 (77%)
The Blacklist (NBC) 3.1/5.0/1.9/ (61%)
Grey’s Anatomy (ABC) 3.1/4.9/1.8 (58%)
Scandal (ABC) 3.4/4/9/1.5 (44%)
Elementary (CBS) 1.6/3.1/1.5 (94%)
How I Met Your Mother (CBS) 3.6/4.9/1.3 (36%)
NCIS (CBS) 2.6/3.9/1.3 (50%)
Grimm (NBC) 1.4/2.6/1.2 (86%)
Castle (ABC) 1.7/2.9/1.2 (71%)
Chicago PD (NBC) 2.2/3.4/1.2 (55%)
The Following (FOX) 1.6/2.8/1.2 (75%)
Source: The Nielsen Company. National Live + Same Day and Live +7 Day Program Ratings. Program rankers based on regular, original telecasts only.
Friday A18-49 Analysis: ABC won the most A18-49 viewers Friday with 1.6/6, according to final primetime national ratings from Nielsen. CBS’s Undercover Boss grabbed 8p with 1.2/5, followed by 1.1/4 for NBC’s Dateline. At 9p, ABC’s Shark Tank jumped to the top with 2.0/7, versus 1.6/5 for NBC’s Grimm. ABC held onto the lead at 10p with 1.9/6 for 20/20; CBS’s Blue Bloods came in second with 1.4/5.
A18-49: ABC 1.6/6, CBS 1.3/5, NBC 1.2/4, UNI 1.0/4, FOX .5/2, TELE .4/2, CW .4/1
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Friday, March 14, 2014 time period averages. Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.
CBS: 5.8/10
Undercover Boss 4.0/7, Hawaii Five-0 6.0/10, Blue Bloods 7.5/13
ABC: 4.0/7
Last Man Standing 3.1/6, The Neighbors 2.3/4, Shark Tank 4.8/8, 20/20 4.5/8
NBC: 3.1/6
Dateline 4.3/8, Grimm 3.4/6, Hannibal 1.6/3
FOX: 1.0/2
Rake 1.2/2, Enlisted .9/2, Raising Hope .9/1
UNIVISION: 1.4/3
Por Siempr mi Amor 1.1/2, Que Vida me Robo 1.7/3, Que Pobres Tan Ricos 1.4/3
CW: .6/1
Whose Line Is it Anyway? [r] .7/1, Whose Line Is it Anyway? [r] .5/1, Colin & Brad: Two Man Group .5/1
TELE: .6/1
Impostura .6/1, En Otra Piel .6/1, Camelia La Texana .6/1
Drew Tappon has been named Senior Vice President of Development & Programming at A&E Network. Tappon, who joined A&E in 2011, will be responsible for the development and production of the network’s nonfiction, alternative and reality series.
Susan Rovner and Brett Paul have been appointed Co-Presidents of Warner Horizon Scripted Television. While maintaining their Executive Vice President responsibilities, Rovner will now oversee the development and programming of scripted television series for cable, and Paul will assume oversight of business operations.
Producer Sharon Mary Cicero died after a long illness on March 12. She was 52. Cicero’s telefilm credits include The Summer of Ben Tyler (1996), Forever Love (1998) and Acceptance (2009).
Clarissa Dickson Wright, star of BBC Two cooking show Two Fat Ladies, died March 15. She was 66. Wright was familiar to American audiences from the show’s runs on Food Network and Cooking Channel.
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This Day In History: 1931 – The first practical electric razor went on sale, from Schick. Price tag: a whopping (for then) $25.
Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: How did Carla’s husband Eddie die on Cheers (1982-1993)? He was killed by an ice show Zamboni. Kudos to: Lizzy Evans/NYC, Jim Bono-Crown Media Family Networks/NYC, MD, Mitch Burg-Syndicated National Television Association/NYC, David Polakoff-IconicTV/NYC, Lisa Fikeys-Zimmerman/Chicago, Adam Leston-WDJT/Milwaukee, Todd Schliewen-WOAI/SINCLAIR/San Antonio, Adam Zuvich-Shine America/Hollywood, CA, John Wood-JWPR/LA, Suzanne Leichter-OWN/LA, Steve Morrow-Eclipse TV/Mill Valley, CA, Chris Faulds-Bell Media Digital/Toronto.
Today’s Trivia Question: What was the name of Nash’s daughter on Nash Bridges (1996-2001)? (Email trivia@cynopsis.com with your answer and be sure to include your name, company, city and time zone. Unofficial rules: Only the second four correct answers from each time zone will be mentioned; and once you’ve been mentioned in any of the Cynopsis editions, you can’t be mentioned again that calendar week.).
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – TUESDAY MARCH 18, 2014
ABC: Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe, The Goldbergs, Trophy Wife, Mind Games
CBS: NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, Person of Interest
CW: The Originals, Supernatural
FOX: Glee, New Girl, New Girl [r], Brooklyn Nine-Nine
NBC: The Voice, About a Boy, Growing Up Fisher, Chicago Fire
PBS: 1964: The American Experiece [r], Frontline [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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