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03.27.17
Good morning. It’s Monday March 27, 2017 and this is your first early morning briefing.
Tonight’s Premieres:
Animal Planet: Alaska: The Last Frontier: The Frozen Edge at 9p
Viceland: Twiz & Tuck at 10:30p
Tonight’s Finales:
Bravo: Vanderpump Rules at 9p
Great American Country: Alaska Off the Grid at 9p
MTV: Teen Mom 2 at 9p
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Cher pulled out of Lifetime movie Flint, scheduled to begin production next month. “This has been a project so near and dear to my heart, and I was truly looking forward to helping tell this story,” said Cher of the film about the Michigan water contamination crisis. “Unfortunately, I will be unable to leave Los Angeles during the scheduled filming as I am dealing with a serious family issue that prevents me from going on location for the April filming.” Cher was onboard not only as a star, but as an exec producer with Craig Zadan, Neil Meron and Katie Couric.
White House press official Boris Epshteyn, who became a familiar face on cable news as a Trump stumper during the 2016 presidential campaign, is expected to leave his job, reported the New York Times on Saturday. Epshteyn, who grew up in Moscow and is an old friend of First Son Eric Trump, was responsible for managing appearances of White House officials on television.
Making the argument that producers earned record profits of $51 billion in 2016 while the average salary for TV writers/producers dropped 23% in the last 2 years, the negotiating committee for the Writers Guild of America voted to recommend a strike authorization vote. Among the issues the union is trying to address are “chronically low pay” for comedy variety writers, an increase in the residual formula for high budget SVOD programs, the “pernicious effects” of short seasons, script fees, and family leave. The current contract for members of WGA West and WGA East with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers expires May 1.
Raycom Media announced Sunday it had reached an agreement to restore its stations to the AT%T U-Verse lineup in 23 local markets. While AT&T had accused Raycom of holding out for more retrains dollars, Raycom suggested AT&T was using the dispute to get subscribers to switch to its DirecTV service. Stations went dark on March 15.
Alternative facts? The conservative American Action Network PAC jumped the gun with local market spots during CBS March Madness games on Friday, asking viewers to call their members of Congress to thank them for gutting the Affordable Care Act . Except, of course, the bill was pulled Friday afternoon ahead of the scheduled vote.
Emma Thompson: First Lady? The Love Actually star revealed on Norwegian/Swedish talk show Skavlan last week that that while she was newly divorced and filming the 1998 movie Primary Colors, inspired by Bill Clinton’s run for the White House, she got a phone call in her trailer from Donald Trump, offering her accommodation at a Trump property – and dinner. “ I think we would get on very well,” she said Trump told her. Thompson joked that while she declined to take Trump up on his offer, she wishes she hadn’t, saying, “Think of the stories.”
FCC chairman Ajit Pai dodged a reporter’s question on Thursday about why he wasn’t commenting on “fake news” allegations about news outlets he regulates, that use public airwaves he regulates. “That is a political debate and…my job is not to be a political actor but to be someone who is administering the laws of the United States, and so I am not going to wade into that kind of political debate,” said Pai.
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Fox News fired long-time comptroller Judy Slater for what it called “abhorrent behavior,” following accusations that she had made derogatory comments to Africa-American employees. “We take any complaint of this nature very seriously and took the appropriate action in investigating and firing Ms. Slater within two weeks of this being brought to our attention,” said Fox News in a statement.
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Amy Berg (DaVinci’s Demons), exec producer on the first season of Starz’ upcoming drama Counterpart, isn’t sticking around for the second straight-to-series run. J.K. Simmons stars in the show as a low-ranked bureaucrat who discovers his agency is guarding crossing into a parallel dimension.
Discovery ordered House of Cars (wt), an unscripted series headed for the net’s Motor Mondays lineup. Coolfire Studios is producing.
Who Killed Angie Dodge? Keith Morrison Investigates delves into the case of 20-year-old Chris Tapp, jailed for the murder of a girl whose mother worked to free him. On the heels of Tapp’s March 22 release from prison, the 2-hour ID special from NBC News’ Peacock Productions is slated for an early summer premiere. “When I first reported this story in 2012, I was amazed by Carol Dodge’s determination to help exonerate the man convicted of killing her own daughter,” Dateline NBC’s Keith Morrison tells Cynopsis. “I’ve been thinking about this case ever since my first visit to Idaho Falls, and it has only become more complex and controversial in the years that followed.”
A new overall deal with AMC Studios to develop new projects means Fear the Walking Dead showrunner Dave Erickson will give up that role at the end of the zombie drama’s upcoming third season, remaining as an executive producer. “We’re beyond grateful for Dave’s amazing work on the first three seasons of Fear the Walking Dead. With Dave as showrunner, the series fulfilled its creative promise to expand the Walking Dead universe in a way that was totally unique from the original series, and has gone on to become the number twodrama series in ad-supported cable,” said Joel Stillerman, president of original programming and development for AMC and SundanceTV.
Top 10 Weekend Domestic Box Office Estimates: March 24-26, 2017
Beauty and the Beast (Buena Vista) $88.3 million (week 2), cume revenue $316.9 million
Power Rangers (Lionsgate) $40.5 million, opening weekend
Kong: Skull Island (Warner Bros.) $14.2 million (week 3), cume revenue $133.5 million
Life (Sony) $12.6 million, opening weekend
Logan (20th Century Fox) $10.1 (week 4), cume revenue $201.5 million
Get Out (Universal) $8.7 (week 5), cume revenue $147/5 million
CHiPS (Warner Bros.) $7.6 million, opening weekend
The Shack (Lionsgate) $3.8 million (week 4), cume revenue $49.1 million
The LEGO Batman Movie (Warner Bros.) $2.0 million (week 7), cume revenue $170.8 million
The Belko Experiment (BH Tilt) $1.8 million (week 2), cume revenue $7.6 million
Source: comScore
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Led by Beauty and the Beast, Logan, and Kong, NCM dominated the rating charts for the 6th week in a row with a huge 13.2 A18-34 rating. The only madness this month is leaving NCM out of your media plans.
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AMC is airing special editions of its Talking aftershow following the Better Call Saul season 3 premiere on Monday, April 10, and finale on Monday, June 12. The series’ cast, producers and celebrity fans will discuss the season and offers viewers a chance to ask questions.
HBO doc Rock and a Hard Place, looking at incarcerated young people given a second chance with a 6-month boot camp, debuts tonight at 10p. Dwayne Johnson, an exec producer along with his Seven Bucks Productions co-founder, Dany Garcia and Rasha Drachkovitch, co-founder and CEO of 44 Blue Productions, will appear in the film. “Rock & A Hard Place is one of the most powerful programs I’ve ever produced,” Drachkovitch tells Cynopsis. “I’ve been producing inside prisons for the past 20 years, and the Miami-Dade Boot Camp is one of the most effective program I’ve seen to combat recidivism.”
Will viewers of Freeform’s Pretty Little Liars be left hanging at the conclusion of the show, heading into the return of its seventh and final season on Tuesday, April 18? “We really wanted these last 10 episodes to be a love letter to the fans,” said PLL creator and showrunner I. Marlene King at a PaleyFest event on Saturday. “All the end games will be end games, but nobody is going to get there super easy.”
It’s back to Florence for Food Network’s Giada in Italy, starting a new season Sunday, April 9 at 12p.
The TV adaptation of stage play The Lost Souls Cafe airs on TV One Easter Sunday, April 16 at 6p. Film focuses on a restaurant lounge owner (The Carmichael Show’s Loretta Devine) working to save her business.
It’ll be deja vu for CBS comedy fans when Leah Remini guests on the two-part season finale of Kevin Can Wait on Monday, May 1 and May 8 at 8p, reuniting her with her former King of Queens castmate, Kevin James. Remini will play a cop who goes undercover with Kevin, posing as his wife.
Controversial musician Chris Brown will guest on black-ish on Wednesday, March 29. Brown will play a rapper working on a campaign with Dre (Anthony Anderson) in the ABC comedy.
Marco de la O (Tanto Amor) has been cast in the role of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman in ripped-from-the-headlines drama El Chapo, focused on the rise to power and eventual downfall of the notorious criminal. Series premieres Sunday, April 23 at 8p on Univision.
John Leguizamo landed a role in six-part event series Waco, based on the true story of the 51-day standoff in Waco, Texas. Series produced by Weinstein Television will air on Paramount Network in 2018.
Taylor John Smith (American Crime) joined the cast of HBO drama Sharp Objects, starring Amy Adams. Eight-part drama is based on the book by Gillian Flynn.
NYPD Blue alum Sharon Lawrence is onboard CBS comedy pilot Me, Myself & I, examining a man’s life over a 50-year span.
Recode reports Twitter, Amazon, Facebook and YouTube are all competing for streaming rights to 10 NFL games. Twitter ponied up $10 for gridiron gold last season.
Comcast is collecting rights from cable network owners to offer their channels nationally, reports Bloomberg. The rights, which in some cases came as part of carriage negotiations, could allow Comcast to offer online TV nationwide. While the move does not mean Comcast has immediate plans for a video service, clarifies Bloomberg, grabbing the rights gives the company options in a landscape with a growing number of internet services like Sling TV and DirecTV Now.
Ad revenue for broadcast entertainment dipped 6.4% across dayparts in February, according to Standard Media Index, offset a bit by a 15.1% increase in broadcast news spending. Broadcast ad revenue in prime time had a 2.3% lift, led by NBC, up 11.3% annually thanks to freshman hit This Is Us. Cable news ad spending in prime rose almost 40%. As for digital, “The past six months have shown that a sizeable number of brands went too far and have started reassessing based on quality issues and falling sales,” said SMI CEO James Fennessy. “We expect this trend to accelerate in the coming months as the issues with YouTube are certain to have an impact on spend on non-premium platforms.” Brands like Verizon, Pepsi, Walmart and Johnson & Johnson pulled advertising from YouTube after it was discovered ads were appearing alongside extremist views and hate speech.
The Association of National Advertisers issued an advisory after some of its members yanked those YouTube ads. “Their concern for their brands’ well-being is rational, appropriate and warranted,” said ANA CEO Bob Liodice. “No marketer should ever place its brand at risk.” Liodice pushed members, their agencies and media partners to “work energetically to…improve the quality of the digital media supply chain.”
It starts with a woman sobbing in the bathtub, crying, “I can’t believe she’s gone. I miss her so much.” But the drama’s more about a purse than a relationship in one of the short films from Chanel surrounding the launch of its Gabrielle bag. “There’s something absolutely liberating about branded content – especially in this form,” director Lena Beug told Adweek. “This is storytelling outside the confines of the 30-second spot, and really it’s just supposed to entertain. The brief was minimal, and I loved having the freedom to shape the story and the narrative.”
PBS had nothing to do with the viral video in which Sesame Street’s Elmo is laid off due to President Trump’s budget cuts (but “Elmo has pre-existing conditions,” cries the distressed puppet). So said PBS CEO Paula Kerger on Friday, but that doesn’t mean the video doesn’t resonate. “The president’s budget proposes to make America great again,” Kerger told a Detroit business group. “I strongly believe PBS and its member stations are part of what makes America great.” But back to the video about Sesame Street characters losing their jobs. “What about the kids?” Elmo asks the unseen hatchetman, who replies, “The kids have YouTube.”
TBS Digital ordered 7 episodes of comedic series One Deeper Talks, featuring DJ Dillon Francis interviewing – as his German alter ego DJ Hanzel renowned DJs like Calvin Harris and Kaskade.
Everything’s not coming up roses for Turkey’s dating shows. Despite their popularity, “There are some strange programmes that would scrap the institution of family, take away its nobility and sanctity,” said Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus in an interview. Officials met with reps from TV channels on Thursday to discuss stricter regulations.
UK-based distributor DCD Rights has secured a deal with SundanceTV Global for international drama Acceptable Risk for multiple territories including Central and Eastern Europe, Dutch Speaking Benelux, Iberia, Latin America, MENA, Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Fox News Channel cut away from Monday’s hearing in which FBI Director James Comey confirmed an investigation into attempts by the Russian government to interfere with the 2016 election, and viewership dropped 29%. MSNBC stayed with the coverage and gained 8%; CNN also stuck with the hearing and had a slight increase. From 10a-1p, when all three news nets were airing the House Intelligence Committee hearing, FNC was first in viewership with 2.2 million, followed by 1.7 million for CNN and 1.4 million for MSNBC.
Season 2 of AMC’s Into the Badlands launched Sunday as cable’s #1 returning show for 2017 among A25-54. The season two premiere delivered 4.5 million total viewers, 2.7 million A25-54 and 2.4 million A18-49 in Nielsen Live+3 ratings.
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Thursday, March 23, 2017 time period averages.
Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD
CBS: 4.2/8
NCAA Basketball 4.4/9, NCAA Basketball 3.2/6/6, NCAA Basketball 4.1/8
ABC: 3.8/7
Grey’s Anatomy 5.2/8, Scandal 3.7/6, The Catch 2.4/5
NBC: 2.6/5
Superstore 2.5/5, Trial & Error 1.7/3, Chicago Med 3.0/5, Blacklist: Redemption 2.6/5
FOX: 1.8/3
MasterChef: Junior 2.3/4, Kicking & Screaming 1.3/2
UNIVISION .9/2
Pequenos Gigantes USA .8/1, Vino el Amor 1.0/2, La Piloto .9/2
TELEMUNDO: .9/2
La Fan .6/1, La Dona .9/2, El Chema 1.2/2
CW: .6/1
Supernatural .6/1, Supernatural .5/1
Thursday A19-49: CBS 2.1/8, ABC 1.3/5, FOX .9/3, NBC .8/3, TELE .6/2, UNI .5/2, CW .3/1
Source: Nielsen
Andrew Fitzgerald is joining Hearst Television in the newly-created position of Chief Digital Content Officer. Fitzgerald built and oversaw the creation teams responsible for Twitter feature Moments.
New appointments at all3media include Sonja Underwood as Head of Marketing, Rachel Glaister’s promotion to EVP International Brands & Press, Kate Potter as Insight Manager, and David Swetman’s elevation to VP Acquisitions.
This Day in History: 1998 – The Food and Drug Administration approved Viagra.
Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: Which sitcom began naming episodes after a song by a rock band in its fifth season? That ‘70s Show (1998-2006), with Led Zeppelin(season 5),The Who(Season 6),The Rolling Stones(season 7), andQueen(season 8). Kudos to: John Ferlazzo/London, Marty Webb-WJLA.Washington, D.C., Brian Rocco-MultiVision Media/NYC, Margaret LaMura-Dara-The CW/NYC, Traci Liner-WMEIIMG/NYC, David Garber-Loyola Marymount University/Playa Vista, CA, Susan Nessanbaum-Goldberg-M and S Entertainment/LA, David Westberg-SAG-AFTRA Federal Credit Union/Burbank, Cammy Buerry-Station Casinos/Las Vegas
Today’s Trivia Question: Which 1960s sitcom centered on an orphaned teen raising his younger sister? (Email [email protected] with your answer and be sure to include your name, company, city and time zone. Unofficial rules: A limit of four correct answers from each time zone will be selected.).
Answer to Friday’s Anagram: Get When Wins = The West Wing. Kudos to: Carol Stroud-CBS Consumer Products/NYC, Keith Marder-Halstead/NYC, Miura Kite-ITV Studios America/LA, NYC, Bethany Latham-PBS/Arlington, VA
Classic Sitcom Character Anagram: Hunt Red Bike (Email [email protected]; first three respondents with the correct answer who aren’t in trivia will be posted in tomorrow’s newsletter.)
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – MONDAY MARCH 27, 2017
ABC: Dancing With the Stars, Quantico
CBS: Big Bang Theory [r], Kevin Can Wait [r], Superior Donuts, The Great Outdoors, Scorpion [r]
CW: Supergirl, Jane the Virgin
FOX: 24: Legacy, APB
NBC: The Voice, Taken
PBS: Antiques Roadshow, Antiques Roadshow [r], Independent Lens
Telemundo: La Fan, La Dona, El Chema
Univision: Pequenos Gigante USA, Vino el Amor, La Piloto
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