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Here’s to Top Women in Media.
May we know them.
May we be them.
May we NOMINATE them.
You don’t have to be a woman to recognize the
extraordinary women moving the industry forward.
Nominations are due April 16. Honorees will be celebrated at the
Cynopsis Top Women in Media Awards August 7th in NYC.
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PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT
Showtime gave a series commitment and opened a writers room for new spy thriller Intelligence, a real-world scripted drama series from Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty). Boal will write, direct and exec produce, marking the filmmaker’s first foray into television. The series, based on real stories from around the world, will explore how espionage intersects with politics, finance, media and Silicon Valley. The first season will dramatize the behind-the-scenes history leading up to the 2016 US, election, with each subsequent season looking at a major world event through the lens of covert operations. Project is a co-production with Showtime and Media Res studio.
TV/film writer and author David Matthews inked a two-year overall deal with Sony Pictures Television, for which he’ll develop new series projects under his production company Turned Out Inc. Matthews also will serve as exec producer and showrunner on Sony TV’s horror event series Them.
Scot Cru has departed GRB Studios, home to long-running A&E reality series Intervention, only six months after he was promoted to president. Cru joined GRB last July after he worked for 15 years at United Artist Media.
Corus Entertainment announced the acquisition of the Canadian operations of long-time partner Kin. “This investment demonstrates our targeted, strategic approach in an area of business that continues to grow and gain audiences,” said Doug Murphy, President and CEO, Corus Entertainment. “Corus recognizes the unique value Kin Community brings to both brands and consumers as a lifestyle platform in Canada and we look forward to working together to strengthen our offering in the digital space.”
NEW & RETURNING SERIES
PBS is bringing a science-led journey through human history to audiences with new series Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World, debuting Wednesday, April 17 at 10p. Six-part series documents how humans – including Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Ford, Robert Goddard and Hedy Lamarr – and six revolutionary inventions changed the world forever.
Telemundo released an exclusive First Act of the return of La Reina del Sur for season 2 on Monday, April 22 at 10p. For the first time ever, the network will offer audiences the opportunity to view the opening act across both Telemundo and NBCU digital platforms, including Telemundo.com, its Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube platforms, as well as the Telemundo App. In addition, social media platforms from sister networks and shows including E!, USA’s Queen of the South and Bravo’s Shahs of Sunset, Mexican Dynasties and Imposters also will showcase the material.
Need help managing the busy season? Cynopsis’ Upfronts/Newfronts Navigator offers up vital coverage from the presentations, road shows, and meetings taking place in New York and around the country. Access your ultimate resource center now.
Netflix dropped trailers for a few upcoming series. Dark comedy Dead To Me, from writer Liz Feldman (2 Broke Girls), Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s Gloria Sanchez Productions, and CBS TV Studios, will premiere Friday, May 3. Series centers on Jen (Christina Applegate) a widow determined to solve her husband’s recent hit-and-run murder, and Judy (Linda Cardellini), a free spirit who’s suffered a tragic loss of her own… The third season of Spanish-language drama Money Heist is set to premiere July 19, with the trailer hinting at island-based heist action and declaring the “vacation is now over.”
COMING UP
Secrets of the Dead: Egypt’s Darkest Hour premieres Wednesday, April 3 at 10p on PBS. Documentary takes viewers behind the scenes with experts as they venture through Africa in search of clues to solve the mystery of a mass grave, examining the political and environmental catastrophes that plunged Egypt and its people into anarchy.
Accuweather is moving into content creation with the force of a hurricane. John Dokes, recently elevated to chief content officer/president, maps the company’s plan to engage its 2 billion-strong audience, in the latest Cynsiders. Catch it here.
Speaking of, Accuweather is launching its Hurricane programming and coverage tomorrow morning, April 3. Buckle up – after an active Atlantic hurricane season in 2018, forecasters are predicting 2019 to result in a near- to slightly above-normal season.
On the heels of a groundbreaking scientific announcement to be made on April 10, Smithsonian Channel on Friday, April 12 at 9p will air Black Hole Hunters. One-hour doc follows a team of international scientists as they attempt to document the first-ever image of a black hole.
The second Superstar Renovation special from Juma Entertainment airs Sunday, April 7 at 5p on CBS. This installment features the NBA’s LaMarcus Aldridge surprising his former high school coach with a home renovation,
DIGITAL DATA
Ad-supported video on demand service Tubi added the first seasons of The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, Trista & Ryan’s Wedding and 2018’s Bachelor in Paradise season 5. The Tubi library contains more than 12,000 movies and television shows.
YouTube dance drama series Step Up: High Water hit a high note for its season 2 premiere, with the first ep of the sophomore season drawing 11.5 million views in the seven days since its March 20 debut, according to YT. That’s an 884 percent surge compared with the first ep of season 1, which drew 1.3 million viewers through seven days.
TECH TALK
Redbox used an April Fools prank to promote its transactional streaming offering, Redbox On Demand. Service enables customers to pay as they go for each movie or title they stream. Yesterday Redbox advertised a spoof service called Redbox Drops, which in theory uses drones to deliver entire kiosks to customers’ front doors.
Premium video marketplace Stringr today (April 2) will debut its livestreaming function, enabling customers to request live video content nationwide from Stringr’s 75,000-plus videographers. As a pilot customer for livestreaming, The Weather Channel is using the function to increase its live severe storm coverage.
Japanese videogame company Konami is expanding into other avenues of entertainment in the US, with a focus on its most iconic and classic video game titles. Its division 4K Media is renamed Konami Cross Media NY, with Yuta Kose on board to run the new entity that will now focus on production and licensing opportunities for the company’s Frogger, Contra, Bomberman and Yu-Gi-Oh! properties.
KIDS NEWS
9 Story Distribution International will distribute eight children’s series from Scholastic Entertainment under a new deal that includes animated and live-action content, bringing 9 Story’s total distribution library to more than 4,000 half-hours. Titles are: Clifford the Big Red Dog, The Magic School Bus, Goosebumps, The Baby-Sitters Club, Astroblast, Maya and Miguel, Word Girl and Clifford’s Puppy Days.
CASTING
Sylvia De Fanti (Medici, The Best Offer) is in as a series regular opposite Alba Baptista in upcoming Netflix drama series Warrior Nun.
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Discovery and BBC Studios entered a series of agreements, reigniting their relationship with a 10-year multimillion-dollar global content partnership spanning a library of premium factual series to power a new global streaming service, and a bespoke development deal for BBC Studios’ genres of natural history, animals, adventure, science, travel, space, history and civilization docs. Additionally, the two companies have concluded the future of UKTV’s channels business in the UK with a structured split that complements the strategic focus and commercial business of both organizations. The partnership is effective in all territories outside the UK, Ireland and Greater China, and make Discovery the exclusive global home of BBC landmark programs including the Planet Earth, Blue Planet, Life and Dynasties titles as well as future BBC-commissioned series from BBC Studios.
MTV International game show True Love or True Lies? has been re-commissioned for a second season, again to be produced by Lime Pictures and air across MTV’s global channels and digital platforms, spanning nearly 180 countries, later this year.
Global content creation and distribution company ADD Content inked a scripted format deal with Channel One in Russia for its Israeli drama Sirens (Betulot), slated to air later this year. Produced by AMEDIA Production and SREDA Production Co., the Russian version of the mystery thriller will feature a script by Maria Saprykina, Alexander Topuria and Irina Zui Sirens.
A+E Networks inked new deals for its Project Blue Book and season 2 of drama Knightfall. Broadcasters onboard for the sophomore run of Project Blue Book include Sci Fi Channel Europe (UK), Corus (Canada), SBS (Australia), TVNZ (New Zealand), U-Next (Japan), HISTORY (Korea, Latin America, Japan and Southeast Asia), HISTORY TV18 (India), OTE (Greece), Manoto (Farsi speaking diaspora), Mesimvria (Cyprus), and Showmax (Africa). New deal for Knightfalls include Vodafone (Iceland), HISTORY (India and Latin America), D’Live (Korea), SABC (Africa), Euro TV (France), Corus (Canada), SBS (Australia), and Sky Prime (New Zealand).
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RESULTS ARE IN!
Announcing Winners of the Cynopsis Social Good Awards
We’re thrilled to announce Winners and Honorable Mentions for the 5th Annual Cynopsis Social Good Awards, spotlighting the companies, programming, campaigns and people that are using media in innovative ways to help make the world a better place. Take a look at the projects, partnerships and people who utilized their position to make real change happen.
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Turner Sports and CBS Sports’ coverage of the 2019 NCAA tournament continues to deliver significant audience increases across all platforms, with tournament-to-date coverage tying for third-highest-rated in 26 years, Up +8% vs. 2018. Regional Finals coverage across CBS and TBS Delivered the second-highest rating in eight years with increases across all four game windows, Including a 10.5/21 rating/share for the Michigan State/Duke game.
truTV’s newest scripted comedy Tacoma FD is off to a blazing start. The premiere ep delivered more than 1.2 million Total Viewers, and 731,000 A18-49 across three telecasts, making it the network’s most-watched new series premiere in more than three years.
Tunity Analytics Out-of-Home Viewer Rankings for the week of March 25
Show, Network, Date, 000s
God Friended Me (CBS) March 31, 588
Magnum PI (CBS) March 25, 305
Fixer Upper (HGTV) March 26, 288
NCIS: Los Angeles (CBS) March 31, 276
NCIS (CBS) March 31, 276
The Voice (NBC) March 25, 256
Chicago PD (NBC) March 27, 245
Chicago Med (NBC) March 27, 236
Madame Secretary (CBS) March 31, 234
American Idol (ABC) March 31, 216
Source: Tunity Analytics. Viewing estimates are derived from the Tunity mobile app usage. Viewer impressions are calculated using Tunity Analytics proprietary estimation model.
SHAREABLEE TOP 10 Social TV Shows for the week of March 25
Program, Network, Total Actions (000), Total Content, Actions per Content, Fans & Followers (000)
E! News (E!) 12.04, 643, 18,725, 35.10
Riverdale (CW) 5,35, 64, 83,630, 13.66
Grey’s Anatomy (ABC) 4.90, 89, 54,991, 33.30
The Walking Dead (AMC) 3.70, 99, 37,346, 38.79
Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists (Freeform)
Shadow Hunters (Freeform) 3.58, 179, 19,970, 5.11
Entertainment Tonight (CBS/syndicated) 1.86, 661, 2,815, 8.02
Today Show (NBC) 1.81, 687, 2,641, 13.04
American Idol (ABC) 1.37, 286, 4,798, 16.76
The Daily Show (Comedy Central) 1.25, 110, 11,329, 19.03
Source: Based on Shareablee’s Video Power Index (VPI) which combines viewing, consumer interactions and audience scale across all active platforms and includes the video performance of primetime TV shows
TV Time’s Shows on the Rise Report for the week of March 25
Osmosis (2019) (Netflix) – 99.80%
Hanna (Amazon Prime Video) – 99.30%
Santa Clarita Diet (Netflix) – 95.90%
On My Block (Netflix) – 94.00%
Masterchef (BR) (Rede Bandeirantes) – 89.80%
Into the Badlands (AMC) – 86.40%
Gomorrah (Sky Atlantic IT) – 82.00%
Most Beautiful Thing (Netflix) – 53.50%
FBI (CBS) – 50.10%
Jane the Virgin (The CW) – 49.90%
*Methodology: Every week, millions of viewers around the world use TV Time to track their favorite series. “Shows on the Rise” is calculated by determining the week-over-week growth in episodes watched for a given program.
Live + Same Day Viewers AA (millions): Sunday, March 31 time period averages
Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated Live+SD
NBC: 2.59 million
Ellen’s Game of Games 1.75, World of Dance 3.21, Good Girls 2.17
ABC: 6.82 million
America’s Funniest Home Videos 5.74, American Idol 7.18
CBS: 9.36 million
NCAA Overrun 18.17, 60 Minutes 11.14, God Friended Me 8.01, NCIS: Los Angeles 6.78, Madam Secretary 2.73
FOX: 1.70 million
The Simpsons 1.23, Bob’s Burgers 1.30, The Simpsons 2.06, Bob’s Burgers 1.66, Family Guy 2.16, Family Guy 1.81
Telemundo: 0.70
Exatlon 0.70 Betty en NY 0.74, La Reina del Sur 0.67
Univision: 0.93
Jesus 0.94, Mi Marido Tie Ma Fam 0.98, Por Amar sin Ley 0.85
CW: 0.90 million
Super Girl 1.07, Charmed 0.74
Monday A18-49 Ratings: ABC 1.1/4, FOX .7/3, NBC .6/3, CBS .1.5/7, UNI 0.4/2, TELE .4/2, CW .3/2
EXECUTIVE MOVES
NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises named Christina Kolbjornsen as SVP of Corporate and External Affairs. Most recently, Kolbjornsen was at Wells Fargo for nine years.
Tom Conrad, who’s served executive stints at Snap and Pandora, joined Jeffrey Katzenberg outfit Quibi to lead product and customer support. Conrad had been serving as a board adviser to Quibi since late last year.
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This Day in History: 1972 – Burt Reynolds appeared nude in Cosmopolitan magazine.
Answer to our last trivia question: Which short-lived sci-fi comedy focused on two astronauts sent back to prehistoric days, who had to live with a cave family? It’s About Time (1966-67). Kudos to: Bruce Abbott Jr.-WNEP-TV/Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, PA; Joel Dearing-Virtual News Center/Indianapolis; Ray Giacopelli-MI7 Media Intel/NY; Michael Goodman-Radio One/Atlanta; Bill Graff-beIN SPORTS/Miami; Anthony Salerno-Horizon Media/NY; Kevin Weist-Chocolate Cake/NY; Will Allmendinger-Clear Channel Outdoors/Chicago; Tom Boyd-WGN-TV/Chicago; Miriam Falcon-BET Networks/Detroit; Steve Iha-LBI Media/Dallas; Jim Katz-Radcliffe Road Pictures/LA; Robin Goret-Corner of the Sky Communication Group/Edinburgh, Scotland
Today’s Trivia Question: What kind of stopwatch is used at the start of current episodes of CBS’ 60 Minutes (1968-present)? (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.).
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PROGRAM PLANNING COORDINATOR/Discovery Inc/NYC: Responsibilities include gathering, entering and disseminating scheduling materials. Assist the Program Planning team in maintaining programming schedules and timeliness of program delivery. 2 yr exp in area of responsibility. Full info HERE (4/16)
EXECUTIVE/PERSONAL ASSISTANT/OFFICE MGR /NYC : Support Sr. Producer and overall office in small prodco. Phones, filing, supplies, calendars, inventory, bookkeeping, shipping, payroll. Some travel. Must be able to drive crew van in NYC. WORD/EXCEL a must. 2+ yrs. exp. Resume and cover letter HERE (4/13)
ACCOUNT SERVICES REP /Weigel NTWRKS/CHI – Responsible for maintaining all aspects of account management for the Chicago advertising sales team and providing timely and accurate info to the sales team and to the client. BA deg or previous media exp pref’d. MS PP, Excel, word exp a must. Full info HERE (4/13)
VIDEO PRODUCER/SYFY WIRE/NYC: Resp for the creative ideation & execution of longform & shortform video content across all platforms SYFY WIRE, SYFY’s genre news & lifestyle brand. Take projects from dvlpmnt thru post-prod. Support one-off creative needs as they arise. Own prod process, mng projects. 3+ yrs related exp. Full info HERE (4/10)
DIR, SALES MARKETING/ION MEDIA/NY: Ideal candidate will develop strategic sales positioning for ION Television’s unique value proposition. This position will help the sales organization drive revenue growth on existing accounts in new business categories. Min of 5yrs exp at a media co, expert in MS Office Suite and PPT. Full info HERE (4/5)
ACCT EXEC, SALES DEVELOPMENT (Consumer Tech)/ION MEDIA/NY: Seeking sales professional to generate new advrtg accts and revenue for ION’s linear television platform. Dedicated category focus on companies which specialize in consumer technology, social media, e-commerce and OTT. Self-starter with 8-10yrs of TV selling or related adv sales exp. Full info HERE (4/5)
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MANAGER, CORPORATE RESEARCH AND STRATEGY/Discovery Inc/NY: Responsible for analyzing data and trends across media and developing key audience analysis across Discovery’s linear and non-linear platforms. Must have 5+ yrs exp in media research and knowledge of Nielsen data and systems. Ability to work in a fast-paced high-pressure environment without sacrificing accuracy to detail. Full info HERE (4/4)
MGR, AD SALES PARTNERSHIPS/A+E Networks/NY: Serve as ad sales partnerships resource and thought leader in the sales department, managing ideation and response to RFPs, creating product knowledge one sheets based on assigned network and disciplines, knowledgeable in digital/social marketing products & tools, effectively demonstrating how they can be leveraged in strategic 360 campaigns. Full Info/Apply: http://www.aenetworks.com/careers (4/4)
SR. NEWS DESK ASSOC/E! Entertainment/NYC: Resp for newsgathering for all E! platforms, should be a multi-tasker, have proven editorial judgment, be a forward thinker with a strong work ethic. Passion for pop culture is a must. Self-starter who can work independently and quickly in a fast-pace news environment. Must have newsroom exp and able to handle breaking news while working under tight deadlines. Full Info/Apply HERE (4/4)
COORD, RESEARCH & INSIGHTS/Endemol Shine North America/North Hollywood: Ideal candidate must have a strong interest in TV ratings & research and comfortable working with numbers/large data sets with a strong focus on accuracy & attention to detail. Must have 1+ yrs as an assist, coord or analytical role at TV studio, broadcast or cable network. Excel and PowerPoint required. Job training provided. Full Info/Apply HERE (4/4)
ACCT EXECUTIVE/CNN Airport Network/NY: Resp include identifying prospects, generating leads and penetrating client companies/agencies at all levels. Primary function is to drive new business for the network. Req include 5+ yrs in media sales, ability to exceed targets and building sr level client/agency relationships. Team player who works well in a large multi-platform sales organization. Full Info/Apply HERE (4/3)
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – TUESDAY APRIL 2
ABC: The Goldbergs, Modern Family, black-ish, Splitting Up Together, The Rookie
CBS: NCIS, FBI, NCIS: New Orleans
CW: The Flash, Rosewell, New Mexico
FOX: MasterChef, Mental Samurai
NBC: Ellen’s Game of Games, This Is Us, The Village
PBS: Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Central Park Five
Telemundo: Exatlon Estados Unidos, Betty en NY, La Reina del Sur
Univision: Jesus, Mi Marido Tiene Mas Familia, Por Amar Sin Ley
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