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THAT BIG TV CONFERENCE
September 9-10 | TriBeca, NYC
The Only Conference Connecting Networks, OTT, Brands, Agencies, and Tech to Map Out the Future of the Media Industry.
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PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT
BET Networks ordered one-hour docu-series Copwatch America. Executive produced by Renowned Films and Critical Content, the character-centric series follows crews who use cameras to protect citizens and keep abuse in check, offering the points of view of police officers as well as copwatchers.
Supergirl co-showrunner Jessica Queller inked a multi-year deal with Warner Bros. TV, reports Deadline. Queller will continue on the CW superhero drama, while creating new series for broadcast, cable and streaming services.
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“We don’t have enough female role models. We don’t have enough visible women leaders. We don’t have enough women in power.”
– Muffet McGraw | Notre Dame Women’s Basketball Head Coach (April 5, 2019)
We want to hear about your game-changing colleagues and companies. Submit your nominations for the Cynopsis Top Women in Media Awards today.
**Early deadline pricing ends tomorrow, April 16th.**
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The Dodo unveiled its first-ever content slate of new, original and returning programming, which features uplifting and inspiring stories from the animal kingdom. Three all-new unscripted series include Ruff Life with Lee Asher, which follows the viral dog dad and his nine rescue dogs; Wild Hearts, which gives an up-close view of wild animals and their bonds with each other and their human caretakers; and Cody the Tiny Alpaca, showcasing what it’s like living with a tiny, princess alpaca.
The new Court TV network debuts Wednesday, May 8 at 9a.The pillar of the net’s primetime will be Closing Arguments with Vinnie Politan, weeknights from 6-9p. “What SportsCenter is to sports, Closing Arguments will be to the legal world,” said Politan.
Actress/host/influencer Gaby Espino will host season two of Telemundo’s MasterChef Latino, premiering Sunday, May 19 at 7p. Celebrity chefs Claudia Sandoval, Ennio Carota and Benito Molina will return to their stations.
Archer returns to FXX for season 10 on Wednesday, May 29 at 10p. Animated “Archer: 1999” follows a crew of acid-tongued misfits aboard the M/V Seamus salvage ship.
Our Upfront / NewFronts Navigator includes updates from the presentations, road shows, & meetings. Plus, so much more to make a busy season a little more manageable for buyers and planners: http://www.cynopsis.com/upfronts.
Bravo’s Below Deck Mediterranean returns Monday, June 3 at 9p. Returning crew members include Captain Sandy Yawn, Hannah Ferrier (Chief Stew), João Franco (Bosun) and Colin Macy-O’Toole (Deckhand).
Universal Kids is introducing preschool music show Get Up and Move on Monday, April 22 at 11:30a. Carly Ciarrocchi (Snug’s House) will host, reminding kids that “anything can be a dance move.”
COMING UP
NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers is going to run even later on Thursday, April 18, with a 90-minute episode delving into the redacted version of the Mueller report, slated to go public earlier in the day. In addition to Meyers’ “A Closer Look” segment, SNL’s Leslie Jones will be on hand to play Game of Jones as the two discuss the latest episode of Game of Thrones. “I simply will not stand for the Mueller report bumping Leslie Jones or vice versa,” said Meyers, “so we decided to make room for both.”
Nat Geo will premiere documentary The Last Animals on Earth Day, Monday, April 22 at 12p. Film shines a light on the global wildlife crisis.
FilmRise, Citi, and Global Citizen have partnered for the nationwide theatrical on demand release of Sprinter, executive produced by Jada Pinkett Smith, Will Smith, and Richard Jefferson. Film following a teenage sprinter struggling to find his way amid extreme poverty in Jamaica will be available on April 24 on the Gathr Films platform.
CBS’s The Young and the Restless will say goodbye to longtime cast member Kristoff St. John in a four-episode arc April 23-26. Shemar Moore (S.W.A.T.) will reprise his role as the brother of St. John’s character. CBS’s The Talk will also remember the actor, who died February at age 52, in a special segment on April 26.
ADVERTISING
Publicis Groupe announced plans to acquire data-driven marketing agency Epsilon for $4.4 billion. Publicis says the deal will enable it to offer a “unique end-to-end service,” and result in the growth of its existing business and the opening of new opportunities. As far as the steep price tag, Publics Groupe Supervisory Board Chairman Maurice Levy said, “For our shareholders the transaction, which was not planned, has great merits from a financial point of view.”
Dave Morgan, founder and CEO of Simulmedia, resigned from the board of the Advertising Research Foundation. Morgan said instead of the “incremental improvements” he sees the ARF focusing on, the industry needs to be “bold and singularly focused on helping advertisers prove that advertising works and fixing its measurement in a world that has rapidly become digital and omni-channel.”
Vimeo acquired startup Magisto, part of an effort to offer more creation and editing tools. The companies said they will develop “entirely new short-form video creation capabilities for the Vimeo platform, with the goal of helping any individual or business tell their stories with professionalism and ease.”
DIGITAL DATA
Starz apologized for the actions of an overzealous third party that apparently took copyright enforcement too seriously, misusing Digital Millennium Copyright Act safe harbor provisions. After it drew criticism for taking down tweets about TV show piracy, the net stated, “The techniques and technologies employed in these efforts are not always perfect, and as such it appears that in this case, some posts were inadvertently caught up in the sweep that may fall outside the DMCA guidelines. That was never our intention and we apologize to those who were incorrectly targeted.”
TECH TALK
Hackers that stole login credentials from a Microsoft customer support agent had access to email accounts from Outlook, MSN and Hotmail from January 1-March 28 and were able to read email content, said Microsoft in an amended statement. At first the company say attackers could not read emails; the statement was corrected to say hackers could read full email content for about 6% of affected Outlook users. Microsoft warned people to watch for phishing emails, and change their password.
Entries are now open for the Royal Television Society’s Young Technologist of the Year Award 2019. The award recognizes individuals in the UK who are just starting out in their technology careers in the broadcast industry. Winner gets an all-expenses paid trip to Amsterdam-based industry event IBC 2019.
About 25% of households are familiar with what VR headsets are, according to Parks Associates study, “Virtual Reality: The Evolving Ecosystem,” but only 8% of households own one. “Sixty-two percent of US broadband households play video games, and while gamers are a passionate market segment, they can be limited in scope, which has stalled adoption of VR to a wider audience,” said Billy Nayden, research analyst at Parks Associates. “There has been some notable video content developed for VR…but overall lack of quality, non-gaming content is inhibiting broader adoption.”
DISTRIBUTION
Sinking Ship Entertainment picked up the Amazon kids’ series Just Add Magic for international distribution. DHX and Yoopa in Canada and Discovery Kids Latin America will begin rolling out the series this spring and early summer.
Insight TV signed an agreement with the National Cable Television Cooperative to offer its 4K/UHD network to NCTC’s members. MTC, which serves the Central Catskill region of New York, is the first to launch Insight TV.
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CYNOPSIS SPORTS MEDIA AWARDS
Thursday, April 25 / New York Athletic Club, NYC
We’re honoring industry leaders who have grown their audiences and forged new ways to engage and inspire their followers. Don’t miss this year’s incredible list of honorees! View the 2019 list of Finalists and Luminary Honorees.
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RATINGS
Season three of HGTV’s Home Town averaged a 1.01 Live+3 rating among W25-54 on Monday nights, a +16% increase in the demo over the sophomore season. Attracting more than 12.2 million total viewers since it premiered on January 14, the season ranked as the #1 series on HGTV among W25-54 during its run and helped HGTV rank as a top 10 cable network among W25-54 on Monday nights.
Tiger Woods’ Masters win on Sunday, which occurred early due to weather issues, scored a 7.7/21 in metered markets for CBS, down 11% versus last year – but the best early morning number for a golf match on any network in 34 years.
SHAREABLEE SOCIAL TV RATINGS: Top US Shows Overall by Engagement for the week of April 14
Program, Total Actions (millions), Total Content, Actions per Content (000), Fans/Followers (millions)
The Ellen DeGeneres Show (Warner Bros./synd.) 11.75, 129, 91, 179.2
E! News (E!) 11.7, 708, 17, 35.2
Game of Thrones (HBO) 9.2, 62, 148, 38.2
Saturday Night Live (NBC) 6.9, 75, 92, 12.2
Grey’s Anatomy (ABC) 3.3, 88, 38.0, 33.4
Entertainment Tonight (CBS/synd.) 3.0, 789, 3.9, 8.0
Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists (Freeform) 2.1, 129, 16.3, 29.9
Shadowhunters (Freeform) 1.7, 95, 17.9, 5.1
The Daily Show (Comedy Central) 1.5, 122, 12,6, 19.2
Today Show (NBC) 14, 719, 2.0, 13.1
Based on Total Actions (reactions, comments, shares and retweets)
TV Time’s Shows on the Rise Report for the week of April 8
Black Summer (Netflix) – 100%
Special (Netflix) – 100%
The Bold Type (Freeform) – 89.00%
One-Punch Man (TV Tokyo) – 86.40%
Killing Eve (BBC America) – 75.60%
Our Planet (Netflix) – 72.20%
Quicksand (Netflix) – 70.80%
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Tokyo MX) – 70.50%
New Amsterdam (NBC) – 70.50%
The Orville (FOX) – 64.20%
*Methodology: Every week, millions of viewers around the world use TV Timeeto track their favorite series. “Shows on the Rise” is calculated by determining the week-over-week growth in episodes watched for a given program.
Tunity Analytics Out-of-Home Viewer Rankings for the week of April 8
Show, Network, Date, 000s
Madam Secretary (CBS) 496
NCIS: LA (CS) 474
Saturday Night Live (NBC) 410
American Idol (ABC) 313
The Code (CBS) 263
Blue Bloods (CBS) 241
NCIS (CBS) 219
The Voice (NBC) 206
God Friended Me (CBS) 204
Big Bang Theory (CBS) 188
Source: Tunity Analytics. Viewing estimates are derived from the Tunity mobile app usage. Viewer impressions are calculated using Tunity Analytics proprietary estimation model.
Live + Same Day Viewers AA (millions) Friday, April 12 time period averages
Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated Live+SD
CBS: 6.95 million
MacGyver 6.10, Hawaii Five-0 6.76, Blue Bloods 8.01
NBC: 3.43 million
Blindspot 3.17, The Blacklist 3.83, Dateline 3.29
ABC: 3.18 million
Fresh Off the Boat 3.11, Speechless 2.34, 20/20 3.41
FOX: 2.30 million
Last Man Standing 3.06, The Cool Kids 2.55, Proven Innocent 1.80
CW: 1.27 million
Whose Line Is It Anyway? 1.27, Whose Line Is it Anyway? 1.33, Penn & Teller: Fool Us 1.24
UNI: 0.91 million
Jesus 0.94, Mi Marido Tiene Mas Familia 0.93, Amar a Muerte 0.83
TELE: 0.77 million
Exatlon Estados Unidos 0.74, Betty en NY 0.83, La Reina del Sur 0.75
Friday A18-49:CBS 0.7/4, ABC 0.6/3, NBC 0.5/3, FOX 0.5/3, UNI 0.4/2, TELE 0.4/2, CW 0.3/1
EXECUTIVE MOVES
Nora Zimmett was promoted to Chief Content Officer and EVP of The Weather Channel. Zimmett had been SVP of Content and Programming for the network.
Crown Media Famiy Networks promoted Laurie Ferneau from VP to SVP, Development. Ferneau oversees the development and production process for original movies and series on Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries.
Data analytics company 605 tapped Noah Levine to serve as Chief Revenue Officer and Caroline Horner as SVP of Product Management. Prior to joining 605, Levine led the audience-based selling and programmatic advertising business across linear and digital for Fox Networks Group TV properties, while Horner led TV and cross-platform product innovation for Rentrak-comScore’s advanced measurement and optimization services and spearheaded new video product launches for Comscore.
Alex Piper was hired as Head of Unscripted, North & South America at YouTube. Piper was most recently VP of Alternative Entertainment at Fox.
Apple appointed Molly Thompson as head of documentary films. Thompson had been Head of Documentary Films for A+E Networks.
DHX Media appointed Amir Nasrabadi as EVP and General Manager of its animation studio in Vancouver, BC. Most recently, Mr. Nasrabadi was EVP of Finance and Operations for Illumination.
Lauren Lannan has joined C3 Metrics as Director of Product Management. Lannan was previously Digital Marketing Director at Wagz.
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This Day in History: 1900 – The U.S. Post Office issued the first book of postage stamps.
Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: The first regular episode of which show aired after Super Bowl XVII and went on to become a hit for NBC? The A-Team (1983-1986). Kudos to: Rory Rosegarten-The Conversation Company/Roslyn, NY, Perry Casciato-CBS 3/Philadelphia, Jim Kelly-Jim Kelly Consulting/Central Islip, NY, Michael Gioscia-NBCUniversal/NYC, Aaron Paquette-Screen Engine/Fort Worth, TX, Dan Whitford-WTTW/Chicago, Charlie Conner-KOKI/KMYT/Tulsa,Tony Reyes-ShadowMachine/Hollwood, CA,
Today’s Trivia Question: Which short-lived series focused on a secret agent who was able to turn invisible for 15 minutes a day if he turned his watch off? (Email [email protected] with your answer and be sure to include your name, company, city and time zone. Unofficial rules: a limit of four.)
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – TUESDAY APRIL 16
ABC: American Housewife, The Kids Are Alright, black-ish, Bless This Mess [p], The Rookie [f]
CBS: NCIS, FBI, NCIS: New Orleans
CW: The Flash, Roswell, New Mexico
FOX: MasterChef, Mental Samurai
NBC: The Voice, The Village, New Amsterdam
PBS: Finding Your Roots with Henry Lewis Gates, Jr. [r], Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
Telemundo: Exatlon Estados Unidos, Betty en NY, La Reina del Sur
Univision: Jesus, Dona Flor y sus dos Maridos, Por Amar Sin Ley
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