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HOW MANY FRIENDS DO YOU REALLY NEED?
WE THINK 10.6 MILLION SHOULD DO IT.
Univision’s weekday news magazine, Primer Impacto, has 10.6 million social media fans ready to react to, like, comment on, and share your branded social posts.
We put the unique relationship our users have with us, to work for YOU.
Source: Crowdtangle February 2017.
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Tonight’s Premieres:
ID: Killing Richard Glossip at 9p
MTV: Teen Mom OG at 9p
VH1: Basketball Wives at 9p, T.I. and Tiny: The Family Hustle at 10p
Tonight’s Finales:
Animal Planet: Alaska: The Last Frontier: The Frozen Edge at 10p
CBS: 2 Broke Girls at 9:30p
Fox: 24 Legacy at 9p
IN THE NEWS
WGN America canceled Outsiders, its most watched series, ahead of the drama’s April 25 season 2 finale. The news comes on the heels of the net’s best-ever monthly primetime ratings in March among total viewers and its best month in seven years among A25-54, propelled by its two original scripted shows – Outsiders and Underground. Peter Liguori, former WGNA president and CEO, left the company last month. He was at the helm when both series were renewed for second seasons last spring, and had led the charge to relaunch the network as a premium cable net with original programming. Interim chief Peter Kern has emphasized the company plans to expand WGNA’s original fare. Meanwhile, talk has intensified in recent weeks around a potential Tribune sale to rival Sinclair Broadcast Group.
TNT is pulling the plug on its pilot order to drama Let the Right One In, based on the novel by Swedish author John Ajvide Lindqvist. The project was penned by Jeff Davis, creator of Criminal Minds and Teen Wolf. It originally was picked up to pilot in August. Tomorrow Studios, which developed the project, has two other projects at TNT: series Good Behavior, which was renewed for season 2, and pilot Snowpiercer, which is based on the feature film and has begun casting.
Stephen Colbert continues to skyrocket. The late-night host’s Midnight Confessions comedy segment will get a book treatment, to be published by Simon and Schuster (a division of CBS, network home of The Late Show) on September 5. The recurring bit features Colbert in a confessional, making mea culpas for sins including “I tell people I don’t believe in casual sex, but the truth is I sometimes don’t wear a tie.”
NABET-CWA members employed at ABC’s news, sports and entertainment divisions around the country ratified a new four-year contract that comprises more than 2,700 broadcast technicians, news writers, producers, publicists and other support personnel working at the network and its O&O TV stations in LA, NY, Chicago, San Francisco and DC.
Boston’s Fox affiliate WFXT-TV is dropping the word “Fox” from its newscast branding in an effort to avoid viewers confusing the station with Fox News. This according to The Boston Globe, which reports newscasts will be branded as “Boston 25 News” starting April 24.
Star Wars Rebels will wrap up after its upcoming fourth season on Disney XD. The news surfaced during the series panel at Star Wars Celebration in Orlando, FL over the weekend.
Jeff Varner, the Survivor contestant who got voted off the island last week after outing competitor Zeke Smith as a transgender man, has gotten the boot again. Varner told his local newspaper, Greensboro N.C.’s News & Record, he was fired from his job as an agent at NC realty firm Allen Tate.
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PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT
AMC renewed Fear the Walking Dead for a fourth season, ahead of its upcoming season 3 premiere on June 4, with a pair of new showrunners. Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg (Once Upon a Time) will take over showrunning duties beginning with season 4. Additionally, Scott M. Gimple, executive producer and showrunner of The Walking Dead, will become an exec producer of Fear the Walking Dead. AMC previously announced showrunner Dave Erickson would be transitioning off of the show upon completion of production of season 3 to develop new products for AMC Studios. In the second half of its second season, Fear the Walking Dead averaged 5.3 million viewers per episode, including 3.4 million A25-54 and 3 million A18-49 in Nielsen live+3 ratings.
Top 10 Weekend Domestic Box Office Estimates: April 14-16, 2017
The Fate of the Furious (Universal) $100.2 million, opening weekend
The Boss Baby (Fox) $15.5 million (week 3), cume revenue $116.3 million
Beauty and the Beast (Buena Vista) $13.6 million (week 5), cume revenue $454.6 million
The Smurfs: The Lost Village (Sony) $6.5 million (week 2), cume revenue $24.7 million
Going in Style (Warner Bros.) $6.4 million (week 3), cume revenue $23.4 million
Gifted (Fox SearchLight) $3.0 million (week 2), cume revenue $4.4 million
Get Out (Universal) $2.9 million (week 8), cume revenue $167.5 million
Power Rangers (Lionsgate) $2.9 million (week 4), cume revenue $80.6 million
The Case for Christ (Pure Flix) $2.7 million (week 2), $8.4 million cume revenue
Kong Skull Island (Warner Bros.) $2.7 million (week 6), cume revenue $161.2 million
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F8 Drives High Octane Ratings
The Fate of the Furious revved up audiences nationwide delivering
NCM an unbelievable
10.2 A18-34 rating. You should be
furious if you missed driving up your Millennial GRPs this
fast.
We’re
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COMING UP
Beginning today (April 17) at 8p, The Weather Channel will celebrate Earth Day with a week of specials that help educate viewers on the science of weather. Among the fare are Scientists Walk into a Bar, tonight at 8p, which probes the least likely questions about one of the most common weather events – lightning; and Winter Warfare, Sunday, April 23 at 9p, which goes behind the scenes with the US Marines as they prepare for combat in extreme cold conditions.
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RATINGS
With host Jimmy Fallon and musical guest Harry Styles on board, the April 15 edition of Saturday Night Live jumped +42% and 2.3 million viewers above last year’s April average to deliver the show’s strongest results since February. At press time the episode had averaged 7.88 million viewers overall and a 2.27 rating in A18-49 in Fast Official Live+SD results from Nielsen Media Research. The telecast was the first SNL to air live coast to coast (11:30p ET, 8:30p PT) and with 11:30p encores in western markets.
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Thursday, April 13, 2017 time period averages.
Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD
CBS: 4.3/8
Big Bang Theory 7.2/14, The Great Indoors 3.8/7, Mom 4.4/8, Life in Pieces 3.4/6, The Amazing Race 2.6/5
ABC: 3.5/7
Grey’s Anatomy 4.9/9, Scandal 3.6/7, The Catch 2.2/4
NBC: 2.4/5
Trial and Error 1.7/3, Powerless 1.3/2, Chicago Med 4.1/8, Blacklist: Redemption 2.5/5
FOX: 1.6/3
MasterChef: Junior 2.1/4, Kicking & Screaming 1.2/2
UNIVISION 1.0/2
Jueves Santo Rey Y Tradition .6/1, Vino el Amor .8/2, La Piloto .8/2
TELEMUNDO: .9/2
La Dona .8/1, La Dona 1.0/2, El Capo .9/2
CW: .8/1
Supernatural 1.0/2, Riverdale .6/1
Thursday A19-49: CBS 1.4/7, ABC 1.3/5, NBC .8/3, FOX .7/3, TELE .7/3, UNI .5/2, CW .4/2
Source: Nielsen
EXECUTIVE MOVES
Tribune Broadcasting appointed Tracy Brogden Miller as VP/GM of WDAF/FOX4 Kansas City. Prior to joining WDAF, Brogden Miller was a news and marketing strategist at Smith Geiger.
This Day in History: April 17, 1997 – John Bell, age 115, received a new pacemaker after outliving the battery life on the original.
Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: What was Epstein’s full name on Welcome Back Kotter (1975-1979)? Juan Luis Pedro Phillipo de Huevos Epstein. Kudos to: Steve Benitez-YES Network/NY; Ed Horowitz-The Talk/Studio City, CA; Phyllis McQuillan-MSG Networks/NY; Clare Taricska-Tribune Media, Cleveland OH; Jim Katz-Radcliffe Road Pictures/LA; Coleen Rayman-Disney/Burbank; Lorrie Shilling/El Segundo, CA
Today’s Trivia Question – Cynopsis 20th Anniversary Theme Week: Which series that debuted in 1997 had the tagline: “She’s got her head in the clouds. He’s got his feet on the ground. Together, they’re a match made in heaven”? (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: Hem To Knees = The Monkees. Kudos to: Heather Allen-WWE Corp/Stamford, CT; Rick Dascher-Turner Studios/Atlanta; LaKendra Kennedy-Sinclair Broadcast Group/Hunt Valley, MD; Keith Marder,-Halstead Property/NY; Jacob Steingroot-Boy Wonder Productions/NY; Karen Van Vleet-Horizon Media/NY; James Whaley-Gracenote/NY; Dennis Aimino-ABC/LA; Sandra Mueller-KTLA/LA; Elizabeth Wendorf-Blackwood Seven North America/LA.
Series That Debuted in 1997 Anagram: Hi Honk Get Fill (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 APRIL 17, 2017
ABC: Dancing With the Stars, Quantico
CBS: Kevin Can Wait, Man with a Plan, Superior Donuts, 2 Broke Girls [f], Scorpion
CW: Supergirl, Penn & Teller: Fool Us
FOX: 24: Legacy [f], APB
NBC: The Voice, Taken
PBS: Antiques Roadshow, Antiques Roadshow, Independent Lens
Telemundo: La Dona, La Dona, El Capo
Univision: La Reina de la Cancion, Vino el Amor, La Piloto
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