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04.18.16
Good morning. It’s Monday April 18, 2016, and this is your first early morning briefing.
Tonight’s Premieres:
Great American Country: Building Off the Grid at 10p
HGTV: HGTV Smart Home 2016 at 11p
Nat Geo: Port Protection at 10p
Reelz: William and Kate: The Journey at 10p and 11p
Syfy: 12 Monkeys at 9p
Travel: Hotel Impossible at 10p
Tonight’s Finales:
AMC: Better Call Saul at 10p
CBS: Supergirl at 8p
CW: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend at 8p
ID: Deadly Demands at 9p
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Fox primetime special Megyn Kelly Presents has been moved up to Tuesday, May 17 from May 23. It will be the first in a series of specials starring Fox News Channel’s The Kelly File host, whose FNC show on Wednesday drew 2.2 million viewers as she described her recent meeting with Donald Trump. “Mr. Trump and I discussed the possibility of an interview. And I hope we will have news to announce soon,” said Kelly. Coupled, a new dating show from Mark Burnett, will follow the May 17 special.
For your consideration: Showtime is offering Television Academy members a free subscription through its stand-alone streaming service. All of Showtime’s Emmy-eligible programming, including newcomers Billions and The Circus, will be featured in advertising encouraging Academy members to vote. Freebie lasts through June 30. Showtime will also once again have a dedicated awards site for screening programs, and is hosting a series of panel events for Television Academy and Guild members in LA and NYC.
NBC is airing an extended, 90-minute version of Adele Live in New York City on Friday, May 6 at 8p. The show’s December 14 telecast averaged a 3.7 rating among A18-49 and 13.8 million viewers in Live+7, NBC’s most-watched concert special in 13 years.
President Obama backed the FCC’s plan to give independent manufacturers of set top boxes alternatives to cable and satellite company deals. Consumers now pay $20 billion to rent or lease boxes, up 185 percent 20 years ago, noted the White House, while the prices for TVs, computers and mobile phones have declined by 90 percent. “Across our economy, too many consumers are dealing with inferior or overpriced products, too many workers aren’t getting the wage increases they deserve, too many entrepreneurs and small businesses are getting squeezed out unfairly by their bigger competitors, and overall we are not seeing the level of innovative growth we would like to see,” said Jason Furman, Chairman of the Council of Ecumenic Advisors, and Jeffrey Zientz, Director of the National Economic Council and Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, in a statement. Responded broadband provider trade association USTelecom, "When the president ‘calls upon’ his appointees and an agency chairman who serves at his pleasure to act in a particular way, he is ‘directing’ them, and all credibility in the independence of the agency and trust in the administrative process evaporates.”
In a court filing, CBS and Big Ticket Television scoffed at the talent agency Rebel Entertainment Partners’ claim that it was owed payments for Judge Judy dating back to 2010. “Judge Sheindlin, her producers and crew have worked for 20 years in producing a successful syndicated program,” said CBS and Big Ticket. “[Rebel’s Richard] Lawrence has never been on the set of the program in 20 years, nor has he had any communication with his talent.” The filing said the agency had collected $17 in package fees “for doing nothing,” and didn’t represent Judy Sheindlin.
Chosen for the 2015 Television Academy Honors are A&E reality show Born This Way, HBO documentary Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, Showtime’s Homeland, Cinemax’s The Knick, Smithsonian Channel doc Mississippi Inferno and Netflix film Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom. Event hosted by Dana Delany will be held in Beverly Hills on Wednesday, June 8.
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TV Land gave a 10-episode order for Throwing Shade, based on the podcast and Funny or Die series. The political and pop culture late nighter is slated to premiere in the 11p timeslot in January 2017.
Happy City, from comedy group Extremely Decent and Dan Harmon (Community), has been put in development at FX. Project centered on a young taxi and his fire truck and helicopter pals is described as Thomas the Tank Engine for adults.
Production is underway in Canada for Up original movie Rescue on the 55th Floor, starring Catherine Bell (The Good Witch) and Adrian Homes (Arrow). Drama about an architect saving her family from disaster is slated to premiere 1Q17.
Fox pilot Chad: An American Boy, greenlit in February, will not complete production in time to be considered for the fall season. “Because of our commitment to authenticity, we conducted a worldwide casting search for several roles in this pilot which meant that we wouldn’t have been able to get visas in time to shoot within the traditional pilot window,” said 20th Century Fox TV. Shooting on the Middle Eastern family comedy starts in late May.
Top 10 Weekend Domestic Box Office Estimates: April 15-17, 2016
The Jungle Book (Buena Vista) $103.6 million, opening weekend
Barbershop: The Next Cut (Warner Bros.) $20.2 million, opening weekend
The Boss (Universal) $10.2 million (week 2), cume revenue $40.1 million
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (Warner Bros.) $9.0 million (week 4), cume revenue $311.3 million
Zootopia(Buena Vista) $8.2 million (week 7), cume revenue $307.5 million
Criminal (Lionsgate) $5.9 million, opening weekend
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (Universal) $3.3 million (week 4), cume revenue $52.1 million
Miracles From Heaven (Sony) $1.9 million (week 5), cume revenue $57.0 million
God’s Not Dead (Pure Flix) $1.7 million (week 3), cume revenue $17.0 million
Eye in the Sky (Bleecker Street)$1.6 million (week 6), cume revenue $13.1 million
Source: comScore
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Nickelodeon is offering an eco-friendly episode of The HALO Effect on Earth Day, Friday, April 22 at 8:30p. “Purses for Primates” feature a high school senior who helped endangered orangutans by collecting used handbags to resell at fundraisers.
Also getting onboard for Earth Day is KCETLink Media Group, with an exploration of the Salton Sea Crisis. Documentary Breaking Point chronicles the rising levels of toxicity in California’s largest lake on Friday, April 22 at 4p on Link TV.
President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama celebrate International Jazz Day on Saturday, April 30 by hosting ABC special Jazz at the White House. Performers include Chick Corea, Aretha Franklin, Herbie Hancock, Al Jarreau, Diana Krall and Sting, to name just a few.
BBC America limited series Thirteen debuts Thursday, June 23 at 10p, sliding into Orphan Black’s timeslot. Story focuses on a girl who escapes from being held captive for 13 years, returning to a family that had given up on ever seeing her again.
Best-selling author Eddie Huang hosts Huang’s World, debuting on Viceland Thursday, April 28 at 10p. Huang will be “drinking burgundy in Burgundy, eating anciently in Istanbul, and dropping lines like ‘the politics is in the plate,’” says the net.
Lamorne Morris (New Girl) checks into syndicated talker The Doctors today, where topics include fat shaming, working in the food service and butt cheeks.
It didn’t offer much beyond a date (Saturday, April 23 at 9p), but a preview posted on HBO and Beyonce’s social media platforms over the weekend teased a world premiere event called “Lemonade.”
AMC renewed Fear the Walking Dead for a third season. The zombie drama’s season two premiere delivered 8.8 million total viewers, including 5.3 million among A18-49 in Live+3. Airing Sundays at 9p, the series ranks number two on cable and number seven in all of television.
Food Network freshman Cooks vs. Cons will be back for another season. The competition pitting home cooks against professionals has seen double digit increases across both A25-54 and A25-34 versus year-ago, as well as 17 percent in-show growth during the first half of its six-episode run.
Hallmark Channel ordered a fourth season of drama When Calls the Heart, slated to begin production in Vancouver this summer. No surprise there the season three final earned a 2.6 HH rating and 3 million total viewers in Live+3, becoming the highest-rated episode in the series’ history. The Sunday, April 10 debut also became the series’ most-watched episode in all demos, and in its 9p time period, elevated Hallmark to rank as the second-most-watched cable net among HHs and total viewers.
Brands have a new way to reach sports fans. The NBA approved jersey sponsorships starting with the 2017-28 season, after selling sponsorship rights to Kia for patches for February’s NBA All-Star Game. Each team will sell its own sponsorship as part of the three-year pilot program. It’s win-win, said NBA commissioner Adam Silver: “Jersey sponsorships provide deeper engagement with partners looking to build a unique association with our teams and the additional investment will help grow the game in exciting new ways. We’re always thinking about innovative ways the NBA can remain competitive in a global marketplace.”
Louis C.K. notified fans via email that there will be no new episodes of his self-financed web series, Horace and Pete. “That was it,” wrote C.K. “I didn’t want to say, in the last email, that it was the last episode. Because I didn’t want you to know, as you watched the episode, that it would be the last one. But yeah, obviously, that was it.” All ten eps of the dramedy starring C.K. and Steve Buscemi are now available for $31.
Daredevil showrunners Douglas Petrie and Marco Ramirez will be joined by Drew Goddard to run another Marvel superhero series on Netflix, The Defenders, set to start streaming in 2017.
Tone Bell (Truth Be Told) landed a role in CBS hybrid comedy pilot My Time/Your Time, from How I Met Your Mother creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas.
Frankie Adams (New Zealand’s Shortland Street) has been cast in Syfy space drama The Expanse, based on the best-selling book series.
Ethan Suplee (My Name Is Earl) joins Hulu psychological drama Chance in a series regular role. House’s Hugh Laurie is already onboard.
Keith Rennie has been cast in a series regular role on season two of Amazon’s The Man in the High Castle, about an America in which Nazis rule.
ABC mini-series When We Rise, about the gay rights movement, welcomes Rafael de la Fuente (Empire).
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CNN’s Democratic debate on Thursday delivered 5.5 million viewers and 1.7 million among A25-54. The most-watched Democratic face-off so far this election season was CNN’s in October, with 16 million viewers.
NBC’s new Strong started in its regular Thursday timeslot with .8/3 among A18-49, down from 1.0 for a post-The Voice preview on Wednesday. The net’s Game of Silence also scored .8/3 in the demo, down from 1.5 from a post-The Voice Tuesday peek. The Blacklist, on the other hand, was up two tenths with 1.4/5.
Discovery’s Naked and Afraid had its highest ratings since last May with 1.87 P25-54 and 3.1 million total viewers P2+ in L+3. For the fifth straight week, the show was Sunday’s number one unscripted cable telecast (excluding sports programming and talk shows) across all key men 25-54, 18-49 and 18-34.
Thursday A18-49 Analysis: ABC won the most A18-49 viewers Thursday with 1.8/7, according to final primetime national ratings from Nielsen. ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy was first at 8p with 2.2/8, followed by CBS’s Big Bang Theory repeat (1.6/6) and a new The Odd Couple (1.5/6). A second hour of Grey’s maintained the lead at 9p with 2.2/8, versus 1.5/5 for both CBS’s Mom and 2 Broke Girls. ABC had a turn at the top at 10p with 1.0/4 for The Catch; CBS’s Rush House and Telemundo’s Senor de los Cielos tied for second with .9/3.
A18-49:ABC 1.8/7, CBS 1.3/5, NBC 1.0/4, FOX .9/3, UNI .8/3, TELE .6/2, CW .5/2, ION .3/1
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Thursday, April 14, 2015 time period averages. Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.
ABC: 4.8/8
Grey’s Anatomy 5.4/9, The Catch 3.4/6
CBS: 4.2/7
The Big Bang Theory [r] 5.7/10, The Odd Couple 4.6/8, Mom 4.9/8, 2 Broke Girls 4.2/7, Rush Hour 2.9/5
NBC: 3.0/5
Strong 2.1/4, The Blacklist 4.37, Game of Silence 2.6/5
FOX: 2.1/4
Bones 2.8/5, American Grit 1.4/2
UNIVISION: 1.2/2
Camino Hacia Destino 1.2/2, Pasion y Poder 1.4/2, Hotel de los Secretos 1.1/2
ION: 1.2/2
Blue Bloods 1.1/2, Blue Bloods 1.1/2, Blue Bloods 1.3/2
CW: 1.0/2
DC’s Legends of Tomorrow 1.3/2, The Hundred .7/1
TELEMUNDO: .8//1
Quien es Quien .6/1, Eva la Trailera .8/1, Senor de Cielos 1.1/2
Azteca America appointed Layla Caballero as General Manager of WDGT in Miami and WXAX in Tampa. Caballero joins Azteca from Las Americas Multimedia Group, where she served as a member of the executive team and Director of Display, Classified and Digital Sales
Scott Moody has been named Chief Operating Officer of Bonten Media Group Inc. Moody will continue in his role as Chief Financial Officer of the company.
This Day in History: 1775 – Paul Revere began his ride warning colonists that the British were coming.
Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: Which poet did Ted Mosby often quote on How I Met Your Mother? (2005-2014)? Pablo Neruda. Kudos to: Dave Montegari-TUBI TV/NYC, Kendra Campbell-Milburn-UPtv/Atlanta, Arthur Reinstein-Corus/Toronto, Brian Linville-Red Arrow Industries/Knoxville, TN, Susan Nessanbaum-Golberg-Generate/Beverly Hills, Nicole Correnti-Fuse Media/NYC, David Westberg-SAG-AFTRA Credit Union/Burbank, Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/LA, Steve Peirce-Conviva/Silicon Valley
Today’s Trivia Question – TV Theme Song Week: Which show’s theme song included the lyrics, “Riding through this world all alone, God takes your soul, you’re on your own”? (Email [email protected] 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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