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IN THE NEWS
Robert Costa
has been named moderator of PBS news series Washington Week, following the death of Gwen Ifill last November. The Washington Post political reporter said it was “deeply humbling” to take the seat of “a friend and mentor to me and to so many journalists.” Costa, who will continue at the Post as well as serving as political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC, is the eighth moderator in Washington Week’s 50-year history.
Exclusive
: Social media measurement company Shareablee is announcing today its industry-first U.S. Media 100 Index, ranking the top 100 U.S. media companies across all categories of video, highlighting key performance metrics across video viewing, content virality and overall audience reach and scale.
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Monetizing the valuable video audiences amassed via social channels is one of the biggest challenges facing media companies today – but also one of the largest opportunities,”
Tania Yuki
, founder & CEO of Shareablee, tells Cynopsis. “
Media companies have invested huge creative capital in developing relevant, entertaining and share-worthy video, and they now have a real way to tell the story of their full footprint in terms that can sit side-by-side with their linear and digital story – beyond simply counting ‘likes’, and ‘retweets.’”
For
1Q17
, the top 10 media holding companies for cross-platform actions (in millions) were:
Walt Disney Company 936.9
Twenty-First Century Fox 924.7
NBA 806.2
Turner Digital 678.2
Comcast Corp. 473.6
NFL 446.4
BuzzFeed 371
Group Nine Media 252.8
Hearst Corp. 242.8
CBS Corp. 213.8
Source: Shareablee PowerRankings powered by C.A.S.T.
Platforms: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube
Tucker Carlson
’s first guest in his new 8p timeslot on Fox News Channel will be Caitlyn Jenner. The Olympic gold medalist has said she voted for Donald Trump for president but has since had a change of heart; her perspective on POTUS is will be one of the topics covered. Carlson’s move to the plum new primetime slot comes after the exit of Bill O’Reilly amid sexual harassment allegations.
Speaking of, we’ve not heard the last of O’Reilly. The former FNC host’s podcast, “No Spin News,” returns with a new episode tonight at 7p, according to his web site.
Sinclair
Broadcast Group
announced plans to acquire 14 stations in eight markets from Bonten Media for $240 million. The deal was announced the day after the FCC restored a rule that counts just half the homes reached by UHF stations against the federal ceiling that prevents broadcasters from reaching more than 39% of households.
The University of Oklahoma, AT&T and The Weather Channel have collaborated to equip OU mobile research trucks with enhanced severe weather technology, which will be capable of streaming live video and near real-time radar data during severe weather events. OU’s Advances Radar Research Center is the largest academic radar program in the country.
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Calling all entries!
The 3rd Annual Cynopsis Rising Star Awards is now accepting entries.
Cynopsis is excited to honor those in media with the smarts, maturity and composure that give them the potential to be one of the next generations leaders.
Entry Deadline: June 21, 2017
Awards Event: September, 2017
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PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT
Freeform ordered a third season of saga series Shadowhunters, to air in 2018. Second half of season 2 launches Monday, June 5 at 8p.
Top 10 Weekend Domestic Box Office Estimates: April 21-23, 2017
The Fate of the Furious (Universal) $38.7 million (week 2), cume revenue $163.6 million
The Boss Baby (Fox) $12.8 million (week 4), cume revenue $137 million
Beauty and the Beast (Buena Vista) $10 million (week 6), cume revenue $471.1 million
Born in China (Buena Vista) $5.1 million, opening weekend
Going in Style (Warner Bros.) $5 million (week 3), cume revenue $31.8 million
The Smurfs: The Lost Village (Sony) $4.9 million (week 3), cume revenue $33.4 million
Unforgettable (Warner Bros.) $4.9 million, opening weekend
Gifted (Fox Searchlight) $4.5 million (week 3), cume revenue $10.7 million
The Promise (Open Road Films) $4.6 million, opening weekend
The Lost City of Z (Bleecker Street) $2.1 million (week 2) cume revenue $2.3 million
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UPFRONTS UPDATE
With the promise to “REPRESENT the many facets of Black Culture past, present and future,” TV One offered a more focused slate of programming during its Upfront presentation this year. “Our goal is to provide our discerning audience of information-conscious influencers with more of what they are looking for in original films, family reality, true crime and justice content,” said Brad Siegel, TV One’s president. “This will offer advertisers more opportunities to be seen in the positive environment of our popular, quality appointment television offerings.”
Live morning news content will expand to 3 hours, with News One Now growing to 2 hours, from 7a-9a. Later this year, the show will undergo a name and format change, as Black America Today, with Roland S. Martin remaining at the helm as host. Hour 3 will include a live, multi-platform daily talk show hosted by a panel of 4 women.
TV One’s True Crime & Justice programming will get a second night starting in August, anchored by season 3 of For My Man. Limited series Two Sides of the Truth will focus on high profile cases that have been watershed moments for the Black community, and Evidence of Innocence, currently in production and slated to premiere in 2018, will profile the stories of individuals convicted of crimes they didn’t commit. Unscripted Hotlanta will follow homicide detectives on the gritty streets of Atlanta.
Scripted series and family-centered reality shows remain on the schedule, including The Manns, which premiered in early April, and Rickey Smiley For Real, which returns for a fourth season in July 2017. “TV One will continue to make programming that celebrates and builds up family, recognizing that no two families are alike,” said Siegel. “The Manns and Rickey Smiley For Real are great complements to one another as well as reinforce our goal to produce programming that incorporates family, faith and fun.”
Original movies include three inspired by musical artists: Who Can I Run To: The Xscape Story, All This Love: The DeBarge Family Story, and Bobbi Kristina, about the late daughter of Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown. Downsized, written by a finalist in the TV One/American Black Film Festival Screenwriting Competition, depicts a suburban couple who become teenaged parents.
VIDEOS IN SHORT
Timed to the date of William Shakespeare’s birthday on April 23, TNT announced the premiere date for upcoming series Will, focused on The Bard’s young, rowdy years. The net also marked the occasion by releasing several short spots with Shaquille O’Neal, including Shaq spoiling “5 plays in 5 seconds.” Check it out: https://app.frame.io/d/75sMe7LO.
ESPN 30 for 30 short The Amazing Adventures of Wally and the Worm, an animated retelling of the time Chicago Bulls assistant trainer Wally Blase was tasked with watching over Dennis Rodman “doing his physical rehab during the day and then doing the stuff that gets you into rehab at night,” according to filmmaker/actor Colin Hanks (Life in Pieces), is being shown at the Tribeca Film Festival this week.
COMING UP
A marathon of all 7 Police Academy movies starts Sunday, May 7 at 8a on HDNet Movies. Michael Winslow, who played recruit Larvell Jones in the franchise, is hosting.
DIY Network produced a house flipping pilot starring Anthony Ray, aka Sir Mix-A-Lot. The special one-hour episode will feature the Grammy-winning artist and expert house-flipper as he finds, renovates and flips houses in his hometown of Seattle. The yet-untitled program is scheduled to premiere in July 2017.
New ID true crime series The Real Story with Maria Elena Salinas does more than revisit notorious cases from the past. “We’re taking things a step further,” Kim Woodard, co-president at Lucky 8 TV and an executive producer for the series, tells Cynopsis. “María Elena reveals new details, evidence and perspectives that were either neglected or unavailable when events originally took place. Audiences may walk away with new feelings and opinions about stories they’ve known for years.” Real Story debuts tonight at 10p.
Travel Channel’s Josh Gates’ Destination Truth sets out Friday, May 19 at 9p, and over 43 episodes will cover over 50 sites, including Machu Picchu, Peru and Petra, Jordan. First up: Indonesia, in search of the elusive orange pendek. Plus, a worm monster in Iceland.
Season 2 of Feud, focused on Prince Charles and Princess Diana, will begin with their divorce, said Ryan Murphy at FX’s Emmy event in LA last week. “It’s about that pain of the dissolving of a fairy tale,” said Murphy. Asked whether Susan Sarandon and Jessica Lange, who played Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in the first season of the anthology series and will continue as executive producers, will also perform during season 2, Murphy responded, “Always.”
G-Eazy will perform his new song, “Good Life,” on NBC’s The Voice tomorrow, April 25 at 8p. The song can be heard on box office smash The Fate and the Furious.
CASTING
Melissa Benoist (Supergirl) and Julia Garner (Ozark) have joined the cast of 6-part event series Waco, slated to premiere on Paramount Network in 2018. Benoist will play Rachel Koresh, the legal wife of Branch Davidian leader David Koresh, while Garner takes on the role of Rachel’s sister.
Thomas Calabro (Melrose Place) will recur on season 5 of TNT’s The Last Ship.
Scott Winters (The Americans) landed a recurring role on Epix drama Berlin Station, as a cold-blooded loner.
ADVERTISING
comScore’s TV viewing metrics will be incorporated into BIA/Kelsey‘s local advertising spending data and forecasts, in a deal the companies say will “allow owners and operators to track and measure their audience success within the context of BIA/Kelsey’s comprehensive local market data and analysis.” Data incorporated from comScore will be available beginning in 3Q17.
DIGITAL DATA
Hulu and distribution company NEON (Colossal) inked a multi-year output licensing agreement that gives Hulu exclusive, first-window streaming rights to all upcoming films and content released via NEON. The deal marks the first of its kind for NEON.
GOING GLOBAL
Psychological thriller Apple Tree Yard is set to launch in France and Germany following a deal between FremantleMedia International and ARTE. The series is produced by Kudos.
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RATINGS
Married at First Sight, moved from A&E to Lifetime for season 5, saw double digit gains all key demos compared to the Season 4 premiere on A&E, including Total Viewers (+28%), A25-54 (+16%), 25-54 (+29%), A18-49 (+12%) and W18-49 (+16%), according to Nielsen.
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Thursday, April 20, 2017 time period averages.
Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD
CBS: 3.2/6
Big Bang Theory 5.3/10, The Great Indoors 3.4/6, The Amazing Race 2.8/5, Amazing Race 2.5/5
ABC: 2.7/5
Scandal 2.3/4, Scandal 3.6/6, The Catch 2.2/4
NBC: 2.6/5
Superstore 2.0/4, Powerless 1.3/2, Blacklist 3.0/5, Blacklist 3.1/6
FOX: 1.7/3
MasterChef: Junior 2.3/4, Kicking & Screaming 1.1/2
UNIVISION: 1.1/2
Rena de la Cancion .9/2, Vino el Amor 1.3/2, La Piloto 1.0/2
TELEMUNDO: .8/1
La Dona .8/1, La Dona .9/2, El Capo .7/1
CW: .4/1
Supernatural .6/1, H1Z1: Fight for the Crown .2
Thursday A19-49: CBS 1.0/4, ABC .8/3, NBC .8/3, FOX .8/3, UNI .6/3, TELE .5/2CW .2/1
EXECUTIVE MOVES
Viacom appointed Julia Phelps to the new position of Senior Vice President of Communications & Culture. Phelps, who joined Viacom in 2005, had worked with Viacom CEO Bob Bakish at Viacom International Media Networks as EVP of Communications.
John Wood is back at E! Entertainment, as Celebrity Talent Booker for new live daily daytime talk show, Daily Pop.
IN MEMORIAM
Erin Moran has died at age 56. The Happy Days actress was found unresponsive on April 22. “I’ll always choose to remember you on our show making scenes better, getting laughs and lighting up TV screens,” tweeted Moran’s Happy Days co-star, Ron Howard.
This Day in History: 1897 – The first reporter, William Price, was assigned to the White House.
Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: What was the significance of The Simpsons’ 1997 episode titled “The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show”? It was the episode that made The Simpsons surpass The Flintstones as the longest-running animated series. Kudos to: Luke Watson-Roker Labs/NYC, Claire Hambrick-A+E Networks/NYC, David Westberg-SAG-AFTRA Federal Credit Union/Burbank, Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/LA, Lorrie Shilling/El Segundo, CA, Rev. Mark Wajda/Leesburg, FL
Today’s Trivia Question: Which series focused on a slaughterhouse worker-turned-sitcom star? (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: Aim Metal Knife = La Femme Nikita. Kudos to: Keith Marder-Halstead Property/ NYC, Vaughn Ericson-BR
Sitcom Anagram: Organ Swiping (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 24, 2017
ABC: Dancing With the Stars, Quantico
CBS: The Big Bang Theory [r], Superior Donuts [r], Kevin Can Wait [r], 2 Broke Girls [r], Scorpion [r]
CW: Supergirl, Jane the Virgin
FOX: Gotham, APB [f]
NBC: The Voice, Taken
PBS: Antiques Roadshow, Antiques Roadshow [r], Independent Lens
Telemundo: Guerra de Idolos [p], El Capo
Univision: La Reina de la Cancion, Vino el Amor, La Piloto
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