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04.30.15
Good morning. It’s Thursday April 30, 2015, and this is your first early morning briefing.
Tonight’s Premiere:
Great American Country: Made From America at 9p
Tonight’s Finales:
CBS: Mom at 9p
FOX: Backstrom at 9p
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All in the Family: Damien, TV sequel to the 1976 horror movie, is moving from Lifetime, where it had a straight-to-series order, to sister net A&E. The move comes after EVP and GM of the nets Rob Sharenow added A&E to his purview in February. “A&E’s unwavering commitment to high quality original scripted drama programming, coupled with the sizable fan base for our hit series Bates Motel, which so perfectly aligns with Damien, make the network the ideal fit,” said the aptly named exec. The order for Damien, produced by Fox 21 Television Studios, was upped from six to ten episodes.
Revenge has officially been canceled. That the ABC drama’s season four finale on May 10 will be its last doesn’t come as a complete surprise – series star Madeline Stowe was just killed off, and a recent network promo advised viewers to “be there for the final four episodes.”
Don’t rule out a television return for David Letterman, leaving CBS’s Late Show on May 20 after 22 years. Might he be back on the small screen soon? “It just depends on the number of bridges I’ve burned,” Letterman told the NY Times. “Jane Pauley is now on the CBS Sunday Morning Show. Perfect fit…So maybe one day, something of that level will happen to me.”
First Lady Michelle Obama makes her fifth and final appearance on Late Night tonight. Also saying goodbye: musical guests Hootie & the Blowfish, who made their network TV debut on the show in 1994.
A+E Networks and Vice Media are in discussions involving a joint venture cable channel, according to the NY Post. A+E, which has a 10 percent stake in Vice, would rebrand H2, currently available in over 71 million homes, to Vice by early 2016. No deal has been signed yet, andA+E execs had no comment.
Hulu struck a multi-year deal with AMC Networks for exclusive SVOD rights to new and upcoming primetime scripted drama and comedy series from AMC, IFC, BBC America, SundanceTV and WE tv, including The Walking Dead companion series, Fear the Walking Dead. Series will be available on Hulu prior to each subsequent season’s network premiere.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that: Hulu will also be the exclusive SVOD provider of all nine seasons of Seinfeld, per a deal with distributor Sony Pictures Television. The announcement was made at Hulu’s Upfront presentation in NYC yesterday.
Univision launched its third nationwide search for the next “DJ@PJ,” with the top three finalists flown to Miami to battle it out the week of the Premios Juventud awards show in July. T-Mobile returns as sponsor.
Reelz and Dish Network agreed to terms for a contract renewal that gives Dish customers continued access to the net’s live and VOD programming. Reelz is available in Dish’s America’s Top 120 programming package and above.
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Paramount Television and Anonymous Content are developing Caitlin Doughty’s memoir, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes: and Other Lessons from the Crematory. Evan Dunsky (Nurse Jackie) will be writer and showrunner for the pilot and series; Anonymous Content’s Kerry Kohansky-Roberts, Rosalie Swedlin and Alex Goldstone exec produce.
Tricon Kids & Family and Wildseed Studios are co-producing a new animated TV comedy series, Counterfeit Cat, targeting 6-12 year-olds. The UK-Canada co-production, commissioned by Disney XD EMEA and Teletoon, is starting production at Wildseed’s newly launched Bristol studio.
Rhino Content is producing a new home renovation series, Masters of Flip, for Corus Entertainment’s Canadian W Network.Series is set to premiere next month.
Love? Money? Alaska? What topic makes for the most intriguing reality show? Let us know in the new Cynopsis poll.
Cheating men learn their lesson the hard way in Oxygen series Player Gets Played, launching Wednesday, June 10 at 9:30p. Each episode follows women who band together after discovering their boyfriends have been unfaithful.
Nine DIY enthusiast couples compete to revive dilapidated houses, and the last pair standing wins their dream home in Fox’s Home Free. Reality show hosted by Mike Holmes (Holmes on Homes) from Relativity TV and exec producer Tom Forman (Extreme Makeover: Home Edition) premieres Wednesday, July 22 at 9p.
Animal Planet’s Treetop Cat Rescue (just what it sounds like) premieres with back-to-back episodes Saturday, May 30 at 9p and 9:30p. Trapped kitties include one that has no interest in being rescued.
Boat + $$ = CMT’s Pontoon Payday. Floating game show from 495 Productions, in which a wrong answer forces the loser to literally jump in a lake, premieres Thursday, May 14 at 10p. Opener follows the season two premiere of Party Down South 2, also from 495.
Discovery Life marks National Nurses Week from May 6-12 with a marathon of programming focused on emergency room nurses starting Wednesday, May 6 at 9a. Bonus: a contest offering a trip for two to Vancouver and a walk on role on Untold Stories of the ER.
Road tripping this Memorial Day weekend? Nat Geo shows how car culture changed the way we live, work and travel in two-hour special Driving America, Monday, May 25 at 9p.
TLC is airing a sneak peek at delivery room-set game show Labor Day on Wednesday, May 6 at 10p and 10:30p, part of the net’s “Mother of All Weeks” celebration.
GetTV salutes the armed forces with a nine-film marathon, kicking off with Yesterday’s Enemy at 8a on Memorial Day, May 25.
El Rey Network is airing the RoboCop film trilogy (supervillain! satire! gore!) beginning Friday, May 1 at 1:30p and concluding Saturday, May 2 at 4a.
Food Network Star is back for an eleventh run Sunday, June 7 at 9p, with Bobby Flay and Giada De Laurentis returning as mentors/judges for the cooking competition. Winner is crowned Sunday, August 16 at 9p.
Season two of Deion’s Family Playbook launches on OWN Saturday, May 9 at 9p, as the former football and baseball star, caring for ten children, settles not all to comfortably into a smaller temporary home.
Hallmark can’t get enough of the holidays. The network is expanding its holiday programming franchise with “Countdown to Christmas Thanksgiving Week,” featuring five nights of new original holiday movie premieres starting Wednesday, November 25, plus digital and social content. Of the initiative, reaching consumers during a heavily trafficked retail week, Ed Georger, EVP ad sales, Crown Media Family Networks, said, “We are giving our loyal viewers more of the holiday fare they love, while creating new opportunities for our advertising partners to convey key marketing messages and reach their target audience during the most critical retail period of the year.”
Marketing executive Lila Everett, who has worked on networks including Bravo, TLC and Discovery, announced the launch of Millennimedia, a marketing agency specializing in creating multimedia campaigns. “We live in a new age of entertainment marketing. Emerging media and entertainment start-ups, right here and around the world, have the access and opportunity to ‘go big’ like never before,” Everett, the new company’s CEO, tells Cynopsis. “I’m launching Millennimedia to help open those doors by providing integrated entertainment marketing strategies, premium production services, and profitable campaigns for television and digital networks, studios, and legacy brands that are ready to go prime time – and take their ‘advertainment’ to the next level.”
Wendell Pierce (Treme) will play Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in HBO film Confirmation. Kerry Washington (Scandal) stars as Anita Hill.
Josh Radnor (How I Met Your Mother), Mary Elizabeth Winstead (The Returned), Gary Cole (Veep) and Broadway star Cherry Jones are among the cast of PBS’s Mercy Street, from Ridley Scott. Civil War drama is slated to join the Sunday night lineup in winter 2016.
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ABC’s 20/20: Bruce Jenner – The Interview collected another 3.6 million viewers in Live+3, for a total of 20.7 million. The A18-49 rating grew 31 percent, from 5.2 to 6.8, the highest lift for a newsmagazine since 2007, when delayed viewing numbers were first recorded by Nielsen.
HGTV delivered its best April ratings ever, averaging a .54 P25-54 rating in prime and .48 P25-54 rating on weekends.The net had its best prime time ratings growth year over year at 15 percent, ranking number 7 among P25-54 in prime and second among W25-54 in prime. Its weekend rating was up 4 percent year over year.
Cooking Channel had its most-watched April in network history, with viewership at its highest ever among P25-54 and W25-54, both up 6 percent year over year. Doing their part for YOY gains: Dinner at Tiffani’s (up 65 percent), season two of Rev Run’s Sunday Suppers (up 50 percent), and Unwrapped 2.0 (up 30 percent).
ABC’s Dancing With the Stars anniversary special Tuesday delivered a 1.7/6 rating, up 30 percent versus last week’s finales of Fresh Off the Boat and Repeat After Me, but 15 percent off Monday’s regular show. Up against the hoofers, NBC’s The Voice was down four tenths, to 2.2/8, but still led the night in the demo.
Tuesday A18-49 Analysis: CBS had the most A18-49 viewers Tuesday with 1.8/6, according to final primetime national ratings from Nielsen. NBC’s The Voice topped 8p with 2.2/8, followed by 2.0/7 for CBS’s NCIS. CBS’s NCIS: New Orleans was first at 9p, versus 1.5/5 for ABC’s Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. NBC was back in the lead at 10p with 1.6/5 for Chicago Fire; ABC’s 20/20 and CBS’s Person of Interest tied for second with 1.4/4.
A18-49: CBS 1.8/6, NBC 1.6/5, ABC 1.5/5, CW 1.1/4, UNI 1.1/4, FOX 1.0/3, TELE .7/2, ION .4/1
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Tuesday, April 28, 2015 time period averages. Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.
CBS: 7.9/13
NCIS 9.3/16, NCIS: New Orleans 9.0/14, Person of Interest 5.3/9
ABC: 4.5/8
Dancing With the Stars Anniversary 6.6/11, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D 2.9/5, 20/20: Captive: Journey of Hope and Survival 4.0/7
NBC: 4.4/7
The Voice 6.0/10, Undateable 2.9/5, One Big Happy 2.1/3, Chicago Fire 4.6/8
CW: 1.7/3
The Flash 2.3/4, iZombie 1.0/2
FOX 1.6/3
Hell’s Kitchen 2.1/3, New Girl 1.4/2, Weird Loners 1.0/2
UNIVISION: 1.5/2
Amores con Trampa 1.4/2, Hasta Fin del Mundo 1.8/3, Que te Perdone Dios… Yo No 1.3/2
TELEMUNDO: 9/1
Avenida Brasil 0.7/1, Tierra de Reyes .7/1, El Senor de los Cielos 1.4/2
ION: 0.8/1?
Criminal Minds 0.7/1, Criminal Minds 0.9/1, Criminal Minds 0.9/1
Ken Segna was promoted from Vice President to Senior Vice President, Original Programming at Starz. Segna joined the company as an executive assistant in 2010.
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Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: Which 1970s sitcom featured a bachelor who worked at the lost-and-found department of a bus company? Lotsa Luck (1973-1974). Kudos to: Marc Wollis-NBC Sports Group/NYC, Gerry Bixenspan-TV Marketing, Inc./NYC, John Kukla-KDFW-KDFI/Dallas, Cynthia New-Charter Media/Cape Girardeau, MO, Kevin Moran-Blarney Productions/LA, Will Allmendinger-Clear Channel Outdoor/Chicago, Sally J. Maisel-Wienermania/Van Nuys, CA, Jim Katz-Radcliffe Road Pictures/LA, Travis Ballenger-True Media/Bozeman, Calgary.
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – THURSDAY APRIL 30, 2015
ABC: Grey’s Anatomy, American Crime
CBS: Big Bang Theory, The Odd Couple, Mom [f], Big Bang Theory [r], Elementary
CW: Vampire Diaries, Reign
FOX: Bones, Backstrom [f]
PBS: This Old House Hour, Wolf Hall Masterpiece [r], Antiques Roadshow [r]
Telemundo: Premios Billboard de La Musica Latina
Univision: Amores con Trampa, Hasta el Fin del Mundo, Que te Perdone Dios…Yo No
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