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Wednesday May 26, 2021

Today’s Finales
CBS: “SEAL Team” at 9p, “S.W.A.T.”at 10p
Fox: “The Masked Singer” at 8p
NBC: “Chicago Med” at 8p, “Chicago Fire” at 9p, “Chicago P.D.” at 10p

IN THE NEWS

The CW set its 2021-22 slate, shuffling every night except Thursdays, and an expansion to Saturdays. “Riverdale” is moving to Tuesdays, following “The Flash,” while “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow” and “Batwoman” have moved to Wednesdays at 8p and 9p, respectively. “Nancy Drew” has relocated to Fridays at 9p, and “Whose Line Is It Anyway” and “World’s Funniest Videos” will air at 8p and 9p on a new night, Saturday. New series “4400” has been slotted for Mondays at 9p, and “Legends of the Hidden Temple” and “Killer Camp” take up Sundays. Nine shows are being held for midseason.

And don’t count out The CW’s untitled prequel to “The 100,” which started as a backdoor pilot. “The discussions are still happening,” The CW Chairman and CEO Mark Pedowitz told reporters on a press call. “It is not done in any way, shape or form. As for the net’s buzzed-about live-action adaptation of “The Powerpuff Girls,” which didn’t make it to series but is being retooled, “The pilot didn’t work,” said Pedowitz. “This is a powerful property. It has engaged a lot of interest, and we want to get it right before we put it out.”

Fox News viewers won’t have to stay up late for Laura Ingraham anymore –streamer Fox Nation will offer Fox News Channel’s primetime opinion lineup on-demand via “Fox News Primetime All The Time” beginning Wednesday, June 2. Subscribers will be able to access full video episodes the following morning of FNC’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” “Hannity” and “The Ingraham Angle.”

The US TV upfront market is projected to rise to $19.9 billion for the 2021-22 season, up from $18.5 billion for the 2020-21 season, and from $19.2 billion for 2019-20. That’s according to emarketer estimates for national linear broadcast and cable TV platforms, including digital media.

Sixty-seven percent of US consumers said they were tired of brands’ “empty promises,” according to Havas’ latest “Meaningful Brands” study. Only 39% of brands earned the trust of those surveyed. Google was again the “most meaningful” global brand, followed by WhatsApp and YouTube.

Publicis Groupe is incorporating news veracity rating system NewsGuard to blacklist fake news sites programmatically. NewsGuard’s “inclusion” and “exclusion” lists keep clients’ ads from being placed in misinformation and hoax content. “We’ve moved beyond brand safety and suitability to help our clients champion brand integrity across everything they do – ensuring their brand values are reflected across all of their advertising efforts,” said Yale Cohen, EVP-Global Digital standards of Publicis Media Exchange.

Two major station groups said they were vetting their review processes for sponsored content, after HBO’s “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” placed fake sponsored content about a made-up “sexual wellness blanket” on three local stations. While the spots were marked as sponsored, Oliver noted the ease with which dubious claims could get air time. A spokesperson for the E.W. Scripps Company said that non-news shows were created “to help support local businesses and entrepreneurs who are looking for new ways to market their products,” but the company is reviewing processes for non-news segments to ensure its stations follow the proper standards. Tegna said that while its interview on “FYI Austin” was a commercial, “it was an error to air it” and is reviewing its processes.

ABC’s “General Hospital” landed the most Daytime Emmy Award nominations, with 21. CBS’s “The Young and the Restless” and NBC’s ”Days of Our Lives” scored 11 apiece, and CBS’s “The Bold and the Beautiful” got nine. Posthumous nominations went to Alex Trebek, for outstanding game show host, and Larry King, for informative talk show host. The 48th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards air Friday, June 25 at 8p on CBS and Paramount+.

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A series adaptation of YA fantasy novel Red Queen is in development at Peacock, exec produced by Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman via their Brownstone Prods. The project is co-written by Beth Schwartz (“Arrow”) and the book’s author, Victoria Aveyard.

BritBox North America and BritBox UK have commissioned pan-territory original mystery series “Murder In Provence” from Monumental Television. Based on the books by M.L. Longworth, the series is being adapted for the screen by playwright Shelagh Stephenson (“Downton Abbey”), directed by Chloe Thomas (“The Deceived”) and produced by Grainne Marmion (“Harlots”). Executive Producers are Debra Hayward, Alison Owen and Alison Carpenter. Stephenson and Allam also serve as Executive Producers.

Snap ordered “As I Am,” telling stories of Asian Americans, from UK’s Barcroft Studios. The six-part series is directed by Alice Gu (“The Donut King”); executive producers are John Farrar for Barcroft Studios and Danny Lee for CALICO.

BBC Radio 4 podcast “The Battersea Poltergeist” is getting the TV treatment. Blumhouse Television and Maniac Productions are developing a scripted series and companion unscripted series based on the hit docu-drama chronicling the events around the longest documented poltergeist haunting in history.

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Casting notes: Brianna Baker has been upped from recurring to series regular for season three of Fox’s “9-1-1: Lone Star.”…Ji-young Yoo (“Moxie”) is the first actor to be cast in Amazon drama “Expats.”

NEW & RETURNING SERIES

MTV’s “Jersey Shore Vacation” returns for season 4B on Thursday, June 3 at 8p. The party gets started when Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi shows up after skipping the first half of the season.

Event series “Reunion Road Trip” sets off Thursday, June 10 at 9p. Cast members from “All My Children,” “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,” “A Different World” and “Scrubs” reconvene and reconnect.

It’s complicated: Relationships with past loves in the picture are the focus of TLC’s “You, Me & My Ex,” premiering Sunday, June 20 at 10p.

COMING UP

On the way from The CW are animated special “Beebo Saves Christmas,” focused on the “fuzzy toy turned furry god” in “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow”; animated event “The Scooby-Doo Reunion Special”; and “The Waltons’ Homecoming,” a new film commemorating the 50th anniversary of 1971’s “The Homecoming: A Christmas Story,” starring Bellamy Young (“Scandal”) as Olivia, Logan Shroyer (“This Is Us”) as John Boy, and original John Boy, Richard Thomas as The Narrator.

“Sky Blossom: Diaries Of The Next Greatest Generation,” focused on children caring for veterans with disabilities, airs Saturday, May 29 at 9p on MSNBC. The not-for-profit documentary, directed by MSNBC journalist Richard Lui, represents over a million dollars in in-kind and pro bono work to raise awareness of the country’s millions of military caregivers, with support from the companies of Comcast NBCUniversal, Walmart, AMC Theatres, and Deluxe.

Ovation TV is pairing drama series and films every Monday for its “Secrets and Crimes” programming blocks, starting June 7 at 4p with back-to-back episodes of “Street Legal.”

The Scripps National Spelling Bee will hold its first hybrid virtual and in-person competition beginning Saturday, June 12, with 209 spellers competing. Live broadcasts start on ESPN3 at 10a.

STREAMING

Philo TV is raising its monthly fee from its 2017 launch price of $20, to $25. The increase takes effect June 8 for new customers; current subscribers will not see the hike.

TECH TALK

The District of Columbia is suing Amazon, accusing the retail giant of abusing its power by prohibiting merchants that use its platform from charging lower prices for the same products elsewhere online. “Amazon has used its dominant position in the online retail market to win at all costs,” said Karl Racine, attorney general for the District of Columbia. “It maximizes its profits at the expense of third-party sellers and consumers, while harming competition, stifling innovation, and illegally tilting the playing field in its favor.” Not so, responded Amazon spokesperson Jodi Seth, who said sellers set their own prices, and Amazon reserves the right “not to highlight offers to customers that are not priced competitively.”

Comcast Technology Solutions, a division of Comcast Cable, and PremiumMedia360 announced a new strategic relationship. The integration with the CTS Ad Management Platform enables TV advertising buyers and sellers to automatically synchronize and solve reconciliation discrepancies throughout the ad buy lifecycle, preventing revenue loss associated with dropped spots due to order execution errors and invoicing delays. “Through our integration, our mutual customers will have access to the fast insights they need and the actionable data they demand from the Ad Management Platform. This allows them to quickly optimize and execute across the media landscape,” said Richard Nunn, VP and General Manager of Advertising Suite at Comcast Technology Solutions.

The Out of Home Advertising Association of America released its first “OAAA Digital Video Out of Home (VOOH) Buyers’ Guide,” providing insights and guidance to promote the medium’s growth. The guide covers audience segmentation, including mobile and contextual targeting; location-enhancing content; publishers; measurement and attribution, including VOOH impression measurement and proof-of-play; and VOOH ad formats. The guide also addresses key standards and pricing, as well as direct and programmatic buying recommendations. “VOOH remains untapped, and if we can adopt ‘any right screen’ mentality – be it in home, on a phone or in public places, VOOH is poised to see tremendous success,” said Doug Rozen, CEO, dentsu Media Americas.

Lotame announced that Adform, the fully integrated advertising platform, has merged its programmatic workflow with the Lotame Panorama ID, in order to extend its cookieless targeting with greater scale and greater enrichment capabilities, while ad monetization platform Smart has extended the use of Lotame Panorama ID for its clients using both its Adserver or SSP. “Lotame has a view for the future in line with what marketers and publishers want to achieve: a people based, privacy first solution that is open to all,” said Andy Monfried, CEO at Lotame. “Collaboration will be key for the future of advertising and identity presents an opportunity, but education is needed on how all the industry solutions can work together. Our partnerships with Adform and Smart will play an important role in strengthening the collaboration needed across the ecosystem in adopting new approaches for a post-cookie world.”

Compact Media, the audio-visual secondary rights management company for film and TV producers, announced the formation of its Compact Data division and launched the AI rights monitoring and broadcast tracking system, MRIT (Media Rights International Transmissions). MRIT allows media companies to access data powered by A.R.I.A., enabling them to track key licensing metrics including the number of broadcasts of a licensed show, the amount of time left on a show’s licensed run, the number of shows running in the correct time slot, the number of transmissions left on each contract and if additional license fees are due.

Enterprise software platform and data provider Whip Media has expanded its offering with the beta launch of the Whip Media Exchange, a data and AI-powered content marketplace. Using proprietary first-party data, the Exchange provides a set of predictive analytics not previously available to the entertainment industry. “Streaming has drastically changed the media landscape and we want to enable licensing to follow the same growth trend,” said Richard Rosenblatt, CEO and Founder of Whip Media. “With the launch of the Exchange, Whip Media uniquely provides data and technology to meet the evolving needs of buyers and sellers, along with the industry-leading platform that facilitates the entire content licensing process.” Lionsgate, Giant Pictures and DMD Limited / CiND!E Films are among the first companies to join the Whip Media Exchange.

GOING GLOBAL

Principal Media, the global content licensing and channel distribution company, has partnered with nature and wildlife production company VisionHawk Films to help distribute documentary films “Ninja of the Rockies” and “Yellowstone Journals.” Principal Media has also acquired global rights to “World of Oceans,” a production of AquaTerraFilms in association with VisionHawk. Among the initial licensees of VisionHawk’s titles are discovery+, UK TV, Asia (Asia Pacific, China, Singapore, India, Australia), Okko (Russia), and First HDTV (Russia).

Allied Global Marketing has acquired Honey+Buzz, an experiential marketing agency based in Dublin. The acquisition bolsters Allied’s existing North American experiential marketing business.

“The Masked Singer” is headed to Japan. Amazon ordered a local version of the hit Korean format to be hosted by Yo Oizumi.

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Among talk shows, “Live with Kelly and Ryan” (1.8 Live+SD national Nielsen, up 6% from the week before) leapt into a first-place tie with the previous week’s leader, “The Dr. Phil Show” (1.8, steady). Sophomore “Tamron Hall” (0.8, up 14%) rose to tie with fellow second-year star “The Kelly Clarkson Show” (0.8, steady).

Broadcast Nielsen Top 10 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of May 10 ranked in order by HH Rtg
Family Feud (CMV) 5.6 AA
Judge Judy (CMV) 5.3 AA
Jeopardy! (CMV) 5.2 AA
Wheel of Fortune (CMV) 5.0 AA
The Big Bang Theory (WB) 2.4 AA
Inside Edition (CMV) 2.2 AA
Entertainment Tonight (CMV) 2.2 AA
The Dr. Phil Show (CMV) 1.8 AA
Live With Kelly and Ryan (DAD) 1.8 AA
Last Man Standing (DAD) 1.7 AA
Source: Nielsen

TV Time’s Shows on the Rise for the week of May 17
Special (Netflix) – 98.30%
Eurovision Song Contest (Eurovision Song Contest) – 97.20%
L’Isola dei Famosi (Canale 5) – 97.10%
Objectif : reste du monde (W9) – 96.90%
Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous (Netflix) – 96.10%
Plan B (FR) (TF1) – 93.30%
The Neighbor (Netflix) – 93.10%
Familles nombreuses : la vie en XXL (TF1) – 90.10%
Superman & Lois (The CW) – 90.10%
Who Killed Sara? (Netflix) – 84.40%
Every week, millions of viewers around the world use TV Time to track their favorite series. “Shows on the Rise” is calculated by determining the week-over-week growth in episodes watched for a given program.

TV Time’s Binge Report for the week of May 17
Love, Death & Robots (Netflix) – 4.32%
Who Killed Sara? (Netflix) – 3.85%
Castlevania (Netflix) – 1.60%
Grey’s Anatomy (ABC US) – 1.55%
Modern Family (ABC US) – 1.29%
The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu) – 1.18%
One Piece (Fuji TV) – 1.10%
Jupiter’s Legacy (Netflix) – 1.07%
The Bold Type (Freeform) – 0.85%
Attack on Titan (NHK) – 0.84%
The weekly Binge Report ranks shows with the most binge sessions. A binge session is when four or more episodes of a show are watched and tracked in the TV Time app within a given day.

Broadcast Nielsen Ratings for Monday, May 24
Show, P2+ 000s, (A18-49)
ABC: Tangled 2.22 (0.4), The Good Doctor 3.86 (0.6)
CBS: The Neighborhood 3.26 (0.4), Bob Hearts Abishola 3.14 (0.4), All Rise 3.17 (0.4) Bull 3.16 (0.3)
CW: All American 0.72 (0.2), Black Lightning 0.50 (0.2)
FOX: 9-1-1 5.99 (1.0), 9-1-1: Lone Star 5.04 (0.8)
NBC: The Voice 6.33 (0.7), Debris 2.48 (0.3)
Source: Nielsen live + same day time period averages

EXECUTIVE MOVES

Canela Media has appointed Germán Palomares Salinas as Country Manager/VP of Sales in Mexico. He joins Canela Media after having led Condé Nast’s digital revenues for Mexico and Latin America, where he was responsible for sales and digital transformation.

Genius Brands has elevated Jon Ollwerther to the position of President of Kartoon Channel!. Ollwerther previously served as General Manager of Kartoon Channel, and will continue in his role as Executive Vice President of Business Development for Genius Brands.

Karla Pita Loor has been named EVP, Enterprise Inclusion & Social Responsibility at Endemol Shine North America. Pita Loor was previously Chief Development Officer at the TV Academy.

MiQ announced the launch of its US Hispanic and multicultural practices, and appointed LATAM expert Amanda Abrarpour to lead the Miami office and overall Hispanic discipline. Prior to joining the company, Abrarpour helped introduce Netflix into Brazil and Latin America.

Answer to Our Last Trivia Question
Which network first aired “Junkyard Wars”? TLC. Kudos to: Pete Hazell-Discovery Networks Europe/London; Gerry Bixenspan-TV Marketing Inc./NYC; Louis Lewow-FITE/Atlanta; Susan Nessanbaum-Goldberg-M and S Entertainment/LA; Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/LA; Matthew Sautter-WideOrbit/York, PA; Lorrie Shilling/El Segundo, CA; David Westberg-SAG-AFTRA Credit Union/Burbank

Today’s Trivia Question
On “Baby Daddy” (2012-17), where did Bonnie marry Brad? Email [email protected] with your answer and be sure to include your name, company, city and time zone. Unofficial rules: a limit of four answers per time zone.)