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CREATIVITY IN MARKETING
+ INNOVATION ON ALL PLATFORMS
+ CULTURE THAT SHAPES OUR WORLD
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UNEQUALED NBCU
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Entries close June 8th for The Cynopsis Kids !magination Awards
For the sixth consecutive year, Cynopsis is honoring the best in children’s, tween and family programming across platforms, technology, marketing and prosocial campaigns. Winners will be recognized at the 6th annual awards event on September 19, 2017 in New York City. Enter NOW (while early rates apply)
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PRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT
Trial & Error will return to NBC for a second season. The network closed the deal for a 10-ep season 2 of the comedy from Warner Bros TV. Trial & Error will return in midseason.
Family Matters: Modern Family is getting a new senior creative duo. Sitcom veterans Jack Burditt and Bill Wrubel are in as executive producers for the ABC series; out are executive producer Chuck Tatham, co-executive producer Andy Gordon and consulting producer Christy Stratton. The show recently was renewed for a ninth and tenth season.
Freeform is going to College-ish. The network picked up 13 episodes of the scripted spin-off of ABC’s Black-ish, starring Yara Shahidi. Dean Cole also stars in the comedy, slated to premiere in early 2018 on Freeform. College-ish follows the Johnsons’ eldest daughter Zoey (Shahidi) as she heads off to college. Kenya Barris, Anthony Anderson, Laurence Fishburne, Helen Sugland and Brian Dobbins are executive producers of the series, from ABC Studios.
Ahead of its season 2 finale, HBO has picked up a third season of adult animated series Animals. Animals, created by Phil Matarese & Mike Luciano of Duplass Brothers Productions, focuses on the creatures native to Earth’s least-habitable environment: NYC – from lovelorn rats to gender-questioning pigeons to aging bedbugs. Guests who’ve graced the show thus far include Fred Armisen, Jessica Chastain, Whoopi Goldberg and Kurt Vile.
Investigation Discovery announced a green light for a sophomore season of original series Murder Chose Me. Series features stories and case files from Shreveport, LA, detective Rod Demery from his 14 years as a homicide detective. Ten new episodes will air exclusively on ID in early 2018.
Chuck Rose, creator of Crackle original series The Art of More, signed an exclusive two-year overall deal with Universal Television. He’ll develop new series projects for the studio.
Top 10 Weekend Domestic Box Office Estimates: May 19-21, 2017
Alien: Covenant (Fox) $36 million, opening weekend
Guardians of the Galaxy (BV) $35.06 million (week 3), cume revenue $301.80 million
Everything, Everything (Warner Bros.) $12 million, opening weekend
Snatched (Fox) $7.6 million (week 2), cume revenue $32.78 million
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul (Fox) $7.2 million, opening weekend
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (Warner Bros.) $6.85 mlilion (week 2) cume revenue $27.20 million
The Fate of the Furious (Universal) $3.17 million (week 7), cume revenue $219.88 million
The Boss Baby (Fox) $2.8 million (week 8), cume revenue $166.15 million
Beauty and the Beast (Buena Vista) $2.4 million (week 10), cume revenue $497.78 million
How To Be a Latin Lover (PNT) $2.2 milllion (week 4) cume revenue $29.46 million
Lowriders (BH) $1.16 million (week 2), cume revenue $4.19 million
Source: Box Office Mojo
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What’s noovie?
* noovie is NCM’s movie preshow reimagined and partnered with emerging digital channels
* noovie is exclusive content like soundcheck featuring Foo Fighters
* noovie is commerce streamlined around the moviegoer
* noovie is launching in theaters and app stores on 9/29/17
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NEW AND RETURNING SERIES
Returning to ABC for its third season, 20/20: In An Instant offers first-hand accounts of harrowing tales of survival by bringing them to life through dramatizations. The new season premieres Saturday, June 3 at 9p and will run for seven consecutive weeks through July 15.
SundanceTV’ s genre drama Cleverman returns for a second season on Wednesday, June 28 at 10p. Series is a futuristic drama rooted in ancient Aboriginal mythology where humans and Hairypeople battle for survival in a world that seeks to silence and destroy them.
COMING UP
NOVA: Poisoned Water debuts on PBS stations on Wednesday, May 31 at 9p. The special uses the lens of science to reveal how the water disaster in Flint, MI, brought to light a disturbing truth about the vulnerabilities of water systems across the country.
In observation of World Refugee Day, Fuse will premiere the film Cast from the Storm on Tuesday, June 20 at 9p. It’s the third release in Fuse’s We the Dreamers docu series and follows refugee teens who learn how to cope with the horrors they experienced in their native countries by participating in an innovative Australian community speaking and performance program.
Andy Samburg -starring mockumentary Tour de Pharmacy races on to HBO on Saturday, July 8 at 10p. Written by Murray Miller (Girls), the 50-minute special details the Tour de France during “a dark and fictitious time” in cycling history, i.e., 1982, when the time-honored race was marred by the doping of virtually all of its competitors.
CASTING
Harry Hamlin (Mad Men) got a recurring role opposite Ryan Phillippe on the second season of USA drama series Shooter.
ADVERTISING & PARTNERSHIPS
More than 20 media outlets are supporting The Red Nose Day Special, airing Thursday, May 25 at 10p on NBC by donating media space – via print, digital, airtime, space in theaters and more – to promote the charity event. Media partners include AT&T AdWorks, DISH Media Sales, ION Television, National CineMedia, Pandora, Samsung, TiVo, TV Guide and Zynga. Walgreens and the M&M’s Brand, official partners of Red Nose Day and sponsors of the special night of programming on NBC, also helped to drive tune-in across their owned platforms.
DIGITAL DOINGS
Fresh Off the Boat is docking at Hulu. The streaming service acquired exclusive SVOD rights to the complete library of the ABC comedy series in a deal with Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution that comprises access to all past episodes of the series and future eps of the comedy, recently renewed for a fourth season. New eps will be available on Hulu the day after they air on ABC. The Hulu-Twentieth TV library deal also includes past eps of horror drama The Exorcist, which airs on Fox, and NBC comedy The Carmichael Show.
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RATINGS
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah hit its most-watched week ever in Live+SD, with a delivery of 1.045 million total viewers P2+ for the week of May 15. That surpasses Noah’s premiere week as host of the Comedy Central cornerstone in September 2015 (1.019 million).
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Thursday, May 18, 2017 time period averages.
Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD
CBS: 3.0/6
Big Bang Theory 4.6/9, The Great Indoors 3.1/6, Amazing Race 2.8/5, Amazing Race 2.4/5
ABC: 4.1/9
Gray’s Anatomy 5.2/10, Scandal 3.6/7
NBC: 2.9/6
Law and Order: SVU 2.3/4, Blacklist 3.1/6, Blacklist 3.1/6
FOX: 2.2/4
MasterChef: Junior 2.1/4, Masterchef Junior [f] 2.3/4
UNIVISION 1.0/2
Rosa de Guadelupe .9/2, Doble Vida e Carrillo 1.0/2, La Piloto 1.0/2
TELEMUNDO: .6/1
El Capo .6/1, La Querida del Centauro .6/1 La Querida del Centauro .6/1
CW: 1.0/2
Supernatural 1.0/2
Thursday A19-49: CBS 1.0/4, ABC 1.7/7, NBC .8/4, FOX 1.0/4, TELE .4/2, UNI .6/2, CW .6/2
Source: Nielsen
EXECUTIVE MOVES
Lois Nix has been named SVP & CFO for the advertising sales division of Scripps Networks Interactive. Nix, who most recently was SVP & COO, digital and cable ad sales, at The Weather Company, succeeds Amy Listerman, who departed Scripps last month.
FremantleMedia has restructured the leadership of its North America operation. Jennifer Mullin will assume the CEO role and Craig Cegielski, currently co-CEO, moves to executive producer of FMNA series American Gods.
This Day in History: May 22, 1900 – The Associated Press was incorporated as a non-profit news cooperative in NY.
Answer to the Last Trivia Question: What was the second spin-off of The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970-1977)? Phyllis (1975-1977). Kudos to: John Carlo-UP/NY; Steve “TV” Limbach-Showtime Networks/Hauppauge, NY; Phyllis McQuillan-MSG Networks/NY; Marc Mondry-MSG Networks/NY; Michaels-NATAS/NY; Rick Rosenfelt-New York Red Bulls/Harrison, NJ; Paul Schur-Animal Planet/NY; Tom Winiarski-NBCUniversal/NY; Laurie Ulster-Fuse Media/NY; Tom Boyd-WGN-TV/Chicago; Danette Alberts-Las Colinas Locations/Dallas; Robert Teinowitz-Live Action Media, Chicago; Scott Cohn-Twiddlewater Media, Ltd./Aptos, CA; Adam Havener-AD HAVS Entertainment/LA; Larry Hutchings/Nipomo, CA; Jim Katz-Radcliffe road pictures/LA; Amy Kessler-Oakland Symphony/Oakland, CA; Len Klatt-The Winning Run/LA; Tom Moore -Kalt Productions/LA; Peter Steckelman-Tennis Channel/Santa Monica; Greg Stewart/LA; Richard Quan- Heat/SF; Dale Warshaw-KMSB/KTTU/Tucson
Today’s Trivia Question: In what classic mystery series did Patrick McGoohan guest in the third episode in each of four seasons? (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: A Hostile Grin = The Originals. Kudos to: Keith Marder-Halstead Property/NY; Paul Blutter-Walk and Talk Production Rentals/Burbank; Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/LA
Lifestyle Series Anagram: Fun Brother Can Gain Bath (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 MAY 22, 2017
ABC: Dancing With the Stars, The Bachelorette
CBS: Princess Diana – Her Life – Her Death – The Truth, Late Late Show Carpool Karoake Primetime Special
CW: Supergirl [f], Jane the Virgin [f]
FOX: 24: Gotham, Lucifer
NBC: The Voice, Running Wild With Bear Grylls
PBS: Antiques Roadshow, Antiques Roadshow, Independent Lens
Telemundo: El Capo, La Querida del Centauro, La Querida del Centauro
Univision: La Rosa de Guadelupe, La Double Vida de Estela Carrillo, La Piloto
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