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Good morning. It’s Monday, June 2, 2014, and this is your first early morning briefing.
Tonight’s Premieres:
A&E: Longmire at 10p
ABC: Mistresses at 10p
Bravo: Ladies of London at 10p
Destination America: Buying the Beach at 9p
History: American Restoration at 10p
ID: I (Almost) Got Away With It at 10p
Tonight’s Finale:
SundanceTV: The Writers Room at 11p
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The Arsenio Hall Show will not make it to a sophomore season, despite a renewal by CBS Television Distribution in February. "While there are many loyal fans of the show, the series did not grow its audience enough to continue," said a statement from CBSTVD. "When I started this adventure… we all knew it would be a challenge," said Hall. "I’m gratified for the year we’ve had."
Groovy! The premiere of CNN‘s The Sixties on Thursday at 9p averaged 284,000 in the A25-54 demo, enough to slide past Fox News (273,000) and clobber MSNBC (115,000), according to Nielsen fast nationals. In total viewers, The Sixties (1.4 million) was second, after Fox News (1.9 million); MSNBC drew 723,000. "Today we have seen the true scope of what CNN can be," wrote Jeff Zucker, president of CNN Worldwide, in a memo to staff on Friday.
Discovery Communications completed its acquisition of a controlling interest in sports entertainment group Eurosport International, to 51 percent from 20 percent. "By combining Eurosport’s popular sports programming with Discovery’s global brands and local expertise," said Discovery president and CEO David Zaslav, "we will continue to capitalize on the international growth of pay-TV and create long-term value for our shareholders."
Esquire is now live streaming its programming on new mobile app, Esquire TV Now, as well as at http://tv.esquire.com/now/. "We know that Esquire Network’s audience are early adopters who consume entertainment content," said net president Adam Stotsky, citing the need to make content "as easy and convenient as possible" to access. On demand access to current series is available as soon as the day after air.
The Casting Society of America is moving the date of its annual awards presentation from November to the heart of awards season, January 22, 2015. "The recognition of the craft and art of casting has taken a major step forward with the recent establishment of the Casting Directors Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences," said Richard Hicks, president of the Casting Society of America. "We moved the 30th Annual Artios Awards later in the season to better align Casting with film’s other major guilds and crafts."
Marketers understand the importance of TV’s most coveted new demo, Hispanic Millennials but what are the most effective strategies for connecting with them? A Cynopsis webinar on June 10, How to Reach Younger Hispanics, offers the latest insights and must-have elements for any campaign targeted to these active brand experimenters.
Top 10 Weekend Box Office Estimates: May 30-June 1, 2014
Maleficent (Disney) $70.0 million, opening weekend
X-Men: Days of Future Past (20th Century) $32. 6 million 2 wk 162 million
A Million Ways to Die in the West (Universal) $17.1 million, opening weekend
Godzilla (Warner Bros.) $12.2 million, 3 wk total $174.7 million
Blended (Warner Bros.) $8.4 million, 2 wk total $29.6 million
Neighbors (Universal) $7.7 million, 4 wk total $128.6 million
The Amazing Spider Man-2 (Sony) $3.8 million, 5 wk total $192.7 million
Million Dollar Arm (Disney) $3.7 million, 3 wk total $28.1 million
Chef (Open Road) $2.0 million, 4 wk total $6.9 million
The Other Woman (20th Century) $1.4 million, 6 wk total $81.1 million
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World News with Diane Sawyer – #1 May Sweeps +8% YOY
This Week with George Stephanopoulos – #1 May Sweeps +20% YOY Source: Nielsen Live/SD GMA 09.24.12-05.18.14. World News & This Week 04.24.14-05.21.14 Vs. 04.25.13-05.22.13
Wind Dancer Films has put in development Good Sam, a series adapted from a novel by the production company’s president, Dete Meserve, that will be released tomorrow, June 3.
History bought a script for a mini-series following the medieval Knights of Templar from Sony Television and Storyline Entertainment, reports Deadline. Craig Zadan and Neil Meron (Bonnie & Clyde) will exec produce, with writer Keir Person (Hotel Rwanda) co-producing
Syfy acquired supernatural thriller Bitten for a second season from Entertainment One, starting production this summer in Toronto. During season one, Bitten averaged 1.1 million total viewers based on Live +7 data.
NUVOtv airs it first three-hour, live Knockout event, featuring up-and-coming boxers on Saturday, June 7 at 7p. Rookies step into the ring in Miami.
Telemundo‘s Miss Latina Universo, the first reality show to send an entrant to the Miss Universe pageant, premieres Sunday, June 15 at 8p. Contestants will be guided by celeb judges, with the final 14 living together to train for the event. The winner determined by audience vote.
Nat Geo WILD is "digging deeper into a dog’s DNA" for three-part mini-series Wonder of Dogs, premiering Saturday, June 14 at 10p.
Hitler’s Jurassic Zoo premieres on AHC tonight, June 2, with the bizarre story of the Nazis’ attempt to bring extinct animals back to life. The net’s Black Ops returns for season two Wednesday, June 11 at 10p, offering a look at how top secret missions were carried out.
Cast your vote in our latest poll: Who should win TCA’s Program of the Year award?
The National Association of Broadcasters is challenging an FCC restriction, put in effect in March, that effectively bans advertising sales resource-sharing deals between broadcasters. "NAB believes that a fact-based examination of today’s marketplace would show that FCC ownership restrictions against free and local broadcasters are outdated in a world of national pay-TV giants," said NAB spokesman Dennis Wharton.
Advertisers spent $12 billion to reach viewers watching dramas last year, the most spent among all TV genres, according to Nielsen’s latest Advertising and Audiences report. General news ($9 billion) was next, followed by sitcoms ($6 billion). The measurement company reported dramas account for 37 percent of content across broadcast and cable, with sports coming in second at 31 percent of primetime programming.
Which nets are drawing significant spends from legacy family brands like P&G and Walmart? Check out Cynsiders for a few words about family-friendly programming that’s appealing to marketers.
INSP added over 1.3 million new subscribers in Comcast‘s West Division, in California, Washington and Minnesota.
A+E Networks UK launched Crime + Investigation on Slovokian IPTV and DTH operators Slovak Telecom and DIGI Slovakia. History, currently available on Slovak Telecom, extends its reach on DIGI Slovokia.
Tyra Banks (America’s Top Model) is promising to "shake up daytime TV" with a new lifestyle show. Disney-ABC‘s Summerdale will produce along with the former Victoria’s Secret angel; Disney-ABC Domestic Television will distribute. Banks’s first talk effort, The Tyra Banks Show, ran from 2005-2010.
The Wendy Williams Show will remain in production through June and July for the second year, announced Debmar-Mercury, to grab young viewers home from high school and college with fresh episodes. The talker, with a median age of 48, achieved its best metered market May sweep performance ever in share, with a season-to-date gain of 19 percent in HH (to 1.4) and W25-54 (to 1.06).
A second season of AIM Tell-A-Vision Group travel and lifestyle series Raw Travel will debut this fall in over 100 markets, representing over 80 percent of U.S. homes. Production has begun in Eastern Europe and North America.
Actor/country music legend Kris Kristofferson (A Star Is Born) will play President Andrew Jackson in History event series Texas Rising. The eight-hour mini, co-produced by A+E Studios and ITV Studios America and produced by Thinkfactory Media, premieres in 2015.
AMC sci-fi pilot Galyntine signed Peter Fonda (Easy Rider) as a series regular, breaks the Hollywood Reporter. Ridley Scott‘s Scott Free will produce.
India Ennega (Treme) joins Mark Pellegrino (Lost) in A&E‘s upcoming The Returned, an adaptation of the French series, from A+E Studios and FremantleMedia.
Keith Powell (30 Rock) will recur on the third and final season of HBO‘s The Newsroom.
Mark L. Young (We’re the Millers) joins HBO‘s The Comeback, a return of the 2005 Lisa Kudrow comedy, in a recurring role. Show bows this fall.
Richard E. Grant (Girls) has been cast in USA event series Dig, premiering in fall 2014. He joins Jason Isaacs (Awake) and Anne Heche (Save Me).
Jim Rash (Community) and Nat Faxon (Ben and Kate) will guest on upcoming USA comedy, Benched, premiering in 2015.
ID is ensuring June has no shortage of mayhem. Back-to-back eps of crime docuseries Cry Wolfe debuts Tuesday, June 3 at 10p, following the season two premiere of Swamp Murders. Freshman season of Suburban Secrets starts Friday, June 13 at 9p and 9:30p, followed the next day by Devil in the Details at 10p. Season two of Southern Fried Homicide bows Thursday, June 19 at 10p.
E!‘s Keeping Up with the Kardashians returns Sunday, June 8 at 9p for season nine, followed by the series premiere of real-life soap Escape Club at 10p. Plastic surgery show Botched bows Tuesday, June 24 at 9p, with #Rich Kids of Beverly Hills heading back for season two in August.
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Life Below Zero Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program
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The Thursday premiere of NBC‘s Undateable at 9p and 9:30p earned a 1.3/4 rating among A18-49, outscoring fellow originals Gang Related, on Fox at 9p (1.0/3) and ABC‘s Black Box at 10p (.8/2). Good sign: The comedy held onto its audience for its second ep.
ABC News finished the May sweep number one in the A25-54 news demo with World News, Good Morning America (also tops in total viewers) and This Week (the first sweep win in the demo in over 20 years). Nightline won in total viewers, beating NBC in a sweep for the first time.
NBC‘s Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon was up 34 percent among A18-49 versus last year’s May sweep, averaging 1.1. ABC‘s Jimmy Kimmel Live averaged .6 (down 5 percent), and Late Show with David Letterman scored .5 in the demo (down 13 percent). In total viewers, Kimmel got the biggest boost, up 8 percent to 2.7 million.
AMC‘s Mad Men leaped 87 percent from Live+Same Day viewership of 1.9 million for its mid-season finale, to 3.6 million in Live + 3. Among A18-49, the jump was a whopping 116 percent, to 1.84 million viewers.
CBS‘s daytime shows all finished the season boasting year-to-year growth, with the best season in viewers ever for Let’s Make a Deal 1, up 13 percent to 3.03 million, Let’s Make a Deal 2, up 12 percent to 3.5 million and The Talk, up 16 percent to 2.78 million.
The premiere of NBC pirate drama Crossbones earned a 1.1 rating among A18-49 Friday night and almost 5 million total viewers, according to early numbers. That’s the same rating Hannibal hit in its February premiere.
Tuesday’s 19 Kids & Counting on TLC scored its highest ratings ever, with series best HH (2.2), W25-54 (2.1), P25-54 (1.3) and P2+ delivery (2.8 million viewers). TLC was the number one cable net for the night among W25-54.
Bravo had its most-watched May ever, averaging 858,000 total viewers, according to Nielsen. Year-to-date, Bravo is the number 9 ad-supported cable entertainment net among P18-49, and the number one most affluent and educated in the demo.
The second season premiere of Telemundo‘s El Senor de los Cielos averaged 2.2 million total viewers and 1.4 million A18-49. It’s the first time the net aired a telenovela for more than one season.
Late Night Talk Shows Weekly Average Ratings (week of May 19, 2014)
NBC: Tonight 1.3/6 A18-49 and 3.9 million total viewers
ABC: Jimmy Kimmel Live .6/3 A18-49 and 2.8 million total viewers
CBS: Late Show .5/2 A18-49 and 2.4 million total viewers
Source: Nielsen, NTI
Broadcast Morning News Shows Weekly Average Ratings (week of May 19, 2014)
ABC: GMA 5.65 million total viewers; 1.8/14 and 2.14 million A25-54
NBC: Today 4.85 million total viewers; 1.7/13 and 2.01 million A25-54
CBS: This Morning 3.10 million total viewers; .8/6 and 945,000 A25-54
Source: Nielsen, NTI
Thursday A18-49 Analysis: CBS, NBC, Fox and Univision tied for the most A18-49 viewers Thursday with 1.3/4, according to final primetime national ratings from Nielsen. A 1.8/7 average for CBS’s The Big Bang Theory and Mom won 8p, versus 1.6/6 for Fox’s Hell’s Kitchen. Univision jumped into the lead at 9p with 1.6/5 for Que Vida me Robo, followed by a 1.4/5 average for CBS’s Two and a Half Men and The Millers. It was NBC’s turn to grab first place at 10p, with 1.6/5 for Last Comic Standing versus 1.3/4 for Uni’s Que Pobres Tan Ricos.
A18-49: CBS 1.3/4, NBC 1.3/4, FOX 1.3/4, UNI 1.3/4, TELE .8/3, ABC .6/2, ION .3/1, CW .3/1
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Thursday, May 29, 2014 time period averages. Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.
CBS: 3.9/7
The Big Bang Theory [r] 5.5/10, Mom [r] 4.0/7, Two and a Half Men [r] 3.7/9, The Millers [r] 3.3/5, Elementary [r] 3.1/5
NBC: 2.7/5
Hollywood Game Night 2.8/5, Undateable 2.5/4, Undateable 2.5/4, Last Comic Standing 2.8/5
FOX: 2.4/5
Hell’s Kitchen 2.8/5, Gang Related 2.0/3
ABC: 2.2/4
The Bachelorette 1.9/3, Black Box 2.7/5
UNIVISION: 1.6/3
De Te Quiereo, Te Quiero 1.2/2, Que Vida me Robo 2.0/3, Que Pobres Tan Ricos 1.6/3
CW: .5/1
Vampire Diaries [r] .5/1, Originals [r] .5/1
TELE: .8/1
Impostora .7/1, En Otra Piel .7/1, Senor de los Cielos 1.1/2
ION: 1.0/2
Criminal Minds 1.0/2, Criminal Minds 1.1/2, Flashpoint .8/1
Actress Ann B. Davis died June 1 after a fall. She was 88. Davis was best known for her portrayal of housekeeper Alice Nelson on The Brady Bunch.
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – MONDAY JUNE 2, 2014
ABC: The Bachelorette, Mistresses [p]
CBS: 2 Broke Girls [r], Mom [r], Mike & Molly [r], Mike & Molly [r], 48 Hours
CW: Whose Line Is It Anyway? Whose Line Is It Anyway? [r], Beauty and the Beast
FOX: Masterchef, 24: Live Another Day
NBC: Last Comic Standing [r], American Ninja Warrior
PBS: Antiques Roadshow [r], D-Day 360 [r], Independent Lens [r]
Telemundo: La Impostora, En Otra Piel, El Senor de los Cielos
Univision: De Que Te Quiero, Te Quiero, Lo Que la Vida Me Robo, Que Pobres Tan Ricos
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