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FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION
tops late night television, growing in key demos!
#1 series in late-night +87% vs last year
“Best show of the year” – The Daily Beast
Source: Nielsen; [National]; (NPOWER) Ad Supported Television; L+7 Delivery; YOY (12/26/16-5/21/17 vs 12/28/15-5/22/16); Cable and Broadcast Late Night programs (M-Sun 10pm-1am); P18-34 and P18-49; Premieres only, excluding repeats.
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Don’t miss this thoughtful and candid examination of cross-platform video measurement and how the smartest minds in advertising and marketing are reading market forces and reacting to them in order to make this next leap in media’s evolution.
Hear from industry experts at: Quigley-Simpson , Hulu , 22squared , NBCUniversal , Mashable , Facebook , one2one Media , Disney|ABC Television Group , Dell , 605 , Bloomberg Media , FOX Networks and more!
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PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT
ABC News’ Lincoln Square Productions is teaming with JuVee Productions and XCON Productions to develop a 6-part true-crime documentary series for ABC that follows 2 long-time death row inmates. Working title is 4%, a reference to the percentage of people on death row, according to a study, who may actually be innocent.
UK prodco Icon Films was commissioned by Discovery Channel to create Shark Week film special Great Hammerhead Invasion, following a shark scientist as he tags the solitary sharks.
Ali Adler inked an overall deal with CBS Television Studios, where she’ll develop new projects and consult on upcoming CW reboot Dynasty. Adler will also consult on Warner Bros. TV’s Supergirl, which she co-created and where she has served as co-executive producer and co-showrunner. Filling her Supergirl shoes: Jessica Queller and Robert Rovner have been bumped up to co-showrunner, along with co-creator Andrew Kreisberg.
Top 10 Weekend Domestic Box Office Estimates: June 16-18, 2017
Cars 3 (BV) $53.5 million, opening weekend
Wonder Woman (Warner Bros.) $40.7 million, cume revenue $275 million
All Eyez On Me (LG/S) $27 million, opening weekend
The Mummy (Universal) $13.9 million, cume revenue $56.5 million
47 Meters Down (ENTMP) $11.5 million, opening weekend
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell Tales (Buena Vista) $8.5 million, cume revenue $150 million
Rough Night (Sony) $8 million, opening weekend
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (Fox) $7.4 million, cume revenue $57.9 million
Guardians of the Galaxy (Buena Vista) $4.9 million, cume revenue $374.5 million
It Comes at Night (A24) $2.6 million, cume revenue $11.1 million
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Cars 3 Takes the Box Office by Storm
Turns out Lightning can strike not once, not twice, but three times! Lightning McQueen and the rest of the Cars 3 crew raced to #1 this Father’s Day weekend, delivering NCM a 11.6 A18-34 rating.
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RETURNING SERIES
Season 14 of investing series Consuelo Mack Wealth Track launches on public television Friday, June 23 at 7:30p. Charitable giving is the first topic.
COMING UP
Alec Baldwin’s Still Alice co-star (and 30 Rock love interest) Julianne Moore, as well as 30 Rock alum Tracy Morgan, Jane Krakowski and Jack McBrayer, along with SNL’s Kate McKinnon, make up the first wave of presenters announced for Spike’s comic tribute to Baldwin. One Night Only: Alec Baldwin premieres Sunday, July 9 at 9p.
Cozi TV is celebrating Black Music Month with a week of original short-form vignettes featuring hip hop and pop culture influencers and curated programming June 19-23.
BET grabbed rights to comedy film Fat Camp, set to debut at the Los Angeles Film Festival this week, about a shallow 20something forced to work at his uncle’s fat camp.
DIGITAL DATA
Seeso underwent staff cuts. This comes after the departure last month of Evan Shapiro, who launched the NBCU SVOD comedy service in January 2016. Some employees were reassigned to other jobs in the company’s digital enterprises division. NBCU is reportedly re-evaluating its business model. Currently Seeso offers next-day streaming of shows including NBC’s late nighters, originals and acquired programming.
All 4 seasons of Heroes (2006-1010) and the entire run of limited series Heroes Reborn (2016-17) will be available on Crackle starting Thursday, July 13.
ADVERTISING
McDonald’s is cutting official ties with the International Olympic Committee and the U.S. Olympic Committee 3 years before the expiration of its current deal. “As part of our global growth plan, we are reconsidering all aspects of our business and have made this decision in cooperation with the IOC to focus on different priorities,” says Silvia Lagnado, McDonald’s global CMO. McDonald’s has worked with the IOC since 1976.
CASTING
Glenn Close will star in Amazon zombie comedy pilot Sea Oak, centered on a meek workingclass woman who comes back from the dead, full of rage.
Kimberly Hebert Gregory (Vice Principals) will star opposite Jason Ritter in upcoming ABC drama The Gospel of Kevin. Cristela Alonzo played the role in the pilot.
GOING GLOBAL
TRT World, Turkey’s English broadcasting news platform, on Saturday launched monthly series Crossing the Line, hosted by investigative journalist Imran Garda.
Endemol Shine Group inked deals for The Brain on STB in Ukraine and Polstat in Poland. Format was developed by Endemol Shine Group Germany with Herr P and ZDF.
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Snapchat and Instagram Stories: A How & When Guide
Join Cynopsis Digital’s webinar, Thursday, June 29 as agencies Laundry Service & Cycle, Giant Spoon and more cover:
- How to generate programming and marketing content that feeds brand awareness
- Strategies for creating content for the features that are unique to Snapchat and for those that are unique to Instagram
- Best practices for buying and selling ad inventory on both platforms
- Expert projections on what the future user bases for Instagram and Snapchat will be
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RATINGS
The season 4 premiere of History’s Alone on June 15 delivered 1.7 million Total Viewers (+42% vs. S3 premiere), and saw double-digit gains in key demos including A24-54 (+33%), A18-49 (+22%) and M25-54 (+19%), according to Nielsen. Week 2 of the net’s Mountain Men built on its season 6 premiere delivering 2.3 million Total Viewers (+15% versus last week) and posting gains across all key demos including A25-54 (+24%), A18-49 (+27%), M25-54 (+34%) and M18-49 (+42%).
The series finale of CW’s Reign rated a series low .2 among A18-49, but was up 15% in total viewers week to week, to 77,000.
Live + Same Day Household AA (millions): Thursday, June 15, 2017 time period averages.
Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD
ABC: 4.31 million
Celebrity Family Feud 4.91, To Tell the Truth 4.28, $100,000 Pyramid 3.74
CBS: 4.19 million
Big Bang Theory 6.05, Superior Donuts 4.70, Mom 4.57, Life in Pieces 3.53, Scorpion 3.16
NBC: 3.27 million
The Wall 3.55, The Wall 3.43, Law & Order: SVU 2.84
FOX: 1.37 million
U.S. Open Golf 1.52, Love Connection 1.23
UNIVISION: 1.22 million
Reina de la Cancion 1311, Doble Vida E Carrillo 1192, La Piloto 986
TELE: .70 million
El Capo 0.5/1, Querida de Centauro 0.6/1, Querida de Centauro 0.6/1
CW: .70 million
Supernatural .73, Supernatural .67
Wednesday A19-49: ABC .9/4, NBC .8/4, CBS.7/3, UNI .6/3, FOX .4/2, TELE .4/2, CW .2/1
Source: Nielsen
EXECUTIVE MOVES
Connor Schell’s job at ESPN just got bigger. As Executive Vice President of Content, Schell adds oversight ESPN’s content creation across TV, digital and print platforms, in addition to ESPN Films, Original Content, Audio and the Talent Office.
Shannon Ryan was promoted to the new position of Chief Marketing Officer, Fox Television Group, and Darren Schillace has been named Executive Vice President, Marketing, Fox Broadcasting Company. Most recently, Ryan served as EVP, Marketing and Communication for FTG, and Schillace was SVP, Marketing, ABC Entertainment.
Apple hired Sony Pictures Television execs Jamie Erlicht and Zack Van Amburg to head its video programming business. “We have exciting plans in store for customers and can’t wait for them to bring their expertise to Apple,” said Eddy Cue, SVP of Internet Software and Services.
AccuWeather appointed Bill McGarry as Vice President of Ad Sales. Previously, McGarry served as Chief Revenue Officer at The Daily Beast.
IN MEMORIAM
Actor Stephen Furst died June 17 due to complications from diabetes. He was 63. Furst, who played Flounder on Animal House, was best known to TV audiences as Eliott Axelrod on St. Elsewhere.
This Day in History: 1862 – Slavery was outlawed in U.S territories.
Answer to Friday’s Trivia Question: What was the first case examined on The FBI Files (1998-2006)? The 1993 kidnapping and murder of Polly Klaas. Kudos to: Andy Pittman-TAMU/College Station, TX, Paul Blutter-Walk and Talk Production Rentals/Burbank, David Westberg-SAG-AFTRA Federal Credit Union/Burbank, Lorri Shilling/El Segundo, CA, Susan Nessanbaum-M and S Entertainment/LA
Today’s Trivia Question: Which farm-raised TV character once had a one-eyed pig? (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 Switcheroo: Mary Barsky = Jane Curtin (Mary Albright on 3rd Rock From the Sun, Kate Barsky on Kate & Allie). Kudos to: Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/LA
Canceled Show Anagram: Huddle to Cope (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 JUNE 19, 2017
ABC: The Bachelorette, Still Star-Crossed
CBS: Kevin Can Wait [r], Man with a Plan [r], Mom [r], Life in Pieces [r], Scorpion [r]
CW: Supergirl [r], Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Whose Line Is It Anyway? [r]
FOX: So You Think You Can Dance, Superhuman
NBC: American Ninja Warrior, Spartan: Ultimate Team Challenge
PBS: Antiques Roadshow, Antiques Roadshow [r], Independent Lens [f]
Telemundo: El Capo, La Querida del Centauro, La Querida del Centauro
Univision: Jose de Egipto, La Doble Vida de Estala Carrilo, La Piloto
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