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07.08.14

Good morning. It’s Tuesday, July 8, 2014, and this is your first early morning briefing.

Tonight’s Premieres:
CNBC: Restaurant Startup at 10p
FYI: Married at First Sight at 9p
GAC: Highway Cowboys at 10p
MTV: Finding Carter at 10p

Tonight’s Finales:
Bravo: The People’s Couch at 10p
HGTV: Flip or Flop at 9p

Asked if she had any interest in doing a talk show, Sarah Palin told The Hollywood Reporter, "I hear everyone recently got canned from The View, maybe a show like that needs a punch of reality and a voice of reason from America’s heartland to knock some humble sense into their scripts." Too soon to worry about how remaining host Whoopi Goldberg feels about that – it’s all "rumor and speculation," ABC told TheWrap. Not that Palin won’t be on the small screen. Sportsman Channel is bringing back Amazing America with Sarah Palin, labeling the former VP candidate who helped propel the net to triple-digit year-over-year growth in HH and key male demos the "First Lady of the Outdoors." For her part, Palin promises "really inspirational stuff" for season two, launching in early 2015.

IN THE NEWS

In an effort to skirt the June 25 Supreme Court ruling that had Aereo service suspended, FilmOn filed with the U.S. copyright service as a small cable company, owner Alki David, told Philly.com, allowing it to transmit local broadcast-TV stations. "This is America," said David. "We have a right to be a cable company….It’s important for FilmOn to be seen as a vanguard of the space." The Greek billionaire heir also announced Monday that FilmOn.com will become the first global IPTV provider to carry Voice of America‘s English language news and features content, available on PC and mobile devices. "FilmOn is extremely proud to be chosen to work with the federal government in this way to provide our viewers with an unrivalled service on a global basis," said David.

Submissions for the 21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Award nominations are open at sagawards.org/submissions. Submissions are all paperless, accepted through October 23. Nominees will be announced Wednesday, December 10; ceremony simulcast live on TNT and TBS Sunday, January 25. 

PBS science series NOVA is making molecules a little merrier with the NOVA Elements App for Windows 8.1. "The App  goes beyond broadcast programming on a fundamental topic – exploring the elements and how they are the building blocks for people, planets, and everything around us," said senior exec producer Paula S. Apsell.

Crown Media Family Networks unveiled the logo for Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, ahead of Hallmark Movie Channel’s October 2014 rebrand. "Hallmark Movie Channel has evolved significantly over the past 24 months and it was time to refresh the network with a new name and logo that better embody its brand promise and programming mix," said Susanne McAvoy, EVP of marketing, communications and creative for Crown Media. "The reimagined brand will better identify the network as a wholly distinct destination from Hallmark Channel, while more fully realizing its potential for future growth in the rapidly changing multi-screen universe."

PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT

Meredith Video Studios is talking up three possible TV concepts spun from its Allrecipes brand, acquired in 2012, reports B&C. In the food-centered mix: a cooking competition, a game show and an hour-long strip. 

Venevision Productions is teaming with Shine Latino producer Cristina Palacio to develop series targeting the U.S. Hispanic market that will also have international appeal. "We have established a new management team that has implemented the strategy of investing resources for the creation and development of innovative content to satisfy the needs of Hispanic audiences," said Venevision Studios EVP of Operations Carlos Sosa.

Syfy event series Ascension has started production in Montreal. The six-hour drama from Lionsgate Television and Sea to Sky Studios in association with Blumhouse Productions, about a mysterious 1960s starship voyage, launches in November 2014.

COMING UP

CBS News: 50 Years Later, Civil Rights will explore the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act with a live interactive event Thursday, July 24 at 8p on Smithsonian Channel and CBSNews.com. Luminaries joining moderator Bob Schieffer include Harry Belafonte, historian Taylor Branch, CBS Sports’ James Brown, Nets star Jason Collins and Whoopi Goldberg, among others. Using Microsoft‘s Bing Pulse technology, viewers will be able to interact with the panel and provide real-time feedback.

Living on an isolated lake means no taxes – and no laws – but what happens when the ice cracks? Animal Planet‘s Ice Lake Rebels explores the dangers and drama of life way off the grid starting Sunday, July 27 at 10p.

My Wild Affair and Sex in the Wild premiere Wednesday, July 16 at 8p and 10p. No need for parental controls, though, this is PBS. Affair tells stories of extraordinary bonds between humans and their animal companions, while Sex looks at animal reproduction and conservation. Both shows launch with a focus on elephants.

Lifetime hot topic talk show Undone with @AmandadeCadenet premieres Thursday, July 24 at 10:30p. The live, half-hour weekly series with British social media star de Cadenet (The Conversation) hails from Embassy Row.

The Bachelor‘s Sean Lowe and wife Catherine make an appearance on TLC‘s The Next Great Baker tonight at 9p, to help decide which wedding cake makes the cut. "We were able to use our personal nuptial experience to lend our expertise (and taste buds) and help identify the perfect destination wedding cake," said Catherine, the first female final rose winner on the ABC dating show to actually make it down the aisle.

BRANDS & ADVERTISING

Nielsen exhibited its new Multi-Touch Attribution tool to marketers at its Consumer 360 conference, linking consumers’ digital media exposures with household purchases. The measurement company has been working with Kraft on the pilot project, using algorithms to calculate ROI, "enabling more granular and actionable insight." Said a Kraft spokersperson in Adweek, "MTA for us is really just understanding consumers, but understanding them in way that we can bring timely messaging to them that they want to hear."

John Deere has taken a bite out of Sportsman Channel‘s newest original program, Camp Stew, with a "significant presence" on the show throughout the third quarter. Stew, hosted by firearms enthusiast Penn Jillette and showcasing "some of the craziest outdoor videos ever recorded," premieres Thursday, July 17 at 8:30p.
 

RETURNING SERIES

To IFC go the Spoils. The offbeat comedy net ordered a sequel to Funny or Die series The Spoils of Babylon, titled The Spoils of Dying. "Hang onto your hats, America!" said star and exec producer Will Ferrell. "This one’s going to be totally bonkers!" Miniseries focused on "the seedy underbelly of the 1950s jazz scene" premieres summer 2015.

Spike TV scooped up a second season of docu-series Thrift-Hunters, from Pixcom Productions. Season one of the shopping series delivered 1 million viewers, for a 23 percent lift in the timeslot among A18-34.

DISTRIBUTION & CARRIAGE

A&E will launch in German-speaking Europe, Iberia and Africa in fall 2014, premiering in 10 million households across Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal and Portuguese-speaking Africa following a rebrand from BIO. A&E debuted in France in November 2013. 

Return to Temptation Island: Italy’s Canale 5 ordered a local version of the risque reality show from Banijay Group. After scoring a hit in its first of three seasons on Fox, the series traveled to over a dozen other countries in the early 2000’s.

Hulu grabbed exclusive U.S. rights to the current season of Australian soap Neighbors, from FremantleMedia International. The drama debuts Monday, July 14, with an appearance by American Idol alum Paula Abdul on July 18. Hulu will also be the exclusive streaming VOD platform for the North American launch of Digital Media Rights‘ Russian movie and television content. Programming will be available with English subtitles.

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CASTING

Brandon Routh, who donned Superman‘s cape for the big screen, will recur as The Atom on CW‘s Arrow when the superhero drama returns for season three Wednesday, October 8 at 8p.

Taye Diggs has been cast as a guest star in season six of CBS‘s The Good Wife, as an equity partner at Lockhart/Gardner. Drama returns Sunday, September 21 at 9p.

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CASTING CALL: Lightbox Media, Inc. is now casting Season 8 of Bravo’s hit show, "The Millionaire Matchmaker!" "We are looking for eligible men and women, both straight and gay, who are ready to meet potential mates. Selected millionaires will be given the opportunity to be a part of the show and work directly with Patti Stanger and her team of experts. Please send casting inquiries to [email protected] (7/8)


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RATINGS

CBS‘s 60 Minutes wrapped the holiday weekend as the most-watched program Sunday night with 8.5 million viewers, according to early Nielsen estimates, while the net’s Big Brother was the top-rated show of the night (1.8/6 among A18-49). ABC singing competition Rising Star held onto last week’s 1.2/4 rating, while NBC‘s Miley Cyrus: Bangerz Tour drew a meager .7 in the demo and 2 million viewers.

For the second consecutive quarter, HGTV was the top cable network on weekends among women, including upscale W25-54, attracting an average 14 million viewers every Saturday and Sunday between 7a-8p. Top rated weekend programs among W25-54 during 2Q14 were Property Brothers (.77), Flip or Flop (.71) and Fixer Upper (.70). 

National Geographic Channel‘s Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey was watched by 135 million people across the globe, including 45 million in the U.S., the largest-ever international launch for a TV series and Nat Geo’s most-watched series ever. The show aired on 90 National Geographic Channels and 120 Fox-branded channels in 125 countries.

The second episode of FX‘s Tyrant delivered 2.7 million total viewers and 1.3 million among A18-49, based on Live + 3 numbers, up 9 percent in the demo over its series premiere. Among A18-49, the drama got a 93 percent lift (to 1,299,000) from Live+Same Day to Live+3.

Bounce TV reported an increase of 48 percent in primetime P18-49 delivery compared to last year, and up 51 percent among P25-54 in 2Q14.

NIELSEN TWITTER TV TOP TEN for the week of 6/30/14
Program, Date, Unique Audience (000), Tweets (000)
Pretty Little Liars
(ABC Family), 7/1, 2604, 196
The Bachelorette (ABC), 6/30,
2193, 90
WWE Monday Night RAW (USA), 6/30,
2167, 297
Teen Wolf (MTV), 6/30,
1906, 232
Miley Cyrus: Bangerz Tour (NBC), 7/6,
1792, 71
Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta (VH1), 6/30,
1472, 376
So You Think You Can Dance (FOX) 7/2,
1349, 64
Keeping Up with the Kardashians (E!), 6/7/6,
1299, 35
Big Brother (CBS), 7/3
1297, 95
Philly 4th of July Jam (VH1), 7/4,
1290, 112
 Source: Nielsen. Nielsen Social captures relevant tweets from three hours before, during and three hours after an episode’s initial broadcast, local time. Unique Audience measures the audience of relevant Tweets ascribed to an episode from when the Tweets are sent until the end of the broadcast day at 5a. The data includes new/live primetime and late fringe episodes only and excludes sports events.

Thursday A18-49 Analysis: Univision won the most A18-49 viewers Friday with 1.3/5, according to final primetime national ratings from Nielsen. Fox’s Hell’s Kitchen was first at 8p with 1.3/6, followed by a 1.2/6 average for CBS’s Big Bang Theory and The Millers. There was a tie at the top at 9p between Univision’s Que Vida Me Robo and CBS’s Big Brother, both with 1.6/6. Univision was alone in the lead at 10p with 1.3/5 for Que Pobres Tan Ricos, versus 1.1/4 for NBC’s Last Comic Standing.

A18-49:  UNI 1.3/5, CBS 1.1/5, FOX 1.0/4, NBC .8/3, ABC .7/3, TELE .7/3, CW .2/1, ION .2/1

Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Friday, June 20, 2014  time period averages.  Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.
ABC: 3.1/6
Black Box 2.5/5, Rookie Blue 3.5/7, NY Med 3.3/5
CBS: 2.9/6
Big Bang Theory [r] 4.2/9, The Millers [r] 2.8/6, Big Brother 2.9/6, Elementary [r] 2.3/5
FOX: 2.1/4
Hell’s Kitchen 2.6/5, Gang Related 1.6/3
UNIVISION: 1.7/3
De Te Quiero, Te Quiero 1.4/3, Que Vida me Robo 2.1/4, Que Pobres Tan Ricos 1.6/3
NBC: 1.6/3
Undateble 1.5/3, Undateable 1.5/3, Undateable 1.4/3, Undateable 1.3/2, Last Comic Standing 1.9/4
ION: 1.0/2
Criminal Minds 1.0/2, Criminal Minds 1.2/2, Flashpoint .8/2
TELEMUNDO: .9/2
Impostora 1.0/2, En Otra Piel .8/2, Senore de los Cielos 1.0/2
CW: .3/1
Vampire Diaries [r] .3/1, Originals [r] .3/1

EXECUTIVE MOVES

Saban Brands appointed Kendall Doty as Vice President of Digital. Previously, Doty launched and managed digital initiatives for Hub Network.

IN MEMORIAM

Actor Don Matheson died June 29 after battling lung cancer. He was 84. Best known as a regular on Land of the Giants, Matheson’s numerous television credits also included The Waltons, Dynasty and Falcon Crest.


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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – TUESDAY 8, 2014


ABC: Extreme Weight Loss, Celebrity Wife Swap
CBS: NCIS [r], NCIS: Los Angeles, [r] Person of Interest [r]
CW: Famous in 12, Supernatural [r]
FOX: Family Guy [r], Brooklyn Nine-Nine [r], Brooklyn Nine-Nine [r], The Mindy Project [r]
NBC: America’s Got Talent [r], The Night Shift
PBS: Time Scanners, History Detectives Special Investigations, Frontline [r]
Telemundo: Reina de Corazones, 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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