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SHARK WEEK WINS GOLD
PHELPS VS SHARK IS SHARK WEEK’S HIGHEST RATED TELECAST EVER!
Over 5 Million Viewers
Discovery was Sunday Night’s #1 Basic Cable Network
Watch Discovery’s 8-episode event Manhunt: UNABOMBER
Tuesday 9p
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Join us as we celebrate Media’s Rising Stars!
September 2017 | Midtown Lofts| NYC |3:00 – 5:00 PM
Tickets for the 3rd Annual CYNOPSIS Rising Stars Awards are now available! For the third consecutive year, we’re honoring stand-out performers, innovators and emerging leaders in the media industry. Companies represented on Friday include E! Entertinament, Epix, Mediacom, ABC, NBCUniversal, Zenith, Discovery Communcations, Viacom Velocity, Nielsen, Nickelodeon and many more ( click here to view all honorees)!
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PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT
Lifetime ordered season 4 of UnREAL, which starts its third run in early 2018, and a second season of Mary Kills People.
THIRTEEN’s American Masters series will include a doc about baseball Hall of Famer Ted Williams, co-produced with Major League Baseball, Albert M. Tapper, Big Papi Productions, and Nick Davis Productions. The film is slated to premiere summer 2018, marking Williams’ centennial (August 30, 1918 – July 5, 2002).
Top 10 Weekend Domestic Box Office Estimates: July 28-30, 2017
Dunkirk (Warner Bros.) $28.1 million (week 2), cume revenue $102.8 million
The Emoji Movie (Sony) $25.7 million, opening weekend
Girls Trip (Universal) $20.1 million (week 2), cume revenue $65.5 million
Atomic Blonde (Focus) $18.6 million, opening weekend
Spiderman: Homecoming (Sony) $13.5 million (week 4), cume revenue $278.4 million
War of the Planet of the Apes (Fox) $10.4 million (week 3), cume revenue $118.7 million
Despicable Me 3 (Universal) $7.7 million (week 5), cume revenue $230.4 million
Valerians and the City of a Thousand Planets (STX) $6.8 million (week 2), cume revenue $30.6 million
Baby Driver (TriStar) $4.1 million (week 5), cume revenue $92.0 million
Wonder Woman (Warner Bros) $3.5 million (week 9), cume revenue $395.4 million
Source: comScore
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The Emoji Movie emoted its way to a box office win this weekend, laughing up NCM a 11.0 A18-34 rating. Patrick Stewart is voicing a character named Poop, so you know it’s a winner 🙂
America’s Movie Network delivers unbeatable original content, Millennial reach, and movie audience data that’s beyond words. Advertising with NCM will have you feeling as fierce and fun as the red salsa dancer, and isn’t that what we all aspire to be?
Be expressive. Be what’s noovie.
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MORE TALK AT TCA
IFC introduced a 2018 development slate with 11 comedy projects, including script orders for NGO, about the gin-soaked head of a private West African charity whose estranged lawyer son arrives to tell him the party’s over; satire How to Rig an Election, based on the book by a political consultant; and sketch show Sherman’s Showcase, inspired by Soul Train. Also highlighted were 3 Comedy Crib digital series, including Neurotica, about an OCD dominatrix who has to fight to keep her business when a MegaDungeon opens in her town.
“We are privileged once again to be working with a variety of incredible talent on projects with unique comedic points of view, as well as creating more linear content from our digital platform, the Comedy Crib,” said IFC president Jennifer Caserta. “These projects come from gifted creative teams and are great examples of the distinct comedic storytelling that embodies IFC’s trademark ‘slightly off’ sensibility.”
AMC talked up its diverse series projects under consideration. “Our deep pipeline of projects embodies our ‘eclectic by design,’ quality programming approach and our ‘scripts-to-series’ development model that puts the emphasis on the most important part of our strategy – outstanding writing, a commitment to worlds you’ve never seen on TV before, and rich character development,” said Charlie Collier, president of AMC, SundanceTV and AMC Studios. Among the projects are an alien drama starring and exec produced by Rainn Wilson (The Office), sci-fi anthology Shock Theatre and nonfiction horror anthology Wicked West.
CBC and SundanceTV greenlit 8-part miniseries Unspeakable, focused on the emergence of HIV and Hepatitis C in Canada in the early 1980s and the tragedy that resulted after thousands of people were infected by tainted blood.
PBS president and CEO Paula Kerger used the TCA tour to warn TV critics that she’s taking the threat to funding for public broadcasting “very seriously,” and to suggest that if politicians talk to their constituents, they’ll find voters of every stripe value public television. But without federal funding, “PBS itself will not go away, but the number of our stations will. If you are a station for whom 30, 40 or 50 percent funding suddenly goes away, there is no way you can make up that money. A big part of the country suddenly will be without public broadcasting.”
PBS also announced 8-part The Great American Read (wt) and a campaign asking readers to choose America’s best-loved book, aimed as sparking conversations about reading. PBS is also teaming with BBC for global art history series Civilizations, slated for spring. And PBS Kids greenlit animated series Luna Around the World, from Joe Murray (Rocko’s Modern Life) and 9 Story Media Group.
Going to the dogs: In addition to the Kitten Bowl, which will return in its fifth season, Hallmark is expanding its relationship with American Humane by working to reunite soldiers with military dogs when they’re both retired, and train shelter dogs to aid veterans suffering from PTSD. The first class of these dogs graduated two weeks ago, said Bill Abbott, adding, “At Crown Media, we’re not just about platforms, we’re about making emotional connections.”
Digital will have a bigger role in the company’s future – Abbott also announced the October 3 launch of streaming service Hallmark Movies Now, which he said will be “completely distinct from our other networks and launch with 1,000 hours of family-friendly content.” The service will launch on iOS, Android, Roku and Amazon Fire, with other platforms to be added. Also to come, Hallmark Publishing, which will turn existing books into movies, and Hallmark movies into novels, “with additional story lines woven in,” Abbott said.
Rob Lowe was on hand for a discussion of A&E’s The Lowe Files, following the Parks and Recreation star and his sons as they travel the country exploring famous mysteries, which he called “Anthony Bourdain in a blender with Scooby Doo. We want to solve it, but if we don’t, the point of it is a father and sons on the road making memories.”
Fifteen years after her abduction, A&E and Lifetime will premiere a cross-network event in which Elizabeth Smart will tell her harrowing story in her own words. A&E’s Biography special Elizabeth Smart: Autobiography premieres in two 90-minute installments on Sunday, November 12 and Monday, November 13 at 9p, while Lifetime’s Original Movie I Am Elizabeth Smart, starring Skeet Ulrich (Riverdale), Deirdre Lovejoy (The Blacklist) and Alana Boden (Ride) premieres Saturday, November 18 at 8p. Smart was onstage at TCA to offer her take on the film. “It was so well done and accurate,” she told reporters. “I’m very proud of it.”
Lifetime also set premiere dates for fall movies The Watcher in the Woods (October 21) starring Anjelica Houston; Flint (October 28), starring Queen Latifah; and The Lost Wife of Robert Durst (November 4), starring Katherine McPhee.
Starz President and CEO Chris Albrecht announced that Starz has picked up supernatural spy thriller The Rook, produced by a partnership between Lionsgate and Liberty Global. Twilight Saga creator Stephenie Meyer is exec producing, with Stephen Garrett serving as showrunning EP. “The Rook is instantly addictive from the very first scene and introduces what we believe will be one of the most fascinating and thrilling female protagonists on television,” said Albrecht.
Starz also set the season 2 debut date for The Girlfriend Experience. The limited series returns Sunday, November 5 at 9p.
COMING UP
Spike TV is celebrating the 1000th episode of Cops with special Cops Beyond the Bust, airing Saturday, August 19. Hosted by Terry Crews, the show will include classic clips from the run of the Langley Productions series, as well as bring in officers and the suspects they busted before a live studio audience.
getTV is marking the 116th anniversary of Lucille Ball’s birth with 3 back-to-back episodes featuring guest appearances by the queen of comedy. Sunday, August 6, the stunt kicks off with Ball and her Here’s Lucy co-stars on a 1973 installment of The Merv Griffin Show.
CASTING
Kelly Stables (The Exes) landed a recurring role on season 4 of NBC’s Superstore, as a divorcee back in the work force….Usman Ally (Veep) also nabbed a recurring role, on USA’s Suits, as a new Deputy Attorney General….Michael Emerson (Person of Interest) will recur on season 4 of Amazon’s Mozart in the Jungle, as an eccentric collector.
DIGITAL DATA
P&G slashed $100-140 million in digital advertising spend last quarter, citing brand safety concerns and ineffective ads. “We’re setting a higher standard of excellence on advertising quality with a focus on brand performance claims that communicate the brand’s benefit superiority to create awareness and trial,” said CEO David Taylor during an earnings call. Despite the cut in spending, organic sales grew 2%.
Web series Secret Life of Muslims will be back for a sophomore season. Available online at Vox and the USA Today Network, the Emmy nominee depicting the challenges faced by Muslims in the U.S. will return thanks to funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Pillars Fund, and Hartley Film Foundation.
Jason Bateman shared news on Twitter that will please fans of Arrested Development who are eager for season 5 to get rolling for Netflix. Along with a photo of the set, Bateman tweeted, “Here comes trouble. The Bluths move back in on the 8th.”
GOING GLOBAL
Five out of every 10 Brazilian households were tuned in to Globo medical drama Under Pressure, which premiered to 44 million viewers on July 25.
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The 5th Annual Cynopsis Digital Model D & It List Awards
Enter before Tuesday’s Deadline
If you are proud of a digital campaign or project that your team has carried out in the past year, grant your team the recognition they deserve by entering our Model D Awards. And, if there is an individual that has gone above and beyond by pushing the boundaries of digital innovation, they belong on Cynopsis Digital’s “It List.”
Questions?
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Discovery’s Phelps vs. Shark: Great Gold vs. Great White ranked as the net’s highest-rated Shark Week telecast ever across P25-54, W25-54 and W18-49, and averaged over 5 million total viewers. Discovery was Sunday night’s #1 basic cable network in primetime, while also topping all broadcast networks across P/M 25-54, P/M/W18-49, and P/M/W18-34. Produced by NBC News’ Peacock Productions.
ABC’s World News Tonight won the July sweep in total viewers (7.53 million), taking all 4 sweeps periods of the season for the first time in 21 years. NBC Nightly News topped the news demo, logging 1.61 million viewers A25-54.
Live + Same Day Viewers AA (millions) Thursday, July 27, 2017 time period averages
Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated Live+SD
CBS: 4.83 million
The Big Bang Theory 6.31, Kevin Can Wait 4.63, Big Brother 6.33, Zoo 2.69
NBC: 4.38 million
Hollywood Game Night 3.83, The Wall 4.88, Night Shift 4.45
FOX: 2.44 million
Beat Shazam 2.85, Love Connection 2.02
ABC: 2.43 million
Boy Band 2.39, Battle of the Network Stars 2.57, The Gong Show 2.33
Univision: 1.64 million
Jose de Egipto 2.07, La Doble vida de Estela Carrillo 1.65, Rosario Tijeras 1.19
TELE: 1.62 million
Jenni Rivera: Mariposa e Barrio 1.48, La Quereda del Centauro 1.63, El Senor de los Cielos 1.75
CW: 1.24 million
Penn & Teller: Fool Us 1.56, Hooten and the Lady .91
Wednesday A19-49: CBS .1/1/5, NBC .9/4, FOX .7/3, ABC .6/3, TELE .6/3, UNI .5/2, CW.5/1
EXECUTIVE MOVES
Fox Broadcasting Company promoted Jonathan Gabay to Senior Vice President, Comedy Development & Programming. Gabay joined Fox in 2011 as Manager of Comedy Development and was upped to Director, Executive Director and Vice President of Comedy Development & Programming.
Univision Communications promoted Steve Mandala to President of Advertising Sales and Marketing, succeeding the retiring Keith Turner. Mandala had been EVP of Advertising Sales.
This Day in History: “Son of Sam” killer David Berkowitz murdered his last victim, in a parked car in Brooklyn.
Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: Which rocker performed the theme song, Room Enough for Two, on the short-lived sitcom, My Sister Sam (1986-1988)? Kim Carnes. Kudos to: Susan Nessanbaum-Goldberg-M and S Entertainment/NYC, Phyllis McQuillan-MSG Networks, NYC, Anne Thomason-Canvas Worldwide/Atlanta, Cathy Russo-Viacom/NYC, David Westberg-SAG-AFTRA Federal Credit Union/Burbank, David Garber-Loyola Marymount University/Playa Vista, CA, Lorrie Shilling/El Segundo, CA, Bob Telford-SAG/AFTRA/Valley Village, CA, Aaron Paquette-Screen Engine/Fort Worth, TX
Today’s Trivia Question: Which Emmy winner for acting in a comedy series said during his/her acceptance speech, “I’m not funny!”? (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 (two TV characters, one actor): Lila Hansen = Concetta Tomei (Lila Garreau on China Beach and Lynda Hansen on Providence)
Classic Dramedy Anagram: A Calm Belly (Email [email protected] with your answer; 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, JULY 31
ABC: The Bachelorette, To Tell the Truth
CBS: Kevin Can Wait, Superior Donuts, Mom, Life in Pieces, CBSN: On Assignment [p]
CW: Supergirl [r], Hooten & the Lady
FOX: So You Think You Can Dance, Superhuman [f]
NBC: American Ninja Warrior, Midnight Texas
PBS: Antiques Road Show [r], Antiques Road Show [r], POV [r]
Telemundo: Jenni Rivera: Mariposa de Barrio, Sin Senos Si Hay Paraiso, El Senor de los Cielos
Univision: Jose de Egipto, La Doble vida de Estela Carrillo
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