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08.11.15
Good morning. It’s Tuesday August 11, 2015, and this is your first early morning briefing.
Tonight’s Premieres:
ABC Family: Next Step Reality: NYC at 9p, Startup U at 10p
Esquire: The Agent at 10p
HBO: Hard Knocks: Training Camp With the Houston Texans at 10p
Oxygen: Bad Girls Club: Back for More at 8p, Boss Nails at 9p
Tonight’s Finales:
ABC Family: Pretty Little Liars at 9p
BET: Nellyville at 10p
Bravo: The Real Housewives of New York City at 9p
Travel: Watt’s World at 10p
ID: Cry Wolfe at 10p
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IN SPANISH.
This July, Univision Deportes Network became the
#1 sports network among M18-34 viewers-tied with ESPN.
And beat every other U.S. sports network along the way.
Despite his big, social media-fueled beef with GOP debate moderator Megyn Kelly, Donald Trump will sit down for an interview with Fox and Friends this morning (August 11). Co-host Steve Doocy took to Twitter to announce the news.
Viewership of live television may be down, but “as long as we continue to monetize, which we are, there is not concern that there are less people watching,” said CBS Entertainment chairman Nina Tassler at TCA on Monday. “More people are watching CBS now [across platforms] than were watching 11 years ago,” added the exec, emphasizing the importance of content ownership. “We still win at the end.”
Tassler also addressed the question of whether summer series Under the Dome and Extant, which have dipped in the ratings, will return. “We will wait until the end of the summer to make a decision,” said the exec – but it’s not just about the Nielsens. Thanks to streaming dollars, “we make money from those shows.”
In the first for a U.S. Hispanic TV network, Azteca America is offering sponsored closed captioning spots. The network partnered with Impressions Media Group and IMG Espanol, which will be the exclusive provider of 10-second closed captioning sponsorships.
Be among industry peers and celebrate the year’s best achievements at the Cynopsis Kids !magination Awards. We will be recognizing four of the industry’s top programming pioneers along with dozens of category winners, on September 18 at the New York Yale Club. Adam Bonnett (Disney Channels Worldwide); Russell Hicks (Nickelodeon Group); Rob Sorcher (Cartoon Network), and Tara Sorensen (Amazon Studios) will receive the 2015 Content Leadership Award, and will be on hand to participate in a roundtable “State of Kids Content” discussion. Register for the Breakfast event here.
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The Late Late Show With James Corden will be the first late-night talker to film an entire episode inside YouTube Space LA. In the ep, which airs on CBS on Friday, August 21 at 12:37p, Corden will interview YT talent including Jenna Marbles, Tyler Oakley and Kandee Johnson.
TLC is going Big with a new one-hour special about country crooner Kenny Alphin, aka “Big Kenny” of Big & Rich. Big Kenny and Family, following Alphin and his family while he’s on a tour break, premieres Wednesday, September 2 at 10p.
getTV is celebrating classic Hollywood musicals in September with a month-long lineup featuring 10 classics, every Thursday at 7p. In the mix are Bye Bye Birdie, Two Tickets To Paris and Pennies From Heaven.
Familiar tune, new twist. Univision will premiere singing competition La Banda on Sunday, September 13, at 8p.The search for the ultimate Latino supergroup was developed by Univision, SYCO Entertainment and Saban Brands, and is exec-produced by Simon Cowell and Ricky Martin, who also serves as a judge alongside Laura Pausini and Alejandro Sanz. Host: Alejandra Espinoza.
BET is getting its boy band on with a three-night miniseries based on the iconic music group New Edition. Produced by BET Networks and Jesse Collins Entertainment, the first scripted music-focused TV movie to air on the network will bow in 2016, with the band’s longtime manager Brooke Payne serving as a co-producer.
Copycat theme week: Which is your favorite TV monster clan, The Addams Family (The Munsters (both 1964-1966)? Let us know in the new Cynopsis poll.
Science Channel’s dynamic duo Kevin Moore and Grant Reynolds return to the airwaves tomorrow (August 12) at 10p to recreate the Internet’s biggest viral video fails and show what a little science can do to make them go right in season two of What Could Possibly Go Wrong?.
Season 6 of Sportsman Channel hunting series MeatEater returns Thursday, August 13 at 8p. From the wilds of Alaska to the cold of the Bering Sea, the series takes viewers across international territories and through uninhabited locales in the States.
Anthony Bourdain-hosted series The Mind of a Chef returns to PBS on September 5 with two new chefs, Gabrielle Hamilton and David Kinch. The 16-ep journey focuses on what it means to cook, think, create, and live in a food-obsessed world.
Morgan Smith scored a series regular role in Universal TV’s Coach reboot for NBC. She’ll star opposite Craig T. Nelson.
Outcast, the inaugural series from Fox International Channel’s studio division, brought in David Denman (The Office) as a regular, and solidified cast roles for recurring actors Catherine Dent (The Shield), Melinda McGraw (Mad Men), Brent Spiner, Lee Tergesen (The Americans) and Grace Zabriskie (The Killing). The drama is based on the same-titled comic book series from The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman; a premiere date has not been set.
USA Networksigned on Adrian Pasdar and Kathryn Morris as a married power couple in the freshman season of Colony, according to Variety. Pasdar will play a player in the politics of the occupational government. He’s married to Morris’ Charlotte. Both roles are recurring.
Comcast today is launching 30 new networks in Santa Cruz, CA, increasing the speeds of two of its residential Xfinity Internet tiers in the region at no additional cost, and introducing four new tiers of Internet service for commercial business customers. New roster additions include MLB Network, Palladia, Al Jazeera America, BabyFirst TV and Showtime Family.
U.K. production company betty is hanging a shingle in the States, and hired away Discovery Networks International exec Jon Sechrist as SVP/head of production & development. The betty production slate includes The Food Inspectors and Kings of the Wild and Too Ugly for Love?.
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In its summer finale on August 5, ABC Family’s Baby Daddy delivered two-year finale highs in total viewers (1.3 million), viewers 12-34 (668,000/.7 rating) and target W18-34 (394,000/1.2 rating) and F12-34 (567,000/1.2 rating). Launch to date, it’s the network’s No. 1 comedy yet in A18-34 (548,000/.8 rating), according to Nielsen.
TV One’s premiere August 5 of its newest scripted comedy, Born Again Virgin, reached 1.4 million unique Viewers P2+ in Live+3. The premiere episode at 10p ranked No. 4 among key Black demos in its time period, according to preliminary Nielsen TV Toolbox Live + 3 stats.
Food Network ranked #2 among cable Friday night, up 25 percent versus year-ago. Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives was fourth at 10p with a .6 rating A25-54 (560,000 impressions) followed by Burgers, Brew & ‘Que at 10:30pm, ranking #5 in the timeslot with a .5 rating A25-54 (480,000 impressions).
TV PLAYBACK RANK, based on the difference between Nielsen’s first-reported Live + Same Day and the final Live + 7 Day rating for the week of 7/20/15
Program/Live+SD A18-49 US AA%/Live+7 US AA
Wayward Pines (FOX) 1.2, 2.3
Under the Dome (CBS) 1.0, 1.6
Zoo (CBS) 1.0, 1.7
Big Brother Wednesday (CBS) 1.8, 2.5
The Bachelorette (ABC) 1.9, 2.5
Big Brother Sunday (CBS) 1.9, 2.5
Big Brother Thursday (CS) 1.9, 2.5
MasterChef (Fox) 1.5, 2.1
America’s Got Talent Tuesday (NBC) 2.3, 2.9
Mistresses (ABC) 0.7, 1.2
Last Comic Standing (NBC) 1.5, 2.0
Source: The Nielsen Company DVR playback rankers, based on the difference between Nielsen’s first-reported Live + Same Day and the final Live + 7 Day ratings (for regular, original programs only).
SHAREABLEE SOCIAL TV RATINGS: Top U.S. Shows Overall by Engagement for the week of 8/3/15
Program, Date, Total Actions (000), Total Content, Actions per Post (000), Fans/Followers (000)
Pretty Little Liars (ABC Family) 6086, 197, 31, 20073
The Ellen DeGeneres Show (Warner Bros./synd.) 3363, 36, 93, 79346
Today Show (NBC) 1924, 601, 3, 8359
Teen Wolf (MTV) 1847, 133, 14, 7758
Good Morning America (ABC) 1617, 556, 3, 7653
The Daily Show(Comedy Central) 1445, 102, 14, 8748
The Kelly File (Fox News) 1148, 137, 8, 2617
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (NBC) 1057, 193, 5, 9942
Entertainment Tonight (CBS/synd.) 804, 428, 2, 4428
Steve Harvey TV (NBCU/synd.) 783, 220, 4, 7344
Source: Shareablee Inc. The total actions metric includes the total volume of post-level likes, shares, favorites, retweets and comments. Total content includes all posts, tweets and media posted by each TV property across all platforms. Actions per post metric notes the average e number of actions garnered by each TV property. Total fans/followers includes Facebook and Twitter and Instagram followers.
Friday A18-49 Analysis: ABC pushed by NBC to take the top slot with the most A18-49 viewers Friday, scoring 1.0/4, according to final primetime national ratings from Nielsen. At 8p, ABC’s Shark Tank was #1 with .9/4, followed by NBC’s America’s Got Talent with .8/4. At 9p, ABC’s What Would You Do? topped with 1.0/4, while the second hour of NBC’s Talent scored .9/4 and CBS’ Hawaii Five-O and Univision’s Inperdonable Lo tied with .7/3. At 10p, NBC’s Dateline topped with a 1.1/4, followed by Telemundo’s Senor de los Celios with a 1.0/4 and ABC’s 20/20 with a .9/4.
A18-49: NBC 1.0/4, ABC 0.9/4, TELE 0.7/3, UNI 0.7/3, CBS 0.5/2, FOX 0.5/2, CW 0.3/1, ION 0.2/1
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Friday, August 7, 2015 time period averages. Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.
CBS: 3/6
Elementary [r] 2.2/5, Hawaii Five-0 [r] 3.3/6, Blue Bloods [r] 3.7/7
NBC 2.9/6
America’s Got Talent [r] 2.5/5, Dateline NBC 3.5/7
ABC: 2.5/5
Shark Tank [r] 2.9/6, What Would You Do? 2.5/5, 20/20 2.7/5
Univision: 1.0/2
Amores con Trampa 1.0/2, Lo Imperdonable 1.0/2, Yo No Creo en los Hombres 0.9/2
Telemundo: 1.0/2
Avenida Brasil 0.7/1, Bajo El Mismo Cielo 0.9/2, Senor de los Cielos 1.3/3
FOX 0.9/2
MasterChef [r] 1.1/2, Gotham [r] 0.7/1
CW: 0.8/2
Masters of Illusion 0.8/2, Who’s Line Is It Anyway [r] 0.7/1, Penn & Teller Fool [r] 0.7/1
ION: 0.6/1
Law & Order [r] 0.7/1, Law & Order [r] 0.6/1, Law & Order [r] 0.6/1
Cineflix tapped Dave Hamilton as Executive Vice President, Development. Hamilton, who previously was an exec at Endemol USA and most recently SVP at Leopard USA, will be responsible for unscripted programming across all platforms.
WNET, parent company of New York’s public TV stations THIRTEEN and WLIW, appointed Dave Brown as executive producer of the weekly news and public affairs program MetroFocus. Previously, Brown served as exec producer at Fox News Channel.
Stoopid Buddy Stoodios named Daytime Emmy-winning entertainment executive Margaret M. Dean (The Ricky Gervais Show) as General Manager. Dean most recently served as director of Production for Mattel division Playground Productions.
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – TUESDAY AUGUST 11, 2015
ABC: Fresh Off the Boat [r], black-ish [r], Extreme Weight Loss
CBS: NCIS [r], Zoo, NCIS: New Orleans [r]
CW: The Flash [r], iZombie [r]
FOX: Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader, Brooklyn None-Nine [r], The Last Man on Earth [r]
NBC: America’s Got Talent, Hollywood Game Night
PBS: The Bomb [r], Secrets of the Tower of London [r]
Telemundo: Avenida Brasil [r], Bajo el Mismo Cielo, El Senor de los Cielos
Univision: Amores con Trampa, Lo Imperdonable [r], Yo No Cre en los Hombres [r]
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