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08.11.16 Good morning. It’s Thursday August 11, 2016, and this is your first early morning briefing. Tonight’s Premiere:
AXS TV: AXS TV Concerts Hosted by Mark Cuban at 9p Tonight’s Finale:
Animal Planet: North Woods Law at 9p
CBS renewed Big Brother for seasons 19 and 20, to air in 2017 and 2018. The summer reality show is aging well – summer-to-date, all three weekly broadcasts rank among the top five programs among A18-34 and the top 10 among A18-49 and A25-54, and total streams across digital platforms are up 33 percent versus last year.
Joining Big Brother on CBS next summer will be Zoo. Now in its second season, the drama about animal attacks against humans is the summer’s second most-watched scripted broadcast. The two-hour season finale airs Tuesday, September 6 at 9p on the network, and will be available September 14 on Netflix.
Cable, satellite and telco TV operators lost over 700,000 subscribers in 2Q16, according to MoffettNathanson’s Craig Moffett. Cable accounted for a moderate 242,000 in losses, while the drop for telco operators was 529,000. While attrition was just 1.3 percent in the quarter versus 1.2 in 1Q16, “The gap between cord-cutting, or eliminating one’s pay-TV subscription altogether, and cord-shaving, where skinny bundles replace fat ones, is getting wider,” warned Moffett.
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is going live again, following the presidential debates Monday, September 26 and Wednesday, October 19, and after the VP debate Tuesday, October 4. The move is no surprise the CBS late-nighter’s live broadcasts during the Republican and Democratic National conventions earned strong ratings and social buzz.
Speaking of the debates, can we count on the Republican candidate showing up to the party? Donald Trump told Time that while he will “absolutely do three debates,” he will “have to see the conditions.” Among those: “I’ll have to see who the moderators are….certain moderators would be unacceptable.”
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In development at HBO: a film about drug lord Griselda Blanco, played by Jennifer Lopez. Project comes from Lopez’ Nuyorican Productions and LBI Entertainment.
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The Big Bang Theory is entering its 10th season on CBS, the last in its renewal deal with Warner Bros. Television, but CBS Entertainment president Glenn Geller told a TCA audience he’s certain a new deal can be struck. “We are very confident that everyone involved wants more Big Bang beyond year 10,” said the exec.
Geller was asked about adding a reboot of MacGyver to the fall schedule, despite keeping just two cast members from the first pilot and hiring new showrunner Peter Lenkov (Hawaii Five-0) to write a different script. “At the end of the day we had Lucas Till, George Eads, we had an iconic franchise and Peter Lenkov who said I will do this,” said Geller. “We thought we had more than enough.”
Dr. Phil McGraw clarified on a TCA panel that Bull, the upcoming CBS drama based on his years as a head of a trial consulting service, “is not autobiographical, it’s inspired by.” Asked whether he’d ever imagined handsome NCIS vet Michael Weatherly would play him, the bald talk show king joked, “I really did. And there was nobody else who could do it.” Comedy launches Tuesday, September 20 after the season 14 premiere of NCIS.
Upcoming CBS comedy The Great Indoors focuses on a long-time reporter (Joel McHale) forced to take a desk job with a team of millennials. Asked if the show was going to be about a middle-aged white man complaining about what the world has come to, EP Mike Gibbons told journalists, “Our show is going to make America great again…irony comes through in print, right?” Series premieres Thursday, October 27.
Matt LeBlanc, at TCA to talk up his new CBS comedy, Man with a Plan, said he wasn’t sure if he’d be returning for a second season as co-host of BBC car show Top Gear: “I don’t know. I’d like to. Nothing official has happened yet.” LeBlanc was more certain about whether he’ll stay close with former Friends co-star Matthew Perry, now a stage away on CBS’s The Odd Couple. “We have a shorthand,” said LeBlanc. “Ten years in a building with no windows and the door locked, we got to know each other pretty well.” Man with a Plan arrives Monday, October 24.
Lifetime original movie Who Killed JonBenet, an original movie about the 1996 murder of six-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey, is in production for a fall premiere. Eion Bailey (Band of Brothers), Michel Gill (Mr. Robot) and Julia Campbell (Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion) star.
CBS is revisiting the Ramsey murder, too, in The Case Of: JonBenet Ramsey. Airing Sunday, September 18 at 8:30p, Monday, September 19 at 9p and Sunday, September 25 at 8:30p, the six-hour limited docu-series offers new experts reviewing the unsolved mystery using advanced technology and forensics that lead to new theories. Also in the wings: ID event series JonBenet: An American Murder Mystery (wt), premiering Monday, September 12.
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Jason Aldean, Kelsea Ballerini, Dierks Bentley, Luke Bryan, Cam, Maren Morris, Cole Swindell, Keith Urban and Lady Antebellum will perform at the 10th Annual ACM Honors, airing on CBS Friday, September 9 at 9p. The event, hosted by Lady Antebellum, will celebrate honorees and off-camera winners from April’s 51st Academy of Country Music Awards.
Get smart: Science Channel’s Hunt for Particle X traces the history of particle physics, from the 1950s to a peculiar bump on a graph at The European Organization for Nuclear Research last year that could be the biggest physics discovery in over a century. One-hour special airs Tuesday, August 16 at 10p.
Britney Spears will go for a Carpool Karaoke ride with James Corden on CBS’s The Late Late Show with James Corden on Thursday, August 25 at 12:37p. The release of Spears’ new album, Glory, is August 26.
DIY renewed Nashville Flipped for a second season. Now in production, the Music City-set series is slated to return in February.
TLC ordered 14 more episodes of My Big Fat Fabulous Life, set to premiere early next year. Season three is the reality show’s highest-rated so far, with 1.4 million P2+ viewers and 1.1 million among W25-54.
The season 9 premiere of Heartland airs Wednesday, September 7 on UP TV. The net will air the 18 U.S. premiere episodes every Wednesday at 8p, 9p and 10p during a six-week limited engagement, before the family drama starts airing weekly this fall. In February, UP’s subscription on demand offering, UP Faith & Family, will make all nine seasons of the series available.
Propellers for paddleboards, shark repellent, underwater jetpacks…entrepreneurs show off their recreation products in the great outdoors in CNBC’s Adventure Capitalists. New four-episode series launches Monday, August 22 at 10p.
Fuse handed Clash of the Corps a debut date: Wednesday, October 5 at 11p. The 8-part docu-series from Dwayne Johnson’s Seven Bucks Productions and 44 Blue Productions follows two teams competing for the Drum Corps International championship.
Twins tackle the Big Easy in HGTV’s Brothers Take New Orleans, in production now for a November premiere. Property Brothers Jonathan and Drew Scott exec produce as well as star in the four-parter, in which two renovated homes will be offered to families selected by a non-profit dedicated to minimizing the time between disaster and recovery.
Placemedia is partnering with demand-side platform JamLoop to expand programmatic inventory and demand. The deal marks placemedia’s 14th DSP integration.
Aisha Tyler was bumped from recurring to series regular on season 12 of Criminal Minds. Drama returns to CBS Wednesday, September 28.
VH1 announced the cast for scripted series The Breaks, based on the movie: Melonie Diaz (Fruitvale Station), Sinqua Walls (Power) and Ali Ahn (Billions) are joining the movie’s original cast including Afton Willamson (The Night Of…), Wood Harris (The Wire), Mack Wilds (90210), Antoine Harris (Ballers), David Call (The Magicians) and Evan Handler (Sex and the City). Hip hop drama is slated for a January debut.
Disney announced the launch of an ESPN OTT service that will include college basketball and football games and programming from Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League. The service is aided by the acquisition of a 33 percent stake in OTT streaming company BAMTech, to be spun off from Major League Baseball Advanced Media. ESPN will also be available on upcoming OTT service DirecTV Now. The digital plays “give us the option to pivot if the business model that is supporting these great media properties starts to fray,” said Disney chairman/CEO Bob Iger on CNBC.
Season one of The Wine Show starts streaming on Hulu Saturday, August 13. Series starring Matthew Goode (Downton Abbey) and Matthew Rhys (The Americans) features inspiring stories about the grape.
Also on Hulu: The season finale of Casual on Tuesday, August 23. All episodes of season one and two will be available at that time.
Portugal’s Warner Bros International Television Production acquired Armoza Formats game show Still Standing. The show was recently commissioned for new seasons in France, Italy, Thailand, Vietnam, Mongolia and Mexico.
Thanks, but….Entertainment One rejected a takeover bid from UK’s ITV for about $1.3 billion. The offer “fundamentally undervalues the company and its prospects,” responded eOne.
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NBC’s Olympics ratings are on the rise, as Americans grab gold. On Tuesday, when Michael Phelps and Katie Ledecky raced ahead and the women’s gymnasts soared over their competition, ratings rose to 10.0/33 among A18-49 and 33.44 million total viewers.
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Tuesday, August 9, 2016 based on time period averages.
Source: Nielsen.
NBC: 18.9/32
Summer Olympics 18.9/32
ABC: 1.8/3
Bachelor in Paradise 2.7/5, Bachelor in Paradise: After Paradise 1.7/3, The Middle [r] .9/2, Fresh Off the Boat [r] .9/2
CBS: 2.9/5
NCIS [r] 3.9/7, Zoo 2.5/4, NICS: Los Angeles [r] 2.5/4
UNIVISION: 1.0/2
Un Camino Hacia el Destino 1.1/2, Tres Veces Ana 1.1/2, Tres Veces Ana .9/2
FOX: .7/1
Brooklyn Nine-Nine [r] .7/1, New Girl [r] .5/1, Lucifer [r] .7/1
TELEMUNDO: .9/1
Silvana Sin Lana .8/1, Sin Senos Si Hay Paraiso .8/1, Senora Acero 3 1.1/2
CW: .5/1
The Flash .6/1, MadTV .4/1
Tuesday A18-49: NBC 10.0/34, ABC .7/2, UNI .7/2, CBS .6/2, TELE .6/2, FOX .3/1, CW .2/1
ComScore co-founder Gian Fulgoni will take on the job of CEO, while previous CEO Serge Matta moves to the role of Executive Vice Chairman. CFO Mel Wesley is leaving the measurement company, replaced by former Rentrak exec David Chemerow.
Austin Katz has been named Chief Development Officer of brand and marketing agency Troika. Katz joins from The Company, where he was Chief Operating Officer.
Longtime ESPN broadcaster John Saunders died August 10. He was 61. Saunders, who had worked at the sports net since 1986, “was an extraordinary talent and his friendly, informative style has been a warm welcome to sports fans for decades,” said ESPN president John Skipper.
Actor Barry Jenner died August 8 of acute myeloid leukemia. He was 75. Jenner had roles on numerous shows, including Dallas, Family Matters and Deep Space 9.
This Day in History: 2000 – Pat Buchanan won the presidential nomination from the Reform Party.
Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: What race of robots did Starbuck and Apollo battle on Battlestar Galactica (2004-2009)? Cylons. Kudos to: Noelle DeAtley-Creative Thinking Group/Charlotte, NC, Joe Guarnieri-ESPN/Bristol, CT, John Amato-Good Day L.A./LA, George Gerritsen-phd/NYC, Chris McLoughlin-NBC/NYC, Dan Whitford-WTTW/Chicago, John Kukla-KDFW-KDFI/Dallas, Jennifer Bryars-WPMI/WJTC/Mobile, AL, Will Allmendinger-Clear Channel/Chicago, Andy Nelson-Heartland Industries/Richland, IA, Steve Rubin-Fast Carrier Pictures/LA, Larry Hutchings/Nipomo, CA, Anne Vega-Raucous Content/LA
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – THURSDAY AUGUST 11, 2016
ABC: BattleBots[r], The $100,000 Pyramid [r], Match Game [r]
CBS: The Big Bang Theory [r,] Life in Pieces [r,] Big Brother, Code Black [r]
CW: DC’s Legends of Tomorrow [r], Beauty and the Beast
FOX: Rosewood [r], Bones [r]
NBC: Rio Olympics
PBS: American Experience [r]
Telemundo: Silvana Sin Lana, Sin Senos Hay Pariso, Senora Acero 3
Univision: Un Camino Hacia el Destino, Tres Veces Ana
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