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08.1916 Good morning. It’s Friday August 19, 2016, and this is your first early morning briefing. Friday’s Premiere:
A&E: 60 Days In: Time Out at 9p Friday’s Finales:
CW: My Last Days at 9p
ID: Passport to Murder at 10p Saturday’s Premieres:
Food Network: Smollett Eats at 12:30p
Great American Country: Mega Decks at 8p Saturday’s Finales:
CBS: Rush Hour at 8p
Great American Country: Mega Decks at 11:30p
ID: How (Not) To Kill Your Husband at 10p Sunday’s Premieres:
A&E: Hoarders: Then & Now at 8p
AMC: Fear the Walking Dead at 9p Sunday’s Finales:
ID: Deadline: Crime With Tamron Hall at 10p
PBS: The Tunnel at 10:30p
TV Land: The Jim Gaffigan Show at 10:30p
Comedy Bang! Bang! creator/star Scott Aukerman tweeted out the news: The upcoming 10-episode fifth season of the IFC series will be its final one. The new season premieres Friday, October 28, with back-to-back episodes at 11p and 11:30p and will air two back-to-back eps weekly leading up to the finale on December 10. “Comedy Bang! Bang! has been an incredibly important show for IFC,” said IFC president Jennifer Caserta, noting the series “had a unique sensibility in the comedy space, and delivered an amazing array of A-list guest stars” in its more than 100 episodes.
To the contrary, Amy Schumer says her Comedy Central series is not over. Schumer clarified an earlier tweet, noting that Inside Amy Schumer is on an indefinite hiatus with no season 5 “in the foreseeable future” but has not left the building.
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Following the death of host John McLaughlin earlier this week, The McLaughlin Group will air its final episode this week. McLaughlin ushered in the feisty gathering of political pundits in April 1982. This week’s edition, which airs nationwide across many PBS stations, will pay tribute to its creator.
Ashleigh Banfield will end her run as host of CNN’s Legal View. Banfield concluded yesterday’s edition with the news that she’ll sign off on August 23 and is headed to a new gig hosting a primetime show on HLN. Banfield began her CNN tenure in 2011.
A&E has leap-frogged the 22nd annual Critics’ Choice Awards to the front of awards season. The show will air live on Sunday, December 11 at 8p, with comedian T.J. Miller set to return as host. Last year the show aired January 17.
British news anchor Charlie Webster is in a coma after contracting a rare form of malaria while covering the Olympics in Rio. The former Sky News sports anchor, who had recently completed a six-week, 3,000-mile “Ride to Rio” cycling challenge, reportedly started to feel sick at the Olympics opening ceremony and was hospitalized the next day.
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UP TV renewed reality series Bringing Up Bates for a fifth season, and Growing Up McGhee for a second season. The fourth season of Bringing Up Bates is currently premiering new episodes on Thursdays at 9p featuring a flurry of new transitions for the Bates family. Growing Up McGhee follows a couple and family life with their sextuplets.
Democratic Vice Presidential nominee and Virginia Senator Tim Kaine will make his first appearance on CBS’ The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Thursday, August 25.
According to a recent report from IBM Cloud Video about the state of streaming video, leveraging data is the key to making consumers happy. David Mowrey,Vice President of Strategic Planning & Global Alliances at IBM Cloud Video, talks SVOD strategy in the new Cynsiders.
McDonald’s USA will televise its 13th annual 365Black Awards ceremony, the fourth consecutive year on BET. Hosted by actor/photographer Lance Gross and singer Amber P. Riley, the program will air Thursday, September 1 at 9p and feature R&B songstress Toni Braxton accepting a lifetime achievement honor. The event is held in conjunction with Essence Festival, presented by Coca-Cola.
Decades Network, the multicast TV net from Weigel Broadcasting Co. and CBS Television Stations, will air a four-day tribute to The Three Stooges from Monday, August 29 through Thursday, September 1, in honor of the 33rd anniversary of the show receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Lifetime will premiere the movie Girl In the Box on Saturday, September 10 at 8p. Based on the true story of Colleen Stan, a young woman kidnapped in 1977 and held as a sex slave for over half a decade, the movie stars Zelda Williams, Addison Timlin and Zane Holtz. Then on September 17 at 8p, Lifetime will air Sister Cities, based on the play about four estranged half-sisters who reunite after their mother’s alleged suicide. Sister Cities stars Jacki Weaver, Stana Katic, Jess Weixler, Troian Bellisario, Michelle Trachtenberg and Kaia Gerber in her acting debut.
The mid-season premiere of Chrisley Knows Best airs on USA Network on Tuesday, August 23, with back-to-back episodes beginning at 10p.
But wait… there’s more. Haunted Case Files, featuring ghost hunters recounting their most extreme supernatural experiences debuts on Destination America on Sunday, August 28 at 10p. Each episode features a story from three different paranormal investigation groups, along with interviews, recreations and actual recordings of the evidence they captured.
New culinary adventures await in the fourth season of WGBH/Fine Cooking Magazine’s Moveable Feast with Fine Cooking, which bows Saturday, September 3 (check local listings) on public television. Host, Australian chef and author Pete Evans, will travel to an array of incredible food destinations in 13 new episodes.
Josh Elkin returns to host a new season of Sugar Showdown, premiering Wednesday, September 14 at 10p on Cooking Channel. The new season of competition will again feature three expert bakers battle it out in two rounds of challenges that test their baking skills and creativity.
Dance Moms season 6 twirls back to Lifetime with new episodes beginning Tuesday, September 6 at 9p. Then on Lifetime, the 15th season of Project Runway drops Thursday, September 15 at 9p with returning host Heidi Klum, mentor and co-host Tim Gunn, and judges Nina Garcia and Zac Posen. Guest judges will include actresses Nina Dobrev, Emily Ratajkowski and Sutton Foster.
Corbin Bernsen (Psych) takes on a potentially recurring role as Vulcan in Starz‘s adaptation of the fantasy novel American Gods.
Emmy-nominated Melora Hardin (Transparent) will step into a lead role in the Freeform pilot Issues, which is inspired by the life of Cosmopolitan editor-in-chief Joanna Coles and follows three young career women in NY.
Andrea Martin, two-time Emmy and Tony winner, joined the cast of NBC’s Hairspray Live!, premiering at 8p on Wednesday, December 7. Martin will play Prudy Pingleton, Penny Pingleton’s (Ariana Grande) overprotective mother. Martin also is set to co-star in NBC midseason comedy Great News as an overbearing mother who rejoins the workforce as an intern at a news network to be close with her daughter.
Smithsonian Channel is bringing back its original digital series Wild Inside the National Zoo on August 20. Season 2, comprising six episodes, will focus on animal life at Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington, DC, from kiwi chicks and maned wolves to swamp monkeys and pandas. The second season can be viewed on all of Smithsonian Channel’s digital platforms.
In celebration of the 30th Anniversary of Aliens, SundanceTV will air an “Alien Invasion” of all four Alien films from Sunday, September 18-Tuesday, September 20 and is launching Aliens!!! The Contest, exclusively on Tumblr, which invites fans to submit their otherworldly artistic renderings, gifs, paintings and more. The top three finalists will be shown on-air during the movie marathon.
Canadian rockers the Tragically Hip gets the red carpet treatment on CBC on Saturday, August 20, when the band return to their hometown for the Kingston, Ontario stop of their Man Machine Poem tour and the network broadcasts the performance nationally beginning at 8:30p.
A+E Networks UK will launch new entertainment service Blaze on Freeview in the UK and Ireland on 20 September 20. Blaze will also simultaneously launch as a TV Everywhere service, offering live streaming and catch-up viewing on mobile and devices for iOS and Android. At launch, the service will offer eps of series such as Pawn Stars, Mountain Men and American Restoration.
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The just-completed fifth season of WE tv series Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars averaged 1.1 million viewers per episode in Nielsen Live+3 ratings, including 706,000 A25-54 and 532,000 Women 25-54. The season finale on August 12 delivered 1.2 million Total Viewers in Live+3, an increase of 76 percent over Live/Same Day. Season six will return in the fall.
Travel Channel saw a 43 percent increase among viewers A25-54 on Tuesday night, August 16, vs. its year-ago levels. Propelled by the 9p series premiere of Andrew Zimmern’s Driven By Food, which showcased the local sights and flavors of Olympic central, Rio de Janeiro, Travel’s Tuesday prime attracted more than 1.4 million total viewers.
On Wednesday, FOX Business Network’s business day programming reached 150,000 total viewers; FBN’s Varney & Company landed 192,000.
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Wednesday, August 17, 2016 based on time period averages.
Source: NTI. Galaxy, as dated. Live+SD
NBC: 12.3/22
Rio Olympics 12.3/22
CBS: 2.5/4
Big Brother 3.7/7, Criminal Minds [r] 2.0/4, American Gothic 1.7/3
ABC: 1.3/2
Real O’Neals [r] 1.7/3, Real O’Neals 1.3/2 [r], Real O’Neals [r] 1.3/2, Real O’Neals 1.2/2 [r], Modern Family 1.3/2, Black-ish [r] 1.3/3
FOX: 1.3/2
MasterChef 1.3/2
UNIVISION: 1.0/2
Un Camino Hacia el Destino 1.1/2, Tres Veces Ana 1.0/2, Tres Veces Ana 2 .9/2
Telemundo: 1.0/2
Silvana Sin Lana .9/1, Sin Senos Si Hai Paraiso .9/2, Senora Acero 3: La Coyote 1.1/2
CW: 0.6/1
Penn & Teller: Fool Us .9/2, My Last Days .3/1
Wednesday A18-49: NBC 5.8/22, CBS 1/4, TELE 0.8/3, ABC 0.5/2, UNI 0.6/2, FOX 0.7/3, CW 0.3/1
Twentieth Century Fox Television promoted Lindsey Kasabian to VP, casting. Kasabian joined the company nearly 10 years ago as an assistant; today she serves as the studio’s primary casting executive on Showtime‘s Homeland.
Corus Entertainment appointed Athena Georgaklis to the role of head of development for Nelvana. Georgaklis has worked in Canadian broadcast and production for more than 19 years. In her most recent role, she oversaw all original productions for Corus’ Teletoon network.
Roundabout Entertainment appointed Carl Moore as senior producer for feature film services. Moore formerly served as a digital intermediate producer at Modern VideoFilm, where his credits included The Young Messiah, Self/less and Veronica Mars.
Agency KBS appointed Michele Prota as its global chief talent officer. Prior to joining KBS, Prota served as head of talent at The Barbarian Group.
The Firm promoted Priscilla Crowe to VP, Television. Crowe began working with the company in 2009 as an intern and currently serves as co-producer of the upcoming Netflix comedy Haters Back Off.
CNN reported that Matt Null, a morning show senior producer for the network and former Fox News producer, died while on vacation in Europe. He was 34.
Emmy-nominated re-recording mixer Eric Justen, whose credits include all five seasons of Breaking Bad, has died. Justen also worked in in the film industry; his credits include The Fast and the Furious.
Richard Wilson, CEO Of the UK’s Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund, died yesterday following a short illness. He was 58. The CTBF is the leading UK charitable organization for film and TV professionals.
Friday Fun Fact: For the 1900 Olympics, held in Paris, winners were given paintings instead of medals.
This Day in History: 1999 – Lorne Michaels received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: Who was the youngest actor nominated for an Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Emmy? Fred Savage was 13 the first time he was nominated for The Wonder Years (1988-1993). Kudos to: Ray Giacopelli-AMCN/NYC; Linda Grillo-Viacom/NYC; Claire Hambrick-A+E Networks/NYC; Susan Nessanbaum-Goldberg-M and S Entertainment/NYC; Joe Swaney/Atlanta; Pat Brady-CESD/LA; Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/LA; David Westberg-SAG-AFTRA Federal Credit Union/Burbank
Today’s Trivia Question: What was Ralph’s surname changed to near the end of the first season of Greatest American Hero (1981-83)? (Email [email protected] with your answer and be sure to include your name, company, city and time zone.).
TV Show Anagram: Sun Bleach Out (Email [email protected]; first three respondents with the correct answer who aren’t in trivia – will be posted along with the answer on www.Cynopsis.com.)
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JOB OPENING: MARKETING MGR/Spotlight Cinema Networks/NYC: Dvlpmt/execution of cinema mktg programs and provide strategic sales support. Serve as a key liaison between mktg & sales teams. BA deg req’d & 3 – 5 yrs of mktg exp in a media sales org, w/specific focus directly supporting a sales team. Resumes HERE (8/28)
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JOB OPENING: SUPERVISOR MKTG/MLB Network/Secaucus NJ: Serve as the primary NHL team & League contact in the promotion of NHL Network. 3-5 yrs mktg exp or equivalent Strong familiarity w/NHL & MLB teams & players, past & present. Strong social media knwldg as well as sm trends. Resume/cvr HERE (8/26)
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JOB OPENING: CABLE TV AD SALES BUSINESS SYSTEMS ANALYSTS/NY, NY: Needed for long term contract, contract to hire and perm roles. Min 5 yrs exp. Also exp w/software platforms such as Sintec, WideOrbit, DealMaker a +. Please send resumes to: [email protected] (8/24)
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JOB OPENING: SR ACCOUNT MGR/WO PROGRAMMATIC TV/NYC: Mng post-sale relationships of our Demand clients (AdAgencies & direct Brands).Strong knowledge of Programmatic TV and sales skills. Exp in client facing, sales engineer or acct mngmnt role in ad tech or programmatic Resumes HERE: [email protected] (8/23)
JOB OPENING: DIRECTOR OF RIGHTS & ACQUISITIONS/Tennis Channel/Santa Monica: Responsible for program acquisitions activities including program identification, evaluation, negotiation, and acquisition. Min 5 yrs exp in acquisitions & prgrm plan’g within a TV network. Full info/apply HERE http://tennischannel.com/ (8/23)
JOB OPENING: DIRECTOR, PROGRAM PLANNING & SCHEDULING/Tennis Channel/Santa Monica: Resp for long & short term prgrm schedules. Lead strategic scheduling & plan’g process for both the Tennis Channel linear & digital ntwrks. Min 5 yrs exp scheduling &/or prgrm plan’g at a TV network. Full info/apply HERE (8/23)
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JOB OPENING: VP CORP COMMUNICATIONS/DISCOVERY/NYC: Seasoned comms professional to be a strategic advisor to Discovery’s NYC-based leaders & teams, chiefly CEO, CFO & VP-IR. Dvlp/implement complex comms, public affairs & strategies for DCI corp affairs. Reputation mgmt., financial comms, media relations. 12+ yrs exp req’d, finance sector exp pref. Full info/apply HERE (8/20)
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FALL INTERNSHIP CREDITS ONLY: FALL INTERN/Bookmarks4Fun/NYC or REMOTE: Consumer goods company seeks motivated interns to work on social media, research and marketing for a fun new kid’s product. Should be articulate and comfortable writing. No experience necessary. Apply: [email protected] (8/20)
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – FRIDAY AUGUST 19, 2016
ABC: Shark Tank [r], What Would You Do?, 20/20 [r]
CBS: Big Brother, Hawaii Five-0 [r], Blue Bloods [r]
CW: Masters of Illusion [r], Masters of Illusion [r], My Last Days
FOX: MasterChef [r]
NBC: Rio Olympics
PBS: Washington Week with Gwen Ifill, Charlie Rose: The Week, Great Performances at the Met [r]
Telemundo: Silvana Sin Lana, Sin Senos Si Hai Paraiso, Senora Acero 3: La Coyote
Univision: Un Camino Hacio el Destino, Tres Veces Ana
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