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Good morning. It’s Wednesday, August 20, 2014, and this is your first early morning briefing.
Tonight’s Premieres:
A&E: Epic Ink at 10:30p
Bravo: Million Dollar Listing: Los Angeles at 9p
Oxygen: Preachers of L.A. at 10p
Smithsonian: Speed Kills at 8p
Tonight’s Finales:
UP: Heartland at 9p
USA: Suits at 9p
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Discovery had its highest-rated “Shark Week” in the stunt’s 27-year history. The week delivered over 42 million viewers (P2+cume), with Discovery the top network in all of television among M18-34 and M18-49 delivery for the week. Making the biggest splash: Shark of Darkness: Wrath of Submarine, ranking as the top non-sports cable telecast in 3Q14 in the men under 50 demos.
Late night hosts Stephen Colbert (The Colbert Report), Jimmy Fallon (The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon) and Jimmy Kimmel (Jimmy Kimmel Live) join the roster of presenters for an Emmys that awards telecast and Late Night host Seth Meyers promises will be “upbeat and fun.” Find out Monday, August 25 at 8p on NBC.
The fun actually started before the show even began, with a promo for the Emmys that features nominees Julia Louis-Dreyfus (VEEP) and Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul in a send-up of pawn shop reality shows. The 6-minute clip has Louis-Dreyfus attempting to pawn an Emmy from her Seinfeld days, which fails to impress the owners of Barely Legal Pawn. “You know what they say, comedy is easy, drama is hard,” drawls Paul. Video comes from Audi of America, a sponsor of this year’s awards show.
The pilot for upcoming ABC comedy Selfie is available on Hulu, ahead of its premiere on Tuesday, September 30 at 8p. Series focuses on a social media star who needs to rebrand her reputation after a workplace slip-up.
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This Sunday’s episode of Showtime’s Ray Donovan (August 24 at 9p) was directed by series star Liev Schreiber. It’s Schreiber’s first time directing for the small screen.
ABC gave a script commitment plus penalty to medical drama 10 Beacon Street, from creator Amy Holden Jones (Black Box) and 20th Century Fox Television. Jones will write and exec produce with 3 Arts’ Erwin Stoff and Oly Obst.
ITV Studios America struck a first look development deal with Intellectual Artist Management for television series, jointly hiring Tony Sabistina as the development executive who will be working with Brian Segna at ITV Studios America.
Pilgrim Studios optioned film and TV rights for Peter Duffy’s non-fiction book, Double Agent: The First Hero of World War II and How the FBI Outwitted and Destroyed a Nazi Spy Ring, about the FBI’s first double agent.
Among the highlights of Univision’s fall season: La Gata (The Stray Cat), about a poor girl who befriends a wealthy boy from a disapproving family. Telenovela premieres Monday, September 1 at 7p, with reality singing competition Va por Ti (All for You) launching Sunday, September 7 at 8p.
Kelly Ripa (Live! With Kelly and Michael) and hubby Mark Consuelos (Alpha House) team to exec produce Logo TV’s Secret Guide to Fabulous, from the couple’s Milojo Productions. Lifestyle series premieres Wednesday, September 3 at 11p.
Lauren Conrad (Laguna Beach) expands her brand (clothes! books! jewelry!) with E! special Pop Innovators: Lauren Conrad, premiering Thursday, December 11 at 8p.
Tattoo Nightmares Miami joins Ink Master and Tattoo Nightmares on Spike TV’s “Tattoosday” programming block. Series premieres Tuesday, September 2 at 11p. The current season of mother ship Tattoo Nightmares, also from 495 Productions, has improved its time period by 147 percent in A18-49, reports the net.
Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin will ring in the New Year again for CNN, live from NYC’s Times Square. It’s the eighth consecutive year the pair will co-host the net’s coverage of Auld Lang Syne night.
The first season of multi-platform video and music net Music Choice Play’s Chronicles kicks off Tuesday, August 26 with a look at the life and career of Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson. The rapper/actor/producer’s other TV projects include Power, now airing Tuesdays at 10p on Encore Black following its Starz run, and SundanceTV’s Dream School.
UP original movie My Other Mother, starring Essence Atkins (Half & Half), Lynn Whitfield (The Josephine Baker Story) and Jasmine Guy (A Different World) debuts Sunday, September 21 at 8p. The Swirl Films production is the fifth movie to be produced and air on UP as a result of the net’s Faith & Family Screenplay Competition at the American Black Film Festival.
Smithsonian Channel is airing a special episode of Aerial America: Wilderness to commemorate the 50-year anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Wilderness Act of 1964. Hour-long ep airs Sunday, September 7 at 9p.
America Ferrera (Ugly Betty) will host documentary series Panoramica. Films air in Spanish on Univision or UniMas, and are simulcast in English or with English subtitles on Pivot.
FX ordered a 13-ep season two of The Strain. The drama is averaging 4.5 million total viewers on a first-run Live+7 basis, and 2.6 million among A18-49. The FX Productions show, ranking as the number one new series on cable in 2014 delivery of A18-49, airs Sundays at 10p.
Finding Carter nabbed a second season on MTV. The net ordered 12 more eps of the teen drama, averaging a 2.0 rating among P12-34 and 2.2 million total viewers in Live+3.
SundanceTV renewed Rectify for a third go-round, to air in 2015. Season two of the drama, the net’s first wholly owned original scripted series, concludes Thursday, August 21 at 9p.
Fuse is bringing back Big Freedia: Queen of Bounce for seasons three and four. The second season averaged 74 percent more total viewers and a whopping 192 percent more P18-34 viewers than its freshman run.
The Awesomes, from Late Night’s Seth Meyers and Mike Shoemaker, was renewed by Hulu for a third season. Round two of the animated comedy debuted August 4.
Here’s research that hardly comes as a surprise: A consumer study from Scripps Networks Interactive’s Under One Roof shows Travel Channel’s viewers spend more money on … travel. According to a July survey, among consumers 25-54, the net’s viewers take four domestic vacations a year, one more than the average viewer, and one in five take more than six trips annually. And viewers spend $2,625 per vacation, 38 percent more than the average. Said Greg Regis, SVP of ad sales for Travel, “This new data reinforces the fact that our audience ‘do what they view.’”
Rapper Bow Wow joins upcoming CBS midseason spin-off CSI: Cyber as a series regular. Patricia Arquette stars as a special agent.
Adrianne Palicki (Friday Night Lights) landed a guest star role in season two of ABC’s Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., returning Tuesday, September 23 at 9p.
Andrea Savage (Step Brothers) joins Showtime’s Episodes in a season-long arc as the head of a network.
Justin Hartley is returning to his daytime roots on CBS soap opera Young and the Restless. The former Smallville star appeared on NBC’s Passions from 2002-2006. “What can I say? I love a good soap,” Hartley told TV Guide.
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For the second consecutive week, Univision finished as the number one broadcast network for the week among A18-49 and A18-34, airing 14 out of the top 25 primetime programs in all of broadcast television among A18-34, and 11 out of the top 25 among A18-49. The finale of the net’s Lo Que la Vida Me Robo (What Life Took from Me) on Friday averaged 5.1 million total viewers, 2.6 million A18-49 and 1.2 million A18-34, according to Nielsen.
The penultimate episode of HBO’s True Blood on Friday averaged 3.9 million viewers for its premiere, and 4.3 million across three airings.
The summer finale of ABC Family’s Switched at Birth on Monday hit 4-week highs in total viewers (1.3 million), W18-34 (355,000/1.1 rating) and W18-49 (574,000/.9) at 8p, while the summer finale of The Fosters at 9p scored the drama its second-best ratings for the season in A18-34 (514,000/.8) and A18-49 (791,000/.6).
Judge Judy won the syndie ratings race the week ending August 10 by the widest margin in its 18-year history, up 8 percent versus last year, with 6.7.
In another indication of the longer shelf life of scripted series versus reality shows, CBS’s Under the Dome got a big enough lift in Live+7 data among A18-49 to count as the number one program in the demo for the episode debuting July 28, passing ABC’s The Bachelorette, NBC’s American Ninja Warrior and Fox’s MasterChef.
Food Network’s Rachael vs. Guy: Kids Cook-Off posted a .8 among A25-54 on Sunday, up 14 percent from last season’s premiere to rank number three in cable at 8p. The season five premiere of Great Food Truck Race drew the same rating in the demo, placing it number four in cable at 9p.
TNT’s Major Crimes ended its summer run as basic cable’s top program for the week. The summer finale has drawn 7.3 million viewers in Live + 3, including 2.0 million A25-54 and 1.6 million A18-49.
Broadcast Evening News Shows Weekly Average Ratings (week of August 11, 2014)
NBC: Nightly News 7.99 million total viewers; 1.6/7 and 1.91 million A25-54
ABC: World News 7.68 million total viewers; 1.7/7 and 1.98 million A25-54
CBS: Evening News 6.21 million total viewers; 1.2/5 and 1.47 million A25-54
Source: Nielsen, NTI Total Viewers and A25-54 Live+SD
Top 10 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week ending 8/10/14 ranked in order by HH Rtg
Judge Judy (CTD) 6.7AA
Jeopardy (CTD) 5.5AA
Wheel of Fortune (CTD) 5.5AA
Big Bang Theory (WB) 5.4AA
Family Feud (2/T) 4.4AA
Modern Family (2/T) 3.3AA
Two and a Half Men (WB) 3.0AA
Entertainment Tonight (CTD) 2.9AA
Family Guy (2/T) 2.7AA
Inside Edition (CTD) 2.7AA
Live with Kelly & Michael (DAD) 2.6AA
Source: Nielsen Media Research
Top 12 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week ending 8/10/14 ranked in order by A18-49 Rtg
Big Bang Theory (WB) 2.6AA
Modern Family (2/T) 1.9AA
Family Guy (2/T) 1.8AA
Judge Judy (CTD) 1.6AA
Two and a Half Men (WB) 1.3AA
Family Feud (2/T) 1.3AA
How I Met Your Mother (2/T) 1.1AA
Cleveland Show (2/T) 1.1 AA
Jeopardy (CTD) 1.1AA
Wheel of Fortune (CTD) 1.0AA
Seinfeld ((SPT) 1.0AA
How I Met Your Mother (2/T) 1.0AA
Source: Nielsen Media Research
Top Ten Basic Cable Network Performance among A18-49 for the week of: 8/11/2014
Primetime(000)/Total Prog. Day (000)
DISC 1168/ADSM* 694
TBSC 770/DISC 557
USA 719/NAN* 453
ADSM 714/NICK 414
FX 571/USA 359
TNT 570/TBSC 325
HIST 547/TOON 324
FAM 515/DSNY323
ESPN 485/ESPN 315
A&E 483/TNT 291
Source: Turner Research from The Nielsen Company data. All ratings based on Total US Television Universe of 115,800 homes. * + Network broadcasts less than 51% of minutes in a 24 hour day. Notes: Data based on most currently available Nielsen Data stream; Preliminary: Live+SD. Primetime is Mon-Sat 8p-11p and Sun 7p-11p. Total day is Mon-Sun 6a-6a for household and demographic performances.
Top Ten Basic Cable Network Performance among Total Viewers for the week of: 8/11/2014
Primetime (000), Total Prog. Day (000)
DSNY 2215/DSNY 1590
TNT 2162/NICK 1585
DISC 2119/ADSM* 1191
USA 2002/TOON 1122
HIST 1751/NAN* 1047
FOXN 1638/FOXN 1045
TBSC 1510/DISC 1036
NAN 1432/USA 1033
ESPN 1349/TNT 910
HGTV 1339/HIST 832
Source: Turner Research from The Nielsen Company data. All ratings based on Total US Television Universe of 115,800 homes. * + Network broadcasts less than 51% of minutes in a 24 hour day. Notes: Data based on most currently available Nielsen Data stream; Preliminary: Live+SD. Primetime is Mon-Sat 8p-11p and Sun 7p-11p. Total day is Mon-Sun 6a-6a for household and demographic performance.
Top 10 Basic Cable Programs among A18-49 (000) for the week of: 8/11/20014
Love & Hip Hop Atlanta (VH1) 2450
Jaws Strikes Back (DISC) 1998
WWE Entertainment (USA) 1949
Monster Hammerhead (DISC) 1925
WWE Entertainment (USA) 1898
Alien Sharks: Return to the Abyss (DISC) 1821
Duck Dynasty (A&E) 1816
WWE Entertainment (USA) 1775
Lair of the Mega Shark (DISC) 1638
Family Guy (ADSM) 1637
Source: Turner Research from Nielsen Media Research Data.?All ratings based on Total US Television Universe of 115,800,000 home; Ranked by Delivery (000); Preliminary: Live+SD
Monday A18-49 Analysis: FOX scored the most A18-49 viewers Monday with 1.7/6, according to final primetime national ratings from Nielsen. Fox’s MasterChef was first at 8p with 2.0/7, followed by 1.6/5 for Univision’s Mi Corazon Es Tuyo. NBC’s American Ninja Warrior pulled into first at 9p with 1.7/5, versus 1.6/5 for Uni’s Hasta Fin del Mundo. Warrior kept the lead at 10p with 2.0/7, followed by 1.5/5 for CBS’s Under the Dome.
A18-49:FOX 1.7/6, NBC 1.6/5, UNI 1.5/5, ABC 1.1/4, CBS 1.1/4, TELE .6/2, CW .5/2, ION .3/1
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Monday, August 18, 2014 time period averages. Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.
CBS: 3.6/8
2 Broke Girls [r] 3.0/5, Mom [r] 2.9/5, Mike & Molly [r] 3.2/5, Two and a Half Men [r] 3.2/5, Under the Dome 4.6/8
ABC: 3.2/5
Bachelor in Paradise 3.5/6, Mistresses 2.6/4
NBC: 3.0/5
Running Wild: Bear Grylls 2.3/4, American Ninja Warrior 3.3/6
FOX 2.9/5
MasterChef 3.5/6, Hotel Hell 2.4/4
Univision: 1.8/3
Mi Corazon es Tuyo 1.9/3, Hasta Fin del Mundo 1.9/3, Que Pobres Tan Ricos 1.7/3
ION: 1.0/2
Criminal Minds 1.0/2, Criminal Minds 1.1/2, Criminal Minds 1.0/2
Telemundo: .9/1
Reina Corazones .6/1, En Otra Piel .9/1, Senor de los Cielos 1.2/2
CW: .9/2
Whose Line Is it Anyway 1.0/2, Whose Line Is it Anyway [r] 1.1/2, America’s Next Top Model .7/1
Sunday A18-49 Analysis: FOX won the most A18-49 viewers Sunday with 1.8/6, according to final primetime national ratings from Nielsen. ABC’s America’s Funniest Home Videos was first at 7p with 1.0/4, versus .7/3 for Fox’s American Dad and The Simpsons. CBS’s Big Brother won 8p with 2.2, followed by 2.0/7 for Fox’s NFL game. Football was first at 9p with 2.2/7, with .9/3 landing Uni’s Cine Especial in second place. Fox dominated at 10p with 2.3/7, followed by .9/3 for NBC’s American’s Got Talent.
A18-49:FOX 1.8/6, CBS 1.1/4, ABC .8/3, UNI .7/2, NBC .7/2, TELE .4/1, ION .2/1
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: August 17, 2014 time period averages. Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.
FOX: 3.1/6
American Dad [r] .7/1, The Simpsons [r] 1.3/2, NFL Preseason 3.8/7
CBS: 4.0/7
60 Minutes 5.2/10, Big Brother 3.9/7,Unforgettable 4.0/7, Reckless 2.7/5
ABC: 2.4/4
America’s Funniest Home Videos [r] 2.9/6, Wipeout 1.9/3, Rising Star 2.0/3, Castle [r] 2.7/5
NBC: 1.9/3
American Ninja Warrior 1.8/3, America’s Got Talent [r] 2.0/3
Univision: 1.1/2
Aqui Ahora Sun .9/2, Cine Especial 1.2/2, Sal y Pimienta 1.1/2
ION: .5/1
Leverage .5/1, Leverage .6/1, Leverage .5/1, Leverage .5/1
TELE: .5/1
Cine Millonario .5/1
Saturday A18-49 Analysis: NBC had the most A18-49 viewers Saturday with .7/3, according to final primetime national ratings from Nielsen. NBC’s Dateline Mystery topped 8p with .7/3, followed by .6/2 for ABC’s telecast of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Dateline kept the lead at 9p with .9/3, versus .6/2 for ABC’s Harry. CBS was first at 10p with .7/3 for 48 Hours, with ABC’s movie again taking second with .6/2.
A18-49:NBC .7/3, ABC .6/2, CBS .5/2, UNI .4/2, TELE .3/1, FOX .2/1, ION .2/1
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Saturday, August 16, 2014 time period averages. Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.
NBC: 2.3/5
Dateline Mystery 2.6/5, Law & Order: SVU [r] 1.9/4
CBS: 2.0/4
48 Hours Special 1.7/3, Crimetime Saturday [r] 1.6/3, 48 Hours [r] 2.6/5
ABC: 2.0/4
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 2.0/4
UNIVISION: .9/2
Sabado Gigante .9/2
ION: .6/1
Law & Order: CI .6/1, Law & Order: CI .6/1, Law & Order: CI .6/1
FOX: .5/1
Brooklyn Nine-Nine [r] .7/1, Brooklyn Nine-Nine [r] .6/1, Glee [r] .4/1
TELE: .4/1
Cine Millonario .3/1, Cine Exclusivo .41
Alexandra MacDowell has been promoted to Senior Vice President of Production Management for A+E Studios. MacDowell had been Vice President of Production Management.
Nora Zimmett joins The Weather Channel as Senior Vice President of Live Programming. Zimmett had been co-creator and Executive Producer of CNN’s New Day Weekend and Smerconish.
Radio and TV announcer Don Pardo died August 18 in Arizona. He was 96. The original announcer on Jeopardy and a staff announcer for NBC for over 60 years, Pardo was perhaps best known for his work on Saturday Night Live, where he worked every season but one since 1975.
Producer Alan Landsburg died August 14 in Beverly Hills. He was 81. Among the over 2000 hours of television Landsburg produced were docuseries Biography with Mike Wallace and TV movies The Ryan White Story, Bill and The Jane Mansfield Story.
This Day In History: 1896 – A patent was filed for the rotary dial telephone.
Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: On The Mary Tyler Moore Show, where was Ted and Georgette’s daughter born? In Mary’s apartment. Kudos to: Laurie Ulster-The Chef’s Connection/NY, Kevin Moran-Viacom/NYC, Robin Barge-Ion Media Networks/NYC, Melanie Erlbaum-Showtime/NYC, Barbara Post-Signature By Design/Oklahoma City, Renee McKinney-Cable One/Phoenix, Patti Rodriguez-SBG/Colorado Springs, Greg Stewart-Evolution Media/Burbank, Lorrie Shilling/El Segundo, CA, Susan Nessanbaum-Goldberg-M and S Entertainment/LA.
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SITUATION WANTED: Business & Partnership Development Pro/Mobile app and video games experience/Digital media and entertainment licensing exp/International exp/SF Bay Area [email protected] (8/22)
E-mail [email protected] or call Trish Pihonak at 203-899-8459 for rates and specs for Job Openings.
Are you looking for a job? Post your Situation Wanted Ad here — Email [email protected] for specs.
WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – WEDNESDAY AUGUST 20, 2014
ABC: The Middle [r], The Goldbergs [r], Modern Family [r], Modern Family [r], Motive
CBS: Big Brother, Extant, Extant
CW: Penn & Teller: Fool Us, The 100 [r]
FOX: So You Think You Can Dance
NBC: America’s Got Talent, America’s Got Talent, Taxi Brooklyn
PBS: Nature [r], Nova [r], Secrets of the Dead [r]
Telemundo: Reina de Corazones, En Otra Piel, El Senor de los Cielos
Univision: Mi Corazon Tuyo, Hasta el Fin del Mundo, Que Pobres Tan Ricos
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