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Connect and Celebrate with Kid’s Media Leaders
Connect with execs from companies including: Nickelodeon, Litton Entertainment, NBCUniversal, Discovery Family & Hasbro Studios, Viacom, Beck Media, Silvergate Media, PBS kids and MANY more! (click here for full list of finalists). Enjoy breakfast, a fabulous awards ceremony which includes a musical performance by NBC’s Little Big Shot’s popular group: The Joyous Quintet AND a networking mimosa reception.
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PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT
HBO and Team Downey‘s series that puts a new spin on Perry Mason has hired Rolin Jones and Ron Fitzgerald as new writers. The project was originally set up with True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto to write, but Pizzolatto has instead focused on the third season of Detective, which will star Mahershala Ali. Robert Downey Jr. (who with his wife Susan make up Team Downey) is set to play Mason once the project gets off the ground.
It team David Katzenberg and Seth Grahame-Smith have signed a two-year pod deal with 20th Century Fox to develop comedy, drama and animation series projects through their KatzSmith Productions shingle.
The Deep Mad Dark from Animal Kingdom writers/EPs John Wells and Megan Martin has been sunk at TNT. The series, which was set to focus on a Detroit neurosurgeon, did receive a pilot order in December, but will now not go forward.
The Mick executive producers Dave Chernin and John Chernin have signed a two-year deal with 20th Century Fox Television, the studio behind their Fox comedy series. The brothers will continues as executive producers and showrunners behind The Mick while developing new projects for the studio.
Top 10 Weekend Domestic Box Office Estimates: August 25-27, 2017
The Hitman’s Bodyguard (Lionsgate/Sony) $10.1 million (week 2), cume revenue $39.6 million
Annabelle: Creation (Warner Bros./New Line) $7.4 million (week 3), cume revenue $77.9 million
Leap! (Weinstein) $5 million, opening weekend
Wind River (Weinstein) $4.4 million (week 4), cume revenue $9.8 million
Logan Lucky (Bleecker Street) $4.4 million (week 2), cume revenue $15 million
Dunkirk (Warner Bros.) $4 million (week 6), cume revenue $172.5 million
Spider-Man: Homecoming (Sony) $2.7 million (week 8), cume revenue $318.8 million
Birth of the Dragon (BH Tilt) $2.5 million, opening weekend
The Emoji Movie (Sony) $2.4 million (week 5), cume revenue $76.4 million
Girls Trip (Universal) $2.3 million (week 6), cume revenue $108.1 million
Source: comScore
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It’s Not Just Another Day at the Box Office
Movie lovers, welcome to a fantasy league of your own. With Fantasy Movie League, you can compete against friends or other fans to win movie tickets, swag, and more.
Pick 8 movies each week to fill your virtual theater. As the box office climbs, so do you. It’s easy to play, hard to master, and all for free.
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NEW & RETURNING SERIES
Saturday Night Live is back for a 43rd season on NBC with Ryan Gosling as guest host and Jay-Z as musical guest. The show returns on Saturday, September 30 at 11:30p.
TLC has renewed its celebrity genealogy show Who Do You Think You Are? for a new season that will premiere in Spring 2018.
Christopher Meloni (Law & Order: SVU) will head up Syfy‘s new Happy! series. Based on Grant Morrison and Darik Robertson‘s graphic novel by the same name, the series will premiere on Wednesday, November 29 at 10p and co-star Patton Oswalt as the voice of the titular imaginary blue winged horse.
In addition, Syfy announced a raft of other premieres and returns, including: Channel Zero: No-End House (Season 2, Wednesday September 20 at 10p); Con Man (premiere of web series on TV on Saturday, September 9 at 10p); Z Nation (Season 4, Friday September 29 at 9p); Van Helsing (Season 2, Thursday, October 5 at 9p) and Superstition (premiere, Friday October 6 at 10p).
BBC Three and Amazon comedy Fleabag will return for a second season in 2019 with creator and star Phoebe Waller-Bridge confirmed, based on news that emerged at the Edinburgh International Television Festival. “I asked myself if Fleabag has more to say and frankly she hasn’t shut up since,” Waller-Bridge said at the festival.
Netflix anthology series Black Mirror will reflect again with a fourth season, with actors including Jesse Plemons (Fargo), Rosemarie Dewitt (La La Land) and Douglas Hodge (The Night Manager).
COMING UP
Fusion TV will air an hour-long documentary, The Naked Truth: Debt Trap about the state of the US’s student loan system, featuring politicians and experts hoping to rein in the spiraling costs of higher education for the next generation. The special airs Sunday, September 10 at 9p.
Breaking2, a feature documentary from National Geographic and Nike Inc. captures the year-long journey of three elite runners as they attempt to break the two-hour marathon barrier. The special airs on Wednesday, September 20.
CASTING
Melina Kanakaredes (CSI: NY, Providence) has joined Fox‘s upcoming series The Resident as a series regular. The show will focus on a brilliant senior resident who walks an idealistic doctor through the pluses and minuses of modern-day medicine.
Martin Donovan (Ant-Man), Andy McQueen (Jack Ryan) and Grace Lynn Kung (Mary Kills People) will appear in supporting roles opposite Michael B. Jordan in Fahrenheit 451, HBO‘s upcoming adaptation of Ray Bradbury‘s 1953 novel.
Orlando Bloom (The Lord of the Rings) will star in Amazon‘s eight-episode straight-to-series drama Carnival Row, a fantasy-noir set in a Victorian era-esque city. He’ll also produce the series from Rene Echevarria, Travis Beacham, Paul McGuigan and Legendary Television.
DIGITAL DATA
Game of Thrones fans can now turn on the Night King … on Facebook. With a new augmented camera effect, fans will be able to access a new in-app/capture experience filled with masks, frames and style effects from the HBO show that can be used on photos and videos. The effect also features a sneak peek at “The Army of the Dead,” a new song from the show’s Emmy-nominated composer, Ramin Djawadi that was heard first in the show’s season finale on Sunday.
Netflix original documentary Gaga: Five Foot Two, which looks at the life of performer Lady Gaga over an eight-month period, will premiere on Friday, September 22 on the channel and in select Los Angeles and New York theaters.
Amazon Studios VP Roy Price says the company is going to focus more on straight-to-series programming, and order fewer pilots. Speaking at the Edinburgh International Television Festival, he noted that pilots “slow you down…. The reality of the marketplace is it’s competitive, and often you just have to go to series…. We still will have customer feedback, but will probably have fewer pilots for sure.”
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Harnessing the Power of the New Hispanic Demo
Cynopsis Digital’s Live Online Event: Thursday, October 12
This growing group represents 18% of the country’s population (with buying power topping 1.5 trillion in 2017) and it’s critical for media industry players to pay attention. Tune in and learn the types of social ads and campaigns will be most effective, the most engaging new content, how to reach Hispanic viewers on linear and mobile and more!
Register now and craft a program that gains a foothold with this influential group.
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RATINGS
Nielsen says it is changing the denominator for TV ratings in the 2017-18 season, and is raising the number of TV households by 1.4 million homes to 119.6 million. The number of people aged 2 and older is up by 2.8 million to 304.5 million. The annual adjustments get their basis from US Census Bureau data and Nielsen’s own information, and partly reflects growth in Hispanic, African-American and Asian population. The numbers indicate that 96.5% of all US homes have a TV, a half-percentage point higher than last year.
Here comes the sun! NASA says 40 million people tuned into watch the August 21 eclipse broadcast on web and social media. Overall the NASA package drew over 90 million page views on the main website and special eclipse site. YouTube agrees with the numbers, saying people watched live streams and videos about the eclipse over 100 million times, for a combined 6 million hours. “Even we were a bit blown away by the sheer magnitude of response to the total solar eclipse,” NASA said in a statement.
Telemundo‘s three-hour awards show Premios Tu Mundo 2017 reached 5.8 million total viewers and ranked No. 1 in its time slot, regardless of language, among adults 18-49 in Los Angeles, New York and Miami on Thursday.
Live + Same Day Viewers AA (millions) Thursday, August 24, 2017 time period averages
Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated Live+SD
NBC: 4.05 million
The Wall 0.8, Saturday Night Live: Weekend Update 1.3, Great News 0.6, The Night Shift 0.7
CBS: 4.63 million
The Big Bang Theory 1.1, Kevin Can Wait 0.9, Big Brother 1.7, Zoo 0.4
FOX: 2.35 million
Beat Shazam 0.7, Love Connection 0.6
ABC: 2.10 million
Boy Band 0.6, Battle of the Network Stars 0.5, The Gong Show 0.5
UNIVISION: 1.05 million
Enamorandome de Ramon 1.0, Mi Marido Tiene Familia 1.2, Tierra Prometida, 1.0
TELEMUNDO: 1.4 million
Premios Tu Mundo 1.4
CW: 1.34 million
Penn & Teller: Fool Us 0.4, Whose Line Is it Anyway? 0.3, Whose Line Is it Anyway? 0.3
Wednesday A18-49: TELE 1.4/3, CBS 1.0/4, NBC .9/4, FOX .7/3, UNI .5/2, ABC .5/3, CW .3/1
EXECUTIVE MOVES
Simran Sethi is heading over to Netflix as a creative executive for India in the International Originals Production Group. She’ll be based in their Los Angeles office. Most recently she worked at Freeform as an SVP of development.
This Day in History: 1898 – Caleb Davis Bradham renamed his “Brad’s Drink” Pepsi-Cola.
Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: Which sitcom character, a TV script writer, was played by two different actors during the show’s short run? Roger C. Buell was played by Roger C. Carmel and Richard Deacon on The Mothers-in-Law (1967-1969). Kudos to: Jim Kelly-Lee Hecht Harrison/NY; Andrew Goldman-Tvtibi/NY
Today’s Trivia Question: Who does Samantha eventually marry on Who’s the Boss? (1984-1992)? (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 Anagram: No Gum: Rethinking You = Yukon Men: Roughing It.
Real Estate Series Anagram: Ten Hour Intravenous Hose (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, AUGUST 28
ABC: Bachelor in Paradise, To Tell the Truth
CBS: Kevin Can Wait [r], Superior Donuts [r], Mom [r], Life in Pieces [r], Scorpion [r]
CW: Supergirl [r], Hooten & the Lady
FOX: So You Think You Can Dance
NBC: American Ninja Warrior [r], Midnight Texas
PBS: Antiques Road Show [r], Antiques Roadshow [r], POV
TELEMUNDO: Jenni Rivera: Mariposa de Barrio, Sin Senos Si Hay Paraiso, El Senor de los Cielos
UNIVISION: Enamorandome de Ramon, Mi Mariso Tiene Familia, La Tierra Prometida
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