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SCIENCE CHANNEL IS #1 NETWORK FOR AMERICA’S ECLIPSE
Beating The Weather Channel, Fox News, CNN and MSNBC
Over 1 Million Viewers tuned into the LIVE coverage of the Great American Eclipse
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Adapt your marketing strategy to fit a new (and impactful) generation
Tuesday, September 26 | 1:30-3:00pm ET
Gen Z is the largest, most diverse group of media users ever, according to a new report from Nielsen. In this live online event, you’ll learn: How to encourage conversation around TV shows and brands, how to employ apps and social platforms that are most popular with Gen Z, how to engage with Chatbots and VR and much more!
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PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT
Fuse gave a green light to game show Trivial Takedown, based on UK’s Blink. Series from Zig Zag Productions is slated for a fall 2017 launch.
Fox gave a put pilot commitment to Suspended, reports Deadline. School comedy comes from Justin Halpern and Patrick Schumacker (Powerless) and Warner Bros. Television.
CBS is developing Family Business, a spy drama from Barbara Hall (Madam Secretary, Judging Amy) and Glenn Geller, who left as CBS entertainment president in May to move to CBS Television Studios.
Lifetime ordered holiday movie Secret Santa (wt), starring Tatyana Ali (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air), Mindy Sterling (Austin Powers), Dan Lauria (The Wonder Years) and Brendan Fehr (Guardians of the Galaxy), about a financial analyst tasked with canceling the leases of underperforming mall stores.
NEW & RETURNING SERIES
ABC’s America’s Funniest Home Videos, originally slated to premiere Sunday, November 26 in its long-time 7p slot, will now launch on Sunday, October 8 at 8p, a spot originally reserved for To Tell the Truth. The game show will now reappear midseason.
Back to school: Complex Networks drama series In the Vault, set on a college campus, debuts on go90 on Wednesday, September 13.
Season 7 of Litton’s Weekend Adventure premieres Saturday, October 7 on ABC stations. Three-hour block includes newcomer Vacation Creation with Tommy Davidson and Andrea Feczko, as well as edu-tainment Jack Hanna’s Wild Countdown, Ocean Treks with Jeff Corwin, Sea Rescue and Rock the Park.
Thumbs up or thumbs down on the Game of Thrones season finale? Let us know in the new Cynopsis poll: http://cynopsis.com/poll/.
What’s tougher than being a teenager? Being an experimental android trying to pass as a teen, according to Nickelodeon’s new weekday series I Am Frankie, debuting Monday, September 11.
Public television docu-drama F.S. Key After the Song, telling the story of the writer of what would become the national anthem, premieres in mid-September on Maryland Public Television and other stations, including the WORLD Channel.
Adventure Time returns to Cartoon Network with 4 back-to-back episodes on Sunday, September 17 at 7p.
COMING UP
Who’s “Most Likely to Never Age,” or “Most Likely to Live in a Mansion”? Yup, it’s time for the fourth annual Real Housewives Awards, celebrating moments from the Bravo franchise. Now through October 4, fans can cast their votes on BravoTV.com or the Bravo Now app; winners will be revealed on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen on Wednesday, October 4 at 11:15p.
Another Bravo special, Watch What Happens Live One-on-One with Luann de Lesseps, focuses on an NYC Housewife on Wednesday, September 6 at 11p. That Andy Cohen encounter happens after the Real Housewives of New York City reunion, part trois, on Wednesday, August 30 at 8p.
Broad City binge: Every episode of the Comedy Central series will air in an all-day marathon on Labor Day Monday, September 4; funny starts at 9a. Season 4 premieres Wednesday, September 13 at 10:30p.
AXS TV offers a “Saturday Stack” of Led Zeppelin on Saturday, September 23, starting at 1p with 2008 rock doc It Might Get Loud.
A special musical episode of PBS Kids’ Peg + Cat airs September 15 (check local listings), featuring all-women mariachi band Mariachi Flor de Toloache.
DIGITAL DATA
Facebook announced Monday that Pages that repeatedly share fake news will no longer be allowed to advertise, part of the company’s attempt to combat the sharing of false stories. “We’ve found instances of Pages using Facebook ads to build their audiences in order to distribute false new more broadly,” wrote Facebook product managers Satwik Shukla and Tessa Lyons in a blog post. “Now, if a Page repeatedly shares false stories that have been marked as false by third-party fact checkers, they will no longer be able to buy ads on Facebook.”
Streaming issues with Saturday’s much-anticipated Floyd Mayweather Jr./Conor McGregor bout led to a class action lawsuit from a viewer who ordered the fight on pay-per-view and streamed via Apple TV, but claims Showtime didn’t have the bandwidth it needed to pack enough punch. “Defendant intentionally misrepresented the quality and grade of video consumers would see using its app, and knowingly failed to disclose that its system was defective with respect to the amount of bandwidth available,” reads a complaint filed in Oregon federal court. Showtime said it will issue a refund to customers who purchased pay-per-view via Showtime’s services; other consumers will need to request a refund from their provider.
Take heart, Game of Thrones fans – season 7 may have just wrapped, but behind-the-scenes 7-parter, The Game Revealed, has launched on HBO Now, HBO Go and HBO On Demand. New episodes premiere on Mondays.
Live streams of The CW programming will be available on Hulu “in the coming months,” promised the net on Monday. Subscribers will “soon” have access to current season series on demand. Hulu’s new live service also includes ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC.
CASTING
Sepideh Moafi (Notorious) landed a series regular role on season 2 of USA’s Falling Water, as a career cop and new partner to Taka.
GOING GLOBAL
CBS Corp. is diving deeper Down Under with a deal to acquire Australia’s struggling Network Ten. The agreement also includes digital terrestrial television channel Eleven, in which CBS already owns a 33 per cent stake, the DTT channel One and Network Ten’s digital platform, Tenplay.
A+E Networks Asia has launched History in Vietnam, subtitled in Vietnamese on MobiTV. The plan includes History also producing original branded short form content in partnership with local partners in Vietnam.
Televisa commissioned a Spanish-language version of Keshet International’s Easy Money. Chocolate Cine is producing 12 episodes to launch on Televisa’s Las Estrellas on August 30.
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Tuesday, September 19 | The Yale Club | NYC
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RATINGS
Sunday’s season 7 finale of HBO’s Game of Thrones hit a series topping 12.1 million viewers, up 13% from its previous high. Add in the first replay and HBO Go and HBO Now, and the total rises to 16.5 million.
New comedy adventure series DuckTales premiered with a one-hour movie that ranks as Disney XD’s #1 original animated telecast in 17 months among Kids 2-11 (365,000/.9 rating) and its #1 telecast overall among Boys 2-11 (257,000/1.3) since 3/30/16 and 4/13/16, respectively, in Live+7 ratings.
NIELSEN SOCIAL CONTENT RATINGS: Top Series and Specials by Total Interactions for the week of August 21, 2017
Program, Total Interactions (000), Facebook (000), Twitter (000)
Game of Thrones (HBO) 4175, 3093, 1082
MTV Video Music Awards (MTV) 3961, 1702, 2259
Presidential Address (TV Event) 1158, 601, 557
Black Girls Rock! (BET) 424, 330, 95
WWE Monday Night RAW (USA) 374, 253, 121
WWE Smackdown! (USA) 240, 152, 88
Big Brother (CBS) 211, 169, 42
Premios Tu Mundo (Telemundo) 195, 176, 20
Big Brother (CBS) 189, 161, 27
Big Brother (CBS) 187, 138, 49
Source: Nielsen. Uniques and Interactions are a measure of total relevant U.S. social media activity grossed across Facebook and Twitter from three hours before through three hours after broadcast, local time. Includes primetime and late fringe programming with metrics available across social platforms on Broadcast and National Cable and excludes sports events.
SHAREABLEE SOCIAL TV RATINGS: Top 10 U.S. Shows Overall by Engagement for the week of August 21, 2017
Program, Total Actions (000), Total Content, Actions per Content (000), Fans/Followers (000)
E! News 4694, 788, 6, 30366
Game of Thrones (HBO) 2706, 85, 32, 32356
America’s Got Talent (NBC) 1373, 308, 4, 10648
TMZ (synd.) 1340, 1012, 1, 13536
Today Show (NBC) 1279, 606, 2, 11991
Good Morning America (ABC) 1148, 621, 2, 12010
NBC Nightly News (NBC) 714, 693, 1, 4237
The Daily Show (Comedy Central) 712, 104, 7, 15086
Fox & Friends (Fox News) 597, 191, 3, 1526
The Fosters (Freeform) 562, 167, 3, 3974
Based on Total Actions (reactions, comments, shares and retweets)
Live + Same Day Household Viewers (millions): Friday, August 25, 2017 time period averages.
Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD
CBS: 4.82 million
NFL Preseason Football 4.82
NBC: 3.96 million
America’s Got Talent 3.76, Dateline 4.35 million
ABC: 3.65 million
Shark Tank 3.79, What Would You Do? 3.32, 20/20 3.86
UNIVISION 1.63 million
Enamorandome de Ramon 1.62, Mi Marido tie Familia 1.74, Tierra Prometida 1.54
TELEMUNDO: 1.70 million
Jenni Rivera: Mariposa de Barrio 1.66, Sin Senos si Hay Paraiso 1.59, El Senor de los Cielos 1.86
FOX: 2.03 million
MasterChef 2.03
CW: 1.43 million
Masters of Illusion 1.41, Masters of Illusion 1.40, Penn & Teller: Fool Us 1.46
Friday A18-49: CBS 1.2/6, NBC .8.3, ABC .7/3, FOX .6/3, TELE .6/3, UNI .5/2, CW .3/1
Source: Nielsen
EXECUTIVE MOVES
Erin Calhoun has joined Showtime Networks as Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications. Most recently, Calhoun served as VP of Corporate Communications for NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment.
Jake Strasser was promoted to Vice President of Studios at NBTV from Director of Content & Business Development, and Carmen Simon was upped to Vice President of Production from Producer. New hires include Chief of Staff, NBTV Studios Natasha Leath, and CFO, NBTV Studios, Wendell Fowler.
NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises appointed Karen Barroeta as Senior Vice President, Marketing and Creative for the Telemundo Networks. Previously, Barroeta was SVP, Marketing & Creative for NBCUniversal International Networks Spanish Latin America.
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CTHRA’s HR Symposium to Inspire Disruptive Thinking
October 25-26 · Philadelphia
Embrace brainstorming without boundaries and develop winning strategies for the future by attending THE INDUSTRY’S LARGEST GATHERING OF HR PROFESSIONALS. The HR Symposium will feature a dynamic lineup of sessions and three networking events. Speakers include a futurist, hybrid thinker, social change advocate, big data experts and more. Please join us!
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This Day in History: 2005 – Hurricane Katrina made its second landfall as a category 3 hurricane.
Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: Who does Samantha eventually marry on Who’s the Boss? (1984-1992)? Hank Thomopoulous. Kudos to: Andy Pittman-TAMU/College Station, TX, Rick Rosenfelt-New York Red Bulls/Harrison, NJ, Cynthia New-Spectrum Reach/Cape Girardeau, MO, Susan Nessanbaum-Goldberg-M and S Entertainment/LA, David Westberg-SAG-AFTRA Federal Credit Union/Burbank
Today’s Trivia Question: In which short-lived police drama did Michelle Pfeiffer star? (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 Our Last Anagram: Ten Hour Intravenous Hose = House Hunters Renovation. Kudos to: Christine Ferrara-WBZ-TV/Boston, Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/LA, Heather Allen-WWE Corporation/Stamford, CT, Dennis Aimino-ABC/LA
Reality Competition Anagram: Eager Bar Hag (Email [email protected]; 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 – TUESDAY, AUGUST 29
ABC: Bachelor in Paradise, Somewhere Between
CBS: NCIS [r], Bull [r], NCIS: New Orleans [r]
CW: The Flash [r], DC’s Legends of Tomorrow [r]
FOX: Lethal Weapon [r], The Mick [r], Brooklyn Nine-Nine [r]
NBC: America’s Got Talent, Hollywood Game Night
PBS: American Experience [r], Frontline [r]
Telemundo: Jenni Rivera: Mariposa de Barrio, Sin Senos Si Hay Paraiso, El Senor de los Cielos
Univision: Enamorandoma de Ramon, Mi Marido Tiene Familia, La Tierra Prometida
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