CYNOPSIS
09.02.14
Good morning.It’s Tuesday, September 2, 2014, and this is your first early morning briefing.
Tonight’s Premieres:
Discovery: Yukon Men at 9p
DIY: Rescue Renovation at 10a
Spike TV: Ink Master at 10p, Tattoo Nightmares at 11p
TLC: Little People, Big World at 10p
Travel: World’s Most Extreme at 9p
Tonight’s Finales:
AHC: Chaos in the Skies at 10p
HBO: Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Atlanta Falcons at 10p
TNT: Rizzoli & Isles at 9p
USA: Royal Pains at 9p
A+E Networks is set to acquire a 10 percent stake in edgy, youth-focused digital news organization Vice Media, for $250 million. Vice had been in talks with Time Warner Inc. about a deal since June, but the companies couldn’t come to terms on the valuation of Vice, or how much control Vice would have over Time Warner news channel HLN, reports the New York Times. “The biggest thing we were looking for was complete independence,” said chief executive Shane Smith. “We didn’t want to give up a big stake.” 21st Century Fox bought a 5 percent stake in the company last year for $70 million.
Fox is offering two live feeds of Utopia ahead of the reality series’ debut, showing 14 “pioneers” prepare for the year-long experience of creating their own society. Viewing is free, with enhanced content for paid subscribers. Utopia, based on the Dutch show of the same name, launches Sunday, September 7; Tuesday, September 9, and Friday, September 12 at 8p, continuing on Tuesdays and Fridays at 8p. And there’s drama already: announced contestant Andrea Cox got the boot before the premiere, reportedly for violations of the show’s confidentiality agreement.
Taylor Swift joins season 7 of NBC’s The Voice, working with contestants coached by returning Adam Levine and Blake Shelton, and new coaches Gwen Stefani and Pharrell Williams, reports Us Weekly. Swift’s fifth album drops October 27; The Voice returns Monday, September 22 at 8p.
The Wil Wheaton Project will not be returning to Syfy, according to…Wil Wheaton. In a blog post, the Star Trek: The Next Generation actor said he was informed that “the executives in New York just didn’t think we had enough viewers to justify more episodes.” Rather than attempt a letter-writing campaign to revive the summer series, Wheaton urged fans to “instead put that energy into something else, like getting #butts to trend.” Wheaton talked trending pop culture topics in the weekly comedy, which concluded August 12.
Chelsea Clinton announced Friday she’s leaving her job of almost three years as special correspondent at NBC News. In a Facebook post, the former First Daughter, pregnant with her first child, said she wanted to focus on her work with the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation. “While she will be missed, we look forward to working with her in the future,” said SVP of NBC News Alex Wallace.
Danish director Lars von Trier (Melancholia) will write and direct a TV drama, The House that Jack Built, announced producer Louise Vesth at the Venice Film Festival. Shooting is planned for 2016. Von Trier’s hospital drama The Kingdom was an international hit in 1994.
Top 10 Domestic Weekend Box Office Estimates:August 29-31, 2014
Guardians of the Galaxy (Disney) $16.3 million, cume revenue $274.6 million
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Paramount) $11.6 million, cume revenue $162.4 million
If I Stay (Warner Bros.) $9.26 million, cume revenue $29.8 million
As Above, So Below (20th Century Fox) $8.3 million, opening weekend
Let’s Be Cops (20th Century Fox) $8.2 million, cume revenue $57.3 million
The November Man (Relativity Media) $7.7 million, cume revenue $9.4 million
When The Game Stands Tall (Sony) 5.7 million, cume revenue $16.3 million
The Giver (The Weinstein Company) $5.3 million, cume revenue $31.5 million
The Hundred-Foot Journey (Disney) $4.6 million, cume revenue $39.4 million
The Expendables 3 (Lionsgate) $3.5, cume revenue $33.3 million
Source: Rentrak Corporation
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Social Media TV… Mergers & Acquisitions… oh my!
“CABLE INTERRUPTED: A BRAVE NEW WORLD”
WICT New York’s Executive Women’s Luncheon
Sept. 29, 2014, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. Mandarin Oriental, NYC
Featuring CNN Digital Correspondent Kelly Wallace as moderator.
Panelists include:
Shelley Brindle, HBO; Laura Lee, YouTube;
Sarah Madigan, Univision;
Craig Moffett, MoffettNathanson; and Matt Strauss, Comcast Cable.
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Warner Pictures Television struck a three-year deal to produce one prime time series per year for Dessler Media in the U.S. Dessler’s international sales division, Pelicula Internacional, will distribute worldwide.
ABC bought medical drama Cold Blood from Criminal Minds exec producer Janine Sherman Barrois and Kapital Entertainment. ABC Studios is producing.
In defense of kids and screen time: Check out a very fresh take at Cynsiders on the unexpected role media can play in a child’s development, courtesy of David Kleeman, PlayVangelist for PlayCollective.
Landscape Entertainment and Entertainment One Television have optioned the rights to upcoming nonfiction book “Raven Rock: The Inside Story of the U.S. Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself While the Rest of Us Die”, for an event series project about a secret military installation.
Fox picked up crime drama Jack Irish, adapted from an Australian mini-series. 20th Century Fox TV and Chernin Entertainment will produce the project, written by Seamus Kevin Fahey (The Following).
Fox has given a put pilot commitment to The Greatest American Hero, reports Deadline, adapted from the 1981-83 comedy-drama. Phil Lord and Chris Miller (21 Jump Street movie) will exec produce with Tawnia McKiernan, daughter of Hero creator Steven J. Cannell.
Patrick Warburton (Rules of Engagement) will reprise his role as superhero “The Tick” in an Amazon pilot, reports The Wrap. Series lasted for three seasons in animated form on Fox Kids (1994-1996), and nine episodes as a live-action show on Fox in 2001.
Esquire introduces My Name Is Johnny Wednesday, September 3 at 10p. Series has jetsetter Jean “Johnny” Piozzi circling the globe asking provocative questions of famous pals like disgraced American Apparel CEO Dov Charney.
HBO miniseries Olive Kitteridge airs Sunday, November 2 at 9p and Monday, November at 9p. Frances McDormand (Fargo) and Richard Jenkins (Six Feet Under) star.
American Graduate Day returns for the third consecutive year, with a diverse lineup of celebs from General Colin Powell to Tony Bennett to Sesame Street’s Elmo onboard to help boost graduation rates. The day-long multi-platform event, airing live from NYC, premieres Saturday, September 27 from 11a-6p on public media (check local listings).
Didn’t get all your Cynopsis news last week? Go to: In Case You Missed It for a curated roundup.
Miranda Mayo (The Game) will recur on ABC Family’s Pretty Little Liars as a chef. Season five summer finale of the teen drama aired Tuesday, August 26.
Enver Gjokaj (Dollhouse) and Chad Michael Murray (One Tree Hill) will co-star in ABC’s Marvel’s Agent Carter, opposite Hayley Atwell (Captain America: The Winter Soldier).
Arrow welcomes two new faces for season three: Amy Gumenick (Supernatural) plays an obsessive fan for two episodes, reports EW, while Nolan Funk (Glee) makes an appearance as an ex of Felicity’s. Arrow returns to CW Wednesday, August 8 at 8p.
Joining Steve Zahn (Mind Games) as a horrible neighbor to the Dunpheys on season six of ABC’s Modern Family is Andrea Anders (Mr. Sunshine). Family is back Wednesday, September 24 at 9p.
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ABC fundraiser MDA Show of Strength hit .2/1 in the A18-49 demo Sunday night to match last year’s number, according to preliminary Nielsens. The event raised over $52 million. The net’s Wipeout dropped 25 percent, to .6/3, for a series low, while CBS’s Reckless rebounded from its own series low to jump 80 percent in the ratings, to .9/3.
The return of Simon Cowell helped boost Saturday’s premiere of The X Factor U.K. to its best numbers since 2011, with 9.5 million viewers. Sunday’s follow-up took a 1.3 million dip in overnights.
The story was the same with BBC One’s Doctor Who, down 1.6 million on Saturday from its week ago season launch of 6.8 million, the best since 2010.
Thursday A18-49 Analysis: Univision had the most A18-49 viewers Thursday with 1.3/4, according to final primetime national ratings from Nielsen. Uni’s Mi Corazon es Tuyo topped 8p with 1.6/6, followed by .8/3 for CBS’s Two and a Half Men and The Millers. CBS’s Big Brother won 9p with 2.0/7, versus 1.4/4 for Uni’s Hasta Fin Del Mundo. Uni was back in the lead at 10p with .9/3 for Malquerida, with .7/2 enough to place CBS’s Elementary second.
A18-49: UNI 1.3/4, CBS 1.2/4, TELE .7/2, FOX .5/2, NBC .5/2, ABC .4/1, ION .3/1, CW .2/1
Live + Same Day Household Ratings:Thursday, August 28, 2014 time period averages. Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.
CBS: 2.7/5
Two and a Half Men [r] 2.5/5, The Millers [r] 2.4/4, Big Brother 3.6/6, Elementary [r] 2.1/4
NBC: 1.6/3
Hollywood Game Night [r] 1.9/3, Welcome to Sweden 1.2/2, Welcome to Sweden 1.0/2, America’s Got Talent [r] 1.6/3
UNIVISION: 1.6/3
Mi Corazon Es Tuyo 2.0/4, Hasta Fin Del Mundo 1.7/3, Malquerida 1.2/2
ABC: 1.2/2
The Quest .9/2, World’s Wildest Commercials 1.8/3
FOX: 1.3/2
Sleepy Hollow [r] 1.1/2, Bones [r] 1.5/3
TELEMUNDO: .9/1
Reina de Corazones .5/1, En Otra Piel .9/1, Senor de los Cielos 1.2 /2
ION .9/2
Criminal Minds .8/1, Criminal Minds 1.0/2, Cold Case .9/2
CW: .4/1
Vampire Diaries [r] .4/1, Originals [r] .4/1
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This Day In History: 1963 – The CBS Evening News was expanded from 15 minutes to 30 minutes.
Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: What was the name of the local coffee shop visited by the characters on Frasier (1993-2004)? Cafe Nervosa. Kudos to: Amy Horowitz-MODCo Media/NYC, Larry Kahn-Golf Channel/Orlando, Barry Schiffer-WJZ-TV/Baltimore, Don Seaman-Guidepoint Global/NYC, Dan Whitfield-Lakeshore Public Media/Merrillville, IN, Barbara Spafford-Spafford Creative/Mobile, AL, Lucie Prann-The Richards Group/Dallas, Tim Rank-True Media/Chesterfield, MO, Leigh Bingham/Denver, Betsy Joseph-OpenTV/Golden, CO, Wendell Foster-ABC Entertainment Group/Burbank, David Garber-Linzack Publications/Chatsworth, CA, Mark Simmons-Toyota/Torrance, CA, Brad Kaplan-Evolution Entertainment Partners/LA.
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 2, 2014
ABC: The Story of Frozen: Making a Disney Animated Classic, Extreme Weight Loss
CBS: NCIS [r], NCIS [r], NCIS: Los Angeles [r]
CW: Arrow [r], Supernatural [r]
FOX: MasterChef [r], New Girl [r], The Mindy Project [r]
NBC: Food Fighters, America’s Got Talent
PBS: Cuban Missile Crisis – Three Men Go to War, The Fidel Castro Tapes, Frontline [r]
Telemundo: Reina de Corazones, En Otra Piel, El Senor de los Cielos
Univision: Mi Corazon Es Tuyo, Hasta el Fin del Mundo, La Malquerida
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