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09.08.14 Good morning. It’s Monday, September 8, 2014, and this is your first early morning briefing. Tonight’s Premieres:
A&E: Love Prison at 10p
Food: Rewrapped at 8p
TV One: Celebrity Crime Files at 10p
Syndicated: The Meredith Vieira Show Tonight’s Finales:
ABC: Bachelor in Paradise at 8p
Employees at Warner Bros. have been warned of impending staff cuts. “It pains me to say this, [but] positions will be eliminated – at every level – across the studio,” said chairman and CEO Kevin Tsujihara in a memo Thursday. Time Warner’s Turner Broadcasting started offering buyouts for older workers in August, after Time Warner rejected an $80 billion bid from 21st Century Fox, and CEO Jeff Bewkes announced plans to increase efficiency and profits.
Fox reality show Utopia got over 1 million online views ahead of its premiere last night, reports EW, with average views going from 13 to 23 minutes the first four days it was available. What kept ‘em coming back? Nudity (albeit blurred), fighting, sex and a medical evacuation. Series takes its regular berth Tuesdays and Fridays starting September 9 and 11 at 8p.
CBS is moving Big Brother to make room for Thursday Night Football. The reality hit will air Tuesdays and Wednesdays instead of Wednesdays and Thursdays starting September 9 at 8p.
The premiere of USA’s It Takes a Choir, bumped off the sked last November, finally makes its bow Friday, October 24 at 11p. Gareth Malone builds a community choir in eight episodes.
An alternate ending to the series finale of How I Met Your Mother swept the Internet before being blocked by 20th Century Fox TV on copyright grounds. The supposed new version has Ted ending up with very-much-alive Tracy, not Robin. An upcoming DVD with all nine seasons of the CBS comedy hits the shelves September 23.
Move over, Netflix: HBO struck a multi-year licensing deal giving Canada’s Bell Media exclusive multi-platform rights to 850 hours of scripted programming, documentaries and specials. The TV giant will be able to stream all HBO shows no longer on the air, as well as past seasons of series including Game of Thrones and Girls.
Faced with fan petitions objecting to the exits of Kari Byron, Tory Belleci and Grant Imahara on docu-series Mythbusters last month, Discovery suggested in a statement viewers haven’t seen the last of the trio. “We are all big fans of Kari as well as Tory and Grant,” said the net, “and are looking for other projects where we can work with them.”
German director Werner Herzog let it slip at a Brooklyn Academy of Music event Thursday that he plays a “tiny cameo” in the seventh and final season of NBC comedy Parks and Recreation.
Top 10 Weekend Box Office Estimates: September 5-7, 2014
Guardians of the Galaxy (Disney) $10.2 million, cume revenue $294.6 million
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Paramount) $6.5 million, cume revenue $176.6 million
If I Stay (Warner Bros.) $24.7 million, cume revenue $39.7 million
Let’s Be Cops (20th Century Fox) $5.4 million, cume revenue $66.6 million
The November Man (Relativity Media) $4.2 million, cume revenue $17.9 million
As Above, So Below (Universal) $3.7 million, cume revenue $15.6 million
When the Game Stands Tall (Sony) $3.7 million, cume revenue $23.5 million
The Giver (The Weinstein Company) $3. 6 million, cume revenue $37.8 million
The Hundred Foot Journey (Disney) $3.2 million, cume revenue $45.7 million
Lucy (Universal) $1.9 million, cume revenue $121.2 million
Source: Rentrak Corporation
AMC has ordered a pilot episode of a companion series for monster hit The Walking Dead, set in a different location with a new cast of characters. Dead’s Robert Kirkman, Gale Anne Hurd and David Alpert will exec produce the project from AMC Studios, scheduled for production in 2014. “We all take our stewardship of the original franchise incredibly seriously,” said AMC president Charlie Collier, and “are all proceeding with extreme care in order to ensure that we are offering fans something truly compelling, engaging and distinct.”
Nurse Jackie co-creator Liz Brixius is out as showrunner for NBC’s Bad Judge due to “creative differences,” reports Deadline. Comedy starring Kate Walsh premieres Thursday, October 2 at 9p.
Get up to speed with the latest in TV measurement on Wednesday, September 24 at Cynopsis’ exclusive training webinar, Understanding the Latest Ratings Advancements. From new metrics to better target your marketing and programming, to how to differentiate among multi platform, media, video, mobile and ad measurements, our agency and research experts will guide you through the latest in measurement science. Brad Adgate, SVP/Director of Research for Horizon Media; Brian Fuhrer, SVP Product Leadership and Cross-Platform TV Audience Measurement at Nielsen; Bruce Goerlich, Chief Research Officer for Rentrak and Mainak Mazumdar, Chief Science Officer at Simulmedia will be presenting. Click here for more info.
TV One expands its Wednesday lineup with docu-series Hollywood Divas, debuting October 8 at 10p. What’s in store for the ladies? Stars Golden Brooks (Girlfriends),Countess Vaughn (The Parkers),Lisa Wu (Real Housewives of Atlanta),Paula Jai Parker (Hustle and Flow) and Elise Neal (The Hughleys) “show us just how unkind Hollywood can be.”
Science Channel’s Hack My Brain explores brain plasticity, as adventurer Todd Sampson works to go from “average joe” to memory champ to escape artist in a matter of months. Three-hour special from Mindful (ha!) Media premieres Friday, September 19 at 8p.
What’s ahead on season two of The Birthday Boys? Each ep of the sketch comedy will focus on a different aspect of American life, like WASP culture, the failure of the Internet, women in comedy…and rectal health. First of ten new eps launches on IFC Friday, October 17 at 11:30p
Jaime Primak Sullivan, the outspoken entertainment publicist at the center of Bravo’s Jersey Belle, has doubts about her plan to move from Alabama back to the Garden State in tonight’s ep of the fish-out-of-water reality series, airing at 10p.
PBS doc Women in Comedy will include one of the late Joan Rivers’ last major interviews, on Tuesday, September 30. Comedy pioneer Rivers died September 4 at age 81.
Four-night special event Death Valley kicks off Wednesday, October 1 at 11p on CMT. Series from Glassman Media follows five locals braving a deadly, lawless land in search of riches.
Critics called reality TV just a fad. Twenty-five years later, they’ve been proven wrong. But while the genre has made serious inroads into TV and even the Emmys, the producer behind Lifetime’s Dance Moms, Jeff Collins, says it’s time to reinvent, re-evaluate – and get real. Check it out at Cynsiders.
SundanceTV’s Dream School is back in session Wednesday, October 1 at 9p. Season two of the series from exec producers Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Chuck D, Andrew Jameson and Jamie Oliver offers kids who’ve failed a school a second chance graduate, with the help of mentors like lawyer Gloria Allred, skater Johnny Weir and chef David Chang.
Season two of Sportsman’s Meet the McMillans launches Thursday, September 11 at 8:30p, following a week-long season one marathon starting Monday, September 8 at 7p. Series focuses on a couple running a guided hunt business. New challenge: a baby’s in the mix.
TV Land tacked on 12 more eps to its season four order of The Exes, for a total of 24, in advance of the comedy’s premiere Wednesday, November 5 at 10:30p. “Everything we’ve seen from the upcoming season is telling us it’s going to be the best one yet,” said TV Land president Larry W. Jones.
Austin Butler (Carrie Diaries) will recur on season three of Arrow, reports EW. CW series returns Wednesday, October 8 at 8p.
Lev Gorn is bumped up to series regular for season three of FX’s The Americans. The USSR-born actor will also recur on CBS’s NCIS, returning Tuesday, September 23 at 8p.
With Madeline Carroll bowing out of ABC’s Scandal due to scheduling conflicts, Mary Mouser (Body of Proof) will play the First Daughter in season three, premiering Thursday, September 25 at 9p.
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The season premieres of 19 Kids & Counting and Little People, Big World drew record ratings Tuesday, making TLC the top ad-supported cable net of the night in all key women demos. 19 Kids was number one in all of television with W18-49 and W/P18-34, and the highest-rated episode ever for the series with 3.3 million P2+ viewers. Little People had its most-watched season premiere ever, averaging 2.1 million P2+ viewers, ranking number one in its time period in delivery among HH, P2+, P25-54, and all key women demos.
Telemundo’s second season of El Senor de los Cielos had its best weekly performance to date the week of August 25, averaging 2.3 million total viewers and 1.4 million among A18-49, according to Nielsen. The series ranked number one for the week in its time slot among all broadcast networks, regardless of language, with M18-34.
Showtime’s Ray Donovan and Masters of Sex had series highs in Live+3 viewers last week. Episode 8 of Donovan had 2.5 million Live+3 viewers at 9p; for the total night, Ray Donovan garnered over three million viewers for the first time this season. Masters of Sex delivered a series high of 750,000 viewers at 10p and a season high of 1.5 million Live+3 viewers.
Late Night Shows Weekly Average Ratings week of August 25, 2014
NBC: The Tonight Show, 2.97 million total viewers and .8/4 A18-49
ABC: Jimmy Kimmel Live, 2.25 million total viewers and .55/3 A18-49
CBS: Late Show, 2.25 million viewers and .36/2 A18-49
Source: Nielsen, NTI
Broadcast Morning News Shows Weekly Average Ratings week of August 25, 2014
ABC: GMA 5.07 million total viewers; 1.6/14 and 1.93 million A25-54
NBC: Today 4.44 million total viewers; 1.4/12 and 1.71 million A25-54
CBS: This Morning 2.85 million total viewers; .7/6 and 884,000 A25-54
Source: Nielsen, NTI
Sunday Morning News Shows August 31, 2014
ABC: This Week 2.83 million total viewers; .7 and 891,000 A25-54
NBC: Meet the Press 2.44 million total viewers; .6 and 684,000 A25-54
CBS: Face the Nation 2.40 million total viewers; .4 and 522,000 A25-54
CBS: Face the Nation-2 Preempted
FOX: Fox News Sunday: 1.11 million total viewers; .3 and 330,000 A25-54
Source: Nielsen, NTI
Thursday A18-49 Analysis: NBC scored the most A18-49 viewers Thursday with 9.1/24, according to final primetime national ratings from Nielsen, dominating every hour with NFL Thursday Special. NBC’s NFL opening kickoff and game averaged 6.6/24 to win 8p, followed by a 1.6/5 average for CBS’s The Big Bang Theory and The Millers. The game scored 10.6/33 at 9p to beat CBS’s Big Brother (2.2/7), and continued to lead at 10p with 10.3/31, versus 1.03 for Uni’s Malquerida and Telemundo’s Senor se los Cielos.
A18-49: UNI 1.6.6, CBS 1.4/5, NBC 1.3/5, ABC .7/3, FOX .6/2, TELE .6/2, ION .3/1, CW .2/1
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Thursday, September 4, 2014 time period averages. Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.
NBC: 14.1/24
NFL Opening Kick-off 7.0/13, Green Bay at Seattle 15.5/26
CBS: 3.6/6
The Big Bang Theory [r] 5.3/9, The Millers [r] 3.8/6, Big Brother 4.0/6, Elementary [r] 2.3/4
ABC: 1.6/3
The Quest 1.4/2, Shark Tank [r] 2.2/4
UNIVISION: 1.7/3
Mi Corazon es Tuyo 1.9/3, Hasta Fin del Mundo 1.8/3, Malquerida 1.3/2
FOX: 1.4/2
Sleepy Hollow [r] 1.1/2, Bones [r] 1.7/3
ION: 1.0/2
Criminal Minds .9/2, Criminal Minds 1.1/2, Cold Case .9/2
TELE: .9/1
Reina de Corazones .6/1, En Otra Piel .9/1, Senor de los Cielos 1.3/2
CW: .3/1
Vampire Diaries [r] .4/1, Originals [r] .3/1
Loretha Jones is leaving her position as President of Original Programming at BET Networks. Darrell Walker, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, will oversee day-to-day operations for programming until a replacement is found. Jones will continue at the company as a creative consultant.
BET appointed Kay Madati as Executive Vice President and Chief Digital Officer. Madati was most recently Head of Entertainment and Media on the Global Marketing Solutions team at Facebook Inc.
Steven Ricehas been promoted to Executive Vice President, Marketing & Digital Engagement at Donato Media. Rice, who joined the agency in January 2014, formerly served as Senior Vice President at Harrison & Shriftman overseeing the agency’s Lifestyle Division.
Former political correspondent Bruce Morton died September 5 after battling cancer. He was 83. Morton won six Emmys for his work at CBS News, and became co-anchor of the CBS Morning News in 1975. He left the network after 29 years to join CNN in 1993, retiring from the news net in 2006.
G.R.L. band member Simone Battle was found dead in LA on September 5. She was 25. Battle was a finalist on The X Factor in 2011.
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – MONDAY SEPTEMBER 8, 2014
ABC: Bachelor in Paradise [f], Shark Tank [r]
CBS: Big Bang Theory [r], Mom [r], Two and a Half Men [r], Two and a Half Men [r], Under the Dome
CW: Whose Line Is it Anyway? [r], Whose Line Is it Anyway? [r], America’s Next Top Model
FOX: MasterChef
NBC: Running Wild with Bear Grylls, American Ninja Warrior
PBS: Antiques Roadshow [r], Antiques Roadshow [r], POV
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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