09/18/17: At the Emmys...

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Good morning. It’s Monday September 18, 2017 and this is your first early morning briefing.

Tonight’s Premieres:

ABC: Dancing With the Stars at 8p

Nat Geo: The State at 9p

RFD-TV: Ken McNabb at 5p

TLC: Behind Closed Doors: The American Family at 11p

Tonight’s Finales:

Food Network: I Hart Food at 10p

ID: The Coroner: I Speak for the Dead at 10p

NBC: American Ninja Warrior at 8p, Midnight, Texas at 10p

Spike: Gone: The Forgotten Women of Ohio at 8:30p

AT THE EMMYS

“The world’s a little better on TV!” sang host Stephen Colbert during a tuneful Emmys opening that included cast members from This Is Us, Veep and black-ish, among others. But the most surprising part of the opener was former White House press secretary Sean Spicer, on hand to show he was in on the joke by declaring that the awards show would have “the largest audience to witness an Emmys, period, both in person and around the world.”

Saturday Night Live, where Melissa McCarthy played Spicer, won best variety sketch series, its first win since 1993 in a major variety category. Norman Lear and Carol Burnett got a standing ovation (and ear tugs) as they took to the stage to announce Veep as the winner of best comedy. Among other winners were The Handmaid’s Tale for Drama Series, Big Little Lies for Limited Series, Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid’s Tale) for Drama Actress, Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Veep) for Comedy Actress, Donald Glover (Atlanta) for Comedy Actor, Sterling K. Brown (This Is Us) for Drama Actor, Nicole Kidman (Big Little Lies) for Limited Series Actress and Riz Ahmed (The Night Of) for Limited Series Actor.

IN THE NEWS

NBCUniversal is set to cover the media industry with more force, naming former New York Post business reporter Claire Atkinson as senior media editor for NBC News, MSNBC and NBCNews.com. At a time when the media industry is undergoing massive change, the unit will “tell this epic story of the people, power and players that will fundamentally transform media in the decade ahead,” said NBC News digital executive editor Catherine Kim, to whom Atkinson will report. Contributors include Kara Swisher and Peter Kafka from Recode; BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith; former Time Inc. editor-in-chief Johny Huey and author/entrepreneur Steven Brill.

Meghan McCain is exiting Fox News, tweeting that while she was thankful for the chance to be on the net’s Outnumbered, she was “leaving to focus on other things.” “Meghan has been a valuable part of Outnumbered and the Fox News team. We’re sad to see her go, but we wish her all the best,” said FNC. McCain’s father is Senator John McCain.

As of Thursday, over 8 million people in Hurricane Irma-hit Florida, Georgia and Alabama had no cable service, according to the FCC…. In more post-storm news, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting gave $450,000 in emergency grants to noncommercial TV and radio stations affected by Hurricane Irma, on top of the $180,000 given to Texas stations impacted by Hurricane Harvey.

Nick Podcast mania: Nickeldeon today will debut its first-ever original podcast for kids, Listen Out Loud with the Loud House, taking fans inside the world of Lincoln Loud and his 10 sisters. Each episode is 6-7 minutes in length and available across platforms, including Nick.com and the Nick App, Apple Podcasts and Amazon Echo, along with most podcast apps. The eps also will roll out weekly on Nick’s YouTube channel… In related news, the Nickelodeon Animation Podcast is back for season 3 and will roll out weekly on Fridays. The first episode reunites the voice cast of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius.

The children’s media market continued its upward trend at this year’s Upfronts – rising above an estimated $800 million in advance commitments – and the breadth of content offerings continues to expand across platforms. How do they hold the attention of both the youngest viewers and Madison Avenue? Constant innovation. Executives from across the spectrum, from those behind substantial network evolutions such as the newly minted Universal Kids to those architecting new digital-first entities such as Pocket.watch, will be in the room for tomorrow’s Cynopsis Kids !magination Awards. Join the conversation.

A veteran location manager was shot and killed in a violent area outside Mexico City while scouting for locations for season 4 of Netflix drama Narcos. “We are aware of the passing of Carlos Munoz Portal, a well-respected scout….the facts surrounding his death are still unknown as authorities continue to investigate,” said Netflix. Portal worked for Mexico-City based production company Redrum.

Two nights before the Emmys, many of the most promising young execs in the media business gathered at NYC’s Midtown Lofts & Terrace for a celebration of a different kind – Cynopsis’ 3^rd annual Rising Stars reception. Attendees gathered for cocktails on the venue’s, rooftop terrace, which featured a breathtaking view of the Empire State Building, then headed inside for the ceremony. (Emmy winners could learn a thing or two from this crowd about fast and funny thank you speeches, which drew hoots and applause.) To see who took home the trophies, go here.

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PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT

Armoza Formats social experiment Sex Tape, in which couples film their love lives for a week, has been picked up by eOne Entertainment in the U.S. The companies will co-produce the show, already in active development in countries including the UK, Spain, Argentina and Germany.

ABC is developing We All Got Junk, from Stephen Schneider, Will Gluck and ABC Studios. Comedy is based on the recycling business founded by actor/writer Schneider and his brothers. ABC also picked up 2 projects from Mandeville TV: police drama Safe Harbor and business drama Mavericks.

All That Glitters, ordered to series by Bravo last spring, will not make to air on the network after all. The show, from Universal Cable Productions and exec producers Gale Anne Hurd and Judith Verno, was focused on the ascents of NYC celeb editors Anna WIntour and Tina Brown.

Top 10 Weekend Domestic Box Office Estimates: September 15-17, 2017

It (Warner Bros.) $60.0 million (week 2), cume revenue $218.7 million

American Assassin (Lionsgate) $14.8 million, opening weekend

mother! (Paramount) $7.5 million, opening weekend

Home Again (Open Road Films) $5.3 million (week 2), cume revenue $17.1 million

The Hitman’s Bodyguard (Lionsgate/Sony) $3.6 million (week 5), cume revenue $70.4 million

Annabelle: Creation (Warner Bros./New Line) $2.6 million (week 6), cume revenue $99.9 million

Wind River (Weinstein) $2.6 million (week 7), cume revenue $29.1 million

Leap! (Weinstein) $2.1 million (week 4), cume revenue $18.7 million

Spider-Man: Homecoming (Sony) $1.9 million (week 11), cume revenue $330.3 million

Dunkirk (Warner Bros.) $1.3 million (week 9), cume revenue $185.1 million

Source: comScore

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NEW & RETURNING SERIES

They’re ba-a-a-a-ck….Season 4 of ID’s Evil Twins launches Monday, September 25 at 10p, with a set of sibs undone by the pressure to be exceptional. Times two.

Daily pop culture program Page Six TV, from Endemol Shine North America and the New York Post, premieres in national syndication today. What sets the show, modeled after the Post gossip column, apart? “What differentiates Page Six TV is our host and contributors,” exec producer Michael Weinberg tells Cynopsis. “We have genuine insiders and journalists analyzing the stories, bringing their perspective, and using their sources to take the narrative to the next level. They are the ones behind the velvet ropes and not just on the red carpets.”

Mom joins the TV Land lineup today. During the CBS comedy’s first 2 weeks on the cable net, episodes from seasons 1-4 will air weeknights from 10-11p and 1a-2a, with seasons 1 and 2 airing the first week and seasons 3 and 4 airing the second. Mom also starts airing on Viacom sib CMT on Monday, October 2.

COMING UP

The early days of the U.S.’s war in Afghanistan are explored in Legion of Brothers, premiering Sunday, September 24 at 9p on CNN. The film encores at 11:30p; both broadcasts air with limited commercial interruption. “On one level, it’s an unprecedented telling of the origins for a war Americans seem to now debate,” said Amy Entelis, executive vice president for talent and content development for CNN Worldwide. “On another level, it’s an examination of the full costs of war for the tiny percentage of Americans who experience it first-hand.”

CASTING

Jack Whitehall (Fresh Meat), Michael McKean (Better Call Saul) and Miranda Richardson (Churchill) have joined Amazon’s Good Omens, based on the novel by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman….Morgan Spector (Boardwalk Empire) landed a series regular role on season 7 of Homeland and Mackenzie Astin (Scandal) will recur….Add Corey Stoll (The Strain), Andrew Rannells (Girls), Mike Doyle (Odd Mom Out), JJ Feild (Turn: Washington’s Spies), Janet Montgomery (Salem) and Paul Reiser (Red Oaks) to the cast of Amazon anthology series The Romanoffs.

GOING GLOBAL

Poker Central and DOUPAI.TV signed a licensing agreement to bring the World Series of Poker Main Event to China. The deal, which runs through 2021, will include live broadcasting of the WSOP Main Event final table and highlight episodes of the WSOP Main Event beginning in Q4.

TRT World has partnered with Australian pay TV provider Foxtel for a deal that will make TRT World available to Foxtel’s cable and satellite subscribers on channel 652.

ITV2 commissioned Keshet UK for comedy entertainment show Celebrity Showmance, launching in MIPCOM next month.

CBS may not get Australia’s Network Ten after all. Although CBS announced last month it had agreed to acquire the broadcaster, its largest shareholder, Bruce Gordon, and Lachlan Murdoch made a new bid, upping their offer. The move came the day after a Senate vote in favor of lifting owner restrictions.

ADVERTISING

“Not seeing it at all,” said CBS Corp. chairman and CEO Les Moonves, asked on CNBC whether TV advertising might see the softening of scatter prices predicted by Magna back in June. “We just came off an extremely strong upfront – CPMs were up, volume was up,” said Moonves, calling delayed viewing “a bigger and bigger piece of the pie.”

Cigna’s out with a new they-played-doctors-on-TV campaign, and this time Neil Patrick Harris (Doogie Howers, M.D.) and Kate Walsh (Grey’s Anatomy) are playing along. Patrick Dempsey (Grey’s Anatomy) and Donald Faison (Scrubs) returned, too.

DIGITAL DATA

Subscribers to SVOD services like Netflix, Hulu and Amazon are a generous bunch, according Hub Entertainment Research, at least when it comes to sharing passwords. Hub reports 1/3 of all viewers age 16-74 have used the login credentials of someone outside their home to access TV shows online, and just about as many have given out their own passwords to someone outside their household. Not surprisingly, younger consumers are the biggest sharers, with 56% of those 18-34 having watched on someone else’s account, and 47% giving out their own password.

VIDEOS IN SHORT

In new 6-part digital series Training Spaces, TLC’s Trading Spaces experts put new designers and carpenters to the test with “boot camp” challenges that prove them worthy of joining the team (and also introduce them to viewers). The series, presented by Lowe’s, will be released on TLC Go in spring 2018.

Tia Mowry (Tia Mowry at Home) dives into digital with Tia Mowry’s Quick Fix. New episodes will post each week on YouTube, with additional distribution on social. Kin Studios is producing in conjunction with UTA.

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RATINGS

Starz’ Outlander returned to a series record high of 1.49 million Live+SD viewers for the 8p premiere and 2.1 million over 3 Sunday night airings. The drama has already been renewed for season 4.

The season 21 premiere of Comedy Central’s South Park drew 1.7 million viewers and 1.36 among A18-49, making it the highest-rated premiere in 2017 for any primetime comedy across ad-supported cable. The launch followed an 8-day South Park marathon that delivered over 10 million unique views and grew A18-34 ratings by +46%..

Wednesday’s season 4 premiere of Comedy Central’s Broad City delivered 879,000 total viewers, up 14% in viewers and an 18% rise among A18-49 (.72) versus its season 3 launch. The episode was the second-highest-rated in series history, after its .73 series premiere.

ABC’s Truth and Lies: The Murder of Laci Peterson on Thursday ranked #1 from 9p-11p in total viewers (4.9 million) and tied for first among A25-54 (1.4/5). Versus June’s Truth and Lies: Watergate, the show was up 48% in total viewers and 100% among A18-49.

Univision’s weekday series lineup rose week-to-week among A18-34, with 8p’s Enamorandome de Ramon growing its A18-34 audience 8% week to week (to 349,000) and attracting 1.5 million total viewers and 662,000 among A18-49.

Univision sib UniMas boasts it has increased its primetime audience in the last 3 consecutive weeks with week-to-week audience gains among A8-34 (+7%) as well as in the last 2 consecutive weeks among A18-49 (+14%) and total viewers 2+ (14%).

Animal Planet’s Pit Bulls & Parolees averaged 1.07 million viewers and scored a season high among P25-54 (0.53) on September in Live+3. The episode averaged a 0.69 rating among W25-54, helping the net break into ad-supported cable’s Top Five at 9p among P25-54 (#5) and W25-54 (#4) as well as the Top 10 among M25-54 (#10) and total viewers (#10).

Live + Same Day Viewers AA (millions) Wednesday, September 13, 2017 time period averages

Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated Live+SD

NBC: 6.15 million

America’s Got Talent 11.31, Marlon 5.19, Marlon 3.69, Midnight, Texas 2.71

CBS: 4.37 million

Big Brother 6.31, Salvation 3.55, Criminal Minds 3.25

FOX: 4.03 million

MasterChef 4.03

ABC: 2.90 million

The Goldbergs 2.99, Speechless 2.28, Modern Family 3.02, American Housewife 2.69, 20/20 3.22

TELEMUNDO: 1.17 million

Jenni Rivera: Mariposa de Barrio .96, Sin Senos Si Hay Paraiso 1.14, El Senor de los Cielos 1.41

UNIVISION: 1.05 million

Enamorandome de Ramon 1.11, Mi Marido tie Familia 1.27, Hoy Voy a Cambiar .79

CW: .79 million

Arrow .82, Supernatural .76

Wednesday A18-49: NBC 1.3/5, FOX 1.3/5, CBS 1.0/4, ABC .7/3, TELE .7/3, UNI .5/2, CW .2/1

Live + Same Day Viewers AA (millions) Thursday, September 14, 2017 time period averages

Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated Live+SD

ABC: 4.95 million

Celebrity Family Feud 5.04, Truth and Lies: The Murder of Laci Peterson 4.90

CBS: 4.79 million

The Big Bang Theory 6.39, Mom 5.05, Big Brother 6.01, Zoo 2.63

NBC: 3.97 million

American Ninja Warrior 4.00, Chicago Fire 3.92

FOX: 2.29 million

Beat Shazam 2.41, Love Connection 2.16

CW: 1.29 million

Penn & Teller: Fool Us 1.52, Whose Line Is it Anyway? 1.23, Whose Line Is it Anyway? 1.02

UNIVISION: 1.01 million

Enamorandome de Ramon 1.05, Mi Marido tie Familia 1.19, Hoy Voy a Cambiar .78

Thursday A18-49: CBS 1.1/4, ABC 1.0/4, NBC .9/4, FOX .7/3, UNI .5/2, CW .4/2

EXECUTIVE MOVES

Dave Madden was named President of Original Programming for AMC, SundanceTV and AMC Studios. Madden joins AMC from Fox, where he has been President for the Fox broadcast network since 2014, and prior to that, President of Fox Television Studios. Madden will start later this month.

GLAAD is expanding its entertainment advocacy team with the addition of journalist Jeremy Blacklow as Director of Entertainment Media, and former Access Hollywood segment producer Anthony Ramos as Director of Talent Engagement. Megan Townsend has been promoted to Director of Entertainment Research & Analysis.

NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations appointed Stacy Owen as President and General Manager of the Bay Area NBC and Telemundo-owned stations, KNTV and KSTS.

This Day in History: 1905 – Greta Garbo was born.

Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: Why was Kitty the cat written out of The Closer (2005-2012)? The cat that played Kitty died of a kidney condition. Kudos to: Rev. Mark Wajda-St. Paul Catholic Community/Leesburg, FL, Gerry Bixenspan-TV Marketing Inc./NYC, Paul Blutter-Walk and Talk Production Rentals/Burbank, Susan Nessanbaum-Goldberg-M and S Entertainment/LA, Lorrie Shilling/El Segundo, CA, Cynthia New-Spectrum Reach/Cape Girardeau, MO, David Westberg-SAG-AFTRA Federal Credit Union/Burbank, Lisa Fikeys-Zimmerman/Chicago

Today’s Trivia Question: The pilot of which 1970s series was based on the book, Poor, Poor Ophelia? (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 Initial This: WD Played GF on BMW = William Daniels Played George Feeny on Boy Meets World. Kudos to: Rick Rosenfelt-New York Red Bulls/Harrison, NJ, Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/LA

Reality Show Anagram: She Destroys Yeast (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 September 18

ABC: Dancing With the Stars [p], To Tell the Truth

CBS: Big Bang Theory [r], Kevin Can Wait [r], Mom [r], Life in Pieces [r], Scorpion [r]

CW: Supergirl [r], Whose Line Is it Anyway? [r], Whose Line Is it Anyway? [r]

FOX: So You Think You Can Dance

NBC: American Ninja Warrior [f], Midnight Texas [f]

PBS: The Vietnam War, The Vietnam War [r]

TELEMUNDO: Jenni Rivera: Mariposa de Barrio, Sin Senos Si Hay Paraiso, El Senor de los Cielos

UNIVISION: Enamorandome de Ramon, Mi Mariso Tiene Familia, Hoy Voy a Cambiar

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