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Good morning. It’s Monday, October 6, 2014, and this is your first early morning briefing.
Today’s Premieres:
ASPiRE: ABFF Independent at 8p
CW: The Originals at 8p
FYI: House vs. House at 10p
Today’s Finale:
Discovery: Highway to Sell at 10p
TNT will leave Dallas fans dangling, cancelling the Ewing saga reboot after a season three cliffhanger that had one major family member die, and (spoiler alert!) J.R.’s long-lost daughter show up. “We are extremely proud of the series, which defied expectations by standing as a worthy continuation,” said TNT. Finale earned a .4 rating among A18-49.
Also off the air: TV Land’s Jennifer Falls, which won’t make it to a second season on the net. The news follows the net’s pickups of comedies Impastor and Teachers.
What can networks do to compete in – and profit from – a shifting industry landscape? With ratings eroding and ad dollars migrating to digital, the Cynopsis Future TV Summit, October 16 in NYC, will offer the latest models for success in a rapidly evolving business. Register here to join content creators, sellers and advertisers for a lively, in-depth look at TV right now.
Meryl Poster is leaving her position as president of television at The Weinstein Company to return to her own film and TV outfit, Superb Entertainment. Backed by A+E Studios, Superb will develop and produce projects for A+E nets as well as outside companies.
With viewers’ appetite for streaming growing ever stronger, so is the number of connected TV devices. That total reached half a billion worldwide in 2Q14, growth of 7 percent quarter-to-quarter and up 34 percent versus 2Q13, according the Strategy Analytics’ Connected Home Devices report, Global Connected TV Device Tracker: Q2 2014.
Steve Martin will receive the American Film Institute’s 43rd Life Achievement Award, presented on June 4 at a gala in LA and airing on TNT, with an encore on TCM. Last year’s honoree was Jane Fonda.
Taylor Swift joins The Voice as mentor for all the artists in the NBC talent competition’s knockout rounds, airing Monday, October 27, Tuesday, October 28 and Monday, November 3 at 8p. The “Shake it Off” singer’s album comes out October 27.
Lifetime is supporting the Breast Cancer Research Foundation’s #BeTheEnd campaign with a PSA featuring Heidi Klum (Project Runway), running across A+E Networks channels. In its 20th year advocating for the end of breast cancer, Lifetime is also a sponsor of the BCRF’s NYC fundraiser. “Lifetime has long been a pioneer of using the power of media to lead the fight against breast cancer,” Abbe Raven, chairman of A+E Networks, tells Cynopisis. “Our hope is that some day, women will no longer have to live in fear of breast cancer and we are so honored to work with the Breast Cancer Research Foundation and Heidi Klum on the Stop Breast Cancer for Life and #BeTheEnd campaigns to make that hope a reality.”
NUVOtv starts airing a “get out the vote” PSA today, with the message that a 13 percent approval rating for Congress doesn’t cut it.
Hallmark how-to show Home & Family will air new episodes for 52 consecutive weeks, Monday-Friday at 10a throughout 2015, for a total of 260. The move makes H&F the only lifestyle series on cable to produce a new show every weekday.
Top 10 Weekend Domestic Box Office Estimates: October 3-5, 2014
Gone Girl (20th Century Fox) $38.0 million, opening weekend
Annabelle (Warner Bros.) $37.2 million, opening weekend
The Equalizer (Sony) $19.0 million, cume revenue $64.5 million
The Boxtrolls (Focus Features) $12.4 million, cume revenue $32.5 million
The Maze Runner (20th Century Fox) $12.0 million, cume revenue $73.9 million
Left Behind (Freestyle Releasing) $6.9 million, opening weekend
This Is Where I Leave You (Warner Bros.) $4.0 million, cume revenue $29.0 million
Dolphin Tale 2 (Warner Bros.) $3.5 million, cume revenue $38.0 million
Guardians of the Galaxy (Disney) $3.0 million, cume revenue $323.4 million
No Good Deed (Sony) $2.5 million, cume revenue $50.2 million
Source: Rentrak Corporation
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Peter and Bobby Farrelly (Dumb and Dumber) will serve as judges with exec producers Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Adaptive Studios’ Marc Joubert, then go on to mentor the winner, on HBO’s resurrected Project Greenlight. The Farrelly Brothers aren’t new to the filmmaker competition series – their 2011 movie Hail Pass was written by the season one victor. Launched on HBO in 2001, Greenlight’s last run was on Bravo in 2005.
Chris Collins (Sons of Anarchy) and Marc Abrams (Pinkerton) have joined drama Rain as writers and showrunners. Action series from Slingshot Global Media stars and is exec produced by Keanu Reeves (The Matrix).
Nancy Glass Productions (Tanked) has created a joint venture with unscripted producer Randy Counsman to launch production company Rearrange Media. Counsman had served as VP of development and exec producer and writer at Stephen David Entertainment, where his credits included History’s The World Wars and Discovery’s Gold Fever.
Amazon plucked two pilots from the set released in August to take to series: Hand of God, with Ron Pearlman (Sons of Anarchy) as a corrupt judge turned vigilante, and Steven Soderbergh’s Red Oaks, starring Mad About You’s Paul Reiser and Richard Kind and Jennifer Grey (Dirty Dancing). (Amazon binge alert: season two of Alpha House launches Friday, October 24.)
Apparently, walking on a tightrope between Windy City skyscrapers wasn’t dangerous enough for Nik Wallenda. For a portion of his highwire trek in Chicago, Wallenda will wear a blindfold. “I hope to…show that the impossible is not so impossible if you set your mind to it,” said the daredevil. Viewers in over 220 countries can cross their fingers and tune in to Skyscraper Live with Nik Wallenda, from Peacock Productions, Sunday, November 2 on Discovery at 7p.
Three aspiring designers compete to design Martha Stewart’s 2014 Halloween costume on online reality show Shriek or Chic: Martha’s Haute Halloween Challenge. First of six webisodes launch on AOL channels Tuesday, October 7.
Tonight’s episode of TV One’s Celebrity Crime Files focuses on hate crimes, including the horrific lynchings of James Byrd and Michael Donald. “Sadly, episodes of racial violence still happen all too often as evidenced by recent headlines,” D’Angela Proctor, SVP programming and production, tells Cynopsis. “This episode provides a historical look at America’s conflicted history with race-based crimes and their devastating consequences.” Show airs at 10p.
Want to find out what shows are online and when? Then you’re going to love Watcheroo, Cynopsis’ new Digital Programming Guide. Organized by show name, date, and platform, here is everything you’ll need to be caught up on digital premieres, ongoing programs, live-streamed events and integrated series.
Season two of ID’s A Crime to Remember, back Tuesday, November 11 at 10p, looks at long-forgotten and infamous crimes of the 1950s and ‘60s with a fresh eye and new details. First up: The shocking case of Kitty Genovese, murdered in front of 37 witnesses who did nothing to help.
NBC picked up a third season of Hollywood Game Night. In addition to scoring a Best Reality Show Host Emmy for Jane Lynch, the alternative series averaged 1.5/4 among A18-49 and 5 million total viewers in Live+7 during the 2013-2014 season, up from 1.4/4 and 4.1 million viewers the season prior.
BET’s Real Husbands of Hollywood has been renewed for season four. A reunion special airs Tuesday, October 7 at 10p, ahead of the season three premiere of “the fakest reality show ever” (their words!) on October 14 at 10p.
ASPiRE’s ABFF Independent, a compilation of shorts and documentaries from emerging black artists, returns tonight at 8p with eight works focused on families. Omari Hardwick (Power) narrates.
Zenith Media will become the first national agency to use Rentrak’s local TV ratings data for local TV buying, the companies announced Friday. The Publicis Groupe media agency said it expected the move to cut costs.
BabyFirst launched on Suddenlink, making the net devoted to child development programming available to substantially all of Suddenlink’s 1.4 million video customers.
Gilles Marini joins season three of Lifetime’s Devious Maids as a series regular, after guesting on the sophomore season finale. Maids returns in 2015.
Thandie Newton (Crash) and Melissa George (In Treatment) have been cast in NBC miniseries The Slap, from Universal Television and Australia’s Matchbox Pictures.
Ed Begley Jr. (Arrested Development) and Stephanie Hunt (Californication) join TBS’s Your Family or Mine as series regulars, and Collette Wolfe hops aboard as guest star. Family comedy is slated for a summer 2015 premiere.
Bailey Chase (Longmire) landed a story arc in NBC’s Chicago PD. Procedural airs Wednesdays at 10p.
Hugh Laurie (House) and Tom Hiddleston (Thor) will star an adaptation of John le Carre’s The Night Manager, says the Hollywood Reporter. Spy drama from Ink Factory is being developed in partnership with the BBC.
CASTING CALL: Moviefone is casting the next Mr./Ms. Moviefone: The new Mr./Ms. Moviefone will serve as a face and voice of the brand and may fulfill various duties such as red carpet appearances, conduct interviews, create movie/TV reviews, & work in other brand extensions, like social media outreach. Full details: HERE.
CASTING CALL: Food Network’s Chopped is casting competitors for new episodes this fall. Seeking professional chefs, pastry chefs, and amazing amateur cooks (teens, college undergrads, grandpas, grandmas, families, etc) in the NYC Tri-State, Chicago, Miami and Seattle areas. All dynamic, passionate, creative chefs and cooks should apply at www.choppedcasting.com.
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NBC’s Bad Judge premiered with 5.9 million viewers and a 1.3 rating/4 share in A18-49, followed by 1.2/3 in the demo and 4.8 million viewers for A to Z. Lead-in to the freshman comedies was The Biggest Loser, with 1.3/4 and 4.7 million viewers.
Opposite CBS football and Scandal, Fox’s Gracepoint debuted with 1.2/3 among A18-49 and 4.8 million viewers on Thursday.
Velocity was up 26 percent among A25-54 in both ratings and delivery in 3Q14 versus the same period last year, for eight consecutive quarters of Primetime delivery gains in Persons and M25-54 and P18-49 for the net.
Thursday A18-49 Analysis: CBS scored the most A18-49 viewers Thursday with 5.8/19, according to final primetime national ratings from Nielsen, dominating every hour with NFL football. CBS averaged 4/15 at 8p between Kick-off Pt. 2 and the game, followed by 2.7/9 for ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy. The game scored 6.7/20 at 9p, versus 3.4/10 for ABC’s Scandal, and continued to lead at 10p with 5.3/17, versus 3.3/10 for ABC’s How to Get Away with Murder.
A18-49: CBS 5.8/19, ABC 3.1/10, NBC 1.3/4, FOX 1.3/4, UNI 1.3.4, CW .6/2, TELE .6/2, ION .1/0
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Thursday, October 2, 2014 time period averages. Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.
CBS: 9.7/17
NFL Kick-off 5.6/10, Thursday Night Football 9.8/17
ABC: 7.1/12
Grey’s Anatomy 6.3/11, Scandal 7.1/11, How to Get Away with Murder 8.0/14
FOX: 3.5/6
Bones 4.0/7, Gracepoint 3.0/5
NBC: 3.2/5
Biggest Loser 3.1/5, Bad Judge 4.0/6, A to Z 3.2/5, Parenthood 2.9/5
UNIVISION: 1.6/3
Mi Corazon es Tuyo 1.9/3, Hasta Fin del Mundo 1.8/3, Malquerida 1.1/2
CW: .9/1
Vampire Diaries 1.2/2, Reign .7/1
TELE: .8/1
Reina de Corazones .6/1, Los Miserables .8/1, Senora Acero 1.1/2
ION: .71
Blue Bloods .7/1, Blue Bloods .6/1, Blue Bloods .7/1
Maureen Granados has been promoted to Vice President, Communications, Syfy. Granados, who started her professional career as a coordinator with the net’s communications department, has worked on projects including Battlestar Galactica, Defiance and Z Nation.
Fusion tapped Dodai Stewart to serve as Director of Culture Coverage. Most recently, Stewart was Deputy Editor at women’s site Jezebel.
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This Day In History: 1889 – The Moulin Rouge cabaret debuted in Paris.
Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: Which future teen idol landed a TV role as a logger struggling with a stammer? Bobby Sherman, in Here Come the Brides (1968-1970). Kudos to: Barry Schiffer-WJZ-TV/Baltimore, Mary Kovach-Icon International/Stamford, CT, Karen Snow/NYC, Kathy Alexander/Cleveland, OH, Susan McClellan-Empower Mediamarketing/Cincinnati, Kathryn Kieser-Haworth Marketing and Media/Minneapolis, Barry Woolsey-Telepictures/Chicago, John Kukla-KDFW/Dallas, Patti Rodriguez-SBG/Colorado Springs, Joan Lee-KOLD TV/Tucson, Susan Nessanbaum-Goldberg-M and S Entertainment/LA, David Garber-Linzack Productions/Chatsworth, CA, Mary Cregan-MEC Media/Palo Alto, CA, Alex Petrilli, Jr.-TiVo/San Jose.
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – MONDAY OCTOBER 6, 2014
ABC: Dancing with the Stars, Castle
CBS: Big Bang Theory, Big Bang Theory [r], Scorpion, NCIS: Los Angeles [p]
CW: The Originals [p], Supernatural
FOX: Gotham, Sleep Hollow
NBC: The Voice, The Blacklist
PBS: Antiques Roadshow, Antiques Roadshow [r], POV
Telemundo: Reina de Corazones, Los Miserables, Senora Acero
Univision: Mi Corazon Es Tuyo, Hasta el Fin del Mundo, La Malquerida
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