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Good morning. It’s Thursday, October 9, 2014, and this is your first early morning briefing.
Tonight’s Premieres:
Animal Planet: Monsters Inside Me at 10p
ID: Inside Homicide at 9p and 10p
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ABC Family named Karey Burke executive vice president, programming and development. From 1999-2003, Burke was Executive Vice President of Primetime Series at NBC, overseeing hits like Friends and ER; in 2010, she partnered with Todd Holland to form Dark Toy Entertainment, housed first at NBCUniversal and then ABC Studios. Said Tom Ascheim, president, ABC Family, “She is a dynamic leader with a vision for our programming that will result in more stand-out, must-commit, must-share content.” Burke replaces Kate Juergens, who left in July.
Jay Leno, who left NBC’s Tonight Show in February, is close to a deal with CNBC for a primetime show focusing on one of his great passions: cars, says the Hollywood Reporter. Leno’s web series Jay’s Garage is on NBC.com; special Jay’s Garage: The Ultimate Car Week aired on CNBC in September.
Spike TV will launch in the UK, Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman told reporters on Wednesday. “It will begin with a combination of fact-based, reality programming from Channel 5 and our Spike network in the U.S.,” said Dauman. “It is our intention to expand the Spike brand, beginning with the UK, around the world. It will become one of our major global brands.” Viacom acquired Channel 5 for $725 million last spring.
Scripps Networks Interactive has offered an early retirement package to its U.S. employees who are at least 55 with a minimum 10 years of service. An email sent Monday from Scripps chairman, president and CEO Ken Lowe told staffers the company is “strong, healthy and creative,” but acknowledged “significant headwinds for the industry at large,” thanks to declining TV viewership, a challenging ad market, the increasingly crowded lifestyle space and changes in consumer behavior. An effort to bring costs in line with revenue will likely include “the elimination of activities, projects and positions,” warned Lowe.
Baratunde Thurston, best-selling author of “How To Be Black,” goes from frequent guest to co-host with Meghan McCain and Jacob Soboroff on Pivot nightly 10p news program TakePartLive. “This show is a great example of what a thoughtful, community-engaged, and respectful debate can be,” said Thurston. “I can’t wait to add my point of view, wit, and beard to the mix."
Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, Late Night With Jimmy Fallon and The Beatles: The Night That Changed America are up for the National Association of Music Merchant Foundation’s Outstanding Creative Achievement in Television Sound Production award. Winners will be announced at the NAMM TEC Awards on January 24 in Anaheim.
Earthquake, monsoon, windstorm – production on season three of Animal Planet’s Wild West Alaska has been…wild. A campsite was destroyed and a production truck cracked through the ice of a frozen river, but “Our Alaska crew is tough,” Matt Sprouse, VP of Jupiter Entertainment, tells Cynopsis. “Which is a good thing because the conditions are really unpredictable and anything can happen.” The challenges are well worth it, though, says Sprouse: “I don’t think there’s a more spectacular place on this planet to make TV.”
Buddy Valastro, star of TLC’s Cake Boss, is launching his own production company, reports TheWrap. “I wanted the opportunity to create the type of programming I love to be in and watch – wholesome TV shows the entire family can enjoy together,” said Valastro of Cakehouse Media. “We are going to take advantage of Buddy’s global popularity and sell shows all over the world,” added Cakehouse CEO Art Edwards.
Canada’s Saloon Media, along with UK’s Arrow Media, announced a commission for series See No Evil. The crime doc will play in ID in the U.S. and on Slice in Canada.
Fusion and Berklee College of Music are collaborating on a docu-series to air on Fusion’s TV and digital platforms in 2015. Fusion will follow three young musicians as they navigate life at the music college, with filming primarily taking place on Berklee’s campus. Students will also be tapped for a new fellowship program, with work supervised by the network’s producers.
Universal Cable Productions signed a first-look deal with Chris Bender, JC Spink and Jake Weiner’s BenderSpink (The Hangover). BenderSpink will develop and produce scripted programming with UCP for NBCUniversal and external networks. “We’ve been anxious to build our television business and form the kind of successful partnership we have in features with New Line Cinema,” said Chris Bender, co-founder of BenderSpink. “We really clicked with the gang at UCP and their sensibility and are excited to have the opportunity to make great television together.”
Lifetime has given the official go-ahead to Seeds of Yesterday, based on the fourth of V.C. Andrews’ “Flowers in the Attic” book series. Jason Lewis (Sex and the City) and Rachael Carpani (McLeod’s Daughters) will reprise their If There Be Thorns roles for the A+E Studios production; Thorns, the third film in the series, is slated to debut in 2015.
A&E reality series Country Buck$ follows a family running a wildlife sporting empire, including a sportsman fantasy camp in Louisiana, with drop-ins on the way from celeb pals like Ducky Dynasty’s Willie Robertson and Swamp People’s Troy Landry. Show from Matador launches Wednesday, November 19 at 10p.
The founder of a gag gift empire looks for the next “redneck buck teeth” in Billy Bob’s Gags to Riches, premiering Tuesday, November 4 at 10p. Six-part Discovery docu-series comes from Asylum Entertainment.
ABC Family launches its annual “Countdown to 25 Days of Christmas” on Sunday, November 23, with The Hunger Games at 5p. Other flicks running through November 30: Finding Nemo, Another Cinderella Story, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory and Mirror Mirror, among others.
Up original movie Heavenly Match premieres Sunday, October 12 at 7p. Samaire Armstrong (Resurrection) stars as a minister facing fork-in-the-road decisions about her career and love life.
Two TLC bridal specials that aired this summer have been picked up to premiere as spring 2015 series. Bride By Design, commencing production next month with Trium Entertainment, follows a staff creating custom gowns. Curvy Brides, from Half Yard Productions, follows the owners of Curvaceous Couture as they help women of all shapes and sizes find the dress of their dreams.
Hilary Swank is co-hosting Fox’s The Great American Dog-A-Thon Thanksgiving night, but the Oscar winner, exec producing the special with Michael Levitt, won’t be the only A-lister on hand. Also shining a light on rescue dogs and encouraging animal adoption will be Josh Duhamel, Scarlett Johansson, Miranda Lambert and Betty White, among others.
Redneck Island is back on CMT for season four with “a hot new twist and a hot new co-host” Thursday, December 4 at 9p. This time around, men and women will bunk together, and country singer Jessie James Decker joins wrestling’s Steve Austin overseeing the drama in North Georgia.
Railroad Alaska is chugging back to Destination America. The docu-series following isolated homesteaders living by the Last Frontier’s critical railway is back for season two Saturday, October 25 at 10p. First up: bear attack.
MTV’s Awkward. was renewed for a fifth and final season. Now in season four, the comedy airs Tuesdays at 10p.
Also headed for the last round: MTV’s Snooki & JWoww, launching its fourth and final season Wednesday, November 5 at 10p. “We’re back, bitches, and we’re pregnant,” announce the reality stars in the trailer.
History’s junk divers are back transforming trash into treasure when new eps of American Pickers launch Wednesday, October 29 at 9p. The docu-series ranks seventh among cable non-fiction programs in total viewers.
Season two of Fashion Fund debuts on arts net Ovation Wednesday, November 5 at 10p. Vogue’s Anna Wintour and design icon Diane von Furstenberg are back to help determine the recipient of the 2014 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund prize. And $300,000.
The BBC went big with a video launching its new BBC Music brand. A cross-section of superstars ranging from Stevie Wonder to Elton John to Lorde cover Beach Boys’ masterpiece “God Only Knows,” accompanied by the 80-piece BBC Concert Orchestra. Agency Karmarama and production company Red Bee Media created the three-minute spot, being released as a charity single for the BBC Children in Need campaign.
Brian Dennehy (Presumed Innocent) and Neal McDonough (Desperate Housewives) will recur on TNT’s 60s-set Amblin TV police drama Public Morals, from writer, exec producer and star Ed Burns (Mob City).
CASTING CALL: Homeowners/Orlando area: For Backyard Makeover Show. Is your backyard an eyesore? Landscape looks like a jungle? Celeb landscape designer, Jamie Durie is ready to transform your backyard into an oasis! Email us how your unattractive backyard is affecting your family and include your name, age, city, contact number and photos. Email to: [email protected]
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.
Keshet International’s Help! I Can’t Cook! has been optioned by Shine France. The format’s premiere on Keshet Broadcasting in Israel was the second highest-rated original reality launch ever, after Rising Star.
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CW had its highest-rated premiere in five years on Tuesday with The Flash, scoring 1.9/6 among A18-49 to land the net third in the 8p time slot.
New ABC comedies Selfie and Manhattan Love Story were down from last week, with 1.2/4 and .9/3 A18-49 ratings, respectively, versus 1.6/5 and 1.5/5 for their September 30 premieres.
Monday’s Watch What Happens Live: One-on-One with Teresa and Joe Giudice, which had Andy Cohen interviewing Bravo’s Real Housewives of New Jersey pair for the first time since their sentencing for fraud, delivered 3.2 million viewers across the first three telecasts. The 9p premiere drew 1.7 million total viewers and 841,000 P18-49.
Tabloid headlines didn’t hurt WE tv’s Kendra on Top, either. The show returned for season three on Friday to over one million viewers, up 34 percent over the season two bow, following allegations that the reality star’s husband had an encounter with a transsexual model. From Live+SD to Live+3, the series got a 55 percent bump among A18-49 (to 627,000) and a 52 percent lift in A25-54 (to 620,000).
The Saturday premiere of LeBron James comedy Survivor’s Remorse delivered 203,000 viewers to Starz at 9p, down 56 percent from Power’s June premiere in the timeslot. Counting three encores, the number rose to 391,000 total viewers.
That’s rich: CBS claims the number one spot in the upscale demo (A18+/$150,000+ household income) with the top three new series the first two weeks of the season. Scorpion, Madame Secretary and NCIS: New Orleans topped the freshman group.
Tuesday A18-49 Analysis: NBC won the most A18-49 viewers Tuesday with 2.4/7, according to Nielsen. CBS was first at 8p with 2.6/9 for NCIS, versus 2.4/8 for NBC’s The Voice. The Voice rose to first at 9p with 2.6/8, followed by 2.3/7 for CBS’s NCIS: New Orleans. NBC’s Chicago Fire lit up 10p with 2.1/7; CBS’s Person of Interest was second with 1.6/5.
A18-49: NBC 2.4/7, CBS 2.2/7, CW 1.5/5, ABC 1.3/4, UNI 1.2/4, FOX 1.1/3, TELE .6/2, ION .5/2
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: October 7, 2014 – time period averages. Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.
CBS: 8.8/15
NCIS 10.7/18, NCIS: Los Angeles 9.5/15, Person of Interest 6.1/11
NBC: 5.6/9
The Voice 5.7/9, Chicago Fire 5.3/9
ABC: 3.0/56
Selfie 2.7/4, Manhattan Love Story 2.2/4, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 2.9/5, Forever 3.7/6
CW: 2.2/4
The Flash 2.8/5, Supernatural 1.6/3
UNIVISION: 1.6/3
Mi Corazon Es Tuyo 2.1/3, Hasta Fin del Mundo 1.7/3, Malquerida 1.1/2
FOX: 1.4/2
Family Guy [r] 1.2/2, New Girl 1.7/3, Mindy Project 1.5/2
ION: 1.1/2
Criminal Minds .9/1, Criminal Minds 1.2/2, Criminal Minds 1.1/2
TELE: .8/1
Reina de Corazones .6/1, Los Miserables .7/1, Senora Acero 1.1/2
Samantha Adorno has been promoted to Vice President of Digital Marketing for INSP. Previously, Adorno was Director of Digital Marketing.
Actress Sarah Goldberg died September 27 in her sleep of natural causes. She was 40. Goldberg’s television credits included 7th Heaven, CSI and 90210.
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – THURSDAY OCTOBER 9, 2014
ABC: Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal, How to Get Away with Murder
CBS: NFL Thursday, NFL Football
CW: The Vampire Diaries, Reign
FOX: Bones, Gracepoint
NBC: The Biggest Loser, Bad Judge, A to Z, Parenthood
PBS: This Old House Hour, Masterpiece Classic [r], Antiques Roadshow [r]
Telemundo: Reina de Corazones, Los Miserables, Senora de Acero
Univision: Mi Corazon Es Tuyo, Hasta el Fin del Mundo, La Malquerida
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