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11.10.14 Good morning. It’s Monday, November 10, 2014, and this is your first early morning briefing. Tonight’s Premieres:
A&E: Godfather of Pittsburgh at 10p
UniMas: En la Boca del Lobo at 10p Tonight’s Finale:
TV One: Celebrity Crime Files at 10p
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AMC is bringing back Hell on Wheels for a fifth and final season of 14 episodes, but the series isn’t racing to the finish line. Seven eps launch in summer 2015 and the rest premiere the following summer, a strategy AMC also used to conclude Mad Men and Breaking Bad. In season four, the Western period drama is averaging 3.4 million total viewers in Live+3 and 965,000 among A18-49, Saturdays at 9p.
On a different note: Buoyed by the success of Sound of Music Live!, NBC has Peter Pan Live! prepping for a December 4 telecast, The Music Man on deck for next year and is now mulling another live presentation, this time minus the music: military court drama A Few Good Men. The Broadway play by Aaron Sorkin-turned-1992-hit film focuses the trial of Marines accused of murder…
…But don’t count on Sorkin to write. “Never say never,” Sorkin told the Los Angeles Times about the final three episodes of HBO’s The Newsroom, “but I’m pretty certain I’m about to write my last three episodes of television.” Really? “I’ve loved every minute I’ve spent in television,” Sorkin told the paper. But “I’ve had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I’ve done four shows, and only one of them was The West Wing.”
ABC put in a full-season order for freshman procedural Forever, but isn’t taking any more Selfies. The comedy, which had an initial 13-ep order, is slated to air on Tuesday; after that, its slot will be taken up by holiday specials through much of the season.
The autism community applauded Jerry Seinfeld for an interview on Friday’s NBC Nightly News in which he said he thinks he’s on the autism spectrum. “You’re never paying attention to the right things,” the comedian told Brian Williams. “Basic social engagement is really a struggle….I don’t see it as dysfunctional, I just think of it as an alternate mindset.” Hailing Seinfeld as a champion of people with autism, a statement from Autism Speaks, for which Seinfeld has done benefit work, said, “There are many people on the spectrum who can relate to Jerry’s heartfelt comments.”
The fifth season of NBC’s The Sing-Off will air as a two-hour holiday special, airing Wednesday, December 17. Nick Lachey returns as host of the a cappella competition, launched in 2009 as a four-part series. Last year’s champs, Home Free, had their album “Crazy Life” jump to number one on the country iTunes chart.
YouTube star Shane Dawson was pronounced the winner of Starz reality series The Chair on Saturday, but the crown didn’t come without controversy. Viewers chose between two versions of the same script: Dawson’s and one by fellow filmmaking contestant Anna Martemucci. But Chair producers and mentors Zachary Quinto (American Horror Story: Asylum) and Neal Dodson (American Pie) had earlier yanked their support from Dawson’s production, deeming it too “raunchy”; Quinto also called the film, “a vapid waste of time.” Dawson sloughed off the criticism. “People are out of touch with what teenagers are interested in,” he said. “I wasn’t making a movie for middle-aged people writing about TV.”
WGN America is breaking into the unscripted space next year with two new series. Wrestling with Death launches Tuesday, January 13 at 10p, focused on a family of morticians by day, and wrestlers by night (truly!). Outlaw Country follows clashes between two brothers in law enforcement, and two sibs suspected of crime sprees, starting Tuesday, February 24 at 10p.
Kroenske Sports & Entertainment, owner and operator of Outdoor Channel, acquired InterMedia Outdoors, where Sportsman Channel hangs its hat. Touting the transaction as “highly complementary,” KSE said it plans to continue to operate the outdoor enthusiast nets separately, and “welcome the former InterMedia Outdoors team to the KSE family.”
Velocity’s live SEMA Show, a convention that attracts a crowd of 70,000 people from the auto industry and serves as a kind of Upfront event for the net, took place in Vegas last week. How’d it go? Velocity GM Bob Scanlon’s ready for a victory lap. “Our second year of Velocity Live proves we have the overwhelming support of the car community and viewers alike,” Scanlon tells Cynopsis. “Velocity’s top experts generated enormous fanfare from the sold out crowd.” Also on hand: NASCAR legends Ray Evernham and Jeff Gordon, who announced they reunited to restore a Busch Series car for a special ep of Velocity’s Americarna.
The Big Bang Theory is shrinking. Lego announced it’s releasing a set of figures from the CBS comedy, “geeky details” and all, part of its Ideas project. Legos fans post suggestions on a company web site, and projects with 10,000 voters are guaranteed an official review.
Top 10 Weekend Domestic Box Office Estimates: November 7-9, 2014
Big Hero 6 (Disney) $56.2 million, opening weekend
Interstellar (20th Century Fox) $50.0 million, cume revenue $52.2 million
Gone Girl (20th Century Fox) $6.1 million, cume revenue $145.4
Ouija (Universal) $6.0 million, cume revenue $35.0 million
St. Vincent (The Weinstein Company) $5.7 million, cume revenue $27.4 million
Nightcrawler (Open Road) $5.5, cume revenue $19.8 million
Fury (Sony) $5.5 million, cume revenue $69.3 million
John Wick (Lionsgate) $4.1 million, cume revenue $34.7 million
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (Disney) $3.5 million, cume revenue $59.2
The Book of Life (20th Century Fox) $2.8 million, cume revenue $45.2 million
Source: Rentrak Corporation
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Fox ordered a new season of Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?, hosted again by comedian Jeff Foxworthy. The quiz show produced by Mark Burnett ran on the net from 2007-2009, then on syndication for two years.
Pilgrim Studios signed wedding expert David Tutera to a first-look deal to produce unscripted and scripted projects. Both parties know what they’re getting into, having already partnered on My Fair Wedding, David Tutera: Unveiled and David Tutera’s CELEBrations.
CBSN, the new live, on-demand, ad-supported online news service: will it succeed? Vote in our poll.
Inspired by bestseller Gone Girl, new ID series Love the Way You Lie offers real-life crime stories filmed in he said/she said style. Six parter, produced by Raw TV Limited, premieres Wednesday, November 12 at 10p.
Scientists and a film crew capture predator and prey in the Canadian Artic in Nature’s Invasion of the Killer Whales, airing on PBS Wednesday, November 19 at 8p (check local listings). Warning: things get ugly.
Sportsman will air programming dedicated to veterans and the armed forces Tuesday, November 11 from noon-8p, part of its “Salute to Service” initiative. Veterans Day Tribute Sponsored by Bravo Company includes documentary MURPH: The Protector, back-to-back eps of Beyond the Battlefield and one hour of NRA News Cam & Co.
In other Sportsman news: Voting for the 2014 Sportsman Choice Awards begins today, in categories including Best Hunting Show, Best Shooting Show and Best Fishing Show. Take aim at http://TheSportsmanChannel.com, through November 30.
USA is also commemorating Veterans Day, with a “Salute to Veterans” week. PSAs starring Covert Affairs’ Chris Gorham, who plays a CIA blinded while serving in Iraq, run throughout this week, and a new Affairs episode directed by Gorham airs Thursday, November 13 at 10p. Information and resources are being provided to viewers on-air and at charactersunite.com.
Can a sourpuss learn the true meaning of Christmas? That’s the question in Lifetime live-action movie Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever, premiering Saturday, November 29 at 8p. Aubrey Plaza (Parks and Recreation) voices the peevish pet.
Paper Angels premieres on Up Sunday, November 16 at 7p. Christmas movie starring Josie Bissett (Melrose Place) and Matthew Settle (Gossip Girl) is based on the country song and novel by Jimmy Wayne.
Country star Kenny Chesney’s only concert of the year makes waves on CMT Friday, November 14 at 10p. Kenny Chesney Live from the Flora-Bama was filmed last summer on the beach.
The case of Crips member Stanley “Tookie” Williams is chronicled in the finale of TV One’s Celebrity Crime Files, tonight at 10p.
Celebrity Motor Homes pulls into Great American Country for a third season on Wednesday, November 26 at 8p. First up: Kevin Bacon (The Following) and his brother showing off an over-the-top vehicle, complete with walk-in closet and laundry.
Epic Meal Empire returns to FYI with a Thanksgiving special on Friday, November 14 at 10p. The series premiere of its Late Nite Chef Fight has moved to Saturday, November 29 at 10p.
AXS TV’s Thanksgiving programming includes games from the 2014 Battle 4 Atlantis Men’s College Basketball Tournament, held in the Bahamas. First tip-off: Wednesday, November 26 at 7p. Daytime games are broadcast on ESPN.
El Rey kicks off the holiday season with a Thanksgiving kung fu marathon. Challenge of the Masters launches martial arts madness at 6a on Thursday, November 27, and Blood Brothers closes it out Saturday, November 29 at 3:15a.
Parenthood cast member Sam Jaeger landed the lead in TNT drama pilot Lumen, about a family transported to a mystical alternate world. Parenthood is in its sixth and final run, Thursdays at 10p on NBC.
Costa Ronin (The Americans) joins upcoming ABC superhero drama Marvel’s Agent Carter as Anton Vanko, whose son grows up to be bad guy Whiplash.
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CBS hit Big Bang Theory, back on Thursdays with the exit of football, didn’t put much of a dent in ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy. The medical drama returned from the prior week’s preemption steady in A18-49 (2.4/7 versus 2.5/8) at 8p. Scandal saw a 7 percent bump in viewers at 9p, to 9.8 million, and earned 2.9/9 among A18-49, versus last week’s 3.1/9. How to Get Away with Murder, up 6 percent in total viewers (9.2 million) and 4 percent in the demo (2.8/9), beat the combined A18-49 rating of CBS’s Elementary (1.2/4) and NBC’s Parenthood (1.3/5).
CBS’s Blue Bloods got a 27 percent demo bump versus the week-prior Friday, hitting a season high 1.4/5 among A18-49, according to preliminary Nielsens. Per usual, the procedural topped the night in viewers, with 11.41 million.
ABC was up seven percent week to week on Friday among A18-49 (1.6/6). Season to date, the net’s Friday is up eleven percent in total viewers and six percent among A18-49, posting its top-rated start to a season on the night in 7 years with young adults.
Jay Leno’s trip to The Tonight Show delivered the NBC talker a 3.3, its highest Friday rating in metered-market households since March 7, and 1.2 among A18-49, to equal the best result since that date.
The season finale of the BBC’s Doctor Who delivered an average 5.45 million viewers in overnight ratings, just under the 5.46 million for the season ender in 2013.
Estrella TV music awards show Premios de la Radio was not only number one in key Hispanic demos (5.5 among A18-49 and 7.4 among A25-54) on LA’s KRCA-TV on Thursday, but beat all LA English-language stations in the A18-34, A18-49 and A25-54 demos, according o the net.
Thursday A18-49 Analysis: ABC scored the most A18-49 viewers Thursday with 2.7/8, according to final primetime national ratings from Nielsen. CBS averaged 3.3/11 for Big Bang Theory and Mom to win 8p, followed by 2.4/7 for ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy. ABC’s Scandal took first at 9p with 2.9/9, versus a 1.8/5 average for CBS’s Two and a Half Men and The McCarthys. ABC topped 10p with 2.8/9 for How to Get Away with Murder; NBC’s Parenthood was second with 1.3/4.
A18-49: ABC 2.7/8, CBS 2.1/7, UNI 1.3/4, NBC 1.1/3, FOX 1.0/3, CW .6/2, TELE .6/2, ION .2/1
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Thursday, November 6, 2014 time period averages. Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.
CBS: 6.2/10
Big Bang Theory 9.8/16, Mom 6.5/11, Two and a Half Men 5.7/9, The McCarthys 4.3/7, Elementary 4.5/8
ABC: 5.9/10
Grey’s Anatomy 5.5/9, Scandal 6.9/11, How to Get Away with Murder 6.3/11
NBC: 2.5/4
Biggest Loser 2.7/4, Bad Judge 2.4/4, A to Z 1.8/3, Parenthood 2.6/5
FOX: 2.6/4
Bones 3.4/5, Gracepoint 1.9/3
UNIVISION: 1.6/3
Mi Corazon es Tuyo 2.0/3, Hasta Fin del Mundo 1.7/3, Malquerida 1.2/2
CW: 1.0/2
Vampire Diaries 1.0/2, Reign .9/1
ION: .9/2
Blue Bloods .9/1, Blue Bloods 1.0/2, Blue Bloods .9/2
TELE: .8/1
Reina de Corazones .6/1, Los Miserables .7/1, Senora Acero 1.0/2
NBCUniversal elevated Richard Rothstein to Executive Vice President of Current Programming for Universal Cable Productions, and Steven O’Neill to Executive Vice President of Casting at NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment. Randi Richmond was upped to Senior Vice President of Production at Universal Cable Productions and Carter Batsell was named Vice President of Business Affairs at NBCU Cable Entertainment.
Character actor Richard Schaal died November 4 at the Motion Picture and Television Fund home. He was 86. Schaal, a first generation member of Chicago improv theater company Second City, appeared in numerous sitcoms, including The Mary Tyler Moore Show, I Dream of Jeannie, The Rockford Files and Just Our Luck.
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This Day In History: 1969 – Sesame Street premiered on PBS.
Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: Which 1990s sitcom family included a nephew who lived in a van in the driveway? Step by Step’s Lamberts (1991-1998). Kudos to: Anthony Salerno-Horizon Media/NYC, John Avellino-CoxReps/NYC, Aaron Clark-Discovery Communications/Silver Spring, MD, Ed Goode-Connelly Partners/Boston, Alison Hoffman-Sportsman/Milwaukee, WI, Judy Margolis-The Ad Place/Dallas, Kristen Simony-Harpo Studios/Chicago, Danniele Paponetti-Viacom/Chicago, Mary Brannen-Encyclopedia Britannica/Chicago, LeNea Ricks-KIDK/KXPI/Idaho Falls, ID, Julie Syers-Briggs & Caldwell/Houston, Melissa Friedman-495 Productions/LA, Lisa Casparian-GSN/Santa Monica, CA, Kyle Higman-Sleep Train/Seattle, Paul Sanchez-TWDC/Burbank.
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – MONDAY NOVEMBER 10, 2014
ABC: Dancing with the Stars, Castle
CBS: 2 Broke Girls, The Millers, Scorpion, NCIS: Los Angeles
CW: The Originals, Jane the Virgin
FOX: Gotham, Sleepy Hollow
NBC: The Voice, The Blacklist
PBS: Antiques Roadshow [r], Antiques Roadshow [r], Ice Warriors
Telemundo: Reina de Corazones, Los Miserables, Senora Acero
Univision: Mi Corazon Es Tuyo, Hasta el Fin del Mundo, La Malquerida
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