11/10/17: Bravo extends Andy Cohen through 2020

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Good morning. It’s Friday November 10, 2017 and this is your first early morning briefing.

Tonight’s Premieres:

Cooking: Extreme Cake Makers at 11p

CMT: Road Less Traveled at 9p

Fuse: Complex x Fuse at 11p

HGTV: House Hunters International at 10:30p

Velocity: Toymakerz at 8p

Tonight’s Finales:
ABC: Marvel’s Inhumans at 9p

Cinemax: Mike Judge Presents: Tales from the Tour Bus at 10p

TV5Monde USA: Irresponsable at 1:30a

Saturday’s Premieres:

Animal Planet: Cat vs. Dog at 10p

Sunday’s Premieres:

A&E: Elizabeth Smart: Autobiography at 9p

AMC: Robert Kirkman’s Secret History of Comics at 11p

HGTV: Hawaii Life at 8p

TLC: Unexpected at 10:05p

Sunday’s Finales:

Food: Guy’s Ranch Kitchen at 12p

HBO: Vice Principals at 10:30p, Last Week Tonight With John Oliver at 11:05p

IN THE NEWS

Bravo Media inked a three-year, multi-tiered deal with Andy Cohen that extends through 2020. The pact includes three more years of Cohen as host and EP of Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen; a renewed look development deal with Cohen’s production company, Most Talkative; and his continuing as EP of the Real Housewives franchise.

The 51^st Annual CMA Awards, hosted by Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley, walked the line between celebration and commemoration on Wednesday night. Departed stars like Glen Campbell and Troy Gentry (half of duo Montgomery Gentry) were honored, while Garth Brooks won Entertainer of the Year for a record-extending sixth time. Other winners included: Keith Urban for Single of the Year (Blue Ain’t Your Color), Chris Stapleton for Album of the Year (From A Room: Volume 1), Taylor Swift for Song of the Year (Better Man) and Miranda Lambert and Chris Stapleton for Female and Male Vocalist of the Year, respectively.

P!NK is slated to up her commitment to performance art with a fearless rendition of the title track from her Beautiful Trauma album at the 2017 American Music Awards. The ceremony will be broadcast live from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday, November 19 at 8p on ABC.

Anthony Anderson will be back to host the 49^th NAACP Image Awards, airing live Monday, January 15 on TV One. The black-ish star also hosted the 47^th and 48^th annual awards show.

In anticipation of TNT’s psychological thriller, The Alienist, based on Caleb Carr’s international bestseller, Random House is re-releasing the novel. Series bows Monday, January 22 at 9p.

The National Association of Television Program Executives selected Tony Vinciquerra, Chairman and CEO, Sony Pictures Entertainment, and Soledad O’Brien, host of Hearst Television’s Matter of Fact, to headline NATPE Miami with a keynote conversation on Wednesday, January 17. The focus will be A Changing Industry in a Changing World. The annual marketplace and conference is being held at the Fontainebleau and Eden Roc Miami Beach Resorts.

Hollywood Radio and Television Society is hosting a special Spotlight Dinner presented by HRTS’ Unscripted Content Group focusing on how to prevent and address sexual harassment in production on Monday, December 4 at The Beverly Wilshire Hotel. A panel of experts on production, entertainment law and employment litigations will gather for a candid discussion on how to create a culture of zero tolerance. “This is a discussion that is not only timely, it is essential for our members, for whom we are planning topical and informative events throughout the year,” said Melissa Grego, COE, HRTS.

KWEX 41 Univision San Antonio, a station that paved the way for Univision Communications Inc. and Spanish-language television across the U.S., partnered with Texas A&M University – San Antonio to create Univision Media Lab – Capstone Experience. It provides students with on-site educational experience in broadcast, radio, marketing, advertising and social media. Enrollment begins spring 2018.

David R. Bochenek, Senior Vice President/Chief Accounting Officer for Sinclair Broadcast Group, and Ryan Hornaday, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer for Emmis Communications Corporation, will co-chair the Media Financial Management Association’s 2018 CFO Summit, scheduled for March 8-9 at the Fort Lauderdale Beach Hilton. Now in its 12^th year, the CFO Summit provides an exclusive forum for dialogue on the most important issues facing CFOs and media executives.

RFD-TV News announced that Rural Tractor Brigade, which was organized as part of a continuing effort to “reconnect city with country,” was awarded a 2017 Cablefax Award for “Best Branded Content.”

Velocity uses advanced sensor data processing techniques to identify a mobile phone user’s motion, technology that is useful for advertisers from beverage to automotive to retail. “We can sense the asymmetry associated with pulling luggage, which indicates an upcoming trip. So we can tell if a person is about to head to the airport even before they call their Uber,” says Brett Bond, President, Velocity. For more on an intriguing (and slightly scary) technology, check out the latest Cynsiders: http://www.cynopsis.com/cyncity/velocity-meaning-from-motion/

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The Cynopsis TV Awards: Looking for the best in TV Programming

Winning a Cynopsis TV Award is a symbol of acknowledgement and appreciation from your peers – that your work has risen to the top in entertaining and enriching a broad audience. With expanded categories (check out full list hear) and the terrific year we’ve seen in television, this is sure to be our best year yet! The final deadline is Friday, November 17^th. Need help with your entries? Contact [email protected]

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PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT

MTV ordered Amazingness, an irreverent variety and talent competition hosted by Rob Dyrdek alongside a star-studded panel of judges, including Eddie Huang, Krystal Bee and Chris “Drama” Pfaff. The net also ordered new episodes of Ridiculousness for its milestone tenth season.

Netflix greenlit a game show that’s a blend of Jackass and Wipeout from Sony Pictures Television-backed Stellify Media. Flinch (wt) features contestants’ attempt to withstand pain and discomfort in a series of hilarious games to make them scared.

The CW gave a full season order to seductive drama, Dynasty. Series airs Wednesdays at 9p.

Bet Networks ordered Black Card Revoked hosted by actor/comedian Tony Rock. The nostalgia game show, based on the popular party game, will offer a lighthearted test of pop culture, entertainment, historical facts and politics from an African American perspective.

Calling all forward-thinking, strategic executors of campaigns that run on broadcast, cable, and digital platforms for the annual Cynopsis Buyers & Planners Awards. Submit your nomination by midnight tonight! (PS – it’s free!!) – http://ht.ly/KO8330grSPN

NEW & RETURNING SERIES

Oxygen Media debuts the sophomore season of Homicide for the Holidays on Saturday, November 25 at 6p.

The Detour returns to TBS for its third season on Tuesday, January 23 at 10p.

Season 2 of HBO’s pot comedy High Maintenance premieres Friday, January 19 at 11p.

Complex x Fuse bows Friday, November 10 at 11p. The new weekly block features athletes and celebrities eating killer food, answering burning questions and revealing the secrets behind the hottest kicks.

The Best Thing I Ever Ate returns on Monday, December 11 at 8p on Cooking Channel.

COMING UP

20/20 follows the inspirational story of Nathaniel Newman and his inspirational family on Friday, November 17 at 10p on ABC. Born with a rare cranio-facial condition called Treacher Collins Syndrome, Nathaniel has been called the real-life story of a character from the upcoming movie, Wonder.

Legendary magazine editor Tina Brown opens up about her career, new book, relationship with President Donald Trump and her interactions with former business partner Harvey Weinstein in an interview with Tony Dokoupil for CBS Sunday Morning on November12 at 9a on CBS.

Katy Perry is the featured interview guest on National Geographic’s STARTALK with Neil deGrasse Tyson airing Sunday, November 12 at 11p.

Revolt TV airs Under The Bridge on Tuesday, December 5. The documentary tells the story of late rapper Albert “Prodigy” Johnson.

Oprah Winfrey talks to former Vice President Joe Biden about his highly anticipated memoir, Promise Me Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship and Purpose, on Super Soul Sunday airing November 12 at 11a on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network.

HOLIDAY STUNTS

Lifetime released its guide to “all things festive.” It features a big block of original Christmas movies, like My Christmas Prince on Sunday, December 3 at 8p, and Snowed Inn Christmas

on Saturday, December 16 at 8p; as well as unscripted programming, like Little Women: LA: A Little Festive on December 13 at 8p, and Married at First Sight: Holiday Game Night on Tuesday, December 26 at 9p.

ABC kicks off the holiday season with The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday celebration airing Thursday, November 30 at 9p.

I Love Lucy Christmas Special airs Friday, December 22 at 8p on CBS. The new one-hour special features back-to-back colorized episodes of the classic series. Immediately following, The Dick Van Dyke Show – Now in Living Color!, a one-hour special with two colorized back-to-back episodes, airs at 9p.

CASTING

Dan Bucatinsky, who played Neil in the original Will & Grace, is reprising the role in an upcoming guest spot. Also appearing in the same episode of the NBC series are Matthew Letscher, Andy Favreau and Barry Bostwick.

Syfy set the full cast for Deadly Class, the pilot based on the graphic novel of the same name by Rick Remender and West Craig. Most notably, British actor Benedict Wong will play Master Lin, headmaster of the School of Deadly Arts.

Stephan James (Shots Fired) nabbed the male lead opposite Julia Roberts in Amazon’s straight-to-series order Homecoming… Monica Barbaro landed the female lead opposite Tony Danza and Josh Groban in Netflix dramedy The Good Cop… Add Patti La Belle and Brandy Norwood to the list of musical talents set for multi-episode arcs on FOX music drama Star… Eric Winter (Witches of East End) joins ABC’s The Good Doctor in a recurring role.

KID STUFF

Ready Jet Go!: Holidays in Boxwood Terrace launches on PBS KIDS on December 11. (Check local listings.) Special will also be available to stream on pbskids.org and the PBS Kids Video App, as well as via the 24/7 PBS KIDS Channel.

DIGITAL DOINGS

Tvline reports that HBO is eyeing Spring 2018 to begin production on a second season of Big Little Lies, although the network declined to confirm it. Adding fuel to rumor is the fact that Reese Witherspoon has stepped away from Pale Blue Dot, the Fox Searchlight sci-fi film that she had planned to produce and star in.

CBS All Access slotted the premiere date for the remaining six episodes of Star Trek: Discovery. Chapter 2 of the series returns Sunday January 7 after 8:30p.

Turner and IMG’s ELEAGUE bring fans The ELEAGUE CUP: Rocket League on Friday, December 1 across TBS with live gameplay on Twitch and YouTube.

Three new episodes of The Benefits of Gusbandry are now available on Amazon Prime Video, Seed & Spark and Vimeo. Series follows a straight woman and her gay male best friend.

Kin Community’s Paper Tigers debuted on Thursday. The original series, produced exclusively for Facebook Watch, features five of the world’s top paper artists.

Mexicanal inked a distribution deal with Sling TV, making the network available to Sling TV Mexico subscribers for a monthly free.

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RATINGS

ABC finished a dominant #1 on Wednesday night, fueled by The 51^st Annual CMA Awards, winning all six half hours of the night in Total Viewers and A18-49. During primetime the net more than doubled its closest competition, leading CBS by 7.8 million viewers (+120% – 14.3 million vs. 6.5 million) and FOX by 113% in A18-49 (3.2/12 vs. 1.5/6).

Live + Same Day Viewers AA (millions) Wednesday, October 18, 2017 time period averages

Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated Live+SD

ABC: 14.3 million

The 51^st Annual CMA Awards 14.3

CBS: 6.5 million

Survivor 7.8, SEAL Team 6.2, Criminal Minds 5.5

NBC: 5.1 million

The Blacklist 5.0, Law & Order: SVU 5.0, Chicago PD 5.2

FOX: 4.6 million

Empire 5.4, Star 3.8

CW: 1.1 million

Riverdale 1.5, Dynasty 0.7

Univision: 1.1 million

Rosa de Guadalupe 1.1, Mi Marido Tiene Familia 1.2, Caer en Tentacion 0.9

TELE: 1.0 million

El Cesar 0.7, Sin Senos Si Hay Paraiso 1.2, El Senor de los Cielos 1.0

Wednesday A19-49 Analysis: ABC 3.2/12, FOX 1.5/5, CBS 1.1/4, NBC 0.9/3, TELE 0.6/2, UNI 0.5/2, CW 0.4/2

EXECUTIVE MOVES

Cannabis news, entertainment and lifestyle OTT channel 420TV, set to launch in January 2018, named Douglas A. Lee as General Manager. Lee also negotiated the 420TV deal on behalf of OWNZONES Media Network and has been the architect of the channel’s programming.

AMC Networks International appointed Alina Florea and Sam Rowden to new roles. Florea is now Director of Acquisitions and Content Partnerships, while Rowden is Director of Programming, CBS Channels.

Discovery Communications expanded Susanna Dinnage’s role to the newly created position of Global President, Animal Planet. She currently serves as President UK/Ireland and Chief Content Officer for Discovery Networks International.

Fusion Media Group announced that Ben Reininga is joining as Head of Video for Gizmondo Media’s collection of sites.

Friday Fun Fact: Of all the words in the English language, “set” has the most definitions.

This Day in History: 1984 – Wes Craven’s horror film Nightmare on Elm Street premiered in the U.S.

Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: Who was Sam’s idol on Quantum Leap (1989-1993)? Albert Einstein. Kudos to: Holly Hearn-H2 Concierge Marketing/Sarasota, FL; Julie Stowell-Gracenote/Queensbury, NY; Lou Castellano-Turner Broadcasting/NYC; Synda Kollman-Charter Marketing Group/Deerfield Beach, FL; Susan Nessanbaum-Goldberg-M and S Entertainment/Los Angeles, CA; David Westburg-SAG-AFTRA Credit Union/Burbank, CA.

Today’s Trivia Question: Whose urine sample did Nora steal to run a pregnancy test on The Naked Truth (1995-1998)? (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.)

Mystery Series Anagram: Mute Her Rewards = Murder She Wrote. Kudos to: Michael Strauss-CoxReps/NYC; Patrick Loftus-ListenFirst Media/NYC; Karen Van Vleet-Horizon Media/NYC.

Switcheroo (two TV characters, one actor) Jill Campbell (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 – FRIDAY NOVEMBER 10

ABC: Once Upon a Time, Marvel’s Inhumans [f], 20/20

CBS: MacGyver, Hawaii Five-0, Blue Bloods

CW: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Jane the Virgin

FOX: Hell’s Kitchen, The Exorcist

NBC: Blind Spot, Dateline NBC

PBS: Washington Week, Charlie Rose – The Week, Great Performances, Foo Fighters: Landmarks Live in Concert: A Great Performances Special

Telemundo: El Cesar, Sin Senos Si Hay Paraiso, Senora Acero 4: La Cayote

Univision: La Rosa de Guadalupe, Mi Marido Tiene Familia, Caer en Tentacion

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