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Good morning. It’s Tuesday, November 11, 2014, and this is your first early morning briefing.
Tonight’s Premieres:
A&E: Storage Wars at 9p, Dogs of War at 10p
DIY: A Hero’s Welcome at 11p
GSN: The Chase at 8p
ID: A Crime to Remember at 10p
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Showtime picked up The Affair for a sophomore run, and Homeland for season five. While The Affair debuted to just 507,000 Same Day viewers, the relationship drama has grown every week since its premiere and is averaging 3.9 million weekly viewers across platforms Sundays at 10p. Homeland is averaging 6 million weekly viewers at 9p.
True mystery-focused Justice Network, slated for a January launch, aims to capitalize on viewers’ fascination with crime. Said CEO Steve Schiffman, former president of National Geographic Channels, “Recognizing that by 2013, half of the top 50-rated prime shows on television were justice-oriented programming, our management team saw the need to satisfy America’s obsession with justice.” Also on that team: Barry Wallach, former president of NBCUniversal Domestic Television Distribution and John Ford, former president of Discovery Channel. A deal with Gannett Broadcasting will cover one third of the U.S. at launch.
President Obama isn’t wavering on the issue of net neutrality. In a statement explaining why he is urging the FCC to implement “the strongest possible rules” to protect an open Internet, the President said “it is essential to the American economy, and increasingly our very way of life…We cannot allow Internet service providers to restrict the best access or to pick winners and losers in the online marketplace for services and ideas.”
TruthCo. gave props to CW freshman Jane the Virgin with its November “Show to Know” kudos. Based on a Venezuelan telenovela, Jane treats Latinos “not as monolithic, struggling ‘others,’ but as relatable, well-rounded, and diverse,” said the culture decoder, adding the series “succeeds by balancing the genre’s requisite absurdity with the emotionally realistic reactions of its characters.”
NYCers won’t be seeing an irreverent ad for Bravo’s upcoming series Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce, with star Lisa Edelstein holding up her ring finger and the line, “Go Find Yourself,” on city buses or subways. The MTA banned the poster because of its “implied inappropriate creative,” according to the NY Post. That didn’t stop Bravo – ads have already popped up in other spots, like Big Apple phone kiosks. (LA also rejected the ad.) Girlfriends’ Guide premieres Tuesday, December 2 at 10p.
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MTV2 announced new season pickups for Nick Cannon Presents: Wild ‘N Out and Guy Code, to air in 2015, and greenlit two new series, MTV2’s Joking Off and Number 2 News (wt). The net is also developing a talk show pilot, Uncommon Sense with Charlamagne. “We’re cultivating new playgrounds to discover rising talent,” said Chris McCarthy, GM of MTV2, mtvU and Logo.
SundanceTV gave the green light to Hap and Leonard, based on the Joe Lansdale noir book series about an unlikely pair of best friends in 1980s East Texas. Six one-hour episodes produced by Sundance Studios begin shooting in 2015 for an early 2016 premiere.
Starz ordered a series follow-up to classic horror film franchise The Evil Dead, with original director Sam Raimi, producing partner Rob Tapert and star Bruce Campbell as chainsaw-handed monster hunter Ash onboard Ash Vs. Evil Dead. Starz first worked with Raimi and Tapert on Spartacus. “Bruce, Rob and I are thrilled to have the opportunity to tell the next chapter in Ash’s lame, but heroic saga,” said Raimi.
Animal Planet hosts a two-week holiday celebration Monday, December 15-Sunday, December28. “Best Fest” will feature marathons of fan faves and premieres of holiday-themed eps, starting with Mud Lovin’ Rednecks as they create a “Muddy South Pole” on December 15 at 9p.
Unsung heroes are celebrated in American Heroes Channel miniseries The American Revolution, premiering Monday, December 15 at 9p and 10p. Two-night event combines interviews, recreations and high-end animation to shine a light on forgotten players in the conflict.
ABC Family is giving fans a chance to get in the spirit of the season early, making holiday eps of Switched at Birth and The Fosters available ahead of their broadcast premieres. Starting Monday, December 1, viewers can access the shows on the net’s authenticated WATCH ABC Family service and VOD platforms. Official bows: Monday, December 8 at 8p and 9p.
The Weather Channel is offering three days of “Survive the Feast,” 2p-4a marathons Thanksgiving weekend. Included: back-to-back eps of So You Think You’d Survive (“give thanks for not finding yourself in any of these situations”), Fat Guys in the Woods and Highway Through Hell, Thursday, November 27 through Saturday, November 29.
Esquire is also serving up Thanksgiving marathons, with back-to-back eps of food-and-drink themed Knife Fight, Best Bars in America, Illegal Eater and Restaurant Revolution Thursday and Friday.
A national veterans campaign, Got Your 6, is aiming to shift perceptions about vets and their families. Included in the campaign: Operation: Got Your 6, an animated short featuring First Lady Michelle Obama and the Penguins of Madagascar, from the upcoming film, used in History‘s Take a Veteran to School curriculum to help school-age children understand and dispel myths about veterans.
CASTING
Paget Brewster (Criminal Minds) and Keith David (Enlisted) join season six of NBC transplant Community, launching on Yahoo in early 2015.
Roseanne Barr (Roseanne) will guest on ABC’s Cristela, reports EW, for an early January ep. Cristela airs Fridays at 8:30p.
While talk is of TV dollars migrating to digital, Dollar Shave Club is diving deeper into TV. The subscription razor company, which has gotten buzz in the past primarily from viral videos and Facebook ads, launched a new campaign this week with four TV spots. “It’s no secret that advertising on television is a great tool for building your brand,” DSC founder and CEO Michael Dubin told AdAge. “Some of the messages we wanted to communicate felt really right for television.” Former improv comedian Dubin co-wrote the spots.
With a focus on its global “Project Sunlight” sustainability initiative, Unilever will for the first time advertise its corporate brand on TV, with spots rolling out in the U.S. November 17. The consumer goods giant debuted an ad in the UK on Sunday.
AMC Networks International Latin America announced significant expansion in Mexico with the debut of AMC (rebranded from MGM) and the first-ever launch of Sundance Channel. As part of a new agreement with PCTV, an association of hundreds of cable systems throughout Mexico, the nets will launch as 24-hour linear channels with VOD. AMC and Sundance will also launch on all pay-TV platforms owned by Televisa Telecom, and on IPTV provider Total Play in Mexico City.
Cumulus is partnering with Music Choice to have country music and lifestyle brand NASH available across MC’s multi-platform video and music networks, including VOD and cable channels. Today’s Country and Country Hits will feature NASH and NASH Icon programming blocks daily from 6p-9p.
Blue Ant International announced the sale of Rebel Without a Kitchen in 55 territories, including to Cooking Channel in the U.S., Asian Food Channel in South East Asia and TV 4 in Sweden. Show from General Purpose Entertainment currently airs on Blue Ant Canadian channels Cottage Life and T+E.
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For the second time in three weeks, AMC’s The Walking Dead trampled NBC’s Sunday Night Football in the young adult demo. Score: Zombies 8.82 million viewers, gridiron 8.4 million at 9p. In total viewers football came out on top, 17.3 million to 13.5 million, per early numbers.
With an assist from football overrun and a Futurama crossover, The Simpsons was up a whopping 45 percent versus the Sunday prior among A18-49, to 2.9/8, enough to top ABC’s Once Upon a Time, second in the demo in Big Four entertainment shows with 2.5.
Sweet Revenge: The ABC Sunday drama saw an uptick from lead-in Resurrection for the first time, matching a season high 1.3/4. Resurrection hit a series low 1.2/3.
Discovery’s Gold Rush was number one in all of television in M25-54 (2.8) and delivered a season best in P25-54 (1.9) on Friday, and was the number one cable program among total viewers, P/M25-54 and P18-49.
The season five finale of ITV’s Downton Abbey delivered 8.3 million viewers, according to overnight ratings, its lowest ender ever; season four’s conclusion drew 9.8 million. Drama launches Stateside January 4 on PBS.
NIELSEN TWITTER TV TOP TEN for the week of 11/3/14
Program, Date, Unique Audience (000), Tweets (000)
The 48th Annual CMA Awards (ABC), 11/5, 7627, 1044
The Walking Dead (AMC), 11/9, 3905, 311
American Horror Story: Freak Show (FX) 11/5, 2578, 174
Scandal (ABC), 11/6, 1938, 312
WWE Monday Night RAW (USA) 11/3, 1499, 142
Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood (VH1) 11/3, 1281, 181
Dancing with the Stars (ABC), 11/3, 1279, 85
The Voice (NBC), 11/3, 1232, 52
The Real Housewives of Atlanta (Bravo) 11/9, 1200, 171
How to Get Away with Murder (ABC) 11/6, 1190, 100
Source: Nielsen. Nielsen Social captures relevant Tweets from three hours before, during and three hours after an episode’s initial broadcast, local time. Unique Audience measures the audience of relevant Tweets ascribed to an episode from when the Tweets were sent until the end of the broadcast day at 5a.The data includes new/live primetime and late fringe episodes only and excludes sports events.For multicast events, networks are listed alphabetically and metrics reflect the highest Unique Audience across all airing networks,denoted with an asterisk.
TV Playback Rank, based on the difference between Nielsen’s first-reported Live + Same Day and the final Live + 7 Day rating for the week of October 20, 2014
Program, Live+SD A18-49 US AA%, Live +7 US AA%, +7 minus SD contribution, L+SD to L+7 Increase
The Big Bang Theory (CBS) 4.6, 6.9, 2.3, 50%
Modern Family (ABC) 3.4, 5.6, 2.2, 65%
The Blacklist (NBC) 2.4 4.4, 2.0, 83%
How to Get Away with Murder (ABC) 3.0, 4.8, 1.8, 60%
Gotham (FOX) 2.3, 4.0, 1.7, 74%
Scandal (ABC) 3.0, 4.6, 1.6, 53%
Grey’s Anatomy (ABC) 2.5, 3.9, 1.4, 56%
Scorpion (CBS) 2.4, 3.8, 1.4, 58%
Criminal Minds (CBS) 2.5, 3.9, 1.4, 56%
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D 1.6, 2.9, 1.3, 81k%
Source: The Nielsen Company. Based on original telecasts only.
Friday A18-49 Analysis: ABC had the most A18-49 viewers Friday with 1.6/6, according to final primetime national ratings from Nielsen. NBC’s Dateline was first at 8p with 1.4/5, followed by 1.2/5 for CBS’s Amazing Race and Univision’s Mi Corazon es Tuyo. Shark Tank took 9p with 2.0/7, versus 1.3/5 for NBC’s Grimm. ABC kept the lead at 10p with 20/20’s 1.7/6, versus 1.3/5 for CBS’s Blue Bloods.
A18-49: ABC 1.6/6, CBS 1.2/4, NBC 1.2/4, UNI 1.0/4, FOX .5/2, TELE .5/2, CW .4/2, ION .2/1
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Friday, November 7, 2014 time period averages. Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.
CBS: 5.5/10
Amazing Race 3.6/6, Hawaii Five-0 5.6/10, Blue Bloods 7.2/14
ABC: 4.4/8
Last Man Standing 4.1/7, Cristela 3.1/6, Shark Tank 4.9/9, 20/20 4.6/9
NBC: 3.4/6
Dateline Friday 5.2/9, Grimm 3.1/6, Constantine 2.1/4
UNIVISION: 1.5/3
Mi Corazon Es Tuyo 1.8/3, Hasta Fin Del Mundo 1.5/3, Malquerida 1.1/2
FOX: 1.1 /2
MasterChef Junior 1.3/2, Gotham [r] .8/1
CW: .8/1
Whose Line is it Anyway .9/2, Whose Line Is it Anyway [r] .7/1, America’s Next Top Model .7/1
TELEMUNDO: .8/1
Reina de Corazones .6/1, Miserables .7/1, Senora Acero 1.0/2
ION: .5/1
Rookie Blue .6/1, Rookie Blue .4/1, Rookie Blue .4/1
WE Tv’s Lauren Gellert was promoted to the newly created position of Executive Vice President of Development & Original Programming, from SVP of Original Production and Development. Gellert joined the net in 2012.
Travel Channel named Robert Madden Senior Vice President, Marketing, Creative, Communications and Brand Strategy. Previously, Madden was General Manager and Senior Vice President of Digital for Food Network and Cooking Channel.
Abrams Artists’ Alternative Programming and Digital Media Division promoted Amanda Marzolf as a key agent in the digital/influencer area, and hired licensing executive Lynda Cevallos, who has worked with companies including Guess, BCBG and MGM.
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – TUESDAY NOVEMBER 11, 2014
ABC: Selfie, Selfie, Modern Family [r], Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [r], Forever
CBS: NCIS: New Orleans, NCIS, Person of Interest
CW: The Flash, Supernatural
FOX: MasterChef, New Girl, The Mindy Project
NBC: The Voice, Chicago Fire
PBS: Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr., Navy Seals: Their Untold Story
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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