12/12/17: Mario Batali leaves The Chew amid allegations of sexual misconduct

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Good morning. It’s Tuesday December 12, 2017 and this is your first early morning briefing.

Tonight’s Finales
Great American Country: Log Cabin Kings at 9p

HBO: REAL Sports With Bryant Gumbel at 10p

History: The Hunt for the Zodiac Killer at 10p

Spike: Ink Master: Angels at 10p

TLC: Hodges Half Dozen at 10p

USA: Chrisley Knows Best at 10p, The Cromarties at 10:30p

IN THE NEWS

The Golden Globes nominations were announced yesterday and Big Little Lies was the TV show with the most nods – 6. FX’s Feud: Bette and Joan nabbed 4 Globes noms, and FX’s Fargo, Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale and NBC’s This Is Us scored 3 each. (Last week, renewed by HBO for another run, Lies was hastily switched to the drama series category from limited series for the Producers Guild Awards.)

By network, HBO was top of the heap with 12 nominations, followed by Netflix (9), FX (8), NBC and Showtime (5 each) and ABC, Amazon, Hulu and USA Network (3 each). Biggest surprise: HBO perennial Emmy winner Veep didn’t make the Golden Globe nomination cut for the first time. The Golden Globes ceremony airs live on NBC on Sunday, January 7, hosted by Seth Meyers. For a complete list of winners, go here.

Restaurateur Mario Batali has been asked to “step away” from ABC’s The Chew while the network reviews allegations of sexual misconduct. ABC said while they are unaware of any type of inappropriate behavior involving him and anyone affiliated with the show, “we will swiftly address any alleged violations of our standards of conduct.” An expose on blog Eater New York accuses Batali of inappropriate touching over at least two decades. Batali, who is also taking a leave from his businesses, responded, “I apologize to the people I have mistreated and hurt. Although the identities of most of the individuals mentioned in these stories have not been revealed to me, much of the behavior described does, in fact, match up with ways I have acted. That behavior was wrong and there are no excuses. I take full responsibility and am deeply sorry for any pain, humiliation or discomfort I have caused to my peers, employees, customers, friends and family.”

CNN suspended contributor Ryan Lizza after he was fired from The New Yorker for “improper sexual conduct.” Said Lizza, “I am dismayed that The New Yorker has decided to characterize a respectful relationship with a woman I dated as somehow inappropriate.”

A possible deal that has Disney buying a big piece of 21st Century Fox could be announced this week, reports Bloomberg. Disney would acquire Fox’s movie and television studio, cable nets including FX and Nat Geo, international assets and Fox’s stake in Hulu. A leaner 21^st Century Fox would house the Fox broadcast network, Fox News and Fox Sports 1.

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Will & Grace companion series Inside Stage 22 with Max and David will be available on Comcast’s X1 cable platform in addition to its YouTube channel. New episodes of the show, featuring highlights from the set and real-time conversations between writers Max Mutchnick and David Kohan and the cast, will be available when the revived comedy returns to Thursday night in January.

The Bachelor Fantasy League, allowing fans to predict the last four women standing in the dating competition, as well as who will win the final rose, is live. At stake is a trip for 2 to LA and tickets to the Bachelorette: After the Final Rose taping. Season 22 of The Bachelor premieres Monday, January 1 at 8p.

Of the $69 million from the California Film Commission’s tax credit program reserved for 11 TV projects, $14.5 million went to Fox’s The Orville, USA’s Shooter grabbed $8.2 million, HBO’s Ballers scored $6.8 million and CBS’s S.W.A.T. got $6 million. The rest were divvied up between 3 pilots and 4 new series.

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PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT

A dysfunctional family comedy centered on an opinionated fading TV star, co-created by Kenya Barris (black-ish), Julie Bean (Grown-ish) and Alec Baldwin, scored a straight-to-series order from ABC. Baldwin, who in addition to hosting ABC’s Match Game is in talks to star in a show based on his podcast, Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin, will possibly star.

NEW & RETURNING SERIES

Season 4 of Mozart in the Jungle launches on Amazon Friday, February 16. “New melodies arise as Rodrigo (Gael Garcia Bernal) and Hailey (Lola Kirke) take their relationship public,” says Amazon.

Guy’s Big Project, the Food Network search for the next big culinary-travel series, produced not one, but 2 new food road shows. Greenlit were The Grill Dads, launching Friday, December 15 at 9:30p, and Eat, Sleep, BBQ, debuting Saturday, December 16 at 9p.

MTV promises the new season of Catfish: The TV Show will “detangle the deepest, darkest Catfish webs in franchise history.” Fun begins on Wednesday, January 3 at 10p.

Aspire is launching a series of specials, Idols Icons + Influencers, in partnership with ABFF Studios. A.J. Calloway (Extra) will host, as well as moderate questions from a “town hall” audience. Director, writer and producer Malcolm D. Lee (Girls Trip) kicks things off as guest on Saturday, December 16 at 8p.

CASTING

Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation) guests as the “Bad Boy of Bread” on NBC’s Will & Grace Thursday, January 4 at 9p.

Costa Ronin (The Americans) will recur on season 7 of Showtime’s Homeland.

DIGITAL DOINGS

The National Football League and Verizon struck a multi-year partnership in which Verizon’s portfolio of digital and mobile media properties, including Yahoo Sports, will stream in-market and national games – national pre-season, regular season, playoff games, and the Super Bowl, nationwide. Though Verizon has had exclusive mobile rights since 2010, non-Verizon users will also be able to stream the events. The partnership kicks off in January 2018 with streaming of the NFL playoffs on Yahoo and Yahoo Sports, in addition to go90 and the NFL mobile app. “We’re making a commitment to fans for Verizon’s family of media properties to become the mobile destination for live sports,” said Lowell McAdam, chairman and CEO of Verizon Communications.

KIDS CORNER

Kids video streaming service Boomerang is now available on Amazon Channels. Prime members can add the channel for $4.99.

The producers of Iftah Ya Simsim, an Arabic version of Sesame Street, have joined YouTube’s Creators for Change initiative, a global effort to amplify the voices of YouTube role models who tackle social issues with their YouTube channels. “We believe in the power of starting early and starting right,” said Dr. Cairo Arafat, managing director of the show’s producer, Bidaya Media.

SYNDICATION

Brooklyn Nine-Nine will make its syndication debut on TBS, beginning with the pilot on Thursday, January 4 at 7p. The show will air consecutive episodes every Thursday from 7p-11p.

GOING GLOBAL

Drive announced international factual sales including 8 Days that Made Rome to Smithsonian Channel for North America, Australia’s SBS TV and Viasat World for Scandinavia, Central and Eastern Europe. Discovery Italy bought The World’s Most Dangerous Drivers and The World’s Deadliest Weather.

Berlin-based Quintus Media secured sales for content from Maximus Film GmbH. Poland’s Polstat and pan-Arab Al Jazeera Media Network picked up The Most Dangerous Ways to School; Dutch broadcaster RTL grabbed Ultimate Vehicles; and Israel’s Channel 8 bought Behind Bars: The World’s Toughest Prisons.

Nine commissioned a second series of Endemol Shine Australia’s Family Food Fight, set to air in 2018.

Breakthrough Entertainment acquired worldwide rights for documentary Charles Manson: The Final Words. The show premiered on Reelz.

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RATINGS

Week two of History’s Vikings Season 5 delivered 3.5 million Total Viewers in L+3, growing +6% versus the season premiere. This marks the first time in any season that Vikings has seen an increase in week two.

With The OT as a lead-in on Sunday, Fox’s The Simpsons delivered 7.5 million viewers and 2.7 among A18-49, improving on its previous season 29 highs by +44% and +22%.

Top 10 Live+7 Playback Rankers by actual gain for the week of November 20, 2017

Live+SD/Live+7/+7 Actual Gain

This Is Us (NBC) 2.5/4.5/2.0

The Good Doctor (ABC) 1.8/3.6/1.8

Young Sheldon (CBS) 2.6/3.9/1.3

Trolls Holiday (NBC) 1.5/2.7/1.2

Criminal Minds (CBS) 1.0/2.0/1.0

Survivor (CBS) 1.4/2/4/1.0

Chicago Med (NBC) 1.4/2.4/1.0

S.W.A.T. (CBS) 1.1/2.0/.9

The Gifted (FOX) .9/1.8/.9

The Flash (CW) .8/1.6/.8

Based on the difference between Nielsen’s first-reported Live + Same Day and the final Live + 7 Day ratings (for regular, original programs only)

SHAREABLEE SOCIAL TV RATINGS: Top US Shows Overall by Engagement for the week of December 4, 2017

Program, Total Actions (000), Total Content, Actions per Content (000), Fans/Followers (000)

Ellen DeGeneres (Warner Bros./synd.) 10594, 127, 83, 155005

E! News (E!) 4967, 672, 7, 31621

Riverdale (CW) 4030, 75, 54, 4906

The Walking Dead (AMC) 1744, 70, 25, 49915

Today Show (NBC) 1353, 596, 2, 12392

Good Morning America (ABC) 1290, 696, 2, 12292

The Daily Show (Comedy Central) 1282, 108, 12, 15815

TMZ (Warner Bros./synd.) 1156, 1182, 1, 13910

Saturday Night Live (NBC) 1069, 112, 10, 10878

The Tonight Show (NBC) 1066, 151, 7, 21202

Includes the total volume of post-level likes, shares, favorites, retweets and comments. Total content includes all posts, tweets and media posted by each TV property across all platforms. Actions per post metric notes the average number of actions garnered by each TV property. Total fans/followers include Facebook and Twitter and Instagram followers.

NIELSEN SOCIAL CONTENT RATINGS: Top Series and Specials by Total Interactions for the week of December 4, 2017

Program, Total Interactions (000), Facebook (000), Twitter (000)

The Walking Dead (AMC) 1227, 693, 533

Heisman Trophy Presentation (ESPN) 982, 479, 503

WWE Monday Night RAW (USA) 615, 369, 245

The Voice (NBC) 509, 415, 94

The Voice (NBC) 491, 143, 349

WWE Smackdown! (USA) 307, 221, 85

Empire (Fox) 278, 191, 87

Psych: The Movie (USA) 254, 66, 188

Riverdale (CW) 145, 21, 124

Supernatural (CW) 143, 55, 87

Source: Nielsen. Uniques and Interactions are a measure of total relevant U.S. social media activity grossed across Facebook and Twitter from three hours before through three hours after broadcast, local time. Includes primetime and late fringe programming with metrics available across social platforms on Broadcast and National Cable and excludes sports events.

Live + Same Day Viewers AA (millions) Friday, December 8, 2017 time period averages

Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated Live+SD

CBS: 8.01 million

MacGyver 6.67, Hawaii Five-0 8.58, Blue Bloods 8.79

NBC: 4.40 million

Blindspot 3.34, Dateline 4.93

ABC: 2.71 million

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 2.55, 20/20 3.04

FOX: 2.03 million

Hell’s Kitchen 2.83, The Exorcist 1.23

CW: 1.23 million

Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer 1.35, Masters of Illusion: Christmas Magic 1.11

UNIVISION: 1.1 million

La Rosa de Guadalupe 1.14, Mi Marido Tiene Familia 1.22, Caer en Tentacion .92

TELEMUNDO: 0.69 million

Milagros de Navidad .61, Sangre de mi Tierra .59, 1.1, Senora Acero 4: La Coyote .87

Friday A18-49 Analysis: UNI .5/2

EXECUTIVE MOVES

Great Big Story appointed Christine Cook as Senior Vice President of Global Sales & Brand Strategy. Cook had been SVP and Global Head of Advertising Partnerships at Flipboard.

On This Day: 1946 – The United Nations accepted 6 blocks in Manhattan as a gift from John D. Rockefeller Jr.

Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: Who played Dick Van Dyke’s wife in The New Dick Van Dyke Show (1971-1974)? Hope Lange. Kudos to: John Ferlazzo/London, Wendi Friedman Tush-The Lexicomm Group/NYC, Charles Mannino-TE SubCom/Eatontown, NJ, John Kukla-KDFW/Dallas, Andy Pittman-TAMU/College Station, TX, Susan Nessanbaum-Goldberg-M and S Entertainment/Acapulco, Russ Hodge-3 Roads Communications/Frederick, MD, Douglas Hockstadt-Disney/ABC/NYC, Greg Lange/LA, Pat Brady-CESD/LA, David Garber-Loyola Marymount University/Playa Vista, CA, Dale Warshaw-KMSB/Tucson, Tom Boyd-WGN-TV/Chicago

Today’s Trivia Question: Which primetime actor is the grandson of Bernard Lee? (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.)

Answer to Our Last Anagram: Hackers Ease Hopes = Chesapeake Shores. Kudos to: Paul Blutter-Walk and Talk Production Rentals/Burbank, Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/LA, Synda Kollman-Charter Marketing Group/Deerfield Beach, FL

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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – TUESDAY DECEMBER 12

ABC: The Middle, Fresh Off the Boat, blackish, The Mayor, Kevin (Probably) Saves the World
CBS: NCIS, Bull, NCIS: New Orleans
CW: Greatest Holiday Commercials Countdown 2017, The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show [r]

FOX: Lethal Weapon, Brooklyn Nine-Nine

NBC: The Voice, Gwen Stefani’s You Make Me Feel Like Christmas, Chicago Med

PBS: Finding Your Roots, Finding Your Roots [r], Frontline [r]

Telemundo: Milagros de Navidad, Sangre de mi Tierre, Senora Acero 4: La Coyote

Univision: Rey David, Mi Marido Tiene Familia, Caer en Tentacion