12/22/17: Epix cancels Graves after two seasons

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Good morning. It’s Friday December 22, 2017 and this is your first early morning briefing. Happy holidays from Cynopsis! Heads up, there will be no editions published the week of December 25. The first edition of 2018 will come out bright and early on January 2.

Tonight’s Finale:
WE tv: Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars at 9p

Saturday’s Finale:

DIY: First Time Flippers at 9p and 9:30p

Sunday’s Finale:

Starz: The Girlfriend Experience at 9p

Tuesday, December 26 Premiere:
A&E: Intervention: Opioids in America at 8p

Tuesday, December 26 Finales:

ID: Village of the Damned at 10p

TBS: Snoop Dogg Presents The Joker’s Wild at 10p

Travel Channel: Bizarre Foods: Delicious Destinations at 9:30p

Wednesday, December 27 Premieres:

Travel Channel: Expedition Unknown at 9p

Thursday, December 28 Premieres:

Freeform: Movie Night with Karlie Kloss at 6:30p

ID: The Perfect Suspect at 9p

Travel Channel: Mysteries at the Museum at 9p

Thursday, December 28 Finales:

Pop: IMPACT Wrestling at 8p

WE tv: Tamar & Vince at 9p

Friday, December 29 Finale:

HBO: All Def Comedy at 10:30p

Sunday, December 31 Finales:

Showtime: SMILF at 10p

Monday, January 1 Premieres:

ABC: The Bachelor at 8p

A&E: 60 Days In at 9p

Cartoon Network: Unikitty! at 6a

Food Network: Kids Baking Championship at 9p, Ridiculous Cakes at 10p and 10:30p

HGTV: HGTV Dream Home 2018 at 8p

ID: Evil Lives Here at 8p

NBC: Better Late Than Never at 9p

USA: NFL Football Fanatic at 11p

VH1: Love & Hip Hop: Miami at 9p

IN THE NEWS

Epix canceled Graves, starring Nick Nolte as a former president out to reclaim his legacy, after 2 seasons. The turned-out-to-be-finale of the show, Epix’s first scripted comedy series, aired December 10.

The FCC proposed fining Sinclair $13.367 million for appearing to have repeatedly violated rules that require disclosure of paid programming and its sponsor. It’s the largest fine ever proposed for a sponsorship ID infraction, but dissenting Democrats think it doesn’t goes far enough. Said commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel in her dissent, “The unprecedented volume of these violations deserves an unprecedented response. But instead of seeking the maximum allowable fine allowable under our rules, this notice cuts the company a break.” Responded FCC chairman Ajit Pai, “Their position deviates so wildly from our precedent that it will no doubt strike reasonable people as suspicious. But I will leave it to others to speculate as to why they wish to punish this particular company in this particular way.” For its part, Sinclair said it disagrees with the action and will contest the “unwarranted” fine.

Add Alexandra Canosa, a former associate producer on Netflix’s Marco Polo, to the list of people suing Harvey Weinstein and The Weinstein Company for sexual harassment and assault. In a $10 million lawsuit, Canosa alleges Weinstein “made it clear that if she did not succumb to his demands or if she exposed his unwanted conduct there would be retaliation, including humiliation, the loss of her job and any ability to work in the entertainment business.” Through a representative, Weinstein has insisted “there were never any acts of retaliation against any women for refusing his advances.”

Mark Schwahn, creator, EP and showrunner of E!’s The Royals, was suspended last month after female cast and crew members accused him of sexual harassment on a previous series, One Tree Hill. Now he’s out for good. “We have concluded our investigation and Mark will not be returning to The Royals,” said producer Lionsgate Television. Season 4 had already completed production; no decision on season 5 has been announced.

Late night talk hosts might not be fans of the recently passed bill that gives corporations a big tax break, but big corporations are. With their tax rate reduced from 35% to 21%, Comcast announced it was giving bonuses of $1000 to over 100,000 employees, and AT&T said it was handing out $1000 bonuses to 200,000 U.S. workers. Both companies also announced major infrastructure upgrades. “Congress, working closely with the President, took a monumental step to bring taxes paid by U.S. businesses in line with the rest of the industrialized world,” AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said in a statement. “This tax reform will drive economic growth and create good-paying jobs.” (Weighed in Tonight Show’s Jimmy Fallon, “I read that a majority of Americans would end up paying more in taxes by the year 2027. Trump said it’s payback for the majority of Americans who voted for Hillary Clinton.”)

Google’s annual “Year in Search,” analyzing Google Trends data to determine the top search topics, found the top 5 trending people were all – for good or bad – tied to the media business. Disgraced former Today host Matt Lauer topped the list, followed by Suits-star-turned-future-princess Meghan Markle, Italian investigative journalist and TV host Nadia Toffa, disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein and disgraced House of Cards star Kevin Spacey. The top 10 most-searched series in the U.S. were:

13 Reasons Why (Netflix)
Game of Thrones (HBO)
This Is Us (NBC)
Iron Fist (Netflix)
Riverdale (CW)
Bachelor in Paradise (ABC)
The Good Doctor (ABC)
Santa Clarita Diet (HBO)
Big Little Lies (HBO)
American Gods (Starz)

Count Britney Spears in on the countdown action for Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2018. The “Oops! I Did it Again” singer won’t be joining Seacrest in Times Square, though; she’ll perform from Las Vegas. Celebration starts at 8p on ABC. In 2018, China will be joining the party – dcp struck a deal with STX Entertainment to distribute the show there.

Roseanne fans wondering how the show is writing in both actresses who played Becky – Lecy Goranson, who originated the role, and Sarah Chalke, who took over in season 6 after Goranson went to college – have their answer. EW reports Goranson plays Becky, while Chalke will play a married woman who hires Becky to serve as her surrogate. The series, which ran from 1988-1997, returns to ABC Tuesday, March 27 with its original cast intact – plus one.

NBCUniversal is extending the run of “Downton Abbey: The Exhibition” in NYC. Tickets for the immersive experience connecting fans with characters, costumes and events are now available through April 2.

USA true crime anthology series Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G. will make an appearance at the Sundance Film Festival ahead of its February 27 linear premiere, reports Deadline. Clips and a panel about the show will be presented in Park City on January 20.

There’s a lot more to TV ratings than total viewers and A18-49 (though, of course, there’s that). In the Cynopsis special report, The Top 100 Ratings of 2017, we look not only at the traditional data, but DVR usage, eyes on screen, median age, niche categories like true crime and more to determine which networks and shows are topping the charts. Get the story here.

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PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT

Fox is developing 2 dramas from Eva Longoria, both co-produced by 20^th Century Fox Television and UnbeliEVAble Entertainment. One project focuses on 4 friends who have reached to the top of the Hollywood ladder when they are confronted by a face from their past; the other is a father-daughter police drama.

COMING UP

Urban Movie Channel original movie Our Dream Christmas premieres today on the streaming service. Film centers on a dysfunctional family trying one last time to have the perfect Christmas. Also arriving today is Lawd Have Mercy – Holiday Special, a look at the lighter side of the season via clips from the internet.

ID is offering “A Very Kenda Christmas” 48-hour marathon with the Homicide Hunter himself, Lt. Joe Kenda, as host. In vignettes airing over the course of the two days, the tough guy will be shown in a new light.

Marcus Lemonis, host of CNBC’s The Profit, heads to California as Proposition 64, the new law allowing adults to buy cannabis legally, goes into effect on New Year’s Day. Special episode “The Profit in Marijuana Country,” airing Tuesday, January 2 at 10p, focuses on growers and entrepreneurs betting on the future of pot.

Thirteen’s Cyberchase airs a New Year’s Eve-themed episode, “A Reboot Eve to Remember,” on Friday, December 29 on PBS Kids (check local listings). Series stars Christopher Lloyd and Gilbert Gottfried as “The Hacker” and “Digit.”

Fox’s The X-Files returns Wednesday, January 3 at 8p. A new teaser offers hints of what’s to come from series stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson and creator Chris Carter (prepare to be shocked by the cigarette smoking man) – you can check it out here.

Food Network’s Worst Cooks in America premieres at a special time Sunday, February 4 at 10p, sliding to its regular 9p timeslot for a “Sweets for My Sweetie” Valentine’s episode the following week.

Up is premiering “Meowy Christmas!” on Christmas morning, from 7-9a. The special episode of Meow Manor, described as “that show where you watch a bunch of people who live together in a house…but with cats!” will feature a Christmas tree, ornaments, tinsel and wrapping paper for kitties to sink their claws into.

SPORTS

NFL Media VP and executive editor David Eaton resigned following reports of hundreds of sexually explicit exchanges on Twitter with prostitutes and porn stars. Eaton’s exit comes the week after the NFL Network suspended on-air analysts Marshall Faulk, Ike Taylor and Heath Evans as it investigates claims of sexual harassment and assault.

Ratings be damned – NFL TV ad spending is on the rise, according to Standard Media Index. SMI reports the average 30-second spot for games in November went from $502,809 in 2016 to $513,293 this season, and makegoods dipped from 23% to 22%. The biggest increase in category spend came from insurance (up 41%), while telecommunications spend was down by 8% versus last year.

DIGITAL DATA

CBS All Access is now available on Samsung Smart TVs. Users with Tizen models issued from 2015 on will be able to stream the service on their devices; CBS All Access will be available on older models in the near future.

Can’t wait until you get home to hear the latest Kardashian news? People launched an in-vehicle app for Chevy vehicles that allows drivers to launch the People Flash Briefing, featuring trending entertainment and human interest stories, in a process as simple as choosing a radio station. The Chevy Shop update will be made to existing 2017 and 2018 model-year vehicles with compatible entertainment systems.

Facebook and Universal Music Group struck a global, multi-year agreement making UMG the first major music company to allow Facebook users to add songs from its catalog to video posts, as well as Instagram and Oculus. “Facebook and UMG are creating a dynamic new model for collaboration between music companies and social platforms to advance the interests of recording artists and songwriters while enhancing the social experience of music for their fans,” said Michael Nash, EVP of digital strategy, UMG. “This partnership is an important first step demonstrating that innovation and fair compensation for music creators are mutually reinforcing – they thrive together.

Amazon Prime announced its 2018 series slate. Arriving in January is drama Britannia, set in 43 AD, followed in February by Absentia, starring and exec produced by Castle’s Stana Katic, and docu-series Grand Prix Driver. Among the offerings debuting at an unspecified point next year are unscripted series following Hannah Grant and the Tour de France, and the University of Michigan football team, along with an adaptation of Australian novel Picnic at Hanging Rock, set-in-the-present-day King Lear, and Hugh Grant in A Very English Scandal. CIA drama Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan and an adaptation of Thackeray’s Vanity Fair are also on the way.

Amazon Prime Video has been busy nailing down content deals with Spain’s Mediaset Espana, Atresmedia and Radio Television Espanola, for programming that would air not only in Spain but Latin America and in some cases, the U.S. Hispanic market.

VIDEOS IN SHORT

IFC’s FODtv (Funny or Die Television) is offering “slightly off” takes on the traditional Yule log and New Year’s Eve kiss. The Shirtless Painter: Yule Log Special premieres December 25 at 6a, and new short-form series Tonight on Making Out will air throughout the film Uncle Buck on December 30 at 8p. FODtv, branded nights of short form programming, launched in October.

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RATINGS

NBC won the fourth quarter for the sixth consecutive year among A18-49, with an average 2.4 rating that led by a margin of +33%, the biggest advantage for any network in the season in the 30-year history of the Nielsen people meter sample. In total viewers NBC was second to CBS, with 9.2 million versus 9.8 million.

The season 35 finale of CBS’s Survivor delivered a 1.9/8 rating among A18-49, matching its last 2 finales. Survivor Reunion was up 23% from December 2016, with 1.6/6 in the demo.

The finale for Nat Geo WILD miniseries Savage Kingdom: Uprising delivered almost 600,000 total viewers and a .35 and over 200,000 among 25-54 in Live+3 Nielsens.

Live + Same Day Viewers AA (millions) Wednesday, December 20, 2017 time period averages

Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated Live+SD

CBS: 8.26 million

Survivor 8.74, Survivor Reunion 7.32

NBC: 3.57 million

Will & Grace 3.84, Pitch Perfect 3.51

ABC: 2.72 million

The Goldbergs 3.42, Speechless 2.80, Modern Family 3.01, American Housewife 2.53, Match Game 2.29

FOX: 1.85 million

Empire 2.13, Star 1.58

CW: 1.21 million

Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer 1.37, The Top 12 Greatest Christmas Movies of All Time 1.06

UNIVISION: 1.07 million

Rey David 1.23, Mi Marido Tiene Familia 1.12, Caer en Tentacion 0.87

TELEMUNDO: 0.77 million

Milagros de Navidad 0.80, Sangre de mi Tierra 0.68, Senora Acero 3: La Coyote 0.84

Wednesday A19-49 Analysis: CBS 1.8/8, NBC .9/4, ABC .6/3, FOX .5/2, UNI .5/2, TELE .4/1, CW .3/1

EXECUTIVE MOVES

As part of an executive shuffle accompanying the BBC’s newly consolidated BBC Studios production and distribution teams, Tom Fussell will take the role of CFO of the combined BBC Studios, after holding the title at BBC Worldwide. Anna Mallett, COO of the former BBC Studios, has been tapped for the same role at the merged operation, in addition to serving as managing director of production. Ben Irving has been appointed BBC Drama’s commissioning editor for Wales, replacing Christopher Aird. Irving joined the BBC in May from Heyday Films.

Advertiser Perceptions announced that Randy Cohen, cofounder, President and Chief Operating Officer, will also assume the role and responsibilities of Chief Executive Officer, effective January 1. Ken Pearl, cofounder and CEO, will be appointed Executive Chairman and will shift his focus to accelerating growth through business development, alliances and partnerships with companies and organizations serving the advertising industry.

IN MEMORIAM

Veteran TV producer Vanessa Greene died December 13 after a long battle with breast cancer. She was 63. Greene, whose TV-movies included Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case and Under the Influence, worked for USA Network and was a senior executive at CBS.

Friday Fun Fact: St. Nicholas, aka Santa Claus, is also the patron saint of banking, pawnbroking, butchery, thievery, sailing and orphans.

This Day in History: 1849 – A “mock execution” of Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky, in which a pardon from the Tsar arrived as a firing squad appeared about to shoot, was staged.

Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: Who first told SpongeBob Squarepants’s SpongeBob about Christmas? Sandy. Kudos to: Holly Hearn-H2 Concierge Marketing/Sarasota, FL, Phyllis McQuillan-MSG Networks/NYC, Lindsey Waldon-A+E Networks/NYC, Matthew Wilson-RXR-NYC, Shane Messick-Paramount Pictures/LA, David Westberg-SAG-AFTRA Federal Credit Union/Burbank, Lorrie Shilling/El Segundo, CA

Today’s Trivia Question: What did Penny give Sheldon for Christmas that made him break his “no hug” rule on The Big Bang Theory? (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: Mad Whims Thus A Carryover = How Murray Saved Christmas. Kudos to: Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/LA

Classic Variety Show Anagram: Inept Wolfish Howls (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 DECEMBER 22

ABC: Shark Tank [r], Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., 20/20

CBS: I Love Lucy Christmas Special, The Dick Van Dyke Show – Now in Living Color!, Blue Bloods [r]

CW: Masters of Illusion: Christmas Magic [r], Greatest Holiday Commercials Countdown 2017 [r]

FOX: Hell’s Kitchen [r]

NBC: Blindspot, Dateline NBC [r]

PBS: Washington Week, Washington Week, Christmas at Belmont 2017, Eric Idles The Entire Universe

Telemundo: Milagros de Navidad, Sangre de mi Tierra, Senora Acero 4: La Coyote Univision: Rey David, Mi Marido Tiene Familia, Caer en Tentacion