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ABC Family Original Series Deliver Hauntingly High Ratings
Pretty Little Liars Halloween Special
4.3
+60% increase in digital video starts vs. YAG
1.1 MILLION episode tweets
Ravenswood World Premiere
2.7 W12-34 rating / 2.3 W18-34 rating
#1 cable drama debut since 2011 Source.
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10.28.13
Good morning. It’s Monday, October 28, 2013, and this is your first early morning briefing.
Tonight’s Premieres:
Fusion: America with Jorge Ramos at 7p, Open Source with Leon Krauze at 10p
Tonight’s Finales:
HGTV: Love It or List It at 9p
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DirecTV, Time Warner Cable and Charter Communications are considering launching Aereo-like services, reports Bloomberg. If Aereo isn’t shut down by broadcaster lawsuits for capturing their signals and charging subscribers a low monthly fee, cable companies might jump in the game too, says Bloomberg, to avoid paying billions of dollars in retransmission fees.
Millennial news/pop culture net Fusion launches tonight with a bang: an interview with President Obama. The President’s talk with Fusion/ABC News correspondent Jim Avila will take place this afternoon at the White House, and air first on Fusion show America at 7p. Fusion is a joint venture between Univision and Disney/ABC Television.
Comcast started a trial offer for a package that offers a basic TV lineup, Internet, video on demand and HBO, for about $40. The package is available only to new customers, and the price will increase after the first year. With 40 percent of subscribers likely to consider canceling pay-TV service, according to a recent study cited by CNET, the opportunity to get HBO on the cheap could persuade those viewers to reconsider making the cut.
Fox picked up nine more episodes of Dads, for a full 22-ep order. Though the comedy drew criticism at first for offensive humor, it’s averaging a 2.2/7 rating in A18-49 in Live + 7, and is one of the top 10 new series among Men 18-34. The 20th Century Fox production airs Tuesdays at 8p.
The Big Bang Theory has released a song on iTunes. “If I Didn’t Have You (Bernadette’s Song)”, performed by Simon Helberg (Howard) on the October 24 ep with backup vocals from the rest of the cast of the CBS comedy, was written by recurring star Kate Micucci (Lucy) and can be downloaded in recognition of the show’s support of MusiCares, a safety net for people in the music business.
MTV is amping up fan investment in the EMAs. Miley Cyrus, who was voted Best U.S. Act for the 2013 MTV EMA, moves on to compete against Canada’s Justin Bieber for the North America title. The net’s global music celebration, sponsored Stateside by 5 Gum, LG Mobile, Herbal Essences, Taco Bell and T-Mobile, airs Sunday, November 10 at 7p.
Discovery Channel will simulcast Science Channel‘s The Challenger Disaster, reports Deadline. The 90-minute movie, Science’s first scripted program, stars William Hurt as one of the scientists assigned to investigate the tragic 1986 space shuttle explosion. The viewership-boosting strategy follows the announcement last month that Lifetime, A&E and History will simulcast two-night mini-series Bonnie & Clyde in December. Challenger airs Saturday, November 16 at 9p.
MTV released all 12 episodes of high school docu-drama Wait ‘Til Next Year via the MTV app, allowing viewers to binge-watch the whole season a week before its TV premiere on Friday, November 1 at 8p. The move drives usage of the app, and gets the teen audience engaged – hopefully enough to splash chat about the show all over social media.
The New York Television Festival announced the winners of its Independent Pilot Competition on Saturday, as well as the winners of 20 development deals from network, studio and digital partners including A&E, BET, CW Seed, MTV and Sundance Channel. The total number of development deals offered this year was 31, up from 26 last year. For details: http://www.nytvf.com/.
…Speaking of up and comers, the New York campus of the global Dwight Schools launched its first annual Film & TV Industry Professional Week. Winners of both Emmys and MacArthur grants spoke to students last week about considering media careers. Of note was digital cinematographer Anthony S. Lenzo, owner of Air Sea Land Productions. A five-time Emmy Award winner, Lenzo wowed the kids with tales of working with an underwater turbine on an offshore oil platform while on a Discovery Channel shoot. The school will continue the program next year.
Cat Greenleaf, host of USA Network‘s 11a-3p daytime lineup, sat down last week with Orlando Bloom for her 450th interview. But Greenleaf’s bulldog Gracie, who appears in her interviews, has been more impressed with other guests. “Gracie has a thing for wise men of a certain age,” Greenleaf tells Cynopsis. “She first let her love show for Larry King, really ramped it up for Deepak Chopra, and could barely contain herself around William Shatner. I can’t say I blame her those guys are sexy.”
Top 10 Weekend Box Office Estimates: October 25-27, 2013
| Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (Paramount) | $32.0 million | opening weekend |
| Gravity (Warner Bros.) | $20.3 million | 4 wk total $199.8 million |
| Captain Phillips (Sony) | $11.8 million | 3 wk total $70.1 million |
| The Counselor (20th Century) | $8.0 million | opening weekend |
| Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (Sony) | $6.1 million | 5 wk total $100.6 million |
| Carrie (Sony) | $5.9 million | 2 wk total $26.0 million |
| Escape Plan (Lionsgate) | $4.3 million | 2 wk total $17.4 million |
| 12 Years a Slave (Fox Searchlight) | $2.2 million | 2 wk total $3.4 million |
| Enough Said (Fox Searchlight) | $1.6 million | 6 wk total $13.0 million |
| Prisoners (Warner Bros.) | $1.1 million | 6 wk total $59.1 million |
Source: Rentrak
New Greg Kinnear legal drama Rake gets a two-night kick-off on Fox, following the NFC Championship game on Sunday, January 19 at 10p, and continuing in its regular time slot Thursday, January 23 at 9p.
Dance company director Abby Lee Miller goes on a scouting tour for new talent in season four of Lifetime hit Dance Moms, premiering Wednesday, January 1 at 9p, after a reunion show at 8p recaps last season’s drama. Moms takes up its regular Tuesday 9p slot the following week.
Season three of the Collins Avenue docu-series averaged 2.1 million total viewers to make it the top unscripted program in its time slot among women.
Punk rock icon Henry Rollins offers “crazy new twists and tidbits behind historical tales” in 10 Things You Didn’t Know About. The Asylum Entertainment production premieres on H2 on Saturday, November 2 at 9p.
American Idol launches its thirteenth season with a two-night premiere. The Fox singing competition, with judges Keith Urban, Jennifer Lopez and Harry Connick, Jr. comes back Wednesday, January 15 and Thursday, January 16 from 8-10p. Thursday’s regular results shows will be cut from one hour to 30 minutes for eight weeks in the spring, making room for new comedy, Surviving Jack at 8:30p.
Fox drama The Following begins its 15-week uninterrupted second season on Monday, January 20 at 9p.
Drop Dead Diva is coming back for a sixth season. Lifetime cancelled the dramedy after its fourth season, but worked out a deal with Sony Pictures Television to rein in costs that revived the series. Show airs Sundays at 9p.
Adina Porter has been bumped from recurring to series regular on True Blood. Season seven for the HBO vampire drama premieres in 2014.
A new version of witch drama Charmed is in early development at CBS, reports Vulture. The WB show ran from 1998-2006.
Turner channels are back on Cable One. The companies reached an agreement ahead of the NBA season launching Tuesday on TNT. Turner programming had been yanked from the cable operator October 1.
Night ten of ABC Family‘s “13 Nights of Halloween” brings Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride at 7:30p tonight, followed by Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas at 9:25p. Tomorrow night, the net’s Ravenswood makes its time period debut at 8p.
ID explores the tales of brutal killers with the same name, in Halloween special Bloody Marys. Premiere at midnight on Thursday, October 31.
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Leveraging Social Media to Drive Tune-In and Ratings
One of the hottest topics in media today is the effect of social media on television ratings. Nielsen released research this summer that said the volume of tweets affects live TV ratings 29% of the time – and that number is only expected to rise.
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Everyone was a winner Friday night. NBC was number one in A18-49, thanks to the third season premiere of Grimm scoring a 1.8 rating/6 share at 9p, according to preliminary Nielsen numbers, and the series premiere of Dracula at 10p drawing 1.6/6 in the demo. ABC‘s Shark Tank was the top show in A18-49 (2.0/7), and CBS‘s Blue Bloods, with 11 million viewers, was the most-watched show.
The first two games of the World Series averaged 13.9 million viewers for Fox, up 13 percent from last year’s San Francisco Giants/Detroit Tigers matchup. Twitter activity was up from 2012, too – by 63 percent, with 452,000 tweets. But while the Cardinals took the game, the Red Sox won the battle on Facebook, drawing 58 percent of comments, likes and posts.
Bravo scored its most-watched Wednesday of the year in primetime and total day on October 23 with a big assist from the finale of Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles. Delivering 1.7 million total viewers and 793,000 in the 18-49 demo, Listing hit a franchise high.
Oxygen had its best primetime Wednesday ever, thanks to Preachers of L.A., which drew 1.2 million total viewers and 634,000 in A18-49. During the 10p hour, Oxygen was the number five cable net among W18-49.
Thursday A18-49 Analysis: FOX grabbed the most A18-49 viewers Thursday with 3.6/11, according to final primetime national ratings from Nielsen. CBS won the 8p hour with a 4.0/12 average for The Big Bang Theory and The Millers, with Fox batting a 2.7/9 for the start of Game 2 of the World Series. The Fox sports event stole the 9p hour with 3.7/11, versus 2.8/8 for ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy, and slid into home at 10p with a 4.3/12, while ABC’s Scandal pulled into second place with 2.9/8.
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Thursday, October 24, 2013 time period averages. Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.
| FOX | 8.3/14 | World Series |
|---|---|---|
| CBS | 6.5/10 | Big Bang Theory 10.4/17, The Millers 6.6/10, The Crazy Ones 5.3/8, Two and a Half Men 5.4/8, Elementary 5.6/9 |
| ABC | 5.0/8 | Once Upon a Time in Wonderland 2.9/5, Grey’s Anatomy 6.1/10, Scandal 6.0/10 |
| NBC | 2.9/5 | The Voice [r] 3.4/5, Sean Saves the World 2.7/4, The Michael J. Fox Show 2.5/4, Parenthood 2.7/5 |
| UNI | 1.8/3 | Porque el Amor Manda 2.1/3, Tempestad 1.8/3, Mentir Para Vivir 1.6/3 |
| CW | 1.4/3 | Vampire Diaries 1.7/3, Reign 1.2/2 |
| ION | .9/1 | Criminal Minds .8/1, Criminal Minds .9/1, Criminal Minds .9/1 |
| TELE | .7/1 | Marido en Alquiler .8/1, Santa Diablo .6/1 |
| UMA | .3/0 | Cineplex .2/0, Seleccion .2/0 |
A18-49: FOX 3.6/11, CBS 2.7/8, ABC 2.3/7, UNI 1.4/4, NBC 1.3/4, CW .9/3, TELE .6/2, ION .3/1, UMA .2/0
Lisa Hackner has been tapped to serve as Executive Vice President of Daytime and Syndicated Programming at ABC Entertainment Group. Hackner had been Vice President of Creative Affairs at Telepictures.
Actress Marcia Wallace died on October 25. She was 70. Wallace played receptionist Carol Kester on The Bob Newhart Show and won an Emmy in 1992 for Outstanding Voiceover Performance for playing Bart’s chain-smoking teacher, Mrs. Krabappel, on The Simpsons. A tribute to Wallace is scheduled to air on the November 3 episode of the Fox comedy.
English director Antonia Bird passed away on October 25. She was 54. In addition to films including Mad Love and Face, Bird directed TV shows like EastEnders and MI-5.
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NOV. 13| GRAND HYATT, NY | Register Now Panels Include:
Where is “TV Everywhere?”
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This Day In History sponsored by Military Channel: 1919 – Congress overrode President Woodrow Wilson’s veto to pass the National Prohibition Act.
Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: How did widower Tom meet Abby on Eight is Enough (1977-1981)? Abby tutored Tommy after he broke his leg. Kudos to: Tom Mulcahy-Viacom Media Networks/NYC, Synda Kollman-Charter Marketing Group/Boca Raton, FL, David Stern-Bard Entertainment/NYC, Roz Seibold-EDA/Tucson, AZ, Dory Melman Petsrillow-Petry Media Corp./Dallas, Susan Nessanbaum-Goldberg-M and S Entertainment/LA, Dara Monahan-Freelance Writer/Sherman Oaks, CA, Tom Moore- Kalt Productions/LA, Alan Perris-The Television Academy/North Hollywood, Stephen Kelley-9Story/Toronto.
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – MONDAY OCTOBER 28, 2013
ABC: Dancing With the Stars, Castle
CBS: How I Met Your Mother, 2 Broke Girls, The Big Bang Theory [r], Mom, Hostages
CW: Hart of Dixie, Beauty and the Beast
FOX: World Series
ION: Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds
MyTV: Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order SVU
NBC: The Voice, The Blacklist
PBS: Antiques Roadshow [r], Antiques Roadshow 9 [r], Independent Lens
Telemundo: Marido en Alquiler, Santa Diabla
UMA: Slayer, La Seleccion
Univision: Porque el Amor Manda, La Tempestad, Mentir Para Vivir
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