In the late night battle of Jimmy versus Jimmy, Kimmel beat an original telecast of Fallon for the first time on Thursday in the top 25 markets. Boosted by NBA finals and exposure in a prime time pre-game special, ABC‘s Jimmy Kimmel Live scored 3.1/9 in Households and 1.5/8 among A18-49, opposite NBC‘s The Tonight […]
Game of Thrones fourth-season newcomer Pedro Pascal has been cast as a lead in upcoming Netflix crime series Narcos. The show will interpret the true story of Colombian cocaine drug lord Pablo Escobar (played by Wagner Moura), and Pascal will take on the role of Mexican DEA Javier Pena. The series will debut on the […]
The Cynopsis BIG Digital Monetization Summit is fast approaching, and to gear up for the June 19 event, Cynopsis is sitting down with panelists for one-on-one conversations. Joanna O’Connell is the Director of Research at AdExchanger, and will moderate the Programmatic & Real-time Buying panel. Make sure to register at http://www.cyndigitalmonetization.com/. As the Summit approaches, […]
A nice weekend for NBC Sports Group, which hit some new highs for its “Championship Saturday” anchored by the Belmont Stakes and Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Finals, according to fast national data from Nielsen. California Chrome’s failed bid for the Triple Crown saw an average of 20.6 million viewers tuning in, marking the […]
Just days before the World Cup, some of FIFA’s biggest sponsors are calling on the organization to thoroughly investigate allegations of corruption on Qatar’s successful bid to host the 2022 tournament, according to multiple reports. Sony stated that football’s international governing body must ensure it abides by “its principles of integrity, ethics and fair play,” […]
He’s really big in Germany. National Geographic Channels International commissioned one-hour special Hasselhoff vs. the Berlin Wall, commemorating the 25th anniversary of the fall of the barrier, with David Hasselhoff (Baywatch) taking viewers on “an incredible personal journey back to Berlin” to retrace the Wall’s history. “I witnessed firsthand the horror and the pain the […]
Hallmark and Hallmark Movie channels are celebrating Christmas early – very early. Hallmark will run a “Christmas Keepsake” celebration with 24/7 holiday programming from Friday, July 4 at 2p through Sunday, July 13 at midnight; Hallmark Movie’s “Gold Crown Christmas” stunt offers holiday family films from Friday, July 4 at 6a through midnight, Sunday July […]
Katie Couric’s new anchor role with Yahoo is finally taking shape. Yahoo debuted the new Couric-hosted World 3.0 yesterday, featuring interviews with industry innovators from around the world. In the first episode, Couric talks to co-founder of Airbnb, Brian Chesky.
A new study from mobile video ad company, Vdopia, revealed movie ticket purchases through mobile devices grew 40 percent in the past year. “We’re finding that moviegoers are turning to their mobile devices for everything from movie discovery, planning and ticketing to social sharing,” Fandango’s President Paul Yanover told Cynopsis. “The study results are definitely […]
Game 1 of the 2014 Stanley Cup Final between the Rangers and Kings averaged 4.777 million viewers, which makes it NBC’s second-most watched Stanley Cup Final Game 1 ever and the second-most watched Game 1 overall since 1999, according to Nielsen. The game drew a 3.0 household rating, off-pace from last year’s thriller, but up […]
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