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IN THE NEWS Empire’s reign continues. FOX has renewed the hip-hop family drama, from Lee Daniels, Danny Strong, Image Television and 20th Century Fox TV, for a fifth season. Brett Mahoney, who stepped in to help lead the series for the second half of season four, will continue as showrunner. The revolving judge panel for Season 2 of ABC’s The Gong Show has been set. Slated to appear are Alyson Hannigan, Jimmy Kimmel, Brad Paisely and Jason Sudeikis, who join returning judges Will Arnett, Dana Carvey, Ken Jeong and Rob Riggle. Series returns Thursday, June 21 at 8p. Another original cast member won’t be returning to Arrow. Paul Blackthorne, who’s played Quentin Lance since The CW show’s 2012 launch, isn’t coming back as a series regular. This follows last month’s news that Willa Holland had made her final appearance as Thea Queen. Bob Harper, former host and trainer on The Biggest Loser, guest hosts Page Six TV from Monday, May 7 to Friday, May 11. Harper reveals his latest projects, while joining Bevy Smith, Carlos Greer and Elizabeth Wagmeister to discuss the latest entertainment headlines. The Sportsman Channel Outdoor Fest, takes place July 20 to 22 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, and features expert guests Michael Waddel (Bone Collector), Brian “Pigman” Quaca (Pigman: The Series) and Tom McMillan (McMillan). Tickets and event information are available at www.SCOutdoorfest.com. AT THE NEWFRONTS Hulu announced its latest subscriber numbers – 20 million plus in the U.S. - during its NewFront presentation at the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday. Among the top news: The Handmaid’s Tale was renewed for a third season. The Elisabeth Moss-starrer original series was the first at a streamer to win best drama at the Emmys. In addition, Hulu announced a multi-year deal with DreamWorks Animation, snagging the studio away from Netflix. Per the pact’s terms, Hulu will become the exclusive U.S. streaming home to future theatrical releases from the studio starting in 2019. The streamer also secured an agreement with Sony Pictures Television for exclusive on-demand streaming rights to ABC’s hit drama, The Good Doctor. The show’s complete first season is now available with future episodes becoming available the day after their original broadcast on ABC. Hulu ordered two new series. Four Weddings and a Funeral, inspired by the 1994 romantic comedy, and Ramy, starring comedian Ramy Youssef. During ESPN’s NewFronts presentation, the net announced a new daily edition of SportsCenter for its mobile app, as well as shows developed through parent Disney’s new agreement with Twitter. The new SportsCenter will be hosted by Scott Van Pelt and other anchors. It will be a curated edition featuring top plays, highlights and a preview of the day in sports. Refinery 29 unveiled new video content, live events, and the launch of Channel29, a premium live and on demand content destination at this year’s NewFronts. Longform content includes documentary America. The Beautiful, which explores the unique experience of Black women who are redefining American politics, culture and style; Pay No Attention, a half-hour dramedy about an Asian American woman who feels invisible in everyday life; and Pride, a six-part documentary chronicling the fight for LGBTQ civil rights in America. Among Refinery 29’s returning and new series are Shady, which pulls back the curtain on the half-billion dollar counterfeit cosmetic industry, and Beauty Evolution, the brand’s first Snapchat show. Live event 29Rooms, now in its fourth year, will be expanding to San Francisco and Chicago this summer. Meanwhile, Beauty & The Beats, an experiential touring dance party and virtual reality DJ battle hosted by influencers and artists, is set to launch. |
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PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT Viceland ordered The Hunt for the Trump Tapes with Tom Arnold. The cable net has begun production on the eight-episode series to bow later this year. “Nobody thought I could ever be an investigative journalist, but then again, nobody thought Donald Trump could be president,” said Arnold, announcing the news on The Howard Stern Show. “Let’s hope this marks the end of both our new careers.” CBS All Access renewed The Good Fight for a third season. “The Good Fight is a perfect example of what we strive for a CBS All Access original series to be: thought provoking, boundary pushing and, most of all, incredibly entertaining,” said Julie McNamara, EVP, Original Content, CBS All Access. “We can’t wait to see what Robert and Michelle King, their creative team and the incomparable cast will bring to audiences in season three.” Upcoming DC digital service, DC Universe, gave a script-to-series order to Swamp Thing. The drama is based on the DC characters created by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson. Contingent on a script, the series is targeting a 2019 premiere. Apple issued a 10-episode series order to Are You Sleeping, a thriller drama starring Octavia Spencer. Based on the true crime novel by Kathleen Barber, it provides a unique glimpse of America’s obsession with true-crime podcasts. Project hails from Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine and Peter Chernin’s Chernin Entertainment and Endeavor Content. NEW & RETURNING SERIES Season 4 of Showtime’s The Affair debuts Sunday, June 17 at 9p. In addition, beginning Friday, May 11, consumers will be able to watch the show’s complete first season for free on YouTube, Facebook and SHO.com. Black Ink Crew: Chicago returns Wednesday, May 30 at 8p on VH1.
FX set a premiere date for Season 2 of Snowfall: Thursday, July 19 at 10p. Hunting ISIS, an original documentary series that follows a group of veteran and civilian volunteers who travel to Syria and Iraq to fight against ISIS alongside local militias, bows Tuesday, May 29 at 10p on History. Also airs Sunday, June 3 at 10p on Viceland. Casey West continues the pursuit of his next culinary conquest, when Travel Channel’s Man v. Food returns with back-to-back episodes on Monday, May 28 at 9p and 9:30p. COMING UP Centroamerica TV airs extensive live coverage of the 2018 Costa Rican Presidential Inauguration of the 48th president, Carlos Alvarado, on Tuesday, May 8 at 12:30p. A five-hour I’m Sorry marathon airs on truTV on Mother’s Day. Starts at 9a on Sunday, May 13. TLC brings back This Is Life Live, beginning Sunday May 13 at 9p. The four-night event captures live-altering experiences as they unfold in real time. Lisa Joyner returns as host and is joined by co-host Chris Jacobs (Long Lost Family). Cozi TV celebrates the long-awaited royal nuptials with a two-part wedding special of The Nanny on Friday, May 18 at 7p. ADVERTISING Science Channel and Seeker partnered with Enterprise Rent-A-Car for a new 360-degree campaign. The Move Forward Campaign will span social, digital, linear TV, OTT and experiential, reinforcing Enterprise’s commitment to innovation and the future of mobility focus. Research by the Association of National Advertisers’ #SeeHer movement, in collaboration with TiVo, showed that ads that portray women and girls accurately are more socially acceptable and well-liked by both men and women surveyed. Those ads work even better when paired with programming that portrays women accurately. It’s called GEMfit, when ads that score high in the ANA’s Gender Equality Measure are aired on high-scoring programs, delivering better sales than when airing on low-scoring programs. CASTING Jonathan Majors (Hostiles) was cast as the lead opposite Jurnee Smollett-Bell in HBO straight-to-series drama Lovecraft Country… Riverdale’s Vanessa Morgan and Charles Melton were upped to series regular, effective next season… Kiran Deol (The Mindy Project, New Girl) and Moses Storm (Conan, Arrested Development) will star in Arranged, a half-hour comedy pilot ordered by Pop TV. DIGITAL DOINGS Netflix’s upcoming Sabrina, the Teenage Witch series has been titled. The show will share its name with the comic book series on which it’s based: Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. The cord-cutting trend threatening the future of the pay-TV industry was not just confined to the U.S. in 2017, according to business information provider HIS Markit. Total pay-TV subscriptions also declined in 13 other markets; namely, Brazil, Mexico, Hong Kong, Canada, Sweden, Denmark, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, Israel, Venezuela and Ireland. Amazon set a Friday, June 15 premiere date for the second season of Goliath, the original drama series starring Billy Bob Thornton. CBS News relaunched Intelligence Matters, former CIA acting director Michael Morell’s podcast featuring interviews with top leaders in national security. The new edition, which became available May 2, features an interview with former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden. Castle Rock, the psychological-horror anthology from J.J. Abrams and Stephen King, premieres Wednesday July 25 with the first three episodes on Hulu. AT&T livestreams the 2018 iHeartCountry Festival by AT&T at www.att.com/iHeartCountry and on Twitter live on Saturday, May 5 at 8p. A+E Networks chose You.i TV as the enabling technology to extend its History TVE app, a streaming service that offers hundreds of hours of programming, to TV-connected devices. GOING GLOBAL Poppy Montgomery (Without a Trace, Unforgettable) is set to star in and executive produce a drama from ABC Studios International for French broadcaster M6. The untitled English-language crime drama sees Montgomery playing Cat Chambers, a thief-turned-fixer for the governor of a Pacific Island archipelago. Sony Pictures Television ordered Reckoning, a 10-episode straight-to-series psychological thriller from writer David Hubbard (Noel) and vet showrunner David Eick (Battlestar Galactica, Falling Skies). Begins filming July 9 in Australia for premiere on SPTN’s international channels. Discovery struck a deal with Channel 4’s Walter Presents to launch the premium drama service in Italy. Programming begins in September 2018. Seville International secured international rights to Anthropocen and will launch sales of the documentary in Cannes. STUDIOCANAL licensed drama Trust Me to ARTE, the leading cultural channel in Europe. Principal photography has begun on Germanized. The dramedy is produced by Bavaria Fiction with Telfrance for Amazon Prime Video and Deutsche Telekom. Insight TV commissioned a second season of Thru to air in December 2018. The series, which was unveiled at last year’s MIPCOM event in Cannes, sees competing teams trek through highly challenging terrain. Sony Entertainment partnered with global licensing agency Centa IP to oversee licensing and retail development for new series Go Away, Unicorn! |
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RATINGS Bravo’s Real Housewives of Potomac episode 304 was the highest-rated of the season to date among P25-54, delivering 1.1mm P25-54 (up 6%). Live + Same Day Viewers AA (millions) Tuesday, May 1, 2018 time period averages Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated Live+SD CBS: 10.18 NCIS 12.12, Bull 10.32, NCIS: New Orleans 8.11 NBC: 5.69 The Voice 7.48, Rise 3.83, Chicago Med 5.75 ABC: 5.42 Roseanne 10.31, The Middle 6.10, Blackish 4.57, Splitting Up Together 3.89, For the People 2.23 FOX: 2.11 Lethal Weapon 3.07, LA to Vegas 1.80, New Girl 1.46 CW: 1.38 The Flash 1.69, The 100 1.06 UNIVISION: 1.11 El Rico y Lazaro 1.19, Papa a toda madre 1.01, Por amar sin ley 1.13 TELE: 0.78 Mi Familia Perfecta 0.60, Al otro lado del muro 0.74, Enemigo Intimo 0.99 Tuesday A19-49 Analysis: ABC 1.3/5, CBS 1.1/4, NBC 0.9/4, FOX 0.6/2, UNI 0.5/2, CW 0.5/2, TELE 0.4/2 EXECUTIVE MOVES Erin Moody was named Vice President, Communications at Freeform. She last served as Executive Director of Communications at Twentieth Century Fox Television.
RedSeven Entertainment appointed Julia Knetsch to its Management Board. Jobst Benthues takes over chairmanship of the Management Board. Rachel Spiegelman was appointed Head of Brand Studio at Hello Sunshine, the multiplatform media company founded by Reese Witherspoon. She had been CEO of the Pitch ad agency. Carlos Revelo was hired as Weekend Sports Anchor for Noticias Telemundo 40. He was previously Sports Anchor/Director for Univision 48/KNVO Rio Grande Valley and Telemundo Oklahoma. Veteran development executive and producer Ben Roy was upped to Vice President, Programming and Development for Dick Clark Productions.
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WHAT'S ON TONIGHT - THURSDAY MAY 3
ABC: Grey’s Anatomy, Station 19, Quantico CBS: The Big Bang Theory, Young Sheldon, Mom, Life in Pieces, S.W.A.T. CW: Supernatural, Arrow FOX: Gotham, Showtime at the Apollo NBC: Superstore [f], A.P. Bio [f], Will & Grace [r], Champions [f], Chicago Fire PBS: This Old House Hour, The Tunnel: Sabotage [r], Antiques Roadshow [r] Telemundo: Mi Familia Perfecta, Al otro lado del muro, Enemigo Intimo Univision: El rico y Lazaro, Papa a toda madre, Por amar sin ley
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