| A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM CONTENT CREATORS OF ATLANTA INC | | Have you purchased your tickets? Content Creators of Atlanta Awards Independent Screenwriters Charity Gala Sunday, August 19, 2018 Content Creators of Atlanta, Inc, a non-profit organization for Atlanta’s Independent Scriptwriters and Content Creators host its 2nd annual gala this Sunday at the Historic Hammond House in Atlanta’s West End, the event benefits aspiring writers with grants to enhance their career. This year’s gala will be hosted by legendary actor Clifton Powell. Tickets still available: CCA Awards Gala |
PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT HGTV picked up a second season of Boise Boys. The series delivered solid ratings in its freshman run, helping the network consistently rank as the #1 cable network among upscale women 25-54 in its Thursday 11p timeslot. Jenny Bicks, former EP on HBO’s Sex and the City and EP/showrunner on Showtime’s The Big C, inked an overall deal with Lionsgate TV. As per the pact’s terms, Bicks will develop and produce original television series for the studio. Fox 21 Television Studios secured the rights to video game Vampyr with plans to develop it into a series with McG’s Wonderland Sound & Vision and DJ2 Entertainment. Set in 1918 London, Vampyr centers on a morally righteous doctor who mysteriously turns into a vampire. EPIX greenlit original docuseries Unprotected Sets, set to premiere Friday, October 5 at 11p. From executive producers Wanda Sykes and Page Hurwitz (Push It Productions), and Barry Poznick, President of MGM’s Unscripted Television and MGM Television, series takes an unfiltered look at stand up. TNT ordered The Angel of Darkness, a limited series based on the sequel to author Caleb Carr’s The Alienist with The Alienist’s Daniel Bruhl, Luke Evans and Dakota Fanning set to return in an all-new storyline. The Alienist is 2018’s top new cable series in A18-49. NEW & RETURNING SERIES E! debuts Busy Tonight, the new half-hour talker, hosted and executive produced by Busy Philipps, on Sunday, October 28 at 10p. Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen vet Cassie St. Onge will serve as showrunner. The world’s leading archaeologists use modern technologies to solve history’s oldest riddles in Smithsonian Channel’s Secrets, premiering Monday, September 24 at 8p. Sam and Cody Carroll deliver tastes of The Bayou in Food Network’s Cajun Aces. Six-episode daytime series bows Saturday, August 25 at 12p. Starz’s Outlander will return Sunday, November 4 at 8p. Season 4 includes 13 new episodes. Ghost lovers are invited to join a live paranormal investigation alongside Tennessee Wraith Chaser, a team of experts that rely on scientific method and spiritual faith, in new Travel Channel series Haunted Live, bowing Friday, September 14 at 10p. PBS and WNET, in collaboration with CNN, debut one-hour late night public affairs series Amanpour and Company on Monday, September 10. To air on PBS (check local listings for times). Television’s longest-running automotive magazine series, MotorWeek, returns to public television stations across the country on Saturday, September 8. Check local PBS listings. Pop TV premieres two limited series dramas, this fall. Wolf Creek, based on the cult-hit horror movie franchise, bows on Sunday, October 21 at 10p and Clique, a drama from the creators of British TV hit Skins, debuts Wednesday, November 7 at 10p. COMING UP Willie Nelson hosts music with a mission event Farm Aid 2018, airing on AXS TV Saturday, September 22 at 7p, with an encore broadcast immediately following at 12a. Scheduled to perform are Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews, Chris Stapleton and more. OWN honors Aretha Franklin with a special re-airing of an Oprah Winfrey Show celebrating her life and career on Saturday, August 18 at 8p. BET Networks pays respect to Aretha Franklin, too. BET Her will honor Franklin with programming today, August 17 and Monday, August 20 at 9a, as well as on Black Girls Rock! airing in September. Meanwhile, getTV celebrates the “Queen of Soul” with a rarely seen 1967 episode of The Kraft Music Hall, airing Sunday, August 19 at 11p. The program features Aretha Franklin in one of her earliest TV appearances performing Respect and Chain of Fools. Cynopsis just wrapped up the call for entries for the 6th Annual Digital Awards and we can’t wait to celebrate the honorees and announce winners live on-stage at the awards even November 9 in NYC. We’re actively sourcing new judges to join our expert panel, so if you’re interested please fill out this brief survey to apply. Judges will be thanked during the event and will appear in our program guide ad in emails to our distribution. ADVERTISING Toyota struck an extensive deal with CuriosityStream to stream over 1800 titles without commercial interruption on CuriosityStream’s website. Each show will begin with a pre-roll sponsor message. “Through our partnership with CuriosityStream and the Toyota Theater, we’re excited to engage with an audience of science and technology enthusiasts,” said Vinay Shahani, Vice President, Integrated Marketing, Toyota Motor North America. “As Toyota shifts from traditional automotive manufacturer to a mobility company, our culture of innovation has never been more critical, particularly in areas such as artificial intelligence, robotics, sustainability and safety. CuriosityStream gives us a vital platform for sharing some of the most cutting edge innovations coming from Toyota today.” AMC partnered with on-demand service Postmates to deliver meals from Better Call Saul’s Los Pollos Hermanos restaurant. On August 20, 21 and 22 hungry fans in areas of NYC and LA can order a special mini-meal of Gus Fring’s (Giancarlo Esposito) famous fried chicken and curly fries via the Postmates app, delivered for free, while supplies last. Begins 12p each day. CASTING Mary J. Blige is set to appear in MTV’s Scream later this year… Lindsey Kraft will guest star on an upcoming episode of Bravo’s Dirty John. DIGITAL DATA Homecoming, the Amazon Studios series starring Julia Roberts, will make its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, leading the event’s TV line-up. The first four episodes of the psychological thriller are set to be screened as part of TIFF’s Primetime series, running September 6 to 16. The summer has seen top TV networks’ social media metrics declining nearly 20% in July versus June, according to Shareablee. The researcher said that ESPN maintained the top overall rating with 124 million actions, as well as 7.1 million shares by users. FOX News was second with 50 million actions and 8 million shares, followed by CNN with 37 million actions and 7.1 million s hares. CNN was the only top 10 social media TV network that grew over June’s social media actions, rising 2.4%. Altice’s A4 partnered with Inscape Data Inc. to augment its set-box data with information from nearly nine million connected Vizio TVs. A4’s platform aims to make it easier for marketers to plan and deliver cross-screen addressable media campaigns on a national, local and household level. Integrating Inscape, the largest single source of opt-in Smart TV viewing data available to license in the U.S., helps a4 solve the puzzle of audience targeting for networks and marketers. Gracenote released a new Mobile Video Analytics solution aimed at producing visibility into the quality and performance of mobile video streaming applications. It offers insights into how mobile streaming video performance impacts subscribers, focusing on three primary performance categories: experience, attitudes and engagement. MedicosTV launched a channel for traditional broadcast and online delivery of Spanish language health and wellness programming for the Hispanic market. Video-on-demand, online streaming subscription service, and a variety of social channels, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Vimeo, are set to carry programming. SpotX released Global TV and Video: Five Trends Contributing to the Continued Rise of Digital, a new whitepaper exploring which factors have affected changes in TV viewership and growth in digital TV on a global scale. The report concludes that traditional methods of TV viewing remain popular due to television’s ability to facilitate a communal experience. Faster internet speeds combined with more connected TV devices, the growth of SVOD platforms like Netflix and Hulu, and vMVPDS like Sling TV and fuboTV are helping create a new post-cable era, says the report. Endemol Shine Group launched channels Mr Bean and Friends and Puddle Jumper, in partnership with OTT platform XUMO, to run across mobile devices and 20 million Smart TVs in the U.S. GOING GLOBAL Bell Media struck a long-term programming deal to become the exclusive Canadian broadcaster for new programming from Vice Media’s Viceland. Shows will debut on multiple Bell Media platforms, including CraveTV, this fall. The agreement also includes acquired rights to over 650 hours of Vice library programming. Law & Crime, the 24/7 live trial network, is rolling out across several new OTT distribution platforms, including TVPlayer, the leading OTT television service covering the UK and Ireland. Network content and live trial programming is now available on TVPlayer, as well as Klowd TV, and will soon be offered on XUMO. Canada debuts new fashion competition series Stitched, from Corus Studios, on Sunday, September 9 at 9p. Hosted by Canadian fashion model and actress Kim Cloutier, series showcases couture creations and big fashion personalities. |
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RATINGS Not Surprisingly, the Tiger Woods-fueled PGA Championship topped the list of Out-of-Home viewers on Tunity Analytics’ weekly OOH ranking for the week of August 6, with 4.405 million. 60 Minutes, which followed the tournament, was next with 1.68 million. NFL Network’s Browns vs. Giants (1.606 million) and Cowboys v. 49ers games came in third and fourth, with Saturday’s PGA event number five (904,000). WE tv’s Mama June: From Not to Hot delivered nearly 1.4 million Total Viewers within three days, up 10% compared to the prior week. Nine episodes into the current season, the show’s Friday, August 10 episode was also the highest rated of the season among the key demos of W18-49 and A25-54. Behind the strength of Cold Justice and The Disappearance of Crystal Rogers, Oxygen earned its best Saturday Total Day performance among Total Viewers since June 2014. Cold Justice averaged 249,000 P18-49, 243,000 F25-54, and 815,000 Total Viewers, growing 23%, 9% and 9%, respectively from the pervious week. The premiere of Disappearance of Crystal Rogers, immediately following, averaged 224,000 P18-49, 200,000 F25-54, and 634,000 Total Viewers, making it the net’s highest “Disappearance of” series premiere among P18-49. Live + Same Day Viewers AA (millions) Wednesday, August 15, 2018 time period averages Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated Live+SD NBC: 7.42 million America’s Got Talent 9.63, World of Dance 5.21 CBS: 3.85 million Big Brother 5.82, SEAL Team 2.82, Criminal Minds 2.91 FOX: 3.27 million MasterChef 3.34, Gordon Ramsey’s 24 Hours to Hell and Back 3.19 ABC: 2.23 million The Goldbergs 2.90, American Housewife 2.20, Modern Family 2.30, American Housewife 1.92, Shark Tank 1.81 TELE: 0.89 million Exation 0.64, Sin Senos Si Hay Paraiso 0.89, El Senor de los Cielos 1.14 UNI: 0.83 million Rico y Lazaro 1.01, La Bella y Las Bestias 0.84, El Piloto 2 0.63 CW: 0.77 million Burden of Proof 0.86, The Originals 0.68 Wednesday A19-49 Analysis: NBC 1.2/6, FOX 1.0/5, CBS 0.8/4, ABC 0.5/2, TELE 0.5/2, UNI 0.4/2, CW 0.2/1 EXECUTIVE MOVES Refinery29 appointed Chris Sumner as Senior Vice President, Business Development and Strategy. He previously led business development and operations Greenlight. FOX News Channel upped Porter Berry to Vice President and Editor-in-Chief of FOX News Digital. He joined the net in 2004 as Associate Producer and most recently served as Executive Producer of Hannity. Vice hired Naveen Prasad as President of Vice Canada. He last served as Executive Vice President and General Manager of Elevation Pictures. Ovation announced promotions: Will Marks has been upped to Senior Vice President, Business Development and Digital; Erica Henry to Vice President, Acquisitions, Scheduling and Programming Planning; Edward Forman to Senior Director Ad Sales; Frank Vittori to Vice President, Post Production; and Jessica Yas Barker to Senior Director. In addition, Maritza Berta, formerly of Sony’s Crackle, was hired as Marketing Manager. |
| A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE | | FINALISTS ANNOUNCED! The 7th Annual Cynopsis Imagination Awards Tuesday, September 25th from 8:15Am – 10:30AM in NYC Join Cynopsis and your peers on Tuesday, September 25 from 8:15AM - 10:30AM at the Yale Club in NYC as we honor the year's best in children's, tween, and teen media at the 7th Annual Imagination Awards breakfast and networking reception. Register your team and be in the room when winners are announced! Click here to view finalists. Sponsored by pocket.watch |
Friday Fun Fact: Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers. This Day in History: 1979 – Monty Python’s Life of Brian premiered. Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: The lead characters’ car in which 1990s sitcom was controlled by a talking computer named Loquatia? Homeboys in Outer Space (1996-1997). Kudos to: Stacey Cahn-Time in a Bottle Video Productions/Tampa, FL; Gerry Bixenspan-TV Marketing Inc./NYC; Jim Ryan-A+E Networks/NYC; Charles Lore/NYC; Andy Pittman-TAMU/College Station, TX; Julie Houston-Tim Scott Agency/Boise, ID; Lorrie Shilling/El Segundo, CA; David Westburg-SAG-AFTRA Credit Union/Burbank, CA; Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/Los Angeles, CA. Today’s Trivia Question: The two leads from which comedy classic appeared in the Canale 5 comedy Grand Hotel, checking in as guests? (Email trivia@cynopsis.com with your answer and be sure to include your name, company, city and time zone. Unofficial rules: a limit of four.) Answer to Our Last Anagram: Unravels Per Dump = Vanderpump Rules. Kudos to: Elena Wathen-Jupiter Entertainment/NYC; Bejaye Ilegbodu-Comcast Spotlight/Houston, TX; Lauren Leder-ABC/Los Angeles, CA. Today’s Classic Drama Anagram: Enjoy Bra Bans (Email trivia@cynopsis.com 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 AUGUST 17
ABC: WE Day, What Would You Do?, 20/20 CBS: TKO: Total Knockout, Whistleblower, Whistleblower CW: Masters of Illusion, Masters of Illusion, Penn & Teller: Fool Us FOX: Big 3 Basketball NBC: American Ninja Warrior, Dateline NBC PBS: Washington Week, Breaking Big, The Great British Baking Show, Great Performances Telemundo: Exation Estados Unidos, Sin Senos Si Hay Paraiso, El Senor de los Cielos Univision: El rico y Lazaro, La Bella y Las Bestias, La Piloto |
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