| A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM WICT NY | | WICT NY EXECUTIVE WOMEN'S LUNCHEON 11/7/18 | 11a-2p | Gotham Hall Beyond #MeToo: Changing Corporate Culture Join WICT NY for lunch and a candid panel discussion with leaders who are trailblazing the way for positive culture change for their organizations. Reserve your table today! Contact ronsaykin@ionmedia.com for more information. |
IN THE NEWS Weigel Broadcasting and CBS Television Stations have launched Start TV, featuring female-forward procedurals like The Closer, The Good Wife and The Medium. The multicast net reaches 42% of the U.S. at launch, aiming for 60% by 1Q19. Shows air seven days a week. Contrary to a claims by Ronan Farrow, his investigation into reports of sexual assault by Harvey Weinstein “was never cleared or approved for air by NBC News Legal or Standards,” said NBC yesterday. “As is common practice, NBC lawyers met with him on several occasions to offer legal advice in connection with his reporting. But at no time did they render a judgment on the draft scripts readiness to air. While he was told by his editors that several elements of the draft script were technically ‘reportable,’ he was consistently advised that – even taken together – they were not yet sufficient to air a story alleging serial sexual abuse by Harvey Weinstein without at least one victim or witness on the record.” On Monday, Farrow tweeted his Weinstein story had been cleared by legal and standards, but was blocked by executives. Brand new WPP CEO Mark Read said the company has “made progress in a number of important areas” recently, including organic net revenue growth in 2Q18 of .7%. After tax profits for the first half were up 11.3%, to $905 million. Its worst performance by region for the second quarter was North America, with a net revenue decline of 3.1%. Having already divested itself of 15 companies or stakes in companies, Read said, “We have accelerated initiatives that will simplify our organization, making it easier for us to manage and clients to access.” Read was named CEO on Monday, succeeding Martin Sorrell, who exited in April; Andrew Scott, former head of WPP Europe and promoted to co-COO with Read after Sorrell’s exit, will keep that title. The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers and its global arm, the International Society of Broadband Experts, reached an agreement with Advanced Media Technologies that will expand the availability of SCTE•ISBE learning and development resources for the cable telecom workforce. Under the agreement, AMT will represent SCTE•ISBE before non-CAP member Tier 2 and Tier 3 cable operators, as well as telecommunications and Internet Service Providers, within the United States. “With their extensive background in cable and telecommunications, Advanced Media Technologies is well positioned to communicate the value of SCTE•ISBE training to existing and new customers,” said Matt Aden, VP, sales and operations for SCTE•ISBE. Season 14 The Bachelorette alum Colton Underwood (he’s the former NFL player who loves dogs) has been named the next star of ABC’s The Bachelor. Season 23 launches in January. Cosby Show alum Geoffrey Owens appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America Tuesday, after a job shaming photo of him working at a Trader Joe’s was posted online and thousands jumped to his defense on social media. “There is no job that’s better than another job,” Owens told Robin Roberts. “It might pay better, it might have better benefits, it might look better on a resume and on paper. But actually, it’s not better. Every job is worthwhile and valuable.” SAG-AFTRA promoted #ActorsWithDayJobs, and Tyler Perry came through with a job offer on The Haves and the Have Nots. “#GeoffreyOwens I’m about to start shootings OWN’s number one drama next week!” posted Perry. “Come join us!!! I have so much respect for people who hustle between gigs. The measure of a true artist.” Craig Melvin has been upped to co-anchor of NBC’s Today. Melvin, who anchors MSNBC Live at 1p and until August 25 co-hosted Today’s Saturday edition, tweeted, “Dreams do come true.” |
| A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE | | CALL FOR ENTRIES The 2nd Annual Cynopsis Short Form Video Festival The Cynopsis Short Form Video Festival is searching for the most cutting-edge creatives from individuals and teams worldwide, including: production companies/studios, producers, networks, composers, lyricists, animators, video game developers/producers, website developers, mobile & app developers/producers, marketing companies, PR firms and more. Submissions will be judged by a panel of industry experts and finalists will be announced in mid-November. SUBMIT VIDEOS |
PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT NBC’s Law & Order franchise just got bigger, with a 13-episode order for Law & Order: Hate Crimes, from Dick Wolf and Law & Order: SVU showrunner Warren Leight. Series is based on New York’s Hate Crimes Task Force. “AsLaw & Order: SVU’ enters its remarkable 20thseason, it is exciting to get back into business with Dick Wolf on a new Law & Order incarnation that feels extremely timely,” said Lisa Katz, co-president of scripted programming, NBC Entertainment. “Considering that last year there was a double-digit rise in hate crimes in our 10 largest cities - the highest total in over a decade - it seemed like this topic is begging to be explored.” Dennie Gordon (Goliath) has been tapped to direct and exec produce three episodes of Amazon drama Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan. Series premiered August 31. Len Wiseman (The Gifted) will exec produce DC Universe drama Swamp Thing, as well as direct the first episode. Series from Atomic Monster in association with Warner Bros. TV is set to start streaming in 2019. Dina Shihabi (Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan) signed a development deal with Propagate for scripted series Habibti, based on her life in LA living with Saudi friends. Shihabi created, wrote and EPs the project.
NEW & RETURNING SERIES Starz’ unscripted six-part series Warriors of Liberty City will be available on the Starz App and VOD platforms on Sunday, September 9,, one week ahead of its linear debut on September 16at p. Each subsequent episode will be available across all digital and on-demand platforms one week prior to the linear airing. Warriors explores a marginalized neighborhood in Miami that is arguably the NFL’s most successful football factory. Family Feud launches its 20th season on Monday, September 10p. “Happy anniversary to one of the best gifts I’ve ever received, Family Feud,” said host Steve Harvey. “I’ve been here 9 of the 20 seasons and it has been the most fun I’ve had throughout my career.” Warner Bros. Television starts New York Comic Con on Wednesday, October 3, with the world premiere screening of the live-action dramatic adventure series Titans, which launches October 12 as the first original series for the new DC Universe digital subscription service. FarmHer returns to RFD-TV for season three on Friday, September 7 at 9:30p, with an episode featuring Budweiser Clydesdales and one of the women who trains them. COMING UP Ellen DeGeneres’ stand-up special, Relatable, will premiere on Netflix December 18. It’s DeGeneres’ first stand-up special in 15 years. “I just all of a sudden was like, ‘I miss stand-up, I want to do it,’” she said on Tuesday’s season 16 premiere of The Ellen DeGeneres Show. “So I made a deal with Netflix.” Freeform has expanded its annual spooky programming stunt from 13 nights to 31, with “31 Nights of Halloween.” The event will also be the exclusive TV home to the film Hocus Pocus, celebrating its 25th anniversary. Children of IFC employees spin the wheel in a special Back to School Bingo edition, during an airing of Billy Madison on Thursday, September 6 at 9p. Viewers can play along live during “Bingo Breaks” to win the prize of the week. CNBC doc Crisis on Wall Street: The Week that Shook the World offers an account of the most tumultuous days of the financial crisis of 2008. CNBC anchor Andrew Ross Sorkin, author of best-seller “Too Big to Fail,” reports on Wednesday, September 112 at 10p. E! returns as the official multi-platform media partner of New York Fashion Week: The Shows. Coverage includes backstage access to the runways, red carpets, parties, and fashion collections across platforms (on-air, online and across mobile and social), as well as E!’s all-new series Model Squad. Two-week event runs Tuesday, September 4-Friday, September 14 at 8p. Gusto Worldwide Media confirmed today that eight original series and four specials will become available on Pluto TV, for access to 75 hours of Gusto original content: The Urban Vegetarian; Spencer's BIG 30; Flour Power; One World Kitchen; Crate to Plate; Licence to Grill; Cook Like a Chef; Watts Up for the Holidays: Spencer's Ultimate Christmas Recipes (1x60'); Spencer and Robert's Game Day Buffet; One World Kitchen Bakes the Holidays; and One World Kitchen: Our Favourite Holiday Recipes. Estrella TV music awards show, Premios de la Radio, will be held in Mexico for the first time in its 19-year history. “I strongly believe that you can’t stop culture, music or talent with any immigration law or wall, and this is why we are trying to bring Mexican artists, who are beloved in the U.S., closer to Hispanic audiences here,” said Pepe Garza, radio programmer, Que Buena Radio and founder of Premios de la Radio. “We are committed to bringing our loyal viewers their favorite artists via television, and vice versa, we are also taking new and developing regional Mexican acts from the U.S. to Mexican audiences who are unable to come to the U.S. to see them.” An expanded edition of Discovery’s Expedition Unknown solves the mystery behind the missing pair of ruby red slippers worn by Judy Garland in “The Wizard of Oz”, tonight at 8p.
ADVERTISING Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has a new, multi-year deal with Nike that makes him one of the faces of the company’s 30th anniversary “Just Do It” campaign – tag line, “Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything.” Kaepernick found himself out of a job after igniting a controversy in 2016 by kneeling during the national anthem to protest police brutality and racial inequality. In a mix of positive and negative mentions in the 24 hours after the news broke, there were over 2.7 million mentions of Nike, a 1400% increase versus the previous day, according to social media analysis from Talkwalker. Shares of NKE stock closed down more than 3% on Tuesday, while NFL EVP of communications and public affairs Jocelyn Moore said, “The social justice issues that Colin and other professional athletes have raised deserve our attention and action.” CASTING Henry Cavill (Man of Steel) will star in Netflix drama The Witcher, based on the fantasy saga….Jacki Weaver (Blunt Talk) landed a co-starring role in upcoming Epix drama Our Lady, LTD….Kali Rocha (Man With a Plan) was promoted from recurring to series regular on season three of the CBS comedy. DIGITAL Yesterday Amazon became the second company, after Apple, to see its market value pass $1 trillion. In early 2018, the company was worth $580 billion, but in the second quarter net income jumped from $197 million in 2Q17 to $2.5 billion, helped by its cloud business, advertising on its sites and Prime subscriptions. The move to active mobile video offerings will grow along with entertainment bundling with mobile services, according to the 2018 Economics of Mobile Programming Report by Kagan. North American and Asian markets lead the charge in a shift to active mobile video markets. In both the Asia-Pacific and North/South American regions, 86% of operators offer mobile video services, followed by 71% in the Mideast and Africa region. “As 5G moves forward, over the next decade consumers will increasingly make a choice between wires versus wireless for home broadband,” said John Fletcher, principle research analyst with S&P Global Market Intelligence, “and Mobile Network Operators are already bundling video services alongside mobile phone services to not only retain existing customers but to position themselves as a future one-stop shop for home broadband and video services.” Speaking of, 5G will be a hot topic at the Mobile World Congress Americas 2018, taking place in LA September 12th-14. “Unlike last year’s event, we are closer to 5G commercial service rollouts, so all vendors and operators that participate in the 5G value chain will be touting their wares, showcasing the possible use cases, and amping up the excitement for adjacent technologies that will be advanced by 5G such as AR/VR, enhanced video broadcasting and streaming, and advanced interactive gaming systems,” said Kathryn Weldon, research director, and Emma Mohr-McClune, service director, at Global Data. Synamedia, born from the sale by Cisco of its Service Provider Video Solutions business to Permira, will work with media companies on building OTT distribution. “Synamedia enters the market at a time when the TV landscape is being redrawn,” said new chairman Abe Peled. “We will hit the ground running as a private, independent entity committed to help customers boost engagement and revenues by capitalizing on the myriad opportunities that IP distribution and cloud-based services bring.” CBS Sports will stream Super Bowl LIII across more platforms than ever, including mobile phones, as part of an expanded agreement with the NFL announced earlier this year. CBS Sports’ broadcast coverage of Super Bowl LIII will also be available to stream live via the CBS All Access subscription service. “We’re looking forward to bringing this season’s biggest game to the biggest possible digital audience and building on the record-breaking Super Bowl streams we’ve delivered in the past,” said Jeff Gerttula, EVP and General Manager, CBS Sports Digital DPAA released a preliminary list of speakers for its annual Video Everywhere Summit, to be held in NYC on Tuesday, October 30 as part of Digital Signage Week (Oct. 29-Nov. 2) for brands, agencies, digital out-of-home networks, ad tech, mobile/location companies, data firms and others from multi-screen advertising. Among the speakers so far are Denise Karkos, CMO, TD Ameritrade; Frenemies author Ken Auletta; Jeff Brooks, CMO, Casper, and Alicia Hatch, CMO, Deloitte Digital. What will Facebook and Twitter have to say to lawmakers in D.C. today, during testimony about foreign operatives’ use of their services, and their influence on people’s thinking? “We were too slow to spot this and too slow to act. That’s on us,” Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO, said in prepared testimony that was obtained by The New York Times. “We’re getting better at finding and combating our adversaries, from financially motivated troll farms to sophisticated military intelligence operations.” Twitter head Jack Dorsey posted, “Twitter is approaching these challenges with a simple question: How do we earn more trust from the people using our service? We know the way to earn more trust around how we make decisions on our platform is to be as transparent as possible.”
GOING GLOBAL OUTtv announced the launch of OUTtv South Africa. In partnership with MultiChoice, OUTtv South Africa, will broadcast as a pop-up channel on DStv channel 198 from October 4 until November 4. Alfred Haber, Inc. is lining up international sales for the 2019 Grammy Awards, airing Stateside on CBS on February 10. Onboard so far: Rogers (Canada), Tencent (China), WOWOW (Japan), VTM (Belgium), M-Net (Africa), Channel One (Russia), Viacom 18 (India), WDR (Germany), D17 (France), and Bangkok Broadcasting (Thailand). SOCIAL GOOD Canada’s Family Channel empowers kids to make a positive change in their communities with the launch of its annual Bullying Awareness Week campaign, promoting the message to Stand UP!, not stand by when you see bullying happen. The net is raising awareness with an extensive social media campaign running from Sunday, November 18- Saturday, November 24. |
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RATINGS The premiere of BBC thriller Bodyguard drew 10.4 million viewers and a 40.9% share, counting on demand viewing, the biggest new drama debut I the UK in 10 years. Live + Same Day Viewers AA (millions) Friday, August 31 time period averages Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated Live+SD NBC: 2.62 million American Ninja Warrior 2.33, Dateline 2.91 ABC: 2.35 million Fresh of the Boat 2.35, Speechless 1.70, What Would You Do? 2.57, 20/20 2.81 CBS: 2.35 million TKO: Total Knockout 2.26, Whistleblower 2.24, Blue Bloods 3.29 FOX: 1.28 million The Resident 1.57, The Orville 0.99 CW: .74 million Masters of Illusion 0.79, Masters of Illusion 0.72, Penn & Teller: Fool Us 0.73 UNI: 0.83 million
El Rico y Lazaro 1.07, La Bella y las bestias 0.95, La Piloto 0.76 TELE: 0.68 million Exation Estados Unidos 0.67, Taken 2 0.70
Friday A18-49: NBC 0.5/2, CBS 0.4/2, UNI 0.4/2, ABC 0.4/2, TELE 0.4/2, FOX 0.3/1, CW 0.2/1
EXECUTIVE MOVES Three promotions at 20th Century Fox Television: Mariel Brooke to Vice President of Current Programming; Chetan Dave to VP, Comedy Development, and Jenna Dim to VP, Drama Development. Television insights company TV Time appointed Cory Sher as Vice President of Sales. Previously, Sher served as VP of Global Business Development & Account Management, Media & Entertainment, for 7 Park Data. Altice USA has expanded its leadership team with the additions of Chris Vacarro, Vice President Digital News, and Kristin Malaspina, VP, Marketing & Audiences. Vacarro was previously Director of Digital at the Topps Company, while Malaspina was VP of Distribution Marketing at Starz. Matthew Borst was promoted from Director to Senior Director of Digital Strategy & Production at Viacom, moving into a cross-brand role across MTV, VH1 and Logo. This Day in History: 1985 – The first gasoline pump was delivered, to a dealer in Indiana. Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: What was the significance of the final three pricing games played on the last episode of The Price Is Right Bob Barker hosted? They were the games played in Barker’s first TPIR (but in reverse order). Kudos to: Alan Asarch-Business Wire/NYC, Matt Sautter-WideOrbit/York, PA, David Westberg-SAG-AFTRA Federal Credit Uniom/Burbank, Susan Nessanbaum-Golberg-M and S Entertainment/LA, Today’s Trivia Question: Which series focused on an editor of self-help books was canceled after one episode? (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: I Stain Litmus City = Austin City Limits. Kudos to: Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/LA, Reality Show Anagram: Highly Hurt Whale(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 - WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 5
ABC: The Goldbergs [r], American Housewife [r], Modern Family [r], American Housewife [r], Shark Tank [r] CBS: Big Brother, SEAL Team [r], Criminal Minds [r] CW: Burden of Truth, Back to School Just for Laughs FOX: MasterChef NBC: America’s Got Talent, World of Dance PBS: Nature [r], Ancient Invisible Cities, NOVA [r] Telemundo: Exation Estados Unidos, Sin Senos Si Paraiso, El Senor de los Cielos Univision: El Rico y Lazaro, La Bella y las Bestias, La Piloto
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