2016-02-23

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CYNOPSIS
02.23.16

Good morning. It’s Tuesday February 23, 2016, and this is your first early morning briefing.

Tonight’s Premieres:
BET: It’s a Mann’s World at 10p
ID: See No Evil at 10p
Science: NASA’s Unexplained Files at 10p

Tonight’s Finales:
Bravo: Girlfriend’s Guide to Divorce at 10p
ID: Ice Cold Killers at 8p
Lifetime: Pitch Slapped at 10p

IN THE NEWS

Television offered a ray of hope in a bleak study released Monday by the Media, Diversity and Social Change Initiative at USC, which examined diversity in 109 films released by major studios in 2014 and 305 scripted series. While “overall, the landscape of media content is still largely whitewashed,” concludes the study, “there are pockets of promise in television. There is a focus that change is possible.” On the down side, broadcast TV directors were the least diverse, with a rate of 90.4 percent white.

Ted Cruz asked for the resignation of Communications Director Rick Tyler, who represented the GOP candidate’s campaign on TV news shows, after Tyler distributed a video that inaccurately characterized Marco Rubio as disparaging the bible. Although Tyler deleted and apologized for the post, Cruz, already tarnished by allegations of dirty trickery, said, “We are not a campaign that is going to question the faith of another candidate.” MSNBC was about to go live with Tyler yesterday when he abruptly left the studio, said host Kate Snow on air, adding, “Now we know why.”

Alex Trebek may be the only on-camera Canadian on Jeopardy! for a while. Thanks to a change in online privacy laws, Trebek’s Canuck countrymen are barred from applying to be contestants. “As international laws governing how information is shared over the Internet are ever-changing and complex, we are currently investigating how we can accept registrations from potential Canadian contestants,” said the quiz show’s producers in a statement. “We are making every effort to find a solution before the next round of testing.”

Fusion struck a multi-year deal with All Def Digital to broadcast the All Def Movie Awards, starting with a one-hour broadcast on Oscars Sunday, February 28 at 7p. Fusion and ADD will also feature content from the event across their respective digital and social platforms, including Fusion’s Snapchat Discover channel. These aren’t your grandma’s awards – categories include Best Bad Muh F**ka, Best Helpful White Person and Best Black Survivor in a Movie. The awards were inspired in part by ADD weekly stand-up showcase All Def Comedy Live.

Exclusive: TiVo’s State of TV Report for 4Q15 found that time-shifting continues to vary considerably across the five major broadcast nets. CW has the most time-shifted primetime viewership (78 percent), followed by CBS (64 percent), ABC (63 percent), Fox (56 percent) and NBC (52 percent). Most time-shifted in cable were Bravo (69 percent), BBC America and AMC (60 percent), FX (59 percent) and Syfy (58 percent).

TiVo’s study also ranked the top broadcast programs by Live+4 to Live+7 incremental commercial rating increase. Top five were Fox’s Minority Report (15 percent), followed by 14 percent increases for Fox’s Gotham and CW’s The Flash, The Vampire Diaries and The Originals. As for late night viewership, TiVo looked at NBC, CBS and Comedy Central, the networks with the most churn, and found that most late-night viewers choose a show based on the host, not the show itself. For a copy of the report email info@tivoresearch.com.

The Simpsons released a short video about the presidential campaign, in which Marge has a panic attack after watching the candidates debate. (“It’s just like when you have a bad dream, except this is real, and will probably ruin your life,” Homer tells the kids.) “The Debateful Eight” video is here.

Fans played director on Saturday, helping create the promo campaign for the 2016 MTV Movie Awards. Show hosts Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart interacted with fans across Facebook Live, YouTube, Periscope, Meerkat and YouKnow, for promo footage airing across linear, digital and social platforms. The livestream generated 4 million streams with almost 2 million tuning in live; awards show tapes April 9 to air Sunday, April 10 at 8p.

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PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT

With pint-sized chefs gobbling ratings (MasterChef Junior, Kids Baking Championship) it should come as a no surprise that Spike and Nickelodeon have teamed with Lip Sync Battle’s Casey Patterson Entertainment and Matador to develop Lip Sync Battle Jr. The special, a spinoff of the Spike hit, will air later this year on both nets. Meanwhile, sister Viacom brands are developing special editions of Lip Sync Battle events. “On the long list of wonderful surprises about Lip Sync Battle is our family co-viewing,” said exec producers Casey Patterson and Jay Peterson. “Lip Sync Battle’s multigenerational appeal is our favorite part of the show.”

Raycom Media and The E.W. Scripps Company are forming a development partnership to create and grow new and original programming across daytime, early fringe and access dayparts. The partnership will also develop content for the companies’ digital products. Combined reach is 29 percent of U.S. households. “Partnering with other broadcast groups rather than competing against them is a dynamic new way to succeed in this industry,” said Brian Lawlor, SVP of the Scripps broadcast division.

IFC gave the green light to two scripted comedies. In Stan Against Evil, from creator/writer Dana Gould and 3 Arts Entertainment, a former sheriff and his replacement battle demons. Funny or Die adaptation Brockmire stars Hank Azaria as a disgraced MLB announcer attempting a small-town comeback. Stan is slated for a fall premiere, while Brockmire is set to launch in early 2017. “Demons and disgrace are at the forefront of IFC’s new comedy strategy,” joked IFC president Jennifer Caserta.

COMING UP

Docu-series Case Closed with AJ Benza premieres on Reelz Saturday, April 16 at 10p, with the former New York Daily News gossip columnist exploring mysterious celebrity tragedies. Asylum Entertainment produces.

Pray tell: TCM is presenting programming stunt “Condemned,” featuring 27 films once deemed objectionable by the Catholic Legion of Decency. Films will air every Thursday in March, with primetime screenings hosted by film reviewer Sister Rose Pacatte. Among the offerings: 1933’s Baby Face, 1956’s And God Created Woman and 1964’s Kiss Me, Stupid. “We’re always looking for creative ways to explore film history through various viewpoints and this month-long programming slate provides fans with a different perspective,” said Charles Tabesh, SVP of programming for TCM.

Telemundo News will offer the only RNC-sanctioned Republican Debate broadcast by a Spanish-language network, on Thursday, February 25, liveat 9p. Maria Celeste Arraras will join as a panelist for an event slated to specifically address Latino issues, produced in partnership with CNN and the Salem Media Group. The debate will be streamed live on Telemundo.com, the Telemundo News App and on the Telemundo News YouTube channel.

For the fourth year in a row, Destination America and USA Today are teaming for the annual “Red, White and You” contest, offering a deserving community an over-the-top 4th of July celebration. Nomination form can be found here.

DirecTV will air a televised special of last Saturday’s first-ever iHeart80s Party on the AT&T Audience Network or U-Verse. Tears for Fears, Culture Club, Billy Idol, Rick Springfield and more are featured Friday, March 18 at 9p.

Pivot is airing election programming featuring politically-themed films the first Tuesday of every month at 10p. Start date: Super Tuesday, March 1, continuing through August 1.

RETURNING SERIES

Deadliest Catch is back for season 12 on Discovery with a new generation of fisherman, including the youngest captain ever – but vet Sig Hansen, for one, is not impressed. “When I look around at the new guys, there is a lot of opportunity but not a lot of promise,” said Hansen, captain of the F/V Northwestern. “At sea, you find out what a guy is made out of. Not everyone makes the cut.” See who does prove themselves worthy starting Tuesday, March 29 at 9p.

Season five of DIY’s Salvage Dawgs debuts Sunday, February 28 at 9p and 9:30p. Fourth run of the series focused on an architectural salvage business saw ratings gains of 40 percent in the P25-54 demo versus season three.

BRANDS & ADVERTISING

TV ad spending was up 1 percent in January, according to Standard Media Index, thanks to a 9 percent increase for broadcast nets. The picture wasn’t as pretty for cable and syndication, each down 3 percent. “Improved ratings, driven by the outstanding performance of the NFL, have delivered healthy growth for major broadcasters, even with a slight dip in ratings for the month,” said James Fennessy, SMI’s CEO. “Cable hasn’t been as fortunate as revenue declines are tracking closely with softer ratings.” Bucking the cable trend: TBS, HGTV and Freeform, all up double digits.

Smart brands are changing their tune when it comes to engaging the youngest viewers and consumers. “Marketing will have to be more honest and direct if brands want to gain the attention of Generation Z,” says Becky Murdy, director Octagon Digital. “We won’t be discussing viralness, selfies or millennials in boardrooms moving forward; we will be talking about attention spans, cinematic photography and incognito social media platforms.” For more expert insights from Murdy, as well as panelists from AMC, Convince & Convert, redpepper and ShareThis, you’ll want to sign up for the March 1 Cynopsis webinar, New Social Media Strategies to Reach the Young Demos. Details are here.

DISTRIBUTION

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and Genius Brands International finalized a multi-year agreement in which SPHE will provide marketing and distribution of GBI’s Kid Genius and Baby Genius labels throughout North America. The deal also allows SPHE and GBI to co-develop, distribute, and globally merchandise future animated or live action properties from their respective programming libraries.

CASTING

Fresh off of Grease: Live, Vanessa Hudgens won the lead in NBC DC universe comedy pilot Powerless, as an insurance claims adjuster annoyed by pesky superheroes.

Weeds alumns Elizabeth Perkins and Kevin Nealon reteam for NBC’s untitled comedy pilot about a royal family, exec produced and directed by Amy Poehler.

Clive Standen (The Vikings) will star in NBC’s straight-to-series adaptation of Taken. Liam Neeson played the role in the 2008 thriller.

Mark Feuerstein (Royal Pains) will recur in Fox event series Prison Break, starring the 2005-2009 original’s Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell.

Emily Tremaine (Vinyl) has been cast as one of the leads in Freeform’s Guilt, as a prosecutor who heads to London when her sister is accused of murder. Katrina Law (Arrow) played the role in the pilot.

Justina Machado (Private Practice) will star in Netflix’s One Day at a Time reboot, focused on a Latino family and co-starring Rita Moreno.

Julie Berman (Chicago Med) has been bumped from recurring to series regular in season two of Hulu comedy Casual.

Nadine Valasquez (Flight) and Brianne Davis (True Blood) join History military drama Six.

Wynn Everett (Agent Carter) will play a stay-at-home supermom on ABC comedy pilot Dream Team.

Conor Leslie (Dirty Beautiful) will co-star opposite Sanaa Lathan in Shots Fired. Fox event series explores the aftermath of racially charged shootings.

SYNDICATION

Hillary Clinton sits down with Steve Harvey in her native Chicago tomorrow, February 24. The presidential candidate answers such burning questions as: Deep dish or thin crust?

Travel-themed talk show The Jet Set will be available for first-run syndication on Saturday, March 5 as a half-hour weekly barter show, with 50 original episodes per year. Dave Ward is distributing the series, produced by En Pointe Productions.

GLOBAL GOINGS ON

Bomanbridge Media sold the recently-acquired Venevision title XRC to Celestial Tiger Entertainment, for its pan-Asian action entertainment channel KIX.

France’s Planete and Discovery Italy picked up true crime series Wicked Attraction from GRB Entertainment.

9 Story Media Group licensed the animated series Nature Cat to DHX Television’s kids channel Family CHRGD in Canada. The series premiered in November 2015 on PBS KIDS in the U.S.

Armoza celebrity interview format How to Be was commissioned by Spain’s Cuarto and Germany’s ZDF and ZDFneo.

Electus International inked a deal with Fox Channels Middle East to bring House of DVF, Style by Jury, Fashion Star and Making Mr. Right to the region.

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RATINGS

AMC’s The Walking Dead returned for the second half of season six with 19.1 million total viewers in Live+3 and the highest A18-49 rating (12.1 million) of the year for an entertainment telecast, plus an additional 1.1 million digital viewers within the three day window. After-show Talking Dead had its highest-rated episode all season: 7.5 million viewers and 4.6 million among A18-49. Airing at midnight, Comic Book Men delivered 1.3 million viewers, 865,000 of whom were A18-49.

Season two of AMC’s Better Call Saul, launched opposite the Grammys and without the benefit of a Walking Dead lead-in, grew 83 percent in total viewers and 98 percent in A18-49 in three days, for a total Live+3 audience of 4.7 million viewers and 2.7 million in the demo.

The premiere of The Night Manager on Sunday delivered 6.4 million viewers in overnights and a 26.2 share for the UK’s BBC One. The six-parter is adapted from the John Le Carre bestseller.

Saturday’s Democratic caucuses in Nevada gave Fox News 1.59 million viewers from 3p-6p, while CNN grabbed 1.1 million and MSNBC had 735,000. FNC led Saturday night (7p-10p), featuring the results from the GOP primary in South Carolina, with 3.3 million, versus 1.9 million for CNN and 1.1 million for MSNBC.

ABC’s The Wonderful World of Disney: Disneyland at 60 was Sunday’s most viewed program among A18-49 with 1.8/6, and drew ABC’s largest audience (6.8 million) in the 8p-10p time period since November. Most watched for the night was CBS’s 60 Minutes, with 10.67 million viewers. NBC’s Must-See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows scored 1.3/4 in the demo.

The February 15 episode of Disney Junior’s Sofia the First ranked as the animated series’ most-watched telecast in 15 months in total viewers (3.3 million in Live+3) and hit a one year ratings high among Kids 2-5 (975,000/6.3). Guest star: Frozen’s Olaf.

The series finale of Gravity Falls on Disney XD on February 15 was the number one telecast in net history among total viewers (2.9 million in Live+3), Kids 6-14 (1.5 million/4.1 rating) and Boys 6-14 (909,000/5.0 rating).

NIELSEN TWITTER TV TOP TEN for the week of February 15, 2016
Program, Date, Unique Audience (000), Tweets (000)
Grammy Awards (CBS) 2/15, 12,891, 7636
The Walking Dead (AMC) 2/21, 4004, 394
Clinton/Sanders Town Hall (MSNBC) 2/18, 3279, 295
Donald Trump Town Hall (MSNBC) 2/17, 3128, 168
AC360 GOP Town Hall (CNN) 2/17, 2702, 231
The Bachelor (ABC) 2/15, 2598, 98
Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show (USA) 2/16, 2486, 36
Bellator MMA Live (Spike) 2/19, 2121, 128
AC360 GOP Town Hall II (CNN) 2/18, 2052, 157
WWE Fastlane (PPV) 2/21, 1735, 279
Source: Nielsen. Nielsen Social captures relevant Tweets from three hours before through three hours after broadcast, local time. Unique Audience measures the audience of relevant Tweets ascribed to a program from when the Tweets are sent until the end of the broadcast day at 5am. The data includes new/live primetime and late fringe programming only and excludes sports events. For multicast events, networks are listed alphabetically and metrics reflect the highest Unique Audience across all airing networks.

SHAREABLEE SOCIAL TV RATINGS: Top U.S. Shows Overall by Engagement for the week of February 8, 2016
Program, Date, Total Actions (000), Total Content, Actions per Post (000), Fans/Followers (000)
The Ellen DeGeneres Show (Warner Bros./synd.) 11266, 149, 76, 117096
The Walking Dead (AMC) 6139, 109, 56, 41346
Pretty Little Liars (Freeform) 4049, 257, 16, 22143
Good Morning America (ABC) 3101, 862, 4, 8857
Teen Wolf (MTV) 2288, 112, 20, 9305
Today Show (NBC) 1805, 692, 3, 9613
Saturday Night Live (NBC) 1524, 183, 8, 9377
Shadowhunters (Freeform) 1518, 302, 5, 1383
Family Feud (Debmar/Mercury/synd.) 1377, 65, 21, 2405
The Tonight Show (NBC) 1360, 201, 7. 23311
Source: Shareablee Inc. The total actions metric includes the total volume of post-level likes, shares, favorites, retweets and comments. Total content includes all posts, tweets and media posted by each TV property across all platforms. Actions per post metric notes the average e number of actions garnered by each TV property. Total fans/followers includes Facebook and Twitter and Instagram followers.

TV Playback Rank, based on the difference between Nielsen’s first-reported Live + Same Day rating and the final Live + 7 Day rating for the week of January 25, 2016
Program, Live+SD A18-49 US AA%, Live +7 US AA%

Big Bang Theory (CBS) 3.8, 5.9
The X-Files (Fox) 2.7, 4.5
The Blacklist (NBC) 1,5, 2.9
Shades of Blue (NBC) 1.1, 2.3
Lucifer (Fox) 2.0, 3.1
Chicago Fire (NBC) 1.8, 2.9
Chicago PD (NBC) 1.7, 2.7
Law and Order: SVU (NBC) 1.8, 2.8
Elementary (CBS) 1.1, 2.0
The Flash (CW) 1.4, 2.2
Code Black (CBS) 1.2, 2.0
Grimm (NBC) .9, 1.7
Supergirl (CBS) 1.5, 2.3
Chicago Med (NBC) 1.6, 2.4
Source: The Nielsen Company. Based on original telecasts only.

Top Ten Basic Cable Network Live+7 Performance among Total Viewers for the week of: 2/1/2016
Primetime(000)/Total Prog. Day (000)

FOXN 2223/FOXN 1349
USA 1849/NICK 1314
HGTV 1705/ADSM* 1079
FX 1563/DSNY 1062
DISC 1477/HGTV 959
DSNY 1436/USA 932
ESPN 1436/NAN* 883
TBSC 1371/TOON 804
CNN 1251/TNT 757
HIST 1244/ESPN 741
Source: Turner Research from The Nielsen Company data. All ratings based on Total US Television Universe of 116,400,000 homes. * + Network broadcasts less than 51% of minutes in a 24 hour day. Notes: Data based on most currently available Nielsen Data stream; Preliminary: Live+7. Primetime is Mon-Sat 8p-11p and Sun 7p-11p. Total day is Mon-Sun 6a-6a for household and demographic performances.

Top Ten Basic Cable Network Live+7 Performance among A18-49 for the week of 2/1/2016
Primetime (000), Total Prog. Day (000)

FX 794/ADSM* 637
USA 757/NAN* 425
ESPN 687/ESPN 396
DISC 677/NICK 391
TBSC 673/FX 364
ADSM 666/USA 360
HGT 526/TBSC 333
LIF 512/DSNY 299
MTV 466/HGTV 298
FOOD 454/TNT 295
Source: Turner Research from The Nielsen Company data. All ratings based on Total US Television Universe 116,400,000 homes. * + Network broadcasts less than 51% of minutes in a 24 hour day. Notes: Data based on most currently available Nielsen Data stream; Preliminary: Live+7. Primetime is Mon-Sat 8p-11p and Sun 7p-11p. Total day is Mon-Sun 6a-6a for household and demographic performance.

Top-Rated Cable Shows among A18-49 for the week of 2/1/2016
American Crime Story (FX) 4536
Gold Rush (Discovery) 2441
Teen Mom (MTV) 2437
Love and Hip Hop (VH1) 2367
Lip Sync Battle (Spike) 1926
The Curse of Oak Island (HIST) 1854
WWE Entertainment (USA) 1832
WWE Entertainment (USA) 1817
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (BRAV) 1798
Oklahoma/Golden State (ESPN) 1742
Source: Turner Research from The Nielsen Company data. All ratings based on Total US Television Universe 116,400,000 homes. * + Network broadcasts less than 51% of minutes in a 24 hour day. Notes: Data based on most currently available Nielsen Data stream; Preliminary: Live+7. Primetime is Mon-Sat 8p-11p and Sun 7p-11p. Total day is Mon-Sun 6a-6a for household and

demographic performance.

Friday A18-49 Analysis: ABC had the most A18-49 viewers Friday with 1.3/5, according to final primetime national ratings from Nielsen. ABC’s Last Man Standing (1.2/5) and Dr. Ken (1.1/4) nudged out CBS’s Amazing Race (1.1/4) for the lead at 8p. ABC’s Shark Tank was first 9p with 1.6/6, followed by 1.1/4 for CBS’s Hawaii Five-0. It was a tie at the top at 10p: ABC’s 20/20 and CBS’s Blue Bloods both scored 1.3/5.

A18-49: ABC 1.3/5, CBS 1.2/4, NBC .9/3, UNI .7/3, FOX .7/2, TELE .4/1, CW .4/1, ION 3/1

Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Friday, February 19, 2016  time period averages. Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.

CBS: 5.4/10
Amazing Race 3.6/7, Hawaii Five-0 5.6/10, Blue Bloods 6.9/13
ABC: 3.7/7
Last Man Standing 4.1/8, Dr. Ken 3.2/6, Shark Tank 3.9/7, 20/20 3.5/7
NBC: 2.6/5
Caught on Camera 2.3/4, Grimm 2.5/5, Dateline 2.9/6
FOX: 1.5/3
Sleepy Hollow 1.9/3, Second Chance 1.2/2
UNIVISION: 1.1/2
Antes Muerta Lichita 1.0/2, Pasion y Poder 1.2/2, Hotel de los Secretos 1.0/2
ION: .8/1
Criminal Minds .9/2, Criminal Minds .8/1, Criminal Minds .8/1
TELEMUNDO: .7/1
Qien es Quien .6/1, Eva la Trailera .6/1, Querida Centauro .8/1
CW: .7/1
Vampire Diaries .7/1, Originals .6/1

EXECUTIVE MOVES

Showtime Networks promoted Julia Veale from Senior Vice President to Executive Vice President, Business, Product Development and Management. Veale reports to Tom Christie, Chief Operating Officer.

This Day in History: 1861 – Foiling an assassination plot, President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrived unexpectedly in Washington, D.C.’s Willard Hotel.

Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: How did Mary meet Rhoda on The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970-1977)? When landlady Phyllis was showing Mary her new apartment, she opened the drapes to find Rhoda washing the windows for what Rhoda thought would be her place. Kudos to: Scott Kerbey-Telescope Entertainment/NYC, Chris McLoughlin-NBC/NYC, Elizabeth Waller-NBC News Peacock Productions/NYC, Marcy November-NBC Owned TV Stations/NYC, John Kukla-KDFW/KDFI/Dallas, Les Stipp-GSD&M/Chicago, Robin Felson-Let’s Make a Deal/West LA, Greg Stewart-Evolution Media/Burbank, Coleen Raymann-Disney ABC Home Entertainment/Burbank, Cathy Korda/Honolulu.

Today’s Trivia Question – Best Friends Theme Week: Which character gave a touching maid of honor speech that included a letter the bride had written to her when they were kids? (Email trivia@cynopsis.com with your answer and be sure to include your name, company, city and time zone.).

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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – TUESDAY FEBRUARY 23, 2016

ABC: Fresh Off the Boat, The Muppets, Marvel’s Agent Carter

CBS: NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, Limitless

CW: The Flash, iZombie

FOX: New Girl, Grandfathered, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Grinder

NBC: Hollywood Game Night, Chicago Med, Chicago Fire

PBS: Finding Your Roots, Frontline

Telemundo: Quien es Quien?, Eva la Trailera, La Querida del Centauro
Univision: Antes Muerta que Lichita, Pasion y Poder, El Hotel de los Secretos

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