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05.09.16
Good morning. It’s Monday May 9, 2016, and this is your first early morning briefing.
Tonight’s Premiere:
Z Living: Birth Days at 4p
Tonight’s Finales:
A&E: Damien at 10p
truTV: Truinside at 10p
IN THE NEWS
One to go. The FCC on Friday voted to approve, with additional forthcoming conditions, Charter Communications’ bid to purchase Time Warner Cable for $78 billion and Bright House Networks for $10.4 billion. The last necessary approval is that of the California Public Utilities Commission, which is scheduled to meet May 12. Among conditions Charter already has agreed to: the company will refrain from anything that would deter a programmer from licensing content to an online service, will not impose data caps or tie Internet rates to usage and will elevate the number of “customer locations” with high-speed connections to 2 million.
CBS gave a full season renewal to veteran drama Criminal Minds for 2016-17, marking the series’ 11th season. Criminal Minds is a top 10 drama in Total Viewers (12.04 million), A18-49 (2.8/9) and A25-54 (3.8/10). It also ranks as CBS’ second-highest rated drama in those demographics.
Tim Matheson (The West Wing) will star in Killing Reagan, National Geographic Channel’s upcoming two-hour scripted movie and the fourth in the partnership among Nat Geo, Scott Free Productions and Bill O’Reilly. Matheson will portray the actor turned California governor turned President. Cynthia Nixon (Sex and the City) will play first lady Nancy Reagan. Rod Lurie (The Contender) is directing the script written by Oscar winner Eric Simonson. The previous Killing Lincoln, Killing Kennedy and Killing Jesus, are Nat Geo’s three most-watched programs of all time.
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PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT
ABC gave Designated Survivor, the Kiefer Sutherland-starring conspiracy thriller from the Mark Gordon Co. and ABC Studios, a straight-to-series order. Pilot was written by David Guggenheim and directed by Paul McGuigan.
CBS’ yet-be-be-renewed Supergirl may be heading north. Warner Bros. TV, the studio behind the freshman drama, is contemplating moving production from LA to Vancouver next season, according to Deadline, as a means of reducing costs.
Bungalow-Storied Media Group will represent NPR for feature film and television development, finance and distribution. Bungalow-SMG also represents 60 Minutes, The New Republic, New York Magazine, The New York Times and Smithsonian Enterprises, among others. The move marks NPR’s first alliance with Hollywood representation.
Top 10 Weekend Domestic Box Office Estimates: May 6-8, 2016
Captain America: Civil War (Buena Vista) PG-13, $181.79 million opening weekend
The Jungle Book (Buena Vista) $21.87 million (week 4), cume revenue $284.99 million
Mother’s Day (Open Road Films) $9.01 million (week 2), cume revenue $20.73 million
The Huntsman: Winter’s War (Universal) $3.58 million (week 3), cume revenue $40.36 million
Keanu (Warner Bros.) $3.08 million (week 2) cume revenue $15.10 million
The Barbershop: The Next Cut (Warner Bros.) $2.70 million (week 4), cume revenue $48.77 million
Zootopia (Buena Vista) $2.68 million (week 10), cume revenue $327.62 million
Ratchet & Clank (Focus) $1.46 million (week 2), cume revenue $7.09 million
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (Warner Bros.) $1.05 million (week 7), cume revenue $327.25 million
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (Lionsgate) PG-13 $513,000 (week 4), cume revenue $58.16 million
Source: comScore
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Captain America: Civil War Broke Records …
… and just about everything else. When superheroes throw down, NCM‘s ratings blow up to a season-high 12.5 A18-34 rating – proving there’s only one place to see Captain America: on the big screen.
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COMING UP
For the second year, Justice Network is saluting National Police Week. The network beginning May 9 will air stories, narrated by John Walsh, of heroes who have fallen in the line of duty as well as those who have gone beyond the call of duty. Then on Sunday, May 15, Justice will run a roll call of the names of all 137 fallen officers in 2015 which will air five times throughout the day and will continue with relevant programming all week.
A love of television led Cris Abrego, co-CEO, Endemol Shine North America, to reality TV – and advice from George Lopez drove him to write a book about lessons he’s learned along the way. "I’ve been fortunate that reality TV has allowed me to tell a lot of stories with quite a few faces of color," says Abrego in the latestCynsiders. "And I will tell you that reality TV was not the genre that I set out to be a part of. But I love it all the more for having let me create opportunities that weren’t open to me elsewhere." Read more here: http://www.cynopsis.com/cyncity/diversity-and-the-power-of-reality-tv/.
NEW & RETURNING SERIES
OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network‘s docu-series Livin’ Lozada, featuring reality star Evelyn Lozada, returned with new episodes on Saturday, May 7 at 10p. The premiere season of the series in July 2015 brought younger viewers to the network and was the highest-rated freshman season ever for an OWN docu-series for W18-49.
TLC will launch the new season of Little People, Big World on Tuesday, May 10 at 9p, followed by the series premiere of Outdaughtered, about a couple who defy the odds and give birth to the first set of all-girl quintuplets in the US.
SundanceTV’s new genre drama Cleverman will premiere Wednesday, June 1 at 10p. The six-ep series, starring Iain Glen (Game of Thrones) and Frances O’Connor (The Missing), is set in the very near future and centers on a group of extraordinary beings from ancient mythology who battle for survival in a world where humans feel threatened by them.
Animal Planet is going whole-hog for law-enforcement on Thursday nights. On Thursday, June 2, the network will air the season premiere of Maine’s North Woods Law at 9p, back on patrol throughout the 18 million acres of rugged woods of the Pine Tree State, followed at 10p by the series debut of Lone Star Law, which follows Texas’ elite game wardens who protect the state’s wildlife and more than 27 million citizens. Investigating large-scale poaching cases, saving victims from flash floods, disrupting illegal smuggling operations along the Gulf of Mexico and rescuing injured wildlife all factor in to the action.
AMC has shifted the premiere of Feed the Beast to Sunday, June 5 at 10p, following the second episode of new series Preacher. The move brings viewers two hours of Feed The Beast two days later when it arrives at its regular Tuesday night time slot on June 7. Feed The Beast originally was scheduled to premiere May 31.
USA Network is suiting up again. The network’s legal drama Suits is set to return for its sixth season on Wednesday, July 13 at 9p, picking up immediately after the season 5 cliffhanger. The series will be the lead-in to the previously announced second season of Mr. Robot.
CASTING
If ABC drama Castle is renewed for a ninth season, Seamus Dever will be onboard to continue as a show regular. Dever joins star Nathan Fillion, who also has committed to the series for another season. Series status is still in limbo.
Carlos Bardem joined the cast of AMC drama The Son. The series, based on the Philipp Meyer novel of the same name, is an account of the rise US as a superpower as seen through the dramatic story one Texas family. Production is set to begin in Austin, TX, in June; series will premiere in 2017.
Starz’s American Gods, the straight-to-series adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s fantasy novel, is getting a new leading man. Mad Sweeney has been recast in one of the main roles after British actor Sean Harris pulled out for personal reasons. Additionally, original director of photography Brendan Glavin has been replaced with Jo Willems (Hunger Games: Catching Fire).
DIGITAL DOINGS
Sesame Workshop launched Sesame Studios, a YouTube channel that will showcase new non-Muppet characters, shortform series and original stories. The channel aims to build off the success of the Sesame Street YouTube Channel, which has 2 million subscribers and almost 3 billion views. The new channel will feature videos one to five minutes long, focusing on a range of curricular areas such as literacy, health, and social-emotional development.
Canada’s CBC Docs has entered the world of short-form digital documentaries with the launch of Short Docs. The new site extends the CBC Docs brand into the digital space with accessible and shareable content made by emerging filmmakers. The site features docs that reveal unique perspectives, all at less than 30 minutes in length.
GLOBAL GOINGS ON
Canada’s CBC Sports acquired multiplatform broadcast rights to the 2016 IAAF Diamond League season in a partnership deal with global sports network beIN Sports, which also will broadcast the matches. The 2016 season includes 14 invitational meets taking place across Asia, Europe, North America and Africa over the course of the five-month-long season.
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RATINGS
ABC hit a high note at 8p Friday, May 6, as its Beyond the Tank surged by 1.7 million viewers (to 3.6 million) from its most recent telecast the previous Tuesday (5/3/16) at 10p and held even in A18-49 (0.6/3), marking the show’s most-watched telecast since January.n
Thursday A18-49 Analysis: CBS won the most A18-49 viewers Thursday with 1.6/6, according to final primetime national ratings from Nielsen. CBS grabbed the top spot at 8p with The Big Bang Theory and Odd Couple combining for 2.5/6, followed by ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy with 2.0/8. At 9p, CBS’ Mom and 2 Broke Girls combined for the lead with 1.6/6, just edging out ABC’s Scandal with 1.5/6. Telemundo’s Senor de los Cielo and ABC’s The Catch tied at 10p with 0.9/3 apiece, followed by CBS’ Rush Hour with 0.8/3.
A18-49: CBS 1.6/6, ABC 1.5/6, UNI 1.2/4, TELE 1.0/3, FOX 0.7/3, NBC 0.9/3, CW 0.5/2, ION 0.3/1
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: May 5, 2016 time period averages.
Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.
ABC: 4.2/8
Grey’s Anatomy 5.3/10, Scandal 4.3/7, The Catch 3.1/6
CBS: 4.8/9
The Big Bang Theory 8.3/15, Odd Couple 5.1/9, Mom 5.1/9, 2 Broke Girls 4.3/8, Rush Hour 3.0/6
NBC: 2.7/5
Strong 1.7/3, Black List 4.2/7, Game of Silence 2.2/4
FOX 1.9/3
Bones 2.7/5, American Grit 1.1/2
CW: 0.9/2
DC’s Legends of Tomorrow 1.1/2, The Hundred 0.8/1
UNIVISION: 1.1/2
Camino Hacia de Stino 1.1/2, Yago 1.0/2, Hotel de los Secretos 1.1/2
TELEMUNDO: 0.8/1
Eva La Trailera 0.8/1, Esclava Blanca 0.7/1, Senor de los Cielos 1.0/2
ION: 1.1/2
Blue Bloods 0.9/2, Blue Bloods 1.1/2, Blue Bloods 1.1/2
IN MEMORIAM
John Nuzzi, formerly of Initiative and most recently managing director of Carat, passed away May 4 from cancer. He leaves his husband Jeff Troyer and family.
Rickey E. Smith Jr., 36, a season 2 finalist on Fox’s American Idol, was killed in an automobile crash in Oklahoma on May 6. According to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, Smith was driving eastbound on Interstate 240 when he was hit head-on by a pick-up truck driving the wrong way on the road.
This Day in History: 1960 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved for sale an oral birth-control pill for the first time.
Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: Which actress played Melissa, a woman Rachel shared a kiss with on Friends? Winona Ryder. Kudos to: Gerry Bixenspan TV Marketing Inc., NY; Erica Childs, Viamedia, Bethlehem PA; Elizabeth Corda, Turner, NY; Noelle DeAtley, Creative Thinking Group, Charlotte, NC; Greg Deutsch, WGN America, NY; Eric Emeric, AMC Networks, NY; Jill Ferrone, Mineola, NY; Natasha Manners Floy, ABC TV/Disney, NY; Ray Giacopelli, AMCN, NY; Staci Gonzalez, 441 Productions, NY; Chris Jalandoni, Bleacher Report, NY; Nicole Langella, Fox Networks, NY; Arleen Mahoney, CBS, NY; Chris Schwieterman, Gray Television Group, Tallahassee, FL; Elizabeth Waller, NBC News/Peacock Productions, NY; Eric Litt, Tribune Broadcasting, Chicago; Cammie Buerry, Station Casinos, Las Vegas; Ken DuBow, Bob’s Your Uncle, LA; Melissa Friedman, LA; Jim Katz, Radcliffe Road Pictures, LA; Kim Lockhart, comScore, LA; Joseph Hahle, Original Productions, Burbank; Tom Moore, Kalt Productions, LA; Susan Nessanbaum-Goldberg, Generate, Beverly Hills; David Westberg, SAG-AFTA Federal Credit Union, Burbank; Adam Zuvich, Burbank, CA.
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First name of one character an actress has played, last name of another: Elizabeth Wilde (Email trivia@cynopsis.com; first three respondents with the correct answer and three chosen at random who aren’t in trivia – will be posted along with the answer on www.Cynopsis.com.)
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – MONDAY MAY 09, 2016
ABC: Dancing With the Stars, Castle
CBS: Mike & Molly, Mike & Molly, The Big Bang Theory [r], The Odd Couple, Person of Interest
CW: Reign, Jane the Virgin
FOX: Gotham, Houdini & Doyle
NBC: The Voice, Blindspot
PBS: Antiques Roadshow, Independent Lens
Telemundo: Eva, la Trailera, La Esclava Blanca, El Senor de los Cielos
Univision: Un Camino Hacio el Destino, Yago, El Hotel de los Secretos
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