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07.28.14
Good morning. It’s Monday, July 28, 2014, and this is your first early morning briefing.
Tonight’s Premieres:
AHC: Apocalypse: WWI at 10p
DIY: Blog Cabin at 9:30p
Food: Eating America with Anthony Anderson at 9p, Mystery Diners at 10p
NBC: Running Wild with Bear Grylls at 8p
Tonight’s Finales:
ABC: The Bachelorette at 8p
ID: I (Almost) Got Away With It: What Would Kenda Do? at 9p, I (Almost) Got Away With It at 10p
TBS: CeeLo Green’s The Good Life at 10:30p
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The Walking Dead steps back into the AMC lineup for a two-part season five on Sunday, October 12 at 9p. The season premieres of Talking Dead and Comic Book Men follow the zombie drama at 10p and midnight. "Season five is without question the most ambitious and satisfying season this amazing team has ever crafted," said Charlie Collier, AMC president. International premieres air within 24 hours of the U.S. broadcast across Fox International Channels markets.
IN THE NEWS
CBS News and The New York Times are collaborating on "Battleground Tracker," data analyzing public opinion during the midterm elections based on a panel of more than 100,000 people nationwide. "We aim to take this unprecedented amount of original data, and then track… what would happen in every race of the election were today," said CBS News Director of Elections Anthony Salvanto. Findings will appear on NYTimes.com/Upshot andCBSNews.com, with new results being unveiled monthly through November. Tracker made its debut Sunday on Face the Nation.
No bingeing: Community fans will fed a slow and steady diet of the revived sitcom on Yahoo. It was announced at Comic-Con that the show’s 13 season six eps will roll out weekly on the site, sometime after Christmas 2014.
Aereo-like streamer of broadcast signals FilmOn was found in contempt of court on Thursday. The company’s interpretation of the June 25 Supreme Court ruling against Aereo, likening it to a cable company, cost it a $90,000 sanction. SCOTUS’s finding that Aereo is similar to a cable system is "not the same as a judicial finding that Aereo and its technological peers are, in fact, cable companies entitled to retransmission rights," said the judge.
Don’t hold your breath for a Family Guy movie – the project is on hold while creator Seth MacFarlane works on Ted 2. The animated comedy’s director and producer, Peter Shin, said at Comic-Con that a movie with Stewie, Brian and co. "might move forward in the future."
What is coming soon is the Simpsons/Family Guy crossover ep, set for Family Guy’s one-hour season 13 premiere on Sunday, September 28. A 5-minute trailer was screened at Comic-con that included prank phone calls, aliens and Homer and Peter in an epic battle over beer.
The Doctor Who series 8 premiere will launch on the big screen as well as TV on Saturday, August 23. The BBC announced Friday that select theaters worldwide will debut the first episode with content that won’t appear in the TV version. The series’ 50th anniversary special got the theater treatment, too, grossing over $10 million for a three-day engagement in November.
TLC just launched a Sunday Brunch programming block, with the net’s Erika Vetrini hosting wraps and interstitials that include recipes, how-to tips and interviews with talent. Viewers can connect to TLC’s social media platforms to win branded prize packages using #TLCSundayBrunch.
NBC‘s low-rated Crossbones will shift from Friday to Saturday for its last two episodes. The pirate drama starring James Malkovich will be replaced on Fridays at 10p with an NBC News special and Dateline.
Winners of Fox‘s Gotham promotional poster and trailer contest get a trip to NYC to attend the upcoming drama’s premiere party. Deadline is August 20; details here. Batman prequel debuts Monday, September 22 at 8p.
In honor of the late James Garner, who died July 19 at age 86, the SAG Foundation has made available an excerpt from its two-hour interview with the actor. Included: "I wouldn’t change one thing in my life." Clip can be viewed here.
Top 10 Weekend Box Office Estimates: July 25-27, 2014
Lucy (Universal) $44.0 million, opening weekend
Hercules (Paramount) $29.0 million, opening weekend
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (20h Century Fox) $16.4 million, 3 wk total $172.1 million
Purge: The Anarchy (Universal) $9.9 million, 2 wk total $51.3 million
Planes: Fire and Rescue (Disney) $9.3 million, 2 wk total $35.1 millon
Sex Tape (Sony) $6.0 million, 2 wk total $26.9 million
Transformers (Paramount) $4.6 million, 5 wk total $236.4 million
And So it Goes (Freestyle Releasing) $4.6 million, opening weekend
Tammy (Warner Bros.) $3.4 million, 4 wk total $18.1 million
A Most Wanted Man (Roadside Attractions) $2.7 million, opening weekend
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PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT
CBS Television Studios struck a multi-year, first-look deal with James Patterson Entertainment, for the prolific author’s catalogue of best-sellers. CBS recently gave a straight-to-series order for Zoo, based on the Patterson novel.
AMC greenlit a pilot for geopolitical drama White City, set in Afghanistan. Exec producers of the AMC Studios production are Chris Mundy (Criminal Minds) and Tom Freston, a former CEO of Viacom and a ex-resident of Afghanistan.
Cinemax ordered a pilot for exorcism drama Outcast from Walking Dead exec producer Robert Kirkman. Like Dead, the project is based on a comic by Kirkman.
Anthony and Joe Russo (Captain America: The Winter Soldier) and Joe Johnston (Captain America: The First Avenger) will direct the first eps of ABC‘s Agent Carver, Marvel announced at Comic-Con. Marvel Studios co-president Louis Esposito will man the pilot. Carter’s straight-to-series order was revealed in May.
COMING UP
Demi Lovato, Cher Lloyd and Rita Ora will perform on Teen Choice 2014, airing live Sunday, August 10 at 8p on FOX.
For anyone not up to speed on OWN‘s The Haves and the Have Nots, a 36-ep marathon starts Monday, July 28 at 10a, ahead of the sudsy drama’s summer season finale on Tuesday, July 29 at 9p. The finale will include a sneak peek of Tyler Perry‘s next show for the net, If Loving You Is Wrong.
RETURNING SERIES
MTV ordered a two-part, 20-episode season five of drama Teen Wolf, the net announced at Comic-Con.
Bankrupt billionaires, beware: Discovery‘s Airplane Repo returns for a sophomore season Friday, August 22 at 10p, determined to separate you from that plane you haven’t been paying for. This time around the Undertow Films reality show has added female apprentice to the crew, a stunt pilot with a military background.
TLC‘s Four Weddings is back for season five Friday, August 15 at 9p. As four brides compete for a honeymoon package by weighing in on each other’s weddings, fans will be able to vote for their faves through live Facebook polling.
Comedy Central picked up Drunk History and Nathan for You for season threes. The shows are having their sophomore runs Tuesdays at 10p and 10:30p.
BRANDS & ADVERTISING
Nine years after her provocative "I Love Paris" spot for the Carl’s Jr. fast food chain drew protests, Paris Hilton is back. In a new ad featuring Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Hannah Ferguson soaping up a truck while scarfing a Texas BBQ Thickburger, Hilton arrives on the scene in a black monokini to point out, "You missed a spot." You can thank 72andSunny for that.
DISTRIBUTION AND CARRIAGE
Arts net Ovation announced the launch of its HD and VOD service on Frontier Communications‘ systems in Portland, OR, Seattle, WA and Ft. Wayne, IN, beginning August 1.
MarVista Entertainment is set to distribute two Hallmark Channel original movies, When Sparks Fly which aired in the U.S. in June, and The Nine Lives of Christmas, scheduled for this holiday season.
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CASTING
Kenny Johnson was boosted to series regular for season three of A&E‘s Bates Motel, as Norma’s brother Caleb moves to the forefront of story.
John Carroll Lynch (Fargo) will play a villain on season four of American Horror Story. And he’ll "scare the s***" out of you, promised exec producer Tim Minear Saturday at Comic-Con. The Freak Show chapter, set in 1950s Florida, is slated to debut in October.
Game of Thrones is welcoming new faces for season five. Among those hopping aboard the HBO drama: Keisha Castle-Hughes (Whale Rider), Alexander Siddig (Da Vinci’s Demons), Jonathan Pryce (Pirates of the Caribbean), Toby Sebastian (After the Dark), DeObia Oparei (Dredd) and Nell Tiger Free (Mr. Stink), replacing Aimee Richardson as Myrcella Baratheon.
Mary Louise Parker (Weeds) will guest on season two of NBC‘s The Blacklist, returning Monday, September 22 at 10p.
INTERNATIONAL HAPPENINGS
UK’s BSkyB announced it is acquiring Sky Italia and 57.4 percent of Sky Deutschland, aiming for "a world-class multinational pay TV business."
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RATINGS
Discovery Networks International announced its biggest ever quarter, reaching 621 million viewers around the world, up 3 percent year-over-year.
Thursday’s season finale of Black Box on ABC was up three percent in total viewers (3.8 million) and up 17 percent among A18-49 (.7/3), drawing its biggest audience in 5 weeks and matching its best demo rating since May.
Thursday A18-49 Analysis: Univision scored the most A18-49 viewers Thursday with 1.5/5, according to final primetime national ratings from Nielsen. Fox’s Hell’s Kitchen won 8p with 1.7/7, followed by a 1.6/6 average for CBS’s The Big Bang Theory and The Millers. CBS’s Big Brother topped the 9p hour with 2.1/7, versus 1.7/6 for Univision’s Que Vida Me Robo. Uni’s Que Pobres Tan Ricos was tops at 10p with 1.3/4, followed by 1.1/4 for NBC’s Last Comic Standing.
A18-49: UNI 1.5/5, CBS 1.4/5, FOX 1.2/5, NBC 1.0/3, ABC .8/3, TELE .7/2, ION .3/1, CW .1/0
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Thursday, July 17, 2014 time period averages. Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.
CBS: 3.3/6
The Big Bang Theory [r] 4.5/9, The Millers [r] 3.4/6, Big Brother 3.8/7, Elementary [r] 2.4/4
ABC: 2.9/5
Black Box 2.6/5, NY Med 3.5/6
FOX: 2.3/4
Hell’s Kitchen 3.1/6, Gang Related 1.5/3
NBC: 2.1/4
Hollywood Game Night 2.5/5, Welcome to Sweden 1.9/3, Working the Engels 1.4/2, Last Comic Standing 2.1/4
UNIVISION: 2.0/4
Mi Corazon es Tuyo 1.9/4, Que Vida Me Robo 2.2/4, Que Pobres Tan Ricos 1.7/3
ION: 1.0/2
Criminal Minds .9/2, Criminal Minds 1.3/2, Flashpoint 1.1/2
TELE: .8/1
Reina de Corazones .6/1, En Otra Piel .8/1, Senor de los Cielos 1.1/2
CW: .3/1
Vampire Diaries [r] .3/1, Originals [r] .3/1
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – MONDAY 28, 2014
ABC: The Bachelorette [f], The Bachelorette
CBS: 2 Broke Girls [r], Mom [r], Mike & Molly [r], Two and a Half Men [r], Under the Dome
CW: 2014 Young Hollywood Awards
FOX: MasterChef, Hotel Hell
NBC: Running Wild with Bear Grylls [p], American Ninja Warrior
PBS: Antiques Roadshow, Antiques Roadshow [r], POV
Telemundo: Reina de Corazones En Otra Piel, El Senor de los Cielos
Univision: Mi Corazon Es Tuyo, Lo Que la Vida Me Robo, Que Pobres Tan Ricos
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