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Viacom’s Philippe Dauman is exiting the company, but he won’t leave empty-handed. Dauman will walk away with a $72 million severance package, resigning as CEO but remaining as non-executive chairman until September 13, announced Viacom on Saturday. Viacom COO Tom Dooley, who has been with the company for 36 years, will take over as interim CEO. The deal ends a lengthy dispute that involved Dauman claiming National Amusements head 92-year-old Sumner Redstone was not capable of making sound decisions, like the one that booted Dauman from a family trust. “I believe this agreement will give the Company and its employees the best opportunity to continue a smooth evolution into the future,” said Dauman. Offered Dooley, “With the resolution of these issues, I am looking forward to working closely with the board to develop a strategy to position Viacom for growth and success.”
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Presidential nominees Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will appear live on a September 7 forum simulcast on NBC and MSNBC, but it looks like they won’t be facing off against each other. The candidates will take questions on national security, military affairs and veterans’ affairs in back-to-back sessions at an event hosted by Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, in front of an audience of veterans and active service members.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Showtime follows Univision and Fox News in suing Charter for misusing licensing agreements to achieve cost savings following its acquisition of Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks. Showtime claims Charter is unfairly using its less favorable agreement with TWC, rather than sticking to its own content licensing agreement with Charter. The MSO had estimated total cost savings of its acquisitions could reach $800 million, which would include using lower TWC rates.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Fox & Friends Weekend co-anchor Anna Kooiman is leaving the show September 5, continuing as a Fox News Channel correspondent. Kooiman is moving to Australia, where her husband accepted a new job, said FNC co-president Bill Shine.
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Also out at Fox News: Brigette Boyle, SVP recruitment for FNC and Fox Business Network, and Nikole King, SVP business development and mobile at FNC. Boyle’s exit was characterized by the network as amicable and mutual; King’s position was eliminated. Both execs been associated during their time at FNC with former network head Roger Ailes, who left the network after accusations of sexual harassment.
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American Idol will receive the Governor’s Award from the Television Academy, in recognition of its impact on the medium. The show ended its 15th and final season last spring. “American Idol wasn’t just a hit show. With its successful integration of social media, dominance of the pop-culture conversation and legions of imitators, it changed television in a profound way,” said Michael Levine, chair of the Governors Award Selection Committee, of the show that produced stars including Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood. “You could meaningfully divide the history of television into ‘before American Idol’ and ‘after American Idol’.”
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Rugged Justice premieres on Animal Planet Thursday, August 25 at 10p. First up for the Washington State Fish and Wildlife Police: cougar cubs on the loose, serial crab poachers and a hunter driving with a loaded rifle.
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Disney Channel’s The Swap launches Friday, October 7 at 8p, part of the net’s Halloween-themed “Monstober” programming event. Comedy adventure starring Peyton List (BUNK’D) and Jacob Bertrand (Kirby Buckets) follows teens on a quest to reverse an event that caused them to swap lives.
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Season three of TNT’s Murder in the First ends Sunday, September 4 at 10p with Siletti learning his victory in court carries a hefty price tag. The following night on a fitting series closer of Rizzoli & Isles, everyone makes a video to say goodbye.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Jeffrey Pierce (The Tomorrow People) will recur on Amazon drama Bosch as a former lieutenant in a Special Forces Group. Season three launches in 2017.
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Diana Hopper (Hidden Truth) landed a recurring spot on Amazon’s upcoming David E. Kelley drama Goliath, starring Billy Bob Thornton and Maria Bello.
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Peter Macon (Shameless) and J Lee (Family Guy) join upcoming Fox comedic drama Orville as series regulars, opposite Seth MacFarlane. Series is slated for the 2017-18 season.
(Source: Cynopsis)
AMC martial arts drama Into the Badlands added Nick Frost (Paul) to the season two cast as a series regular. Sophomore run starts in 2017.
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Katja Herbers (Manhattan) will recur on season three of HBO supernatural drama The Leftovers. Return is slated for 2017.
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Add NBCUniverso to the list of winners in the Rio Olympics. As of August 18, the Hispanic cable net delivered an average of 110,000 total viewers across 15 days of Olympics programming since the broadcast of its first Rio 2016 event, up 224 percent over the previous year, according to Nielsen. Games coverage also delivered an average of 60,000 A18-49 over the 15 days, for a 233 percent growth vs. the prior year.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Prime time broadcast viewership of the Olympics has been down double digits versus the London Games in 2012, but ratings alone don’t tell the whole story. As of Friday, NBCOlympics.com and the NBC Sports app have served 2.5 billion live streaming minutes, 1 billion minutes more than all prior Olympics combined.
(Source: Cynopsis)
NBC’s Superstore special episode got a super bump following Olympics coverage on Friday. The workplace comedy averaged 9.7 million viewers and a 3.0 rating among A18-49, according to early numbers, up 76 in viewers and 88 percent in the demo versus the show’s first season. Superstore is back for season two Thursday, September 22 at 8p.
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Hallmark Channel series Chesapeake Shores premiered Sunday, August 14 to a 2.3 HH rating and 2.5 million viewers in Live+3 Nielsens, and boosted the net to be the number one rated show among HH, W25-54 and total viewers across ad-supported cable nets from 9p-11p.
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Comedy Central’s last airing of The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore on Thursday nabbed 625,00 viewers in Live+SD and 126,000 among A18-34. The previous Thursday, the show averaged 436,000 viewers and 82,000 in the demo.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Actor Jack Riley died August 19. He was 80. Riley was best known to television fans for his role as neurotic Elliot Carlin in The Bob Newhart Show, and as the voice of Stu Pickles in Rugrats.
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Retired LA television political journalist Saul Halpert died August 16. He was 93. Over 40 years, Halpert’s career included working at KNXT and NBC4, and teaching broadcast journalism at his alma mater, USC.
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WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Suicide Squad – $20.7 million
Sausage Party – $15.3 million
War Dogs – $14.3 million
Kubo and The Two Strings – $12.6 million
Ben-Hur – $11.4 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)
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