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Don’t bet against Katzenberg. Quibi, the short-form mobile service Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman are launching next April says it has sold out its $150 million in advertising inventory for its first year. Discover, General Mills, T-Mobile and Taco Bell are among brands newly announced yesterday, who join previously committed buyers including Procter & Gamble, PepsiCo, Walmart and Google. Launch advertisers have one year of category exclusivity on the service. Quibi ad units will be sold in 6-, 10- or 15-second preroll increments.
(Source: Cynopsis)French production behemoth Banijay reportedly is close to completing a $2.2 billion takeover of Endemol Shine Group, with the deal expected to close this week. Endemol Shine Group currently is jointly owned by Disney and private equity group Apollo Global Management.
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Actress Lori Loughlin and her husband, designer Mossimo Giannulli, yesterday were indicted on a charge of conspiring to commit federal programs bribery in connection with allegations they paid $500,000 to get their daughters into the University of Southern California. That charge carries a maximum prison time of 10 years; the pair already face charges of conspiring to commit mail fraud and money laundering, to which they have plead not guilty.
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Verizon trotted out a promotion that will give wireless customers a free year of Disney+. The wireless carrier will be the exclusive purveyor of such a deal, open to all new and existing 4G LTE and 5G unlimited, Fios Home Internet and 5G Internet customers. Disney+ launches November 12 at $7 a month or $70 for a full year. Wall Street’s reaction? Netflix shares dropped nearly 3 percent yesterday morning after the announcement.
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NBC won the bid for Mavenhood, giving the workplace drama a script commitment with penalty. From NCIS: Los Angeles co-exec producer Jordana Lewis Jaffe, Brownstone Productions and Warner Bros. TV, project unfolds after a mysterious person threatens to reveal the dark secrets of a group of social media entrepreneurs.
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Michael Mann will direct the pilot ep of drama series Tokyo Vice, starring Ansel Elgort and Ken Watanabe, for HBO Max. Mann potentially could direct additional eps, and he will serve as exec producer alongside J.T. Rogers, John Lesher, Emily Gerson Saines, Alan Poul, Elgort, Destin Daniel Cretton and Watanabe.
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In related news, HBO Max greenlit travel docuseries Birth, Wedding, Funeral as part of a new overall deal with Lisa Ling. Each ep will immerse viewers in a different country to reveal their cultures through the lens of the three universal rituals. Deal marks an expansion of Ling’s relationship with WarnerMedia. She hosts CNN series This is Life with Lisa Ling.
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Hugh Laurie is developing a television adaptation of an Agatha Christie novel for the BBC, though the exact title he’s at work on is, well, a mystery. The Night Manager and House star is working through ITV-owned Mammoth Screen.
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Argentinian mob drama The Cleaning Lady is headed to the States via a script commitment from Fox. Miranda Kwok, currently a writer on The CW’s The 100; Stargirl exec producer Melissa Carter; Shay Mitchell’s Amore & Vita Productions and Warner Bros. Television are behind the project.
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The CW is developing drama series Good Christian Bitches, based on Kim Gatlin’s like-titled book. From Glamorous writer Jordon Nardino, Darren Star and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment, series is described as the film Clueless, but set in a Christian high school in Dallas.
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Comedy Central is teaming with All Things Comedy to produce a doc about the late comedian Patrice O’Neal, who died in 2011 at age 41. Michael Bonfiglio (Gary Gulman: The Great Depresh) will direct and exec produce alongside Bill Burr, Al Madrigal and Michael Bertolina of All Things Comedy, and O’Neal’s fiance at the time of his death, Von Decarlo.
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Pop artist Charli XCX takes center stage in a new doc series for Netflix. I’m With The Band: Nasty Cherry is about the formation of the titular group, which Charli XCX is not a member of but rather put together and signed it to her own record label. Series launches November 15 and will run for six parts.
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Life’s a Bitch(in’) at MotorTrend. The network is expanding its franchise, revving up competition series Bitchin’ Boot Camp, starring automotive designer Dave Kindig and Kevin Schiele of its series Bitchin’ Rides. New show will see contestants competing for one full-time job at Kindig’s Kindig-It Design company in Salt Lake City.
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Comedian Markus Stoll’s Der Beischlafer (The Bedfellow) will be Amazon’s newest German original to launch on Amazon Prime Video in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Stoll will play lead Charlie Menzinger in the six-part series.
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Stacey Dooley, Strictly Come Dancing star and BBC documentary personality, launched a production company in association with Keshet-owned Greenbird Media. Little Dooley will serve as a home for her own documentaries and series.
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Quibi and Vox Media Studios are partnering to produce a daily culture and gaming news show. Produced by Polygon, Vox Media’s culture and gaming network, series will present an injection of gaming news as part of Quibi’s Daily Essential lineup.
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PBS tonight (October 23) premieres four-part series Life From Above at 10p. Made in conjunction with BBC Studios’ Natural History Unit, series tells stories of our planet from a perspective that few ever see – from space.
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LeBron James and Maverick Carter’s Uninterrupted is back in business with DAZN for a three-ep docuseries about boxers Canelo Alvarez and Sergey Kovalev. It’s the latest installment of DAZN’s 40 Days franchise, and showcases the fighters before their big rumble in Vegas. The first ep debuts this week on DAZN, the streaming outlet founded by former ESPN president John Skipper.
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Sea of Shadows, National Geographic’s Sundance award-winning doc,will debut on the network Saturday, November 9 at 9p. Film, produced by Terra Mater Factual Studios in association with Leonardo DiCaprio and Appian Way, Malaika Pictures and Wild Lens Collective, just wrapped a limited theatrical release in the US, Mexico, the UK and Austria.
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John Crist, son of a pastor and one of eight homeschooled children, examines the weakness of millennial culture, how to be a “good” Christian, modern dating culture and more in new Netflix special John Crist: I Ain’t Prayin’. Special bows November 28, 2019.
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Upstart pro football league XFL posted its inaugural schedule of games on Fox, ABC, ESPN, ESPN 2, FS1 and FS2. Revived by WWE head Vince McMahon to satisfy fans’ year-round appetite for football, XFL kicks off Saturday, February 8, with games on ABC and Fox.
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Lee Pace (Halt and Catch Fire) and Jared Harris (Chernobyl) will topline Foundation, Apple TV+’s upcoming drama series based on Isaac Asimov’s sci-fi novel trilogy… Austin Crute (Daybreak, Booksmart), Nik Dodani (Atypical), Andrew Jacobs (Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones) and Chloe Levine (The OA) will recur in the second and final season of Netflix’s YA series Trinkets.
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Syndication scenario: Despite breaking news coverage of the California wildfires, which caused some programs to be preempted and a massive intentional power cut in certain West Coast markets, The Kelly Clarkson Show (three-week high 1.4 live plus same day national Nielsen rating, up 8% from the week before) and Tamron Hall (1.0, steady) continued to clobber all of the season’s new strips by widening margins in the session ended October 13. Clarkson was syndicated television’s clear No. 1 newcomer, pulling in more than 1.8-million viewers on average each day. Hall was also sharp, holding its season high ratings and snaring over 1,200,000 daily viewers. A third talk newcomer, Mel Robbins (0.4, up 33%), was far behind the top two averaging just under 500,000 viewers.
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The freshman court show competition was no contest as Jerry Springer’s Judge Jerry (0.9, down 10%) presided over the new gavelers for the fourth consecutive week. Personal Injury Court (0.5, up 25%) and Protection Court (0.3, unchanged) followed.  %).
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