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ON TELEVISION (TUESDAY 1/28/20)
HBO: REAL Sports with Bryant Gumbel (Premiere) at 10pm
ID: Murder Comes Home (Premiere) at 9pm
TBS: Miracle Workers: Dark Ages (Premiere) at 10:30pm
TLC: I Am Jazz (Premiere) at 9pm
USA: The Biggest Loser (Premiere) at 9pm
ABC: Emergence (Finale) at 10pm
CW: Arrow (Finale) at 9pm
GSN: America Says (Finale) at 9pm
Customer brand loyalty has increased on average 20% from 2019 to 2020 across 85 categories, according to Brand Keys’ 25th annual Customer Loyalty Engagement Index. “Analysts, consulting firms, and research practices that declared brand loyalty dead are talking about a consumer loyalty model that expired in 1990,” said Robert Passikoff, President of Brand Keys. “But loyalty didn’t die. Rather, it has evolved in a more complex marketplace with more sophisticated consumers.” Media companies that made the top 20 list include WhatApp (+25%), Amazon (+23%), MSNBC (+21%), Apple (+17%), Fox (+16%) and Google (+14%).
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People spent 33% more time watching video in 2019 than they did the year prior, according to Parks Associates. Consumers spend an average 20 hours of week watching video on TV sets, according to the “360 View: Digital Media and Connected Consumer” report, versus about four hours on a mobile phone. “Understanding consumers is key to driving acquisition and minimizing churn among video services,” said Steve Nason, senior analyst at Parks Associates. “Different demographics show markedly different attitudes and preferences.” While Parks reports half of US broadband households subscribe to Netflix, one quarter of households said local broadcast channels were their most enjoyed type of channel.
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Yahoo Finance has launched 24 hours daily of linear news programming on Verizon Fios. In addition to eight hours of bell-to-bell weekday stock market coverage will be shows like weekly series Influencers with Andy Serwer; Breakouts, featuring start-up leaders; and My Three Cents, about the role money plays in the everyday lives of newsmakers. Relevant programs from across the Verizon Media ecosystem, including Autoblog, Engadget and TechCrunch, will also air on the channel.
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Tumblr has launched a new campaign, #Issues2020, in partnership with organizations like When We All Vote, Black Girls Vote and more. The campaign, which aims to provide a place for people on Tumblr to discuss topics like reproductive justice, mass incarceration, immigration, climate change, gun control and more, kicked off yesterday; the first Issue Time will go live mid-February with Black Girls Vote.
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Dan Johnstone has partnered with Asylum Entertainment Group’s Founder and CEO, Steve Michaels, to launch production company Breaklight Pictures in a joint venture with The Content Group, Asylum’s content collective. Johnstone will work alongside Michaels as well as Jodi Flynn, President of The Content Group. Previously, Johnstone served as head of Karga Seven Pictures’ Special Projects Division. “We immediately recognized Dan’s incredible talent for premium storytelling,” said Flynn. “Not only does he have a unique creative vision, but also the remarkable ability to execute it across all genres.”
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Lion Television USA announced an option deal for the true-crime book Burned: A Story of Murder and the Crime that Wasn’t, by Edward Humes. Under the terms of the deal, Lion (Deadline Crime with Tamron Hall) will adapt a television docuseries. that uncovers the story behind a 1989 house fire that claimed the lives of Jo Ann Parks’ three small children. Parks received a life sentence without parole based on forensic evidence, but advances in the science of fire have exposed what looked like proof of guilt, as guesswork.
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Aline Brosh McKenna (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) inked an overall pod deal with ABC Studios, calling for her to develop projects across all platforms via her Lean Machine. First up: comedy Hit, in development at Hulu.
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National Geographic Documentary Films has plans for new feature documentary Torn (wt), in partnership with Lightbox, the studio co-founded by Simon Chinn and Jonathan Chinn. Chris Murphy is also producing; director is photographer and National Geographic Explorer Max Lowe. The film will turn the lens on Lowe’s family as the body of his father, legendary climber Alex Lowe, is uncovered 17 years after his death in an avalanche.
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Aspiring and emerging TV writers will have the opportunity to develop an original comedy for TV with the return of the competition “Project CRE8” from BET Networks and writer/director/producer Tracy Oliver (First Wives Club, Girls Trip, Little). BET will purchase the winning script for $25,000 and work with the winner and Oliver’s Tracy Yvonne Productions to develop a comedy series for BET Networks.
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Leah Remini (Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath) signed an exclusive first-look deal with Critical Content to develop and produce unscripted programming via her No Seriously company, reports Deadline.
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A new season of TLC’s I Am Jazz premieres tonight, January 28 at 9p. This time around, transgender teen advocate Jazz Jennings undergoes another procedure related to her gender affirmation surgery seen last season, while dealing with the pressures of her senior year in high school.
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Crime anthology series Briarpatch, starring Rosario Dawson, debuts on Canada’s Showcase on Sunday, February 16 at 10p. Showcase is a Corus Entertainment network.
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The latest session of the Spring 2020 PaleyLive NY season is Let’s Play Hardball: An Evening with Chris Matthews, at the Paley Center’s New York location on Monday, March 9 at 8:30p. “With the 2020 Presidential election looming, this discussion could not have come at a more crucial time, and we look forward to hearing Chris’s insights on this very important election,” said Maureen J. Reidy, the Paley Center’s President & CEO.
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Netflix is getting more animated, inking a multi-year overall deal with Titmouse to produce multiple original animated series. The streamer previously teamed with the animation studio on Big Mouth and the upcoming The Midnight Gospel. “When Netflix asked if we wanted to go steady, we were thrilled. When we asked if it could be an open relationship, they said, ‘Yeah, of course. It’s the 21st century, kid. That’s the only way we’ll have it.’ Now we are friends with benefits and I couldn’t be more stoked,” said Chris Prynoski, Titmouse President and Founder.
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Kraft Heinz is suspending its campaign centered on the demise of Planters mascot Mr. Peanut, after the death of NBA legend Kobe Bryant and eight others in a helicopter crash on Sunday. “We are saddened by this weekend’s news and Planters has paused all campaign activities, including paid media, and will evaluate next steps through a lens of sensitivity to those impacted by this tragedy,” said a Planters spokesperson.
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Ray Romano will guest on the season 4 premiere of One Day at a Time, relocated from Netflix to Pop TV… Haskiri Velazquez (The Birch), Mitchell Hoog (Harriet), Alycia Pasqual-Pena (Chase) and Belmont Cameli (Empire) have been added to the cast of Peacock’s Saved By the Bell reboot. Elizabeth Berkley, Mario Lopez and Mark-Paul Gosselaar are reprising their roles.
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Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens has drawn 3.8 million total viewersincluding replays, streaming and premiere simulcast on a total of seven Viacom networks. With Live+3 playback, the January 22 premiere is Comedy Central’s best primetime series launch in more than three years, notching a .56 A18-49 rating and 818,000 total viewers on Comedy Central.
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ID’s Aaron Hernandez: An ID Murder Mystery debuted to an audience of 1.28 million viewers P25-54 and 1.79 million viewers P2+. It was ID’s highest rated night since January 2018, earning the #1 ranking among W25-54 and W18-49 during the 10p hour.
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CBS’s telecast of the Grammys on Sunday delivered 18.7 million viewers and a 5.4 rating among A18-49, down 6% in viewers last year and a dip of 4% in the demo – all-time lows but enough to win the night.
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Theodore Holton Walworth Jr. died January 16. He was 95. Walworth was VP and GM of WNBC New York from 1961-1971, and President of NBC’s owned stations through most of the 1970s.
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