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A&E: My Strange Arrest (Premiere) at 10pm
HGTV: Chasing the West (Premiere) at 9pm
HULU: Mr. & Mrs. Murder (Premiere)
MTV: MTV’s The Challenge (Premiere) at 8pm
NETFLIX: Conversations with a Killer: The Son of Sam Tapes (Premiere)
NETFLIX: Unspeakable Sins (Premiere)
All ears were on Disney as the company completed its 2025-2026 Upfront with increased sports and streaming sales, maintaining overall volume consistent with last year. Streaming accounted for more than 40% of total upfront volume, while sports advertising across linear and addressable reached nearly $4 billion with 69 multi-year deals, and double-digit growth for Monday Night Football and women’s sports. “The Oscars” also nearly doubled units sold compared to last year, showcasing the power of live events, while independent agencies saw double-digit volume growth across sports and streaming categories.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Ad-tech company Sabio has secured distribution for its Creator Television FAST channel on ad-supported Amazon Fire TV Channels, running across Fire TV, Fire Tablet, and Echo Show devices in the US. Creator TV positions itself as the first creator-led streaming network bringing social media storytelling to traditional TV formats, and follows recent launches on Xumo, Plex, Sling TV, and Anoki. Charlie Ibarra, Co-Founder and Head of Content at Creator TV calls social media creators “the content innovators of our time…whose approach will fuel the next wave of programming on TV.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
Banijay Asia has teamed with creator company Collective Artists Network (CAN) to launch a creator-led content and IP engine that will conceptualize, develop, and produce creator-first and creator-controlled properties. “This partnership marks a bold new chapter in content creation – where creators are no longer just participants but become the driving force behind the narrative,” said Deepak Dhar, Founder & Group CEO, Banijay Asia & EndemolShine India. “By joining forces with Collective Artists Network, we’re building a powerful ecosystem at the intersection of content, creators, and brands.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
In more international distribution news, Viaplay Content Distribution acquired global sales rights to three new dramedy series, “Adults” and “Suburbia,” and character driven comedy “Second Run.” Produced by leading Swedish production company FLX.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The UK’s ITV joined the “Piñataverse” in a new deal with children’s content producer/distributor Nelvana and digital design and toy company Toikido to launch the Roblox-inspired series, “Piñata Smashlings™” this September, with more countries in the Fall.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Ad-tech company Sabio has secured distribution for its Creator Television FAST channel on ad-supported Amazon Fire TV Channels, running across Fire TV, Fire Tablet, and Echo Show devices in the US. Creator TV positions itself as the first creator-led streaming network bringing social media storytelling to traditional TV formats, and follows recent launches on Xumo, Plex, Sling TV, and Anoki. Charlie Ibarra, Co-Founder and Head of Content at Creator TV calls social media creators “the content innovators of our time…whose approach will fuel the next wave of programming on TV.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
Banijay Asia has teamed with creator company Collective Artists Network (CAN) to launch a creator-led content and IP engine that will conceptualize, develop, and produce creator-first and creator-controlled properties. “This partnership marks a bold new chapter in content creation – where creators are no longer just participants but become the driving force behind the narrative,” said Deepak Dhar, Founder & Group CEO, Banijay Asia & EndemolShine India. “By joining forces with Collective Artists Network, we’re building a powerful ecosystem at the intersection of content, creators, and brands.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
In more international distribution news, Viaplay Content Distribution acquired global sales rights to three new dramedy series, “Adults” and “Suburbia,” and character driven comedy “Second Run.” Produced by leading Swedish production company FLX.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The UK’s ITV joined the “Piñataverse” in a new deal with children’s content producer/distributor Nelvana and digital design and toy company Toikido to launch the Roblox-inspired series, “Piñata Smashlings™” this September, with more countries in the Fall.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Netflix has unleashed “Untamed,” starring Eric Bana, for a second season, following strong ratings that pushed the drama to No. 1 on the platform’s English-language TV list after its July 17 premiere. The series was initially planned as a limited series but performed well enough to warrant continuation.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Going from “theater of the mind” to visual format, Hulu is developing “Blood & Myth,” a true-crime documentary based on James Dommek Jr.’s 2019 audiobook “Midnight Son” about violent crimes in a remote Northern Alaska Native village. The project explores the clash between Native American folklore and the US justice system.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Great American Media premieres its new original drama, “Crossroad Springs,” on Great American Pure Flix on August 28, and on the Great American Family channel on August 31. In more Great news, the network also announced new original movie, “Homes for the Holidays,” featuring Cindy Busby and Sam Page, streaming on Great American Pure Flix, and premiering on GFAM+ as part of a 5th Anniversary Edition of their Great American Christmas 2025, ready for those who like to maximize the season by starting in October.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Shiny Penny Productions and Five All in the Fifth Entertainment all came together to develop the television adaptation of “They All Came to Barneys,” a forthcoming memoir by Gene Pressman, former co-CEO and creative director of the iconic New York retailer. Beth Schacter (“Billions,” “The Morning Show”) will write the series with Joe Wright (“The Agency”) directing the family saga about the fashion retail empire founded by Pressman’s grandfather in 1923.
(Source: Cynopsis)
In another hasn’t ‘hit the shelves yet, but will be on screens’, the second season of AppleTV+’s “Presumed Innocent” is based on Jo Murray’s debut legal thriller “Dissection of a Murder,” coming out in 2026. The marvelous Rachel Brosnahan continues in the lead, opposite new cast member Jack Reynor.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Apple TV+ also announced “Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age,” a new installment of the award-winning natural history series from BBC Studios Natural History Unit and executive producers Jon Favreau and Mike Gunton. The production, premiering globally on November 26, features Golden Globe & Olivier Award-winning Tom Hiddleston calling the animal play by play.
(Source: Cynopsis)
AMC+ will premiere “Kidnapped: The Chloe Ayling Story,” a six-part crime thriller about British model Chloe Ayling’s 2017 Milan kidnapping and subsequent media scrutiny, on August 28. Written by Georgia Lester (“Killing Eve”), the series stars Nadia Parkes as Ayling, who was accused of faking her own abduction for publicity after her escape. A companion three-part documentary “Chloe Ayling: My Unbelievable Kidnapping,” featuring Ayling’s first interview since her abductors’ conviction, premieres September 25 on Sundance Now and AMC+.
(Source: Cynopsis)
All Sports Television Network has signed a broadcast partnership with Netball America to air the organization’s national and international competitions starting later this year. The deal includes coverage of the US Open Netball Championships and targets the growing women’s sports market as netball expands through US school programs. Netball CEO Sonya Ottaway calls the partnership, which kicks off later this year, “a game-changer” for the sport.
(Source: Cynopsis)
VSiN, the Sports Betting Network, debuts the 10 episode second season of “Circa Survivor: The Quest for $14.2 Million” on August 5. The docuseries tracks sports betting contestants competing for a life-changing prize pool in the “Circa Sports Survivor Pro Football Contest,” to air on VSiN.com and YouTubeTV. The series represents VSiN’s push into original programming as the sports betting media landscape expands.
(Source: Cynopsis)
NASCAR Xfinity Series race delivered a third consecutive win for Connor Zilisch and a win for The CW with:
· 1,108,000 Total Viewers
· Viewership up +23% versus last year’s 21st race from Michigan (8/17/24 on USA)
· +6% audience growth over last week’s race from Dover
· Peak of 1,333,000 viewers from 7:15-7:30pm ET
(Source: Cynopsis)
Not to be outrun, INDYCAR on FOX is averaging 1,486,000 viewers, up +31% over last year. For Sunday’s NTT INDYCAR SERIES race 734,000 viewers made Alex Palou’s win the most-watched Laguna Seca on FOX since 2021, up +829% from last year’s race that had been affected by a network scheduling change, and:
· Up +36% vs. 538,000 viewers for the season finale 2023 race (9/10/23)
· Up +17% from last year’s 626,000 viewers for the 2024 non-Indy 500 race average
(Source: Cynopsis)
Keeping with Sports eyeballs, 2.02 million viewers tuned in for Saturday’s two-game “Baseball Night in America” slate on FOX, highlighted by a 4-2 Red Sox win over the Dodgers at Fenway Park.
(Source: Cynopsis)
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