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 "Tulsa King," "Game of Thrones," "Bel-Air" Advertising conglomerate OpenAP -- which includes the owners of many large TV networks and streamers -- announced plans to create a joint industry committee that will unify streaming viewership data. The goal is to have a variety of comparable streaming data sets -- known in the industry as "currencies" -- that advertisers and programmers can both use to clarify media buys. More: - Data provided by Nielsen, which was previously the TV industry's standard, will now be one of several currencies available ahead of the 2024 upfront presentations.
- OpenAP currently includes Warner Bros. Discovery, NBCUniversal, Fox, Paramount Global, and TelevisaUnivision.
- To join the group, entrants must be focused on long-form video and must be willing to share their streaming data, which will be audited by an independent third-party trade organization.
- Ad agencies and sponsors could then decide which currencies they wanted to use to make media purchases.
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DAILY CALENDAR MONDAY, JANUARY 9 NCIS CROSSOVER EVENT: This three-hour TV event brings together the casts of all three "NCIS" franchise shows -- the original, "NCIS: Hawai'i" and "NCIS: Los Angeles" -- for the first time. It airs tonight at 8 pm ET/PT on CBS and also streams on Paramount+. [Paramount+] KOALA MAN: Debut adult animated series from "Smiling Friends" vet Michael Cusack, who also voices suburban Australian superhero Kevin McKay. Hugh Jackman, Sarah Snook, Demi Lardner, Jemaine Clement, and Rachel House co-star; "Rick and Morty" vet Justin Roiland executive produces. [Hulu] ALERT: Freshman procedural drama series from Fox, starring Dania Ramirez as a police officer who joins the LAPD's Missing Persons unit while privately continuing the search for her own young son. Nathaly Thibault, Fivel Stewart, and Scott Caan co-star. "Blacklist" vet John Eisendrath created the series and serves as showrunner; Jamie Foxx executive produces. [Hulu] DETECTORISTS SPECIAL: The BBC comedy series returned to British TV in 2022 for a new 75-minute Christmas special, which hits Acorn TV in the US today. The series revolves around the lives of metal-detecting enthusiasts Andy (Mackenzie Crook) and Lance (Toby Jones), who live in the fictional small town of Danebury. [Acorn TV] VINLAND SAGA: The anime series -- based on the historical manga by Makoto Yukimura -- is inspired by the real Viking invasions of England in the 11th Century, and centers on the exploits of the Icelandic explorer Thorfinn. Season 2 hits Netflix in the US today. [Netflix]
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 AMC+ cancelled the animated sci-fi drama series "Pantheon" after a single season. The show initially received a two-season order; a second season has been produced but AMC will not air or stream it on their networks or platforms. More: - AMC axed a number of planned or partly-produced shows recently for a one-time tax writedown, including "Damascus," "Invitation to a Bonfire," and second seasons for "61st Street" and "Moonhaven."
- A December SEC filing revealed that the write-downs are worth a total of around $400 million.
- "Pantheon" was based on a series of short stories by Ken Liu, and has been in development at AMC since 2018.
- It's possible, though unlikely, that AMC Studios will shop the series around to other networks and streamers.
DEADLINE
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 The week after its December 22 debut, "The Best Man: The Final Chapters" became the first-ever Peacock original series to appear on Nielsen's Top 10 streaming chart. The ensemble comedy-drama series -- a follow up 1999 film "The Best Man" and its 2013 sequel "The Best Man Holiday" -- was available for just four days between December 19-25, and came in at #5 on Nielsen's ranking of the most-viewed streaming series that week. More: - Exact figures for the total minutes/hours the series was viewed during this window are not yet available.
- "The Best Man" is now Peacock's biggest debut series of all time, a title previously held by the "Fresh Prince" reimagining "Bel-Air."
- "Yellowstone" streams on Peacock, and has previously appeared on Nielsen's streaming charts, but the show is not a Peacock original; episodes debut on cable's Paramount Network before moving online.
- As well, two films -- "Halloween Ends" and "Nope" -- have made it onto Nielsen's charts after making their streaming debuts on Peacock.
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 Netflix canceled the adult animated comedy series "Inside Job" after a single season. The first season debuted in two halves; Part 1 arrived in October 2021 while Part 2 followed in November of last year. More: - The workplace comedy series was set behind the scenes at Cogito Inc., the organization responsible for planning and executing all conspiracy theories; Lizzy Caplan, Christian Slater, and Clark Duke provided the main voices.
- Series co-creator and showrunner Shion Takeuchi -- a veteran of "Gravity Falls" -- announced the show's cancellation on Twitter.
- This was the first project to emerge from Takeuchi's overall deal with Netflix, and the first adult animated comedy series produced in-house by Netflix Animation Studios.
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I'm Kiani from Inside.com, and this week, we asked our streaming community, "How many streaming services are you subscribed to?" and received many answers! Here are some highlighted responses we received: - Brooks Williams (p/brooks-williams), Director of Technology at Alberici Group, is subscribed to 9 services, listing them out writing, “Prime Video, Netflix, HBO Max, Disney+, Peacock, Paramount+, Hulu (No ads), Starz (via Hulu), Showtime”
- Robin Hudson (p/robin-hudson), Business Systems Analyst at McNichols Company, is also subscribed to 9 service, being, “Apple TV+, Peacock, Netflix, HBO Max, Disney+, Paramount+, Criterion, Hulu+, ESPN+.” She quickly excused herself, writing, “I once vowed to never sign up for a streaming service, but then The Mandalorian came out and, well, here we are...” Looks like The Mandalorian is the ultimate streaming service persuader!
- The average amount of subscriptions from the responses is 5.6.
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 Netflix released a trailer for the fourth season of the romantic thriller series "You." The new episodes find Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) squaring off against a serial killer who's targeting London's elite. More: - Season 4 adopts a "whodunnit" format, as Joe -- posing as "Professor Jonathan Moore" -- searches for clues about the identity of the so-called "Eat the Rich Killer."
- Tati Gabrielle reprises her role as Marienne, Joe's Season 3 love interest; the new episodes also feature Charlotte Ritchie, Ed Speleers, Tilly Keeper, Amy Leigh Hickman, Niccy Lin, and Lukas Gage.
- The first half of "You" Season 4 premieres on February 10; the concluding episodes follow on March 9.
THE WRAP
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 Paramount+ canceled plans for a "Workaholics" reunion movie just weeks before it was scheduled to enter production. Original cast member Adam DeVine discussed the cancellation on Instagram; he was apparently informed by Paramount executives that the film no longer fit within the company's "new global strategy." More: - The film was scheduled to begin shooting in just five weeks.
- DeVine wrote that he was "butt hurt" about the decision, and said that the film's producers have reached out to other networks and streamers to potentially find the project a new home.
- The TV series "Workaholics" aired for seven seasons on Comedy Central, from 2011 to 2017; DeVine co-created the series and co-starred with Blake Anderson and Anders Holm.
- The "Workaholics" team plans to provide more insight into the project on this week's episode of their podcast, "This Is Important."
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- A non-scientific anecdotal survey from Mashable indicates that Netflix's ordering of "Kaleidoscope" episodes is not entirely random, as the platform has suggested; most viewers report viewing "Yellow" and "Green" among their initial batch of episodes, followed by the trio of "Blue," "Orange" and "Violet."
- Rapper and producer Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson revealed that he's working on a TV adaptation of the 2002 Eminem biopic "8 Mile," adding "it's gonna be big... You know, I ain't got no duds."
- YouTube star Logan Paul apologized to fans who invested and lost money in his never-realized "CryptoZoo" NFT-based video game, which he'd heavily promoted through his channels.
- Paramount+ grabbed the Canadian streaming rights for Prince Harry's latest ITV interview, which aired Sunday night in the UK.
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 |  | Lon Harris is the writer and editor of Inside Streaming and was the very first person to ever write an Inside newsletter. He lives in Los Angeles, California, and also writes about TV and film for Fandom, Screen Junkies, Rotten Tomatoes, Gamma Ray and others. Plus he has a Game of Thrones podcast called "Casterly Talk" and competes on The Movie Trivia Schmoedown as "The Professor." |  | | Editor | Eduardo Garcia is a writer and editor based in New York. He is the author of "Things You Can Do," an illustrated book about climate action. Bylines in The New York Times, The Guardian, Slate, Scientific American, and others. In one of his previous lives, Eduardo worked as a Reuters correspondent in Latin America for nearly a decade. | |
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