Good morning. It's
Monday, July 26,
2004, and this is your first early morning
briefing. I'm baaaaaaaaack!
The 2004 Democratic Convention kicks off in Boston today, and
according to some estimates, the number of registered media attending is
in the five figure rang - whereas the number of visiting state delegates
is approx 4,300. The convention will be covered on several platforms
during the week - bcst TV (nightly at 10p as well as morning news
programs and network evening news), cable TV news programs are all paying
attention, as are the folks at Comedy Central (Daily Show) and MTVN (Rock
the Vote), internet sites including the launch today of ABCNews.com's new
broadband channel ABC News Now and its wall to wall coverage, local news
and the foreign press including Al Jazeera, and of course
blogs.
Two regional cable news networks went dark last Friday - News 9
San Antonio and News 24 Houston. The two were the result
of the combined efforts of Time Warner Cable and Belo Corp, which
launched the commingled nets four years ago. As of last Friday, 190
found themselves unemployed. There is also a third regional net
involved, News 14 Caroline located in Charlotte, which will continue for
the time being, under the care and single ownership of Time Warner. The
reason the two in Texas closed has nothing to do with trouble on the
corporate level, but rather trouble with the viewership level - not
enough viewers. Both Time Warner Cable and Belo own many successful
regional news nets around the country.
Amish in the City, UPN's new reality series kicks off this
Wednesday the 28th with a two hour premiere. The show, while not
being made available to either Congressman Joe Pitts of Pennsylvania or
Matt Uhl, General Manager of WLYH-Lancaster PA, in advance of the
premiere, was made available to television critics. The big
controversy in this show is the concern the network will treat the Amish
kids disrespectfully. While the network does not treat them with
any disrespect or disparage them in any way, the same cannot be said for
six of the rudest city kids you've ever seen on reality television.
Fortunately, whatever indignation you may have as a viewer toward the
city kids as a result of their behavior and remarks, are expressed and
dealt with remarkably well by the Amish kids. The Amish kids may be
a bit out of their element, but they can certainly take care of
themselves. Once the initial conflict abates, the show is
extraordinarily similar to Real World, Big Brother, or any show with a
group of people living together. Teases of future eps beyond the
2-hour premiere seem to indicate the differences between these two groups
will, however, become an issue in the house once again. And I guess,
that's what makes television.
TRIO cable net will launch its first original improvisational
comedy series this fall called Pilot Season and starring Sarah
Silverman, David Cross, Andy Dick, Jon Benjamin and writer/director Sam
Seder. The show is billed as a mockumentary - taking a humorous look at
the angst, posturing and hysteria that is part and parcel of television's
pilot season. TRIO has ordered six eps and has scheduled it to kick off
on September 6 at 9pm, with ep #2 at 930p. Also kicking off on the
6th is TRIO's strip series Brilliant But Cancelled.
MTVN's newest cable net LOGO, scheduled to launch in February
2005, announced its programming plans including several film
and documentary acquisitions: The Birdcage, Gods and Monsters, Kissing
Jessica Stein, My Own Private Idaho, Philadelphia, My Personal Best,
Broken Hearts Club, among many others. Docs include Daddy & Papa and
Ruth & Connie ... Every Room in the House. Among the net's
original series plans are Family Outing based on Chastity Bono's best
selling book; The Margaret Cho series; Fantastic Voyage from producers
Bunim-Murray which is a reality series which takes place during a 7-day
gay cruise. Do I? follows a series of gay couples considering marriage.
And the animated series Chelsea Boys based on the gay syndicated comic
strip of the same name.
Here's one that will have you calling your cable company toot sweet
demanding it be added to your network lineup -- The Advert Channel
launches this fall in the UK - it's 24/7 TV commercials, talk shows
about commercials, the making of commercials, best of and classic
commercials, and of course it will be ad supported with approx 9m of ads
per hour. According to Broadcasting & Cable, the net launches
on Sky Digital, with Chelsey Baker, head of BBC News, at the
helm.
Spike TV has announced a new reality show called American
Start-Up from LivePlanet. The show features 8 young business people,
given $50,000 of seed money, to bring to fruition their American dream
startup company. Each of the 10 eps will include a panel of
successful business people who will evaluate a component of each of the
start up companies. The company not quite measuring up will be
eliminated each week. The goals is for each of these companies to woo new
investment dollars to take the company to the next level. American
Start-Up is expected to launch in mid-2005.
Thursday night was all about CBS with no one else even
coming close in the A18-49 demo according to Nielsen Media
Research. Big Brother pulled a 3.4/12 (closest competitor was
Fox with an 8 share for the first hour of its Legally Blonde movie); CSI
avg'd a 4.5/13 (again Fox was closest with a 9 share) and Without a Trace
brought in a 3.9/12 for the 10p hour. For the night, CBS averaged a
3.9/12. The premiere ep of The Days repeated on ABC at 8pm (a far more
sensible hour for this family dramedy than Sundays at 10p) and avg'd a
1.5/5.
Stuff
you did
during my
summer vacation: Judy McGrath upped to Chairman/CEO of Viacom Cable
division, while Mark Rosenthal, Co-Pres/COO of MTV Networks has announced
he's leaving. ... John Litvack, VP/Current Pgm & Sched at the WB
bails. ... George Eads and Jorja Fox will both be back for next season's
CSI. ... The GRID debuts on TNT with 4.3 million viewers and 1.5million
A18-49 on Monday, July 19. ... CBS announces Corbin Bernsen will join the
cast of General Hospital beginning 9/3. ... ABC will debut a new 7-part
doc series called In the Jury Room starting 8/11. ... CBS picks up new
reality, non-fiction Mark Burnett series about rescuing kidnapped
children called Recovery. ... ABC's The Days, the new show project
produced in conjunction with Mindshare USA, debuted a week ago Sunday
with a time period winning 3.1/8 A18-49 rating at 10pm, inching out NBC's
Crossing Jordan by a tenth of a rating point. ... Tribune announces
off-cable sitcom South Park has been cleared in 85% of the US including
48 of the top 50 mkts (top 5: WPIX/NY; KCAL/LA; WCIU/Chicago; WPSG/Phily;
KBHK/San Fran) on a cash + 90s barter basis. Tribune is distributed under
exclusive deal with Debmar Studios and Mercury Ent. ... Fox's debut of
Trading Spouses last Tuesday drew a 3.4/11 A18-49 rating at 8pm, blowing
past the competition, including most notably, ABC's Extreme Makeover
(original ep with triplets getting made over, scoring a 2.5/8). ... Tom
Green & Jerry Springer are developing a week in review program called
Fairly Unbalanced (talent at Fox News didn't see the humor when they
talked about this new show). Show is being shopped by Lions Gate TV. ...
Discovery Channel's Mythbusters is gearing up for a second season; and
TLC's home designer Genevieve Gorder (Trading Spaces) gets her own show
next season - Town Haul!. ... Showtime has ordered a second season of
!Huff, kicking off its second season on November 7; and Showtime
has announced a new comedy reality series called Fat Actress with Kirstie
Alley pretty much playing herself. ... HBO's second outing of The
4400 a week ago last night drew 5.6 million viewers, putting it on top of
the original series on basic cable for the week. ... CBS and UPN
announce their season premiere dates (see below). ... Discovery's
Monster House gets into the Shark Week mode with Shark House tonight at
8p (Shark Week kicked off last night and airs nightly all this week) ...
Mike Cascio is named SVP/Production for National Geographic Channel (good
get). ... Dave Howe is named VP/GM of Sci Fi Channel reporting to Bonnie
Hammer. ... Entourage made its debut on HBO to an audience of 1.9 million
viewers. Not fabulous, but apparently good enough for it to be on track
for a pick-up for season #2. ... You guys have been busy!
CBS Fall 2004 Premiere Dates: 9/16: Survivor Vanuatu at 8pm
9/20: Still Standing, Listen Up, Raymond, Two and a Half Men, CSI
Miami
9/22: 60 Minutes, King of Queens, Center of the Universe,
CSI NY
9/23: CSI, Without a Trace
9/24: Joan of Arcadia, JAG, dr. vegas 9/25: Amazing Race 6, Crimetime Saturday, 48 Hours
Mystery
9/26: 60 Minutes, Clubhouse (preview), CBS Sunday
Movie
9/28: NCIS, Clubhouse, Judging Amy
10/3: Cold Case
UPN Fall 2004 Premiere dates: 9/20: One on One, Half and Half, Girlfriends, Second Time
Around 9/21: All of Us, Eve
9/22: America's Next Top Model, Veronica Mars
(preview)
9/23: WWE Smackdown
9/28: Veronica Mars
9/29: Kevin Hill 10/8: Star Trek Enterprise
Weekend Box Office Estimates: July
23-25, 2004 The Bourne Supremacy
(Universal) $53.5
million - opening weekend
I, Robot
(Fox) $22.1
million - 2 wk total $95.4m
Catwoman (Warner
Bros.) $17.2
million - opening weekend
Spider-Man 2
(Sony) $15.0
million - 4 wk total $328.5m
The Cinderella Story (Warner
Bros.) $8.0 million - 2 wk
total $29.8m
Anchorman: Ron Burgundy (DreamWorks) $7.1 million - 3 wk total
$71.2m
Fahrenheit 911 (Lions
Gate) $5.0
million - 5 wk total $103.4m
The Notebook (New
Line) $4.5
million - 5 wk total $62.5m
King Arthur (Buena
Vista) $3.1
million - 3 2k total $45.2m
Shrek 2
(DreamWorks) $2.4
million - 10 wk total $429.5m Source: Box Office Mojo
CSTV: College Sports Television has named Craig Janoff
to the newly created position of Senior Director. He will be
working with CSTV Executive Vice President Joel Feld and his production
team. Karen Cartales has been named SVP/marketing,
Michael Rosen has been named SVP/Production and News, and
Emilie Deutsch has been named VP/Features Unit and
Interstitials. In addition, Heather Thomas has been
named Director/Affiliate Marketing.
Mark Antonitis has been named President/GM of KRON/San
Francisco, a Young Broadcasting Inc. station. Mark replaces
Dino Dinovitz who announced earlier his plans to retire at year's end
(enjoy Dino!), who will stick around until the end of the year to help
with the transition. Mark hails from KELO/Sioux Falls where he
served as Pres/GM since 1996.
Tom Barreca, SVP/WWE Enterprises, announced Georgi Rosenberg has
been named as Director/Affiliate Sales, for WWE 24/7. Georgi
will be working for Peter Clifford, VP/Affiliate Sales, to enlist cable
operators and satellite services to distribute WWE 24/7, a subscription
video-on-demand (SVOD) service.
Si TV, the English-language Latino Network, has hired Rori
Peters as VP/Affiliate Relations. Rori will be responsible for
developing the affiliate relations department and increasing the
network's subscriber base. She will be working in tandem with Doug
Orr and Tully Bragg of HotHouse Media who will continue to represent Sí
TV.
Lisa Hackner is rejoining Telepictures Productions as
SVP/Development, and Sheila Rosenbaum is joining the
company as VP/Programming, Telepictures Productions. The
announcement was made by Hilary Estey McLoughlin, EVP/GN, Telepictures
Productions. Lisa will be responsible for overseeing all of Telepictures’
new program development for syndication and cable as well as working with
David Auerbach (SVP/Programming) on network series development.
Sheila will work with Hackner in development and the rest of the
Telepictures programming team.
Thursday, July 22, 2004.
National Household Ratings
for all Networks.
Fast affiliate numbers which reflect time period
data, not program data, and can change slightly once the finals come in,
particularly for LIVE programming (i.e. Football). Source Nielsen
Media Research. Time Period Averages Only. [p] = Premiere; [o] =
Original; [r] = Repeat CBS
7.7/14 Big
Brother 5.8/11, CSI 8.7/15, Without a Trace 8.7/15 ABC 4.3/8 The
Days [p-r] 3.1/6, The Staircase 4.9/8
FOX 4.3/8 Movie:
Legally Blonde 4.3/8
NBC
3.2/6 Scrubs
3.5/7, Scrubs 3.2/6, Scrubs 3.0/5, Scrubs 3.2/5, ER 3.2/6
UPN 3.2/6 WWE
Smackdown 3.2/6
WB 1.5/3 Reba
1.7/3, Reba 1.8/3, Studio 7 [premiere] 1.2/2 A18-49
CBS 3.9/12, Fox 2.7/9, NBC 2.1/7, ABC 2.0/6, UPN
1.8/6, WB 0.8/3
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