Good morning. It's
Friday, April 23, 2004,
and this is your first early morning
briefing.
Quite the flurry of activity late yesterday afternoon -- Ed Wilson
quits his post as President of NBC Enterprises followed with
speculation that Steve Rosenberg, President of Universal Domestic TV,
will end up with the pivotal NBC Universal top post once the merger is
complete next month. Then the other shoe drops - Steve Rosenberg
has also quit. And speculation abounds: As rumor
has it, Wilson was to be given the job as head of the new syndicated
division (which got Rosenberg thinking about packing his bags), but
decided to leave the offer on the table and not renew his contract.
Then when NBC turned to Rosenberg, his plans were already in motion to
leave. Whether NBC will be able to coax him back in the house,
remains to be seen.
Turner's TBS/TNT networks celebrated their upfront
presentation/schedule/brand yesterday in NYC and announced a new
contemporary tag for TBS; as well as a couple of new program series
coming to the nets this season.
First the TBS brand -- in an effort to make this network the
Caliente of funny', TBS has updated its look, adopted a new tag
line: very funny; and has decided to concentrate on what makes
people laugh. To that end, in conjunction with a series of branding
and promotional spots, the net will add S#x and the City, Everybody Loves
Raymond and Yes Dear to the schedule this summer and King of Queens in
2006. Additionally, a couple of new series are coming to the Sked:
Gilligan's Island - the reality series - in which exec prod Mike Fleiss
(The Bachelor) will cast people in the roles of skipper, first mate,
millionaire and his wife, a professor, a movie star, and a girl from the
heartland, and put them on a deserted island. This show comes to
TBS in December 2004, and the network has already ordered up a second
season. By the way, Sherwood Schwartz and his son Lloyd are also exec
producing, and the theme song is pretty much the same, if not a little
zipped up. Outback Jack from exec prod Bruce Nash, takes a twist on the
Bachelor set up, in that the lovely and sophisticated ladies are dropped
into the middle of the Australian outback, where along with vying for the
attentions of the handsome bachelor, will also be surviving in the
outback. This series launches on June 22 with 8 eps.
Over to TNT. Original programming is the name of the
game and coming to TNT this summer is The Grid, a 6 hour limited series
starring Dylan McDermott, Julianna Margulies and Tom Skerritt; and next
summer from Steven Spielberg is a 12 hour limited series called Into the
West. TNT also returns with its Johnson & Johnson Spotlight original
film, this year it's The Wool Cap, again starring William H. Macy and
director Steven Schacter. Miniseries for this summer is Salem's Lot
based on the Stephen King novel, and in July the movie Evil Kneivel
starring George Eads (CSI) and Beau Bridges. And coming in the
fall, The Librarian - a sort of Indiana Jones adventure film from Dean
Devlin (Independence Day, The Patriot).
Season Finale Tonight: Married to the Kellys ABC
930pm
WB Sweeps highlights this year will include: April 30: Run of the House season finale at 930p
May 7: What I Like About You and Grounded for Live season finales at 830p
and 9p respectively
May 10: Everwood season finale at 9p
May 11: One Tree Hill season finale at 9p
May 14: Reba season finale at 8p
May 16: Charmed season finale 8-10p
May 17: 7th Heaven season finale at 8p
May 17: Premiere of The WB's Superstar USA (this is the one where
the 'winners' think they're fabulous, only they really aren't, but don't
find out the awful truth until the end.
May 18: Gilmore Girls season finale at 8p
May 19: Smallville and Angel season finales at 8p and 9p
respectively
ABC Sweep highlights:
Apr 30: The Big House season finale at 830p
May 5: Extreme Makeover season finale at 10p
May 6: Extreme Makeover Home Edition airs 2-hour special with a LIVE
reveal in NYC (8-10p)
May 11: NYPD Blue season finale at 10p
May 14: Hope & Faith one hour season finale 9-10p
May 16: Super Millionaire premiere at 9p; and The Practice series
finale at 10p
May 18: 8 Simple Rules one hour season finale at 8-9p, and Less than
Perfect season finale at 930p
May 19: The Bachelor season finale at 9p
May 21: George Lopez one hour season finale at 8p
May 23: Alias season finale at 9p
May 25: According to Jim season finale at 930p
May 26: My Wife and Kids one hour season finale at 8p
ABC has also ordered up two more go-arounds with The
Bachelor from exec prod Mike Fleiss.
Top 10 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week
of April 5-11,
2004 ranked by HH
Rtg Wheel of Fortune (King
World)
8.1 AA
Jeopardy (King
World) 6.7
AA
Oprah (King
World) 5.8
AA / 5.9 GAA
Seinfeld
(Sony) 5.6
AA / 6.6 GAA
Friends (Warner
Bros.) 5.4
AA / 6.4 GAA
Everybody Loves Raymond (King
World) 5.0 AA / 5.7 GAA
Entertainment Tonight
(Paramount) 4.7
AA / 4.8 GAA
Judge Judy
(Paramount) 4.6
AA / 6.9 GAA
Dr. Phil (King
World) 4.4
AA / 4.4 GAA
Live With Regis and Kelly (Buena Vista) 3.5 AA Source Nielsen Media Research
Top 10 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week
ofApril 5-11, 2004
ranked by
A18-49 Seinfeld
(Sony) 3.8
AA / 4.5 GAA
Friends (Warner
Bros.) 3.6
AA / 4.1 GAA
Everybody Loves Raymond (King
World) 2.7 AA / 3.0 GAA
That 70's Show (Carsey-Werner) 2.4 AA / 3.0
GAA
Oprah (King
World) 2.3
AA / 2.3 GAA
Entertainment Tonight
(Paramount) 2.2
AA / 2.2 GAA
Wheel of Fortune (King
World) 2.2
AA
King of the Hill
(20th) 2.0
AA / 2.3 GAA
Will & Grace (Warner
Bros.) 1.9
AA / 2.3 GAA
Judge Judy
(Paramount) 1.8
AA / 2.7 GAA Source Nielsen Media Research
Fox takes Wednesday night with an overall 5.7/16
A18-49, ahead of ABC 4.1/11, NBC 4.0/11, CBS 2.4/7, WB 1.9/5,
UPN 1.3/4, according to Nielsen Media Research. The fun
began at 8pm with Fox's That 70's Show dominating the first half hour
with a 4.6/15 demo rating, a full six share points ahead of its closest
competition, My Wife & Kids on ABC and the first half hour of The
Most Outrageous Moments on Live TV (NBC), both averaging a 9 share.
At 830p, it was all about Fox and American Idol (8.9/25, with a 10.9/28
W18-49); everyone else was pretty well dusted. At 9pm, ABC's The
Bachelor takes over with a 5.0/13, just a share point ahead of Fox's The
O.C. (4.7/12). At 10p NBC wins the hour with L&O's 5.8/15,
followed by ABC's Extreme Makeover (4.4/12) and then CBS' 48 Hours
(2.8/7).
This Old House, a This Old House Productions, Inc. production and
PBS show, upped two of its production team members to key producer
positions. Bruce Irving was upped to Executive
Producer. David Vos was named Sr. Producer and
Director. Russell Morash will return as the show's creative
director and founder. Can you believe it will be the show's 25th
season?!? That's an Old House!
Top 5 Broadcast Spanish Language Primetime Programs for the week
of April 12-18, 2004 UNIV Mariana de
la Noche (Tue 8p)
20.5
NHTI HH Rtg
UNIV Mariana de la Noche (Wed 8p)
20.3
NHTI HH Rtg
UNIV Mariana de la Noche (Mon 8p)
20.1
NHTI HH Rtg
UNIV Mariana de la Noche (Thu 8p)
19.2
NHTI HH Rtg
UNIV Don Francisco Presenta (Wed 10p)
18.3 NHTI HH
Rtg Source Nielsen Media Research
Note NHTI Ratings are based on 10.57 million Hispanic TV Homes
Top 5 Broadcast English Language Primetime Programs in Hispanic TV
Homes for the week of April 12-18,
2004 NBC Apprentice
(Thu
9p) 8.1
NHTI HH Rtg
Fox American Idol (Wed 8p)
8.0
NHTI HH Rtg
UPN WWE Smackdown (Thu
8p) 6.6
NHTI HH
Rtg
NBC Friends (Thu
830p) 6.3
NHTI HH Rtg
Fox Simpsons (Sun 830p)
6.2
NHTI HH Rtg
NBC Fear Factor (Mon
8p) 6.2
NHTI HH Rtg Source Nielsen Media Research
Note NHTI Ratings are based on 10.57 million Hispanic TV Homes
African American television homes in the US represent
12,870,000 households. Here are the rankings for the week
of April 12-18,
2004-
highest rated primetime network programs in African American TV homes
according to Nielsen Media Research
FOX American Idol (Wed 830p)
19.0
HH Rtg
UPN Girlfriends (Mon 9p)
15.4
HH Rtg
FOX American Idol (Thur 8p)
14.9
HH Rtg
UPN Half & Half (Mon 930p)
14.4
HH Rtg
NBC Apprentice (Thu 9p)
14.4
HH Rtg
FOX Bernie Mac (Mon
830p) 13.0
HH Rtg
FOX Bernie Mac (Mon
8p) 11.7
HH Rtg
UPN Eve (Mon 830p)
11.4
HH Rtg
UPN All of
Us (Tue
830p) 11.0
HH Rtg
UPN One on One (Tue
8p) 10.9
HH Rtg Source Nielsen Media Research
Razor & Tie, an independent entertainment company, named 4
new marketing department appointments. Don Spielvogel was
named Senior Director of Video. Don will report to co-owners
Cliff Chenfeld and Craig Balsam. Kevin O'Connor was named
Director of Children's Entertainment. Rachel
Mintz was named Senior Product Manager. Sandi
Hemmerlein was upped to Senior Product Manager. Kevin,
Rachel and Sandi will report to Josh Zieman, the company's General
Manager.
Jo Petherbridge was named Acting COO for BBC
AMERICA. She will be responsible for the daily operations until
a replacement is found for retiring Paul Lee. She will report to
Jana Bennett, Director/Television and Mark Young, President and CEO/BBC
Worldwide Americas. Jo is currently SVP/Strategy and
Communications.
Julie Moss was upped to Senior Administrator in
HBO's Program Scheduling department.
Wednesday, April 21, 2004. Fast
Affiliate 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 NBC
8.3/13 NBC
Special: The Most Outrageous Moments on Live TV 6.3/11, The West Wing
7.2/11, Law & Order 11.4/19 FOX 8.0/13 That
70's Show 6.2/11, American Idol 12.2/20, The O.C. 6.8/11
ABC
6.5/11 My
Wife and Kids 5.4/9, My Wife and Kids [r] 5.2/8, The Bachelor
7.9/12, Extreme Makeover 6.5/11
CBS
6.2/10 60
Minutes II 6.0/10, The King of Queens 6.0/9, Yes, Dear 5.3/8, 48 Hours
7.0/11
WB 2.7/4 Smallville
2.8/5, Angel 2.5/4
UPN 2.1/3 Enterprise
2.2/4, I'm Still Alive 2.0/3 A18-49
FOX 5.7/16, ABC 4.1/11, NBC 4.0/11, CBS 2.4/7, WB
1.9/5, UPN 1.3/4
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Question: Here's a question about a big red
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socially inept businessmen? Conan O'Brien in 1995 - Wussy Wagon
Kudos to: Karen Neal-Turner/Atlanta; Michael Grueter-Empower
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What was the name of the street gang on the Newhart show set in
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