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CW: Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search For The Next Doll at 9p
Tonight's Finales: MNT: Wicked Wicked Games at 8p, Watch Over Me at 9p
~ MORE GOOD STUFF ~
ABC has pulled Knights of Prosperity off the schedule effective immediately, and slotted in a repeat of According to Jim on Wednesday nights at 830p.
Starz Entertainment has added a new weekly comedy block of original series called The Starz Comedy Hour which debuts April 18 at 11p and airs for 10 weeks: · Head Case – Alexandra Wentworth plays the brash, cutting-edge therapist Dr. Elizabeth Goode to elite Hollywood celebrities, including Jason Priestley, Jane Kaczmarek, Fred Willard and Alanis Morrisette plus others. · Martin Lawrence's 1st Amendment Stand-up – an uncensored comedy stand-up show featuring new young comedians and hosted by comedian Doug Williams, along with DJ Biz Markie. · The Bronx Bunny Show – an unconventional talk show starring two foul-mouthed animals – Bronx Bunny and Teddy T, a politically incorrect panda. The pair invites celebrities to their lousy East Los Angeles apartment to ask them the questions that other talk shows don't ask. Appearances by celebrities include those by Howie Mandel, Joely Fisher, Eric Roberts and more.
DIY Network has added new programs to its primetime line-up that feature both master home improver, Bob Vila and master carpenter, Norm Abram. Starting March 12, DIY Network will be the exclusive cable home for This Old House airing every night at 7p and 730p as well as Bob Vila's Home Again series airing every night at 8p. Then beginning March 17, The New Yankee Workshop will air on Saturdays at 830p and also at 9p.
And after many requests, Cynopsis Weekender College Edition is coming
back! We did this once before in November 2005 and it was wonderfully
successful, so we'll do it again on April 26,
2007. We will accept 350 word editorials from current college
students all around the country and the world. The four most insightful,
original, humorous and/or well-written pieces on any topic related to
television will be included in a future edition of Weekender, and each
winning editorial will be awarded a prize of $350. College Professors, moms and
dads - encourage your students to participate! All entries should be
emailed no later than midnight on Friday, April 20th to me at
, SUBJECT: Weekender
College Edition. Students - be sure to include your
name, age, college, college year, and major (if you know it), and how you can
be contacted. Good luck! ~ PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT ~
NBC has invited talk show host Jerry Springer to be the new host of America's Got Talent when the variety/talent competition show returns for another season this summer. America's Got Talent is produced by FremantleMedia North America and SYCO TV.
Casting Notes:
The CW has ordered pilot project Eight Days a Week, produced by Hazy Mills for CBS Paramount, about four twenty-somethings who work for bigshot New York executives and decide to work together to make it big themselves.
~ BROADBAND & DIGITAL ~
On Mondays for the next four weeks, The CW will make the latest episode of America's Next Top Model available free with limited commercials on the network's online video destination at http://video.cwtv.com, the day after airing the Sunday encores. This show joins other CW series that are streamed at this site such as Supernatural, Veronica Mars, One Tree Hill, Everybody Hates Chris, All of Us, Girlfriends and The Game.
Univision Online, Inc., a division of Univision Communications Inc. has received a renewal of its accreditation of key traffic measurements on Univision.com from the Media Rating Council (MRC). Univision.com was the first Spanish-language web site to receive accreditation from the MRC and is now the longest-running web site with this distinction, and in 2006 it received 300 million hits and delivered 4.4 billion page views.
AT&T's IPTV service U-verse agreed to carry ION Media Network's planned suite of digital programming channels. ION, formerly known as Pax TV, has launched two digitnets thus far: bilingual, educational children's network qubo and lifestyle, wellness and personal growth channel Ion Life. U-verse is the video side of AT&T Project Lightspeed, deploying fiber optics to individual neighborhoods and utilizing existing infrastructure to deliver digital video, high speed internet and, in the future, Voice-over-IP services.
Fisher Communications, Journal Broadcast Group and Granite Broadcasting stations will offer a user-generated news service later this month, dubbed YouNewsTV. Developed by local website vendor Broadcast Interactive, YouNewsTV invites visitors to stations' websites to upload news footage they shot, to be vetted by the station's staff. Selected stories will be tagged with eight-to-fifteen second ad clips for distribution on the local station's web site, other news sites or even on the station's local air, with creators and stations sharing in the revenue.
A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM ABC FAMILY Best February Ever for ABC Family!
• Our Best Ever in P12-34 • Our Best Ever in A18-49 • Our Best Ever in Total Viewers
Source: Nielsen NTI, Live 000s. Primetime (M-Sun 8-11p) and Total Day (M-Sun 6a-6a), excluding non-commercial programming. ABC Family launched Nov 2001. ~ EXECUTIVE MOVES ~
Mary Murano has been elevated to President/Distribution at Oxygen to provide oversight for all cable distribution, plus she has added digital distribution to her list of duties that includes wireless and broadband.
A&E Network has bumped Dan Silberman to VP/Publicity, where he will supervise all corporate and trade communication and all press efforts for programs on behalf of A&E, in addition to executing an external communication strategy for The Biography Channel. Dan will continue to report to Bob DeBitetto, EVP/GM, A&E.
TV Guide Channel has added four executives to its national sales team: Brad Westermann has been named VP/Western Regional Sales; Adam Nash has been promoted to VP/Eastern Regional Sales; Eric Johnson will become Director of the Chicago sales office; and Megan Gormley is the new Manager of the Detroit sales office.
Mitchell J. Habib has joined The Nielsen Company as EVP/Global Business Services and will have worldwide oversight for all daily operational and IT functions for the company.
Billboard has named Cindy Mata as Director/Business Development/Eastern Sales. Along with her current duties as East Coast Advertising Director, Cindy will now develop new business collaborations for the Billboard brand.
MTV Networks Entertainment Group has upped Tanya Giles to SVP/Research and Planning. In this new role, Tanya will manage research and planning for all multi-platform business divisions associated with Comedy Central, TV Land and Spike TV as well as the digital properties Atom Entertainment, iFilm, Xfire and Gametrailers. She will report directly to Doug Herzog, President/MTV Networks Entertainment Group and to Colleen Fahey Rush, EVP/Research, MTV Networks.
Alexandra Wallace will be the new Executive Producer of NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, replacing John Reiss who held this position since June 2005. Alexandra, who takes on this position immediately, has the distinction of being the first woman to lead a weeknight network evening newscast in ten years. In addition, Alexandra will continue in her role as VP/NBC News.
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~ RATINGS ~
ABC 8.5/13 America's Funniest Videos 5.6/10, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 8.6/13, Desperate Housewives 11.7/17, Brothers & Sisters 8.1/13 CBS 8.1/13 60 Minutes 8.4/14, Amazing Race 6.3/10, Cold Case 8.3/12, Without a Trace 9.6/16 NBC 4.8/8 Dateline: NBC 4.1/7, Grease: You're the One That I Want 4.1/6, Deal or No Deal 6.7/10, The Apprentice 4.2/7 FOX 3.9/6 American Dad [r] 2.4/4, The War at Home 2.7/4, The Simpsons 5.3/8, The Winner [p] 4.3/7, Family Guy 5.2/8, The Winner 3.8/6 UNIV 1.8/3 La Hora Pico 1.3/2, Bailando por la Boda de mis Sueños 1.9/3 CW 1.6.3 Reba [r] 1.6/3, Reba [r] 1.9/3, America's Next Top Model [r] 1.6/2 TELE 0.4/1 El Maravilloso Mundo De Disney/Estreno 0.3/0, Cine Millonaro Estreno 0.4/1 A18-49: ABC 5.1/13, CBS 3.3/8, FOX 3.1/8, NBC 2.4/6, UNIV 1.4/4, CW 0.9/2, TELE 0.2/1 This Day in History: 1931 - The first radio newsreel, The March of Time, debuts. Associated with Time magazine, the show featured dramatizations of news events using actors to impersonate real news figures.Answer to Yesterday's Trivia: On Happy Days, what was the original name of the sign at the drive-in before it was changed to Arnold's? ARTHUR'S Kudos to: Kudos to: Vito Altamura-Tribune Entertainment/NY; Tim Riviere-WPVI/Philadelphia; Deborah Kapetanakis-Active International/NY; Roger Lyons WBZ-TV/Boston; Dan Whitford-RPM Advertising/Chicago, Lorrie Shilling-DIRECTV/CA; William "Chip" Beaman-Soundelux Design Music Group/Hollywood
Today's Trivia Question: On Three's Company, what is the name "Chrissy" short for? (click here with your answer and be sure
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