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A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM
WARNER BROS. DOMESTIC CABLE
DISTRIBUTION
NIP/TUCK IS #1
Source: NHI,
L+SD (000). Basic Cable, Pgms=Trackage, Ind=O, Scripted=A, GD, GV, OP, PD,
CS, SF. All-Time=09/30/91-03/18/07, Nip/Tuck=7/22/03-12/12/06 Tu 10-11p
(Nip Tuck Premiere & Nip Tuck Wkdy Prime), 25+ tc. Season=02-03,
03-04, 05-06, 09/25/06-03/18/07, 8+ t/c. THE #1 SCRIPTED ORIGINAL PROGRAM ON BASIC CABLE OF ALL-TIME AND #1 IN EACH OF ITS FOUR SEASONS WITH ADULTS AND WOMEN 18-49! Beats Monk, Rescue Me, The Shield, Dead Zone, Battlestar Galactica, Dirt and Psych Available Fall 2007 exclusively from Warner Bros. Domestic Cable Distribution Cynopsis 3/23/07 Good morning, it's Friday, March 23, 2007 and this is your first early morning briefing. After seven months of negotiations, the deal got done after all. News Corp. and NBC Universal announced a partnership for the digital age yesterday, planning a new jointly-run entertainment portal -as yet unnamed - that will aggregate the biggest collection of TV content on the web and create "the largest advertising platform on earth." The agreement will encompass the vast libraries of television and film content from each of the companies' broadcast, cable and film brands. The deal also contains a distribution component that will make video content available across the leading portals of the net AOL, MSN, Yahoo and MySpace, who will share in the ad revenue and customize its delivery as they see fit. Tonight's Premiere: VH1: Acceptable.TV at 10p
HALLMARK CHANNEL -- THE TOP 10 NETWORK
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~ MORE GOOD
STUFF ~
Oxygen's Tuesday
night premiere of Tori & Dean: Inn Love (1030p) delivered a 0.6
rating with W18-49, which happens to be the highest-rated series premiere with
this particular demo in the network's history. The first episode also drew in a
0.8 rating with both W18-34 and W18-24. Starz Entertainment sued Buena Vista Television for copyright infringement and breach of contract after Disney began selling movies online licensed exclusively to Starz. Under the terms of agreements struck in 1993 and 1999, and extended by BVT in 2005, Disney is prohibited from selling films for distribution on the internet during the period of Starz' window of exclusivity, according to Starz. The suit claims Starz paid over $1 billion for the rights. Disney, the first of the major studios to sell TV shows on iTunes, began selling movies on Wal-Mart's online store when it launched last month. Starz launched its own streaming and download service, Vongo, in January of 2006. This week the 24-hour Discovery HD Theater increased its national distribution to 11 million subscribers as it embarked on Cablevision, the fifth largest MSO on its high-definition programming schedule. Another note to self: Here's the companion site to Discovery Channel's Planet Earth series - Planet-earth.com . (can you tell I really like this kinda stuff?) Psst, hey buddy ... wanna earn a quick $350 bucks? This is easy - but only four of you can win. Here's how it works: If you're currently a college student, all you have to do is write a 350 word essay about television - anything at all about television that appeals to you, or disappoints you, or makes you laugh, makes you tune in or tune out. Whatever you want - just make sure it's about TV. Then, send it to me at Subject: Cynopsis Weekender College Edition, and be sure to include your name, age, college, college year, and major (if you know it), and how you can be contacted. The top four will get paid $350 and their essay will be published in the special Weekender edition on April 26, Cynopsis Weekender College Edition. Deadline is April 20th at midnight - Good luck! Upfront Update: SCI FI CHANNEL SCI FI Channel held its upfront presentation Wednesday night and following are a few program highlights for the 2007-2008 season:
~ PRODUCTION
& DEVELOPMENT ~
Alanna
Ubach has been cast in the Fox comedy pilot Playing Chicken
from Werner-Gold-Miller and Warner Bros. TV, about two brothers - one taking
care of the other after an accident leaves him as a paraplegic. While that
doesn't sound very funny, their opposite personalities adds the lighter
touch. Ubach plays the physical therapist. Jennifer Coolidge (another Legally Blonde alum as Ubach above) has been cast in ABC's comedy pilot Family of the Year from 20th TV, along with Alan Ruck. The two will play the Family parents - she a matriarchal character and former beauty queen, he's more of a go-along kinda guy. Anna Chlumsky has been cast in the lead role of CW's comedy pilot Eight Day's a Week from Hazy Mills and CBS Paramount TV. The story revolves around four twentysomethings who are all the #1's of hugely top level executives in New York City. Chris Kattan will be the host of CBS' game and hidden camera pilot project Game Show in My Head from Katalyst, Hat Trick and Fox 21. AMC has announced an aggressive slate of new original projects in the works utilizing the talents from many in the industry: The Continuum - Tom Fontana (OZ); an untitled Freddie DeMann Music Project - Freddie DeMann (The Life and Death of Peter Sellers) and William Finkelstein (Law & Order); Welcome to Bedlam - Kip Koenig (Grey's Anatomy) and David Semel (Heroes, House); Vows - Karen Hall (E-Ring, Judging Amy); Gonzo - Michael Oates Palmer (Shark, West Wing); The Bannerman Solution - Jason Rothenberg (Girlfight) and Scott Villa (The Simple Life); American Made - Adam Glass (All About the Andersons), Bob Cooper and Orin Woinsky of Landscape Entertainment; and Buried: - Stacy Title and Jonathan Penner (The Lone Ranger, 2003). These projects join the development slate of these previously announced series:
~ BROADBAND
& DIGITAL ~
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Cynopsis: Digital . The edition focuses on the
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.A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM HALLMARK CHANNEL
HALLMARK CHANNEL
Source: Nielsen Galaxy Explorer
(1/29-2/25/07), Live+SD HH coverage area Prime time rating (M-Su 8-11p), ranked
among all measured ad-supported cable networks. Nielsen NPower Length of
Tune (11/27-12/31/06); M-Su 8-11p.THE TOP 10 NETWORK RANKED #1 IN PRIME TIME LENGTH-OF-TUNE Insidehallmarkchannel.com Further qualifications available upon request.
~ EXECUTIVE
MOVES ~
Lindsay Gardner,
President/Affiliate Sales and Marketing at Fox Cable
Networks has announced plans to resign his position at the end of April,
barely a year after being named to this post. He will move to the position of
Director/Global Media Development at Mediatech Capital
Partners, a banking company which develops and funds new-media entities.
Michael Kaufman has joined Al Roker Entertainment, Inc. as VP/Development and Production. He will manage daily production and operations, as well as develop new talent and programming such as documentaries, original series and reality programs. Christal Radio-Boston has added Nancy McCartin as Sales Manager to supervise the Boston office and represent Christal's client stations to the advertising community there in Boston. Previously, Nancy was the Director/Local Corporate Development at WGBH.
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~ RATINGS
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WEDNESDAY -
A18-49 Analysis: FOX
maintained its position at the top Wednesday night at 5.7/16
A18-49, according to fast affiliate ratings from Nielsen Media
Research. CBS was second at 4.2/11, followed by ABC 3.2/9, CW 2.0/5, NBC
1.8/5, UNIV 1.6/4 and TELE 0.4/1. CBS moved ahead at 8p with a 4.1/12 for
Survivor: Fiji. American Idol on FOX at 9p kept its large lead with 8.0/21. Then
at 10p, it was ABC's turn to be in the limelight by winning with Lost at
5.2/14.Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 – time period averages. Source: Nielsen Media Research FOX 9.5/15 Bones 6.6/11, American Idol 12.4/19 CBS 8.8/14 Survivor: Fiji 7.7/13, Criminal Minds 9.7/15, CSI: NY 9.1/15 ABC 5.0/8 George Lopez 4.3/7, According to Jim [r] 4.2/7, According to Jim [r] 3.6/6, In Case of Emergency 3.4/5, Lost 7.4/12 NBC 4.0/6 Friday Night Lights 3.8/6, Crossing Jordan 4.2/7, Medium [r] 4.0/7 CW 2.7/4 America's Next Top Model 3.4/6, Pussycat Dolls Present: Search for the Next Doll [r] 2.1/3 UNIV 2.0/3 La Fea Más Bella 2.3/4, Mundo de Fieras 2.0/3, Don Francisco Presenta 1.8/3 TELE 0.6/1 Marina 0.6/1, Zorro 0.6/1, Decisiones 0.5/1 A18-49: FOX 5.7/16, CBS 4.2/11, ABC 3.2/9, CW 2.0/5, NBC 1.8/5, UNIV 1.6/4, TELE 0.4/1 Friday Fun Fact: The original Guinness Brewery in Dublin, Ireland has a 6,000-year lease. Talk about rent control! This Day in History: 1775 - Patrick Henry declared "Give me liberty, or give me death." Answer to Yesterday's Trivia: What College does Beth attend on the show "American Dreams"? UNIVERSITY OF PENN Kudos to: Paul Ward-TV Land/NY; Katie Jo Sheek-NBC/NY; Jenna Waite-Horizon Media/NY; Teresa Conant-Blitz Media Inc/Needham MA; Mike Heflin-Cannella Response/LA; Melanie Caselas-Bravo, NBC Universal/Burbank Today's Trivia Question: On the show Father Knows Best, Jim Anderson has a pet a name for each of his daughters. Kathy was known as Kitten and Betty was known as ________? ( with your answer and be sure to include your name, company, city and time zone. Unofficial rules: Only the second four correct answers from each time zone will be mentioned; and once you've been mentioned in any of the Cynopsis editions, you can't be mentioned again that calendar week.) 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WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: Friday, March 23, 2007 ABC: Grey's Anatomy, Six Degrees, 20/20 CBS: NCAA Basketball Championship Regional Semifinal CW: Friday Night Smackdown FOX: House [r], The Wedding Bells ION: Mama's Family, Mama's Family, Diagnosis Murder, Charlie's Angels MNT: My Friday Night Movie: Deuces Wild NBC: Identity, Special: Miss USA 2007 Pageant PBS: Washington Week, Now, National Geographic [r] TELE: Marina, Zorro, Decisiones UNIV: La Fea Mas Bella, Mundo de Fieras, Casos de la Vida Real: Edicion Especial |
