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Nets, M-Su Prime.Episode 13: #1 On Basic Cable For The Week with Women & Adults 18-34 TOPS BROADCAST PROGRAMS TOO! Beats: Las Vegas, Wife Swap, Law and Order, Deal or No Deal-Wed, Law & Order: CI, Big Brother-Sun/Wed, Jericho, October Road, Boston Legal Available from Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution Cynopsis 02/21/08 Good Morning. It's Thursday, February 21, 2008, and this is your first early morning briefing. ABC announced the return dates for many of its primetime series: April 7: Samantha Who? at 930p with 6 eps April 8: Boston Legal at 10p with 6 eps April 13: Desperate Housewives at 9p with 5 eps and a special two-hour finale April 20: Brothers & Sisters at 10p with 4 eps April 24: Ugly Betty at 8p with 5 eps, Grey's Anatomy at 9p with 5 eps and Lost at 10p with 5 eps ABC's dramas Pushing Daisies, Private Practice and Dirty Sexy Money will all return next season. Tonight's Premieres: Fuse: Live Through This: Nikki Sixx at 10p SPEED: Setup – Season 2 at 8p, PINKS All Outtakes at 10p and Livin' the Low Life at 1030p
~ MORE GOOD STUFF ~
Broadcast Evening News Ratings Wrap-Up:
The final results for the week of February 11, 2008:ABC: 9.44 million total viewers and 2.5/9 A25-54 NBC: 9.41 million total viewers and 2.4/9 A25-54 CBS: 6.98 million total viewers and 1.8/7 A25-54 Effective March 17, two of CBS' comedies will swap places as The Big Bang Theory takes the Monday 8p slot and How I Met Your Mother moves to Mondays at 830p. Both sitcoms also return with new episodes while the rest of Monday's line-up remains the same. In March and April, ION Television Network lassoes Saturday as Western Night with original and classic movies from RHI Entertainment. Western Night opens with the world premiere of Aces N' Eights on March 15 at 9p. Other western titles follow through April 26. The CW's reality show Beauty and the Geek is back for a fifth season starting March 11 at 8p. Nine intellectually-challenged beauties compete against nine smart but socially-bereft guys in various tests to win the $250,000 grand prize. The series is from fox21 and produced by Katalyst Films and 3 Ball Productions with executive producers Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg.
~ PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT ~
Blockade Entertainment and Gameplay
HD, focused on video gaming and part of the VOOM suite of hi-def
networks, will begin production of a new original animated series,
Sacred Road. This series will combine a video game engine and
software code to create a 3D-like hi-def animated television series.
Sacred Road is about five American GIs who battle to defeat Nazis during
WWII and will premiere on Gameplay HD this fall. To new pilots have been ordered by CBS - Splitsville from exec producer Jamie Kennedy is a game show where divorcing couples negotiate for possessions via a variety of challenges. The second pilot is a reality series focused on a team of law enforcement people who are all assisting people who have been victimized by crime. This latter project is from Tom Forman, the exec producer behind CBS' Kid Nation. Another cast change at Law & Order - departing will be 9-year veteran Jesse L. Martin, and joining the cast is Anthony Anderson who had appeared as a cop once before on Law & Order: SVU. Casting Call: A Los Angeles production company, casting for a wedding-themed pilot on behalf of a major cable network, is looking for brides and their bridesmaids aged 21-35 to apply. If you are a new bride and have 4-7 bridesmaids to choose from, send an email to . All participants must be available in mid-March for four days of filming in the L.A. area.
~ ELSEWHERE IN CYNOPSIS ~
CYNOPSIS DIGITAL - TODAY'S
TOP
STORY:
Google is planning to
announce the details of its AdSense video ad solution this
morning, which serves contextual InVideo overlay ads dynamically to a
group of trial programming partners, including entertainment portals
Revver, blip.tv and My Damn Channel as well as how-to-video sites
BobVila.com and ExpertVillage.com. The system searches metadata embedded
within each clip, then serves an appropriate overlay relating to the
subject matter or theme. While this may not be the killer
application for online video advertising, it should go a long way in
helping to monetize goofy user generated video that spreads like wildfire
around the web before a sponsor can be premeditatedly attached to
it. Full
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.)CYNOPSIS KIDS - TODAY'S TOP STORY: Universal Pictures and Hasbro enter into a six-year partnership to produce at least four movies based on some of Hasbro's brands, including Monopoly, Candy Land, Clue, Ouija, Battleship, Magic, The Gathering and Stretch Armstrong. According to the deal, Hasbro will team exclusively with Universal Pictures for feature films, except for existing toy/movie franchise Transformers (a sequel is in the works) and GI Joe (currently filming), which are with Paramount/DreamWorks and Paramount respectively. The first movie title under the new deal is slated for release in 2010 or 2011, with Universal expected to release a movie per year thereafter. The William Morris Agency brokered the deal on behalf of Hasbro. Hasbro recently named Lisa Licht as its new GM/Entertainment and Licensing. Hmmm, which to do first? While a Monopoly project has been talked about for some time, if it were my choice (and it isn't) I'd say the timing is right for a movie based on Magic, The Gathering or Stretch Armstrong. Full edition: CYN KIDS. CYNOPSIS INTERNATIONAL - TODAY'S TOP STORY: Virgin Media Television's men's U.K. entertainment channel Bravo acquired the original scripted drama The Kill Point in an exclusive deal with Lionsgate. Debuting as part of Bravo's Spring primetime schedule, the 8x60 miniseries first premiered on Spike TV this past summer. Full edition: CYN INTERNATIONAL.
~ RATINGS ~
Top Ten Basic Cable Ad
Supported Network Rankings among
A18-49
for the week
of: 2/11-2/17/08Primetime (000) Total Pgm Day (000) TNT 1463 TNT 721 USA 1326 TBSC 620 TBSC 1183 USA 574 FX 786 NICK 568 CMDY 742 NAN* 538 AEN 715 FX 506 DISC 687 ADSM* 490 VH1 662 ESPN 420 MTV 632 CMDY 419 AMC 605 AEN 414 Source Turner Research from Nielsen Media Research Data. All ratings based on Total U.S. Television Universe of 112,800,000 homes * = Network broadcasts less than 51% of minutes in a 24 hour day. Primetime listing only includes those networks broadcasting more than 51% of the primetime hours (M-Su 8p-11p) Top Ten Basic Cable Ad Supported Network Rankings among Total Viewers for the week of: 2/11-2/17/08 Primetime (000) Total Pgm Day (000) USA 3171 NICK 2232 TNT 2818 TNT 1390 TBSC 1963 USA 1273 FOXN 1738 NAN* 1255 NAN 1560 TBSC 1038 AEN 1429 TOON 1011 AMC 1356 FOXN 929 LIF 1356 ADSM* 919 FX 1346 LIF 881 DISC 1307 AEN 855 Source Turner Research from Nielsen Media Research Data. All ratings based on Total U.S. Television Universe of 112,800,000 homes * = Network broadcasts less than 51% of minutes in a 24 hour day. Primetime listing only includes those networks broadcasting more than 51% of the primetime hours (M-Su 8p-11p) Top 10 Cable Programs among A18-49 (000) for the week of: 2/11-2/17/08 TNT NBA All-Star Game 3792 TNT NBA All-Star Saturday Night 3173 TNT NBA Tip-Off All-Star 3031 BRAV Project Runway 2650 USA WWE Entertainment 10p 2551 USA WWE Entertainment 9p 2309 USA Monk 2083 FX Nip Tuck 2068 MTV RW/RR Gauntlet 3 2054 USA Psych 2030 Source Turner Research from Nielsen Media Research Data. All ratings based on Total U.S. Television Universe of 112,800,000 homes Top 10 Broadcast Programs among A18-49 rating/share and (000) for the week of 2/11-2/17/08 FOX American Idol Tuesday 12.3/29 16,150 FOX American Idol Wednesday 9.8/26 12,860 FOX Moment of Truth 6.0/15 7,850 ABC Lost 5.8/15 7,600 NBC NBC Movie of the Week-SUN 5.0/12 6,510 ABC Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 4.6/11 5,980 CBS Survivor: Micronesia 4.6/13 6,000 FOX FOX Daytona 500 Post-Race 4.5/14 5,920 NBC Deal or No Deal-MON 4.3/11 5,580 CBS Two and a Half Men 3.9/9 5,070 Source Nielsen Media Research, Galaxy Explorer, Live + SD Data Tuesday - A18-49 Analysis: FOX captured another giant win Tuesday night with 11.2/27 A18-49, according to fast affiliate ratings from Nielsen Media Research. FOX maintained a double-digit lead with American Idol the first two hours: at 8p FOX posted a 10.5/27 and an even higher 11.9/27 at 9p. NBC's Law & Order: SVU encore won at 10p with a 3.3/9. Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 (February Sweep Day 20) time period averages. Source: Nielsen Media Research FOX: 16.4/25 American Idol 16.4/25 NBC: 5.4/9 The Biggest Loser 5 5.1/8, Law & Order: SVU [r] 6.2/10 CBS: 4.9/8 NCIS [r] 7.1/11, Big Brother 9 3.6/5, Jericho 3.9/7 ABC: 3.6/6 Just For Laughs 3.1/5, Just For Laughs [r] 3.0/5, According to Jim 3.1/5, Carpoolers 2.6/4, Boston Legal 4.8/8 UNIV: 1.9/3 Al Diablo con los Guapos 2.4/4, Pasion 1.8/3, Aqui y Ahora 1.5/3 CW: 1.7/3 Reaper [r] 1.3/2, One Tree Hill 2.0/3 TELE: 0.7/1 La Traicion 0.6/1, Victoria 0.9/1, Pecados Ajenos 0.6/1 A18-49: FOX 11.2/27, NBC 3.3/8, CBS 2.0/5, UNIV 1.6/4, ABC 1.5/4, CW 1.0/3, TELE 0.4/1
~ EXECUTIVE MOVES ~
York Entertainment named Steven
Bulzoni as President/Domestic Entertainment to supervise the
daily activities of the independent film supplier's domestic operations
including sales, licensing, marketing, acquisitions and operations.
Previously, Steven worked for York Entertainment as VP/GM from 1998
through 2004. In his new role, he will report directly to Tanya York,
CEO. Peter Granath was hired as Associate Publisher for The Week, a news and opinion magazine. Based in New York, Peter will spearhead print and digital advertising revenue and the magazine's sales team will report directly to him. Prior to this appointment, Peter was the New England Advertising Manager for CNNMoney.com. VH1 advanced Stacy Alexander to SVP/Talent and Casting where she will manage the talent department and team charged with developing relationships with key talent. Also upped in the talent department are Leah Horwitz to VP/Music Talent and Creative Development; Trevor Rose to Director/Talent and Creative Development; and Denise Bishop to Director/Talent and Creative Development. Leah worked with Bret Michaels on the Rock Of Love series and will continue to seek talent within the music industry. She reports to Rick Krim, EVP/Talent and Music Programming, VH1 and Jeff Olde, EVP/Original Programming and Production, VH1. Trevor's duties include creating and developing new show ideas around celebrities and helping to secure top talent for the network. Denise has worked with recruiting talent for VH1 shows such as VH1 Hip Hop Honors, The Fabulous Life and The Wendy Williams Experience and VH1 Save The Music Foundation events. Young Broadcasting Inc. elevated Jay Huizenga to President/GM of KELOLAND (KELO-TV) in Sioux Falls. Jay has been with the station for 27 years, most recently as Station Manager. A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS
The 15th Annual Media Battle Of The Bands
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ION: Mama's Family, Mama's Family, Drew Carey Show, Drew Carey Show, Drew Carey Show, Drew Carey Show MNT: Movie: A Low Down Dirty Shame NBC: My Name is Earl [r], Celebrity Apprentice, Lipstick Jungle PBS: This Old House Hour, Antiques Roadshow, Soundstage: Dan Fogelberg [r] TELE: La Traicion, Victoria, Pecados Ajenos UNIV: Premio Lo Nuestro 2008 All outgoing e-mails are scanned and sent out virus free. Copyright Cynopsis 2008 |
