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Cynopsis
12.09.13

Good morning.It’s Monday, December 9, 2013, and this is your first early morning briefing.

Today’s Premieres:
ABC: The Great Christmas Light Fight at 9p
MundoFox: La Vida Sigue at 8p
NBC: The Sing-Off at 9p

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ABC cut hit drama Scandal‘s season three order from 22 to 18 episodes. ABC didn’t offer an explanation, but the move was likely prompted by the pregnancy of star Kerry Washington, whose character would be tricky to write out. Scandal’s fall finale airs Thursday, December 12; the remaining new eps launch Thursday, February 27.

Fox altered its schedule to ramp up freshman drama Sleepy Hollow’s “haunting” finale. The show is now a two-hour event on Monday, January 20 that bumps the premiere of The Following‘s second season to Monday, January 27. The Following’s “special preview” is still set for the prime post-NFC Championship spot Sunday, January 19; the move means its season will now stretch into May sweep.

AMC canceled Low Winter Sun after one season. Despite its Breaking Bad lead-in, the Endemol-produced cop drama was delivering fewer than one million viewers by the end of its run.

Fox’s Dads, the net’s lowest-rated freshman comedy, will top at 19 episodes instead of a full order of 22. Fox announced last month that Dads and The Mindy Project were taking a hiatus at midseason, allowing Glee to move back to Tuesdays at 8, starting February 25. No word on when/where Dads will return.

About 47 percent of U.S. homes have at least one DVR, according to a new study from Leichtman Research Group, up from 23 percent in 2007, but up just 2 percent versus last year. Netflix is seeing a bigger jump. About 46 percent of non-pay TV subscribers buy Netflix, according to the study, versus 34 percent last year, and 51 percent of 18-34-year-olds subscribe, compared to 40 percent last year.

DiGiorno Pizza’s clever tweets during NBC‘s The Sound of Music Live! on Thursday (sample: “Can’t believe pizza isn’t one of her favorite things smh”) caused a Twitter storm and earned a burst of glowing press. And it was attention money couldn’t – and didn’t – buy.  The tweeting “was absolutely spontaneous,” DiGiorno Brand Manager Brian Linz told Ad Age. “Our social media writer began with a tweet that just happened to get amazing pick-up.” 

Legendary Television and Digital inked a multi-year, multi-platform producing deal with Ben Stiller and Stuart Cornfield‘s Red Hour Films. The Red Hour team’s programming “is broadly appealing, yet fulfills the edginess and irreverence that is so on brand for Legendary,” said Legendary president Bruce Rosenblum.

Music Choice is expanding its channel lineup to include Teen MC, Pop Rhythmic, Pop Country, Y2K and Love Songs. The move, prompted by research and viewer feedback and intended to appeal mainly to Millennials, is effective Tuesday, December 10.

Pivot‘s upcoming HitRecord On TV, from Joseph Gordon-Levitt, will spend the night before its television debut getting a screening at the Sundance Film Festival. It will be the third time Gordon-Levitt’s HitRecord production company, which creates pieces collaboratively from users, has made an appearance at the festival; the Pivot show launches Saturday, January 18 at 10p.

The FCC is moving the auction of broadcast spectrum for wireless that was expected to take place at the end of 2014 to mid 2015. Broadcast stations will give up spectrum, then get a piece of the proceeds when it’s purchased by mobile and telecom firms. But the process is too complex to complete in 2014, said FCC chairman Tom Wheeler in a blog post Friday. “Only when our software and systems are technically ready, user friendly, and thoroughly tested,” Wheeler said, “will we start the auction.”

Top 10 Weekend Box Office Estimates:  December 6-December 8, 2013

 

Frozen (Disney)	$31.6 million	2 wk total $134.2 million
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Lionsgate)	$27.0 million	3 wk total $336.7 million
Out of the Furnace (Relativity Media)	$5.3 million	opening weekend
Thor: The Dark World (Disney)	$4.7 million	5 wk total $193.6 million
Delivery Man (Disney)	$3.8 million	3 wk total $24.8 million
Homefront (Open Road)	$3.4 million	2 wk total $15.3 million
The Book Thief (20th Century)	$2.7 million	5 wk total $12.1 million
The Best Man Holiday (Universal)	$2.7 million	4 wk total $67.2 million
Philomena (The Weinstein Company)	$2.3 million	3 wk total $8.3 million
Dallas Buyers Club (Focus Features)	$1.5 million	6 wk total $12.4 million

Source: Rentrak

 

HGTV is investing even more heavily in real estate. The home of House Hunters and Love It or List It, et. al., is premiering Vacation House for Free on Wednesday, January 1 at 5p, Beat the House on Tuesday, January 7 at 11p and The Brian Boitano Project on Thursday, January 16 at 11p. “Our viewers’ appetite for real estate and renovation programming,” said the net’s VP of programming and development Steven Lerner, “is virtually insatiable.”

Following its Thursday, January 2 premiere of The Good Wife at 6p, Hallmark Channel is running a season one marathon on Saturday, January 4. 12 eps of the CBS drama will air beginning at 1a.

AMC is airing back-to-back marathons of hit series Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead. Five seasons straight of Bad starts every day at noon from Friday, December 27 through Monday, December 30 – the only place to watch the show for free. A two-day marathon of The Walking Dead starts December 31 at 9a, with eps airing back-to-back until January 2 at 5a. Bad’s series finale was in September; Dead resumes its fourth season on Sunday, February 9.

LeAnn Rimes, Justin Moore, Randy House and Thomas Rhett round out the lineup at the American Country Music Awards. The singers join acts including Florida Georgia Line, Brad Paisley and Olivia Newton-John on the live-from Vegas show, airing Tuesday, December 10 at 8p on Fox.

The Grim Sleeper, a TV-movie based on the real-life story of an LA serial killer, is in the works for Lifetime, reports Deadline. Dreama Walker (Gossip Girl) will star.

Braxton Family Values stars Towanda, Trina and Traci Braxton will compete on weekday syndie Who Wants to Be a Millionaire on Wednesday, December 11 and Thursday, December 12 to raise money for charity. The producers created a special “Switch a Sister” lifeline for the shooting. Values airs Thursdays at 9p on WE tv.

Regina King (Southland) will recur on upcoming FX vampire horror show The Strain. Series is expected to premiere in summer, 2014. 

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MTV is developing an adaptation of best-selling fantasy novels Shannara with Sonar Entertainment. Jon Favreau (Iron Man) will direct and exec produce, and Al Gough and Miles Millar (Smallville) will write and exec produce if the project goes to series. 

Drew Goddard (Lost) will write and direct the pilot for a show on Netflix adapted from Marvel‘s Daredevil comics.

Entourage creator Doug Ellin struck a three-year deal with CBS Television Studios to develop television projects. Ellin comedy The Moodys, with CBS TV Studios, received a put pilot commitment from Fox in August.

Canadian pay-TV channel Explora has licensed 50 hours of content from Off the Fence‘s science, environment, wildlife, health and natural history programming.

Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey) will star in W1A, a series for BBC Two poking fun at… the BBC. The show from BBC In-House Comedy follows Bonneville’s character from previous satire Twenty Twelve.

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ABC extended its agreement with Peanuts Worldwide LLC and Lee Mendelson Film Productions to carry the Peanuts animated holiday specials until 2020. On November 27, A Charlie Brown Christmas won the 8p hour for the net, delivering 8.9 million viewers and a 2.9 A18-49 rating; ABC has been airing the shows since 2001.

Al Jazeera America was added to the Time Warner Cable lineup on Friday. The agreement makes the news net available to almost 55 million homes.

Program Call:Cynopsis Media will be producing its annual NATPE Shopping Guide sent to all Cynopsis and Cynopsis Kids subscribers on Thursday, January 23, 2014, the week before NATPE Market and Conference opens at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach Resort. If your company is an official exhibitor at NATPE 2014, please email Lynn Leahey at: [email protected] for details on how to submit listings.

Sixteen going on 19 million: NBC‘s The Sound of Music Live! averaged a 4.6 rating and 13 share among A18-49 and 18.47 million viewers Thursday night, according to Nielsen. The Big Bang Theory won its half hour in the adult demo with 4.8/14, but NBC swept the rest of the night, for the net’s best Thursday total viewer performance, excluding sports, since the series finale of Frasier in 2004.

The morning wasn’t too shabby for NBC, either. The net’s coverage of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade from 9a-noon drew an average audience of 25.2 million, up 12 percent from last year. The parade earned a 6.6 rating/17 share in A18-49, the best since 2004.

ABC‘s Shark Tank was again the top-rated show on Friday night with 2.0/6 in A18-49, according to fast nationals, and delivered its highest viewership ever, 7.5 million. A 20/20 show about Nelson Mandela was up 22 percent versus last week(1.1/3). ABC tied NBC for the top spot in the demo for the night, with 1.4/4.

Ten weeks into the season, CBS was number one in total viewers, averaging 11.97 million, up 2 percent over last year, with 14 of the top 20 scripted broadcast series.

Spanish-language Estrella TV‘s 10-part original mini-series, Jenni: La Vida de Una Diva, averaged 198,000 viewers among A18-49 (up 110 percent in the time period versus last year), 218,000 in A25-54 (up 140 percent) and 411,000 in P2+ (up 140 percent), helping make November the 4-year-old net’s most-viewed month ever.

CBS‘s The Talk ended its best ever November sweep in viewers (2.81 million) and W25-54 rating (1.0) the week of November 25 with a best-ever weekly performance of 2.96 million viewers, up 9 percent from the prior week.

General Hospital hit a near six-year high in total viewers (3.3 million), and an over two-and-a half year high in W18-49 (774,000, 1.2 rating) the week of November 25. (Spoiler alert: Robin’s alive!)

Thursday A18-49 Analysis: NBC won the most A18-49 viewers Thursday with 4.6/13, according to final primetime national ratings from Nielsen. NBC’s Sound of Music Live! won every hour: 8p with 4.7/14 versus a 3.6/11 average for CBS’s Big Bang Theory and The Millers; 9p by scoring 4.9/13 against 2.3/6 for ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy and 10p with 4.4/12, followed by 3.0/8 for ABC’s Scandal.

Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Thursday, December 5, 2013  time period averages.  Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.

NBC	10.6/17	The Sound of Music Live! 10.6/17
CBS	6.1/9	Big Bang Theory 9.5/15, The Millers 5.5/9, The Crazy Ones 4.8/7, Two and a Half Men 5.4/8, Elementary 5.3/9
ABC	4.2/7	Once Upon a Time in Wonderland 2.2/3, Grey‘s Anatomy 4.8/7, Scandal 5.5/9
FOX	2.5/4	The X Factor 3.0/5, Glee 2.1/3
UNI	1.6/3	Por Siempre Mi Amor 1.6/3, Que Vida Me Robo 1.7/3, Mentir Para Vivir 1.6/3
CW	1.3/2	Vampire Diaries 1.5/2, Reign 1.1/2
TELE	.8/1	Marido en Alquiler .8/1, Reina Sur .8/1, Futbol Estelar Leon .8/1
ION	.9/1	Criminal Minds .8/1, Criminal Minds .9/1, Criminal Minds .9/1
UMA	.6/1	LIGA .9/1, Cineplex .2/0

A18-49:  NBC 4.6/13, CBS 2.5/7, ABC 2.0/6, FOX 1.2/3, UNI 1.1/3, CW .8/2, TELE .6/2, UMA .6/2, ION .4/1

Set designer Roland Everett Hill Jr. died on November 26. He was 84. Hill worked as a set designer on films, as well as on television shows including JAG and Charmed.

Character actress Kate Williamson died on December 6. She was 83. In addition to film roles, Williamson played Mrs. Rogers on Ellen, and appeared on shows including Police Story, NYPD Blue and Home Improvement.

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This Day In History sponsored by Destination America: 1965 – A Charlie Brown Christmas debuted on CBS, preempting The Munsters.

Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: On Lassie (1954-1973), why did the courageous collie leave the Martin family to live with a Forest Ranger? Paul Martin was transferred to Australia. Kudos to: Mark Wajda-Catholic Community of St. Paul/Leesburg, FL, Synda Kollman-Charter Marketing Group/Boca Raton, Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/LA, David Westberg-SAG-AFTRA/LA, Susan Nessanbaum-Goldberg-M and S Enterainment/LA.

Today’s Trivia Question – Now Playing Theme Week: On The Big Bang Theory, what is Howard allergic to?(Email trivia@cynopsis.comwith 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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Lynn Leahey
12.09.13

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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – MONDAY DECEMBER 9, 2013

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ABC: Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town, The Great Christmas Light Fight [p], Castle [r]
CBS: How I Met Your Mother [r], 2 Broke Girls [r], Mike & Molly, Mom [r], Hostages
CW: King Fu Panda Holiday Special, Merry Madagascar, One Direction iHeartRadio Album Release Party
FOX: Almost Human, Sleepy Hollow
ION: Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds
MyTV: Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order: SVU 
NBC: The Voice, The Sing-Off [p]
PBS: Antiques Roadshow [r], Antiques Roadshow [r], Independent Lens
Telemundo: Marido en Alquiler, La Reina del Sur, Santa Diabla
UMA: V for Vendetta
Univision: Por Siempre Mi Amore, Lo Que la Vida Me Robo, Mentir Para Vivir

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