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08.10.12
Good morning. It’s Friday, August 10, 2012, and this is your first early morning briefing.
Tonight’s Premiere:
Travel Channel: The Dead Files at 10p
Tonight’s Finales:
Investigation Discovery: Motives & Murders at 9p; Evil, I at 10p
IFC: Comedy Bang! Bang! at 10p; Bunk at 1030p
TLC: Randy to the Rescue at 10p
USA Network: Common Law at 10p
Saturday’s Premiere:
VH1 Classic: That Metal Show at 11p
Sunday’s Premieres:
AMC: Hell on Wheels at 9p
TLC: High School Moms at 10p
Sunday’s Finales:
Military Channel: Narrow Escapes of WW II at 8a
A&E Network: The Glades at 9p; Longmire at 10p
DIY Network: Brothers on Call at 9p
FX is moving forward with the drama series, The Americans starring Keri Russell Matthew Rhys and Noah Emmerich. As previously reported, The Americans is a period drama about the marriage of two KGB spies posing as Americans in suburban Washington DC soon after Ronald Reagan becomes the POTUS. The arranged marriage between Phillip (Rhys) and Elizabeth Jennings (Russell) grows more passionate each day but gets complicated by the Cold War and Phillip’s growing affinity for American values and lifestyle. Tensions increase further when a new neighbor moves in, Stan (Emmerich), an FBI agent working in counter intelligence. FX ordered 13 episodes of The Americans with production beginning in October with an early 2013 launch planned. The series is created by Joe Weisberg who is executive producer/showrunner along with executive producer Graham Yost. Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey of DreamWorks Television are also on board as executive producers. The Americans is co-produced by Fox Television Studios and FX Productions.
Former queens who appeared on Logo’s competition series RuPaul’s Drag Race seasons 1-4 will comprise the cast for the network’s newest series, RuPaul’s All Stars Drag Race, premiering October 22 at 9p. The new series will have six, one-hour episodes and the opening episode contains 10 bonus minutes. Directly following RuPaul’s All Stars Drag Race, the companion series, Untucked: All Stars is back for a new season and will air each week. Regular judges include RuPaul, Michelle Visage and Santino Rice and guest judges for the new edition include: Rosie Perez, Ross Matthews, Rachel Hunter, Vickie Lawrence, Busy Phillips, Rachel Dratch, Janice Dickinson, Wendy McClendon-Covey, Elvira, Beth Ditto and Cheri Oteri. RuPaul’s All Stars Drag Race and Untucked: All Stars are produced by World of Wonder Productions. To find out the 12 contestants for the new show, please visit our website at www.cynopsis.com.
Mike Rowe goes Down Under to Australia when the new series Dirty Jobs Down Under with Mike Rowe bows on Discovery Channel August 22 at 10p. Mike journeys throughout Australia’s northern coast to work and hunt with Aboriginals and later in the season ventures to Adelaide, Australia, home to one of the most poisonous snakes ever, the Eastern Brown where he learns how to capture one without getting bit. Then he learns how to be a “toadbuster” in the Western Australia town of Darwin. The series is produced by Pilgrim Studios.
Animal Planet alerted Cynopsis Media that its new six-part series Hell on the Border will now be titled Battle for the Border (wt). This new series opens with a special premiere episode on August 19 at 11p and then moves to its regular time period of Fridays at 10p starting August 24. Hoff Productions is behind the series.
AMC Networks, in response to DISH Network’s recent blackout of AMC and WE tv, is offering DISH subscribers a chance to view two of its series via live stream. AMC’s Hell on Wheels season two premiere episode will be available this Sunday at 9p at: http://www.amctv.com/hellonwheels4dish. WE tv will live stream the first of six new episodes of Braxton Family Values to Dish customers on August 16 at 9p at: http://www.wetv.com/bfv-for-dish. Hell on Wheels is produced by Endemol USA with Entertainment One (eOne) and Braxton Family Values is produced for WE tv by Magical Elves Productions.
The first season finale of Dallas on TNT attracted 4.3 million total viewers based on Live + Same Day data on Wednesday. The season closer also drew 1.6 million A18-49 viewers and 1.9 million A25-54 viewers. Over the entire first season, Dallas averaged 4.5 million total viewers in Live + Same Day delivery along with 1.4 million A18-49 and 1.8 million with A25-54. During Wednesday’s finale, TNT also revealed the second season of Dallas will return in January.
Arsenio Hall’s new late-night syndicated talk show, Arsenio Hall has been sold by CBS Television Distribution in more than 85% of the US. Arsenio Hall will debut in fall 2013 and Tribune Broadcasting is partnering with the production of the show as well as airing the show on its 17 stations including covering the top three markets. The strip has been sold now in all of the top 50 markets. In addition to Tribune, Arsenio Hall was picked up by CBS Television and Local TV, the other two station groups that initially picked up the show along with Tribune. Other station groups coming on board with Arsenio Hall include Sinclair Broadcasting, LIN Television Stations, Belo Corp., Cox Enterprises, Media General, Post-Newsweek Stations, Newport Television, Raycom Media and The Grant Group. CBS Television Distribution is producing the show in association with Arsenio Hall Communications Ltd. and Octagon Entertainment Productions.
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A new original series, Family Trade will join GSN’s (formerly Game Show Network) lineup in 2013. The series is centered on G-Stone Motors, a GMC and Ford dealership located in Middlebury, Vermont. GSN ordered eight episodes from Lionsgate.
Daniel Sunjata was cast in a recurring role as Debra Messing’s new love interest on NBC’s Smash. Sunjata has recently appeared in the summer blockbuster Dark Knight Rises and before that was a regular on FX’s Rescue Me and did a multiple ep run on ABC Grey’s Anatomy. NBC will debut the second of Smash in midseason.
Perry Ferrell, the Jane’s Addiction frontman is soliciting the broadcast networks to pick up his television music show project, reports EW. The series premise would have professional musicians offer live performances with no judges and no eliminations. Ferrell is also the founder of Lollapalooza.
Correction: In Thursday’s edition, we included a website link to the IFC series Portlandia and mislabeled it as a scene from the upcoming third season. The sketch was, in fact, from season two.
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~ RATINGS ~
Broadcast Morning News Shows Weekly Average Ratings (week of July 30, 2012)
NBC: Today 5.97 million total viewers; 2.1/17 and 2.50 million A25-54
ABC: GMA 4.36 million total viewers; 1.4/11 and 1.64 million A25-54
CBS: This Morning 2.25 million total viewers; 0.7/6 and 853,000 A25-54
Source: Nielsen, NTI
Wednesday A18-49 Analysis: NBC mined for more ratings gold Wednesday at 9.4/27 A18-49, according to final primetime national ratings from Nielsen. NBC won the 8p hour with its Summer Olympics coverage at 6.9/22 and CBS’ Big Brother was next at 1.9/6. NBC’s ratings escalated to a 10.3/28 during 9p with more of the Summer Olympics and Univision’s Abismo de Pasion took over the second spot at 1.4/4. At 10p, NBC’s Olympics ratings ticked up to a 10.9/30 which easily kept the network at #1 followed by Univision’s La Que No Podia Amar at 2.0/5.
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Wednesday, August 8, 2012 time period averages. Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.
NBC: 16.8/28 Summer Olympics Wednesday Primetime 16.8/28
CBS: 3.0/5 Big Brother 14 3.4/6, Criminal Minds [r] 2.7/4, CSI [r] 2.8/5
UNIV: 2.1/3 Por Ella Soy Eva 1.6/3, Abismo de Pasion 2.0/3, La Que No Podia Amar 2.6/4
ABC: 1.9/3 The Middle [r] 2.2/4, Suburgatory [r] 1.7/3, Modern Family [r] 2.0/3, Modern Family [r] 1.8/3, Final Witness 1.8/3
FOX: 1.2/2 So You Think You Can Dance [r] 1.2/2
ION: 0.7/1 Cold Case 0.8/1, Cold Case 0.8/1, Cold Case 0.7/1
TELE: 0.7/1 Rosa Diamante 0.7/1, Corazon Valiente 0.8/1, Pablo Escobar: El Patron del Mal 0.9/1, El Rostro de la Venganza 0.5/1
CW: 0.6/1 Supernatural [r] 0.6/1, Supernatural [r] 0.5/1
TF: 0.2/0 Cine en Familia WED [7p start r] 0.2/0, Cine de Las Estrellas WED 0.2/0
A18-49: NBC 9.4/27, UNIV 1.6/5, CBS 1.2/3, ABC 0.9/3, FOX 0.7/2, TELE 0.5/1, CW 0.4/1, ION 0.2/1, TF 0.1/0
GMC TV elevated Rex Humbard III to SVP/Production and Network Operations up from VP/Production and Operations and Kevin Wagner was promoted to SVP/Creative Services up from VP/Creative Services. Rex has been with the network since 2005 joining originally as Director/Network Operations and Kevin joined GMC TV in 2007 from Turner Broadcasting. Rex and Kevin both report to Leslie Chesloff, EVP/Programming.
CNN Worldwide added Ramon Escobar as VP/Talent Recruitment and Development and Lizzie Kerner joins CNN as Director/Development. Ramon previously was with Telemundo as EVP/Network News and will be based in New York. Lizzie joins from Sundance Channel and now will be based in Los Angeles for CNN, reporting to Vinnie Malhotra, SVP/Development and Acquisitions.
Island Def Jam Music Group hired Liza Joseph as VP/A&R Administration, West Coast. Liza will be based at IDJ offices in Santa Monica where she will supervise all administrative duties for the West Coast A&R Department. She reports to Karen Kwak, EVP/Head of A&R, Island Def Jam Music Group.
Production company, Pilgrim Studios bolstered its post-production department by adding Lainee Fiorentino Hill as VP/Post Production and additionally is upping its long-time post-production executive Jenn “X” Auth to Director/Post Production. Lainee joins from Shed Media where she served as Director/Post Production and Jenn “X” has been with Pilgrim Studios since 1999.
JWT New York tapped Ben James as an Executive Creative Director where he will support the creative directives set in place by JWT New York’s Co-Chief Creative Officers, Ryan Kutscher and Matt MacDonald. Previously, Ben was with CAA (Creative Artists Agency) as a Creative Director/Marketing Agent.
Remedy Productions, part of the Argonon group added former BBC executive, Suzanne Gilfillan as Executive Editor. In her previous position at BBC for more than 20 years, Suzanne worked with several comedy titles including Have I Got News For You, Mock the Week, Comic Relief, Friday Night with Jonathan Ross and The Graham Norton Show among other programs. At Remedy, Suzanne will report to Juliet Borges, Joint MD and work closely with Creative Director Ted Hill.
Former VP/International Consumer Products at Discovery Communications, Jo Edwards has been appointed as Random House Enterprises’ (RHE) first Head/Licensing. RHE is a new dedicated unit of The Random House Group and its goal is to seek out multi-platform business opportunities. Jo will report to Nigel Waters, Group Commercial Director, The Random House Group.
Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank, Co-Presidents of DreamWorks Television have been elected to the Board of Directors of the “I Have a Dream” Foundation Los Angeles.
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Friday’s Fun Fact: Kevin Spacey has an older brother, Randy, who makes a living as a Rod Stewart impersonator.
This day in History: 1985 – Michael Jackson buys ATV Music (every Beatle song) for $47 million.
Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: On Friends, what did Phoebe promise to give Chandler if her never smoked again? $7,000- a settlement from finding a thumb in a can of soda. Kudos to: Caryn LoCastro-Sundance Channel/NY; Kelly Boulos-Whoop, Inc. NY; Synda Kollman-Charter Marketing Group/Boca Raton; Linda Grillo-Viacom/NY; Meghan Conway-Comedy Central/NY; Larry Glazer-WTTW TV/Chicago; Hector Blanco-KIAH-TV/Houston; Todd Schliewen-KMSB/BELO/Tucson; Lauren Grady-Mercury Werks/Dallas; TJ Szymczak-YPM, Inc/Irvine; William “Chip” Beaman-Soundelux Design Music Group/Hollywood; Amanda Prince-Travel Channel/LA; Hila Sharif-Astral Media/Toronto.
Today’s Trivia Question: On Matthew Perry’s new and quite promising show, Go On, which character won “March Sadness”? (Email [email protected] 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, AUGUST 10, 2012
ABC: Shark Tank [r], 20/20
AZTECA: Ay Caramba, Futbol de la Liga Mexicana, Fabrica de Huevos
CBS: Undercover Boss [r], CSI:NY [r], Blue Bloods [r]
CW: Nikita [r], Nikita [r]
FOX: Bones [r], Bones [r]
ION: Cold Case, Cold Case, Cold Case
NBC: Summer Olympics
PBS: Washington Week, Need to Know, Great Performances
TELE: Rosa Diamante, Corazon Valiente, Pablo Escobar: El Patron del Mal, El Rostro de la Venganza
UNIV: Por Ella Soy Eva; La Que No Podia Amar [f]
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