A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM HISTORY®

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Cynopsis
08.17.12

Good morning. It’s Friday, August 17, 2012, and this is your first early morning briefing.

Tonight’s Premieres:
STARZ: Boss at 9p
Cinemax: Strike Back at 10p
Cooking Channel: Eden Eats at 10p
Investigation Discovery: Deadly Women at 10p

Tonight’s Finale:
TLC: Say Yes to the Dress at 9p & 930p

Saturday’s Premiere:
DIY Network: Renovation Realities at 9p

Sunday’s Premieres:
HGTV: House Hunters Renovation at 7p; All American Handyman at 10p
Discovery Channel: Survivorman at 8p; One Car Too Far at 9p
TV Guide Network: Nail Files at 9p
BBC America: Copper at 10p
Destination America: Cheating Vegas at 10p
Food Network: The Great Food Truck Race at 10p
E!: Married to Jonas at 10p
OWN: Lovetown, USA at 10p
Animal Planet: Battle on the Border at 11p

Sunday’s Finales:
VH1: Mob Wives Chicago at 8p
ABC: Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition at 9p
Food Network: Chopped: Grill Masters at 9p
Investigation Discovery: Nightmare Next Door at 9p
TNT: Falling Skies at 9p
USA Network: Political Animals at 10p

According to the US Census Bureau, Hispanic Heritage Month 2012 in America is September 15  October 15, celebrating the culture and traditions of those who trace their roots to Spain, Mexico and the Spanish-speaking nations of Central America, South America and the Caribbean.  In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month 2012, PBS offers a lineup of programming exploring the Hispanic and Latino American cultures. New programming includes: POV El Velador (The Night Watchman) on September 27 at 10p; Voces on PBS airs Fridays at 10p from September 28 to October 19 highlighting one-hour documentaries such as Tales of Masked Men, Escaramuza: Riding From the Heart, Unfinished Spaces and Lemon.  Other special encore programming for this month includes the PBS Arts documentaries, Havana, Havana, Mariachi High and Not In Our Town: Light in the Darkness (check local listings); and two Independent Lens programs: The Longoria Affair and Waste Land (check local listings) among other programming.

An all-new reality show, Redneck Rehab will make its debut on CMT starting September 15 at 10p directly after the second season premiere of Bayou Billionaires.  Redneck Rehab, hosted by Tom Arnold will follow former rednecks as they are confronted by friends and family who are concerned their loved one has left behind their country roots.  Pink Sneakers produces the eight-episode series. 

Four male members of international royalty will leave their countries to live, work and search for love in America when the all-new series Secret Princes premieres September 21 at 10p on TLC.  Specifically, the four bachelor nobles will live undercover in Atlanta and the series will follow Prince Francisco of Spain, Prince Salauddin Babi of India, UK’s Lord Robert Walters and UK’s Honourable Ludovic Watson of Houghton Hall.  After four weeks, the princes will reveal their true heritage at a grand ball.  Secret Princes is co-produced by Objective Productions and Kalel Productions.

African American network, Bounce TV will premiere a second season of its original comedy series Uptown Comic this fall with actor/comedian Rodney Perry as host.  The half-hour series showcases the top up-and-coming comics in the country.  Season two will begin production in Atlanta this month.  Bounce TV launched September 26, 2011 and is currently available in 76% of African American households and 65 million homes nationwide.

On August 31, YouTube’s channel AwesomenessTV is launching its first-ever scripted drama series titled Runaways.  The series will be presented with one new episode released each day for a full week, seven eps for a total of 35 minutes.  Runaways, from creators Brian Robbins and Joe Davola (Smallville, One Tree Hill) focuses on the disappearance of a private school’s couple on the same day the police find the victim of a violent murder. 

As an ongoing feature, Cynopsis will be including a series of Q&As asking interesting people in our industry five questions. This new feature begins today with Robert DeBitetto, President/GM at A&E Network and BIO Channel.  

Thank you for speaking with us, Robert. You have been with A&E since January 2003 and under your leadership the network has transformed into a top 10-rated one.  Please relate a pinnacle moment for you.

Back in the “early days” of our reinvention, 2004, we wanted to do something provocative, something unexpected that would shake it up, get the attention of the viewers and the industry and signal that everything you thought you knew about A&E was about to change.  At that time, the average age of the A&E viewer was 61 (no, that’s not a typo!) which was our first great challenge.  I felt I knew how to do entertainment programming, how to develop and produce shows that would appeal to a much younger audience.  What I didn’t know was whether the patient was too far gone.  Was the audience so old that it would be impossible to use the platform to speak to a younger generation?

Well, in summer of 2004 we made our play, and premiered two “reality” series:  Dog the Bounty Hunter and Growing Up Gotti.  The impact was immediate and explosive.  Both series debuted to massive audiences, something like 4 times the then-average; even more important, the delivery of adults 18-49 and 25-54 was huge, multiples of what the network had ever seen.  And, the median age overnight for those two shows hovered around 40 years old!

That was my “ah-ha” moment.  The patient was alive, it wasn’t too late, and we never looked back.  It was just like Field of Dreams… “If you build it, they will come… “

A&E was born in 1984 originally as a commercial counterpart to PBS then a shift occurred to attract younger viewers which ushered in reality programming. A renewed push back to original scripted dramas is currently underway (A&E has The Glades, Longmire and the recently announced Bates Motel).  What will A&E’s programming lineup be comprised of in the next few years?

Scripted series are an important, strategic and growing part of our overall program strategy.  Executed well, these shows drive CPM increases, serve as key real estate for sales packaging and smart integrations, and in success can be powerful brand builders.  As we know, they usually get a (sometimes, anyway) unfair share of the media’s attention.  They’re also critical to our effort to attract “blue chip” dollars away from broadcast.  This has contributed to our exceptional ad sales growth in recent years.  And, I love a well-written and well-acted drama!

Having said that, the real backbone of A&E’s success has and will continue to be great non-fiction (“reality TV” if you like) series:  Intervention, First 48, Storage Wars, Duck Dynasty, and so on, and so on.  Today, the top reality series (Jersey Shore, Pawn Stars, Storage Wars) are absolutely among the top-rated original series in all of cable.  And, with a cost structure and ownership model that’s far more attractive than that of the studio-produced scripted hours, you can see what a powerful part of our business these shows are.

Going forward, I expect that our prime schedule will be made up of about 90% non-fiction series, and possibly up to 10% original scripted dramas, maybe up to 4 series in any 12 month period.  And, not to bury the lead, by sometime next year A&E will have gotten out of the syndicated or “rented” series business in primetime for the first time ever!  We’d rather invest our dollars in original, exclusive, branded entertainment that we own and control.

We know you have a personal interest in art, especially in contemporary works.  If you could take up a paintbrush how would you, figuratively speaking, interpret the landscape of commercial cable TV in the years to come? (Would it come out like Edvard Munch’s The Scream or become a more serene landscape like Monet’s Water Lilies?)

Wow… that may be the most creative question I’ve ever been asked!  Sitting through some development meetings, I definitely do feel like screaming, like I’m trapped in Munch’s masterpiece!

The TV business has become incredibly dynamic; change is really the only constant.  The growth of time-shifted viewing, non-linear consumption, “over-the-top” players, authentication, second screen use, watch apps and social media all present enormous challenges and stress on the traditional economic model, but also enormous opportunity.  It’s definitely an exciting and creative time to be in the business, but it’s not for the faint of heart.  Look at the late 15th Century masterpiece by Hieronymus Bosch, “The Garden of Earthly Delights,” which really depicts an insane version of Heaven and Hell.  That’s our business today!

Robert, you graduated Phi Betta Kappa with honors from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and you also hold a law degree from the UCLA School of Law.  Did you have a different career path in mind and what attracted you to television and more specifically to cable TV?

First, if I’m being honest, I never really had a career path or a “plan.”  Still don’t!  But, I always loved film, great writing and acting (I studied acting/drama a bit in school: actually wasn’t too terrible.  It comes in handy in my job as a network head sometimes in fact!).  I went to law school primarily to put off getting a real job.  I suppose it was inevitable that over time I would migrate to first film and then television.  I love both mediums.  However, today, television can be a remarkably solid business; not sure I can say the same for the movie business right now.  Cable, to me, really represents the best of what’s possible in television right now.  It’s where I feel the most creative work is being done.  We’re better at building brands than broadcast, and if you can marry great branding with great programming, great entertainment, you can really super-serve your fans and viewers.  If you do that in a disciplined business model, the results can be lucrative as well.

As an L.A. transplant living in NYC now for many years, you have found things and places to love about NYC – after a typical work-week, how do you unwind on a Friday night?

You’re right, I consider both coasts home, and I think I’m maybe the exception to the rule in that I take both LA and NYC on their own terms, love both, and try to enjoy what each has to offer.  Now that we spend most of our time in downtown Manhattan (we live in TriBeCa), on most Friday nights you can find me with my wife, Caroline, sitting at one of our favorite neighborhood restaurants (nothing too fancy, maybe Odeon in TriBeCa or Sant Ambroeus in the West Village), always sitting outside whenever we can, drinking a shamelessly good bottle of red wine, and watching the show that is New York walk by…  Cheers!

Four cable operators gained approval from the US Department of Justice on its $3.9 billion sale of wireless spectrum to Verizon Wireless.  Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks agreed in December to sell their 122 Advanced Wireless Spectrum licenses, held in a separate entity called SpectrumCo, to Verizon.  The deal also included a co-marketing component between the cable operators and Verizon valued at $3.6 billion. In a separate deal, Cox Communications also agreed to sell its AWS spectrum to Verizon for $325 million.  As part of the deal, Verizon had to agree to several concessions.  One example has Verizon agreeing to not sell cable products in markets where Verizon Communications’ FiOS TV service is sold. Another concession example has Verizon agreeing to form a technology research and development joint venture with the cable operators.  The FCC is expected to approve the deal.

A retransmission agreement in principle over fees has been reached between Dish Network and Sinclair Broadcast Group.  The agreement will have Dish delivering TV content of Sinclair’s to its customers.  This deal came before Thursday when Dish customers were warned they could lose access to some of their channels such as ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX.  This new agreement in principle extends their existing deal for two weeks after which both entities are expected to hammer out a long-lasting solution.  Dish serves 14.1 million TV subscribers in the US while Sinclair owns or services 74 broadcast TV stations in 45 markets.

Apparently, Apple has talked with Time Warner Cable and other large cable operators about creating an Apple-developed set-top box that would allow subscribers access TV programming, according to The Wall Street Journal.  Apple has to date not made any deals with any MSOs, says WSJ.

Nationally syndicated Dog the Bounty Hunter, distributed by Trifecta Entertainment & Media will move from a weekend hour to a strip format for the 2012-23 broadcast season beginning this September.  Dog the Bounty Hunter can also be stacked on weekends.  The program has been cleared on stations in more than 80% of US television households.  Stations airing the program include WCBS-WLNY/New York, KDOC/Los Angeles, WCIU-WCUU/Chicago; Tribune stations KDAF/Dallas, KIAH/Houston and WXIN-WTTV/Indianapolis; Lin Broadcasting has cleared the strip on WCTX-WTNH/Hartford, KWBQ-KASY/Albuquerque, KXAN-KBVO/Austin and WPRI-WNAC/Providence; Hearst stations KCRA-KQCA in Sacramento, WKCF-WESH/Orlando and KCWE/Kansas City have also licensed the series.  Other station groups clearing the series are Sinclair Broadcast Group, Weigel Broadcasting, Local, Gannett, Roberts and Newport.  Trifecta Entertainment & Media also handles all ad sales for Dog the Bounty Hunter.

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Filmmaker Christopher Guest, best known for his quirky sense of humor in such films as Waiting for Guffman (1996) and Best in Show (2000) among others, sold a series to HBO which the premium network ordered straight-to-series.  The documentary-style comedy has half-hour episodes and is titled Family Tree.  Starring Chris O’Dowd (Bridesmaids), Family Tree centers on a recently jobless and single 30-something guy who begins investigating his family lineage after receiving a mysterious box from a great aunt he never met.  This uncovers a number of unusual stories about his ancestors which help him establish an identity.  Guest and co-EP Jim Piddock will appear on the series which will also air on BBC2.  Karen Murphy is also on board as co-producer.  HBO has not stated when Family Tree will premiere.

AMC has two new unscripted original series in the works, both sporting working titles, with one referred to as Untitled Taxidermy Series and the second one is using the title Venice Beach Freakshow.  Untitled Taxidermy Series, with eight half-hour episodes is from Go Go Luckey Entertainment and is a hosted competition series featuring different contestants each week who create a piece of artwork using the craft of taxidermy.  This series is slated to premiere in first quarter 2013 and lists Gary Auerbach, Julie Auerbach, Tina Gazzerro and Henry Capanna as producers.  Venice Beach Freakshow (wt), also with eight half-hour episodes is a family drama about former music producer Todd Ray as he pursues his dream of owning and operating his own Freakshow on the boardwalk in Venice Beach, CA.  This series is executive produced by Todd Ray from Living Wonders and Greg Johnston from Endemol USA and will launch in first quarter 2013.  AMC also renewed its unscripted series The Pitch for a second season that focuses on advertising agencies as they prepare for a campaign pitch to win a major account.  Produced by Studio Lambert, The Pitch was approved for eight one-hour episodes for season two which will debut in second quarter 2013.

Production has commenced on GMC TV’s The Bulloch Family Ranch, a docu-drama about the Bulloch family who raises 25 teenagers in need.  The original GMC World Premiere Series is filming on location at the family’s ranch in Lakeland, FL.  The seven-episode one-hour series is slated to premiere on GMC TV in November and is produced by Peace Point Entertainment.

Former Monk star Tony Shalhoub has joined the cast of CBS’ now untitled comedy (formerly Ex-Men) from How I Met Your Mother EP Rob Greenberg.  The plot is about a charming young man (Chris Smith) who after being left at the altar by his fiancée moves into a short-term housing complex and makes friends with the group of divorced guys who live there.  Shalhoub will play Frank, a four-time divorced man who still thinks he is attractive to the ladies.

For the second season of BET’s Reed Between the Lines three have been added to the cast that is headlined by Malcolm-Jamal Warner as Alex.  Joining are Tony Rock, Charlie Robinson and Michole White.  Rock will play Julius Darren, Alex’s oldest friend; White will play Simone Winters, a single doctor who is tired of hearing how she intimidates men; and Robinson will play Alex’s nonsensical father, Monroe Reed.

Toronto-based Proper Television has commenced production on a new original competition series, Last Car Standing for Discovery Channel Canada.  The series with eight one-hour episodes is an elimination-style competition series where five owners of faulty vehicles battle it out on four race courses.  Filming will happen until next month in Ontario and the series will premiere in winter 2013.

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Broadcast Morning News Shows  Weekly Average Ratings (week of August 6, 2012)
NBC: Today 5.91 million total viewers; 2.0/16 and 2.43 million A25-54
ABC: GMA 4.36 million total viewers; 1.3/11 and 1.61 million A25-54
CBS: This Morning 2.20 million total viewers; 0.7/5 and 809,000 A25-54
Source: Nielsen, NTI

Broadcast Sunday Morning News Shows  Weekly Average Ratings (August 12, 2012)
NBC: Meet the Press 3.15 million total viewers; 1.1 rtg. and 1.28 million A25-54
ABC: This Week 2.38 million total viewers; 0.5 rtg. and 660,000 A25-54
CBS: Face the Nation 2.34 million total viewers; 0.5 rtg. and 587,000 A25-54
CBS: Face the Nation 2 1.44 million total viewers; 0.3 rtg. and 362,000 A25-54
FOX: Fox News Sunday 1.06 million total viewers; 0.4 rtg. and 477,000 A25-54
Source: Nielsen, NTI

Wednesday A18-49 Analysis:  FOX was the overall winner Wednesday by delivering a 1.8/5 A18-49, according to final primetime national ratings from Nielsen. CBS’ Big Brother took charge of the 8p hour at 2.1/7 followed by FOX’s So You Think You Can Dance at 1.9/6.  Also this hour, The CW premiered the new series Oh Sit! with a 0.5/2 which tied for sixth place.  NBC’s America’s Got Talent was #1 at 9p with a 2.3/6 and Univision was #2 with Eternos Rivales at 2.0/6.  Then at 10p, ABC’s 20/20 topped narrowly at 1.3/4 while a tie occurred for second place between NBC’s Law & Order: SVU repeat and Univision’s Amor Bravio at 1.2/4 each.

Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 time period averages.  Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.

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NBC: 3.8/7            America’s Got Talent [r] 3.5/6, America’s Got Talent 5.0/8, Law & Order: SVU [r] 3.0/5

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CBS: 3.7/6               Big Brother 14 3.8/7, Criminal Minds [r] 3.6/6, CSI [r] 3.7/6

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FOX: 3.0/5               So You Think You Can Dance 3.0/5

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ABC: 2.4/4               The Middle [r] 2.6/5, Suburgatory [r] 2.1/4, Modern Family [r] 2.4/4, Suburgatory [r] 1.9/3, 20/20 2.8/5

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UNIV: 1.9/3            Abismo de Pasion 1.7/3, Eternos Rivales: Mexico vs. Estados Unidos 1.9/3, Amor Bravio 1.6/3

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ION: 0.9/1              Cold Case 0.9/2, Cold Case 0.9/1, Cold Case 0.8/1

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TELE: 0.8/1            Rosa Diamante 0.8/1, Corazon Valiente 0.9/1, Pablo Escobar: El Patron del Mal 1.1/2, El Rostro de la Venganza 0.5/1

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CW: 0.6/1              Oh Sit! [p] 0.7/1, Supernatural [r] 0.4/1

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TF: 0.3/0               Cineplex WED [7p start r] 0.3/1, Cineplex 2 WED [r] 0.3/0

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A18-49:  FOX 1.8/5, UNIV 1.7/5, NBC 1.6/5, CBS 1.4/4, ABC 1.2/4, TELE 0.6/2, CW 0.4/1, ION 0.2/1, TF 0.2/1

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Effective September 4, Keith Turner will become President/Advertising Sales and Marketing with Univision Communications Inc., thus replacing David Lawenda who stepped down from this position.  Keith joins Univision Communications from the National Football League where he served as SVP/Media Sales and Sponsorship.  Keith will be based in New York and report to Randy Falco, President/CEO of Univision Communications Inc.

Social media marketing agency, M80, a GroupM company, promotes Joe Quattrone to VP/New York.  This is a new position elevating Joe up from Senior Account Director where most recently he was lead on the Audi account.  In his new role, Joe will head business development, GroupM partner pitches and manage office operations for all of the NY Portfolio Fortune 500 accounts. He also is responsible for contributing to agency innovation.

WNET, parent company of New York public television stations THIRTEEN and WLIW21 and operator of NJTV elevated Harry Forbes to Director/Public Relations.  Harry will have oversight for all programming and talent publicity in addition to working within all WNET-wide production units to spotlight national and local on-air and online projects.  He reports to Kellie Specter, Senior Director/Communications.

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Friday’s Fun Fact: Caffeine serves the function of a pesticide in a coffee plant.

This day in History:1988 – NYC 1st case of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever.

Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: In what city does Matlock take place? Atlanta, Georgia. Kudos to: Chris Schwieterman-Gray Television, Inc./Tallahassee; Linda Lieberman-IMG/Big Fish Entertainment/NYC; Lewis Cosby/Knoxville; Patrick Morris-WUSF Public Media/Tampa; John Kukla-KDFW/Dallas; Roz Seibold-EDA/Tucson; Patti Rodriguez-KXRM Fox21 / KXTU SOCO CW/Colorado Springs; Dale Warshaw-KMSB/KTTU/Tucson; alexandra leh-la cheraqui media/la; Bonnie Forbes-Fortress Features/Santa Monica; Tom Meredith-Nielsen Entertainment Television/Hollywood; Brian Sullivan-KHQ-TV/WA.

Today’s Trivia Question: Who lived at 704 Hauser Street, Flushing, New York, during the 70’s? (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.).

Later —
Lisa Ball
Editor
08.17.12

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SITUATION WANTED:  NYC, Frfld, Wstchstr counties. Experienced SALES, BIZ DEV PRO pro seeking position in educational/home media, ad sales. Solid resume and excellent references.email: [email protected]  (8/22)

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SITUATION WANTED: RESEARCHER/EXEC ASST/LOS ANGELES AREA: 16+ yrs exp + key player in Primetime TV as researcher, proofreader, copy-editor, writer, exec asst. Exc. etiquette. [email protected] (8/18)

SITUATION WANTED: SENIOR PRODUCER/FIELD DIRECTOR (NYC):  Experienced long-form, short-form and studio producer proficient in booking, writing, directing, talent producing, and post. [email protected] (8/18)

SITUATION WANTED: PRODUCER/WRITER/RESEARCHER: for TV/webcomedy and variety series and specials at the network level. NY-based and looking for new opportunities. Visit http://about.me/markselby for more info. Contact [email protected] (8/18)

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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 2012

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ABC: Shark Tank [r], 20/20
AZTECA: Joan Sabastian, Al Extremo, Fabrico de Huevos, Futbol de la Liga Mexicana
CBS: Teachers Rock, CSI:NY [r], Blue Bloods [r]
CW: Nikita [r], Nikita [r]
FOX: NFL Preseason: Lion vs Ravens
ION: Cold Case, Cold Case, Cold Case
NBC: America’s Got Talent [r], Grimm [r] Dateline
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; Abismo de Pasion, Amor Bravio

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