Sunday’s Next Food Network Star season finale …
–Achieved the highest ratings in Food Network history: 3.0 HH; 2.8 W25-54; 2.4 W18-49; 2.1 A25-54
–The week’s #1 Sunday primetime show in all of television with Women 18-49.

Sunday’s HGTV Design Star …
–Delivered a 1.74, the highest primetime Women 18-49 rating in HGTV history.
–Tune in Sunday, 8/3 at 9p ET for the Design Star season finale!

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08/01/08

Good morning. It’s Friday, August 1, 2008, and this is your first early morning briefing. 

Tonight’s Finale:
SCI FI Channel: Dr. Who at 830p
 
Saturday’s Premiere:
Food Network: Ask Aida at 1230p
 
Sunday’s Premieres:
E!: Pam: Girl on the Loose at 10p; Sunset Tan at 1030p
 
Sunday’s Finale:
HGTV: HGTV Design Star at 9p
 

Coming to TLC on August 9th is the new original series Hope for Your Home, airing at 830p.  With real estate expert host Kirsten Kemp Becker, the series will take on the tough financial circumstances many homeowners are facing today, and give them critical resources to make improvements to their property.  At the end of each episode, the homeowners have the option to refinance and stay in their newly renovated home, or sell the house and find something more affordable.

Discovery Health will present the first of a four-part series called Body in Numbers, on Wednesday, September 3 at 9p.  The series decodes the human body’s vital statistics – 1 million barrels of blood pump thru the average heart in a lifetime; fastest sneeze ever recorded was 100 miles per hour; the surface area of the human lung is equal to the size of a tennis court!  Body In Numbers is produced for Discovery Health by Touch Productions LTD. 

Spike TV has ordered ten episodes of the half hour series 1000 Ways to Die from executive producer Thom Beers.  This shocking series explores the many different and bizarre ways a person could die, highlighting of course the most outrageous true stories of deaths in the most unorthodox manners, including death by jalapeno pepper and how a simple scrape-turned-flesh-eating and in this case fatal virus.  This series originally aired as a two part special in May 2008 and delivered a million total viewers.

Debuting on Monday at 9pm on VH1 is Sean Combs’ latest reality series – I Want to Work for Diddy. Looking for a new personal assistant, Combs decided the best way to find just the right person, was to put out a casting call for the job.  The show takes the top 13 candidates and puts them thru their paces, and a panel of judges make the eliminations each week until there is one, who wins the job. As for Combs, he comes in close to the end when the candidates are down to just a few.

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NBC has ordered a pilot of a new Dick Wolf project called Lost and Found, produced by Wolf Films.  Written by Chris Levinson, the story revolves around a female homicide detective who IDs unnamed murder victims and then goes about solving their cases.

Casting Note:  Miami-Ft. Lauderdale’s CW affiliate, WSFL is launching a new morning show in January and they’re searching for talent.  At the auditions, each participant will have 3 minutes to impress with their knowledge of news and pop culture and be humorous and engaging at the same time.  Auditions are scheduled for Saturday, August 9, callbacks on the 10th, at Nova Southeastern University from 10a-4p.  Or if you can’t make it to Florida, send in your video audition thru You Tube.  Full list of rules and regulations available at www.cwsfl.com. 

CYNOPSIS DIGITAL – TODAY’S TOP STORY:  As the FCC prepares to censure Comcast today for throttling its customers’ usage of peer-to-peer networks, some lawmakers are warning the agency not to overstep its bounds. In a letter addressed directly to FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, Republican minority leader Rep. John Boehner said any attempts to chastise Comcast would be akin to “regulating the internet.” He asked the agency to let the market sort out the problem.    Full edition: CYN DIGITAL.

CYNOPSIS KIDS – TODAY’S TOP STORY:  (Now with HTML elements!)  J.K. Rowling announced on her website yesterday plans for the release of The Tales of Beedle the Bard to the masses.  You’ll recall that there are only six copies of the original version of the book in existence.  The Tales of Beedle the Bard will be published on December 4, 2008, by Rowling’s charity, Children’s High Level Group, in an exclusive agreement with publishers Bloomsbury and Scholastic and with Amazon.  All proceeds will go to the charity.  There will be a regular edition ($7.59) as well as a limited number of collector’s edition ($100, which will include 10 additional illustrations not featured in the standard or even the original group of books), both of which can be pre-ordered now exclusively at Amazon.  According to Rolling, “the new edition will include the Tales themselves, translated from the original runes by Hermione Granger, and with illustrations by me, but also notes by Professor Albus Dumbledore,” these notes were of course found in his papers following his death.   Full edition: CYN KIDS.

CYNOPSIS INTERNATIONAL – TODAY’S TOP STORY:    New York’s sports/entertainment company IMG Worldwide, Inc. is teaming up with China Central Television (CCTV) to form a multi-sport 20-year joint venture.  The new Beijing-based CCTV-IMG Sports Management Company will encompass a trio of duties exclusively creating, developing and promoting sports events and TV and multimedia programming in China as well as Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan following the upcoming Olympics.  CCTV Sports’ MD and President, Jiang Heping, has been named as CCTV-IMG Sports Management’s chairman.   Full edition: CYN INTERNATIONAL.

Wednesday – A18-49 Analysis:   Fox was in front on Wednesday night with an overall 2.2/7 A18-49, according to Nielsen Media Research.   Not too far behind in the #2 spot is Univision posting a 1.7/5.  At 8p Univision’s Al Diablo Con Guapos led with a 2.0/7 in the demo.  At 9p an original episode of So You Think You Can Dance on Fox won the hour with a 3.0/8.  And at 10p, ABC’s Primetime Crime posted the highest demo number with a 1.9/6.

Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 time period averages. Source: NTI Galaxy, as dated. Live+SD.

CBS 5.0/9        Greatest American Dog 3.9/7, Criminal Minds [r] 5.8/10, CSI NY [r] 5.2/9

FOX 4.4/8       So You Think You Can Dance [r] 3.2/6, So You Think You Can Dance 5.6/9

ABC 3.3/6       Wife Swap [r] 2.9/5, Supernanny [r] 2.6/4, Primetime Crime 4.4/8

NBC 3.3/6       America’s Got Talent [r] 3.5/6, Baby Borrowers [r] 3.4/6, Law & Order [r] 3.1/5

UNIV 1.9/3      Al Diablo Con Guapos 2.2/4, Fuego En La Sangre 2.1/3, Don Francisco Presenta 1.4/3

TELE 0.7/1      Juramento 0.4/1, Victoria 0.8/1, Sn Senos No Hay Paraiso 0.8/1

MNT 0.6/1       Under One Roof [r] 0.6/1, Whacked Out [r] 0.5/1, Twilight Zone 0.7/1, Twilight Zone 0.8/1

CW  0.6/1       America’s Next Top Model [r] 0.7/1, Pussycat Dolls [r] 0.5/1

A18-49:  Fox 2.2/7, UNIV 1.7/5, ABC 1.6/5, CBS 1.6/5, NBC 1.5/5, TELE 0.5/2, CW 0.3/1, MNT 0.3/1

Channing Dungey elevated to SVP/Drama Development for ABC Studios, replacing Morgan Wandell, who has moved over to run development for Greg Berlanti Productions.  Channing’s expanded role gives her oversight of the drama development team whose efforts have launched four seasons of hit drama programming.

Victor Zaraya upped to EVP/Finance & Operations for Razor & Tie Entertainment, based at the company’s headquarters in New York City.  He reports to Razor & Tie Co-Owners Cliff Chenfeld and Craig Balsam.  Victor will be responsible for the day-to-day operations of the company and will play a key role in Razor & Tie’s growing children’s business, record label, publishing division and digital and media businesses. 

NBC Local Media promoted two within its sales organization–Shawn Makhijani as VP/Corporate Business Development, Local Media, and Mark Yackanich as VP/Corporate Strategy for Local Media, both reporting to Frank Comerford, President, Platform Development and Commercial Operations, NBC Local Media.  Both will work across all business units within Local Media, including the television stations, digital group, Out of Home Division and LX.TV unit to help identify new growth opportunities for the organization.  Shawn will lead the development and execution of transactions and partnerships that support the division’s growth and investment strategy.  He will also work closely with the Local Media corporate strategy group to identify new business opportunities and possible acquisition targets.   Mark will lead Local Media’s corporate strategy efforts. He will be responsible for the development and coordination of the division’s growth and investment strategy and will also focus on new platform development.
 
Getting her SVP stripes is Scripps Networks’ Jen Goforth as she moves to SVP/SN Digital Operations, reporting to Deanna Brown, President/SN Digital. In this newly created position, Jen will lead strategical and tactical initiatives to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of SN Digital and its properties.

Luke Ryan joined the MGM Motion Picture Group as VP/Theatrical Production. Ryan will play an integral role in the studio’s newly assembled theatrical production operation and will be responsible for overseeing the production and development of new MGM feature film projects. In addition to bringing in new material, Ryan will immediately begin working on priority projects for the studio, including Cabin in the Woods, RoboCop, Red Dawn and Hot Tub Time Machine.

Great Works America, a full-service creative marketing and communications agency, named Fredrik Carlstrom CEO/Executive Creative Director.  In his dual roles, Fredrik will utilize his deep and broad experience in both marketing and entertainment to spearhead Great Works America’s mission to create innovative and cutting-edge campaigns that engage consumers and encourage them to interact with leading brands.  This appointment marks the transformation of Great Works America into a marketing agency that bridges the worlds of advertising, art, media and entertainment. This process began in February, 2007 when the company opened in New York and signed an exclusive partnership with Carlstrom’s Third Factory, a film production company – the first deal of its kind between an advertising agency and a film production company.

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Friday Fun Fact:  A bolt of lightning is about 54,000°F – six times hotter than the Sun.

This day in History:  Born on this day: Francis Scott Key (1779), Herman Melville (1819), Dom DeLuise (1933), Jerry Garcia (1942), Adam Duritz (Counting Crows) (1964)

Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question:  The ’60s medical drama series The Nurses, later called The Doctors and the Nurses was set in what fictional NYC hospital?  ALDEN GENERAL HOSPITAL Kudos to: Peter Morley-Peter Morley Unlimited/NY; Nanette Anderson-Discovery Mobile/Silver Spring, MD; Carol Teichman-Comcast Spotlight/Bloomfield, CT; Lindsey Bandel-National Public Media, LLC/NY; Robin Schmelling-BCMI/PST; Michele Skaletzky- ABC Affiliate Relations/LA

Today’s Trivia Question:  Barbra Streisand and Blythe Danner were both in the 2004 movie Meet the Fockers. In what earlier film did they both appear?   (Email
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT –  Friday, August 1, 2008

ABC: Movie: Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events [r], 20/20
AZTECA: Especial de Historias Engarzadas: La Academia, La Liga Futbol Mexicano: U.A. de G. vs. Guadalajara
CBS: Ghost Whisperer [r], Numb3rs [r], Swingtown
CW: Friday Night Smackdown!
FOX: Movie: The Fog
ION: Flash Gordon, Movie: Rear Window
MNT: The Academy [r], Paradise Hotel 2 [r]
NBC: Most Outrageous Moments [r], Most Outrageous Moments [r], Dateline
PBS: Washington Week, Now on PBS, Bill Moyers’ Journal, China From the Inside [r]
TELE: El Juramento, Victoria, Sin Senos No Hay Paraiso
UNIV: Al Diablo con los Guapos, Fuego on la Sangre, La Rosa de Guadalupe

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