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08.21.09

Good morning. It’s Friday, August 21, 2009, and this is your first early morning briefing.  And as always, if you prefer to watch this morning’s news instead of reading it, click here.  

Tonight’s Premieres:
Animal Planet: Jockeys at 10p
TLC: Making Over America With Trinny and Susannah at 10p

Tonight’s Finale:
Animal Planet: Whale Wars at 9p

Sunday’s Premiere:
Food Network: What Would Brian Boitano Make? at 1p

Sunday’s Finale:
HISTORY: Ice Road Truckers at 9p

A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE IAB MIXX 2009

Syfy approved a second season of its original series Warehouse 13 with 13 new episodes scheduled to air during the summer of 2010. Returning cast members include Eddie McClintock, Joanne Kelly, Saul Rubinek and Allison Scagliotti. Warehouse 13’s first season averaged more than 4 million total viewers per episode and the season one finale is slated to air September 22 at 9p. Warehouse 13 is produced by Universal Cable Productions.

Lifetime Television renewed its comedy/drama Drop Dead Diva for a second season. The series, headlined by Brooke Elliott and comedienne Margaret Cho, will be back with 13 new episodes in 2010. During its first season, Drop Dead Diva averaged 2.6 million viewers per episode in its Sunday at 9p time slot. Drop Dead Diva is produced by Sony Pictures Television for Lifetime.

Music network Fuse okayed production on four new original one-hour series, two of which have already made their Fuse debut:

• Let it Rock – Weekly series hosted by Juliya showcases current videos and offers updates on rock news, interviews and special events. Series premiered August 3 at 7p.
• Distortion – Host Steven Smith serves up music videos, news and tour updates pertaining to alternative music in this weekly series. Premiered August 6 at 7p.
• The Pop Show – This series explores pop’s biggest stars and new videos hosted by Allison Hagendorf. Premieres August 25 at 7p.
• Hip Hop Shop – Weekly series focuses on urban and hip-hop music news, interviews and celebrity guests hosted by Toure. Series premieres September 23 at 7p.

New episodes of Project Runway, airing Thursday nights on Lifetime Television, will be streamed in full on the network’s website on the Saturday following at mylifetime.com. The series premiered its sixth season last night on Lifetime. This is the first time Project Runway episodes will be available on the web as Bravo, which aired the series’ first five seasons, did not have the rights to stream full episodes. In addition, Lifetime will stream episodes online of Models Of The Runway, Project Runway’s companion series. On its website, Lifetime will also air 500 exclusive behind-the-scenes video clips from Project Runway.

Daily national morning show The Balancing Act on Lifetime Television will begin a new season next Monday at 7a (check local listings). The half-hour show from Brandstar Entertainment, sports a new set, on-air look and two new hosts, Beth Troutman and Kristy Villa. The show offers its targeted female audience a host of advice and tips utilizing leading experts.

Wednesday’s sixth season premiere of Top Chef on Bravo at 9p, delivered 1.76 million A18-49 viewers as well as 2.6 million total viewers. Top Chef: Las Vegas will move to its normal time slot of Wednesdays at 10p starting next week.

Primetime Emmy® Awards Note: The final installment of the Cynopsis presents: Emmy® Awards 2009 special edition series will focus on Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama / Comedy Series, and will be published on Monday, August 24th.  If you’re among the nominees … congratulations!!  And if you’d like to send us a description or brief bio of the nominated series/director/actor/writer (maximum of 150 words – emailed to me by Friday), we will include it in our special edition.   Please send the description to me at

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FearNet picked up five never-before-seen episodes of NBC’s horror anthology series Fear Itself, cites THR. FearNet.com will begin airing the episodes exclusively September 2 and soon after via FearNet OnDemand.

Grupo Latino de Radio (GLR) made a deal to offer more soccer coverage to its Spanish-language radio affiliates in the US by acquiring the exclusive broadcast rights for Copa Santander Libertadores and Copa Nissan Sudamericana. Both of these soccer tournaments join GLR Networks’ other sports programming including exclusive radio rights to Chivas de Guadalajara, coverage of six other Mexican 1st division soccer teams and daily sports segments.

FX handed out approvals for two new comedy series, The League and Louie. These series join FX’s two other comedy series, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, premiering September 17 at 10p and the animated Archer opening this October. All four series are produced by FX Productions.

• The League – Sitcom set in Chicago about a Fantasy Football league explores marriage, male friendship and parenting in the suburbs. Production will happen in Los Angeles and six ordered episodes will debut in November.
• Louie – Stars comedian Louis C.K. and his observational humor about his life as a stand-up comic and coping as a newly divorced father of two daughters living in New York. Production will take place in New York and the 13 ordered episodes will premiere early 2010. 

John Hawkes (HBO’s Deadwood) will be a recurring new cast member on the final season of ABC’s Lost. Despite show producers not releasing a full description, Hawkes’ character is Lennon, a charismatic spokesperson and translator for the president of a foreign corporation. Hawkes also co-starred in HBO’s Eastbound & Down and his feature film credits include American Gangster and Miami Vice.

As a follow up a recent story, actor Tony Danza has been approved by Philadelphia school officials to co-teach a 10th grade English class this fall for a 13-episode A&E Network reality series, per the AP.

In other A&E news, the network has approved a reality series starring Michael Jackson’s brothers, reports THR’s Showbiz411 blog. A 60m pilot has been shot which originally was going to feature footage of a reunion with Michael. Following Michael’s death, the show will instead relate how the brothers are dealing with his passing. The pilot could air within the next month.

Clarification: Creators of ABC’s new comedy Modern Family, Christopher Lloyd and Steve Levitan were writers/producers on former sitcoms Frasier and Wings.

Casting Call:  WCBS-TV, part of CBS Television Stations – a division of CBS Corporation, is hosting an open casting call next Monday from 9a-12p in New York City for reality show The Amazing Race. To be eligible for the show’s 16th season, contestants must be at least 21 years old and bring a completed application found at www.wcbstv.com , where other rules and requirements can be found. Contestants are encouraged to bring photographs and a copy of their passport, though both are not required. Contestants and their teammates will be taped for two minutes at the casting call located at Victorian Gardens Amusement Park at Wollman Rink in Central Park (830 5th Avenue).

CYNOPSIS DIGITAL – TODAY’S TOP STORY:   Taking advantage of streaming rights it baked into its rights package with The Weinstein Co.,  Lifetime Digital will buck the cable trend and offer up to 5 full episodes at a time of Project Runway and the new Models of the Runway exclusively on MyLifetime.com. (No authentication or cable subscription needed.) Lifetime will delay the episodes until Saturday (following their Thur. night on-air premiere,) and follow ABC’s model of interspersing five 30 second ads within the videos. Also, the network will not syndicate the show out to other outlets – not even iTunes.    Full edition: CYN DIGITAL.    

CYNOPSIS KIDS – TODAY’S TOP STORY:  In the UK CBBC moves forward with more animated programming, both on-air and online, including a new series.  CBBC has commissioned the new animated series Muddle Earth (26×11), based on the kid’s book of the same name by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell.  The story of a magical land that time forgot, remembered and then forgot again, Muddle Earth is produced by CBBC with animation by Hullabaloo Studio.  Additionally, CBBC picks up a second season of Aardman Animations‘ Shaun the Sheep (20×7), with new episodes debuting this November.  The CBBC is also expanding its online portal, Cartoon Works, to serve as an outlet to premiere short-form programming content from young UK animators. Beginning this fall, Cartoon Works will feature new animated work from kids through adults; the best of the submissions will be featured on www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc and air on CBBC Channel in spring 2010.   Full edition: CYN KIDS.    

Wednesday  A18-49 Analysis: UNIV tallied a win Wednesday night with A18-49 viewers at 2.0/6, according to final national ratings from Nielsen Media Research. At 8p, FOX’s Octomom special and UNIV’s En Nombre Del Amor tied for first place at 1.6/5 each while NBC’s America’s Got Talent: Recap followed closely at 1.5/5. NBC stood out at 9p with America’s Got Talent at 2.6/7 and UNIV’s Manana Es Para Siempre was next at 2.1/6. UNIV was the leader through 10p with weekly Don Francisco Presenta at 2.3/7 and ABC’s Primetime: Crime delivered a #2 showing at 1.6/5.

Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 time period averages. Source: NTI Galaxy, as dated. Live+SD.

NBC: 4.8/8        America’s Got Talent Re-Cap Show 4.0/7, America’s Got Talent 6.6/11, Law & Order: SVU [r] 3.8/7

CBS: 3.8/7          Old Christine [r] 2.7/5, Gary Unmarried [r] 2.6/5, Criminal Minds [r] 4.5/8, CSI: NY [r] 4.2/8

ABC: 3.7/6          Who Wants To Be A Millionaire 4.5/8, Wipeout [r] 3.1/5, Primetime: Crime 3.5/6

FOX: 2.7/5          Octomom: The Incredible Unseen Footage 2.7/5

UNIV: 2.4/4        En Nombre Del Amor 2.1/4, Manana Es Para Siempre 2.5/4, Don Francisco Presenta 2.6/5

CW: 0.7/1          America’s Next Top Model Encore [r] 0.7/1, America’s Next Top Model Encore 2 [r] 0.7/1

MNT: 0.7/1         World’s Funniest Moments [r] 0.6/1, Magic’s Biggest Secrets Revealed [r] 0.7/1

TELE: 0.5/1        Mas Sabe El Diablo 0.5/1, Ninos Ricos 0.4/1, Victorinos 0.5/1

ION: 0.4/1         Wednesday PM Movie: Batman [r] 0.4/1

A18-49: UNIV 2.0/6, NBC 1.8/6, ABC 1.6/5, FOX 1.6/5, CBS 1.4/4, CW 0.4/1, MNT 0.4/1, TELE 0.4/1, ION 0.2/1

ABC News appointed Jeff Winn and John D’Incecco as Senior Directors. Jeff will supervise the DGA staff and work with production crews in the 66^th Street facility and the Washington News Bureau where World News, Nightline, America This Morning, World News Now and Weekend News and This Week are produced. Jeff will continue to direct Nightline. John will manage the DGA staff and work with production crews at the Times Square Studios where Good Morning America and Good Morning America Weekend are produced. He will continue to direct Good Morning America.

WNET.ORG, parent company of New York’s public television stations, THIRTEEN, WLIW and Creative News Group, announced two executive appointments:

• Gillian Rose is the new Head/Distribution where she will oversee the company’s domestic and international sales, distribution and co-production agreements. Gillian will continue to acquire nationally broadcast programs used for PBS stations’ membership drives. She will report to Josh Nathan, VP/Business Affairs and Strategic Initiatives, WNET.ORG.
• Robert A. Feinberg was promoted to General Counsel up from Deputy General Council. Robert will have supervision of rights and clearances; government relations, contracts, corporate records and more.

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Friday Fun Fact:  The average person will spend 2 weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.

This day in History:  1984 – Victoria Roche, a reserve outfielder, became the first girl to ever compete in a Little League World Series game.

Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question: Kitty Forman on That 70s show, collected what type of figurines?   SHIRLEY TEMPLE FIGURINES  Kudos to: Cathy Guy-Products Three Six Five/Oxford MI; Jodi Feinstein-Majesco Entertainment/Edison NJ; Synda Kollman-WPTV/West Palm Beach; Lynn Marzetti-viamedia/Troy

Today’s Trivia Question: Dr. Miles Hawkins, a scientist and owner of Hawkins Technologies, was shot by a cop and is paralyzed from the waist down.  He invented a suit that gave him the capability to walk and fight against corruption in the 1990’s television series M. A. N. T. I. S.  What does the show’s title stand for?   (Email
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT –  FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 2009

ABC:  Supernanny [r], Ugly Betty [r], 20/20
AZTECA: Laura de Todos, Lo Que Callamos Las Mujeres Edicion Especial, Al Extremo
CBS: Ghost Whisperer [r], Medium [r], Numb3rs [r]
CW:  Smallville [r], Everybody Hates Chris [r], The Game [r]
FOX: NFL Football: Tennessee at Dallas
ION: Reba, Reba, Movie: Hard to Kill
MNT: WWE Friday Night Smackdown
NBC: Southland [r], Dateline
PBS: Washington Week, Now on PBS, Bill Moyers’ Journal, Inside
TELE: Mas Sabe el Diablo, Ninos Ricos Padres Pobres, Victorinos
UNIV:  El Nombre del Amor, Manana es para Siempre, Rosa de Guadalupe

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