Next Food Network Star  becomes Highest Rated Series in Food Network history, and launches
— Big Daddy’s House, premiering Top 5 in its time slot with W25-54!

Design Star  finale boasts HGTV’s Highest P18+ Prime Ratings ever, leading into
— Summer Showdown, the Highest Rated Primetime Premiere in HGTV history!

Star gaze every Sunday on Big Daddy’s House (1:30p) and Summer Showdown (9p).

Source: Nielsen Co. Qualifications on request. Visit http://scrippsnetworksadsales.com

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08/08/08

Good morning. It’s Friday, August 8, 2008, and this is your first early morning briefing.

Tonight’ Premiere:
NBC:  The Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony at 730p

Saturday’s Premiere:
BBC America: Primeval at 9p

Sunday’s Premiere:
Fine Living Network: Big City Broker at 9p

Style Network picked up the entertainment series Glamour’s 50 Best Dressed 2008 from international TV distribution company Target Entertainment. The series will air this Saturday with five 30m back-to-back episodes and was produced by Target Entertainment’s in-house production unit Target TV for Fiver in the U.K.

BBC America has ordered a third season of Robin Hood in 2009 with 13 one-hour episodes. The network is co-producing the new season with Tiger Aspect and the series is distributed by BBC Worldwide.

New partnerships were solidified between the Indy Racing League, which sanctions the IndyCar Series and Firestone Indy Lights, with ABC and VERSUS. ABC will continue to air the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race through 2012 in addition to four other IndyCar Series races each year. 2009 will mark the 45th consecutive year ABC has televised the Indy 500 race. VERSUS signed a multi-year deal starting next year where the network will televise at least 13 races per year for the next ten years along with a one-hour preview show that will air the day prior to each race.

Style Network’s seventh season debut of Clean House Wednesday night at 10p swept up 546,000 total viewers and posted a .63 rating among W18-49. 

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Ryan Seacrest will be the permanent co-host of ABC‘s Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve which will now be called Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest. Dick Clark will continue to co-host and both will executive produce the holiday special with dick clark productions president Orly Adelson.

Warner Horizon Television (WHTV) made an exclusive multi-year development and production agreement with television producer Lisa Levenson (The Bachelor, Big Brother). As part of the terms of the deal, Lisa will develop and produce fresh unscripted/reality programs for broadcast network and cable networks and possibly for digital. All projects will be produced in partnership with WHTV with Warner Bros. International Television acquiring global distribution and international format production rights.

Fox has given a script order for a comedy project called Wild Boys from Carlos Coto and Brett Ratner, and produced by 20th Century Fox TV.  The storyline is about three of ex-army guys, now suburban dads, who find themselves out of work and decide to hire themselves out as guns for hire, each week taking on a new assignment, reports Variety.

CYNOPSIS DIGITAL – TODAY’S TOP STORY: Is the music industry finally beginning to dig itself out of the sinkhole brought on by Napster? Digital revenues increased nearly 40% year-over-year at Warner Music Group during the quarter ending June 30 to $166 million, making up 20% of the company’s total revenue intake. But CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. thinks the company can do even better in the digital space. He complained in a conference call that Warner is helping to make music-themed console games like Activision’s Guitar Hero and Viacom’s Rock Band huge successes but seeing little in the way of compensation. Full edition: CYN DIGITAL.

CYNOPSIS KIDS – TODAY’S TOP STORY:  (Now with HTML elements!) Scholastic inks a deal to sell its US direct-to-home continuities business to Norway’s Sandvik AS, a company that sells books for kids up to 7-years-old directly to parents via email and the internet.  Scholastic announced in December it was looking to sell-off the division.  The terms of the deal were not disclosed.  Scholastic’s direct-to-home continuities division sells educational book and multi-media subscriptions to consumers via telemarketing and direct mail.  The agreement does not include Scholastic’s facilities in Maumelle, AR and Danbury, CT. Full edition: CYN KIDS.

CYNOPSIS INTERNATIONAL – TODAY’S TOP STORY: As part of its new 10-year agreement with MNC Sky Vision, Dori Media Group‘s Ginx TV video gaming network will be localized for the Indonesia.  The channel will first appear on MNC’s OKE Vision platform next month followed in May 2009 with a launch on Indovision.    Full edition: CYN INTERNATIONAL.

Wednesday – A18-49 Analysis:  FOX jumped and jived to first place Wednesday night with 3.1/10 A18-49, according to final national ratings from Nielsen Media Research. So You Think You Can Dance on FOX was successful at 8p with a 2.8/9 and again during 9p with a 3.3/10. Then at 10p, CBS won this final hour with the CSI: NY repeat at 1.7/5.

Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Wednesday, August 6, 2008 time period averages. Source: NTI Galaxy, as dated. Live+SD.

FOX: 5.5/10         So You Think You Can Dance [f part 1] 5.5/10

CBS: 4.8/9             Greatest American Dog 3.8/7, Criminal Minds [r] 6.0/10, CSI: NY [r] 4.7/8

ABC: 3.1/5          Wife Swap [r] 2.9/5, SuperNanny [r] 2.8/5, Primetime: China Inside Out 3.6/6

NBC: 3.1/5           America’s Got Talent [r] 3.5/7, Baby Borrowers 2.3/4, Law & Order [r] 3.4/6

UNIV: 2.1/4         Al Diablo con los Guapos 2.4/4, Fuego en la Sangre 2.3/4, Don Francisco Presenta 1.6/3

CW: 0.7/1           America’s Next Top Model [r] 0.8/1, Pussycat Dolls: Girlicious [r] 0.6/1

MNT: 0.7/1          Twilight Zone [r] 0.8/2, Twilight Zone 0.7/1, Whacked Out Videos [r] 0.7/1, Whacked Out Videos [r] 0.6/1

TELE: 0.6/1         El Juramento 0.4/1, Dona Barbara 0.7/1, Olimpiadas Beijing 2008 0.5/1

A18-49: FOX 3.1/10, CBS 1.7/5, UNIV 1.7/5, ABC 1.4/4, NBC 1.2/4, MNT 0.4/1, TELE 0.4/1, CW 0.3/1

Hearst Magazines promoted Debra C. Robinson to the new position of VP/CIO to head and supervise IT efforts and operations across all Hearst Magazine business divisions. Starting in this new role immediately, Debra will report to John Loughlin, EVP/GM.

World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. added three to its Board of Directors: Kevin Dunn, Frank A. Riddick, III and Jeffrey R. Speed. In addition, Robert Bowman resigned from the Board.

Diane Morgan was named VP/Media Relations with ABC Family. She will work with ABC Family president Paul Lee to develop and implement trade and consumer public relations campaigns centered on the network’s series, movies and specials. Diane will report to Nicole Nichols, SVP/Entertainment Communications, Disney-ABC Television Group.

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Friday Fun Fact:  Some unusual PEZ flavors that came and went include: Anise (Licorice), Eucalyptus and Chlorophyll. What in the world does chlorophyll taste like?

This day in History:  1992 – The “Dream Team” clinched the gold medal at the Barcelona Summer Olympics. The U.S. basketball team beat Croatia 117-85.

Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question:  Who was the first host and hostess pair on Wheel of Fortune when it began in 1975?  CHUCK WOOLERY & SUSAN STAFFORD Kudos to: David Morris-Sun Coast Media Group/Port Charlotte, FL; Marty Coryell-EBT Group/Fredericksburg, VA; Pete Gautieri-Lifetime/NY; Ryan Quam-Comcast Spotlight/West Palm Beach, FL;Gretchen Brady-KDAF/Dallas; Chuck Gordon-Charter Media/Birmingham, AL; Kandy Hartsfield-KDAF/Dallas; Amy Sobczak-Charter Media/St. Louis, MO; Susan Torrey-New Day Marketing/Santa Barbara, CA; Gina Huang-Horizon Media/LA; Paul Gilbert-CBS Paramount International Television/LA; Cammie Buerry-Marshall Fenn Communications/Las Vegas; Heather Muir-Insight Productions/Toronto; Geraldine Anne Gately-Spotzer Media Inc./Amsterdam

Today’s Trivia Question:  On this game show a panel of celebrities met with another celebrity who was disguised with heavy makeup and/or costume which provided clues to the person’s actual identity. What was the name of this show?    (Email
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 8, 2008

ABC: Samantha Who? [r], Movie: War of the Worlds [r]
AZTECA: Viernes Espectacular: Point of No Return, Pasiones Prohibidas
CBS: Ghost Whisperer [r], Numb3rs [r], Swingtown
CW: Friday Night Smackdown!
FOX: Movie: Hellboy
ION: Movie: The 10th Kingdom, Movie: Robin Cook’s Terminal
MNT: The Academy [r], Paradise Hotel 2 [r]
NBC: Olympic Summer Games 2008: Opening Ceremony  (begins at 730p)
PBS: Washington Week, Now on PBS, Bill Moyers’ Journal, China From the Inside
TELE: El Juramento, Dona Barbara, Sin Senos No Hay Paraiso
UNIV: Al Diablo con los Guapos, Fuego on la Sangre, La Rosa de Guadalupe

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