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Cynopsis
12.21.12

Good morning. It’s Friday, December 21, 2012, and this is your first early morning briefing.

Tonight’s Finales:
Investigation Discovery: Facing Evil with Candace DeLong at 8p
TLC: Say Yes to the Dress: Bridesmaids at 9p & 930p; Brides of Beverly Hills at 10p
Syfy: Haven at 10p

Saturday’s Finales:
DIY Network: That’s So 90s at 7p
TV Guide Network: StandUp In Stilettos at 1130p

Sunday’s Premiere:
MSNBC: Chained to My Ex at 9p

Sunday’s Finale:
Food Network: The Next Iron Chef: Redemption at 9p

More Premieres and Finales happening while the Cynopsis team is on holiday break through January 2, 2013.  From all of us at Cynopsis – Happy Holidays and All the Best in 2013!

Tuesday, December 25 Premieres:
Syfy: K9 at 10a
Mnet America: K-Pop Tasty Road at 9p

Tuesday, December 25 Finales:
DIY Network: Holmes on Homes at 8p
TNT: Rizzoli & Isles at 9p; Leverage at 10p

Thursday, December 27 Finale:
HGTV: Extreme Homes at 9p

Friday, December 28 Premieres:
HGTV: Urban Oasis Giveaway at 8p
TLC: Say Yes to the Dress at 9p
Lifetime: Teen Trouble at 10p

Friday, December 28 Finale:
Investigation Discovery: Wives with Knives at 10p

Saturday, December 29 Premieres:
TLC: Untold Stories of the E.R. at 7p
Discovery Channel: Hero’s of Hell’s Highway at 8p

Saturday, December 29 Finales:
HGTV: High Low Project at 6p
TV Guide Network: Rove LA at 12a

Sunday, December 30 Premiere:
Destination America: United States of Bacon at 10p & 1030p

Sunday, December 30 Finales:
NBC: Football Night in America at 7p; Sunday Night Football at 820p
TLC: Sister Wives at 9p
HISTORY: Outback Hunters at 1102p

Monday, December 31 Specials:
ABC: Dick Clark’s Primetime New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest at 10p; Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2013, Parts 1 & 2 at 1130p & 108a
NBC: NBC’ New Year’s Eve with Carson Daly at 10p and at 1130p
FOX: FOX New Year’s Eve at 11p

Tuesday, January 1 Specials:
HGTV: The 2013 Rose Parade at 8a (PST)
PBS: Great Performances: From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2013 at 230p & 8p

Tuesday, January 1 Premieres:
TLC: Totally T-Boz at 8p; The Sisterhood at 9p
Lifetime: Dance Moms at 9p; Double Divas (sneak peak) at 1030p
HGTV: Hawaii Life at 930p
truTV: Hardcore Pawn: Chicago at 930p & 10p
A&E Network: Storage Wars New York at 10p
National Geographic Channel: Diggers at 10p & 1030p

Wednesday, January 2 Premieres:
HGTV: Cousins on Call at 8p
Cooking Channel: Not My Mama’s Meals at 9p
OWN: Super Saver Showdown at 9p
PBS: Life on Fire at 10p (check local listings)

New reality competition series The Job will premiere on CBS February 8 at 8p.  From Michael Davies (Who Wants to be a Millionaire, Watch What Happens Live) and Mark Burnett (Survivor, The Voice), the series gives candidates from around the country a chance to win positions at some of America’s top firms.  Lisa Ling is the show’s host and each episode features five candidates participating in various rounds of elimination in challenges before a panel of executives as they compete for their dream job.  The featured companies and broadcast order will be announced soon after the New Year.  CBS additionally revealed Undercover Boss will return to its schedule beginning April 19.  The Job is produced by Sony Pictures Television and Embassy Row. 

FOX handed So You Think You Can Dance a 10th season renewal from 19 Entertainment, a division of Core Media Group, and dick clark productions, inc.  Auditions for season 10 begin January 18 in Austin, TX with further auditions happening in Detroit on February 11; Boston on February 21; Memphis on March 14; and Los Angeles on March 22.  For details on eligibility rules and audition venues go to www.fox.com/dance.

CNBC revealed two new primetime programs that will air under the umbrella CNBC Prime starting March 5.  The first new series is Treasure Detectives, a one-hour weekly show following fakes and forgeries detective, Curtis Dowling and his team of investigators who dig into the history of counterfeit items using high tech science.  Treasure Detectives is produced by Endemol USA. The second series debuting March 5 is The Car Chasers from ITV Studios America in association with Leepson Bounds Entertainment.  In The Car Chasers, Jeff Allen and Perry Barndt are gamblers in the world of classic and exotic cars.  The pair travels the country looking to buy and sell cars from a rare Shelby Mustang to a one-of-a-kind Bugatti.  CNBC additionally has four new unscripted projects in development: The Next Big Thing (wt) follows former Columbia Records’ Charlie Walk as he now sets sight on nurturing start-up businesses with his new company, JWalk; produced by Original Media.  Money Talks (wt) takes viewers inside the world of sports betting with expert Steve Stevens who owns VIP sports, a handicapping business in Las Vegas; produced by Turn Left Productions.  Liquidate Your Life (wt) allows average people the chance to break out of their job rut and reinvent themselves with help of a business expert and a financial genius; produced by Optomen USA.  The Big Fix (wt) follows Marcus Lemonis, a self-made master of business who will take $2 million of his own money to turn around failing companies across America; produced by THE Company.

Well before it returns for a seventh season in February, USA Network has granted its series Psych an eighth season.  Psych is USA’s longest running series on air about Santa Barbara’s favorite faux psychic and his sidekick played by James Roday and Dule Hill respectively.  The new season will be back with eight new episodes.  Season seven of Psych debuts February 27 at 10p and also marks the series’ 100th episode milestone.  Psych is from Universal Cable Productions in association with Tagline Pictures.

FX renewed its comedy The League for a fifth season on the heels of its fourth season finale which aired last night.  Production on 13 all-new episodes will begin next summer with the fifth season bowing in Fall 2013.   During its most recent season, The League averaged 1.63 million viewers on a first-run basis and 1.45 million among A18-49. 

A new season of OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network’s docu-series Our America with Lisa Ling is back starting January 22 at 10p.  The eight all-new one-hour episodes will be hosted by journalist and author Ling and cover life in America and its subcultures.  The series is produced by part2 pictures.

E! introduced a new mobile app, E! Latino for the fast-growing Spanish-speaking audience.  The launch is part of E!’s initiative to better serve and entertain the Spanish-language population and to expand its strength with the Hispanic audience.  The new app initiative will continue to roll out in 2013 with additional digital and on-air extensions.  The app is available for iPhone, iPod touch and Android devices in the US and in 32 international territories across Latin America and the Caribbean.  Furthermore, E! is working closely with its sister network Telemundo to distribute E! Latino content and promote the app across their digital platforms. The E! Latino app features original series such as Latin Bites and Zona Trendy as well as its current hits like Keeping Up with the Kardashians and The Soup, celebrity interviews, photo galleries, interactive features and more.  To download the app, go to eonline.com/latino or download directly from the App Store or Google Play.

To coincide with the premiere of its new series The Face, Oxygen Media is asking its viewers to channel their inner supermodel with The Face Challenge.  Launching earlier this week on the show’s YouTube channel, this user generated contest and on-the-ground activation is taking The Face directly to people to get them excited about the premiere of the new on-air competition series executive produced by Naomi Campbell and featuring her as a supermodel coach.  Fans can submit videos emulating the supermodels for a chance to win an ultimate VIP treatment in New York City and to see their name announced as the winner during the season premiere set for February 12 at 9p on Oxygen.  Submissions to the contest may also be featured on a Times Square billboard the day of the show’s premiere.  Access The Face Challenge on Oxygen’s official YouTube channel for The Face at: www.youtube.com/thefaceonoxygen.  The Face is produced by Shine America.

SHOWTIME is giving Americans a belated holiday gift in the form of a Free Preview Weekend on January 11-13.  Currently Showtime has 22 million subscribers and will be available to 58 million more viewers for that one weekend only.  Viewers will have a chance to sample the premium network’s programming on SHOWTIME, SHOWTIME HD, SHOWTIME On Demand and SHOWTIME ANYTIME.   The Free Preview Weekend will also include the season premieres on January 13 of SHOWTIME’s Shameless at 9p, House of Lies at 10p and Californication at 1030p.  For more information on SHOWTIME’s Free Preview weekend, go to www.sho.com/freepreview.

Programming Note: NFocus Entertainment in association with Make It Happen Productions is broadcasting a new half-hour two-episode music television series, Real Music Live which will air on NBC Owned Television Stations in select markets at 1a directly following this Saturday’s and the January 5 episodes of Saturday Night Live.  The show is hosted by radio DJ Prolifik and actresses Hayley Marie Norman and Cherrilyn Silva and was designed to resurrect the live TV music experience where musicians perform in front of a live audience.  The NBC Owned Television Stations airing Real Music Live include WNBC/New York, KNBC/Los Angeles, WMAQ/Chicago, KNTV/San Francisco-Bay Area, WCAU/Philadelphia and WTVJ/Miami-South Florida. 

Program Call: Cynopsis Media will be producing our annual NATPE Shopping Guide sent to all Cynopsis subscribers on Thursday, January 24, 2013, a few days before NATPE Market and Conference 2013 opens at the Fontainebleau Resort in Miami Beach. If your company is an official exhibitor at NATPE 2013, please send us only the following info for your top 5 shows:  title, availability date, number of episodes, length, type (i.e. series, special, movie, etc.), genre (comedy, drama, lifestyle, etc.) and your terms (barter, cash, etc.) as well as your company’s stand/booth location.  To be included in this free and highly-read special edition, please send your submission to Lisa Ball at: [email protected] no later than Thursday, January 17, 2013.  A confirmation email will be sent following each submission from Lisa (if you don’t receive a confirmation email, please resubmit).

Telco Productions has a new weekly music/comedy series BAMM.TV which targets the A18-34 demo and premieres in fall 2013.  The series features musicians and bands as well as comedic sketches performed by comedy troupes from around the US.  Each episode highlights several bands across a variety of genres.  The show will be offered on a barter basis: 3.5 min. local/3.5 min. national.  For more information contact Telco Productions: www.telcoproductions.com.

FUNimation Channel, owned by Olympusat, Inc., an independent developer distributor of TV Networks announces today they have launched a Subscription Video on Demand (SVOD) service on a top cable station which brings their total subscriber base into the tens of millions.  The company also has five new broadcast premieres on the horizon.  FUNimation Channel is a 24/7 and On Demand television network featuring anime titles from Japan dubbed into English for fans in the US.

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Casting Call: Telemundo Media, a division of NBCUniversal is launching a nationwide casting call for its new reality singing competition La Voz Kids which will premiere on the Telemundo network next spring.  Telemundo Media brings for the first time The Voice Kids featuring young kids as contestants.  All interested kids between the ages of 7-14 years old should register at www.lavozkids.com or call 1.855.VOZ.KIDS (1-855-869-5437) or send an email to: [email protected].  The La Voz Kids auditions will take place in January and early February in Miami January 5-6; Houston and San Juan, Puerto Rico January 12-13; Los Angeles and Dallas January 19-20; Chicago and San Antonio January 26-27; and New York City and Phoenix February 2-3.  La Voz Kids is produced by Talpa Media USA Inc. 

Modeling agency Elite World is partnering with Metan Development Group to search for China’s newest Elite model.  Elite and Metan will co-produce a 12-part reality competition series China’s Elite Model slated to premiere next summer.  Each episode will spotlight on a different part of the industry and episodes 11 and 12 will sport live, one-hour episodes revealing the 2013 winner.

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Broadcast Morning News Shows  Weekly Average Ratings (week of December 10, 2012)
ABC: GMA 5.09 million total viewers; 1.6/11 and 1.89 million A25-54
NBC: Today 4.66 million total viewers; 1.6/11 and 1.87 million A25-54
CBS: This Morning 2.63 million total viewers; 0.8/6 and 993,000 A25-54
Source: Nielsen, NTI

Wednesday A18-49 Analysis:  FOX shined in #1 Wednesday at 2.7/8 among A18-49, according to final primetime national ratings from Nielsen. At 8p, FOX won with the part 1 season finale of The X Factor at 2.7/8 while NBC’s Miss Universe Pageant live broadcast and Univision’s Por Ella Soy Eva tied at #2 each at 1.6/5.  The X Factor on FOX inched up in ratings and remained on top during 9p at 2.9/8 and NBC’s Miss Universe Pageant was next at 2.1/6.  CBS then grabbed the final win of the night at 10p with Chicago Fire at 1.9/6 and ABC’s 20/20 special The Year with Katie Couric placed second at 1.7/5.

Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 time period averages.  Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.

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FOX: 5.0/8            The X Factor 5.0/8

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NBC: 4.1/7             Miss Universe Pageant 3.9/6, Chicago Fire 4.4/7

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CBS: 3.8/6             A Home for the Holidays with the Rascal Flatts 3.4/5, Criminal Minds [r] 4.2/7, CSI [r] 3.8/7

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ABC: 3.4/6             The Middle [r] 3.2/5, The Neighbors [r] 2.6/4, Modern Family [r] 3.7/6, 20/20: The Year with Katie Couric 3.7/6

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UNIV: 2.0/3           Por Ella Soy Eva 1.9/3, Amores Verdaderos 2.3/4, Amor Bravio 1.8/3

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CW: 1.1/2              Noel 1.1/2

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TELE: 0.9/1            Miss Universo 2012 0.9/1, Jenni: Siempre 0.9/2

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ION: 0.5/1             WWE Main Event 0.7/1, Wednesday 9PM Movie: The Perfect Storm [r] 0.4/1

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TF: 0.4/1               Cineplex WED [7p start r] 0.4/1, Cineplex 2 WED [r] 0.4/1

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A18-49:  FOX 2.7/8, NBC 1.8/5, UNIV 1.6/5, ABC 1.5/4, CBS 1.1/3, TELE 0.7/2, CW 0.3/1, ION 0.3/1, TF 0.3/1

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Atish Banerjea was appointed EVP/CIF at NBCUniversal.  In his new position, Atish will head NBCUniversal’s Information Technology organization, oversee global technology applications, infrastructure and operations for the company’s worldwide media portfolio.  Based in New York, Atish reports directly to John Wallace, President/NBCUniversal Operations and Technical Services.  Prior to this hiring, Atish was with Dex One Corporation where he served as Chief Technology Officer.

ABC News President Ben Sherwood announced new correspondent assignments for its Washington, D.C. bureau.  Jonathan Karl was named as the new ABC News’ Chief White House Correspondent and Martha Raddatz is taking on an expanded role as Chief Global Affairs Correspondent.  In addition, Jake Tapper is departing ABC News for CNN where he will become Chief Washington Correspondent and will also host a weekday program on CNN.  Jake has been with ABC News in the role of Chief White House Correspondent since the 2008 presidential election.

Hearst Corporation promoted Neeraj Khemlani to CCO to spearhead Hearst’s creative teams, managers and group heads across the company.  In the digital product development arena, Neeraj will work in tandem with Phil Wiser, Hearst’s SVP/CTO.  Neeraj joined Hearst in March 2009 and most recently served in Hearst Entertainment & Syndication where he was a deputy group head. 

Entertainment branding agency Loyalkaspar hired Darryl Mascarenhas as Creative Director.  Darryl’s first assignment in his new role is to develop a co-branded spot for AMC’s The Walking Dead and the new Microsoft Windows 8 operating system.  Darryl joins Loyalkaspar from Moving Picture Company in New York where he was an Associate Creative Director.

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Friday Fun Fact: The original television program The Yule Log was created in 1966 by Fred M. Thrower, President/CEO of WPIX, Inc. in New York.  Fred envisioned this TV program (airing on Christmas morning and showing a crackling, cherry fireplace in a continuous 7-min. loop) as a gift to residents of New York who lived in apartments or homes without fireplaces.  Fred also knew The Yule Log would allow employees of WPIX to stay home with their families on the holiday.  For this year’s air times of The Yule Log, check out the official fan site at: www.theyulelog.com.

This day in History: 1988 – Pan Am flight 103 explodes over Lockerbie, Scotland.

Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: In the cartoon special, Cricket on the Hearth (1967) based on Charles Dickens’ tale; name the real-life father and daughter who voiced the poor toymaker and his daughter.  Danny Thomas and Marlo Thomas. Kudos to: Linh Le-National Geographic Channels/Washington, DC; Laurie Ulster-A&E/NYC; Dewey Wigod-SFM Entertainment LLC/NYC; Wes Thompson-Stern Advertising/Cleveland; Ann Casey-WGN-TV/Chicago; Joe Dale-Me-TV Network/Chicago; Dory Melman Petrillo-Petry Media Corp./Dallas; Roz Seibold-EDA/Tucson; Greg Armstrong-KCDO-TV/Denver; Pat Brady-CESN/LA.

Later —
Lisa Ball
Editor
12.21.12

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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2012

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ABC: Last Man Standing [r], Malibu Country [r], Back to the Beginning with Christiane Amanpour
CBS: The Good Wife [r], The Good Wife [r], The Good Wife [r]
CW: The Happy Elf, Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer
FOX: Kitchen Nightmares [r], Fringe
ION: Cold Case, Cold Case, Cold Case
MyTV: Monk, Monk
NBC: Michael Buble: Home for the Holidays [r], A White House Christmas: First Families Remember [r], Dateline
PBS: Washington Week, Need to Know, Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Christmas at Belmont
TeleFutura: Lord Dragon, Una Mision de Justicia
Telemundo: Rosa Diamante, Corazon, Valiente, Pablo Escobar: El Patron del Mal, El Rostro de la Venganza
Univision: Por Ella Soy Eva, Amores Verdaderos, Amor Bravio

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