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07.15.11
Good morning. It’s Friday, July 15, 2011, and this is your first early morning briefing. As always, if you prefer to watch this morning’s news instead of reading it, click here . And a heads up — Cynopsis is on vacation next week, returning on Monday, July 25th — have a good week!
Tonight’s Premiere:
Syfy: Haven at 10p
Tonight’s Finale:
NBC: Friday Night Lights (90-minute series finale) at 8p
Saturday’s Premieres:
Animal Planet: Dogs 101/Cats 101 at 8p; Pit Boss at 10p
Discovery Fit & Health: Bizarre ER at 10p
HGTV: Home By Novogratz at 10p
Sunday’s Premieres:
HGTV: Cash & Cari at 730p
Mnet: 2NE1tv Live: Worldwide at 8p
The Style Network: Big Rich Texas at 9p
AMC: Breaking Bad at 10p
Spike TV: Bar Rescue at 10p
TLC: My Strange Addiction at 10p
PBS: Masterpiece Mystery! presents Zen (check local listings for air times)
The next listings of Tonight’s Premieres/Finales during our Cynopsis vacation:
July 18 Premieres:
Vme: Pas VIP at 730p; Estelares Vme Part 1 of Mal’aria (Malaria) at 9p
FOX: Hell’s Kitchen at 8p
Style Network: Giuliana & Bill at 8p
July 19 Premieres:
NBC: It’s Worth What? at 8p
Sundance Channel: Ludo Bites America at 9p
Investigation Discovery: True Grime: Crime Scene Clean Up at 10p
MTV: Awkward at 11p
Showtime: Web Therapy at 11p
July 19 Finales:
Vme: Cliptomaniacs at 730p
Investigation Discovery: I (Almost) Got Away With It at 9p
A&E Network: Gene Simmons Family Jewels at 10p
Bravo: Million Dollar Decorators at 10p
July 20 Premieres:
Vme: Dance Academy at 8p & 830p
DIY Network: Hollywood Hi-Tech at 930p
A&E Network: Storage Wars at 10p & 1030p
Cooking Channel: Bitchin’ Kitchen at 10p
Spike TV: Deadliest Warrior at 10p
July 22 Premiere:
Vme: Game40 at 730p
July 23 Premiere:
Cooking Channel: The Perfect 3 at 4p
July 24 Premieres:
CBS: Same Name at 9p
HISTORY: Top Gear at 10p
HBO: Entourage at 1030p
July 24 Finale:
Investigation Discovery: On the Case with Paula Zahn at 10p
A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM SYFY
On a highly competitive night, Alphas, Warehouse 13 & Eureka
made Syfy the #4 cable network!
Alphas: Best new scripted series premiere since
Warehouse 13 debuted, 2.5MM total viewers!
Warehouse 13 & Eureka: More than 2MM total viewers each!
Every Monday night it all starts at 8/7c.
Click here to watch ALPHAS now!
Source: Nielsen, 7/11/11, P18-49 & P25-54; LSD, (000), Syfy Series Prog vs. All ad-sup ent cable nets, M 8p-11p daypart portion avg, excl sports & news. Subj to qual upon request.
Next month, Travel Channel visits the Show Me State when Truck Stop, Missouri launches on August 3 at 10p. This weekly original docu-series highlights the Midway Truck Stop, a complex for truckers and tourists complete with a dozen separate businesses from a fireworks store to a tattoo parlor located mid-way between Kansas City and St. Louis. The series with 12 half-hour episodes opens with a special one-hour block with back-to-back episodes. Leftfield Pictures produces.
Competition series Top Shot is up for a third round on HISTORY launching August 9 at 10p. The sixteen contestants will face-off in a new battle of history-inspired challenges with the winner taking home a $100,000 prize package and the title of Top Shot. Pilgrim Films & Television produces the series for HISTORY.
Matt Pinfield is back as host of a revamped version of the music series MTV2’s 120 Minutes with Matt Pinfield airing on MTV2 starting July 30 at 1a. Matt Pinfield offers music lovers his perspective on today’s alternative and independent artists in addition to emerging artists appealing to various genres along with exclusive interviews and music videos. The opening episode features Matt’s exclusive interviews with Dave Grohl, PJ Harvey, Kings of Leon, Sleigh Bells, Black Angles and more. Fresh episodes of MTV2’s 120 Minutes with Matt Pinfield will air the last Saturday of each month at 1a and also will be available online via 120.MTV2.com. Fans can also catch Matt in a bi-weekly two-minute segment called 120 Seconds, the web companion series found exclusively on MTV’s new music website, MTV Hive.
Wednesday’s series launch of Lifetime’s new docu-series Roseanne’s Nuts starring Roseanne Barr attracted 1.6 million total viewers as well as 863,000 among A18-49 and 842,000 with A25-54. The half-hour show, following Barr as she manages a 40-acre macadamia and live stock farm in Hawaii, has become Lifetime’s fourth most-watched unscripted series launch in its history with total viewers, A18-49 and A25-54.
ION Television made a first-run broadcast rights deal with Starz Media, LLC involving six theatrical titles. The titles will air as part of ION’s Big Movie Weekend and will air exclusively on the network’s schedule starting this November through 2013. The half-dozen titles from Anchor Bay Films and Overture Films owned by Starz Media include Traitor, City Island, Solitary Man, The Visitor, A Nanny for Christmas and The Open Road.
NBC tapped singer/songwriter Sara Bareilles as the third celebrity judge on The Sing-Off joining other judges Ben Folds and Shawn Stockman. Bareilles replaces former judge Nicole Scherzinger who will soon appear on FOX’s The X Factor. Bareilles had appeared during season two of The Sing-Off as a guest performer. The Sing-Off debuts its full-season on September 19 at 8p.
Kal Penn is donning the actor’s hat again as he joins CBS’ How I Met Your Mother in a major recurring role. Penn left the acting world two years ago to take a position in President Obama’s White House as an associate director in the office of public liaison. On the CBS sitcom, Penn will play a possible love interest for Robin (Cobie Smulders).
Broadcast Morning News Shows – Weekly Average Ratings (week of July 4, 2011)
NBC: Today 4.99 million total viewers; 1.8/15 and 2.20 million A25-54
ABC: GMA 4.44 million total viewers; 1.3/11 and 1.66 million A25-54
CBS: Early Show 2.13 million total viewers; 0.6/5 and 753,000 A25-54
Source: Nielsen, NTI
Broadcast Late-Night Shows – Weekly Average Ratings (week of July 4, 2011)
ABC: Nightline 3.98 million total viewers; 1.2 and 1.55 million A25-54; 0.9 and 1.21 million A18-49
CBS: Late Show 2.60 million total viewers; 0.8 and 1.04 million A25-54; 0.6 and 837,000 A18-49
NBC: Tonight Show 4.30 million total viewers; 1.4 and 1.76 million A25-54; 1.0 and 1.36 million A18-49
Source: Nielsen, NTI
Wednesday A18-49 Analysis: NBC won by a narrow margin Wednesday night at 2.0/6 A18-49, according to final national ratings from Nielsen. CBS’ Big Brother was in charge at 8p with 2.6/9 and FOX’s So You Think You Can Dance was #2 at 2.0/7. NBC jumped ahead of the pack during 9p with America’s Got Talent at 3.0/9 and FOX’s So You Think You Can Dance remained in second place at 1.9/6. NBC stayed in first place at 10p with Love in the Wild at 1.6/5 though CBS’ CSI encore was a mere tenth of a rating point behind at 1.5/5.
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 time period averages. Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.
CBS: 4.5/8 Big Brother 4.4/8, Criminal Minds [r] 4.3/7, CSI [r] 4.8/8
NBC: 4.3/7 Minute to Win It 3.0/5, America’s Got Talent 6.8/11, Love In the Wild 3.1/5
FOX: 3.5/6 So You Think You Can Dance 3.5/6
ABC: 2.3/4 Lucy Must Be Traded, Charlie Brown [r] 2.2/4, The Middle [r] 2.0/4, Modern Family [r] 2.3/4, Happy Endings [r] 1.8/3, Primetime Nightline: Beyond Belief 2.8/5
UNIV: 1.8/3 Teresa 1.9/3, Triunfo del Amor 2.1/4, La Rosa de Guadalupe 1.5/3
TF: 0.9/1 Copa America 2011: Brasil vs. Ecuador 0.9/1
ION: 0.8/1 Without a Trace 0.7/1, Without a Trace 0.7/1, Criminal Minds 1.1/2
TELE: 0.7/1 Mi Corazon Insiste 0.5/1, Los Herederos del Monte 0.8/1, La Casa de Al Lado 0.9/2
CW: 0.5/1 America’s Next Top Model [r] 0.6/1, America’s Next Top Model [r] 0.5/1
A18-49: NBC 2.0/6, CBS 1.9/6, FOX 1.9/6, UNIV 1.4/4, ABC 0.9/3, TF 0.8/2, TELE 0.5/2, CW 0.3/1, ION 0.3/1
Syfy and Chiller promoted Ted A’Zary to SVP/Research for both networks. Ted is charged with heading a combined research team focused on Syfy and Chiller, reporting to Dave Howe, President, Syfy and Chiller. Additionally, Susan Lape advanced to VP/Primary Research where she will spearhead Syfy’s pilot testing and original series development research. Susan reports to Ted A’Zary. Ted and Susan are based at the New York office of Syfy and Chiller.
USA Network and Sleuth elevated Ted Linhart to SVP/Research and Stacey Marmor Balaban to VP/Digital and Sales Research. Ted will continue to manage USA and Sleuth’s ratings and multi-platform metrics and his scope will now include primary, sales and digital/new media areas encompassing qualitative and quantitative research for both networks. Stacey will exclusively head USA’s sales and digital research team working to strategically position the network’s brands in the advertising marketplace and measure the results of integrated sponsorships. Ted and Stacey both are based in New York with Ted reporting to Chris McCumber and Jeff Wachtel, Co-Presidents, USA and Stacey reporting to Ted Linhart.
Elizabeth Cole appointed Executive Producer of NBC News’ Dateline NBC effective immediately. Elizabeth previously had served as Executive Editor of Dateline. In her new role, Elizabeth will supervise the production of Dateline working in tandem with David Corvo who was recently named Senior Executive Producer of Dateline and the upcoming new NBC News primetime newsmagazine show. She will also work closely with Dateline’s anchor Ann Curry and the team of correspondents and producers.
Dan Hofstadter joined BBDO San Francisco as Associate Creative Director (ACD), starting immediately. Dan, along with fellow ACD Ricard Valero, will work on a variety of accounts including Masterfoods, Vail Resorts, Harrah’s Casino, Goodwill, Henkel and more. Dan reports to Mike McKay, Executive Creative Director.
Media Storm appointed Jose Diaz as Associate Managing Director/Strategic Planning for the company’s transactional team. Jose reports to Chad Urice, Managing Director and is based in South Norwalk.
Tom Donnelly was elevated to VP/Eastern Sales with The CW where he will oversee accounts including national advertisers, agencies and clients located on the East Coast. Tom has been with The CW since it launched and he reports to Brian Doherty, SVP/National Sales.
Friday Fun Fact: The only crime defined in the U.S. Constitution is treason — Article III, Section 3.
This day in History: 1965 – The spacecraft Mariner IV sent back the first close-up pictures of the planet Mars.
Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question: This 1998 Lifetime made-for TV movie starred William Peterson and Barbara Hershey, based on a particular true life feature in the Loretta Chapel in Santa Fe. What is the name of this movie? THE STAIRCASE Kudos to: Phyllis McQuillan-MSG Media/NY; Angela Lyons-Conrad Phillips Vutech/Columbus; Cathy Russo-truTV/NY; Lorraine Bray-Don Buchwald & Assoc/NY; Judy Margolis-The Ad Place/Dallas; Randolf Turrow-Featurepro/Malibu; Steve Foster-Ironoclast Prods/West Hollywood; Jim McKairnes/LA; Cammie Buerry-Station Casinos/Las Vegas
No trivia question today! Cynopsis is on vacation for the next week, returning on Monday, July 25th. Have a good week!
Later …. and we’re talking LATER! — Cyn
07.15.11
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – FRIDAY, JULY 15, 2011
ABC: Shark Tank [r], Primetime: What Would You Do?, 20/20
AZTECA: Cosas de la Vida, Al Extremo, La Loba
CBS: Flashpoint, CSI: NY [r], Blue Bloods [r]
CW: Smallville [r], Supernatural [r]
FOX: Bones [r], House [r]
ION: Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds, The Border
NBC: Friday Night Lights [f], Dateline NBC
PBS: Washington Week, Need to Know, Great Performances
TELE: Mi Corazon Insiste, Los Herederos del Monte, La Casa de la Lado
UNIV: Teresa, Pequenos Gigantes
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