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07/18/08

Good morning. It’s Friday, July 18, 2008, and this is your first early morning briefing. 

After ten years, Regency Television, a joint venture of New Regency and Fox TV Studios, is closing shop. The company produced several hit shows in the past including Malcolm in the Middle, The Bernie Mac Show and Roswell and its most recent productions were New Amsterdam and The Return of Jezebel James. In June, Regency TV’s president Robin Schwartz announced her departure to be president at OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network. The employees at Regency TV were notified of the company’s closing Thursday afternoon.

Tonight’s Premieres:
USA Network: Monk at 9p; Psych at 10p

Sunday’s Premieres:
Fine Living Network: I Want That! Tech Toys at 1030a
ABC: High School Musical at 8p

Emmy nominations were announced yesterday and the big story is the number of basic cable original series that were nominated.  Two basic cable drama series are nominated in the Best Drama category for the first time in Emmy history – FX’s Damages and AMC’s Mad Men, which by the way with 16 nominations was the most nominated of any dramatic series this year – cable or broadcast.  Comedy series 30 Rock set the new record of total nominations for a comedy with 17, surpassing the record long held by The Larry Sanders Show. HBO’s John Adams secured 23 nods.  Other basic cable series to receive nominations in the acting categories include AMC’s Breaking Bad, TNT’s Saving Grace and The Closer, USA’s Monk, Showtime’s Dexter and Weeds, and HBO’s In Treatment.

E! renewed the 30m reality series Keeping Up with the Kardashians for a third season. The series is produced by Ryan Seacrest Productions and Bunim-Murray Productions and the new season will premiere in first quarter 2009.

Independent distributor Litton Entertainment is offering stations barter-free half-hour episodes of Storm Stories this summer. The six-episode pre-season package is available to incumbent stations and it comes with built-in promos, voiceover scripts and/or drop-in weather updates. The deal also allows stations, through a provided custom sales reel, to insert their own weather team where they can replace embedded green screen shots in the reel. Storm Stories is cleared to air on 92% of U.S. stations this fall including these affiliates: WABC/New York; KCAL-KCBS/Los Angeles; WGN/Chicago; KYW/Philadelphia; WJBK/Detroit; WSB/Atlanta; WTSP/Tampa; WJW/Cleveland; KPHO/Phoenix; KUSA/Denver; WESH/Orlando; KXTV/Sacramento; KSDK/St. Louis; WPXI/Pittsburgh and WJZ/Baltimore.

ABC Family ordered 13 more episodes of its original series The Secret Life of the American Teenager. The one-hour drama, which debuted on July 1, will air one of the added episodes this September and hold the other 12 for a tentative premiere date in January 2009. This takes the total number of episodes for season one to 23.  The network also announced fall premiere dates for Lincoln Heights (September 16) and for Greek (August 26).

Bravo’s debut of Project Runway on Wednesday at 9p attracted 1.8 million A18-49 viewers and 2.9 million total viewers.

Get your bidding paddles ready as a cache of 750 costumes and props from the daytime drama Passions will be up for auction August 9. The event, hosted by NBC Universal Television DVD, Music and Consumer Products Group in partnership with Premiere Props and sponsor Soap Opera Digest, will be held at the Premiere Props warehouse at 128 Sierra Street in El Segundo, CA starting at noon. Live bids can also be placed online at www.icollector.com or www.ebay.com . Some of the fun objects up for sale include evening dresses worn by the main characters, Tabitha Lenox’s magic wands and Tabitha’s complete living room set.

And a reminder — Cynopsis editorial staff are all on vacation all next week which means no editions for the week.  We will be returning on Monday, July 28.  With that said, however, our Sales and Marketing staff will be available to you all week long, as usual!

A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM THE N

Premieres of Degrassi, Queen Bees and The N’s Student Body outperformed every other network in ad-supported cable among both teens and women 12-24* and drove record video streams for the week on the-n.com: 2.8MM streams, +226% vs YAGO!

Like we always say, The N “gets” teens.

DEGRASSI Fridays @ 8:00EST | QUEEN BEES Fridays @ 8:30EST | The N’s STUDENT BODY Sundays @ 8:00EST

*The N Network was ranked #1 from 8-11p vs. all ad supported cable for teens, female teens and women 12-24 in Live+SD coverage ratings.

Wizard’s First Rule, the scripted series from Sam Raimi will premiere the weekend of November 1 in national syndication, according to THR. The 60m fantasy series will open with a two-hour episode. Disney-ABC Domestic Television distributes and ABC Studios produces.

Casting Call: Auditions are happening in Hollywood now and into November for the new nationally syndicated game show Trivial Pursuit: America Plays. Winning contestants take home cash. To be considered you must be 21 or older; not appeared on a game show taping within more the last 12 months; have not worked with or know anyone at Trivial Pursuit: America Plays, Wheeler/Sussman Productions, Debmar-Mercury or Hasbro. Call the casting hotline at 323-762-7354 to book your audition.

CYNOPSIS DIGITAL – TODAY’S TOP STORY: YouTube stars may find themselves household names in a posher set of homes in the coming weeks. Tivo announced a long awaited integration with YouTube yesterday, enabling broadband-connected Series 3 or Tivo HD boxes to download YouTube videos to subscribers’ big screen TVs beginning this week. Unlike the Unbox or TivoCast services, which download to the hard drive, the videos will be streamed from YouTube servers so they won’t clog up your storage. The two companies have worked together to create a user-friendly interface to make navigation of YouTube’s massive library of H.264-formatted videos as intuitive as can be expected from the makers of the idiot proof DVR. Select videos by featured videos, most recent, most viewed or top rated. Pause, fast forward and rewind using the Tivo remote. An informational screen allows you to search by title or artist or select works from the same publisher.  Full edition: CYN DIGITAL.

CYNOPSIS KIDS – TODAY’S TOP STORY:  Nickelodeon UK plans to launch NickToonsters on satellite on Sky Digital this August 18, 2008.  Targeted to the younger K5-7 set and leaning more towards girls, NickToonsters will air 7a-7p and will feature programming lineup including Rugrats, CatDog, The Wild Thornberries and Hey Arnold. Full edition: CYN KIDS.

CYNOPSIS INTERNATIONAL – TODAY’S TOP STORY: The Weinstein Company inked an exclusive deal with Sky Italia to distribute its movies on pay TV in Italy, including films such as Bobby, The Nanny Diaries and SiCKO.  Full edition: CYN INTERNATIONAL.

Wednesday – A18-49 Analysis:  FOX stayed in control Wednesday night with 3.1/10 A18-49, according to final national ratings from Nielsen Media Research. FOX’s So You Think You Can Dance was successful both at 8p with a 2.9/10 and again at 9p with 3.2/9. CBS’ CSI: NY encore won at 10p with 2.0/6 just a smidge ahead of ABC’s Primetime: Crime at 1.9/6 and also in front of NBC’s Celebrity Circus finale at 1.6/5.

Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 (July Sweep Day 14) time period averages. Source: NTI Galaxy, as dated. Live+SD.

FOX: 5.6/10         So You Think You Can Dance 5.6/10

CBS: 5.2/9             Big Brother 10 3.9/7, Criminal Minds [r] 6.2/11, CSI: NY [r] 5.7/10

ABC: 3.4/6          Wife Swap [r] 2.8/5, SuperNanny [r] 2.8/5, Primetime: Crime 4.6/8

NBC: 3.1/6          Baby Borrowers [r] 2.6/5, Baby Borrowers 3.7/6, Celebrity Circus [f] 3.0/5

UNIV: 2.1/4         Al Diablo con los Guapos 2.3/4, Fuego en la Sangre 2.1/4, Don Francisco Presenta 1.8/3

CW: 0.8/1           America’s Next Top Model [r] 0.8/2, Pussycat Dolls: Girlicious [r] 0.7/1

MNT: 0.6/1          Under One Roof [r] 0.7/1, Whacked Out Videos [r] 0.7/1, Twilight Zone 0.6/1, Twilight Zone 2 0.5/1

TELE: 0.6/1         El Juramento 0.3/0, Victoria 0.8/1, Sin Senos No Hay Paraiso 0.8/1

A18-49: FOX 3.1/10, CBS 1.9/6, NBC 1.8/6, UNIV 1.7/6, ABC 1.5/5, CW 0.4/1, TELE 0.4/1, MNT 0.3/1

Documentary Channel advanced Jay Kelley to SVP/Sales and Marketing. He will handle all sponsorships, advertising sales and marketing on behalf of the network. Based in Nashville, he will also continue to oversee the Sales, Marketing and Commercial Operations teams located in Nashville as well as the New York office. The network also recruited Jeremy Cecil and Donald Flanders as AEs in the New York office to work on national sponsorship sales.

A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM INSTITUTE FOR MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT .

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Friday Fun Fact:  July is National Ice Cream Month. What’s your favorite flavor? How about something different -Ben & Bill’s Chocolate Emporium shops in Maine and Massachusetts offer Lobster ice cream made with butter flavored ice cream with lobster chunks mixed in. Main course and dessert all in one!

This day in History:  1936 – The first Oscar Meyer Wienermobile rolled out of General Body Company’s factory in Chicago. The Wienermobile continues to tour around the US promoting the famous Oscar Mayer wiener.

Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question:  In the film Men in Black (1997) a cat with an important collar plays an integral role. What is this cat’s name?  ORION   Kudos to: Brook Abernathy-WUTB/Baltimore; Michael Branch-TV Guide Network/NY; Leah Weber-ABC/NY; Rob Williams-WEVV/Evansville, IN; Lauren Grady-The Richards Group/Dallas; Ed Worthington-Worthington Productions/Horseshoebend, AR; Erin Green-Charter Media/St. Louis; Melissa Spring-Equity Media Holdings Corporation/Little Rock, AR; Scott Ganyo/Santa Clarita, CA; Daniel Glenn-WB Television/LA; Alex Wentworth-Hoegl/Singer Prods./Kapaa, HI; Peter Keir-Horizon Media/LA; Mirjam Mutzel-Parthenon Entertainment/Munich, Germany; Marcus Fernandes/Brazil

Today’s Trivia Question:  Cynopsis editorial staff are all on vacation all next week which means no editions for the week.  We will be returning on Monday, July 28.  With that said, however, our Sales and Marketing staff will be available to you all week long, as usual!  To that end, no trivia question today.  Enjoy your week!

Later — Cyn
07.18.08

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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – Friday, July 18, 2008

ABC: AFV [r], Duel, 20/20
AZTECA: Viernes Espectacular: The Last Boy Scout, Pasiones Prohibidas
CBS: Ghost Whisperer [r], Numb3rs [r], Flashpoint
CW: Friday Night Smackdown!
FOX: Movie: The Animal [r]
ION: Movie: Clover [7p], Movie: Nightscream
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, Premios Juventud: Acceso Total

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