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06/02/06
Good Morning. It’s Friday, June 2, 2006, and this is your first early morning briefing.
Fox orders up another 22 episodes season of American Dad, taking the 20th Century Fox show thru the 2007-08 season. From creators Seth MacFarlane, Mike Barker and Matt Weitzman, the show debuted on Fox in 2005 airing on Sunday nights following Family Guy. This past season American Dad averaged a 3.6/8 A18-49 on Sunday nights. In the fall, American Dad will move up to the Sunday 830p time period following The Simpsons.
Based on Nielsen’s fast cume data, approximately 19 million viewers tuned in May 31 to the 3-hour NBC News’ Today farewell show for co-anchor Katie Couric. Per the Nielsen fast program ratings, Katie’s good-bye party averaged 8.4 million viewers, ranking it as the fourth highest Today audience for a single telecast since the start of the People Meters in 1987. Today II had 7.6 million viewers and is now the most watched single telecast ever for this program.
According to Variety, ABC has pulled back from its summer reality series Buy It Now (Madison Prods) where families put their most precious items up for sale on eBay. The reason ABC pulled back? eBay decided it didn’t want to play, and without that component, the show falls flat. The show was to air on Monday and Tuesdays nights at 9p starting July 31st. What will drop into those time periods has not been announced.
Here are a handful of ABC summer programming premiere dates for you:
How to Get a Guy – June 12 at 10p
Master of Champions – June 22 at 8p
The One: The Making of a Music Star – July 18 at 9p with results the following evening at 8p
One Ocean View – July 31 at 10p
Discovery Channel’s auto-engineering series, Monster Garage will mark its final world premiere with a two-hour special on June 12 at 8p. Host Jesse James along with his crews of mechanics, welders, designers and more will make-over a station wagon into an Old School Monster. Furthermore, to celebrate 85 episodes of the series, builders from the last four years and their creations will return for the concluding episode.
From dream machine designers to fashion designers . . . . Bravo will debut season three of the Emmy-nominated reality series Project Runway on July 12 at 10p. Supermodel Heidi Klum once again leads a panel of fashion industry leaders who will judge fifteen budding designers as they compete to win with their innovative styles. The finale of season two that aired in March was seen by 3.4 million making it the most viewed program in Bravo’s history. Project Runway is co-produced by The Weinstein Company and Miramax Television.
Sleuth, the new murder, crime and mystery network from NBC Universal Cable Entertainment, has launched on DirecTV and is available to more than 15 million subscribers. Each day in June, Sleuth has programming stunts such as Murder Mondays and Action Wednesdays to Sleuth Summer Vacation weekends. The network kicks off with the movie Fear tonight followed by The Truth About Charlie on June 3.
If you’re a fan of BBC World News over say one of our domestic brands, then you may be interested to know that come July BBC World News will also offer a morning show, designed to compete with GMA, Today and CBS Morning, as well as the 24/7 cable news networks’ morning shows. The new program will hail in July, will have a decided worldly view with an American audience bent, and can be seen on BBC America, with BBC World News anchor George Alagiah set to host, per Variety.
ABC Family, Lionsgate and series creators Piller/Segan will produce webisodes for the series Wildfire, and available on the networks website starting this fall. The webisodes will be used to set up the story – a prequel to the series. Wildfire will begin production on its third season this July.
The season finale of Sci Fi‘s reality show Ghost Hunters on Wednesday night drew in 1.9 million total viewers, 1.2 million within the A18-49 bracket, making this the network’s highest rated program in that key demo since the finale of Battlestar Galactica last March. The finale took place at the Stanley Hotel in Colorado, where Stephen King stayed while writing The Shining. Ghost Hunters will return for a new season in October with 13 new episodes.
Rachel Ray will now be seen in Greece along with other Scripps Networks lifestyle programming following an agreement with SmartTV. The two-year contract licenses 500 total hours of programming from HGTV, Fine Living TV Network and Food Network. Scripps Networks International has recently signed first-time deals for their programming to be seen in China, Vietnam and Mexico. Scripps Networks programming is now available on every continent, in more than 160 countries and seen by more than 345 million households.
The restaurant chain, Jack in the Box, has added national cable to its second and third quarter media schedules, according to their media services agency, Horizon Media. The restaurant company has typically bought media regionally focusing on 44 spot markets. Their strategy has changed to target men 18-34 and the cable networks ESPN, TNT, Comedy Central, Spike TV, FX and Adult Swim will be used to reach this elusive market segment.
CBS has signed a development deal with Jenna Elfman for a new comedy project. Elfman has been around CBS for a while now – doing a few eps of Two & a Half Men a couple of years ago, and then last season Courting Alex ran briefly. No information yet on the new project.
Chuck Bolkcom has resigned his position as Group Publisher of Broadcasting & Cable and Multichannel News and his last day is today, and has accepted the position of Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in their Entertainment and Media business. He will report to Deborah Bothun and Randy Browning working in their Advisory Practice. Well done Chuck, knock ’em dead!
ABC News has named London-based Jim Sciutto as Senior Foreign Correspondent, where he will be lead correspondent on overseas stories, reporting across all ABC News broadcasts and platforms. Since 2002, Jim has reported from more than 30 countries in Europe, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, including 12 assignments in Iraq.
Nate Kirtman has been appointed to the new position of VP/Publicity at NBC Universal Television Group, where he will report to Rebecca Marks, EVP/Publicity. Nate will oversee the company’s overall media strategy, planning and communications initiatives, among other duties.
Top 10 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of 5/15-5/21/06 ranked by HH Rtg
Wheel of Fortune (King World) 8.0 AA
Oprah (King World) 7.2 AA / 7.4 GAA
Jeopardy (King World) 6.5 AA
Dr. Phil (King World) 5.7 AA / 5.8 GAA
Everybody Loves Raymond (King World) 5.7 AA / 7.6 GAA
Seinfeld (Sony) 5.4 AA / 6.8 GAA
Entertainment Tonight (Paramount) 4.8 AA / 5.0 GAA
Judge Judy (Paramount) 4.7 AA / 7.1 GAA
Friends (Warner Bros.) 4.4 AA / 5.7 GAA
That ‘70s Show (Carsey-Werner) 4.1 AA/ 5.4 GAA
Source Nielsen Media Research – Live + SD Data
Top 10 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of 5/15-5/21/06 ranked by A18-49
Seinfeld (Sony) 3.5 AA / 4.3 GAA
Everybody Loves Raymond (King World) 3.1 AA / 4.0 GAA
Friends (Warner Bros.) 3.1 AA / 4.0 GAA
Oprah (King World) 2.9 AA / 3.0 GAA
That ’70s Show (Carsey-Werner) 2.8 AA / 3.7 GAA
Wheel of Fortune (King World) 2.1 AA
Dr. Phil (King World) 2.1 AA / 2.1 GAA
Entertainment Tonight (Paramount) 2.0 AA / 2.0 GAA
King of the Hill (Carsey-Werner) 1.8 AA/ 2.2 GAA
Jeopardy (King World) 1.7 AA
Source Nielsen Media Research – Live + SD Data
Wednesday – A18-49 Analysis: NBC is three for three with the third win in a row Wednesday night with a 3.0/9 A18-49, according to fast affiliate ratings from Nielsen Media Research. FOX was a skosh ahead to take second place at 2.6/8, followed by CBS 2.6/7, UNIV 1.7/5, ABC 1.5/4, UPN 0.8/2, WB 0.7/2 and TELE 0.4/1. NBC’s Dateline led the pack at 8p with a 2.7/9, and ahead of the premiere of Gameshow Marathon on CBS with 2.3/8. FOX was barely in first at 9p with So You Think You Can Dance at 3.6/10; an encore of Deal or No Deal on NBC was right behind with 3.5/10. Then a repeat of CSI: NY was the winner at 10p with 2.9/8.
Live + Same Day Ratings: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 – time period averages. Source: Nielsen Media Research
CBS 6.2/10 Gameshow Marathon [p] 5.5/10, Criminal Minds [r] 6.7/11, CSI: NY [r] 6.4/11
NBC 6.2/10 Dateline 5.8/10, Deal or No Deal [r] 6.8/11, Law & Order [r] 5.9/10
FOX 4.6/8 Bones [r] 3.7/7, So You Think You Can Dance 5.6/9
ABC 3.1/5 George Lopez [r] 2.9/5, Freddie 2.9/5, Lost [r] 2.6/4, Commander in Chief 3.7/6
UNIV 2.0/3 La Fea Mas Bella 2.3/4, Barrera de Amor 2.1/3, Don Francisco Presenta 1.7/3
WB 1.3/2 Blue Collar TV 1.6/3, Blue Collar TV [r] 1.7/3, One Tree Hill [r] 0.9/1
UPN 1.2/2 Movie: My Baby’s Daddy 1.2/2
TELE 0.5/1 Tierra de Pasiones 0.6/1, Corazon Partido 0.5/1, Decisiones 0.4/1
A18-49: NBC 3.0/9, FOX 2.6/8, CBS 2.6/7, UNIV 1.7/5, ABC 1.5/4, UPN 0.8/2, WB 0.7/2, TELE 0.4/1
Friday Fun Fact: Robert Louis Stevenson said he had envisioned the entire story “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” in a dream and simply recorded it the way he saw it. Stevenson claimed to be able to dream plots for his stories at will.
The History Channel presents This Day in History:
1924 Congress grants citizenship to all Native Americans born in the United States. The right to vote, however, was governed by state law, allowing some states to bar Native Americans from voting until 1948.
Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question: On what show did Felix Silla play the role of the cousin in a very quirky family? COUSIN IT on the ADDAMS FAMILY Kudos to: Larry Kahn-The Golf Channel/Orlando; Steve Kantscheidt-Latitude/NY; Jonathan Townley-Studio City/NY; Cathy Guy-Plastech/Auburn Hills; Tom Chapman-WKRG/Mobile; Nick Riley-WFAA/Dallas; Yvette Clark-KTVT KTXA/Dallas Fort Worth; Dan Joanne Kuebel-Kelly Scott & Madison/Chicago; Len Klatt-Premiere Radio Networks/LA; Susan Nessanbaum-Goldberg-Rubicon Entertainment/LA; Robert Ward-Ward Communications/Santa Monica CA; Jill Antoniou-Broadcast Consulting Svcs/LA; Sean N. MacDonald-Homercartman Enterprises/Toronto; Andrew Makarewicz-CineGroupe/Montreal; Stephen Gallagher/UK
Today’s Trivia Question: Where would one buy Jabot cosmetics?(click here 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.)
Later — Cyn
06.02.06
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT: Friday, June 2, 2006
ABC AFV[r], Hope & Faith [r], 20/20
CBS Ghost Whisperer [r], Close to Home [r], Numb3rs [r]
FOX Movie Special: Lara Croft Tomb Raider
NBC Dateline NBC, Last Comic Standing [r]
i Paradise Virus, It’s a Miracle
UPN Friday Night Smackdown
WB What I Like About You [r], Twins [r], Reba [r], Living with Fran [r]
TELE Tierra de Pasiones, Corazon Partido, Decisiones
UNIV La Fea Mas Bella, iViva el Mundial (Especial)
