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1.2 Rating in A25-54 / 1.4 Million Viewers DOCTOR WHO #1 Median Income: Your Sure Bet for Reaching an Affluent Audience Source: The Nielsen Company. 4/17/10, 9pm vs. ad-supported cable networks (excluding sports nets). P2+, P25-54, Live+7 CVG AA%, Live+7 AA Proj (000). Ranked on P25-54. Subject to qualifications. The Nielsen Company. All ad-supported cable networks (excluding sports nets). Season-to-date through 4/25/10. NPOWER, Live+7 Median Income, HHs. Cynopsis Good morning. It’s Friday, May 14, 2010, 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 . Tonight’s Premieres: Tonight’s Finales: Saturday’s Finale: Sunday’s Finales: A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM ABC You don’t just buy ad space.
You invest in quality content to reach your consumers. We don’t just make TV shows. Seems like we have a lot in common.
TLC renewed its new series Four Weddings produced by ITV Studios for a second season with eight one-hour episodes. TLC will open season two in September where each episode follows four different brides as they attend and judge each other’s weddings. The bride whose wedding is deemed the best receives a five-star dream honeymoon. The season one finale of Four Weddings airs tonight at 10p. Bravo heats up a seventh season of its culinary competition show as Top Chef: Washington D.C. premieres June 16 at 9p. Seventeen new “chef’testants” take on the weekly cooking challenges with one becoming Top Chef. Cookbook author/actress and host Padma Lakshmi returns along with head judge, restaurateur Tom Colicchio and judge Gail Simmons of Food & Wine magazine. Eric Ripert, chef and owner of Le Bernardin restaurant in New York City, will join this new season as a regular guest judge. With the seventh season set in the nation’s capital, some high-profile people based in Washington, D.C. will make appearances including Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin; Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi; White House chef Sam Kass; MSNBC host Joe Scarborough; and NBC White House correspondent Savannah Guthrie among other politicians and notables. Magical Elves produces Top Chef: Washington D.C. HISTORY brings back a fourth season of its series Ice Road Truckers featuring a group of top-flight drivers headed by Hugh Rowland, Alex Debogorski and Lisa Kelly along with two new truckers. The new season begins June 6 at 9p from Original Productions, a FremantleMedia Company. Oxygen offers up several original program premieres this summer:
Ovation launches a new entertainment event titled Art Out Loud beginning June 20 at 7p which offers a look at the influence of LGBT culture on film, literature, performance art and television and also celebrates June’s Gay and Lesbian Pride Month. The event also coincides with the network’s US premiere of the UK series Queer As Folk about the lives of three young gay men in Manchester, England. Yesterday, CBS Corporation announced it purchased EcoMedia, a company involved with public-private partnerships benefitting environmental projects. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. EcoMedia merges public entities and municipalities with private industry advertisers and local media to spur funding for environmental improvement projects. CBS has worked with EcoMedia since 2008 in CBS’ local markets. Morning News Weekly Average Ratings (week of May 3, 2010) 2010 UPFRONT: Telemundo Communications Group Telemundo Communications Group introduced its 2010-2011 original programming line-up for Telemundo and mun2 at a press conference yesterday at The Modern in New York City. New primetime programming for US Hispanics on Telemundo includes the following original novelas airing Monday-Friday:
mun2 presents two new series for the 2010-2011 season:
2010 UPFRONT: Discovery en Espanol For its 2010-2011 programming schedule, Discovery en Espanol presents five new series:
Discovery en Espanol is returning seven series to its line-up: Man Vs. Wild (seasons 5 and 6), I Shouldn’t Be Alive (season 4), Monsters Inside Me (season 2), Extraordinary Stories (Anthology), River Monsters (season 2), Atlas 4D (season 2) and Wicked Attraction (season 3). A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM SONY PICTURES TELEVISION
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~ PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT ~
In anticipation of next week’s broadcast network upfronts in New York, more series pick-ups were announced:
NBC and FOX will present their upfronts first on Monday while ABC presents on Tuesday followed by CBS on Wednesday and The CW and Univision on Thursday. HBO is working with Entourage executive producers Mark Wahlberg and Stephen Levinson on a new female-focused comedy called Leverage. The series would center on a group of female friends living and working in Los Angeles as they search for love. Wahlberg and Levinson will executive produce along with Leah Rachel and Emily Montague who developed the concept; Rachel will write the script. John Avlon was tapped by CNN as a Political Contributor, specializing in the analysis of the nation’s independent movement. Avlon will appear on CNN’s various programs as part of the network’s group of analysts and contributors. ~ RATINGS ~
Wednesday A18-49 Analysis: FOX claimed #1 Wednesday night with a 4.0/12 A18-49, according to final national ratings from Nielsen. A new edition of Minute to Win It on NBC won at 8p with 2.2/7 followed by double episodes of The Middle on ABC averaging a second place at 2.0/6. FOX had the edge with American Idol during 9p at 6.6/17 while the comedies Modern Family and Cougar Town on ABC averaged a 3.5/9 at #2. NBC was back in the winner’s circle at 10p as Law & Order: SVU topped with 2.8/8 and CBS’ CSI: NY was next at 2.5/7. Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 (May Sweep Day 14) time period averages. Source: NTI Galaxy, as dated. Live+SD. FOX: 7.3/12 Lie To Me [r] 3.4/6, American Idol 11.2/18 CBS: 6.6/11 Old Christine [f] 4.5/8, The Big Bang Theory [r] 4.0/7, Criminal Minds 8.2/13, CSI: NY 7.4/13 NBC: 4.1/7 Minute to Win It 4.0/7, Mercy [f] 2.7/4, Law & Order: SVU 5.7/10 ABC: 3.8/6 The Middle [r] 3.7/6, The Middle 4.6/8, Modern Family 6.2/10, Cougar Town 3.9/6, Happy Town 2.1/4 CW: 2.4/4 America’s Next Top Model [f] 2.4/4 UNIV: 2.1/4 Hasta que el Dinero Nos Separe 2.4/4, Don Francisco Presenta 1.7/3 TELE: 0.7/1 El Clon 0.6/1, Perro Amor 0.5/1, Donde Esta Elisa 0.9/2 ION: 0.5/1 Ghost Whisperer 0.6/1, Ghost Whisperer 0.4/1, Ghost Whisperer 0.4/1 A18-49: FOX 4.0/12, CBS 2.6/8, ABC 2.2/6, NBC 2.0/6, UNIV 1.8/5, CW 1.7/5, TELE 0.5/2, ION 0.2/1
~ EXECUTIVE MOVES ~
Gary Susalis was elevated to Senior Manager/Music Programming with Music Choice. In his new role, Gary will supervise the programming of the company’s 45 audio channels and be its primary liaison for company-wide efforts surrounding the channels. Gary will report directly to Damon Williams, VP/Program and Content Development. Tribune Company appointed Don Meek as EVP/Chief Revenue Officer for the company’s interactive and publishing units, effective immediately. Don will be in charge of strategizing and executing sales campaigns for Tribune’s interactive and publishing divisions, as well as cross-media sales. Much MTV Group, CTV Inc. promoted Mark McInnis as VP/Production and Brook Peters was named Director/Programming. Mark’s new position is effective immediately and his duties expand to manage all production and development for the eight networks in the Much MTV Group including MuchMusic, MTV, MuchMore, MTV2, PunchMuch, MuchLoud, MuchVibe and MuchMoreRetro. Brook begins his new position June 1 where he will oversee all facets of programming for the eight channels in the Much MTV Group. Brook will be involved with scheduling, negotiation and implementation of acquisitions in addition to overall programming and brand strategies. A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE
Upcoming Upfront 2010 Special Edition:
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Friday Fun Fact: The official term for the pincerlike claw of a crab, lobster, or scorpion is a “chela.” This day in History: 1973 – Skylab One was launched into orbit around Earth as the first U.S. manned space station. Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question: What TV host went gold with the CD “Romantic Christmas”? JOHN TESH Kudos to: Eric Brodsky-CNN/NY; Craig Turpin-Rising Sun Prods/EDT; John Avellino-Telerep/NY; Bob Lynch-Davis Adv/Worcester; Skip Engle-Editech/Omaha; Jennifer Beshires-KVUE/Austin; Dory Melman Petsrillo-Petry/Dallas; Linda Wooldridge-Rovi Corp/Tulsa; Alison Kmetko-MGM/LA; Jaeson Cayne-Cayne-O Prods/Encinitas; Adam Zuvich-Minute to Win It/Studio City; Theresa Soulliere-JTV Prods/LA; Richard Lawrence-Rebel Ent Partners/LA; Arthur Reinstein-Canwest Broadcasting/Toronto Later — Cyn Cynopsis Ad Sales: Member of Interactive Advertising Bureau (iab) To subscribe to any Cynopsis edition(s) click here . A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM REELZCHANNEL
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