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Good morning. It’s Friday, October 12, 2012, and this is your first early morning briefing.
Tonight’s Premieres:
Animal Planet: Infested! at 9p
BIO Channel: Cursed at 10p
Destination America: A Haunting at 10p
Tonight’s Finale:
CMT: Cheer at 10p
Saturday’s Premieres:
A&E Network: Flipping Boston at 12p
Animal Planet: Too Cute! at 8p
MSNBC: Lockup at 10p
Sunday’s Premieres:
Food Network: Sandra’s Restaurant Remakes at 10a; Guy’s Big Bite at 1030a
Nick at Nite: See Dad Run at 8p
AMC: The Walking Dead at 9p; Talking Dead at 11p; Comic Book Men at 1130p
Cooking Channel: My Food Obsession at 8p; Unique Sweets at 1030p
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NBC has decided to air the one-hour pilot episode Mockingbird Lane, the updated version of the 1960s sitcom The Munsters as a Halloween special on October 26 at 8p. The project from Bryan Fuller and director Bryan Singer has been in development for about two years though NBC opted to not pick up the pilot to series last spring. Portia de Rossi stars as Lily Munster with Jerry O’Connell as Herman Munster, Eddie Izzard as Grandpa, Mason Cook as Eddie and Charity Wakefield as Marilyn.
ABC News’ What Would You Do? series will begin airing encores on HLN October 21. HLN announced its exclusive cable television rights to the docu-series yesterday. Back-to-back episodes will air on Thursday and Sunday nights from 9p to 11p. Furthermore, HLN is expanding its current relationship with Dr. Drew Pinsky with Dr. Drew On Call, a one-hour program airing Mondays through Wednesday at 9p starting October 22.
Holiday bells begin ringing in November as Lifetime unveils its holiday movie slate under the banner It’s a Wonderful Lifetime. The movie lineup includes ten Lifetime Original Movies airing from early November through December during which the network will air more than 50 holiday-themed films. Kicking off It’s a Wonderful Lifetime is the Lifetime Original Movie The Christmas Consultant on November 10 at 8p starring Caroline Rhea. Other Lifetime Original Movies premiering during the holiday stunt include All About Christmas Eve starring Haylie Duff; Finding Mrs. Claus starring Mira Sorvino and Will Sasso; Holiday High School Reunion headlined by Rachel Boston, Marilu Henner and Harry Hamlin; Holiday Spin helmed by Ralph Macchio; Holly’s Holiday starring Claire Coffee; Love at the Christmas Table starring Danica McKellar, Lea Thompson and Scott Patterson; The March Sisters at Christmas headlined by Julie Marie Berman; Merry-In-Laws helmed by former Cheers stars Shelley Long and George Wendt; and The Real St. Nick starring Torrey Devito and Callard Harris. Lifetime will further air a cadre of past holiday movies during It’s a Wonderful Lifetime including the 2009 Lifetime Original Movie 12 Men of Christmas starring Kristin Chenoweth among many other titles.
Yesterday, MTV revealed plans to expand and streamline its hip hop music and lifestyle programming and content across its multiple channels and screens under the brand name MTV Jams. This move extends the MTV Jams brand from a 24-hour digital channel to now integrating into all of MTV’s properties including MTV, MTV2 and MTV.com. The initiative also includes the launch of Jams.MTV.com, a new digital destination for all of MTV’s hip hop content, a new weekly series on MTV2 called The Week in Jams premiering October 28 at 11a as well as a fresh team of contributors joining MTV News’ hip hop expert, Sway Calloway. The new contributors include DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha God, Sofi Green, Maestro and Nessa. Leading up to the premiere of The Week in Jams, MTV will air a special Hip Hop Homecoming hosted by Sway this Saturday and a movie marathon during the day including the titles How High, Notorious, 8 Mile and Get Rich or Die Trying.
Next Tuesday, Golf Channel debuts a new six-episode series Our Longest Drive at 1030p about three Chicago golfing buddies, Vic, Dan and Jim who take a journey of self-discovery to the Arctic Circle to play one last round in honor of their deceased friend. The trio journey more than 5,500 miles in an RV as they share their love of golf and their love for each other and their deceased friend Mike.
The back-to-back season two premieres of A&E Network’s Duck Dynasty Wednesday at 10p and 1030p attracted an average of 3.8 million total viewers; 2.4 million with A25-54; and 2.3 million among A18-49, becoming the most-watched telecast in the series’ history.
TV One reports the season four premiere of Washington Watch, its Sunday morning news program hosted by Roland Martin grew by +35% in HH at a 0.25 HH rating and 142,000 homes. Last season, the show’s premiere delivered a 0.19 HH rating and 105,000 homes.
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PLUM TV announced plans to re-launch as a national lifestyle network with distribution on Titan Broadcast Management’s WMFP-TV in Boston and WTVE-TV in Philadelphia. The new distribution deals increases PLUM TV’s reach to more than 6 million households. The network carries such programming as Yoga with a View, Special Spaces and Keeping up with Ramona. PLUM TV will now be available on cable and satellite in those markets.
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Lost’s Carlton Cuse and screenwriter Ryan Condal are working to adapt Oni Press’ graphic novel series The 6th Gun for NBC. The plot is about the six mythical guns in the Old West which is being produced by Universal TV and Oni’s production company Closed on Mondays Entertainment. Condal will write the script as well as executive produce along with Cuse and Closed on Monday’s co-founder Eric Gitter and Andy Bourne.
30 Rock’s co-EP Ron Weiner sold two comedies to NBC. One is an untitled workplace comedy about a contentious work marriage where two people are polar opposite but have to manage a team together. Chernin Entertainment’s Peter Chernin and Katherine Pope are EPs with 20th Century Fox producing. The second project is an adaptation on a British comedy called Whites produced by Universal Television about a celebrity chef who doesn’t realize his star has faded. 3 Arts’ Howard Klein will be the EP.
The CW is taking Confessions of a Backup Dancer back into development, per THR. The network handed the project script orders for the drama based on Tucker Shaw’s book of the same name. The plot is about a young filmmaker who is hired to make a documentary about a famous pop star and her controversial tour. Things become mired when the filmmaker falls in love with a backup dancer. Andrew Leeds and David Lampson are writing the script and executive producing for Allow and Warner Bros. Television.
USA Network’s upcoming half-hour comedy pilot Sirens from executive producer Denis Leary has cast Michael Mosley (30 Rock), Kevin Daniels (Modern Family), Jessica McNamee (The Vow) and Kevin Bigley (Game Change) to star. Leary will co-write with fellow EP Bob Fisher; Jim Serpico will also serve as EP along with Hal Vogel and David Aukin of Daybreak Pictures. Apostle and Fox Television Studios will produce the project in conjunction with Daybreak Pictures. Production on the pilot will begin later this month in Chicago with Victor Nelli as director who will also be an EP.
Valerie Cruz has landed a role in Lifetime’s drama pilot, The Secret Lives of Wives. The project is inspired by Iris Krasnow’s book of the same name about the unvarnished truth behind the marriages of four different women.
Casting Call: Robert Mazza Casting, LLC and a major cable TV network are casting for a new docu-series and are seeking single women, 21 and over who are obsessed with finding Mr. Right. If you prioritize finding the right man and have a systematic approach to searching for Mr. Right or have a lengthy checklist or a dating flow chart, the producers would like to hear from you. Casting ends soon. Send an email to: [email protected] and include your name, age, contact information (phone and email), at least three photos and a brief paragraph explaining all the ways you have gone about finding the man of your dreams.
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Awards Event: December 11 (Scholastic, NYC)
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Wednesday A18-49 Analysis: FOX was consistent Wednesday leading the A18-49 viewers with a 3.5/10, according to final primetime national ratings from Nielsen. FOX’s The X-Factor won at 8p with a 3.3/10 and CBS’ Survivor: Philippines came next at 2.8/8. Also this hour, The CW debuted new series Arrow with a 1.3/4. ABC’s double dose of Modern Family episodes at an average of 4.9/13 trumped the competition during 9p and the second hour of FOX’s The X-Factor dropped back to second place with a 3.7/10. ABC held sway over the demo at 10p as the series premiere of Nashville connected with a 2.8/8 and CBS’ CSI was #2 at 2.6/7 and the series launch of Chicago Fire on NBC was third at 1.9/5.
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 time period averages. Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.
CBS: 6.8/11 Survivor: Philippines 6.1/10, Criminal Minds 7.3/11, CSI 7.0/11
ABC: 5.9/9 The Middle 4.9/8, The Neighbors 4.0/6, Modern Family 7.3/11, Modern Family 7.4/11, Nashville [p] 6.0/10
FOX: 5.7/9 The X Factor 5.7/9
NBC: 3.7/6 Animal Practice 2.6/4, Guys with Kids 2.7/4, Law & Order: SVU 4.2/6, Chicago Fire [p] 4.4/7
UNIV: 2.3/4 Por Ella Soy Eva 2.1/3, Abismo de Pasion 2.6/4, Amor Bravio 2.1/3
CW: 2.0/3 Arrow [p] 2.6/4, Supernatural 1.5/2
TELE: 0.7/1 Rosa Diamante 0.6/1, Corazon Valiente 0.8/1, Pablo Escobar: El Patron del Mal 1.0/2, El Rostro de la Venganza 0.6/1
ION: 0.6/1 WWE Main Event 0.8/1, Leverage 0.4/1, Leverage 0.5/1
TF: 0.3/0 Cineplex WED [7p start r] 0.3/0, Cineplex 2 WED [r] 0.3/0
A18-49: FOX 3.5/10, ABC 3.3/9, CBS 2.8/8, UNIV 1.8/5, NBC 1.7/5, CW 1.2/3, TELE 0.5/1, ION 0.3/1, TF 0.2/1
GroupM hired Johan Boserup from Omnicom to head the Global Trading practice in the role as Global CEO GroupM Trading. Johan will report to Juergen Blomenkamp, a member of the global executive committee and to Dominic Proctor, Global President.
iVillage tapped Jonathan Hills to the newly-created role as VP/Brand Experience, Product Development and Operations. Jonathan begins his new position October 29 and will report to Jodi Kahn, President.
Missy Chambless has advanced to VP/Non-Scripted Series Marketing for TNT and TBS. In this newly-minted role, Missy will head all marketing in support of the network’s non-scripted programming encompassing TBS’ upcoming King of the Nerds and TNT’s The Hero. Based in Atlanta, Missy reports to Tricia Melton, SVP/Brand and Entertainment Marketing for TBS, TNT and Turner Classic Movies (TCM).
Effective immediately, Justin Antoniotti was named News Director at WTAE/Pittsburgh, the ABC affiliate owned by Hearst Television. Justin joins WTAE from Hearst-owned WYFF in Greenville, SC.
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Friday Fun Fact: When 7-Up was invented, it was originally called “Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda.”
This day in History: 1792 – First celebration of Columbus Day in the US held in New York.
Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: Where did Neal Caffrey of White Collar, grow up? St. Louis. Kudos to: Frank Zazza-iTVX/NYC; Allie Keller-USA Network/NYC; David Stern-BARD Entertainment/NYC; Shannon James-Figure 8 Films/Carrboro, NC.
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2012
ABC: Shark Tank, Primetime: What Would You Do?, 20/20
CBS: NCIS [r], CSI:NY, Blue Bloods
CW: Arrow [r], Beauty and the Beast [r]
FOX: The X Factor [r], Fringe
ION: Cold Case, Cold Case, Cold Case
NBC: Grimm [r], Grimm, Dateline NBC
PBS: Washington Week, Need to Know, American Masters, VOCES on PBS
TELE: Junto Al Tri, La Antesala, Futbol: Guyana vs. Mexico
UNIV: Por Ella Soy Eva; Amor Bravio
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