Good morning. It’s Friday, October 22, 2004, and this is your first early morning briefing.
Fox‘s coverage of the seventh game in the National League Championship Series won Wednesday evening hand’s down according to final national ratings from Nielsen Media Research. Fox averaged a 11.0/27 A18-49 for the length of the game which ended at 12:01am, and 31.4 million viewers. CBS opted out of its scheduled lineup of premieres 9-10p and an original of CSI NY, and installed a repeat of CSI Miami and CSI from 9-11pm. ABC was #2 for the night with a 4.7/11, followed by NBC 3.5/8, CBS 3.3/8, UPN 2.1/5, WB 1.9/4. ABC’s Lost led the non-sports programming division at 8pm with a 6.3/16. UPN’s Top Model delivered a 2.3/6, behind Smallville’s 2.6/7 in the A18-49 demo. At 9pm the season debut of West Wing found a modest 4.0/9 demo rating, with both ABC’s The Bachelor and CSI Miami repeat pulling an 8 share. All three of the non-sports programming at 10p tied with a 10 share.
Series Finale: Univision: Amarte es mi Pecado [f] at 9-11pm
Casting / Development / Production:
Steven Cojocaro – you know, the over the top fashion stylist/guy about town seen on ET, Today and access Hollywood, and author of Red Carpet Diaries: Confessions of a Glamour Boy, has apparently shot a pilot for a daytime talker for Paramount Domestic TV, so says Hollywood Reporter. Nothing to confirm from Paramount which is traditionally tight lipped about this sort of thing.
Fox has ordered a script for a comedy project from HBO Independent Prods and writer Cindy Caponera, based in large part on Caponera’s life. She was a writer for SNL, as well as worked on several other primetime comedy series.
Steve R. Schirripa, Sopranos bad guy, has signed a development deal with Mouse House’s Touchstone TV, to star in a comedy based on his book, A Goomba’s Guide to Life, according to Hollywood Reporter.
ESPN‘s new drama series Tilt (premieres January 13) has cast Eddie Cibrian and Chris Bauer. The show is a dramatization of the world of high stakes tournament poker; Cibrian’s character is one of the players, while Bauer plays a sheriff.
KeKe & Jamal is a pilot ordered by Disney Channel about a crotchety old man suddenly saddled with raising his two little grandchildren, starring KeKe Palmer. The project is being produced by Ralph Farquhar and Claude Brookes.
Fox has ordered a pilot presentation of a project called Grandmaster Freak & the Furious 15, an animated comedy project about the early start-up days of rap and hip hop, from Cube Vision (Ice Cube) and producer/scribe David X. Cohen, per Variety.
Senator John Kerry has formally decided not to participate in Sinclair Broadcasting‘s POW Story: Politics, Pressure and the Media, which will include portions of the anti-Kerry film Stolen Honor and is scheduled to air this evening. Sinclair Broadcasting has also formally declined the offer from Deborah Rappaport and husband Andy Rappaport to purchase for $1 million an hour of primetime to air the documentary Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry, produced by George Butler. Sinclair says its primetime is not for sale and while talks did ensue as to how Sinclair might include excerpts of this pro-Kerry doc into its POW Story special, those talks didn’t amount to anything concrete. Meanwhile, George Butler has filed suit in a NY Federal court to stop Sinclair from airing his documentary, as well as prevent the broadcast group from including any of the thousands of photographs Butler has taken of Kerry over the past 35 years, citing potential copyright violations.
Top 10 M-F Syndicated StripSeries for the week of October 4-10, 2004 ranked by HH Rtg Wheel of Fortune (King World) 8.5 AA Jeopardy (King World) 7.9 AA Oprah (King World) 7.5 AA / 7.5 GAA Everybody Loves Raymond (King World) 6.2 AA / 7.4 GAA Seinfeld (Sony) 5.0 AA / 5.9 GAA Friends (Warner Bros.) 5.0 AA / 6.2 GAA Dr. Phil (King World) 4.8 AA / 4.9 GAA Entertainment Tonight (Paramount) 4.6 AA / 4.7 GAA Judge Judy (Paramount) 4.2 AA / 6.3 GAA Regis & Kelly (BVT) 3.1 AA Source Nielsen Media Research
Top 10 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of September 27-October 3, 2004 ranked by A18-49 Everybody Loves Raymond (King World) 3.5 AA / 4.2 GAA Friends (Warner Bros.) 3.5 AA / 4.2 GAA Seinfeld (Sony) 3.2 AA / 3.8 GAA Oprah (King World) 2.9 AA / 2.9 GAA Wheel of Fortune (King World) 2.6 AA Jeopardy (King World) 2.5 AA Entertainment Tonight (Paramount) 1.9 AA / 2.0 GAA That 70’s Show (Carsey-Werner) 1.9 AA / 2.3 GAA Will & Grace (Warner Bros.) 1.8 AA / 2.2 GAA Dr. Phil (King World) 1.8 AA / 1.8 GAA Source Nielsen Media Research
The Wayans brothers are at it again with a new movie entitled Little Man. Shawn Wayans plays a man very interested in becoming a father who mistakenly takes a height-challenged criminal (played by Marlon Wayans) to be his new adopted son. The Keenen Ivory Wayans-directed movie is written and produced by Keenan, Shawn and Marlon Wayans with Revolution Studios (Sony).
Nickelodeon and ABC Family Channel were both slapped with the FCC’slargest monetary penalty against children’s TV broadcasters for “potential’ violations of rules concerning kid’s TV commercial content, as set-forth in the 1990 Children’s Television Act. Viacom on behalf of Nick, and Walt Disney Company on behalf of ABC Family Channel, entered into a consent decree with the FCC whereby the media companies paid fines of $1m and $500,000 respectively. The violations were identified as part of what the FCC refers to as, “routine audits conducted by Enforcement Bureau field agents,” during the 4Q 2003, when it was discovered that the amount of commercial content during kid’s TV programs on both networks exceeded the FCC regulatory limits (12m per hour during the week in kids pgming, and 10.5m per hour on the weekends). Both channels were also cited for allegedly advertising products that tied in with the programming. Also a Children Television Act no-no. Both ABC Family and Nickelodeon cited internal computer system problems as the source of possible errors.
Top 5 Broadcast Spanish Language Primetime Programs for the week of October 11-17, 2004 ** UNIV Don Francisco Presenta (Wed 1030p) 23.5 NHTI HH Rtg UNIV Amarte Es Mi Pecado (M-F 9p) 23.2 NHTI HH Rtg UNIV Rubi (M-F 8p) 19.5 NHTI HH Rtg UNIV Not Uni Presenta (Thu 10p) 18.5 NHTI HH Rtg UNIV Casos Vida R: Ed. Esp. (Tue 10p) 18.4 NHTI HH Rtg Source: Nielsen Media Research Note: NHTI Ratings are based on 10.57 million Hispanic TV Homes ** Please note that Nielsen Media’s rating parameters are listed for some shows that air Monday-Friday to include the 5 day average instead of listing each individual weekday.
Top 10 Broadcast English Language Primetime Programs in Hispanic TV Homes for the week of October 11-17, 2004 FOX MLB ALCS Game (Sun 817p) 10.0 NHTI HH Rtg FOX MLB LCS Game (Wed 816p) 9.9 NHTI HH Rtg FOX MLB ALCS Game (Tue 817p) 7.9 NHTI HH Rtg FOX MLB ALCS Game (Sat 806p) 7.5 NHTI HH Rtg CBS CSI (Thu 9p) 7.0 NHTI HH Rtg ABC Lost (Wed 8p) 6.6 NHTI HH Rtg ABC Desperate Housewives (Sun 9p) 6.6 NHTI HH Rtg UPN WWE Smackdown! (Thu 8p) 6.1 NHTI HH Rtg FOX MLB NLCS Game (Thu 841p) 5.7 NHTI HH Rtg ABC George Lopez (Tue 830p) 5.6 NHTI HH Rtg Source Nielsen Media Research Note NHTI Ratings are based on 10.57 million Hispanic TV Homes
African American television homes in the US represent 12,870,000 households. Here are the rankings for the week of October 11-17, 2004 – highest rated primetime network programs in African American TV homes according to Nielsen Media Research UPN Girlfriends (Mon 9p) 18.4 HH Rtg UPN Half & Half (Mon 830p) 17.0 HH Rtg UPN Eve (Tue 830p) 15.3 HH Rtg UPN Second Time Around (Mon 930p) 15.1 HH Rtg ABC NFL Monday Night Football (Mon 907p) 13.9 HH Rtg UPN One on One (Mon 8p) 13.9 HH Rtg CBS CSI (Thu 9p) 13.9 HH Rtg UPN All of Us (Tue 8p) 13.8 HH Rtg UPN America’s Next Top Model (Wed 8p) 12.5 HH Rtg CBS Without a Trace (Thu 10p) 12.1 HH Rtg Source Nielsen Media Research
Wednesday, October 20, 2004.FINAL National Household Ratings for all Networks – Time period Averages only, particular for Live Sports Programming. Fast affiliate numbers which reflect time period data, not program data, and can change slightly once the finals come in, particularly for LIVE programming (i.e. Football). Source Nielsen Media Research. Time Period Averages Only. [p] = Premiere; [o] = Original; [r] = Repeat
FOX 18.5/27 MLB: NLCS Game #6 runover 7.0/15; ALCS Game #7: Boston Red Sox at New York Yankees 19.4/30 (8p-cc at 12:01am)
ABC 7.7/12 Lost 10.5/16, The Bachelor 5.9/8, Wife Swap 6.8/10
NBC 7.0/11 West Wing [r] 4.4/7, West Wing [p] 7.9/11, Law & Order 8.8/13
A18-49 Fox 11.0/27, ABC 4.7/11, NBC 3.5/8, CBS 3.3/8, UPN 2.1/5, WB 1.9/4
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Friday Fun Fact: There are about 3,000 hot dog vendors in metropolitan New York. That’s a lot of boiled water.
The History Channel presents This Day in History: 1938: In Astoria, Queens, Chester F. Carlson makes an electrostatic copy of the words “10-22-38 Astoria,” using a process called xerography. Nine years later, Carlson sold the rights to his invention to the Haloid Company, which later changed its name to Xerox.
Answer to yesterday’s Trivia Question: What TV character has freckles on his/her back that when connected form a picture of the Liberty Bell? ROB PETRIE on the DICK VAN DYKE SHOW. But in the interest of full disclosure, one of those freckles is actually a mole. Kudos to: Kevin Chupka-NBC Universal/NY; John Harman-Screenvision/NY; Jeff Rosenberg-Superstation WGN/NY; Ellen Falb-Newmark-Telemundo/NY; Kyle Krebs-KDFW/Dallas; Jordy Luft-WGNO, WNOL/New Orleans; Sue Wolinski-Mediaedge:cia/Chicago; Kent Kimberlain-SpotPlus/Dallas; Dennis Aimino-KABC/LA; Julie Senik-RPA/Santa Monica; Lee Nizani-CBS/LA; Lisa Howard-ABC Entertainment/Burbank.
Today’s Trivia Question: Who said: “Everybody wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.” ?? (click to respond to the trivia question and please be sure to include with your answer your name, company, city and time zone. Only the second four correct responses from each time zone will be listed in tomorrow’s kudo list.)
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