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10.04.13

Good morning. It’s Friday, October 4, 2013, and this is your first early morning briefing.

Tonight’s Premieres:
BET: Chocolate Sundaes at 10p
CMT: Cassadee Pope: Frame by Frame at 9p
Discovery: NFL In Season at 10p
HGTV: Endless Yard Sale 2013 at 8p, I Brake for Yard Sales at 9p
Sportsman Channel: Bowhunter TV at 9p

Tonight’s Finales:
Univision: Que Bonito Amor at 10p

Saturday’s Premieres:
HGTV: Home of Tomorrow at 2p
PBS: Austin City Limits at 8p

Sunday’s Premieres:
Animal Planet: Call of the Wildman at 9p
Discovery: Alaska: The Final Frontier at 9p, Buying Alaska at 10p
Discovery Fit & Health: Untold Stories of the ER at 9p
DIY: House of Bryan at 8p
Food: Halloween Wars at 9p
HGTV: Cousins Undercover at 8p
Lifetime: Drop Dead Divas at 9p, Witches of East End at 10p
NatGeo Wild: Animal Fight Night at 8p
PBS: Masterpiece Classic: The Paradise at 9p
TLC: Long Island Medium at 9p, Alaskan Women Looking for Love at 10p

NBC has ordered a reality competition series that promises to send the winner out of this world. Space Race, from Mark Burnett‘s One Three Media, has partnered with Sir Richard Branson‘s Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo for a contest that has people vying for a ride on the commercial spaceline (price tag: $250,000). “The term ‘trip of a lifetime’ has for once been delivered on,” said NBC Entertainment president of alternative and late night programming Paul Telegdy. 

ABC hopes a 90-minute special with David Blaine will conjure high November Sweeps ratings. In David Blaine: Real or Magic, the illusionist will perform for A-listers like Woody Allen, Harrison Ford and former President George Bush, going into some of the stars’ homes. No date for the Radical Media production was announced.

ExxonMobil has called foul on FXX‘s logo. Claiming the new net’s interlocking X’s violates trademark law, the oil company filed suit in U.S. District Court in Houston seeking an injunction requiring FXX to stop using the symbol.

Today‘s Matt Lauer scored the first interview with Miley Cyrus since the singer’s headline-making raunchy VMA appearance on August 25. Cyrus will perform on the NBC morning show Monday, October 7 as well as chat with Matt. Cyrus is also hosting Saturday Night Live tomorrow, ahead of the October 8 debut of her new album.

MTV has a piece of the Miley action, too. The net is airing an extended edition of Miley: The Movement, the one-hour documentary that premiered Wednesday. New footage and extended scenes are included in the 90-minute “deluxe edition,” airing Sunday, October 6 at 8p; fans can tweet the hashtag #unlockMiley to access advance clips.

Scripps Networks Interactive is launching digital lifestyle channel ulive. The net offers episodes and clips from Scripps brands including HGTV, Food Network and Travel Channel, as well as original series; launch partner Ford Motor Company is being integrated into episodes of ulive programs. “We have created an online destination where anyone can enjoy entertaining and relevant videos for the way you live,” said ulive President Jeff Meyer.

Discovery‘s first sports show premieres tonight. NFL In Season – Steelers vs. Vikings “was a dream opportunity to see how two big-time NFL teams approach a must-win game,” exec producer Christo Doyle tells Cynopsis. “These two teams approached this game with very different strategies, from the Vikings coming to London a week before the game to get acclimated, to the Steelers treating it like a typical away game.” Doc kicks off tonight at 10p; part two, with the 49ers versus the Jaguars, airs Friday, November 10.

Bushmills Irish Whiskey tapped into Breaking Bad fever for its Since Way Back program celebrating close friendships. Actor Aaron Paul (Jesse) joined three pals to develop content celebrating their relationship and inspiring viewers to drink Bushmills responsibly.

Comedy net IFC has signed on as the TV partner of music’s Festival Supreme, taking place Saturday October 19. The net will air promo spots ahead of the event featuring Tenacious D (Jack Black and Kyle Gass), and host a “Festival Supreme Comedy Week” marathon from October 12-18.

Bloomberg Television is launching a primetime finance series about companies shaping the global landscape. Sponsored by American Airlines, C-Suite with Jeffrey Hayzlett profiles start-ups and big brands. The half-hour series debuts Tuesday, October 8 at 9:30p, and will also be available on Bloomberg’s digital platforms.

Smithsonian Channel is not only chronicling the story of the first real Bionic Man, the result of billions of dollars of research, but the net is also bringing the 6-foot-tall robot to Comic Con. Bionic Man will go on display at the New York event October 10-13; the one-hour doc, The Incredble Bionic Man, premieres Sunday, October 20 at 9p.

Just three episodes into its freshman season, Sleepy Hollow has won a 13-ep renewal from Fox. “It’s a conceptual blast like nothing else on television,” said Fox chairman Kevin Reilly. Boasting 13.6 million viewers after three additional days of time-shifted viewing, the show’s premiere was the net’s most successful fall drama debut since 24 in 2001. Sleepy Hollow airs Mondays at 9p.

Discovery Channel docu-series Gold Rush returns with a two-hour fourth season premiere, as crews set out on risky treasure hunts. Season three of the Raw Television production was the number one television show for seven weeks among men 18-49, and watched by an average 4.57 million viewers P2+.

Trisha’s Southern Kitchen returns to Food Network with guests including Kelly Clarkson and Wendy Williams sharing meals with Grammy-winner Trisha Yearwood. Season four of the Ellen Rakieten Entertainment production bows Saturday, November 9 at 10:30p.

Daily strip Rachael Ray got a two-year renewal from CBS Television Distribution, taking it through its tenth season in 2015-16. The syndicated talker is renewed in nearly 90 percent of the country.

USA Networks wants more Covert Affairs. The net greenlit the spy drama, now in the middle of a fourth run, for season five, to air in 2014. With close to 4 million viewers, Affairs ranked as one of cable’s top ten scripted shows this summer.

MTV is bringing competition show The Challenge back for a 25th season. The last edition drew 2.1 million total viewers, up 27 percent from season 23.

Marine wildlife series Ocean Mysteries with Jeff Corwin from Georgia Aquarium returns to ABC affiliates for season three on Saturday, October 5. The series, created in partnership with Georgia Aquarium and Litton Entertainment, focuses on conservation issues.

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Amazon Studios, in a race to catch up to Netflix, has ordered three new comedy pilots, which will be available for free on Amazon Instant Video in early 2014. Whether they go to pilot will be determined by customer feedback – in May, Amazon plucked five series out of fourteen pilots which will be video-streamed as part of the $79 Amazon Prime shipping service. Two Amazon comedies will bow this fall, Alpha House, starring John Goodman and Betas.

Tim Kring, the exec producer of Dorothy Must Die, has another project in the works at The CW. The net has put in development Exp, reports Deadline, about the social effects of an illegal designer drug.

R.J. Mitte (Breaking Bad) has been added to the cast of ABC Family‘s Switched at Birth in a recurring role as a paralyzed student. Series returns in January 2014.

HBO‘s The Money pilot now includes Patrick Kennedy (Boardwalk Empire) and Dominique McElligott (Hell on Wheels). The drama revolves around a controlling media mogul.

Fremantle Media and Syco Entertainment, a Sony/Simon Cowell partnership, have big plans for The X Factor and Got Talent formats. Global YouTube channels will showcase the best content from local versions of the talent shows around the world, as well as original content, weekly roundups and best and worst auditions. Got Talent has 55 local versions; The X Factor has 25.

Believe, set to debut midseason on NBC, has been picked up by UKTV for viewing in the U.K. on Watch. The supernatural thriller, from Bad Robot Productions, is scheduled to premiere across the pond in early 2014.

AMC/Sundance Channel announced new launches for Sundance Channel in Europe. The net has landed on the cable/IPTV platform Bouygues Telecom in France, and is available on cabler VOO/BeTV in Belgium.

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ABC‘s Super Fun Night premiered to a solid 3.2 rating/9 share among A18-49 Wednesday night, after lead-in Modern Family (4.2/12 in the demo). CBS and Fox shows held steady from last week: CBS’s Survivor crept up three tenths of a point, to a 2.7/8 in A18-49, Criminal Minds was down a tenth to 2.7/8 and CSI inched up a tenth to 2.1/6 in the demo, while Fox’s two-hour The X-Factor posted a 2.4/7 rating, down a tenth.

Bravo reported its best 3Q ever among total viewers, averaging 968,000, up 12 percent year-to-year. Among A18-49 the net rose 10 percent, with 544,000 viewers. The Real Housewives cleaned up for the net: The NJ franchise’s fifth season averaged 1.89 million viewers A18-49 and 3.1 million total viewers, while season three of the Miami wives pulled an average 908,000 A18-49 and 1.37 total viewers, and the Ocean County crew drew 1.79 million in the young demo and 2.76 million total viewers for its eighth go-round.

Jay Leno started the late night season off right for NBC. The Tonight Show with Jay Leno averaged 1.21 million A18-49 for the week of September 23, up 29 percent from last year. ABC‘s Jimmy Kimmel Live earned 863,000 in the demo and Late Show with David Letterman drew 792,000 for CBS. In total viewers, it was Leno with 3.68 million, Letterman with 3.14 million and Kimmel with 2.43 million.

NBC‘s late-night streak continued into the weekend, when Saturday Night Live‘s Tina Fey-hosted 39th season premiere averaged a 2.4 rating/10 share in A18-49, its best premiere in three years.

Broadcast Morning News Shows  Weekly Average Ratings (week of September 23, 2013)
ABC: GMA 5.55 million total viewers; 1.7/13 and 2.1 million A25-54
NBC: Today 4.75 million total viewers; 1.7/13 and 2.0 million A25-54
CBS: This Morning 2.85 million total viewers; .8/6 and 977,000 A25-54
Source: Nielsen, NTI

Wednesday A18-49 Analysis: ABC led Wednesday night among A18-49 viewers with 2.6/8, according to final primetime national ratings from Nielsen. CBS’s Survivor earned 2.7/8 to take the 8p hour, versus 2.3/7 for the first hour of Fox’s The X Factor. ABC snatched the 9p hour with Modern Family’s 4.2/12 and Super Fun Night’s 3.2/9, beating the 2.7/8 CBS earned for Criminal Minds. CBS popped to the top again at 10p, posting 2.1/6 for CSI versus 1.9/6 for ABC’s Nashville.

Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Wednesday, October 2, 2013 time period averages.  Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.

A18-49:   ABC 2.6/8, CBS 2.5/7, FOX 2.4/7, NBC 1.6/5, UNI 1.5/4, TELE .5/2, CW .5/1, ION .3/1, UMA .1/0

CNN tapped Jay Shaylor to serve as Executive Producer of The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer. Shaylor had been Senior Producer at Good Morning America.

Sundance Channel Global appointed Geraud Alazard its Vice President of Marketing. Previously, Alavard served as Managing Director at PureScreens in Paris.

Carla Sacks has joined creative content agency M3 Creative‘s New York team, to help to expand the company’s East Coast business.

Producer Marc Merson died September 29 of heart failure. He was 82. In addition to films, Merson produced several TV programs, including ABC Stage 67 and Katz.

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Friday Fun Fact: Dolphins sleep with one eye open – they rest one half of their brain while the other remains conscious.

This Day In History sponsored by Military Channel: 1933 – The first issue of Esquire magazine was published.

Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: Which WKRP in Cincinnati (1978-1982) character was suspected of crimes that were actually committed by his/her lookalike? Venus Flytrap. Kudos to: James Taguchi-WTVR/Richmond, VA, Joyce Pizzo-Deutsche Bank/NYC, Andrew Goldman-HBO/NYC, Susan Nessanbaum-Goldberg/Idiot Box Productions/LA, Daniel Haberer-Creo Entertainment/Playa del Rey, CA, Lorrie Shilling/El Segundo, CA.

Today’s Trivia Question – Evil Twins Theme Week: On Soap (1977-1981), which character was abducted by space aliens, who created a duplicate of him/her? (Email trivia@cynopsis.com 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.).

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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – FRIDAY OCTOBER 4, 2013

ABC: Last Man Standing, The Neighbors, Shark Tank, 20/20
CBS: Undercover Boss, Hawaii Five-0, Blue Bloods 
CW: The Originals, America’s Next Top Model
FOX: MasterChef, Sleepy Hollow
ION: Cold Case, Cold Case, Cold Case
MyTV: Monk, Monk
NBC: The Michael J. Fox Shoe, Sean Saves the World, Dateline NBC, Elizabeth’s Story: A Meredith Vieira Special
PBS: Washington Week, Charlie Rose, Great Performances
Telemundo: Dama y Obrero, Marido en Alquiler, Santa Diabla
UMA: En el Tiempo de las Mariposa, Gossip Girl Acapulco
Univision: Porque el Amor Manda, La Tempestad, Que Bonito Amor [f]

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