Source: NTI Galaxy, L+SD US Rtg, 09/24/01-09/30/07,Prime,7+ tc,exclg spcls,brkouts.,progs <5 mins. TC=GV&PV.Eng. Speakg. nets. Viewers=P2+ 9/24/07 & 10/1/07, NPower AA Reach Proj. Bachelor std=HH(6.3), P2+( 9.08), W18-34(4.4), W18-49 (5.2) & W25-54 (5.8).Year ago=Bachelor like days(10/2-9/06).

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10/05/07

Good Morning.  It’s Friday, October 5, 2007 and this is your first early morning briefing. 

USA has picked up the cable TV rights to New Line’s film Hairspray (2007), and is expected to pay in the $13 million neighborhood for the opportunity, reports Daily Variety.  USA gets the film for four years beginning in 2010, during which time it will also be able to air it on Bravo. HBO which has an output deal with New Line, has the pay TV rights, and New Line Distribution can also carve out a few runs for broadcast.  In the eleven weeks since its premiere, the feature film has pulled in more than $118 million domestically.

Tonight’s Premieres:
NBC: Friday Night Lights at 9p

Tonight’s Finales:
SCI FI Channel: Dr. Who at 8p

Saturday’s Premieres:
NBC:  qubo Fall Season Saturday morning kids programming block at 10a (also airs on ION Fridays at 3p and Telemundo on Saturday/Sunday at 8a – check local listings)
TV One: andiamo! at 1130a
Gospel Music Channel: The Kitchen Sink at 8p
CMT: I Want to Look Like a High School Cheerleader Again at 830p
BET J: Africana at 9p

Sunday’s Premieres:
ABC: America’s Funniest Home Videos at 7p
The CW: Life Is Wild at 8p
Food Network: The Next Iron Chef at 9p and Nigella Express at 1030p
VH1: America’s Most Smartest Model at 9p
Oxygen: Snapped at 10p and Captured at 1030p

Sunday’s Finales:
WE tv: American Princess at 10p
Lifetime: Side Order of Life at 10p

Bravo’s Top Chef 3: Miami finale drew nearly 2.2 million A18-49 viewers and 3.1 million total viewers. I won’t tell you who won, just in case you haven’t seen it yet.  And there is one more episode of this season scheduled – all 15 contestants will return for the reunion show Top Chef: Watch What Happens Special on October 10 at 10p.

Great American Country (GAC) offers a new twist on the outdoor show as it debuts The Girls Outdoors on Saturday mornings at 630a. With host/creator/producer Jennifer Wysocki, the hi-def show is all about teaching women they can have fun and participate in outdoor sporting activities just like the boys.

BET J, part of the BET Digital Networks, has a slew of new shows opening this month that join Parallel Paths and Tears, Shears and Beauty which have already debuted:

• Africana – starts this Saturday at 9p, African-themed film series.
• Conversations – starts October 8 at 830p; BET J head Paxton Baker interviews current popular African-American entertainers.
• Timeless – debuts October 10 at 930p; program that highlights the lives and careers of various musical artists.
• Real Life Divas – premieres October 11 at 10p; profiles prominent African-American women such as author Terri McMillan among others.
• Living the Life of Marley – debuts October 26 at 10p; reality show about Ky-mani Marley, son of reggae music great Bob Marley.
• The Best Shorts – airs Sundays and Tuesdays at 8p; film competition series that showcases up-and-coming African-American filmmakers. 

Menudo is back!  MTV’s Making Menudo reality series will make its debut on October 25 at 1030p, following the fourth season premiere of Run’s House. Out of the hundreds of guys who auditioned, fifteen 13-19-year olds were picked to head off to Menudo Boot Camp in Miami.  The 10-episode series will be re-broadcast on MTV Tr3s on Saturdays at 2p.  Menudo Entertainment will handle the final 5-person urban/Latin music boy band with manager Johnny Wright.

Comedy Central ordered up a new series The Root of All Evil where unlikely persons or pop culture entities, such as Paris Hilton vs. Dick Cheney, are pitted against each other and put on mock trial with comedian Lewis Black presiding. Each episode will have a rotating group of comedians that will argue who or what is the most evil with Lewis making the final decision. The series is set to debut next March.

Joining the cast of ABC‘s Grey’s Anatomy is Lauren Stamile in a recurring role.

Versus will add a new weekly to its lineup – Sports Unfiltered with Dennis Miller, scheduled to debut November 6 at 10p, per Variety.  A. Smith & Co., will produce the weekly hour, and Miller will chatter about the recent goings on in the sports industry, from headlines to some of the bigger issues facing the sports world. The show will be taped at Miller’s home in California, and will be in front of a live audience.  Live Audience … your own home …. hmmm … is that a good thing?

Showtime has ordered up a pilot for the project Possible Side Effects, written by Tim Robbins, who will also direct the pilot.  Set in the pharmaceutical research industry, the show’s central characters are always on the hunt for the next big miracle drug which also has the potential of making them billionaires. The show also takes in all the political aspects of moving a new drug thru the process to bring it to market.

Fox has made a series commitment to a new drama from Bad Robot Prods. and Warner Bros. TV called Fringe.  A sci-fi series, this one is a little X Files and a little Twilight Zone in its dealings with the paranormal and a little bit of humor, says Variety.  In addition to the series, Fox’s new deal with Warner Bros. (a la the ABC deal with Warner Bros. a month ago) includes streaming rights for Season #1, and those rights then switch to Warner Bros. in season #2. 

And one more from Variety – Lifetime has picked up a reality project called The Premier and I, which focuses on the actress Lisa Raye McCoy-Misick, newly dubbed first lady of the Turks and Caicos Islands and her new husband the Premier Michael Misick.

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Clarissa Ward joins ABC News as the Moscow Correspondent. Reporting from Russia, Clarissa will report for all ABC News’ broadcasts and platforms. Prior to this appointment, Clarissa was a news correspondent with FOX News Channel based in Beirut.

World Wrestling Entertainment named Michael Lake as President/WWE Films, where he recently was Executive Producer of the WWE Film’s The Condemned. Replacing Joel Simon, Michael will report to Vince McMahon. He is charged with developing theatrical and direct-to-video opportunities for WWE Films as well as creating new television projects.

Dea Perez promoted to acting GM, Discovery Kids Media.  Perez, who had been VP/Programming, Animal Planet and Discovery Kids Media, will oversee the day-to-day operations of the Discovery Kids network.  She will remain NYC-based and continues to report to Marjorie Kaplan, President and GM, Animal Planet & Discovery Kids Media.  You rock Dea!

Scott Mann was tapped for the new position of VP/Outdoor Affinity Marketing with the Outdoor Channel. Scott will be the network’s main contact with the outdoor industry with the goal of forming long-term multi-tiered strategic partnerships.

Independent production company Diverse hired former TLC executive Ed Crick as VP/Production and Development to increase the company’s formats, features and factual business in the U.K. and the U.S. in addition to being Executive Producer for all factual genres. He will report to Roy Ackerman, Creative Director and Paul Sowerbutts, Managing Director. Furthermore, Diverse recruited Mark Roberts as Executive Producer/Factual for programs as well as to develop documentaries, current affairs and specialty factual projects.

Today in Cynopsis Kids

• Crack & Bonky head for the US and Asia
• The Kinetics to get preschoolers dancing
• Joost gets new channels

Today in Cynopsis International

• Argentina gives formal approval to Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. to acquire 7 Latin American pay TV networks
• National Geographic Television International picks up distribution rights from ABC Australia
• Sony Pictures Television International and South Korea’s Hanaro Telecom inked day-and-date for VoD

Today in Cynopsis Digital, listen to the audio version here or subscribe to the iTunes Cyn Digital podcast 

• MySpace teams with PayPal to help non-profits and politicians tap power of social net
• NBC Universal and Sony Pictures Television to help make CES all about content
• Bebo integrates with AOL to offer AIM on its platform

  Wednesday – A18-49 Analysis: ABC held steady winning Wednesday night with a 4.2/11 A18-49, according to final national ratings from Nielsen Media Research. ABC’s new drama Pushing Daisies won the 8p hour at 4.3/13 with NBC’s Deal or No Deal in second at 2.8/8. ABC’s Private Practice cruised through 9p in first place at 4.5/11 and NBC’s Bionic Woman was next at 4.1/10. CBS led at 10p as CSI: NY posted a 3.9/10 followed by ABC’s Dirty Sexy Money at 3.5/10.

Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Wednesday, October 3, 2007 – National Final ratings.  Source: NTI Galaxy, as dated. Live+SD.

ABC: 7.8/13       Pushing Daisies [p] 8.3/14, Private Practice 8.3/13, Dirty Sexy Money 6.5/11

CBS: 7.4/12        Kid Nation 4.6/8, Criminal Minds 9.5/15, CSI: NY 8.3/14

NBC: 6.6/11       Deal or No Deal 7.1/12, Bionic Woman 6.9/11, Life 5.7/10

FOX: 4.0/6         Back to You 4.4/7, ’til Death 3.9/6, Kitchen Nightmares 3.8/6

CW: 2.4/4          America’s Next Top Model 3.0/5, Gossip Girl 1.8/3

UNIV: 2.2/4       Amar sin Limites 1.5/2, Destilando Amor 2.8/4, Don Francisco Presenta 2.4/4

MNT: 0.5/1        Decision House 0.5/1, Meet My Folks [r] 0.5/1

TELE: 0.5/1       Madre Luna 0.7/1, La Esclava Isaura 0.5/1, Amor Mio 0.3/1

A18-49: ABC 4.2/11, CBS 3.4/9, NBC 3.3/9, FOX 2.7/7, UNIV 1.8/5, CW 1.7/5, TELE 0.4/1, MNT 0.3/1

Friday Fun Fact: A shrimp’s heart is in its head.

This Day in History: 1989 – The Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader of Tibet, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question: In the movie 50 First Dates starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, what fruit do Lucy and her father always pick together every year on his birthday?   PINEAPPLE  Kudos to:  Jennifer Anderson-Henry-LIN Television/Indianapolis; Kelly Guida-FOX4/Cape Coral, FL; Terry Cudmore-CBS/NY; Shawna Lawhorn-Regent University/Virginia Beach; Kevin Schmidt-National Cable Communications/Chicago;  Sara Kahre-Roberts Broadcasting/St. Louis; Jen Walz-Campbell Mithun-Minneapolis; Ashley Harder-KCBD/Lubbock, TX; Mike Fong-KMEX/LA; Shannon Marcus-DirectAvenue/Temecula, CA; Anne Van Gordon-Comcast Spotlight/Portland, OR; Nicholas Andryc-ReelzChannel/LA; Shari Siskind-Koladich-The Comedy Network/Toronto; Lynn Valiquette-Ellis Releasing/Toronto

Today’s Trivia Question: In a 1981 television ad, what was the brand name of the product Meg Ryan “cheered” for?    (
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – Friday, October 5, 2007

ABC: Pushing Daisies [r], Grey’s Anatomy [r], 20/20
CBS: Ghost Whisperer, Moonlight, Numbers
CW: Friday Night Smackdown!
FOX: Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?, K-Ville [r]
ION: Movie: A Storm in Summer [7p], Movie: The Secret [9p]
MNT: Movie: Desperately Seeking Susan
NBC: Deal or No Deal, Friday Night Lights [p ], Las Vegas
PBS: Washington Week, Now, Bill Moyer’s Journal, Expose: America’s Investigative Reports, Antiques Roadshow [r]
TELE: Madre Luna, La Esclava Isaura, Amor Mio
UNIV: Amar sin Limites, Destilando Amor, La Familia P.Luche

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