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Good morning. It’s Friday, September 25, 2009, and this is your first early morning briefing. And 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 Premieres: Sunday’s Premieres: Sunday’s Finale: A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM CYNOPSIS MEDIA EVENTS
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The CW handed a full season order to its drama One Tree Hill. Originally, The CW had ordered 13 episodes of One Tree Hill and now the series is receiving a full seventh season order. Additionally, The CW ordered nine more scripts of frosh series The Vampire Diaries and six more scripts are in the works for Melrose Place. Several series are returning or debuting next month on various networks:
2008-2009 Season Results for Sunday Morning Talk Shows:
Going into its 35th season on PBS, Austin City Limits revealed a performance schedule filled with an eclectic mix of entertainers (check local listings), reports THR. Beginning October 3, Austin City Limits opens with the Dave Matthews Band and punctuated throughout the season other major artists include Kenny Chesney on October 17; Elvis Costello and Band of Heathens on November 7; Willie Nelson & Asleep at the Wheel on November 14; Pearl Jam on November 21; among others and ending with Madeleine Peyroux and Esperanza Spaldin on February 13, 2010. Additionally, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this week announced they were designating the Austin City Limits Studio as a historic landmark. Based on findings from an online public opinion survey of 1,000 18+ adults commissioned by Empower MediaMarketing, close to 74% of viewers who tuned into NBC’s The Jay Leno Show during its inaugural week gave the show a grade of “A” or “B.” Critics and Twitter users, on the other hand, did not like the show as well. The 8-page study, titled The People Have Spoken: Comparing Opinions on The Jay Leno Show Across Traditional Media, Social Media and Viewers, reviewed a sample of 500 tweets during Leno’s first week and 75% of those opinions were also negative. Texas-based Global Language Monitor, using an algorithm they developed, released the top ten list of “telewords” or the most influential words from TV as the new season begins, per Reuters. Some of the “words” making the list are actually two words or phrases: Program Call: If your company is attending MIPCOM or MIP JR in early October with programming to sell, Cynopsis Media is producing our annual MIPCOM Shopping Guide available to all Cynopsis and Cynopsis Kids subscribers on Thursday, October 1. To have your programming included, please send only the following info for your top 5 shows: title, availability date, number of episodes, length, type (i.e., movie, series, special, etc.), genre and your terms (barter, cash, etc.). To be included in this free and highly-viewed special edition, please send details to ~ PRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT ~
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TBS hired baseball Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson aka “Mr. October” as host for a collection of one-on-one interviews titled The Pride of October airing during the network’s exclusive coverage of all four MLB’s Division Series and the National League Championship Series. The interview series begins October 7 in TBS’ pregame show MLB On Deck. Expanded editions of the interviews will also air as interstitials between games and online at TBS Hot Corner via MLB.com. Producer Mark Burnett was chosen as Executive Producer for the People’s Choice Awards 2010, broadcasting live on CBS January 6 from the Nokia Theatre L.A. Queen Latifah returns to host the awards show for the fourth consecutive year. Simon Cowell is working with FOX on a possible deal to bring his British hit series The X Factor to the US, reports THR, which is contrary to his current American Idol contract. FOX and Cowell are discussing adapting the music competition series for US audiences where Cowell would serve as executive producer. The talks also include ensuring Cowell’s presence as judge on American Idol for two more years. Currently, The X Factor is in its sixth season in the UK on ITV. Dave, one of ten distinctive channel brands making up UKTV, an independent commercial joint venture of BBC Worldwide and Virgin Media, announced it has made a deal with RDF Media USA, Inc. where RDF Media will develop 3 half-hour scripts with one being an animation series and another project a scripted comedy. Dave and RDF Media have already produced an animated pilot which has been pre-sold to FOX. ~ ELSEWHERE IN CYNOPSIS ~
CYNOPSIS DIGITAL – TODAY’S TOP STORY: The FCC has set an Oct. 22 date to formally propose new net neutrality rules aimed at ensuring that ISPs refrain from restricting the flow of internet content and applications, per Reuters. With Democrats now in control of the commission by a 3-2 margin, the measure is expected to pass and subsequently be put up for public comment. A group of Republican lawmakers have backed off their plan to introduce a bill to block the FCC’s efforts to codify the agency’s network neutrality principles, the Washington Post reported earlier this week. Full edition: CYN DIGITAL. CYNOPSIS KIDS – TODAY’S TOP STORY: Galleon Holdings enters into a co-production and distribution pact with Chinese movie producer/distributor, PolyBona Film Distribution, for Galleon’s animated feature film Sokator-422. Under the deal Galleon and PolyBona will co-produce the Sokator-422 animated feature film, which is based on Galleon’s multi-platform sci-fi football fantasy of the same name. PolyBona will distribute the film through movie theaters and other media channels in China, and its associate company Distribution Workshop will distribute it via its network across South East Asia, including Hong Kong, Macau, Brunei, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, East Timor, Singapore, Malaysia, Laos, Indonesia, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. Additionally, Galleon is in negotiations with distributors for other territories. Full edition: CYN KIDS. ~ RATINGS ~
Wednesday A18-49 Analysis: Competition for the A18-49 demo was fierce Wednesday though CBS won by a skosh at 3.6/10, according to final national ratings from Nielsen Media Research. At 8p, ABC’s Dancing with the Stars Results show won at 3.3/10 followed in #2 with FOX’s So You Think You Can Dance at 2.5/8 while new seasons of CBS’ Old Christine and Gary Unmarried averaged a 2.3/7 which tied for third with NBC’s new series Mercy premiering at 2.3/7. CBS led during 9p with the season debut of Criminal Minds at 4.4/12 followed closely by the series premieres of ABC’s Modern Family (4.2/11) and Cougar Town (4.4/11) averaging a 4.3/11. Also this hour, NBC’s new season of Law & Order: SVU posted a 2.5/7, ranking fifth overall. Through 10p, the season opener of CBS’ CSI: NY won the time period at 4.0/11 with ABC’s new drama Eastwick next at 3.0/8 and NBC’s The Jay Leno Show in third at 2.0/5. Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 time period averages. Source: NTI Galaxy, as dated. Live+SD. CBS: 7.8/13 Old Christine [p] 4.6/8, Gary Unmarried [p] 4.3/7, Criminal Minds [p] 9.6/15, CSI: NY [p] 9.2/16 ABC: 7.7/13 Dancing with the Stars Results 10.0/17, Modern Family [p] 7.8/13, Cougar Town [p] 7.1/11, Eastwick [p] 5.6/10 NBC: 5.0/8 Mercy [p] 5.3/9, Law & Order: SVU [p] 5.5/9, The Jay Leno Show 4.3/7 FOX: 3.8/6 So You Think You Can Dance 3.5/6, Glee 4.1/7 UNIV: 2.4/4 En Nombre Del Amor 2.1/3, Manana Es Para Siempre 3.1/5, Don Francisco Presenta 2.0/3 CW: 1.3/2 America’s Next Top Model 1.9/3, The Beautiful Life 0.7/1 MNT: 0.7/1 World’s Funniest Moments [r] 0.6/1, Magic’s Biggest Secrets Revealed [r] 0.8/1 TELE: 0.5/1 Mas Sabe El Diablo 0.6/1, Ninos Ricos 0.4/1, Victorinos 0.6/1 ION: 0.4/1 Ghost Whisperer 0.4/1, Ghost Whisperer 0.4/1, Criminal Minds 0.4/1 A18-49: CBS 3.6/10, ABC 3.5/10, FOX 2.8/8, NBC 2.3/6, UNIV 1.9/5, CW 0.9/3, TELE 0.5/1, MNT 0.4/1, ION 0.2/0
~ EXECUTIVE MOVES ~
Washington, D.C.-headquartered production and post-production company, Interface Media Group, Inc. (IMG) purchased Virginia-based Alexandria Productions, Inc. In so doing, Joel Westbrook, Founder/President of Alexandria Productions will join IMG as Executive Producer to manage original production, co-production and multi-platform projects. Sony Pictures Television (SPT) promoted Todd Miller as EVP/Networks, Asia-Pacific. Todd will provide supervision for SPT’s television networks in the Asia-Pacific region as well as its investments in networks in Australia. Todd will also join the board of directors of SPT’s India joint venture, Multi Screen Media Private Limited (Multi Screen). Based in Hong Kong, Todd reports to Andy Kaplan, President/Networks. Rentrak Corporation named Steven Walsh as SVP/Sales and Jeremy Gabor as Director/Sales. Based at Rentrak’s New York office, Steven and Jeremy are charged with selling and marketing the company’s current measurement and research tools as well as any new products developed in the future. Susie Fitzgerald was hired to the newly created position as SVP/Scripted Development and Current Programming for AMC. Susie will manage the daily operations of AMC’s current original scripted programming and new projects in development. Susie joins AMC from Josephson Entertainment where she was President/Television. For AMC, Susie will be based in Los Angeles and will report to Joel Stillerman, SVP/Original Programming, Production and Digital Content, AMC. Former Sundance Channel Director/Marketing, Laura Giacalone was appointed VP/Marketing for Discovery Communications’ Planet Green. In her new role, Laura will report to Rob Jacobson, SVP/Marketing, Planet Green. A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM NY WICT
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