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04.26.10

Good morning. It’s Monday, April 26, 2010, and this is your first early morning briefing. As always, if you prefer to watch this morning’s news instead of reading it, click here .

Tonight’s Premieres:
Ovation: Design Giants at 7p; Behind the Label at 8p
Travel Channel: Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern at 10p

Tonight’s Finales:
BBC America: Top Gear at 8p
A&E Network: Runaway Squad at 10p
TLC: Ultimate Cake Off at 10p

A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM USA NETWORK

• Launched #1 New Series 4 Years Running: Psych (’06), Burn Notice (’07), In Plain Sight (’08), Royal Pains (’09)
• 5 of the Top 10 Originals on Cable P18-49 & P25-54: Burn Notice, White Collar, Psych, In Plain Sight, & Law & Order: CI
• More Affluent and Younger Audience
• Biggest Delivery in P18-34 Ever

SOURCE:Nielsen Media Research. Click here for the full source data.

CBS will air this year’s live broadcast of the 37th Annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy Awards on June 27 at 9p, from the Las Vegas Hilton in Las Vegas. Daytime Emmy nominations will be announced on May 12. The Daytime Emmy Awards presentation is from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in cooperation with the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Furthermore, the Daytime Entertainment Creative Arts Emmy Awards will take place at the Westin Bonaventure in Los Angeles on June 25. Last year’s Daytime Emmy Awards aired August 21 on The CW, resulting in the lowest audience in the show’s history.

HBO will debut the seventh season of Entourage and a sophomore season of Hung on June 27 following True Blood at 10p and 1030p respectively.

Comedy Central also has a couple of premieres scheduled for June as Tosh.0 continues its second season with new episodes opening on June 2 at 1030p. Then on June 24 at 10p, Comedy Central premieres the sixth season of animated comedy Futurama with 12 all-new episodes.
 
FOX’s special Idol Gives Back, which aired last Wednesday night, preliminarily amassed close to $45 million benefitting such charities as the Children’s Health Fund, Feeding America, Malaria No More, Save the Children’s US Programs and the United National Foundation. The final results will also include the monies being tallied on the iTunes store from show performances.

Last Thursday’s 75th NFL Draft first round coverage tallied a record number of viewers at 23.3 million on ESPN and NFL Network, an increase of +48% over the previous year. Additionally, the combined average viewership of 8.3 million was also a record-breaker, up +33% over last year.

Top 10 Weekend Box Office Estimates: April 23-25, 2010
How To Train Your Dragon (Paramount)   $15.0 million  5 wk total $178.0m
The Back-Up Plan (CBS Films)                 $12.3 million  opening weekend
Date Night (20^th Century Fox)                 $10.6 million  3 wk total $63.5m
The Losers (Warner Bros.)                      $9.6 million  opening weekend
Kick Ass (Lionsgate)                               $9.5 million  2 wk total $34.9m
Clash of the Titans (Warner Bros.)           $9.0 million  4 wk total $145.6m
Death At A Funeral (Sony)                      $8.0 million  2 wk total $28.4m
Oceans (Disney)                                    $6.0 million  1 wk total $8.5m
The Last Song (Disney)                          $3.7 million  4 wk total $55.4m
Alice In Wonderland (Disney)                  $2.2 million  8 wk total $327.5m
Source: Rentrak

A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM HISTORY

Source: Nielsen MultiTrak, Prime (M-Su/8-11pm); L+SD; March 2010 (3/1-3/28/10). Based on AA (000).  Includes all ad-supported cable nets that air programming in 50%+ hours of primetime.

For you Dexter fans … good news.  Reports from wife Jennifer Carpenter (who also plays Dexter’s sister on the show), Michael C. Hall has been pronounced “fully recovered” from his Hodgkin’s Lymphoma cancer and is now back at work.  Hall’s cancer was diagnosed back in January and has been undergoing treatment.  The cancer is now in remission.

Life is Too Short is a new comedy project from Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant for BBC2.  The show focuses on Warwick Davis, a little person well known in Britain for his performances in several hit films including Star Wars and Harry Potter.  The show follows Davis’ day to day life, and the various frustrations he endures.

Poison singer and current celebrity on The Celebrity Apprentice, Bret Michaels remains in critical condition after suffering a brain hemorrhage, tho he is conscious.  His speech is slurred, he is suffering from dizziness and blurred vision. Michael was taken to a hospital on Friday after complaining of a sudden and severe headache.  At that time, doctors diagnosed him as having suffered a subarachnoid hemorrhage, or basically a severe and serious stroke.  Michaels is on the current season of Celebrity Apprentice, though those episodes were taped months ago.

A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM SOAPnet

Thursday  A18-49 Analysis: CBS survived another Thursday night, winning with a 3.1/9 A18-49, according to final national ratings from Nielsen. At 8p, CBS’ Survivor won with 3.6/11 followed by FOX’s Bones at 2.5/8. During the 9p hour, CBS’ CSI and the average of NBC’s sitcoms The Office and 30 Rock tied for #1 at 2.8/8 each with ABC’s Private Practice at 2.3/6 in second place. CBS claimed the final win of the night as The Mentalist posted a 3.0/9 at 10p with NBC’s The Marriage Ref next at 1.9/5.

Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Thursday, April 22, 2010 – time period averages. Source: NTI Galaxy, as dated. Live+SD.

CBS: 8.2/14         Survivor 7.0/12, CSI 8.2/13, The Mentalist 9.4/16

FOX: 4.7/8             Bones 5.7/10, Fringe 3.6/6

ABC: 4.0/7             FlashForward 3.6/6, Private Practice 5.1/8, Grey’s Anatomy [r] 3.1/5

NBC: 3.0/5            Community 2.4/4, 30 Rock 2.7/4, The Office 3.9/6, 30 Rock 3.2/5, The Marriage Ref 2.8/5

UNIV: 2.0/3           Hasta que el Dinero Nos Separe 2.4/4, Corazon Salvaje 2.0/3, Mujeres Asesinas 1.5/3

CW: 1.8/3              Vampire Diaries 2.0/3, Supernatural 1.6/3

ION: 0.9/1            Ghost Whisperer 0.8/1, NCIS 0.9/1, NCIS 1.0/2

TELE: 0.7/1           El Clon 0.7/1, Perro Amor 0.7/1, Donde Esta Elisa 0.8/1

A18-49: CBS 3.1/9, FOX 2.3/7, NBC 2.2/6, ABC 1.7/5, UNIV 1.6/5, CW 1.5/4, TELE 0.6/2, ION 0.3/1

MSNBC.com hired Vaughn Ververs as Political Editor to lead the website’s political and election coverage in addition to supervising a group of web journalists based at NBC News’ Washington, D.C. bureau. Vaughn joins from POLITICO where he served as Senior Editor.

David Shaye joined Evolution Media as Director/Development. David, formerly an independent producer, will report to Alex Baskin, Head/VP Development.

Rick Goralnick takes on a new position at Richard Leeds International as VP/Licensing and Marketing. Rick will be in charge of character, brand and personality license acquisitions, marketing and public relations in addition to indentifying new sales avenues. Previously, Rick was with Marvel Entertainment as Director/Licensing.

A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM ROVI

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This day in History:  1819 – The Independent Order of Odd Fellows was founded on the North American Continent in Baltimore, Maryland, on April 26, 1819 when Thomas Wildey and four members of the Order from England instituted Washington Lodge No. 1.

Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question:   This television character wore an emerald and diamond pinky ring throughout this television series – the ring originally belonged to his famous father.  Who is this character? ALAN HALE JR. aka THE SKIPPER on GILLIGAN’S ISLAND  Kudos to:  Bill Timms-Peter Strain & Assoc/NY; Johnny Jan-American Ingenuity Inc & Petnet TV/Washington DC; Brent Baldwin-Turner Broadcasting/Atlanta; Monica Caraffa-RDR Promotions/Media; Domestic Goddess/Austin; David Schneider-GroupM Motion/Santa Monica; Dan Haberer-Creo Ent/Playa del Rey; Paul Blutter-General American Group/Northridge; Cindy Dolan-Ascent Media/Burbank; Mira Quinn-William F. Cooke TV Programs/Toronto

Today’s Trivia Question:  Johnny and Maeve ran this neighborhood favorite, located nearby the Riverside Hospital in NYC.  What was the name of this establishment?  (Email [email protected] 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.)

A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM IAB

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Later — Cyn
04.26.10

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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT –  MONDAY, APRIL 26, 2010

ABC:  Dancing with the Stars; Romantically Challenged, Castle
AZTECA: Lo Que Callamos Las Mujeres Edicion Especial, Extranormal de Impacto, Al Extremo
CBS: How I Met Your Mother [r], Rules of Engagement, Two and a Half Men [r], Big Bang Theory [r], CSI Miami [r]
CW:   One Tree Hill [r],  Gossip Girl [r]
FOX:  House, 24
ION:  Ghost Whisperer, Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds
NBC:  Chuck, Trauma, Law & Order
PBS: Antiques Roadshow, American Experience, Roosevelt’s America [r]
TELE:  El Clon, Perro Amor, Done Esta Elisa?
UNIV:  Hasta que el Dinero Corazon Salvaje, Cristina

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