Cynopsis
08.13.12

Good morning. It’s Monday, August 13, 2012, and this is your first early morning briefing.

Tonight’s Premieres:
FOX: Hotel Hell at 8p
NBC: Stars Earn Stripes at 8p; Grimm at 10p
A&E Network: Intervention at 9p & 10p
DIY Network: Blog Cabin at 930p
Bravo: Gallery Girls at 10p
TLC: United Bates of America at 9p; Big Tiny at 10p
TNT: Major Crimes at 10p
Univision: Amor Bravio at 10p
HISTORY: Counting Cars at 1030p
Sundance Channel: Get To Work at 1030p

Tonight’s Finales:
BBC America: Top Gear at 9p
TNT: The Closer (series finale) at 9p
Style Network: Chicagolicious (mid-season finale) at 9p
MTV: Teen Wolf at 10p

FOX is giving viewers in ten cities an exclusive chance to see advance screenings of its new Tuesday night sitcoms, Ben and Kate and The Mindy Project.  The New Fox Tuesday Screenings and Live Q&A Event will take place on August 26 at 8p ET/5p PT and directly following the in-theater screenings, the casts of New Girl, Raising Hope, Ben and Kate and The Mindy Project will participate in a live, interactive nationwide Q&A.  The two-episode advance screenings will happen in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, San Francisco, Boston, Washington, DC, Atlanta and Houston.  Following the preview, series stars Martha Plimpton and Garret Dillahunt (Raising Hope), Dakota Johnson and Nat Faxon (Ben and Kate), Max Greenfield, Jake Johnson and Lamorne Morris (New Girl) and Mindy Kaling and Chris Messina (The Mindy Project) will participate in the nationwide interactive live Q&A from The Broad Stage at the Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center.  Entertainment Weekly’s Annie Barrett will moderate the live Q&A from Los Angeles.  Fans watching the live Q&A at the ten screening events will have the opportunity to submit questions via Facebook and Twitter. For more information about how to RSVP for the New Fox Tuesday Screenings and Live Q&A Event and Twitter handles for the Live Q&A portion, visit the Cynopsis Media website at www.cynopsis.com and look for the press release from FOX.

Host Fareed Zakaria of CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS has been suspended by CNN after it was revealed he plagiarized the work of another writer for his column in TIME.  Last Friday, TIME suspended Zakaria for a month for violating the magazine’s policies following Zakaria’s apology for lifting the work of Jill Lepore in The New Yorker for his own column on gun control.  CNN also released this statement on Friday: “We have reviewed Fareed Zakaria’s TIME column, for which he has apologized,” the network said. “He wrote a shorter blog post on CNN.com on the same issue which included similar unattributed excerpts. That blog post has been removed and CNN has suspended Fareed Zakaria while this matter is under review.”  Zakaria’s show on CNN airs on Sundays at 10a.

TLC’s double premiere episodes of Here Comes Honey Boo Boo last Wednesday at 10p and 1030p delivered a 1.7 rating with W18-34 and a 1.6 with W18-49.  Two all-new episodes of Here Comes Honey Boo Boo return to TLC’s schedule next Wednesday at 10p.

Albert Freeman Jr. died last Thursday at the age of 78.  Mr. Freeman’s career spanned film, stage and television and was best known playing Elijah Muhammad, the Nation of Islam leader and Malcolm X’s mentor in Spike Lee’s 1992 biopic Malcolm X.  Other film roles included Once Upon a Time . . . When We Were Colored (1995) starring opposite Phylicia Rashad and Down in the Delta (1998) directed by Maya Angelou and starring Alfre Woodard.  In television, Mr. Freeman played Malcolm X in the miniseries Roots: The Next Generations which earned him an Emmy nomination in 1979.  He was also nominated for an Emmy for his role in the 1970 telepic My Sweet Charlie playing opposite Patty Duke.  Mr. Freeman also won a best actor Daytime Emmy for his work as Capt. Ed Hall on the ABC soap One Life to Live and he starred in the ABC sitcom Hot L Baltimore in 1975 and recurred on Homicide: Life on the Street as Deputy Commissioner James Harris.  In addition to several other earlier TV and film roles, Mr. Freeman taught acting for many years at Howard University and served as chairman and artistic director of its theater arts department for the last six years.

Top 10 Weekend Box Office Estimates:  August 10-12, 2012
Bourne Legacy, The (Universal)               $40.3 million  opening weekend
Campaign, The (Warner Bros.)                 $27.4 million  opening weekend
Dark Knight Rises, The (Warner Bros.)       $19.5 million  4 wk total $390.1m
Hope Springs (Sony)                              $15.6 million  1 wk total $20.1m
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (20th Century Fox) $8.2 million  2 wk total $30.6m
Total Recall (Sony)                               $8.1 million  2 wk total $44.2m
Ice Age: Continental Drift (20th Century Fox) $6.8 million  5 wk total $144.1m
Ted (Universal)                                    $3.3 million  7 wk total $209.9m
Step Up Revolution (Lionsgate)               $2.9 million  3 wk total $30.2m
Amazing Spider-Man, The (Sony)            $2.2 million  6 wk total $255.5m
Source: Rentrak

A drama in development about the queen of Egypt, Cleopatra is in the works at NBC.  Michael Seitzman is penning the period drama from Lorenzo Di Bonaventura Pictures and ABC Studios.  NBC ordered a put pilot project. 

Two daytime drama casting news: Ronn Moss is departing the CBS soap The Bold and the Beautiful where he has played fashion magnate Ridge Forrester since the show began in 1987.  Moss will shoot his final scenes this Tuesday and his last episode will air sometime in September.  On NBC’s Days of Our Lives, former General Hospital star Greg Vaughan is joining beginning November 13 in the role of Eric Brady, the estranged brother of Sami (Alison Sweeney) and the son of Roman Brady and Marlena Evans (Deidre Hall).  The character of Eric has not been part of Days of Our Lives since 2000. 

ABC’s midseason primetime soap drama, Mistresses added Mike Dopud, per EW.  Dopud will play Olivier, an attractive European who buys Josslyn’s (Jes Macallan) real estate firm.

Also on ABC’s comedy Last Man Standing, new show runner, Tim Doyle is recasting several roles, reports EW.  Playing the part of Kristin, Mike Baxter’s (Tim Allen) eldest daughter is Amanda Fuller, replacing Alexandra Krosney.  Most recently, Fuller appeared on ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy last season as Dr. Morgan Peterson.  Newcomer Flynn Morrison will play 5-year old version of Boyd, a role that was played last year by toddler twins Luke and Evan Kruntchev.  For Boyd’s dad, Ryan, Doyle is looking for an actor to play the recurring role.  Last year, the role was played by Nick Jonas. 

Lifetime approved a new reality-competition series, Supermarket Superstars hosted by Stacy Keibler where aspiring food product inventors will pitch their concepts for an opportunity to have their product launched nationally in a major grocery chain.  The show will watch as contestants pitch their creations to three mentors who will offer further development help before they present the final concept to a top supermarket buyer.  The winner of each episode will be rewarded an investment in their product and a chance to return in the season finale where one individual’s product will receive the national launch in a major grocery store chain.  Lifetime ordered ten episodes produced by The Weinstein Company (Project Runway) and Studio Lambert (Undercover Boss).  Bob and Harvey Weinstein, Co-Chairmen of The Weinstein Company will serve as EPs along with Meryl Poster and Barbara Schneeweiss of The Weinstein Company; Stephen Lambert and Eli Holzman of Studio Lambert also are EPs in addition to show runner Rhett Bachner and Rob Sharenow, Gena McCarthy and Stephen H. Schwartz of Lifetime. 

Fresh off the Summer Olympics, Michael Phelps the most decorated Olympian ever with 22 medals will next star in the fifth season of Golf Channel’s The Haney Project.  Production on The Haney Project begins next month and will chronicle Phelps’ progress with his golf game with help from Tiger Woods’ former swing coach, Hank Haney.  The series will also introduce viewers to Phelps’ mother, Debbie and his coach, Bob Bowman along with cameos of his famous friends.  Subway, which has had a long-term partnership with Phelps will become one of the charter sponsors of The Haney Project’s fifth season.

Production on the fourth season of TV Land’s sitcom Hot in Cleveland begins its taping in front of a live studio audience on August 31 and the new season is set to premiere November 28 at 10p.  New for this season, Heather Locklear and Jay Harrington will appear in multiple episodes and Regis Philbin returns for the season premiere.  In addition, Georgia Engel (The Mary Tyler Moore Show) and Michael McMillian (True Blood) will reprise their roles, Engel as Mamie and McMillian as Owen.  Hot in Cleveland is executive produced by Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner of Hazy Mills Productions and is helmed by Suzanne Martin as EP/show runner and writer.  Lynda Obst is also an EP and Larry W. Jones and Keith Cox are EPs for TV Land.  Hot in Cleveland is currently available worldwide in more than 165 countries.

Investigation Discovery’s new series, I Survived Evil (wt) hosted by Charisma Carpenter (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel) will begin filming this month on its ten episodes.  The series is produced by Cineflix Inc. for Investigation Discovery and will premiere in 2013.

Beginning today, HBO Home Entertainment UK will make its shows available to watch instantly, without a subscription, through a new deal with digital movie service blinkbox.  This is the first time UK consumers can purchase the second seasons of Game of Thrones and Boardwalk Empire through blinkbox prior to the show’s DVD and Blu ray releases.  blinkbox will also offer other HBO series including all four seasons of True Blood and the miniseries Band of Brothers and The Pacific. 

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Thursday A18-49 Analysis:  NBC continued to ride high Thursday night beating the competition with a 7.0/20 A18-49, according to final primetime national ratings from Nielsen.  NBC’s Summer Olympics ratings at 8p were #1 with a 5.5/18 and Univision’s Por Ella Soy Eva took second place at 1.4/5.  At 9p, NBC’s ratings for the Summer Olympics coverage rose by two points to 7.5/21, way ahead of next in line Big Brother on CBS at 1.8/5.  NBC’s Summer Olympics edged up to a 7.7/22 during 10p and Univision resumed its second place spot with La Que No Podia Amar at 2.2/6.

Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Thursday, August 9, 2012  time period averages.  Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.

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NBC: 13.6/23         Summer Olympics Thursday Primetime 13.6/23

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CBS: 3.0/5               The Big Bang Theory [r] 3.6/6, Two and a Half Men [r] 3.0/5, Big Brother 14 3.2/5, Person of Interest [r] 2.4/4

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UNIV: 2.5/4              Por Ella Soy Eva 1.8/3, Abismo de Pasion 2.2/4, La Que No Podia Amar 2.7/4

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ABC: 2.2/4               Wipeout [r] 2.1/4, Wipeout 1.9/3, Rookie Blue [r] 2.5/4

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FOX: 1.1/2                Raising Hope [r] 1.2/2, Raising Hope [r] 1.1/2, Glee [r] 1.0/2

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TELE: 0.8/1              Rosa Diamante 0.8/1, Corazon Valiente 0.9/1, Pablo Escobar: El Patron del Mal 0.9/2, El Rostro de la Venganza 0.5/1

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ION: 0.7/1                Cold Case 0.7/1, Cold Case 0.7/1, Criminal Minds 0.8/1

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CW: 0.4/1                Vampire Diaries [r] 0.5/1, The L.A. Complex [r] 0.4/1

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TF: 0.2/0                  Cine en Familia THR [7p start r] 0.2/0, Fiesta de Pelicula THR 0.2/0

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A18-49:  NBC 7.0/20, UNIV 1.9/5, CBS 1.3/4, ABC 1.1/3, FOX 0.6/2, TELE 0.6/2, ION 0.3/1, CW 0.2/1, TF 0.2/0

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This day in History: 1876 – Reciprocity Treaty between US & Hawaii ratified.

Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: On Matthew Perry’s new and quite promising show, Go On, who won “March Sadness”? Fausta. Kudos to: Greg Scordato/NY; Michael Goodman-Radio One/Atlanta; Frank Costa-CBS/NYC; Judy Margolis-The Ad Place/Dallas; Dan Haberer-Creo Entertainment/Playa del Rey, CA; Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/LA; Paul Blutter-Walk and Talk Production Rentals/Northridge, CA.

Today’s Trivia Question: What actress was Jim Rockford’s first client in the pilot of the Rockford Files? (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.).

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08.13.12

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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 2012

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ABC: Bachelor Pad, The Glass House
AZTECA: Quiero Ser Grupero, Al Extremo, Extra Normal
CBS: How I Met Your Mother [r], 2 Broke Girls [r], 2 Broke Girls [r], Mike & Molly [r], Hawaii Five-0 [r]
CW: Perez Hilton All Access [r], Remodeled
FOX: Hotel Hell [p], Hell’s Kitchen
ION: Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds
NBC: Stars Earn Stripes [p], Grimm [p]
PBS: Antiques Roadshow, Market Warriors, Antiques Roadshow
TELE: Rosa Diamante, Corazon Valiente, Pablo Escobar: El Patron del Mal, El Rostro de la Venganza
UNIV: Por Ella Soy Eva; Abismo de Pasion, Amor Bravio [p]

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