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08/14/06
Good morning. It’s Monday, August 14, 2006, and this is your first early morning briefing.
Tonight’s Finale:
Fox: Hell’s Kitchen 2-hr Finale at 8p
Tonight’s Premiere:
Showtime: Weeds at 10p
Lifetime Television will premiere three new series this October as part of its fall season schedule:
- The new reality series Off the Leash is about a Hollywood pet talent agency and the antics some will pull to see their dogs become famous. It is produced by Intuitive Entertainment for Lifetime Television.
- Bianca (wt) from FremantleMedia North America, is a 20-episode primetime novela starring Virginia Williams, Shirley Jones and Rachel Ward, about a young woman who returns home after being wrongly imprisoned for murder.
- The Lisa Williams Project (wt) from Merv Griffin Entertainment and Kimo Jagger Productions, showcases the talents of the English clairvoyant who meets ordinary people around southern California, delivering messages from their deceased loved ones.
SOAPnet broke records with its third season finale of I Wanna Be a Soap Star. The finale is the reality series’ most-watched telecast with 406,000 total viewers; 121,000 W18-34 viewers; 221,000 W18-49 viewers; and 237,000 W25-54 viewers. As of this month, SOAPnet reaches more than 51 million homes, representing a 17% distribution increase from this time last year.
ABC has announced a few scheduling changes for this fall. The hour-long show Ugly Betty will get a boost when it shifts to Thursdays at 8p, leading into Grey’s Anatomy, starting with its premiere on September 28. Ugly Betty was originally scheduled to premiere on Friday, September 22. The comedies Big Day and Notes from the Underbelly will premiere later in the fall after Dancing With the Stars finishes its run, and ABC will continue airing double runs of America’s Funniest Videos on Fridays and Sundays.
GSN has greenlit season three of High Stakes Poker which currently airs Monday nights at 9p. Taping will begin in October, and the location and players will be announced by the network later.
The SCI FI Channel has picked up the exclusive first-run rights for season two of Dr. Who in a new licensing agreement with BBC Worldwide Americas. The series will return next month with a two-hour premiere.
The Ellen DeGeneres Show has been renewed for another three years by the NBC owned and operated TV stations in 10 markets including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Dallas, Washington, D.C., Miami, San Diego and Hartford. Distributed by Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, the deal renews the talk show through the 2009-2010 season.
Cross these two off your New Syndicated Strip Programming list for Fall 2006 – Blind Date from NBC Universal, and ElimiDate from Warner Bros. Blind Date has been cleared in more than 90% of the country for the fall season, but no new episodes will be produced for the season. NBC Universal will cull from its 1300 episode library to fill the 2006-07. As for ElimiDate, it was not renewed for the upcoming season.
Debmar-Mercury has just acquired all domestic cable and network television syndication distribution rights for The Surreal Life package of celebrity reality shows produced by 51 Minds Entertainment. The roster includes VH1 shows The Surreal Life, Flavor of Love, The Surreal Life: Fame Games, Strange Love and My Fair Brady. All 175 half-hour episodes of the five series will be available starting fall 2007, with full seasons of each series airing sequentially under the Surreal Life umbrella in the same time slot.
In an advertising first for AOL, Court TV will control advertising on AOL’s Television site all day tomorrow. The roadblock will promote the season two premiere of Court TV’s reality series Parco P.I., also happening in its linear version on August 15 at 10p. AOL Television will give viewers a sneak peak at the full episode within a 30-second teaser video, with an option to continue, thus leading to the full premiere episode airing commercial-free. Other Parco P.I. ads will appear on Yahoo, EW.com and People.com.
TNT will delve into broadband with its new on-demand digital channel, DramaVision, beginning August 15. To introduce the new destination, TNT will offer streaming of its miniseries Into the West. Later, DramaVision will house other TNT original movies, true-crime stories presented in partnership with Court TV, and ancillary features for the network’s special events such as Screen Actors Guild Awards. DramaVision can be found at TNT’s web site at tnt.tv.
Mike Douglas died last Friday, on the occasion of his 81st birthday. Douglas starred in his own daytime talk show from 1961 thru 1982. The Mike Douglas Show, a combination of talk, music and performance, was perhaps best known for having week-long guest hosts joining Mike, among the most notable were John Lennon and wife Yoko Ono. For those unfamiliar with the show, perhaps you have seen the often-shown clip of Tiger Woods at age 5 out-putting Bob Hope on the Mike Douglas Show. Douglas was known as an affable and likeable host, not looking to stir the pot but rather enjoy his guests – and viewers enjoyed watching him do just that.
Weekend Box Office Estimates: August 11-13
Tallega Nights: Ballad of Ricky Bobby (Sony) $23.0 million – 2 wk total $91.2m
Step Up (Buena Vista) $21.1 million – opening weekend
World Trade Center (Paramount) $19.0 million – opening weekend
Barnyard: The Original Animals (Paramount) $10.0 million – 2 wk total $34.1m
Pulse (Dimension) $8.5 million – opening weekend
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (Buena Vista) $7.2 million – 6 wk total $392.4m
The Descent (Lionsgate) $4.6 million – 2 wk total $17.5m
Zoom (Sony Revolution) $4.6 million – opening weekend
Miami Vice (Universal) $4.5 million – 3 wk total $55.1m
Monster House (Sony) $3.3 million – 3 wk total $63.7m
Source: Box Office Mojo
AMC has ordered up 13 one-hour episodes of a new drama project called Mad Men from Lionsgate Television. The show is set in the 1960’s and focuses on the Madison Avenue advertising world, and will star Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser, January Jones and Christina Hendricks. The show is scheduled to premiere next June.
The USA Network will begin production on a new 30-minute reality pilot called Camp Steve-O, starring Jackass and Wildboyz daredevil, Steve-O as he attempts to “de-wussify” American men through humiliating stunts and escapades. The pilot is produced in partnership with Bunim-Murray Productions. Also ordered by USA is a drama project called Burn Notice from Fuse Entertainment and Fox TV Studios, about an elite agent in the special ops unit who was blackballed, becomes a private detective and while helping those who can’t go to the police for whatever reason, is also investigating those who sent him his “burn notice” ejecting him from the force.
HBO has ordered up another season of Curb Your Enthusiasm. The first of 10 episodes will begin production in October, and the series is expected to return with new eps in 2007.
NBC announced its next talent competition series, You’re the One That We Want, which will ultimately cast the two leading roles for Broadway’s latest production of Grease which opens in New York June 2007. Produced by BBC Worldwide Productions as a mid-season show, viewers will get to choose who they think should become the next Sandy and Danny. The judges will be Jim Jacobs, the co-creator of Grease; Kathleen Marshall, who is set to direct and choreograph the Broadway production; and David Ian, one of the producers for the new Grease.
Casting Call: The USA Network’s Nashville Star will begin its national casting tour August 31 in Atlanta. The fifth season auditions are open to all men and women who are 18 years or older (as of January 1, 2007), and who think they have what it takes to win a top recording contract. Details about the casting tour, which includes 13 stops through October 12, and to download applications, go to www.usanetwork.com/nashvillestar.
Plenty of Exec Moves including those from our week off at Cynopsis, presented here in no particular order:
Valerie Albanese has been upped to VP/On Air Promotion at A&E Network. In her expanded new role, Valerie will manage the production of shortform promotional content for the network for use on multiple platforms, as well as radio spot production produced in-house.
CBS Paramount Network Television has appointed Glenn Geller as SVP/Current Programming to oversee primetime series production. He will report to David Stapf, President.
Nielsen Media Research has named Catherine Herkovic to the position of General Manager to head its Local Business Unit, where she will report to Susan D. Whiting, President/CEO. Based in New York, Catherine will be responsible for sales and marketing, production and delivery of data, product services, quality assurance and information technology for the company’s local clients. Catherine succeeds Jack Oken in this position, who has become General Manager/Strategic Measurement Initiatives. Jack continues to be based in the company’s New York headquarters, also reporting to Susan Whiting.
The E. W. Scripps Company has promoted Mark Hale to SVP/Technology Operations. His duties include strategic technological support for all of the company’s national and local media businesses, as well as serving in the capacity as EVP/Operations for Scripps Networks. Mark will continue to report to Joseph G. NeCastro, EVP/CFO.
Food Network has made Bruce Seidel the SVP/Program Planning and Special Productions. Adding to his current duties of program planning and scheduling, Bruce will manage the development and production of special events and mini-series for the network. He will report to Bob Tuschman, SVP/Programming.
James Lavallee has been elevated to the position of Director/Ad Sales Marketing for Discovery Networks. He will oversee all agency and client-directed biz-to-biz marketing for the company’s U.S. networks, reporting to Ian Parmiter, VP/Ad Sales Marketing.
Goodman Media International, Inc. has hired Leda Ceccarelli as Senior Account Executive.
Buena Vista Television (BVT) has selected Rich Iazzetta as SVP/General Manager West to head the sales for first-run, off-net and theatrical products for broadcast syndication throughout the western and southwest regions. Rich will also manage the Dallas office and report to Jed Cohen, EVP/General Sales Manager. BVT also has made Steve Hawn the VP/Western Region Sales to supervise the daily operations of the Los Angeles sales office, reporting to Rich Iazzetta.
Matthew McAlpin is now the VP/Strategic Programming and Scheduling at fuse, where he reports to Catherine Mullen, EVP/General Manager. Matthew will head the network’s programming strategies, including the scheduling of original series and stunts, in addition to managing the programming research department.
Starz Entertainment Group LLC (SEG) has raised Richard Waysdorf to SVP/Business Affairs, Distribution and Richard Turner to SVP/Business Affairs, Programming. Both are based at the company’s headquarters in Englewood, CO and will report to Steve Beabout, EVP/General Counsel and Secretary. Furthermore, SEG has hired Marc Barson as VP/Business Affairs, Production to run the Los Angeles office, reporting to Richard Turner.
Jaime Peña is the new Director, Western Region/Network Distribution & Service for the Hallmark Channels. Based in LA, Jaime will employ sales strategies to increase distribution in the Western Region, acquire affiliate participation for various co-branded, multi-platform campaigns, execute local marketing plans, as well as participate in regional and state trade shows representing the networks. He will report to Stacia Armstrong, Regional VP/Western Region, ND&S.
ReelzChannel has employed Patricia LaVigne to be SVP/Creative Services and Marketing at the network’s headquarters in the L.A. Center Studios.
Amity Entertainment, Inc. has added two to its marketing and communications team: Jason Elsky has been upped to VP/Marketing, and Emily Jones has been hired to be Manager/Station Relations. Jason will manage all marketing, advertising and public relations implemented on behalf of the company, as well as oversee station relations and all marketing initiatives in the U.S. and Canada for the The Big Comfy Couch program, of which Amity retains the distribution and licensing rights. Emily will develop and maintain close relationships with television station managers for the company’s television projects, including The Big Comfy Couch.
WFLD and WPWR/Chicago has tapped Dominic Mancuso as VP/Programming and Promotions, where he will manage all programming and promotional initiatives for the stations.
Rudy Bednar will be Executive Producer/Director for the newly formed ABC News All Media, comprised of ABC News’ long-form documentary unit and its production unit, which will produce content for various ABC network platforms. Rudy will report to Phyllis McGrady, SVP/ABC News Morning, Primetime and Development.
The CW has assigned Jennifer Bresnan to the position of SVP/Alternative Programming. She will oversee production of various reality shows such as America’s Next Top Model and Beauty and the Geek and develop future alternative and reality series for the network. Jennifer will report to Ghen Maynard, EVP/Alternative Programming & Entertainment Content for New Media, CBS Paramount Network Television Entertainment Group.
Fred Norris has been bumped up to VP/Southeast Sales Region, Advertising Sales for Discovery Networks, U.S. to head up the Atlanta sales office and all advertising sales efforts in the Southeast region. He reports to Evan Sternschein, EVP/National Advertising Sales and Network Strategies.
Thursday – A18-49 Analysis: CBS led the charge Thursday night to win with a 2.7/8 A18-49, according to fast affiliate ratings from Nielsen Media Research. At 8p, CBS’ Big Brother was well ahead at 2.7/9. Competition became heavier at 9p, yet CBS prevailed again with a repeat of CSI delivering a 2.9/8; NBC was second with America’s Got Talent Results at 2.7/8, and ABC came in third with its second installment of Grey’s Anatomy at 2.5/7. And at 10p, ABC’s Primetime finished the evening by winning with 2.8/8, just ahead of CBS’ rerun of Without a Trace at 2.5/7.
Live + Same Day Ratings: Thursday, August 10, 2006 – time period averages. Source: Nielsen Media Research
CBS 5.8/10 Big Brother: All Stars 4.9/9, CSI [r] 6.3/11, Without a Trace [r] 6.2/11
ABC 5.4/9 Grey’s Anatomy [r] 4.8/9, Grey’s Anatomy [r] 5.4/9, Primetime 6.0/11
NBC 4.2/7 My Name Is Earl [r] 4.0/7, The Office [r] 3.2/6, America’s Got Talent: Results Show 5.6/9, Windfall 3.3/6
FOX 3.9/7 NFL Pre-Season Game (3 hours) 3.9/7
UNIV 2.0/4 La Fea Más Bella 2.2/4, Barrera de Amor 2.1/3, Aqui y Ahora 1.8/3
UPN 1.2/2 Everybody Hates Chris [r] 1.5/3, Love, Inc. [r] 1.2/2, Eve [r] 1.1/2, Cuts [r] 0.9/2
WB 1.2/2 Smallville [r] 1.4/3, Supernatural [r] 1.1/2
TELE 0.6/1 Tierra de Pasiones 0.6/1, Amores De Mercado 0.6/1, Decisiones 0.5/1
A18-49: CBS 2.7/8, ABC 2.4/8, NBC 2.2/7, FOX 2.1/7, UNIV 1.5/5, WB 0.8/3, UPN 0.7/2, TELE 0.4/1
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Later — Cyn
08.14.06
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT: Monday, August 14, 2006
ABC Wife Swap [r], Wife Swap [r], Supernanny [r]
CBS Two & a Half Men [r], How I Met Your Mother [r],Two and a Half Men [r], Old Christine [r], CSI: Miami [r]
FOX Hell’s Kitchen [f]
NBC Psych, Treasure Hunters, Medium [r]
i Mama’s Family, Mama’s Family, Doc, Diagnosis Murder
UPN One on One [r], All of Us [r], Girlfriends [r], Half & Half [r]
WB 7th Heaven [r], 7th Heaven [r]
TELE Tierra de Pasiones, Amores de Mercado, Decisiones
UNIV La Fea Mas Bella, Barrera de Amor, Cristina
