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08/28/06
Good morning. It’s Monday, August 28, 2006, and this is your first early morning briefing.
Fox News Channel journalists Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig were both released yesterday after nearly two weeks in captivity. Exactly how or why they were released has not been made clear. What we do know is they were dropped off at a hotel in Gaza, in seemingly good health and spirits.
Tonight’s Finales:
ABC Family: Kyle XY at 8p and Falcon Beach at 9p
MTV: Cribs at 1030p
And the Emmy went to:
- Actor in a Comedy Series: Tony Shaloub in Monk (USA)
- Actress in a Comedy Series: Julia Louis-Dreyfus in The New Adventures of Old Christine (CBS)
- Best Comedy Series: The Office (NBC)
- Actor in a Drama Series: Kiefer Sutherland in 24 (FOX)
- Actress in a Drama Series: Mariska Hargitay in Law & Order: SVU (NBC)
- Best Drama Series: 24 (FOX)
- Best Reality Series: The Amazing Race (CBS)
Former CBS Television Network executive Tony Malara passed away last Thursday in Syracuse, NY, of complications from acute myeloid leukemia. He was 69 years old. After 21 years at WWNY/Watertown, Tony joined CBS in 1978 as VP of Station Services, Affiliate Relations. He advanced to VP Affiliate Relations in 1980, later moving to VP/GM and ultimately President, CBS Television Network Division. In 1988, he was appointed President of CBS Affiliate Relations. Tony retired from the network in 1995 and created the consulting firm TCM Media Associates, LLC. He started Malara Broadcasting Group in 1996, where he was CEO. Active in many professional and civic organizations, Tony served as President of the New York State Broadcasters Association in 1978, as well as on the Advisory Board at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications.
It’s premiere week at MTV next week, with the debuts of four new series and five returning ones:
- 9/4: Cribs at 1030p (season premiere and 100th episode)
- 9/5: Why Can’t I Be You at 2p (series premiere); Next at 5p; Real World: Las Vegas at 530p; Made at 9p; and the series premiere of Juvies at 10p
- 9/6: My Super Sweet 16 at 9p; Laguna Beach Season 3 at 10p; and Laguna Beach After Show at 1030p
- 9/7: Two-A-Days at 10p (special one-hour series premiere)
- 9/8: Fridays have been dubbed Do-Over Friday with encore airings of several MTV series including My Super Sweet 16 and Laguna Beach.
The Global Language Monitor released its annual survey on words that derived from television and have been added to the lay person’s vernacular. Among the top buzz words of 2006 – Truthiness, meaning “truth unencumbered by facts” and Wikireality, meaning “reality as defined by a majority vote,” both from The Colbert Report; and Mr. McDreamy from Grey’s Anatomy, referring to Patrick Dempsey’s role.
Weekend Box Office Estimates: August 25-27
Invincible (Buena Vista) $17.0 million – opening weekend
Talladega Nights: Ballad of Ricky Bobby (Sony) $8.0 million – 4 wk total $127.7m
Little Miss Sunshine (Fox Searchlight) $7.5 million – 5 wk total $23.0m
Beerfest (Warner Bros.) $6.5 million – opening weekend
Accepted (Universal) $6.5 million – 2 wk total $21.1m
World Trade Center (Paramount) $6.4 million – 3 wk total $55.6m
Step Up (Buena Vista) $6.2 million – 3 wk total $50.4m
Idlewild (Universal) $5.9 million – opening weekend
Snakes on a Plane (New Line) $5.9 million – 2 wk total $26.0m
Barnyard: The Original Animals (Paramount) $5.4 million – 4 wk total $54.7m
Source: Box Office Mojo
Discovery has ordered a half dozen episodes of two new series: Big Machines will take an up close and personal look at both giant-sized machines and the folks who run them; and Risk Factor weighs in on the world’s most dangerous jobs. Both series are produced by Craig Piligian. Both shows will also be shot in hi-def format, making them available to the Discovery HD Theatre.
HBO has ordered a comedy project called Whitney, which focuses on four women who live, work and love in Miami. The pilot will be written by Lisa Schraeger, who will also exec produce together with Alex Gansa and Larry Kennar.
Two pilots ordered by Lifetime – Army Wives and Side Order of Life. Army Wives is from Mark Gordon Co and is described as Desperate Housewives in khaki. The story begins with a single mother who marries a soldier and moves her young brood to the army base housing, meeting up with other wives and mothers. The latter project, Side Order of Life, from Warner Bros. Television and Warner Horizon TV, is about a magazine photographer who is about to be married, and then learns her best friend has been diagnosed with cancer. She then takes time to re-evaluate her life.
Leslie Nielsen has been cast in a pilot project called Lipshitz Saves the World, for NBC. From NBC Univeral Network TV, the project is about a teenager who discovers he is the chosen one to save the world, but he’s going to need Leslie Nielsen’s character’s help.
Cox Media has promoted Charlie Mirkle to Local Sales Manager, where he oversees an eight-person sales team, hiring, training and evaluating account executives, as well as developing and achieving the company’s sales goals.
Allison Johnston is the new Promotions Manager at Channel M, the global non-traditional media company and provider of retail marketing services.
Thursday – A18-49 Analysis: CBS came out on top Thursday night to win with 3.1/9 A18-49, according to fast affiliate ratings from Nielsen Media Research. CBS took control of the evening at 8p with Big Brother dominating at 3.0/10. At 9p, CBS with a CSI repeat won at 3.4/10, with ABC’s second rerun of Grey’s Anatomy for the night coming in second at 2.9/8. Without a Trace on CBS won in the final hour at 2.8/8, and the NFL Preseason game on FOX brought in a second place seat at 2.4/7 for the hour.
Live + Same Day Ratings: Thursday, August 24, 2006 – time period averages. Source: Nielsen Media Research
CBS 6.6/11 Big Brother: All Stars 5.3/9 CSI [r] 7.5/12, Without a Trace [r] 7.0/12
ABC 5.0/9 Grey’s Anatomy [r] 4.7/8, Grey’s Anatomy [r] 5.6/9, Primetime 4.6/8
FOX 4.4/8 NFL Preseason Football: Miami Dolphins vs. Carolina Panthers (3 hours) 4.4/8
NBC 3.0/5 My Name Is Earl [r] 3.7/7, The Office [r] 2.8/5, The Office [r] 2.7/5, The Office [r] 2.7/4, Windfall 2.9/5
UNIV 2.2/4 La Fea Más Bella 2.3/4, Barrera de Amor 2.3/4, Aqui y Ahora 1.9/3
WB 1.6/3 Smallville [r] 1.6/3, Supernatural [r] 1.5/2
UPN 1.3/2 Everybody Hates Chris [r] 1.6/3, Love, Inc [r] 1.2/2, Eve [r] 1.2/2, Eve [r] 1.1/2
TELE 0.6/1 Tierra de Pasiones 0.6/1, Amores De Mercado 0.6/1, Decisiones 0.6/1
A18-49: CBS 3.1/9, ABC 2.4/7, FOX 2.3/7, NBC 1.9/6, UNIV 1.8/5, WB 1.0/3, UPN 0.8/2, TELE 0.4/1
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The History Channel presents This Day in History:
1917 – Ten suffragists are arrested when they picket the White House. Three years later, women are guaranteed the right to vote when Tennessee ratifies the Nineteenth Amendment, which is formally proclaimed adopted by Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby. After more than 70 years of organizing by woman suffragists, Congress and the states agreed that gender, like race, could not bar a U.S. citizen from the franchise.
Answer to Friday’s Trivia Question courtesy of The Emmys, by Thomas O’Neil: Everybody knows Susan Lucci was nominated 17 times before winning the Daytime Emmy Award for her role in All My Children. Another actress had the same experience in primetime, having been nominated 16 times and never winning. Who was she? ANGELA LANSBURY Kudos to: Kurt Howell- Sinclair Broadcasting/Columbus OH; Keith Higgons-NBC Universal/NY; Synda Kollman- NBC Commercial Administration/NY; Kennedy Weible-Turner Broadcasting/NY; Sarah Karam- Max Media of Montana/Missoula MT; Mark A. Prince, Jr- GSD&M/Chicago; Ron Salcedo-Zimmerman/Nashville; Don Tapani- KDFW/My27/Dallas; Susan Goldberg-MTVN Ad Sales/Logo/Santa Monica; Bonny Dore- Bonny Dore Productions Inc./Bonny Dore Management/LA; Susan Grace-Go for the Goal/Sherman Oaks; Jill Boniske-Ato Ato Integrated Media, Inc/Shanghai
Today’s Trivia Question: Jack McGee plays Chief Jerry Reilly on FX’s Rescue Me. In what ’90s film did he also play a firefighter usually behind the wheel of Engine 17? (click here 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.)
Later — Cyn
08.28.06
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT: Monday, August 28, 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 Prison Break, Vanished
NBC NBC News Special, Dateline NBC, 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
