Cynopsis
12.20.10

Good morning. It’s Monday, December 20, 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 Premiere:
FOX: Million Dollar Money Drop at 8p
A&E Network: Intervention at 9p
Nick at Nite: Glenn Martin, DDS at 10p

Tonight’s Finale:
NBC: The Sing-Off at 8p
Style Network: Giuliana & Bill at 8p & 11p

Larry King signed off for the last time on CNN Thursday night and his Larry King Live Finale Show was watched by 2.24 million total viewers and 530,000 among A25-54.

In the month-long interim between Larry King and the premiere of his replacement, Piers Morgan, CNN will air encores of Larry King Live for the remainder of this month, per NYT. Then in January, CNN will allow Anderson Cooper to anchor an extra hour covering the 9p and 10p hours. CNN has not declared when Piers Morgan Tonight will debut though it is expected to bow in mid-January.

USA Network’s season four conclusion of Burn Notice over two hours last Thursday beginning at 9p tallied 2.03 million A18-49 viewers; 2 million A25-54 viewers; and 4.77 million total viewers. The second finale episode at 10p then surged by delivering 2.22 million A18-49 viewers; 2.26 million A25-54 viewers as well as 5.11 million total viewers.

Program Call: Cynopsis Media will be producing our annual NATPE Shopping Guide sent to all Cynopsis and Cynopsis Kids subscribers on Thursday, January 20, the week before NATPE 2011 in Miami.  If you would like to have your programming included, please send us 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.) as well as your company’s stand/booth location.  To be included in this free and highly-viewed special edition, please send your submission to [email protected] no later than Friday, January 14, 2011. A confirmation email will be sent following each submission from Lisa (if you don’t receive a confirmation email, please resubmit).

Top 10 Weekend Box Office Estimates: December 17-19, 2010
Tron Legacy (Disney)                          $43.6 million  opening weekend
Yogi Bear (Warner Bros.)                     $16.7 million  opening weekend
Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn (20th Century Fox) $12.4 million  2 wk total $42.8m
The Fighter (Paramount)                     $12.2 million  2 wk total $12.6m
The Tourist (Sony)                              $8.7 million  2 wk total $30.8m
Tangled (Disney)                                $8.7 million  4 wk total $127.8m
Black Swan (Fox Searchlight)               $8.3 million  3 wk total $15.7m
How Do You Know (Sony)                    $7.6 million  opening weekend
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows I (Warner Bros.) $4.8 million  5 wk total $265.5m
Unstoppable (20^th Century Fox)            $1.8 million  6 wk total $77.3m
Source: Rentrak

Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution announced an additional 39 stations have picked up the new daily talk show, Anderson hosted by Anderson Cooper launching in fall 2011. These new pick-ups take the number of station clearances to 79 representing 65% of the US. New major market clearances include: KTVU/San Francisco, WXIA/Atlanta, WDIV/Detroit, KPHO/Phoenix, WFTS/Tampa, KTVD-KUSA/Denver, WOIO/Cleveland, KDNL/St. Louis, WPXI/Pittsburgh, WCMH/Columbus, WHTM/Harrisburg, WVTM/Birmingham and WWMT/Grand Rapids among others. Anderson is produced by Telepictures Productions in association with StrongChild Productions.

Independent producer and distributor, Entertainment Studios, Inc. selected DG to prepare and distribute its 27 total syndicated shows which includes Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen, The Gossip Queens, America’s Court with Judge Ross and The Young Icons among others. DG specializes in content management and distribution and will facilitate distribution of Entertainment Studio’s syndicated content via its Pathfire subsidiary. DG will prepare Entertainment Studio’s content in the areas of closed captioning, encoding, encryption, tracking as well as placement of ads, interstitials, ratings and bumpers.

Zodiak Rights made a deal with French news agency Premieres Lignes to distribute the documentary, Wikileaks: War, Lies and Videotape from investigative reporters Luc Hermann and Paul Moreira. The film reveals information on the controversial website and its founder, Julian Assange. A new one-hour version of the documentary will also be available which will include Assange’s recent arrest in London.

Great Meadow Productions and distributor BBC Worldwide teamed to sell the BBC Two single drama, When Harvey Met Bob to BBC America. Helmed by Domhnall Gleeson as Bob Geldof and Ian Hart playing Harvey Goldsmith, the drama relates how the pair partnered to produce the international music event, Live Aid.  When Harvey Met Bob will air in the US on BBC America December 30 at 9p and is produced by Great Meadow Productions for BBC Wales in association with RTE.

ABC okayed a new pilot from Shonda Rhimes, creator of the network’s series Grey’s Anatomy and Private Practice and the new series Off the Map, slated to premiere January 12 at 10p. The new untitled project is about the personal life and career of a professional fixer and her dysfunctional staff. The lead character is based on the well-known crisis management consultant Judy Smith who has worked with such clients as Monica Lewinsky and Michael Vick through their public scandals. Rhimes wrote the pilot and will serve as executive producer along with Betsy Beers. Smith will also be a co-executive producer.

Additionally, ABC is developing a US version of the Canadian series Being Erica which presently airs on ABC’s sister cable network, SOAPnet. ABC Studios will produce the US adaptation and Maggie Friedman was tapped to write the US edition as well as be executive producer. David Fortier and Ivan Schneeberg who head the Toronto-based Temple Street Productions, the company behind the original series, will also executive produce the upcoming ABC version. SOAPnet will premiere the third season of the original Canadian series on January 26 and it also debuted in Canada this past fall. Currently, Being Erica airs in close to 160 countries globally. SOAPnet also will be replaced as a network by Disney Junior at the end of 2011.

Will Smith and Overbrook Entertainment are teaming to develop a new crime drama based in China for FOX, cites Variety. Chinese native filmmaker Eva Jin is on board the one-hour drama which was granted a script order at 20^th Century Fox Television. The premise centers on a female college student who solves crimes. Smith is working with Overbrook Entertainment further by developing a series inspired by his 2005 film, Hitch.

TBS cast Brian Austin Green and Harold Perrineau to headline its new pilot The Wedding Band from FremantleMedia and executive produced by Tollin Productions. The Wedding Band is a one-hour scripted comedy about a group of guys who perform in a wedding band. The pilot also stars Peter Cambor and Derek Miller. Josh Lobis and Darin Moiselle penned the pilot and are co-executive producers; Bryan Gordon will direct and co-executive produce the pilot.

A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM NATPE 2010

Thursday  A18-49 Analysis: It was a cinch for CBS to remain #1 Thursday night among A18-49 with a 2.4/7, according to final national ratings from Nielsen. At 8p, CBS’ sitcoms The Big Bang Theory and $#*! My Dad Says averaged a first place at 3.4/11 followed by the encore presentation of Charlie Brown Christmas on ABC at 1.9/6. CBS had a narrow victory at 9p with a CSI repeat at 1.9/6 over Univision’s Soy Tu Deuna at 1.9/5. CBS finished a clean sweep of the night with a rebroadcast episode of The Mentalist at 10p posting a 1.8/5 and Univision’s La Rosa de Guadalupe was next at 1.4/4.

Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Thursday, December 16, 2010 time period averages. Source: NTI Galaxy, as dated. Live+SD.

CBS: 6.5/11       The Big Bang Theory 7.9/13, $#*! My Dad Says 6.2/10, CSI [r] 5.9/10, The Mentalist [r] 6.5/12

FOX: 3.0/5          Bones [r] 3.1/5, Fringe [r] 3.0/5

ABC: 2.8/5         Charlie Brown Christmas [r] 3.7/6, Grey’s Anatomy [r] 2.6/4, Private Practice [r] 2.1/4

NBC: 2.2/4         Community [r] 2.1/4, 30 Rock [r] 2.3/4, The Office [r] 2.7/5, Outsourced [r] 2.2/4, The Office [r] 1.9/3, The Office [r] 1.9/3

UNIV: 2.0/3       Eva Luna 2.0/3, Soy Tu Duena 2.5/4, La Rosa de Guadalupe 1.6/3

CW: 1.1/2          Vampire Diaries [r] 1.2/2, Vampire Diaries [r] 1.0/2

ION: 1.1/2         Criminal Minds 1.1/2, Criminal Minds 1.0/2, Criminal Minds 1.1/2

TELE: 0.5/1         Aurora 0.6/1, El Fantasma de Elena 0.5/1, Alguien Te Mira 0.5/1

TF: 0.4/1            Cine de Las Estrellas 0.4/1, India 0.4/1

A18-49: CBS 2.4/7, UNIV 1.6/5, ABC 1.4/4, NBC 1.4/4, FOX 1.3/4, CW 0.7/2, ION 0.4/1, TELE 0.4/1, TF 0.3/1
 

A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM BATTLE OF THE BANDS: ROCK THE DECADES

This day in History:   1880 – New York’s Broadway became known as the “Great White Way” when it was lighted by electricity.

Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question:  The folks at Pendant Publishing nicknamed her The Nip once they received her Christmas card.  Who is she?  ELAINE BENES from SEINFELD  (think of this as an early holiday gift!)  Kudos to: Smiti Kumar-US Trust/NY; Amy Pecorino-The Dr. Oz Show/NY; Alex Slinin-The Weather Channel/Atlanta; Edward Veprovsky-VJN/St. Petersburg; Kathryn Kieser-Haworth Marketing and Media/Minneapolis; Will Allmendinger-Sirius XM Radio/Chicago; Adam Leston-WDJT/Milwaukee; Dory Melman Petsrillo-Petry Media Corp/Dallas; John Amato-KTTV/LA; Scott Seomin-FX/LA; Sadia Carone-David Zucker Prods/LA; Brody Eldridge-Fox Networks/LA; Jessica Schmiedchen/Toronto; Arthur Reinstein-Shaw Media/Toronto; Derek Anderson-Associated Producers/Toronto

Today’s Trivia Question:  This advertising singing group include such notables as Ben Indasun, Tiny Goodbite and Rye Stack.  They did ads as well as had a Christmas special in 1987.  Who are they?     (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

Later — Cyn
12.20.10

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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT –  MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2010

ABC:   Skating with the Stars, Castle (9-11P)
AZTECA:  Cosas de la Vida, Al Extremo, La Loba
CBS: How I Met Your Mother [r], Rules of Engagement [r], Two and a Half Men [r], Mike & Molly [r], Hawaii Five-0 [r]
CW:  90210 [r], Gossip Girl [r]
FOX: Million Dollar Money Drop [p ]
ION:  Without a Trace, Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds
NBC:  The Sing-Off [f ], Chuck [r]
PBS:   Antiques Roadshow [r], Independent Lens
TELE:  Aurora, El Fantasma de Elena, Alguien Te Mira
UNIV:  Eva Luna, Soy Tu Duena, Nuestra Belleza Latina: Navidad de Reinas

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