Source: NTI, Explorer, 1/03-1/09/05 A18-49 US 000.  Ocean’s 11=TNT; Fri 8p, Sat 8p & Sun 8p.  Ranker excludes sports.  Series=Trackage, Movies=Telecast.

CYNTHIA TURNER’S
Cyn opsis

01/17/05

Good morning. It’s Monday, January 17, 2005, and this is your first early morning briefing. 

And the top Golden Globe winners are:
TV:
Best TV Series – Drama:  Nip/Tuck, FX
Best Actress in a Drama:  Mariska Hargitay, Law & Order, SVU, NBC
Best Actor in a Drama:  Ian McShane, Deadwood, HBO
Best Comedy or Musical Series:  Desperate Housewives, ABC
Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical:  Teri Hatcher, Desperate Housewives, ABC
Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical:  Jason Bateman, Arrested Development, Fox

FILM:
Best Picture – Drama:  The Aviator
Best Actor – Film Drama: Leonardo DiCaprio, The Aviator
Best Actress – Film Drama:  Hilary Swank-Million Dollar Baby
Best Picture – Musical or Comedy: Sideways
Best Actress – Musical or Comedy Film:  Annette Bening, Being Julia
Best Actor – Musical or Comedy Film:  Jamie Foxx, Ray

ESPN‘s premiere of its newest original series Tilt drew in 2.0 million viewers last Thursday night, earning a 1.6 HH Rtg according to Nielsen Media Research.

Premiering Tonight:
ABC:  Supernanny at 10p
MTV:  The Osbournes at 1030p

Starz Encore Group has ordered ten more 30-second shorts featuring animated bunnies spoofing Hollywood classics, from Angry Alien Prods. The spots will be seen on Starz, Starz on Demand and Starz Ticket on Real Movies.

CBS newcomer Wickedly Perfect kicked off a Thursday night for CBS with a 3.0/8 A18-49 according to final numbers from Nielsen Media Research, third behind The O.C. on Fox (3.2/9) and the time period winning fare on NBC: Joey 5.0/14, and newbie Committed 4.6/12.  CSI owned, nay dominated, the 9p hour with a 9.5/24, while ER carried the 10p hour with a 8.3/21 for NBC.  Without A Trace had a run at it with a 6.1/16.

The premiere of Fox‘s Johnny Zero on Friday night at 9pm delivered a 2.2/6 A18-49 according to fast affiliate numbers from Nielsen Media Research.  That rating placed the show tied for #2 in the time period, behind ABC sitcoms which was tied with NBC’s Third Watch (2.8/8), and in a share tie with CBS’ JAG (1.9/6).  NBC’s freshman series Medical Investigation continues steadily in its 10p time period, winning the hour with a 3.1/9, in front of CBS and ABC, each earning an 8 share.

Saturday night’s NFC Divisional Playoff scored on Fox with an overall 8.7/24 in fast affiliate (time period only) ratings according to Nielsen Media Research.  NBC’s multi-network simultaneous benefit for victims of the Tsunami aired wall to wall on Saturday evening, and on the NBC broadcast network it averaged a 2.0/6 demo rating.  CBS was #2 for the night with a 3.5/10, followed by ABC with US Figure Skating (1.5/4).

Television Critics Association (TCA) Updates:  The TCA is going on now and broadcast and cable networks are making their annual presentations to the press of new series and specials for the upcoming here. 

HGTV:

• reDesign is set to premiere on March 3 with host/designer Kenneth Brown.  Brown works with clients explaining the design process, following the project from start to end, offering tricks of the trade and insights as to how the designer works.

Lifetime:

• You’re Not the Man I Married (Optomen Prods) is a new reality show announced at TCA for Lifetime, scheduled to debut in 2nd or 3rd qtr this year. In an attempt to restore the passion in a couple’s marriage, the husband must confront and surmount a series of comedic challenges.

MTV:

• PowerR Girls featuring Lizzie Grubman will debut on MTV on March 10, focusing on the backstage goings on of major league publicists as they work and play in NYC, The Hamptons, LA and Miami.
• Meet the Barkers, reality series following the lives of Blink 182’s Travis Barker and his new wife, actress and former Miss USA Shanna Moakler (can you say, Newlyweds?), and their family and as they learn to combine his music, their Hollywood life and parenthood.  MTV has ordered 10 eps to launch in April.
• Trippin follows Cameron Diaz as she travels the world exploring the exotic and unique locales on earth, and learning the best ways to protect and preserve them. The first of 10 eps kicks off on March 28.

GSN (formerly Game Show Network):

• Anything to Win (Creative Differences) is a documentary series chronicling the lengths some people will go to win – sometimes successfully, sometimes not so much.
• No Limit 9 Ball (Sokolobl Ent) featuring pool sharks playing in winner take all episodes for $20k.  Sal Masekela, known best from X Games, hosts the 13 week run, each episode showcasing four players.
• Casino Night kicks off on January 21, a programming block which will include the premiere of Poker Royale: Battle of the Sexes at 9p and season #2 of World Series of Blackjack at 10p, with Celebrity Blackjack rounding out the night at 11p.

Spike TV:

• Invasion Iowa (Reese Wernick Prods/GRB Ent) stars William Shatner it a total sham on a little town that thinks Hollywood has arrived to film an independent sci-fi film, with a totally dysfunction cast and crew. Billed as a mini-series, the show debuts on March 29, and ends on April Fool’s Day.
• The Lance Krall Show is a group of friends/comedians led by Lance Krall, armed with a camera, out spoofing and improvising and making non-scripted television in a slew of original bits.  The show debuts this spring.

TV Land:

• Chasing Farrah (Windmill Prods) debuts this March, a reality show starring Farrah Fawcett as she goes about her daily business, life, travels with her entourage and life.  Six eps have been ordered.

Inkworks has acquired the licensing rights to produce trading cards for HBO‘s The Sopranos.  Inkworks first trading card set featuring the series will be The Sopranos: Season One Premium Trading Cards, which is set for release June 2005.  The set will include character cards and complete episodic coverage of the first season of the series, as well as several levels of randomly inserted bonus cards including autographs.

Weekend Box Office Estimates: January 14-16, 2005
Coach Carter (Paramount)                 $23.6 million – opening weekend
Meet the Fockers (Universal)             $19.0 million – 4 wk total $230.8m
Racing Stripes (Warner Bros.)            $14.0 million – opening weekend
In Good Company (Universal)              $13.9 million – 3 wk total $14.4m
Elektra (Fox)                              $12.5 million – opening weekend
White Noise (Universal)                   $12.2 million – 2 wk total $41.2m
The Aviator (Miramax)                     $4.8 million – 5 wk total $49.9m
Lemony Snicket (Paramount)               $3.9 million – 5 wk total $111.0m
Phantom/Opera (Warner Bros.)             $3.6 million – 4 wk total $26.4m
Ocean’s Twelve (Warner Bros.)            $2.9 million – 6 wk total $119.8m
Source: Box Office Mojo

Chip Shenkan, local sales manager at WBDC/Washington, DC has been upped to GSM.  The announcement was made by Pres/GM Eric Meyrowitz and is effective immediately.

WonderGroup has named David Lansanah its new Director of Research Design and Analysis, a newly-created position. He will be responsible for the strategic design, development and maintenance of the agency’s research offerings.

Paul Buccieri has been named President/Programming of Twentieth Television, as announced by Bob Cook, president and COO of Twentieth Television. Paul will be responsible for overseeing all first-run program development and production on behalf of Twentieth Television, reporting to Cook and based in LA.

Christopher Grakal has been upped to VP/Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. Image Management group.  Christopher is charged with day-to-day responsibility of the company’s Image Management Production and Digital Asset Management areas, which provide traditional and digital photographic production, editing, research and archiving services to TBS, Inc. networks and businesses including TBS, TNT, Turner Classic Movies, Cartoon Network, Turner South, CNN, Turner Sports, the Atlanta Braves and TBS, Inc. Corporate.  Grakal also oversees the TBS, Inc. photo archive of some 3.5 million images and works with representatives of other Time Warner-owned divisions on media asset management issues.  He is based in Atlanta at Turner Broadcasting headquarters and reports to Barbara Griffin, SVP/Image Management for TBS, Inc.

Jim Roche has been upped to Director of On-Air Operations for Weigel Broadcasting in Chicago.  Chicago based operations include WCIU, WWME and WFBT (Chicago) as well as WMWB, WBND and WAAT (South Bend, Indiana).

Thursday, January 13, 2005. FINAL Ratings for all Networks – program averages.  Source: Nielsen Media Research.
[p] = Premiere; [r] = Repeat

CBS     11.9/19  Wickedly Perfect 6.4/10, CSI 17.0/26, Without a Trace 12.2/20

NBC     8.8/14   Joey 8.0/13, Committed 7.1/11, Will & Grace 6.6/10, Will & Grace 6.4/10, ER 12.2/20

ABC     3.8/6    life as we know it 2.7/4, Extreme Makeover 4.1/6, Primetime Live 4.5/7

UPN     3.8/6    WWE Smackdown 3.8/6

FOX     3.7/6    The O.C. 4.6/7, North Shore 2.7/4

WB      2.0/3    WB Movie: Love and Basketball 2.0/3

A18-49  CBS 6.3/16, NBC 5.8/15, Fox 2.5/7, UPN 2.1/5, ABC 1.8/5, WB 1.2/3

Friday, January 14, 2005. Fast Affiliate Ratings for all Networks – time period averages.  Source: Nielsen Media Research.
[p] = Premiere; [r] = Repeat

CBS     6.4/11   Joan of Arcadia 5.8/10, JAG 6.5/11, CSI: Miami  [r] 6.7/12

NBC     6.0/10   Dateline 5.9/10, Third Watch 6.0/10, Medical Investigation 6.2/11

ABC     5.6/9    8 Simple Rules 5.6/10, Complete Savages 4.5/8, Hope & Faith 5.6/9, Less than Perfect 4.7/8, 20/20 6.6/11

FOX     3.4/6    Bernie Mac  3.3/6, Bernie Mac 3.5/6, Johnny Zero [p] 3.4/6

WB      2.3/4    What I Like About You 1.9/3, Grounded for Life 2.0/3, Reba 3.0/5, Blue Collar TV [r] 2.4/4

UPN     1.5/2    Star Trek Enterprise 1.9/3, Star Trek Enterprise 1.1/2

A18-49  ABC 2.7/8, NBC 2.6/8, CBS 2.3/7, Fox 2.2/7, WB 1.5/5, UPN 0.9/3

Saturday, January 15, 2005. Fast Affiliate Ratings for all Networks – time period averages.  Source: Nielsen Media Research.
[p] = Premiere; [r] = Repeat

ABC     4.7/8    US Figure Skating Championships  4.7/8

CBS     6.9/.12 Cold Case [r] 7.8/13, Navy NCIS [r] 6.7/11, 48 Hours Mysteries 6.1/10

NBC     4.1/7    Tsunami Relief Benefit 4.1/7

FOX     12.7/21 NFC Divisional Playoff 12.7/21

A18-49  Fox 8.7/24, CBS 3.5/10, NBC 2.0/6, ABC 1.5/4

A MESSAGE FROM AMC

The History Channel presents This Day in History:
1991-  The United States and its allies officially went to war against Iraq’s Saddam Hussein with Operation Desert Storm.  The mission of Desert Storm was to end Hussein’s illegal occupation of Kuwait.

Answer to Friday’s Trivia Question:  On what primetime series is the state motto: “If It’s Not Broken, Don’t Fix It”?  BENSON.  Kudos to:  Alex Bruskin-Sprocket Films/NY; Deanna Gallucio-First North American National Bank/Glen Rock NJ; Elizabeth Barker-Initiative/NY; Brett Calvert-Chandler Ehrlich Adv/Memphis; Daniel Thomson-Media First Int’l/Minneapolis; Tim Rank-Adamson Adv/St. Louis; Tonoa Bond-SOAPnet/Burbank.

A MESSAGE FROM COURT TV

Today’s Trivia Question courtesy of New Line Television: Name the Lord of the Rings actor and the character he/she played who is featured in a leading role on the ABC TV hit “Lost”?  (click here with your answer and be sure to include your name, company, city and time zone with your answer.  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
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT:  JANUARY 17, 2005:

ABC              EMHE: How’d They Do That?, the Bachelorette, Supernanny [p]
CBS              Still Standing, Listen Up, Raymond, 2-1/2 Men, CSI: Miami
FOX              Trading Spouses, 24
NBC              Fear Factor, Las Vegas, Medium
PAX              AFV, AFV, Mary Higgins Clark movie: We’ll Meet Again
UPN              One on One, Half and Half, Girlfriends, Second Time Around
WB               7th Heaven [r], Everwood
TELE             La Mujer en el Espejo, Gitanas, Te Voy a Ensenar a Querer
UNIV             Rubi, Amor Real, Cristina