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01.17.11

Good morning. It’s Monday, January 17, 2011, and this is your first early morning briefing, coming to you today from very green, a little soggy but much warmer than back home, Seattle! As always, if you prefer to watch this morning’s news instead of reading it, click here . 

Tonight’s Premieres:
TR3s: Ninas Mal (Bad Girls) at 7p
Syfy: Being Human at 9p
National Geographic Channel: Explorer at 10p
DIY Network: Mega Dens at 10p
A&E Network: Heavy at 10p
MTV: Skins at 10p
NBC: Harry’s Law at 10p

Members of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) jointly voted at nearly 94% in favor to pass new three-year contracts involving television and theatrical productions.  Under the terms of the new contracts, SAG and AFTRA members receive a 6% pay raise equal to 2% for each year of the contract, in addition to a 10% increase in employer contributions to the pension and health plans.  The contract, which goes into effect from July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2014, also expands coverage of new media production.

Showtime renewed its comedy Californication for a fifth season, ordering 12 new episodes.  The renewal announcement follows the series’ fourth season launch on January 9 resulting in the best-ever debut with more than a million total viewers for the night.  Production of the new episodes will begin this spring with David Duchovny continuing in the lead as Hank Moody.

Spanish-language cable channel Galavision Network premieres its new half-hour show Detras del Saber (Behind Knowledge) on January 24 at 830p.  Galavision’s new show examines the latest advancements in science and technology with host Jose Ramon Blanch.

Animal Planet airs its annual Puppy Bowl VII on Super Bowl Sunday, February 6 beginning at 3p, featuring frolicking puppies from rescue shelters nationwide recruited with help from Petfinder.  The seventh year of the Puppy Bowl will sport new additions such as chicks on the sidelines and chicken cheerleaders and all-new puppy cam technology.  Fans of Puppy Bowl can also look for intimate moments between the pups with the new Kiss Cam.  At half-time, a new edition of the Bissell Kitty Half-Time Show will include an acoustic solo performance from John Fulton, the host of Animal Planet’s upcoming new series Must Love Cats opening on February 12 at 8p.

FX scheduled the series finale of Rescue Me for September 6, 2011, a date coinciding near the 10th anniversary of 9/11 which also highlights the origins of the drama series.  The inspiration for Rescue Me’s storyline by series’ star Denis Leary was the New York City firefighters who were dealing with the physical and emotional trauma after the event.  FX decided to not position the series conclusion on September 11, because network president John Landgraf said “there are more solemn and appropriate things to do on the day.  The weeks surrounding the day seemed to be the appropriate place to do it.”

A&E Network’s original series debut of Beyond Scared Straight last Thursday at 10p drew in a record 3.7 million total viewers and 2.2 million among A18-49 as well as 2.1 million with A25-54.  The episode opener has become the most-watched original series launch in the network’s history.

Top 10 Weekend Box Office Estimates: January 14-16, 2011
The Green Hornet (Sony)                     $34.0 million – opening weekend
The Dilemma (Universal)                      $17.4 million – opening weekend
True Grit (Paramount)                          $11.2 million – 4 wk total $126.4m
The King’s Speech (The Weinstein Co.)  $9.1 million – 8 wk total $44.6m
Black Swan (Fox Searchlight)                $8.1 million – 7 wk total $73.0m
Little Fockers (Universal)                      $7.1 million – 4 wk total $134.2m
Tron Legacy (Disney)                           $5.7 million – 5 wk total $156.9m
Yogi Bear (Warner Bros.)                      $5.3 million – 5 wk total $82.1m
The Fighter (Paramount)                      $5.1 million – 6 wk total $65.8m
Season of the Witch (Relativity Media)   $4.5 million – 2 wk total $18.0m
Source: Rentrak

After extending their retransmission-consent negotiations a second time on Friday, Time Warner Cable and Sinclair Broadcasting reached a deal in principle on Saturday afternoon involving the continued carriage of Sinclair’s 28 stations.  The final deal is expected to be completed in the next seven days.

In advance of NATPE 2011, Entertainment Concepts International approved a second season of its syndicated series Treasure Hunter’s Roadshow.

Showtime Networks, Major League Baseball Productions and 2010 World Series champs San Francisco Giants, are collaborating on a new series about professional baseball.  The series will chronicle the players, coaches and team staff of the San Francisco Giants as they defend their World Series title throughout the 2011 MLB season.  Production on the untitled series has started and will be shot over ten months in various locations during off-season then in Scottsdale, AZ for Spring Training and within the ball club during the regular season.  The series will open with a preview episode on MLB’s Opening Day in April followed by a run of regularly scheduled episodes during the latter half of 2011.  The show will expand on the Showtime Sports current roster of programming including Inside the NFL, Inside NASCAR and more.

ABC gave a pilot order for a single-camera comedy Suburgatory from writer Emily Kapnek (NBC’s Parks and Recreation, HBO’s Hung). Warner Bros. Television is behind the satirical perspective about life in the suburbs through the eyes of a typical New Yorker.

CBS picked up two pilots:

• Sarah Michelle Gellar is readying a return to television in a project titled Ringer from writers Eric Carmelo and Nicole Snyder about a disturbed young woman on the run who hides out by living the life of her rich twin sister.
• The second pilot is an untitled drama from writer Susannah Grant (The Soloist) about a highly-ambitious surgeon whose life is changed when his ex-wife dies and teaches him about life from the hereafter.

Last week, ABC picked up a remake of Charlie’s Angels and executive producer Leonard Goldberg reported successfully approached 80-year old veteran actor Robert Wagner to be the voice of Charlie.

TNT has a drama project in the works from John Sacret Young and Robert Redford’s Wildwood Enterprises about a Southern family involving flashbacks from 20-40 years before. Young and Redford will serve as executive producers along with Bill Holderman.

Thursday  A18-49 Analysis: ABC dominated Thursday night and the A18-49 demo with a 3.3/9, according to final national ratings from Nielsen. At 8p, ABC’s Wipeout topped with a 3.7/11 with CBS’ comedies the repeat The Big Bang Theory and $#*! My Dad Says posting an average of 2.9/8. ABC had the winning cure at 9p with Grey’s Anatomy at 4.3/12 followed by CBS’ CSI encore at 2.0/5. ABC finished its successful streak at 10p with a rebroadcast of new series Off the Map at 2.0/6 though CBS’ repeat The Mentalist was a close second at 1.9/6.

Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Thursday, January 13, 2011 time period averages. Source: NTI Galaxy, as dated. Live+SD.

CBS: 6.4/11      The Big Bang Theory [r] 6.6/11, $#*! My Dad Says 6.3/10, CSI [r] 6.1/10, The Mentalist [r] 6.6/12

ABC: 5.8/10       Wipeout 5.7/9, Grey’s Anatomy 7.7/12, Off the Map [r] 3.9/7

FOX: 3.0/5        Million Dollar Money Drop 3.4/6, Bones [r] 2.6/4

UNIV: 2.0/3       Eva Luna 1.9/3, Triunfo del Amor 2.2/4, Mujeres Asesinas 3 1.7/3

NBC: 1.9/3         Community [r] 1.7/3, Community [r] 1.5/2, The Office [r] 2.1/3, The Office [r] 2.3/4, 30 Rock [r] 1.9/3, 30 Rock [r] 1.7/3

ION: 1.3/2         Criminal Minds 1.4/2, Criminal Minds 1.2/2, Criminal Minds 1.2/2

CW: 1.0/2          Vampire Diaries [r] 1.0/2, Nikita [r] 0.9/1

TELE: 0.6/1        Aurora 0.7/1, El Fantasma de Elena 0.6/1, Alguien Te Mira 0.6/1

TF: 0.5/1           Cine de Las Estrellas [r] 0.5/1, India 0.5/1

A18-49: ABC 3.3/9, CBS 2.3/7, UNIV 1.6/4, FOX 1.5/4, NBC 1.3/4, ION 0.6/2, CW 0.5/2, TELE 0.5/1, TF 0.4/1

Mark Stern appointed President/Original Programming with Syfy where he will also be the co-head of original content for Universal Cable Productions with creative supervision of Syfy Films. Mark reports to Dave Howe, President, Syfy and Chiller.

Dan Joerres named to President/GM of WBAL-TV, the NBC affiliate serving Baltimore and owned by Hearst Television. Dan succeeds Jordan Wertlieb in this position following Jordan’s recent promotion to EVP of Hearst Television based in New York City.

Studio 100 Group tapped Marie-Laure Marchand to the newly-created position of International Licensing Director. Marie-Laure will manage the development and execution of international consumer products tactics in step with the company’s current Benelux and German teams. Marie-Laure is based in Paris within Studio 100’s animation division, Studio 100 Animation.

Meredith Corporation added Rick Straface as Associate Publisher/Special Interest Media and Home Solutions for the Meredith National Media Group. In his new role, Rick will head all advertising sales and marketing for the company’s Special Interest Media publications and its Home Solutions advertising sales efforts. Rick will report to Stephen Levinson, VP/Group Publisher, Meredith National Media Group.

Indira R. Venkat takes on the position of SVP/Research for The Weather Channel Companies (TWCC). Indira will manage research activities for The Weather Channel and related digital assets including weather.com. Based in Atlanta, Indira reports to Bob Walker, EVP/Marketing and Cross-Platform Development.

A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE

 
This day in History:  1773 – Captain Cook’s Resolution became the first ship to cross the Antarctic Circle.

Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question:  Who is Mrs. Penobscott better known as?  MAJOR MARGARET “HOT LIPS” HOULIHAN  Kudos to:  BJ Smith-EPIX/NY; Lewis Cosby/Knoxville; Rick Rosenfelt-Madison Square Garden/NY; Marc Mondry-MSG Networks/NY; Ed Weiner-Hudson Media Services/NY; Cass Ruff-Compass Point Media/Minneapolis; Scott Wallace-Showtime Networks/Kansas; Sylvia Holcomb-KTAB KRBC/Abilene; Deirdre LaVerdiere-Tribune Media Services/Chicago; Judy Race/LA; Don Wollman-Big Brother/LA; Sidney Clifton-Sanctuary Enterprises/LA; Greg Stewart-Evolution Media/Burbank; Bobby Bittman-SCTV/Toronto; Arthur Reinstein-Shaw Media/Toronto; Miriam Bernath-PHD/Toronto

Today’s Trivia Question:  They say you should buy the one that “speaks to you” only nobody really expects it to speak to you. This one did.  What did Dave buy?     (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.)

Later — Cyn
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT –  MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 2011

ABC:   The Bachelor, Castle
AZTECA:  Cosas de la Vida, Al Extremo, La Loba
CBS:  How I Met Your Mother, Rules of Engagement, Two and a Half Men, Mike & Molly, Hawaii Five-0
CW:   90210 [r], Gossip Girl [r]
FOX:  House, Lie to Me
ION:  Without a Trace, Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds
NBC:  Chuck, The Cape, Harry’s Law [p ]
PBS:  Antiques Roadshow, American Experience, After the Wall: A World United
TELE:  Aurora, Los Herederos del Monte, Alguien Te Mira
UNIV:  Eva Luna, Triunfo del Amor, Don Francisco Presenta

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