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07.20.09

Good morning. It’s Monday, July 20, 2009, and this is just a reminder … Editorial staff on vacation all this week, returning on Monday, July 27!  Have a good week! 

While we are off this week, the passing of Walter Cronkite cannot go unnoticed.  Known as the “most trusted man in America,” Cronkite passed away Friday evening at the age of 92.  He anchored the CBS Evening News from 1961 thru 1982, and from him we learned of the assassination and death of President John F. Kennedy, we saw man’s first moon landing (40 years ago today), numerous national conventions, the Watergate scandal, the Civil Rights movement, the war in Vietnam and countless other momentous and not so momentous moments and stories.  In 1973 he described himself in an interview with The Christian Science Monitor as “a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor – not a commentator or analyst.  I feel no compulsion to be a pundit.”  And yet his impact was tremendous – in 1968 when he described the situation in Vietnam as a stalemate and unwinnable, President Lyndon B. Johnson was quoted to have turned off the television set and declared, “If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost middle America.”  Washington Post reporter Ben Bradlee credits Cronkite with keep the Watergate story alive.  In a column published in the Washington Post, Bradlee said, “Somehow many other editors felt when Cronkite — the great white father of the American people — said that the Washington Post was right, the story suddenly was worth their attention and coverage.” Affectionately known as Uncle Walter, Cronkite was born in 1916 in St. Joseph, Missouri.  He moved to Houston as a teenager, and attended the University of Texas at Austin.  He dropped out of college to become a radio announcer in 1935. He later moved on to KCMO in Kansas City, and soon thereafter married Mary Elizabeth “Betsy” Maxwell in 1940.  While in Kansas City,  Cronkite worked as part of the United Press and in that capacity covered the Nuremberg Trials, World War II and Soviet Russia. To quote the great man himself, “And that’s the way it is.”

Here are a few stories for you and of course this week’s list of Premieres and Finales …

Tonight’s Premieres:
The Weather Channel: Wake Up With Al at 6a
BBC America: Torchwood: Children of Earth at 9p
Investigation Discovery: Solved at 9p
ABC: Dating in the Dark at 10p
NBC: The Wanted at 10p
VH1: The T.O. Show at 10p

Tuesday, July 21 Premieres:
FOX: Hell’s Kitchen at 8p
TLC: Restorer Guy at 7p; Real Estate Pros at 730p; Moving Up at 8p
ABC Family: Ruby & the Rockits at 830p
Discovery Channel: The Colony at 10p

Wednesday, July 22 Premieres:
TLC: Toddlers & Tiaras at 10p

Thursday, July 23 Premieres:
The Style Network: How Do I Look? at 9p

Saturday, July 25 Premieres:
BBC America: Being Human at 9p

Sunday, July 26 Premieres:
BBC America: Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead at 8p

NBC acquired a 13-episode drama called Persons Unknown about strangers who awaken in a deserted town with no knowledge of how they arrived there and must work together to figure out how to escape. The project is produced by Fox TV Studios, a collaboration between Mexico-based Televisa and Italy’s RAI. Fox TV Studios recently sold two other internationally produced series stateside: Mental to FOX and the upcoming Defying Gravity to ABC. Persons Unknown is executive produced by Christopher McQuarrie, showrunner Reme Aubuchon and Heather McQuarrie. NBC has not announced the show’s premiere date.

Primetime Emmy® Awards Note: Cynopsis will be rolling out five Special Edition issues focusing on the 2009 Primetime Emmy® Award nominees, going out to all Cynopsis subscribers.  These special editions will cover the following categories: 

• 7/29 Special Edition:  Outstanding Comedy Series, Outstanding Directing for a Comedy, Outstanding Writing for a Comedy
• 8/5 Special Edition:    Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Directing of a Drama, Outstanding Writing of a Drama
• 8/12 Special Edition:  Outstanding Reality-Competition Program, Outstanding Reality Program; Outstanding Non-Fiction Series; Outstanding Non-Fiction Special
• 8/19 Special Edition:  Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series
• 8/24 Special Edition:  Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series

The nominees were announced last Thursday morning and if you’re among them … congratulations!!  If you’d like to send us a description or brief bio of the nominated series/director/actor/writer (maximum of 150 words – emailed 48 hours prior to publication date), we will include it in our special edition.   Please send the description to me at

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Jon Goodman is returning to television in the sitcom pilot The Station, a single-camera comedy produced by Ben Stiller for FOX. 20th Century TV is the production company behind this project about CIA operatives in Central America on a secret mission to install a new dictator. Goodman will play a CIA veteran who mentors the lead CIA agent played by Justin Bartha. Goodman will also appear in the upcoming HBO Films’ You Don’t Know Jack with Al Pacino and Susan Sarandon.

Actress Jorja Fox is rejoining the cast of CBS’ CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Sara Sidle, cites the AP. Fox left the drama two years ago and will be a part of the CSI: CI’s tenth season premiere opening September 24 and other following episodes.

CBS tapped Sarah Carter to join the cast of CSI: NY as a regular. Carter will portray a 20-something forensic school graduate with ambition to be become a crime scene clean up technician. Carter was last seen on two seasons of CBS’ Shark.

Futurama, debuting with new episodes in mid-2010 on Comedy Central, may have a whole new cast of actors voicing the animated characters. 20th Century TV, the series’ production company, is moving forward with auditioning new actors after not reaching an agreement with the existing cast based on their increased salary demands. The original voice cast included John DiMaggio, Maurice LaMarche, Billy West, Tress MacNeille and Katey Sagal. 20th Century approached the original cast members following last month’s deal where Comedy Central picked up the series with 26 new episodes.

Casting Call:   FOX is conducting a worldwide open call online to cast two characters for its upcoming 2010 comedy, Sons of Tucson. The plot is about a charming con man named Ron who is hired by three brothers to act as their father while their real one is serving prison time for a white collar crime. Specifically, FOX is looking to cast two of the brothers. Kids and teens, with or without acting experience are invited to upload their audition videos online through July 24 at http://www.sonsoftucsonopencall.com . The show’s Los Angeles-based casting directors will review each audition video and contact those they are interested in. Details on the two brother characters “Robby” and “Brandon” are as follows:

• Robby – (8 years old) is the youngest Gunderson sibling. He’s an impish and impulsive grade-schooler who needs Ron to bail him out when he accidently starts a fire at the back-to-school fair.It’s partially for this reason that the Gundersons hire Ron full-time to pose as their dad.
• Brandon – (13-15 years old) is the oldest of the Gunderson boys. He views life and the family’s current situation through a somewhat warped lens. Energetic and upbeat, his eccentricity is charming at times, but his efforts to help his brothers often land them in hot water. He possesses terrific self confidence that is completely unearned.

A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE

Thursday  A18-49 Analysis: FOX zeroed in on the A18-49 demo Thursday winning with a 2.0/7, according to final national ratings from Nielsen Media Research. At 8p, CBS’ Big Brother took the lead with 1.9/7 followed by UNIV’s Premios Juventud at 1.7/7. FOX boogied into first place during 9p with So You Think You Can Dance at 2.6/8 while UNIV’s Premios Juventud placed second again at 1.9/6. UNIV then made it to the top through 10p with the last hour of Premios Juventud at 1.8/6 while CBS’ The Mentalist was a close second at 1.7/6.

Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Thursday, July 16, 2009 (July Sweep Day 15)  time period averages. Source: NTI Galaxy, as dated. Live+SD.

CBS: 4.8/9          Big Brother 3.7/7, CSI [r] 5.0/9, The Mentalist [r] 5.6/10

FOX: 4.0/7          Bones [r] 3.4/7, So You Think You Can Dance 4.6/8

ABC: 2.3/4          ABC News Special: J.K. Rowling: A Year in a Life 2.9/6, Grey’s Anatomy [r] 2.0/3, Private Practice [r] 2.1/4

NBC: 2.2/4          30 Rock [r] 2.3/5, The Office [r] 2.0/4, The Office [r] 2.1/4, 30 Rock [r] 1.9/3, Listener 2.6/5

UNIV: 2.2/4         Premios Juventud 09 2.2/4

CW: 0.8/2           Smallville [r] 0.9/2, Supernatural [r] 0.8/1

MNT: 0.8/1          My Thursday Night Movie: Soldier 0.8/1

TELE: 0.6/1         Mas sabe el diablo 0.5/1, El Rostro de Analia 0.7/1, Ninos Ricos 0.6/1, Victorinos 0.5/1

ION: 0.3/1          Thursday Night Movie: Batman Returns [r] 0.3/1

A18-49: FOX 2.0/7, UNIV 1.8/6, CBS 1.7/6, NBC 1.2/4, ABC 0.9/3, CW 0.4/1, MNT 0.4/1, TELE 0.4/1, ION 0.2/1

Mark Rosenthal named to CEO/Current Media, owner of cable network Current TV.  Rosenthal steps in as Joel Hyatt, co-founder of Current TV with Al Gore in 2005, is upped to Vice Chairman.  Rosenthal will oversee domestic and international business activities of Current Media.  Current TV is now available to 60 million subscribers.

 
This day in History:  1969 — The Eagle touched down on the moon and Walter Cronkite, live on the air for CBS News, exclaimed “Oh boy!”

Editorial staff on vacation all this – we’ll be back on Monday, July 27!  Have a good week!

Later — Cyn
07.20.09

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