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07/09/07
Good Morning, it’s Monday, July 9, 2007 and this is your first early morning briefing.
Football is back in the game as the upfront season for NFL sales ramps up. This time last year football was scheduled to move to NBC on Sunday nights, ABC’s Monday night Football was no more as those games moved to ESPN, CBS and Fox were status quo. The upshot – football did well on the broadcast and cable networks – CBS and Fox on Sunday afternoon, ESPN on Monday nights and and NBC on Sunday nights. And the proof is in this year’s upfront buying. Advertisers returning for next season include Anheuser-Busch, Southwest Airlines, Coors, General Motors, ford, Chrysler, AT&T and Sprint among others, and according to several reports inventory is moving quickly.
Tonight’s Premieres:
ABC Family: Greek at 9p
ESPN: The Bronx is Burning at 10p
~ MORE STUFF ~
Granting a reprieve from near cancellation, NBC has decided to renew Donald Trump’s reality show The Apprentice for a seventh season, and possibly more, according to a report from Reuters. In mid-May, The Apprentice did not appear on NBC’s 2007-2008 primetime roster but after NBC hired Ben Silverman, talks between the network, Trump and executive producer Mark Burnett resumed. An official announcement could be made as early as today. Trump and NBC also have a partnership involving the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants as both were renewed last March through 2010.
Litton Entertainment will distribute Storm Stories the 30m series that showcases Mother Nature in all her extreme might which airs on The Weather Channel. In national syndication, Storm Stories will offer local affiliates the option of using their meteorologists for local weather and news updates, or they can stick with national Weather Channel host Jim Cantore.
20th Television‘s syndicated series Temptation has now been cleared in 96% of the country for a fall start, including all top 30 markets. Among the clearances in the top markets are WWOR/New York, KCOP/LA, WPWR/Chicago, WTTA/Tampa, WSVN/Miami; KPLR/St. Louis; KCPQ and KMYQ/Seattle and WOIO/Cleveland. Temptation is a remake of the old game show series Sale of the Century.
Among the celebrities participating in the upcoming syndicated series Jury Duty from Radar Entertainment are Ed Begley, Jr., Kevin Sorbo, Paula Poundstone, Todd Bridges and bunches of others, according to Hollywood Reporter. Thus far, the show has been cleared in 85% of the country and is schedule for a September 17 launch.
After a long battle with cancer, Kelly Polk, age 44, passed away in her sleep Saturday morning. Kelly most recently worked as an Account Manager at WTVJ/Miami. I met Kelly at MMT Sales years ago, where she was a Sales Manager, and knew her as a brilliant woman with a wicked sense of humor, an untiring work ethic, who was also dedicated to family. A service will be held in Miami, and some time later on this month or next, a second memorial service is planned in New Rochelle, NY, Kelly’s hometown. Specific details will be posted here when the plans are finalized. She is survived by her husband and family, Robert, Schuyler, Daryl, Reese and the Douglass Family.
Weekend Box Office Estimates: July 6-8, 2007
Transformers (Paramount/DreamWorks) $67.6 million – opening weekend
Ratatouille (Buena Vista) $29.0 million – 2 wk total $109.5m
Live Free or Die Hard (Fox) $17.4 million – 2 wk total $84.2m
License to Wed (Warner Bros.) $10.4 million – opening weekend
Evan Almighty (Universal) $8.1 million – 3 wk total $78.1m
1408 (MGM/Weinstein) $7.1 million – 3 wk total $53.8m
Knocked Up (Universal) $5.2 million – 6 wk total $132.0m
Fantastic Four (Fox) $4.2 million – 4 wk total $123.8m
Sicko (Lionsgate) $3.7 million – 3 wk total $11.5m
Ocean’s 13 (Warner Bros.) $3.5 million – 5 wk total $109.1m
Source: Box Office Mojo
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~ PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT ~
Kevin Pollack will join the cast of CBS’ Shark in a recurring role as the new Los Angeles District Attorney, having beaten Jessica Devlin (Jeri Ryan) in the election. That makes Pollack’s character Sabastian Stark’s new boss – Stark played by James Woods. As for Jeri Ryan’s character, she will join the DA’s office. And a new prosecutor joins the cast – Kevin Alejandro as William Lyons.
ABC‘s fall sitcom Cavemen, based on the Geico caveman commercials, has added Sam Huntington to star as Caveman Andy. Andy is caveman Joel’s younger brother (played by Bill English).
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~ EXECUTIVE MOVES ~
Effective today, Steve Burns has joined National Geographic Channel as EVP/Content. Steve succeeds John Ford in this position, who will depart soon to form his own production company. Based at the networks headquarters in Washington, D.C., Steve will supervise all areas of programming and content as well as development, production, acquisitions and scheduling, reporting to David Haslingden, CEO. Way to go Steve!!
New England Sports Network (NESN) has appointed Jack Edwards as its new play-by-play Announcer for all the Boston Bruins telecasts starting with the 2007-2008 season. Jack will join Bruins analyst Andy Brickley in the booth. Since 1984, NESN has been the broadcast home to the Boston Bruins and will televise 70 regular season games in high-definition.
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- Sony drops the price of its PS3 console
- Anne of Green Gables, the prequel
- CBBC re-launches several online games
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- U.K.’s Five to air David Beckham’s Soccer USA
- Singapore’s Imagine OmniMedia and Mark Burnett Prods. to co-produce The Contender Asia
- Univision/Televisa lawsuit rescheduled to start on January 15, 2008
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- MSN’s Live Earth coverage breaks online streaming record
- Microsoft Research unveiled LiveStation, its own P2P IPTV player
- Hackers are using the iPhone to surf without AT&T
~ RATINGS ~
Thursday – A18-49 Analysis: FOX was head of the class Thursday night at 2.6/8 A18-49, according to fast affiliate ratings from Nielsen Media Research. At 8p, the season premiere of Big Brother 8 on CBS won the hour with 2.7/9. FOX took over at 9p as the second helping of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? repeat did a 2.8/9 to win. The first place status swung back in CBS’ favor in the 10p hour as the CSI encore did best at 2.6/8.
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Thursday, July 5, 2007 – time period averages. Source: Nielsen Media Research
FOX 5.1/9 Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? [r] 4.9/9, Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? [r] 5.4/9
CBS 4.8/9 Big Brother 8 [p] 4.8/9, Pirate Master 3.4/6, CSI [r] 6.2/11
ABC 3.0/6 Ugly Betty [r] 2.9/5, Grey’s Anatomy [r] 3.5/6, Men in Trees [r] 2.7/5
NBC 2.4/4 My Name Is Earl [r] 3.0/6, 30 Rock [r] 2.2/4, The Office [r] 2.8/5, Scrubs [r] 2.4/4, ER [r] 2.1/4
UNIV 1.7/3 Yo amo a Juan Querendon 1.7/3, Destilando Amor 1.9/3, Aquí y Ahora 1.5/3
CW 1.3/2 Smallville [r] 1.3/2, Supernatural [r] 1.3/2
TELE 0.6/1 Madre Luna 0.5/1, Zorro 0.7/1, La Esclava Isaura 0.7/1
A18-49: FOX 2.6/8, CBS 2.4/8, NBC 1.4/4, UNIV 1.4/4, ABC 1.3/4, CW 0.8/2, TELE 0.4/1
This Day in History: 1945 – During a newspaper strike in New York, Mayor Fiorello La Guardia read the comic strips, provided by the cartoonists, over radio station WNYC.
Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia: In this short-lived series, slaves later to be called “Newcomers,” arrived via flying saucer. What was the name of this show and what was the name of their home planet? ALIEN NATION/TENCTON Kudos to: Brian Teta-Late Show with David Letterman/NY; Paula Torrisi-Empower MediaMarketing/Cincinnati; Gerry Bixenspan-TV Marketing/NY; Kathy Horan-WXSP/MI; Julia Houston/New Orleans; Josh Anisfeld-Towers Productions/Chicago; Brett Calvert-ECCA/San Antonio; David Scott Jones-Marleigh Entertainment/LA; Kathleen Campbell-Wheat Penny/Hollywood; Eugene Scala-The Zamzow Group, Inc./Beverly Hills; Robert E G Black-Lemming Drops Studio/Glendale; Bobby Bittman-SCTV/Toronto
Today’s Trivia Question: “Video Killed the Radio Star”, by The Buggles, as most of us know, was the first video played on MTV in 1981 – what was the second video played and who was the artist? ( 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
07.09.07
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JOB OPENING: US DIR OF FINANCE & PROD ACCT’G/Chorion Silver Lining, Inc/NY: Oversee acct’g & reporting function in the US, prod accounting along w/corp oversight. Animation exp pref’d. Res/cvr ltr: [email protected] (7/14)
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JOB OPENING: GM /Equity Media Holdings Corp. for Univision/Telefutura affiliates in Amarillo, TX: Must have TV sales and/or sales mgmt. exp; bilingual a +. Email resume to Connie Vaughn [email protected]. EEO (7/10)
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – Monday, July 9, 2007
ABC: Wife Swap [r], Extreme Makeover, Supernanny [r]
CBS: Old Christine [r], Old Christine [r], Two and a Half Men [r], How I Met Your Mother [r], CSI:Miami [r]
CW: Everyone Hates Chris [r], All of Us [r], Girlfriends [r], The Game [r]
FOX: On The Lot, Hell’s Kitchen
ION: Mama’s Family, Mama’s Family, Who’s The Boss ?, Who’s The Boss?, Wonder Years, Wonder Years
MNT: IFL Battleground
NBC: Age of Love [r], Age of Love, Dateline
PBS: Antiques Roadshow, History Detectives, Simon Schama’s Power of Art: Rembrandt
TELE: Madre Luna, Zorro, La Esclava Isaura
UNIV: Yo Amo a Juan Querendon, Destilando Amor, Cristina
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