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06.01.09

Good morning. It’s Monday, June 1, 2009, and this is your first early morning briefing.  And as always, if you prefer to watch this morning’s news instead of reading it, click here.  

Tonight’s Premiere:
NBC: I’m A Celebrity . . . Get Me Out Of Here! at 8p, The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien at 11:35p

Tonight’s Finale:
NBC: Medium at 10p

In negotiations to step into the vacancy left by Peter Chernin, President at News Corp when his contact expires at the end of June, is Chase Carey, CEO of DirecTV, according to The Wrap. Carey would be named Vice Chairman, assuming DirecTV will let Carey out of his contract, scheduled to expire at the end of 2009.

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Last Friday marked Jay Leno’s final Tonight Show on NBC. The show tallied its best Friday numbers during Leno’s 17 years as host, posting a HH rating of 8.8 and a 20 share from Nielsen’s 56 overnight metered markets covering more than 70% of US TV households. Looking back in the show’s history, when Johnny Carson wrapped his 30-year career as host of Tonight Show in 1992, that final show scored a 31.9 rating/62 share in the metered markets. As one era ends, another begins as Conan O’Brien takes over as the new Tonight Show host tonight.

GSN launches a new three-hour block of original programming and hosted live entertainment on Saturday nights called Big Saturday Night starting June 13 at 8p. The block will feature two new original shows:

• 20 Q – Hosted by Cat Deeley and featuring actor/comedian Hal Sparks as the voice behind the computer, Mr. Q, this series is based on the online and handheld game using artificial intelligence in a man vs. machine contest. The series airs at 8p and again at 11p.
• The Money List – Hosted by Fred Roggin, this game show combines knowledge with teamwork where teams compete to win a $50,000 cash prize. This series airs at 930p and again at 1230a.
• Rounding out the action on Big Saturday Night, GSN will feature live entertainment from music to comedy co-hosted by Ross Mathews (aka Ross the Intern from The Tonight Show with Jay Leno). Mathews will also do taped interviews and entertainment segments for the block and celebrities will make appearances.

ABC announced summer schedule reshuffling with its comedies:

• ABC will drop Surviving Suburbia again after recently moving the cancelled sitcom to Wednesdays at 930p following lukewarm ratings results last week (1.0/3 A18-49).
• For this week, the network will instead air double episodes of the new animated series The Goode Family at 9p and 930p. Media Rights Capital produces both Surviving Suburbia and The Goode Family.
• Better Off Ted returns with six episodes on Tuesdays at 9p beginning June 23, reports Variety. Better Off Ted, produced by 20th Century Fox Television, will follow the new reality competition series The Superstars and will also return in midseason next year with an additional 13-episode order.
• Furthermore Variety reports ABC will air the remaining episodes of Samantha Who? on Thursdays at 8p starting June 25 along with final episodes of In the Motherhood. Once Motherhood finishes its run, ABC will air new Samantha episodes at 8p followed by repeats at 830p.

Veteran television producer, Jack Reilly died last Wednesday in a New York City hospital. He was 84. Jack’s television career included serving as VP/Managing Editor at CNBC from 1994 to 1998 where he launched the programs Squawk Box and Power Lunch as well as is the man to put Maria Bartiromo reporting live from the New York Stock Exchange floor on CNBC. Jack also served as Executive Producer for ABC’s Good Morning America from 1986 to 1994. Additionally, Jack is credited with developing the format for the syndicated daily program Entertainment Tonight in the early 80s. And, prior to that from 1972 to 1975, Jack was president of Group W Productions and also was executive producer on The Mike Douglas Show and the David Frost Show for Group W Productions in the 70s. Jack is survived by his wife, Timmie Reilly, four children and several grandchildren. A memorial service and mass to honor Jack’s life will be this Wednesday in New York, 2p at St. Malachy’s-The Actors’ Chapel, 239 West 49th Street. Flowers may be sent to St. Malachy’s or in lieu of flowers contributions in Jack’s name to his favorite charities, the Salvation Army or Catholic Charities.

Top 10 Weekend Box Office Estimates: May 29-31, 2009
Up (Disney)                                                 $68.2 million – opening weekend
Night at the Museum: Battle at the Smithsonian (20th Century Fox) $25.5 million – 2 wk total $105.3m
Drag Me To Hell (Universal)                            $16.6 million – opening weekend
Terminator Salvation (Warner Bros.)                $16.1 million – 2 wk total $90.7m
Star Trek (Paramount)                                  $12.8 million – 4 wk total $209.5m
Angels & Demons (Sony)                               $11.2 million – 3 wk total $105.0m
Dance Flick (Paramount)                                $4.9 million – 2 wk total $19.2m
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (20th Century Fox)     $3.9 million – 5 wk total $171.0m
The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (Warner Bros.)    $1.9 million – 5 wk total $50.0m
Obsessed (Sony)                                         $665,000 – 6 wk total $67.5m
Source: Rentrak

Spoiler alert …. the fate of Britain’s Got Talent competitor Susan Boyle … Alas Susan Boyle, the Scottish singing sensation who wowed audiences via YouTube worldwide and on the television program Britain’s Got Talent, did not win the finals Saturday. Susan placed second behind the energetic dance troupe, Diversity. Following the announcement that Diversity took the top prize of 100,000 pounds and the chance to perform in front of the Queen at the Royal Variety Show, Susan said, “The best people won. They’re very entertaining. Lads, I wish you all the best.”

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SOURCE: Nielsen Media Research. Click here for full source data.

Independent production company LMNO Productions entered into a three-year deal appointing Endemol’s Southern Star International as the company’s exclusive distributor of content outside the US. The agreement covers new titles and a library consisting of more than 950 hours of programming. The first product involves the series The Little Couple, a 12-episode reality series airing currently on TLC. 

Golf Channel is going for a par two with its original series The Haney Project, reports Variety. The series finished its frosh season last Friday where Hank Haney, Tiger Woods’ swing coach worked to improve Charles Barkley’s game. The network approved a second season of eight episodes for next March where Haney will take on a different celebrity student.

For later this summer, ABC gave a green light for the auto competition series Crash Course from A. Smith & Co., cites THR. Over seven, one-hour episodes, viewers will watch as five couples take on four rounds of extreme driving conditions with one couple eliminated from each round. The final round, dubbed the Crash Course, is a large obstacle track. The series is expected to launch this August.

Casting Call: HGTV is casting for a new show called Armchair Designer. In this new show, amateur designers will get the chance to work on a design project for a real client, with the help of an HGTV design star. Thirteen amateur designers will be selected individually, based on a 3-8 minute video submission. Application and video submission guidelines can be found at www.armchairdesignertv.com .

CYNOPSIS DIGITAL – TODAY’S TOP STORY:  The nation’s top newspaper publishers gathered in Chicago late last week to discuss the transition to paid digital publishing including executives from Gannett, The New York Times Co., E.W. Scripps, McClatchy, Hearst and MediaNews Group, according to Editor & Publisher. (News of the unpublicized meeting was first broken by the Atlantic.) Antitrust concerns have emerged over such gatherings, but sources characterized the meeting as an informal “exchange of ideas.”   Full edition: CYN DIGITAL. 

CYNOPSIS KIDS – TODAY’S TOP STORY:   KidMangoTV, a new syndicated K3-10 aimed TV programming block premieres today, June 1, 2009, on the MyFamilyTV network.  Launched by PorchLight Entertainment and ValCom, via its subsidiary MyFamilyTV, KidMangoTV debuts with a four-hour daytime block (Monday-Friday) and plans to expand with a primetime block and an educational/informational (E/I) Saturday morning block later this year.  At launch KidMangoTV features kid-targeted programming that is created and acquired by PorchLight, including Jay Jay the Jet Plane, Four Eyes, The Secret World of Benjamin Bear and My Goldfish is Evil.  Additionally, today also marks the debut of a corresponding website www.kidmango.com , will also offer kid/family-aimed content including programs such as WordGirl, Pocoyo and Doodlez, as well as games, comics and music among other things.  Moving forward, the plan is to expand with a primetime block and an educational/informational (E/I) Saturday morning block later this year.  Full edition: CYN KIDS. 

Thursday – A18-49 Analysis: FOX had a knock-out Thursday night coming in #1 with A18-49 at 3.6/11 according to final national ratings from Nielsen Media Research. FOX shut out the competition during the first two hours as So You Think You Can Dance led at 8p with 3.3/11 followed by CBS’ NCIS repeat at 2.0/6. FOX’s So You Think You Can Dance moved up to a winning 4.0/11 through 9p followed by an encore of CSI on CBS at 2.1/6. CBS gained ground during 10p as Without a Trace delivered the top numbers at 2.0/6, besting NBC’s supersized The Office rerun at 1.6/5.

Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Thursday, May 28, 2009 – time period averages. Source: NTI Galaxy, as dated. Live+SD

CBS: 6.5/11      NCIS [r] 6.3/11, CSI [r] 6.7/11, Without a Trace [r] 6.6/12

FOX: 5.5/9          So You Think You Can Dance 5.5/9

ABC: 3.5/6         Scripps National Spelling Bee 3.8/7, Grey’s Anatomy [r] 2.5/5

NBC: 2.2/4         My Name is Earl [r] 2.3/4, 30 Rock [r] 2.1/4, The Office [r] 2.2/4, 30 Rock [r] 2.1/3, The Office [r] 2.4/4

UNIV: 2.2/4       Cuidado con el Angel 2.1/4, Manana es para Siempre 2.5/4, Mujeres Asesinas 1.9/3

MNT: 1.2/2         My Thursday Movie: Just Cause 1.2/2

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

TELE: 0.7/1        Mas Sabe el Diablo 0.5/1, El Rostro de Analia 0.6/1, Futbol Estelar 0.8/2

ION: 0.3/1         Thursday 7PM Movie: Rocky IV [r] 0.3/1, Thursday Night Movie: Rocky IV [r] 0.3/1

A18-49: FOX 3.6/11, CBS 2.0/6, UNIV 1.7/5, ABC 1.5/4, NBC 1.4/4, TELE 0.6/2, CW 0.5/2, MNT 0.5/2, ION 0.2/1

This day in History:  1980 – Cable News Network (CNN) made its debut as the first all-news station.

Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question:   If Aunt Bluebell came to visit you, what product was she carrying?  ScoTowels  Kudos to: Stuart Shlossman-Watershed Associates/Metucheni, NJ; Keirstin Pry-Hallmark Channel/NY; Anthony Salerno-Maxus/NYC; Rev. Mark Wajda-Diocese of Orlando, Annunciation Catholic Church/Altamonte Springs, FL; Steve Iha/Dallas; Nick Riley-NCC/Chicago; Amie Pritchett-KIAH/Houston; Crystal Roberts-BET Networks/Chicago; Dan Matson-20th Television/LA; Richard Quan-Imaginary Time/San Francisco; Lorrie Shilling-DIRECTV/El Segundo

Today’s Trivia Question:  For the first two seasons of this series, this character was never seen full face, but rather always shot from behind.  When he was finally revealed in season #3, it turned out he was also the creator of the show.  Who was this character?  (Email
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT –  MONDAY, JUNE 1, 2009

ABC: The Bachelorette, Here come the Newlyweds
AZTECA: Los Que Callamos Las Mujeres Edicion Especial, Historia Detras del Mito, Al Extremo
CBS: Big Bang Theory [r], How I Met Your Mother [r], Two and a Half Men [r], Rules of Engagement [r], CSI: Miami [r]
CW: Gossip Girl [r], One Tree Hill [r]
FOX: House [r], Bones [r]
ION: Ghost Whisperer, NCIS, NCIS
MNT: Celebrity Expose, Magic’s Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed
NBC: I’m a Celebrity … Get Me out of Here [p ], Medium
PBS: Antiques Roadshow, American Experience 
TELE: Mas Sabe el Diablo, El Rostro de Analia, Sin Senos No Hay Paraiso
UNIV: Cuidado con el Angel, Manana es para Siempre, Cristina

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