Cynopsis
06.21.10

Good morning. It’s Monday, June 21, 2010, and this is your first early morning briefing.  As always, if you prefer to watch this morning’s news instead of reading it, click here .

Tonight’s Premieres:
MSG Plus: Hockey Night Live: Summer Ice at 8p
JLTV: Kosher Organic Ranchero at 830p
Golf Channel:  Big Break Sandals Resorts at 9p
Discovery Channel: Ultimate Car Build Off at 9p; Heartland Thunder at 10p
PBS: History Detectives at 9p
Investigation Discovery: Unusual Suspects at 10p
TLC: Inedible to Incredible at 10p

Tonight’s Finale:
TNT: Savings Grace (series finale) at 9p

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ABC’s telecast of the NBA Finals Game 7 on Thursday drew in the largest basketball audience in twelve years for the network, attracting 28.2 million viewers. For ABC, Thursday’s match was the highest-rated NBA Finals game ever. Over seven nights of coverage, ABC averaged 18.1 million viewers and a 7.3 HH rating, ranking as the most-watched NBA Finals in nine years.

Tonight, CNN is airing a special two-hour telethon on Larry King Live to benefit the Gulf oil spill tragedy relief called Disaster In the Gulf: How You Can Help starting at 8p. Celebrity guests making appearances include Justin Bieber, Deepak Chopra, Cameron Diaz, Philippe Cousteau, Ted Danson, Kathy Griffin, Chelsea Handler, Robert Redford, Richard Simmons and more. Funds raised from the telethon will be given to United Way, The National Wildlife Federation, and The Nature Conservancy.

On Thursday, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce announced the 2011 list of celebrities who will receive recognition and a plaque on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Television celebrities receiving this honor are Oprah Winfrey, Neil Patrick Harris, Danny DeVito, Tina Fey, Simon Fuller, John Langley, Ed O’Neill and John Wells. Also next year many other film stars and recording artists such as the Muppets, Penelope Cruz, Ed Harris, Gwyneth Paltrow and Melissa Etheridge will be honored.

HBO will premiere a second season of Eastbound & Down on September 26, per Live Feed.

Top 10 Weekend Box Office Estimates: June 18-20, 2010
Toy Store 3 (Disney)                            $109.0 million – opening weekend
Karate Kid (Sony)                                 $29.0 million – 2 wk total $106.3m
The A-Team (20th Century Fox)              $13.8 million – 2 wk total $49.8m
Get Him To The Greek (Universal)          $6.1 million – 3 wk total $47.9m
Shrek Forever After (Paramount)            $5.5 million – 5 wk total $222.9m
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (Disney) $5.3 million – 4 wk total $80.5m
Killers (Lionsgate)                                 $5.1 million – 3 wk total $39.4m
Jonah Hex (Warner Bros.)                       $5.1 million – opening weekend
Iron Man 2 (Paramount)                        $2.7 million – 7 wk total $304.0m
Marmaduke (20th Century Fox)               $2.7 million – 3 wk total $ $27.9m
Source: Rentrak

Syndicated talk show The Dr. Oz Show made three-year deals to take over The Oprah Winfrey Show’s 4p time period on Scripps’ ABC affiliates WXYZ in Detroit and WEWS in Cleveland starting with the 2011-2012 season. The one-hour show has now completed deals in six of the top 20 markets airing at 4p in all of those markets and as a lead-in to local news in five markets. Specifically in Detroit, Dr. Oz is switching from the NBC affiliate WDIV owned by Post-Newsweek to Scripps’ WXYZ/ABC and in Cleveland the show was reupped by WEWS though upgraded to Oprah’s 4p slot. The Dr. Oz Show is produced by Sony Pictures Television and Harpo Productions.

FOX’s upcoming drama Terra Nova picked Jason O’Mara for the role of Jim Shannon, the leader of a group of settlers who travel back in time to the prehistoric era to form a colony. O’Mara recently starred in ABC’s time travel series Life on Mars based on the UK series about a modern-day cop caught in the 1970s. 20th Century Fox TV, DreamWorks TV, Kapital Entertainment and Chernin Entertainment are producing Terra Nova with Steven Spielberg, Peter Chernin, Brannon Braga and David Fury as executive producers.

Film actor Eric Roberts is joining the cast of CBS’ The Young and the Restless this summer. Roberts early in his career was a part of the daytime soap Another World in the 1970s. Playing a lawyer working for Adam Wilson, Roberts will tape his first Y&R show this week with a July 12 debut.

ABC Family has a new series in the works titled Shadows about a secret Harvard-based program that trains young spies, reports THR. Jesse Peyronel created the concept and will executive produce the project along with George Tillman Jr., Matthew Pritzker and Robert Teitel of State Street as well as co-creators Rene Rigal and Mal Young.

Showtime renewed its half-hour comedy series Secret Diary of a Call Girl for a fourth and final season with eight episodes. The series starring British actress Billie Piper begins production in London this August and is produced by IMG/Tiger Aspect/Silverapples Media/ARG.

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Thursday  A18-49 Analysis ABC dunked a big win Thursday night at 7.1/22 among A18-49. At 8p, ABC won with the average of ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live Game Night show and the GMC Sierra NBA Countdown at 2.0/8 followed by a tie between FOX’s Glee encore and UNIV’s Hasta que el Dinero Nos Separe at 1.5/5 each. ABC ruled the remainder of the evening with the NBA Finals Game 7 with an 8.6/26 at 9p followed by FOX’s So You Think You Can Dance at 2.3/7. ABC surged to an 11.0/31 during 10p as the NBA Finals Game 7 came to a conclusion and The Mentalist repeat on CBS was a distant second place with 1.5/4.
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Thursday, June 17, 2010  time period averages. Source: NTI Galaxy, as dated. Live+SD.

ABC: 10.2/18    Jimmy Kimmel Live Game Night 7 2.5/5, GMC Sierra NBA Countdown 5.0/9, NBA Finals on ABC Game 7: Boston at LA Lakers 15.6/27

CBS: 5.2/9         The Mentalist [r] 4.5/8, CSI [r] 5.4/9, The Mentalist [r] 5.5/10

FOX: 3.2/6        Glee [r] 2.7/5, So You Think You Can Dance 3.8/6

UNIV: 1.9/3      Hasta que el Dinero Nos Separe 2.0/4, Soy Tu Duena 2.5/4, Tiempo Final 1.0/2

NBC: 1.5/3       Community [r] 1.7/3, 100 Questions 1.4/2, The Office [r] 1.6/3, 30 Rock [r] 1.6/3, The Office [r] 1.4/2, Parks and Recreation [r] 1.3/2

ION: 1.0/2       Criminal Minds 0.9/2, NCIS 1.2/2, NCIS 1.1/2

CW: 0.7/1        Vampire Diaries [r] 0.7/1, Moonlight 0.7/1

TELE: 0.6/1     El Clon 0.6/1, Perro Amor 0.5/1, Donde Esta Elisa? 0.9/2

A18-49: ABC 7.1/22, FOX 1.9/6, CBS 1.4/4, UNIV 1.4/4, NBC 0.8/3, TELE 0.6/2, CW 0.4/1, ION 0.4/1

Joe Earley advances to President/Marketing and Communications with Fox Broadcasting Company. In his new role, Joe will continue overseeing the network’s marketing efforts encompassing on-air and off-air promotion and advertising, national media, national promotions, content production and affiliate marketing. Joe’s additional duties include entertainment publicity, corporate communications and talent relations, creative services and the company’s internal corporate marketing, promotion and special projects.

Young & Rubicam New York added Amy Fuller as EVP/Global Client Leader where she will be an account leader involved with a variety of global brands. Amy will report to Jane Barratt, President, Young & Rubicam New York.

Paul Hewitt was tapped as SVP/Network Communications at The CW to supervise and develop communications strategies and media relations, reporting to Dawn Ostroff, President/Entertainment. Paul will also manage the network’s program publicity campaigns across all media platforms, working with Pamela Morrison, SVP/Publicity and Talent Relations and Bonnie Moffet, SVP/Photo Publicity. Paul follows Paul McGuire in this role who was just named SVP/Worldwide Corporate Communications with Warner Bros. Entertainment. 

This day in History: 1788 – The U.S. Constitution went into effect when New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify it.

Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question from Michael Weiser:   What is the connection between the Watergate break-in and the NBA? THE CHAIRMAN OF THE DNC AT THAT TIME, WHOSE OFFICE WAS BROKEN INTO THAT NIGHT, WAS LAWRENCE O’BRIEN. HE WENT ON TO BECOME THE NEXT COMMISSIONER OF THE NBA. Kudos to: Jim Kelsh-Comcast Spotlight/West Chester; Robin Keats-MY Tupelo Entertainment/NY; Christopher O’Leary-MEC/NY; Rick Rosenfelt-Madison Square Garden/NY; Ron Salcedo-Zimmerman/Nashville; Brett Calvert-ECCA/San Antonio; Pam Tierney/Chicago; Jeff Anderson-DISH Network/Englewood; Don Wollman-Big Brother 12/LA; Bob Ramsey/Palm Springs; Patricia Holguin-Camp SoHo/Studio City; Albert Fisher-Fisher Television productions/LA

Today’s Trivia Question:  Who’s motto is “Babum, Partium, Tuneum”?    (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
06.21.10

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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT –  MONDAY, JUNE 21, 2010

ABC:  The Bachelorette, True Beauty
AZTECA: Laura de Todos, Al Extremo, La Loba
CBS: How I Met Your Mother [r], Rules of Engagement, Two and a Half Men [r], Big Bang Theory [r], CSI Miami [r]
CW:  90210 [r], Gossip Girl [r]
FOX:  Lie to Me, Good Guys
ION:  Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds
NBC:  Last Comic Standing [R], Last Comic Standing, Persons Unknown
PBS:   Antiques Roadshow, History Detectives, Unforgettable: The Korean War
TELE:  El Clon, Perro Amor, Donde Esta Elisa?
UNIV:  Hasta que el Dinero Nos Separe, Soy Tu Duena, Cristina

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