Cyn opsis
03.29.10

Good morning.  It’s Monday, March 29, 2010, 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 Premieres:
MTV: Disaster Date at 6p; Teen Cribs at 630p
Outdoor Channel: The Baja Unlimited at 730p
ABC Family: 10 Things I Hate About You at 8p
Si TV: Elle & Tito: The Married Life at 9p
TNT: Saving Grace at 10p

Tonight’s Finale:
ABC Family: Greek at 10p

A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM SCRIPPS NETWORKS

FOX and the producers of 24 have mutually agreed this current eighth season of the action series will be its last. 24 will conclude in a special two-hour episode on May 24 at 8p and the final 11 hours of the series will air on consecutive Mondays on FOX at 9p. 24 is a production of 20th Century Fox Television and Imagine Television in association with Teakwood Lane Productions.

ABC is ready to premiere its newest half-hour comedy, Romantically Challenged on April 12 at 932p. Starring Alyssa Milano, Kyle Bornheimer, Josh Lawson and Kelly Stables, and is about the four navigating the dating world. Ricky Blitt created the series produced by Bonanza Productions Inc. and Candy Bar Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television.

FOX set the spring premiere of Glee for a special time on April 13 at 929p directly after American Idol. Glee will continue in its regular time slot of Tuesdays at 9p the following week. Ryan Murphy Television produces Glee in association with 20th Century Fox Television.

NBC announced to its affiliates it will air the new game show Minute to Win It in the 8p Wednesday time period for three weeks starting March 31 in place of the drama Mercy which would have aired repeats. Minute to Win It will continue to air on Sundays at 8p. Also, NBC is moving the premiere of Friday Night Lights to May 7 at 8p since the network is opting to air the series Who Do You Think You Are? for one  more week.

Tonight, Outdoor Channel debuts a new series, The Baja Unlimited at 730p. The series takes viewers behind the scenes at SCORE’s Baja-based races and the entire racing experience. Outdoor Channel is also bringing back new seasons of other series next month as Savage Wild premieres April 3 at 10p; Step Outside on April 4 at 230p; and Archer’s Choice on April 4 at 12 noon.

At the start of 2010 Upfront season, Nielsen released a new report titled “How Consumers Watch: 2010 TV Upfront Fact Sheet.” A few nuggets about traditional TV and DVR use sifted from the report include:

• Today, there are more TVs on average in homes in America at 2.86, than people at 2.53.
• As of 4Q09, the average American watches 34 hours and 37 minutes of TV per week.
• An estimated 90% of US homes receive either cable TV and/or satellite service (Feb 2010).
• In 4Q09, DVRs are in 35% of American homes and usage is up +25% from the previous year.
• DVR users watch approximately 47% of the primetime commercials in programs played back after 3 days.
• Within homes using DVRs, 85% of all primetime viewing is live (Nov 2009).

The full report with more information regarding online video use, mobile and ad spending and effectiveness, can be found at our website at Cynopsis.com.

Top 10 Weekend Box Office Estimates: March 26-28, 2010
How To Train Your Dragon (Paramount)   $43.3 million  opening weekend
Alice In Wonderland (Disney)                  $17.3 million  4 wk total $293.1m
Hot Tub Time Machine (MGM)                 $13.7 million  opening weekend
The Bounty Hunter (Sony)                      $12.4 million  2 wk total $38.8m
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (20th Century Fox)  $10.0 million  2 wk total $35.8m
She’s Out Of My League (Paramount)      $3.5 million  3 wk total $25.6m
Green Zone (Universal)                          $3.3 million  3 wk total $30.4m
Shutter Island (Paramount)                    $3.2 million  6 wk total $120.6m
Repo Men (Universal)                             $3.0 million  2 wk total $11.3m
Our Family Wedding (Fox Searchlight)     $2.2 million  3 wk total $16.8m
Source: Rentrak

Program Call: Cynopsis Media will be producing our annual MIPTV Shopping Guide sent to all Cynopsis subscribers on Thursday, April 8, the week before MIPTV 2010 in Cannes. If your company is exhibiting and you’d like to have your programming included, please send us only the following info for your top 5 shows: title, availability date, number of episodes, length, type (i.e., movie, series, special, etc.), genre and your terms (barter, cash, etc.) as well as your company’s stand/booth location. To be included in this free and highly-viewed special edition, please send details to [email protected] no later than Thursday, April 1, 2010. A confirmation email will be sent following each submission (if you don’t get the confirmation, please resubmit).

ABC and Sinclair Broadcast Group renewed their affiliation agreement for nine TV stations representing approximately 5% of the US. The previous affiliation agreement expired at the end of 2009 and was extended twice until March 31 due to negotiations. This new agreement will expire August 31, 2015. Terms of the deal were not disclosed though Sinclair said in its press announcement the agreement included a license fee based partially on retransmission consent revenue.

Warner/Chappell Music, the international music publishing unit of Warner Music Group Corp. picked up the Groove Addicts Production Music Library in Los Angeles as well as the Carlin Recorded Music Library (CRML) based in London. Immediately, both of these acquisitions increase Warner/Chappell’s international production music business and doubles its library of production music to 16 catalogs with 74,000 cues/songs. The deal also allows both Grove Addicts Production Music Library and CRML and its catalogs to be exclusively marketed and licensed by Non-Stop Music, a division of Warner/Chappell Music.

Syfy ordered a half-hour comedy script for a pilot headlined by Jonathan Silverman (Weekend at Bernie’s) and produced by Sony and Happy Madison Productions. Michael Rosenbaum (Smallville), creator of the show will also co-star. The plot for the single-camera comedy is about two friends and former actors who starred in a popular sci-fi show. The duo hits rock bottom and must work together to rebuild their lives. Happy Madison and Doug Robinson will executive produce along with Adam Goldberg, Rose and Bomb Productions and Untitled Entertainment.

Bunim-Murray Productions, behind the long-time MTV hit The Real World, was purchased by Paris-based Banijay Entertainment. Jonathan Murray will continue as chairman of Bunim-Murray along with president Gil Goldschein. Bunim-Murray will additionally remain based in Los Angeles and will not change its name.

Martin Short will next appear in FOX’s comedy pilot Tax Man playing the boss at an IRS office in Fresno. Short will co-star along with David Krumholtz. Previously, Short played a recurring role on FX’s Damages.

Don Johnson is in talks to star in ABC’s comedy pilot Southern Discomfort about a tough, conservative Texas (Johnson) whose adult kids move back in with him. Steve Talley also joined the pilot playing the eldest son, a slacker who gave up a baseball scholarship to pursue a writing career.

Casting Call: Meredith Video Studios is looking for first-time moms who are either currently pregnant or have just given birth or adopted their first child in the past two months. The selected candidates must be willing to share and document their preparations for the baby and the first months of being a new mother. Chosen participants will receive a small hand-held camcorder to record and upload video footage which will be part of a special year-long webisode series and shown nationally on a lifestyle television show. For information on how to participate, please send an email to: [email protected] .

A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM HALLMARK CHANNEL

Thursday  A18-49 Analysis: CBS made the winning pass Thursday night with 3.9/12 A18-49, according to final national ratings from Nielsen. At 8p, CBS’ first round of NCAA Basketball Championships of the night won with 3.5/12 with NBC’s comedies Community and Parks and Recreation next with an average of 2.0/6. CBS was #1 again with more NCAA Basketball Championships during 9p with 3.9/11 followed closely by ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy at 3.7/10. CBS carried its winning streak through 10p with the NCAA Basketball Championship games at 4.2/12 and ABC was second again, this time with Private Practice at 2.9/8.

Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Thursday, March 25, 2010 – time period averages. Source: NTI Galaxy, as dated. Live+SD.

CBS: 7.0/12           NCAA Basketball Championships: Butler vs. Syracuse/WA vs. WST VA [7p start] 6.0/11, NCAA Basketball Championships: Xavier vs. KS ST/Cornell vs. KY 7.1/13

ABC: 5.8/10              Flash Forward 4.0/7, Grey’s Anatomy 7.6/12, Private Practice 5.8/10

NBC: 3.8/6             Community 3.2/6, Parks and Recreation 2.9/5, The Office 4.4/7, 30 Rock 3.8/6, The Marriage Ref 4.2/7

FOX: 3.3/5             Bones [r] 3.9/7, Fringe [r] 2.6/4

CW: 1.9/3             Vampire Diaries 2.0/3, Supernatural 1.7/3

UNIV: 1.8/3           Hasta que el Dinero Nos Separe 2.3/4, Corazon Salvaje 1.8/3, Vidas Cruzadas 1.2/2

ION: 0.9/2            Ghost Whisperer 0.7/1, NCIS 1.0/2, NCIS 1.1/2

TELE: 0.7/1           El Clon 0.6/1, Perro Amor 0.6/1, Donde Esta Elisa 0.8/1

A18-49: CBS 3.9/12, ABC 2.8/8, NBC 2.6/8, CW 1.4/4, FOX 1.3/4, UNIV 1.3/4, TELE 0.6/2, ION 0.4/1

Effective immediately, OpenGate Capital appointed Lori O’Connor as Publisher of TV Guide Magazine. Lori will supervise all magazine advertising programs as well as the magazine’s ad sales team. Lori will work in tandem with Jack Kliger who will remain as Senior Advisor to the company and the magazine in addition to Debra Birnbaum, Editor-in-Chief.

Phil Zimmerman joined CBS Television Distribution as Senior Publicist for the syndicated quiz show Jeopardy!. Most recently, Phil served as Communications Manager with Independent Television Service, producer of the PBS series Independent Lens.

A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM NAB SHOW

This day in History:  1903 – A regular news service began between New York and London on Marconi’s wireless

Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question:  “And Dance by the light of the moon” was sung at the  conclusion of each episode of what show during the ’80s?  THIRTYSOMETHING produced by Bedford Falls Prods with its salute to the film It’s a Wonderful Life set in the town of Bedford Falls Kudos to: Jennifer Hayoun/Rosetta; Juan Delgado-Telemundo/Hialeah; Susan Levit-SRL Prods/NY; Ed Ziskind-Tribune/NY; Laura Treacy-OnMedia/Overland Park; Lisa Richards-Harpo Prods/Chicago; Joanna Kuebel-Kelly Scott & Madison/Chicago; Amy Mendoza-Scripps Networks/Chicago; Lilian Lemer-MyMac Prods/Venice; Amelia Heape-Marketing Center Theatre Group/LA; Lee Toft-Mike Mathis Prods/Pasadena; Steve Howard/Burbank; Stephen S. Kelley-SSK Comm/Toronto

Today’s Trivia Question:  Here’s the series synopsis, you give me this classic film’s title: Old time western, newly married sheriff, man released from prison coming to town on the afternoon train. (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.)

A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE

Later — Cyn
03.29.10

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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT –  MONDAY, MARCH 29, 2010

ABC:  Dancing with the Stars; Castle
AZTECA: Lo Que Callamos Las Mujeres Edicion Especial, Extranormal de Impacto, Al Extremo
CBS: How I Met Your Mother [r], Rules of Engagement, Two and a Half Men [r], Big Bang Theory [r], CSI Miami [r]
CW:   Life Unexpected, Gossip Girl
FOX:  House [r], 24
ION:  Ghost Whisperer, Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds
NBC:  Chuck, Trauma, Law & Order
PBS: Antiques Roadshow, American Experience
TELE:  El Clon, Perro Amor, Done Esta Elisa?
UNIV:  Hasta que el Dinero Corazon Salvaje, Cristina

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