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11.15.10

Good morning. It’s Monday, November 15, 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:
GSN: 1 VS. 100 at 7p
LATV: La Sobremesa at 730p
Centric: The Steve Harvey Project at 9p

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TLC will debut a new limited docu-series Bama Belles about a group of women in Alabama as they share their home lives, careers and relationships with viewers. The three one-hour episodes will begin December 5 at 10p and air over three consecutive weeks. Bama Belles is produced for TLC by BBC Worldwide Productions.

On Thursday, Univision aired the 11th Annual Latin Grammy Awards live from Las Vegas at 8p and the broadcast delivered 6.2 million total viewers, a record for the event. Additionally, the Latin Grammy Awards averaged 2.0 million A18-34 and 3.5 million among A18-49.

During its inaugural week, new late-night talk show Conan on TBS averaged nearly 1.5 million A18-34; and a little more than 2.1 million A18-49 viewers; as well as 2.9 million total viewers.

Coleman Jacoby, a veteran television comedy writer who worked during television’s golden age, died October 20 in East Meadow, NY though he lived in Manhattan. He was 95. Mr. Jacoby, along with his partner Arnie Rosen, created many of Jackie Gleason’s characters and also paired up Gleason with Art Carney. Starting in 1950, Mr. Jacoby and Mr. Rosen created such memorable characters for Gleason as Reginald Van Gleason III, the Poor Soul, Joe the Bartender, Charlie Bratton and Loud Mouth in addition to Rudy the Repairman and Fenwick Babbitt. Prior to this, Mr. Jacoby also wrote for Fred Allen’s radio show and more than 50 episodes for Phil Silver’s Sergeant Bilko character.

Top 10 Weekend Box Office Estimates:  November 12-14, 2010
Megamind (Paramount)                       $30.1 million – 2 wk total $90.0m
Unstoppable (20th Century Fox)            $23.5 million – opening weekend
Due Date (Warner Bros.)                     $15.5 million – 2 wk total $59.0m
Skyline (Universal)                              $11.7 million – opening weekend
Morning Glory (Paramount)                  $9.6 million – 1 wk total $12.2m
For Colored Girls (Lionsgate)                $6.8 million – 2 wk total $30.9m
Red (Summit Entertainment)               $5.1 million – 5 wk total $79.8m
Paranormal Activity 2 (Paramount)       $3.1 million – 4 wk total $82.0m
Saw 3D (Lionsgate)                             $2.8 million – 3 wk total $43.5m
Jackass 3D (Paramount)                      $2.3 million – 5 wk total $114.7m
Source: Rentrak

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Advantage Media Group licensed the 24-episode travel series, Swiss Railway Journeys to Travel Channel International. The series will debut in Asia-Pacific countries and also airs on the Travel Channel in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Advantage Media Group is looking to secure DVD distributors in the various territories.

Tori Spelling is developing a daytime talk show for ABC and has selected Bravo reality star Jeff Lewis, star of Flipping Out as her co-host, cites Los Angeles Times: ShowTracker. The daytime show is described as a talk version of Will & Grace and is also being developed by ABC Media Productions.

Production crew members from NBC’s The Biggest Loser plan on picketing the show today and show producers are expected to hire non-union crew to continue production on the reality series. The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) is supporting the 50 crew members who voted unanimously to strike because The Biggest Loser show producers refused to sign an IATSE agreement. Crew members cite the factors for striking include health coverage and safety issues. The Biggest Loser is the last major reality show that is not union. The series is in its tenth season and is produced Reveille Productions, 25/7 Productions and 3 Ball productions.

Thursday  A18-49 Analysis: CBS was successful among A18-49 Thursday night with a 3.1/9, according to final national ratings from Nielsen. CBS opened the night a winner with the average of its comedies The Big Bang Theory and $#*! My Dad Says at 3.5/10 while FOX’s Bones and UNIV’s Latin Grammy awards presentation tied for second place at 2.6/7 each. At 9p, it was ABC on top with Grey’s Anatomy at 4.0/11 and NBC’s sitcoms The Office and Outsourced averaged a #2 with 3.1/8. Then at 10p, ABC’s Private Practice won by a smidge at 2.9/8 followed closely by CBS’ The Mentalist at 2.8/8.

Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Thursday, November 11, 2010 (November Sweep Day 15) time period averages. Source: NTI Galaxy, as dated. Live+SD.

CBS: 7.8/13        The Big Bang Theory 7.7/13, $#*! My Dad Says 5.9/9, CSI 8.1/13, The Mentalist 8.5/16

ABC: 5.2/9          Grey’s Anatomy [r] 2.7/4, Grey’s Anatomy 7.2/12, Private Practice 5.7/10

FOX: 4.2/7           Bones 5.5/9, Fringe 2.9/5

NBC: 3.1/5           Community 2.8/5, 30 Rock 3.1/5, The Office 4.1/6, Outsourced 3.2/5, The Apprentice 2.6/5

UNIV: 2.9/5         11th Annual Latin Grammy Awards 2010 2.9/5

CW: 1.8/3            Vampire Diaries 2.1/3, Nikita 1.4/2

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

TELE: 0.6/1         Aurora 0.7/1, El Fantasma de Elena 0.6/1, Alguien Te Mira 0.5/1

TF: 0.4/1            Cine de Las Estrellas 0.4/1, India 0.4/1

A18-49: CBS 3.1/9, ABC 2.6/7, UNIV 2.6/7, FOX 2.2/6, NBC 2.2/6, CW 1.2/3, TELE 0.5/1, ION 0.4/1, TF 0.4/1

This day in History:   1926 – The National Broadcasting Co. (NBC) debuted with a radio network of 24 stations. The first network radio broadcast was a four-hour “spectacular.”

Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question:  After vacation, this TV host returned with a beard, which he shaved off on Lincoln’s Birthday a week later, commenting he didn’t think it wise to appear in a theatre with a beard.  Who is he?  JOHNNY CARSON in February 1985 Kudos to:  Geraldine Cronin-Newmark Knight Frank Smith Mack/Wayne; Kirstin Burout-Letfield Pictures/NY; Elaine Claspill-KTVI, KPLR/St. Louis; Suzenne Robertson-Lopez Tonight/LA

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Later  — Cyn
11.15.10

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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT –  MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2010

ABC:   Dancing with the Stars, The Middle, Castle
AZTECA:  Cosas de la Vida, Al Extremo, La Loba
CBS: How I Met Your Mother, Rules of Engagement, Two and a Half Men, Mike & Molly, Hawaii Five-0
CW:  90210, Gossip Girl
FOX:  House, Lie to Me
ION:  Without a Trace, Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds
NBC:   Chuck, The Event, Chase
PBS:   Antiques Roadshow,  Baseball: The Tenth Inning [r]
TELE:  Aurora, El Fantasma de Elena, Alguien Te Mira
UNIV:  Eva Luna, Soy Tu Duena, Cristina

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