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Cynopsis
11.19.12

Good morning. It’s Monday, November 19, 2012, and this is your first early morning briefing.

Tonight’s Premieres:
ENCORE: Lonesome Dove at 8p
Travel Channel: The Layover with Anthony Bourdain at 9p
VH1: Marrying the Game at 930p
Investigation Discovery: Disappeared at 10p

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ABC decided to not give back orders to two first season series, Last Resort and 666 Park Avenue.  Both series premiered with modest ratings in September with each averaging a 1.6 A18-49 rating.  Last Resort is from creator Shawn Ryan and Sony Pictures Television and has been airing in the Thursday 8p time slot.  666 Park Avenue, from Warner Bros. Television, has been airing opposite NBC’s Sunday Night Football and tied its series low 1.3 rating in its most recent airing.  ABC will air the remaining episodes of both series’ original 13-episode orders.

Effective immediately, CBS canceled first season comedy Partners.  This move comes after Partners posted a series low 1.8 rating among A18-49 in its most recent airing.  CBS will replace Partners in the Monday 830p time period with comedy repeats, including a repeat of Two and a Half Men tonight, until midseason comedies Friend Me or Rules of Engagement can be brought out. 

Thursday’s broadcast of the XIII Annual Latin Grammy Awards on Univision attracted 10 million viewers who tuned in to all or part of the live three-hour event.  The broadcast also tallied an average audience of close to 5 million total viewers; 2.6 million A18-49 viewers; and 1.4 million among A18-34.  Additionally, during the broadcast, Univision Communications Inc., unveiled Generacion America, a new empowerment platform dedicated to preserving and sharing the stories of Hispanics in America.  This platform is part of Univision’s overall corporate strategy to celebrate the contributions Latinos have made to the US.  Generacion America is developed in partnership with the Immigrant Archive Project and is a multi-faceted initiative that includes video vignettes and events using Univision’s television networks, local television and radio affiliates as well as its digital platforms.

Outdoor Channel Holdings Inc. is merging with InterMedia Outdoors Holdings, LLC to form one large multiplatform company called InterMedia Outdoor Holdings, Inc.  The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2013 with the further expectation the new entity will be listed for trading on NASDAQ.  The newly-formed InterMedia Outdoor Holdings, Inc. will unite outdoor television, print, digital and social media in addition to editorial and content production for the hunting, shooting, fishing and conservation categories.  Outdoor Channel, with around 38 million subscribers and Sportsman Channel, in 30 million homes, will continue to operate as separate linear channels. 

Beginning today, Hallmark Channel’s daytime program Home & Family will see a change with its co-hosts as co-host Paige Davis opted to leave the show with her last day being November 16.  Talk show veteran, Cristina Ferrare will become the new co-host through the holiday season joining Mark Steines.  Hallmark Channel released this statement about the change late last week:

“Hallmark Channel announces today that, sadly, Paige Davis will leave her role as co-host of Home & Family, the channel’s new daily lifestyle program. Her last episode will air on Friday, November 16th. After much thought and careful consideration, and after close to three months away from her own home and family, Paige has decided to temporarily return to New York. We deeply appreciate the contribution Paige made to Home & Family and for the warmth and talent she brought to the set each day. Talk show veteran, Cristina Ferrare will step into the co-host role through the holiday season and will begin appearing on air on Monday, November 19th.”

A third season of Lisa Kudrow’s Web Therapy is on tap at Showtime.  The web-to-television comedy series received the third season order from Showtime consisting of ten half-hour episodes for 2013.  In the next season, featured guest stars will include Matt LeBlanc of Showtime’s Episodes (and Kudrow’s former Friends co-star), Meg Ryan and Jesse Tyler Ferguson and more celebrities will be announced soon.  Kudrow will continue in the starring role playing the delusional and narcissistic online therapist Fiona Wallace who treats patients in three-minute sessions via webcam.  Web Therapy is created by Kudrow, Don Roos and Dan Bucatinsky for Is or Isn’t Entertainment.

Discovery Channel’s docu-soap reality program American Chopper will end its 10-year run on television next month.  The series clocked a total of 233 episodes featuring Paul “Senior” Teutul and his son Paul “Junior” Teutal as they built motorcycles while bickering at their New York shop Orange County Choppers.  The series originally debuted on Discovery in 2003 then moved to sister network TLC in 2008 and was canceled in 2010.  TLC resurrected the series later in 2010 as American Chopper: Senior vs. Junior though half-way through the season the series moved back to Discovery under its original title.   American Chopper will end its run with the special, Chopper Live: The Revenge, a bike build-off in Las Vegas on December 11 at 9p.

This winter, BBC America has three new series premieres scheduled: Ripper Street, an eight-part BBC America co-production with Tiger Aspect Productions and Lookout Point debuts January 19 at 9p; travel-adventure series Wild Things with Dominic Monaghan, a BBC America original production produced by Cream Productions and Wildfire Television in association with OLN and Channel Five bows January 22 at 10p; and Spies of Warsaw, a new Dramaville miniseries and a Fresh Pictures production is co-produced by BBC America, Apple Film for TV Poland in association with ARTE FRANCE and BBC Worldwide premieres over two nights February 6 and February 13. 

Next summer, TV Land’s Hot in Cleveland will air a super-sized live episode which launches the show’s summer season on June 19 at 10p.  The series, starring Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves, Wendie Malick and Betty White currently tapes in front of a live studio though this episode marks the first time the show has attempted a live episode on air.  Presently, Hot in Cleveland is shooting its fourth season and new episodes are back on TV Land beginning November 28 at 10p. 

Voice actress, Lucille Bliss, who starred as Smurfette in the 1980s animated series, The Smurfs died November 8 at the age of 96.  Ms. Bliss died of natural causes in Costa Mesa, CA.  Ms. Bliss continued to receive steady work up until the time of her death capping off a career that spanned 60 years.  Ms. Bliss was the original voice of Elroy in the 1960s TV series The Jetsons.  She also voiced characters on The Flintstones and the animated Star Wars spinoffs.  Ms. Bliss never married and had no immediate survivors.  A memorial service honoring her will be held tomorrow at 130p at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles. 

Top 10 Weekend Box Office Estimates:  November 16-18, 2012
Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (Lionsgate) $141.3  opening weekend
Skyfall (Sony)                                 $41.5 million  2 wk total $161.3m
Lincoln (Disney)                               $21.0 million  2 wk total $22.4m
Wreck-It Ralph (Disney)                    $18.3 million  3 wk total $121.5m
Flight (Paramount)                           $8.6 million  3 wk total $61.3m
Argo (Warner Bros.)                         $4.1 million  6 wk total $92.0m
Taken 2 (20th Century Fox)              $2.1 million  7 wk total $134.6m
Pitch Perfect (Universal)                   $1.3 million  8 wk total $61.1m
Jab Tak Hai Jaan (Yash Raj Films)       $1.3 million  opening weekend
Here Comes the Boom (Sony)            $1.2 million  6 wk total $41.0m
Source: Rentrak

Azteca’s latest telenovela, Amor Cautivo (Prisoner of Love) has been licensed to NBCUniversal’s Telemundo and the drama will premiere on Telemundo this month.  The series, distributed internationally by Comarex, Azteca’s exclusive sales agent, has 120 one-hour episodes.  Amor Cautivo was developed by Azteca and Corazon Television and is produced by Fernando Sarinana and Pedro Luevano.

Atlas Media’s producers, associate producers and coordinating producers earlier last week presented to Atlas Media a petition signaling their desire to remove the Writers Guild of America, East, Inc. (WGA) as their bargaining representative.  The petition was signed by an overwhelming majority of bargaining unit members, Atlas Media, as required by law, officially withdrew recognition from the WGA, effective immediately.  Two years prior, Atlas Media’s producers voted to allow the WGA to bargain with Atlas on their behalf.  Over the last 18 months, Atlas Media has been negotiating in good faith with the union for a collective bargaining agreement though no deal had been reached and no contract was signed.  Upon receiving notice from Atlas Media of its removal, the WGA immediately filed an unfair labor practice charge with Region 2 of the National Labor Relations Board contesting the withdrawal. 

Former cast member of Entourage, Constance Zimmer will next appear in a recurring role on ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy.  Zimmer will play Dr. Cahill, a confident professional with a wicked sense of humor.  She will appear in at least four episodes and is scheduled tentatively to begin her role on the Shonda Rhimes drama in late January. 

Janina Gavankar (True Blood) has booked a multi-episode run on The CW’s Arrow.  Gavankar will play McKenna Hall, a Starling City PD vice cop who knew Oliver Queen back in his pre-island bad boy days.

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Thursday A18-49 Analysis:  CBS had the winning lineup Thursday night among A18-49 at 3.5/10, according to final primetime national ratings from Nielsen.  CBS can’t go wrong with its 8p sitcoms The Big Bang Theory and Two and a Half Men when they delivered a #1 average of 4.9/15 with FOX’s The X Factor next posting half as much at 2.4/7.  ABC had the cure during 9p with Grey’s Anatomy at 3.2/8 and CBS’ Person of Interest was a close #2 at 3.1/8.  Then it was back to CBS at 10p as Elementary did best at 2.3/7 followed by ABC’s Scandal at 2.0/6.

Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Thursday, November 15, 2012  (November Sweep Day 22) time period averages.  Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.

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CBS: 8.6/14           The Big Bang Theory 10.7/17, Two and a Half Men 8.6/13, Person of Interest 9.1/14, Elementary 7.0/12

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ABC: 4.6/7               Last Resort 3.6/6, Grey’s Anatomy 6.0/9, Scandal 4.2/7       

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FOX: 3.9/6               The X Factor 4.6/7, Glee 3.3/5

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UNIV: 2.6/4              Latin Grammy Awards 2012 2.6/4

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NBC: 2.4/4              30 Rock 2.2/4, Up All Night 2.0/3, The Office 2.5/4, Parks and Recreation 2.1/3, Rock Center with Brian Williams 2.7/5

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CW: 1.4/2                 Vampire Diaries 1.8/3, Beauty and the Beast 1.1/2

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ION: 0.7/1                Numb3rs 0.6/1, Numb3rs 0.5/1, Criminal Minds 0.8/1

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TELE: 0.7/1               Rosa Diamante 0.6/1, Corazon Valiente 0.7/1, Futbol Estelar: Chivas vs. Toluca 0.7/1

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TF: 0.4/1                 Cineplex THR [7p start] 0.4/1, Cineplex 2 THR 0.4/1

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A18-49:  CBS 3.5/10, FOX 2.3/6, ABC 2.2/6, UNIV 2.1/6, NBC 1.4/4, CW 0.9/3, TELE 0.5/1, ION 0.3/1, TF 0.3/1

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The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences released the names of the 29 newly-elected Peer Group Governors who will serve two-year terms over 2013 and 2014 on the Television Academy’s Board of Governors starting January 1, 2013.  Those elected to the Peer Groups as Governor for their first two-year term are: Tony Carey (Production Executives), Ed Greene (Sound), Kieran Healy (Electronic Production), Michael Levine (Music), Gail Mancuso (Directors), David McKillop (Reality Programming), Brian O’Rourke (Commercials), Seth Shapiro (Interactive Media), Lily Tomlin (Performers) and Screech Washington (Producers).  A number of Governors have been re-elected: Stuart Bass, A.C.E. (Picture Editors), Beth Bohn (Professional Representatives), Shari Cookson (Documentary Programming), Daniel Evans III (Children’s Programming), Ed Fassl (Sound Editors), John C. Fisher (Daytime Programming), Leslie Frankenheimer (Art Directors/Set Decorators), Pete Hammond (Writers), Lynda Kahn (Title Design), Sharon Liggins (Public Relations), Howard Meltzer, C.S.A. (Casting Directors), Patricia Messina (Makeup Artists/Hairstylists), Dorenda Moore (Stunts), Lowell Peterson, A.S.C. (Cinematographers), Kevin Pike (Special Visual Effects), Mary Rose (Costume Design & Supervision), Chuck Sheetz (Animation), Michael Sluchan (Television Executives) and Sabrina Fair Thomas (Los Angeles Area).

A+E Networks named Sally Habbershaw to the newly-minted role of VP/International Programming, Production and Operations.  Sally will oversee the international programming, research and operations teams in addition to the A+E Networks program catalog.  Based at A+E Network’s headquarters in New York, Sally reports to Christian Murphy, SVP/International Programming and Marketing.

Global Eagle Acquisition Corp. announced Dave Davis current director of Row 44 Inc. will join the company as VP/CFO upon closing of its proposed business merger where Global Eagle will acquire Row 44 and 86% of the issued and outstanding share of Advanced In-flight Alliance AG (AIA).  On November 8, 2012, Global Eagle revealed the signing of definitive agreements for the business combination to create the largest entertainment and connectivity platform for the worldwide airline industry.  AIA is a supplier of games, movies, general entertainment and apps to the airline industry serving more than 130 airlines worldwide.  Row 44 is a satellite based broadband service provider to the global airline industry with its in-flight entertainment connectivity system presently installed on more than 400 aircraft that operate worldwide.  Global Eagle Acquisition Corp. will be renamed Global Eagle Entertainment Inc. at closing.

Knoxville-based RIVR Media added Jaime Paxton Morey as Senior Director/Development where she will create and develop original and acquired television projects.  In her new role, Jaime will report to Dee Haslam, CEO/Founder and Rob Lundgren, President/Executive Producer.

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This day in History: 1863 – President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg, PA, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the Battle of Gettysburg.

Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: On the original TV series version of Star Trek, which actor (and character) appeared in all 80 episodes (including the original pilot)? Leonard Nimoy as Dr. Spock. Kudos to: Ed Catto-Captain Action Enterprises/Ridgewood, NJ; Jeannette Sarpola-SNL/NYC; Rev. Mark Wajda-Diocese of Orlando/Altamonte Springs, FL; Matthew Meachem-Tribune Media Services/Queensbury, NY; Chuck Gordon-WTTO-TV/Birmingham, AL; Will Allmendinger-Captivate Network/Chicago; Susan Nessanbaum-Goldberg-M and S Entertainment Inc./LA; Larry Hutchings/Pacific Palisades, CA; Alan Perris-The Television Academy/North Hollywood; Lee Toft-The DuBoise Group Inc./Woodland Hills, CA.

Today’s Trivia Question:  In a memorable Thanksgiving episode of Bewitched, Samantha transports herself and her family back to the time of the Pilgrims and one family member goes on trial for being a witch.  Which character ironically is accused of being a witch? (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.).

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11.19.12

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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2012

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ABC: Dancing with the Stars: All-Stars, Castle
CBS: How I Met Your Mother, Two and a Half Men [r], 2 Broke Girls, Mike & Molly, Hawaii Five-O
CW: 90210, Gossip Girl
FOX: Bones, The Mob Doctor
ION: Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds
MyTV: Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order: SVU
NBC: The Voice, Revolution
PBS: The Dust Bowl, The Dust Bowl
TeleFutura: El Liquidador, Las Desapariciones
Telemundo: Rosa Diamante, Corazon, Valiente, Pablo Escobar: El Patron del Mal, El Rostro de la Venganza
Univision: Por Ella Soy Eva, Amores Verdaderos, Amor Bravio

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