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11.22.10

Good morning. It’s Monday, November 22, 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:
Retirement Living TV: Taking Care with Joan Lunden at 8p
ABC: Skating with the Stars at 911p
TLC: Fabulous Cakes at 10p

A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM INVESTIGATION DISCOVERY

“Investigation Discovery has become the most entertaining channel on television …” Brian Lowry, Variety

And the hits keep coming:  ID just delivered its BEST WEEK EVER in Prime P2+ (451k), HH (371k), P18-49(188k) and W18-49 (121k).*

Celebrate Thanksgiving with a Feast of Femme Fatales during BLACK WIDOWS WEEK … happening now, only on Investigation Discovery.

* Source: The Nielsen Company, NHI Calendar, 01/27/08-11/14/10, Prime M-Su 8p-11p, L+SD data, Time Period Based Dayparts.

FOX released the premiere dates of new and returning series for its midseason lineup, as well as highlighting several other scheduling changes:

• Beginning with its two-night premiere on January 19 and 20 at 8p, American Idol will air this new season on Wednesday and Thursday nights.
• Glee airs a special episode directly after Super Bowl XLV on February 6 at approximately 1030p.
• Bones moves to a new time slot of Thursdays at 9p following American Idol starting January 20.
• Fringe will move to Fridays with new episodes beginning January 28 at 9p.
• On Sundays, The Cleveland Show moves to the 930p time period starting January 9 and American Dad moves to the 730p time slot beginning January 16.
• FOX gave a seven-episode order to new midseason comedy Breaking In starring Christian Slater about a group of oddball security experts. The series is produced by Sony Pictures TV and Happy Madison. Breaking In begins April 6 at 930p.

The run-down of premiere dates, with new series in bold includes:
        January 4: Million Dollar Money Drop at 9p
        January 9: Bob’s Burgers at 830p
        January 19: American Idol (two-hour season premiere Part 1) at 8p
        January 20: American Idol (two-hour season premiere Part 2) at 8p
        January 21: Kitchen Nightmares (season premiere) at 8p
        February 7: The Chicago Code at 9p
        February 8: Mixed Signals at 930p
        April 6: Breaking In at 930p

Joe Scarborough, co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe was suspended last Friday from MSNBC after informing management he had made eight political contributions between 2004 and 2008. Since he had not asked for approval before making these contributions, which violated a company policy, MSNBC President Phil Griffin suspended Scarborough for two days without pay.  He will return to his Morning Joe post on Wednesday. Two weeks ago, MSNBC originally indefinitely suspended Keith Olbermann, host of Countdown for making political donations without approval, then later reduced Obermann’s suspension term to two days.

Syfy renewed two of its original reality series and gave additional episodes to one other series:

• Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files was renewed for a sophomore season with the new season beginning production early next year. The series, airing on Thursdays at 10p, is co-produced by BASE Productions and Universal Networks International.
• Ghost Hunters International will return for a third season. Seven remaining episodes in the show’s second season will commence January 5 at 9p traveling to legendary ghost hot spots around the world. Season three will begin production in early 2011. The series is produced in association with Craig Piligian’s Pilgrim Films and Television.
• Hollywood Treasure was granted 12 additional 30m episodes to its current season which debuted in October. During the three weeks since its opening, Hollywood Treasure has averaged 1.2 million total viewers. The series airs with back-to-back episodes on Wednesdays at 10p and is produced by Shevick*Zupon Entertainment.

CMT is picking up The Singing Bee with host Melissa Peterman for a third season. Juma Entertainment produces the show with The Gurin Company.

Time Warner Cable is experimenting with a lower-priced cable package called TV Essentials in the New York City market as well as in northeastern Ohio. The TV Essentials package will include ESPN News, TBS and CNN though does not include ESPN, TNT, Comedy Central, Fox News and MSNBC. Beginning next week, the package will be offered to NYC customers at $39.95/month and by the middle of next month to northeastern Ohio subscribers at $29.95/month. Those current TWC subscribers who have internet and/or phone service along with cable will not be eligible for this reduced-priced package. The intention behind this move is to appeal to those customers who have been hit hard by the recession. It is also a move to retain cable TV customers. SNL Kagan recently reported 741,000 people have dropped their cable TV service in third quarter 2010, the biggest decline in cable subscribers in 30 years.

Nielsen revealed television viewing usage in the US as part of its most recent State of the Media fact sheet. During second quarter 2010, the average person is the US watched more than 143 hours of television each month. Compared to second quarter 2009, this usage rate is virtually flat. Though compared to a year ago, the DVR playback time has increased slightly from 24 hours and 11 minutes in 2Q 2009 to 24 hours and 27 minutes in 2Q 2010.

Veteran television producer William Self, 89, died last Monday in Los Angeles. Mr. Self produced a long list of hit and now considered classic television shows including Daniel Boone, Peyton Place, Batman and M*A*S*H among others and also is credited with making over 20th Century Fox Television into a top-shelf producer of television programming in the 1960s and 1970s. Mr. Self began his career as an actor with small roles in big films including five films with John Wayne and five films with Spencer Tracy. Mr. Self was also known for his skilled tennis game, where he played with leading studio brass and actors on the court including Jack Warner and Charlie Chaplan. The good contacts he made on the tennis court led him to a career as a television producer. He began supervising the anthology series The Schlitz Playhouse of Stars in the early 1950s followed by executive positions at CBS and FOX where he developed or managed numerous hit TV shows including the pilot episode of The Twilight Zone for CBS. In 1959, Mr. Self moved to 20th Century Fox Television where he supervised production on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis and in 1964 two of his series, Daniel Boone and Peyton Place hit #1 in the ratings. By 1968, he was promoted to president of 20th Century Fox Television. ABC approached Mr. Self with a request to do a series based on a comic book and he came up with the now cult classic series Batman. Mr. Self also produced the series Julia, the first series starring a black actor, Diahann Carroll. At FOX, Mr. Self produced Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Room 222, 12 O’Clock High, Lost in Space, Nanny and the Professor and The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.  After viewing the film version of M*A*S*H, Mr. Self was convinced it could be translated to the small screen. CBS was reluctant though Mr. Self prevailed and the TV version of M*A*S*H debuted in 1972 on CBS, becoming one of most critically-acclaimed and beloved series of all time. Additionally while at CBS, Mr. Self produced close to 50 TV movies and miniseries each year including The Blue and the Gray in 1982 and dramas for the Hallmark Hall of Fame including Sarah, Plain and Tall starring Glenn Close in 1991 and its sequel Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter’s End in 1999. Following his time at CBS, Mr. Self established William Self Productions to produced films and television programs.

Top 10 Weekend Box Office Estimates: November 19-21, 2010
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows I (Warner Bros.) $125.1 million – opening weekend
Megamind (Paramount)                       $16.2 million – 3 wk total $109.5m
Unstoppable (20th Century Fox)           $13.1 million – 2 wk total $42.0m
Due Date (Warner Bros.)                     $9.2 million – 3 wk total $72.7m
The Next Three Days (Lionsgate)         $6.8 million – opening weekend
Morning Glory (Paramount)                  $5.2 million – 2 wk total $19.9m
Skyline (Universal)                              $3.4 million – 2 wk total $17.6m
Red (Summit Entertainment)               $2.5 million – 6 wk total $83.6m
For Colored Girls (Lionsgate)                $2.4 million – 3 wk total $34.5m
Fair Game (Summit Entertainment)      $1.5 million – 3 wk total $3.7m
Source: Rentrak

ABC picked up a pilot script about the Civil War set in Virginia from executive producer Carlton Cuse (Lost) and Randall Wallace (Secretariat). Cuse and Wallace are co-writing the pilot script for ABC Studios and both will executive produce.

After a bidding war among four networks, Starz was the victor handing an eight-episode order to a one-hour scripted drama project titled Boss starring Kelsey Grammer portraying a powerful mayor of Chicago. Gus Van Sant will direct the pilot and Farhad Safinia wrote the script on spec, working with Grammer on the plot. Lionsgate will produce the project beginning next spring and production will likely take place on location in Chicago. Grammer, Safinia, Stella Stolper and Brian Sher, Grammer’s partner at Grammnet Productions will all serve as executive producer.

Thursday  A18-49 Analysis: CBS secured a #1 Thursday night posting a 3.3/9 with A18-49, according to fast affiliate ratings from Nielsen. CBS won the 8p hour with its comedies The Big Bang Theory and $#*! My Dad Says averaging a 3.7/11 while Bones on FOX was #2 at 2.7/8. ABC held sway at 9p with Grey’s Anatomy delivering a 4.3/11 and NBC’s sitcoms The Office and Outsourced averaged a 3.2/8 trailing in second place. CBS was narrowly the winner at 10p with The Mentalist at 3.0/9 followed closely by Private Practice on ABC at 2.9/9
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Thursday, November 18, 2010 (November Sweep Day 22) time period averages. Source: Nielsen, Overnight Affiliate Ratings.

CBS: 8.2/14        The Big Bang Theory 7.8/13, $#*! My Dad Says 6.2/10, CSI 8.5/13, The Mentalist 9.0/16

ABC: 5.7/9          Charlie Brown Thanksgiving [r] 4.1/7, Grey’s Anatomy 7.4/12, Private Practice 5.6/10

FOX: 4.4/7           Bones 5.7/9, Fringe 3.1/5

NBC: 3.0/5           Community 2.7/5, 30 Rock 3.1/5, The Office 4.2/7, Outsourced 3.3/5, The Apprentice 2.5/4

CW: 2.0/3            Vampire Diaries [r] 1.9/3, Nikita [r] 2.0/3

UNIV: 2.0/3         Eva Luna 1.7/3, Soy Tu Duena 2.4/4, iMira Quien Baila!: Camino a la Final 1.4/3

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

TELE: 0.6/1         Aurora 0.8/1, El Fantasma de Elena 0.6/1, Alguien Te Mira 0.6/1

TF: 0.4/1            Futbol Liga Mex 0.4/1, Quiero ser Estrella 0.3/1

A18-49: CBS 3.3/9, ABC 3.1/9, FOX 2.3/6, NBC 2.2/6, UNIV 1.7/5, CW 1.1/3, TELE 0.5/1, ION 0.4/1, TF 0.4/1

Tele Munchen Group (TMG) announced Bernd Schlotterer, Managing Director will be departing the company at the end of this year though will remain as a shareholder of TMG. Dr. Dirk Schweitzer has been appointed to succeed Bernd as Managing Director. Dirk joins from RTL Television and he will take on his new responsibilities at TMG in second quarter 2011 based in Munich. 

After being with ABC News for 13 years, Ian Cameron declared he is leaving his position as Executive Producer of This Week at the end of 2010. Ian was an integral part of re-launching This Week with Christiane Amanpour as host and was previously involved for seven years as Washington Senior Producer for World News Tonight. In a memo to fellow staffers at ABC News, Ian indicated he is leaving to spend more time with his family and to resume a more regular work schedule.

David Kaplan, Manager/Quality Control and Continuity at AETN is leaving the company at the end of January 2011. David has served in this capacity since 2004 and will continue his responsibilities until he departs. After leaving AETN, David has plans to launch a consulting and production company involving non-scripted and scripted projects.

This day in History:  1975 – Dr. Zhivago appeared on TV for the first time. NBC paid $4 million for the broadcast rights.

Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question:  In the world of catch phrases, who frequently uses the phrase “Legen … Wait for it … dary!”   BARNEY (NEIL PATRICK HARRIS) on HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER  Kudos to: Bill Maddock-CNN Digital/NY; Jackie Corso-Oxygen/NY; William Mullin-Verizon FiOS/Reston; RT Harris/Detroit; Roger Bare-39News/Houston; Bart Greenberger-Super-Savings Book/Mahomet; Nora Casey-FOX Broadcasting Company/Chicago; Lucie Prann-The Richards Group/Dallas; Amy Coombs-Dan Vs/LA; Melissa Friedman/LA; Roger Kaplan-Law Offices of Roger J. Kaplan/LA; Gita Isak/Hollywood; David Brunner-Nielsen Audience Measure/Switzerland; Christian Kurz-Discovery Comm Europe/London; Arthur Reinstein-Shaw Media/Toronto; Nancy Adams-HCA Mindbox/Ontario

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11.22.10

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JOB OPENING:   DIRECTOR INTERACTIVE ADVERTISING/Newsday/NY: 7+yrs adv sales exp driving sales/strategy w/in dig. media space. Exp selling to Nat’l & Local accts/agencies & staff mgt req’d. Email resumes to: sean.klocek@newsday.com (11/30)

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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT –  MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2010

ABC:   Dancing with the Stars, Skating with the Stars [p ]
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 [r], Gossip Girl  [r]FOX:  House, Lie to Me
ION:  Without a Trace, Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds
NBC:   Chuck, The Event, Chase
PBS:   Antiques Roadshow,  American Masters
TELE:  Aurora, El Fantasma de Elena, Alguien Te Mira
UNIV:  Eva Luna, Soy Tu Duena, Sal y Pimienta: Edicion Especial

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