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Cynopsis
11.29.10

Good morning. It’s Monday, November 29, 2010, and this is your first early morning briefing, coming to you from Seattle!  Tomorrow … on to Los Angeles.  As always, if you prefer to watch this morning’s news instead of reading it, click here . 

Tonight’s Premiere:
Golf Channel: 12 Nights at the Academy at 7p

Tonight’s Finale:
Investigation Discovery: Hardcover Mysteries at 9p

A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM OXYGEN

Oxygen’s  Running Russell Simmons  hits a MILLION!

More than 1 million fans tuned in to Oxygen’s So New Series!

•      The fourth Original Series to reach that ratings milestone
•      Filling out the fab four are Hair Battle Spectacular, Bad Girls Club Miami and Love Games

Wanna run with Oxygen? Call your sales rep. to partner with our hit shows!

Source: Nielsen Explorer, LS data 11/16/10

November 2010 Sweep Update: The official tally of which network will top the pack is not out yet, though, according to Media Life, CBS and FOX are projected to tie for first place among A18-49. ABC will come in third with NBC in fourth place and Univision is calculating it will come in fifth place in the demo. Among total viewers, it is likely CBS will chalk up its tenth consecutive November sweep win with ABC in second place.

On February 6, FOX will carry Super Bowl XLV and the NFL announced the halftime show entertainment will be The Black Eyed Peas performing at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, TX. The 2010 halftime show featuring The Who was watched by an estimated 153 million total viewers.

Top 10 Weekend Box Office Estimates: November 26-28, 2010
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows I (Warner Bros.) $50.3 million  2 wk total $220.4m
Tangled (Disney)                                $49.1 million  1 wk total $69.0m
Megamind (Paramount)                       $12.9 million  4 wk total $130.5m
Burlesque (Sony)                                $11.8 million  1 wk total $17.2m
Unstoppable (20th Century Fox)           $11.8 million  3 wk total $60.7m
Love And Other Drugs (20th Century Fox) $9.9 million  1 wk total $14.0m
Faster (CBS Films)                              $8.6 million  1 wk total $12.2m
Due Date (Warner Bros.)                     $7.3 million  4 wk total $85.0m
The Next Three Days (Lionsgate)         $4.8 million  2 wk total $14.6m
Morning Glory (Paramount)                  $4.0 million  3 wk total $26.5m
Source: Rentrak

Casting Call: O’Connor Casting Company is seeking fun, outgoing and adventurous Americans who have Norwegian ancestry to participate in the Norway-based reality competition series, The Great Norway Adventure Season Two produced by Monster Entertainment. Selected contestants will compete in extreme cultural challenges to uncover their ancestral roots while trying to win $50,000. If you are a US citizen between 18 and 60 years old who is a descendant of Norway and have never traveled there, please consider apply. Visit http://oconnorcasting.tv/castingboard to download the application and video instructions to apply for the show. Additional information can be obtained by sending an email to: [email protected].

Top 10 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of 11/8-11/12/10 ranked in order by HH Rtg
Wheel of Fortune (CTD)                                   7.5 AA
Oprah Winfrey Show (CTD)                              6.1 AA / 6.3 GAA
Two and a Half Men (WB)                                6.0 AA / 8.3 GAA
Jeopardy (CTD)                                               5.9 AA
Judge Judy (CTD)                                            4.6 AA / 7.3 GAA
Entertainment Tonight (CTD)                            4.3 AA / 4.3 GAA
Family Guy (2/T)                                             3.4 AA / 3.9 GAA
Dr. Phil Show (CTD)                                         3.0 AA / 3.1 GAA
Inside Edition (CTD)                                         2.8 AA / 2.9 GAA
My Wife and Kids (DAD)                                   2.8 AA / 3.6 GAA
Everybody Loves Raymond (CTD)                     2.8 AA / 3.5 GAA
Source: NSS Galaxy Explorer, Live+SD

NEW M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of 11/8-11/12/10 ranked in order by HH Rtg
How I Met Your Mother (2/T)                            2.3 AA / 3.0 GAA
Meet the Browns (Debmar-Mercury)                  1.6 AA / 1.9 GAA
Swift Justice with Nancy Grace (CTD)                1.4 AA / 2.2 GAA
Adventures of Old Christine (WB)                      1.2 AA / 1.5 GAA
Nate Berkus Show (SPT)                                   1.0 AA / 1.0 GAA
Don’t Forget the Lyrics (2/T)                             0.9 AA / 1.1 GAA
Entourage (WB)                                               0.7 AA / 0.7 GAA
Judge Karen’s Court (Litton)                              0.6 AA / 0.8 GAA
Curb Your Enthusiasm (WB)                              0.6 AA / 0.7 GAA
Real Housewives (NBU)                                    0.5 AA / 0.5 GAA
America’s Court with Judge Ross (CFE)              0.4 AA / 0.5 GAA

Top 10 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of 11/8-11/12/10 ranked in order by A18-49 Rtg
Two and a Half Men (WB)                                 3.2 AA / 4.3 GAA
Family Guy (2/T)                                             2.4 AA / 2.8 GAA
Oprah Winfrey Show (CTD)                              2.0 AA / 2.0 GAA
Wheel of Fortune (CTD)                                   1.8 AA
The Office (NBU)                                             1.7 AA / 2.0 GAA
How I Met Your Mother (2/T)                            1.6 AA / 2.1 GAA *NEW*
Seinfeld (SPT)                                                 1.5 AA / 1.7 GAA
Jeopardy (CTD)                                               1.4 AA
Judge Judy (CTD)                                            1.4 AA / 2.1 GAA
Entertainment Tonight (CTD)                            1.4 AA / 1.4 GAA
My Wife and Kids (DAD)                                   1.4 AA / 1.7 GAA
Everybody Loves Raymond (CTD)                      1.4 AA / 1.8 GAA
Source: NSS Galaxy Explorer, Live+SD

NEW M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of 11/8-11/12/10 ranked in order by A18-49 Rtg
How I Met Your Mother (2/T)                            1.6 AA / 2.1 GAA
Meet the Browns (Debmar-Mercury)                  1.1 AA / 1.2 GAA
Adventures of Old Christine (WB)                      0.7 AA / 0.8 GAA
Swift Justice with Nancy Grace (CTD)                0.5 AA / 0.8 GAA
Don’t Forget the Lyrics (2/T)                             0.5 AA / 0.6 GAA
Entourage (WB)                                               0.4 AA / 0.4 GAA
Nate Berkus Show (SPT)                                   0.3 AA / 0.3 GAA
Curb Your Enthusiasm (WB)                              0.3 AA / 0.4 GAA
Real Housewives (NBU)                                     0.3 AA / 0.3 GAA
Judge Karen’s Court (Litton)                              0.2 AA / 0.3 GAA
America’s Court with Judge Ross (CFE)               0.1 AA / 0.2 GAA

Tuesday  A18-49 Analysis: ABC danced its way to #1 Tuesday night at 4.1/12 with A18-49, according to final national ratings from Nielsen. At 8p, FOX topped with Glee at 4.0/12 and CBS’ NCIS was a mere step behind at 3.9/11. ABC took over at 9p with the Dancing with the Stars Results finale at 4.8/13 with CBS’ NCIS: Los Angeles next at 3.2/9. ABC’s ratings leaped to a 5.7/16 during 10p for the second hour of the Dancing with the Stars Results finale while CBS’ The Good Wife was second at 2.1/6 and NBC’s Parenthood was a close third place at 1.9/5.

Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 (November Sweep Day 27) time period averages. Source: NTI Galaxy, as dated. Live+SD.

ABC: 11.2/18       No Ordinary Family 4.3/7, Dancing with the Stars Results 14.7/24

CBS: 8.9/14           NCIS 11.1/18, NCIS: Los Angeles 9.0/14, The Good Wife 6.5/11

FOX: 4.4/7            Glee 5.9/10, Raising Hope 3.2/5, Raising Hope [r] 2.4/4

NBC: 3.6/6            The Biggest Loser 4.1/6, Parenthood 2.8/5

UNIV: 2.0/3          Eva Luna 1.8/3, Soy Tu Duena 2.6/4, Aqui y Ahora 1.6/3

ION: 0.9/1            Without a Trace 0.7/1, Criminal Minds 0.7/1, Criminal Minds 1.2/2

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

CW: 0.5/1            One Tree Hill [r] 0.5/1, Life Unexpected [r] 0.5/1

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

A18-49: ABC 4.1/12, FOX 3.1/9, CBS 3.0/9, NBC 2.2/6, UNIV 1.7/5, TELE 0.5/1, TF 0.4/1, CW 0.3/1, ION 0.3/1

Wide-Eyed Entertainment (WEE) enlarged its production team by hiring Dan Gold as Executive Producer to supervise production for the company’s growing production slate. Dan has 14+ years of production experience working on various projects such as factual series, docu-dramas, CGI and most recently an animated film and a geology series for the BBC among other projects.

A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION

This day in History:   2004 – Godzilla received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question:  And the lesson here was, Turkeys don’t fly.  Who is responsible for teaching us this valuable lesson?  WHILE GM ARTHUR CARLSON CAME UP WITH THE IDEA OF THROWING TURKEYS OUT OF A HELICOPTER AS A P.R. STUNT FOR WKRP, IT WAS LES NESSMAN WHO REPORTED THE INCIDENT “THEY’RE DROPPING LIKE SACKS OF WET CEMENT.”  LATER CARLSON SAID, “AS GOT AS MY WITNESS, I THOUGHT TURKEYS COULD FLY.”  ONE OF THE FUNNIEST MOMENTS EVER ON TELEVISION.  Kudos to the free world, and to these, the second four correct answerers from each time zone:  Lou Zaccheo-Video from Video/NY; Smiti Kumar-US Trust/NY; Dave Statman-Time Warner Global Media Group/NY; Jeffrey Hira-Nickelodeon/NY; Vaughn Ericson-Bernstein Rein/Kansas City; Deirdre LaVerdiere-Tribune/Chicago; Tom Chapman-WKRG/Mobile; Kandy Hartsfield-KDAF/Dallas; Christopher Hadsell-CMI student/La Cruces; Joe Pedri-KLAS/Las Vegas; Bill Bracken-Brad Lachman Productions/Burbank; Kevin Davis-Reach Media Group/El Segundo; Eric Galler-B4 Prods – Luminus Studios/Amman; Nancy Adams-HCA mindbox/Ontario; Heather Muir-Insight Prods/Toronto

Today’s Trivia Question:   What game console was advertised with the phrase “Fun anyone?”  (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
11.29.10

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

ABC:   Skating with the Stars, CMA Country Christmas
AZTECA:  Cosas de la Vida, Al Extremo, La Loba
CBS: How I Met Your Mother [r], Rules of Engagement [r], Two and a Half Men [r], Mike & Molly [r], Hawaii Five-0  [r]
CW:  90210, Gossip Girl
FOX:  House [r], Lie to Me
ION:  Without a Trace, Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds
NBC:   Chuck, The Event, Chase
PBS:   Antiques Roadshow,  The President’s Photograph, In Performance at the White House [r]
TELE:  Aurora, El Fantasma de Elena, Alguien Te Mira
UNIV:  Eva Luna, Soy Tu Duena, Christina

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