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11.02.09

Good morning. It’s Monday, November 2, 2009, 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:
VH1: For the Love of Ray J at 9p; I Want to Work for Diddy at 10p

Tonight’s Finale:
ABC Family: Greek at 9p

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FOX granted a sixth season order to American Dad, the animated series about CIA agent/family man Stan Smith, voiced by co-creator Seth MacFarlane. With this new order, American Dad will remain on the air at least through the 2010-2011 season. FOX currently airs the sitcom at 930p on Sundays. American Dad is produced by 20th Century Fox Television and is co-created by MacFarlane, Mike Barker and Matt Weitzman who all serve as executive producers along with Rick Wiener and Kenny Schwartz.

A&E Network is bringing back two paranormal series and placing them on Tuesday nights back-to-back starting in mid-December. On December 15 at 9p, season two of Psychic Kids: Children of the Paranormal returns followed by season four of Paranormal State at 10p. Psychic Kids is produced by Picture Shack Entertainment while Paranormal State is produced by Four Seasons Productions International Inc. and Go Go Luckey Productions.

Discovery Channel is serving up a second season of the docu-series Swords: Life on the Line, chronicling the lives of long line fishermen of New England. The series, produced by Original Productions, a FremantleMedia company and BermanBraun will premiere early in 2010 with new episodes. Swords: Life on the Line originally debuted during Discovery Channel’s annual Shark Week on August 11 and in its time slot of Tuesdays at 9p, averaged 824,000 A18-49 viewers, 847,000 A25-54 viewers and nearly 1.4 million total viewers.

24-hour pay TV network, Azteca Novelas will debut two new telenovelas this month. La Duda (The Doubt), a present-day retelling of the Romeo and Juliet story, premieres November 9 and Un Nuevo Amor (A New Love) about a love triangle involving a mother and daughter vying for the love of the same man, opens November 23.

Barclays Global Investors, N.A. (BGI) selected McCann Erickson and MRM Worldwide, both based in San Francisco and part of McCann Worldgroup, to develop a fully integrated campaign for its US iShares advertising account. The business arrangement takes effect this month.

Top 10 Weekend Box Office Estimates: October 30-November 1, 2009
Michael Jackson’s This Is It (Sony)             $21.3 million  1 wk total $32.5m
Paranormal Activity (Paramount)                $16.5 million  6 wk total $84.8m
Law Abiding Citizen (Overture Films)           $7.3 million  3 wk total $51.4m
Couples Retreat (Universal)                        $6.1 million  4 wk total $86.7m
Saw VI (Lionsgate)                                    $5.6 million  2 wk total $22.8m
Where The Wild Things Are (Warner Bros.)  $5.1 million  3 wk total $61.8m
The Stepfather (Sony)                               $3.4 million  3 wk total $24.7m
Astro Boy (Summit Entertainment)             $3.0 million  2 wk total $10.9m
Amelia (Fox Searchlight)                            $3.0 million  2 wk total $8.3m
Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant (Universal) $2.8 million  2 wk total $10.5m
Source: Rentrak

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Feature film comedy writer Josh Heald has two TV projects in the works, reports THR. For NBC, Sausagefest is a multi-camera comedy about two 20-something best friends who have very different dads, with one played by Norm Macdonald. This project is produced by Universal Media Studios and BermanBraun. The second project for FOX is titled Sequestered and is also a multi-camera comedy about 12 strangers forced to live together during a long-term jury trial. The plot will depict their time outside the courtroom where they can talk about anything but the trial. 20th Century Fox Television and studio-based Chernin Entertainment produces. On the big screen, Heald’s upcoming movies include MGM’s Hot Tub Time Machine starring John Cusack opening March 19 and Screen Gems’ Max’s Mardi Gras starring Josh Gad and Bret Harrison likely debuting next summer.

Discovery Channel approved the series Airplane Repo about repossessor Nick Popovich and his team as they take over jets and helicopters from delinquent owners around the world, cites THR. Eight episodes of Airplane Repo were ordered from executive producer Craig Piligian and are expected to premiere in first quarter 2010. Bill Rancic and Popovich also serve as executive producers.

Rena Sofer, recently seen in the Hallmark Channel movie Always & Forever and on FOX’s 24 and NBC’s Heroes, will next join the cast of CBS’ NCIS in a potential recurring role. Sofer will portray a practical-minded attorney with mysterious motives.

CYNOPSIS DIGITAL – TODAY’S TOP STORY:  The Writers Guild of America, East submitted a letter to the FTC on Friday expressing concern about “how difficult it is to create reliable, informative material in the face of unrelenting budget cuts,” cuts that are a direct result of news organizations trying to survive deep declines in traditional ad revenues. The statement was filed as a preamble to the union’s participation in roundtable workshops being held in December to discuss how journalism may survive in the digital age. Full edition: CYN DIGITAL.    

CYNOPSIS KIDS – TODAY’S TOP STORY:  Disney Television Animation and Disney Channels Worldwide have begun production on Fish Hooks (working title), a new 2D digital and photo collage animated comedy.  The 21-episode series follows the underwater adventures of three aquatic pals that live in the same fish tank at a local pet store trying to make it through their tween/teen years and high school.  Created by kid’s book illustrator Noah Z. Jones, and developed for TV by Alex Hirsch The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack) and Bill Reiss (Chowder), Fish Hooks features the voices of Kyle Massey Cory in the House), Chelsea Staub (Jonas) and Justin Roiland (The Sarah Silverman Program).  Full edition: CYN KIDS.    

Thursday  A18-49 Analysis: On the first night of November Sweeps, FOX dominated Thursday with a 5.7/16 A18-49, according to final national ratings from Nielsen Media Research. The World Series Game 2 on FOX was the big winner throughout primetime: at 8p FOX posted a 4.8/15 followed by CBS’ Survivor at 3.7/10 and ABC’s FlashForward at 2.7/7. FOX’s World Series game gained steadily during 9p to a 5.7/15 while ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy was not far behind at 5.2/13. Then at 10p, FOX and the World Series delivered a 6.6/17 and new episodes of ABC’s Private Practice and CBS’ The Mentalist tied for #2 at 3.6/9 each.

Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Thursday, October 29, 2009 (November Sweep Day 1)  time period averages. Source: NTI Galaxy, as dated. Live+SD.

FOX: 11.7/19     FOX World Series Game 2: Philadelphia at NY Yankees 11.7/19

CBS: 8.6/14         Survivor: Samoa 6.9/11, CSI 9.2/14, The Mentalist 9.7/16

ABC: 6.9/11        Flash Forward 5.6/9, Grey’s Anatomy 8.8/13, Private Practice 6.1/10

NBC: 3.5/6          Community 3.4/5, Parks and Recreation 3.1/5, The Office 4.8/7, 30 Rock 3.7/6, The Jay Leno Show 3.0/5

CW: 2.1/3           Vampire Diaries 2.5/4, Supernatural 1.7/3

UNIV: 2.0/3        En Nombre Del Amor 2.1/3, Sortilegio 2.5/4, La Rose de Guadalupe 1.5/2

ION: 0.8/1          Ghost Whisperer 0.7/1, NCIS [r] 0.8/1, NCIS [r] 0.8/1

TELE: 0.6/1         Mas Sabe El Diablo 0.8/1, Ninos Ricos 0.5/1, Victorinos 0.5/1

A18-49: FOX 5.7/16, ABC 3.8/10, CBS 3.6/9, NBC 2.4/6, CW 1.7/4, UNIV 1.5/4, TELE 0.5/1, ION 0.3/1

Allan Singer joins OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network as EVP/Distribution and Strategy to head the upcoming network’s content distribution and sales strategy. Beginning today, Allan assumes his new position where he reports to Christina Norman, CEO and is based in Los Angeles. Prior to this appointment, Allan was SVP/Content Acquisition with Comcast.

HUGE, a Brooklyn-NY-based interactive agency, added Tom Siebert as Director/Communications and Tessa Barrera as Media Specialist. Tom is charged with leading the company’s media outreach strategy while Tessa was hired to handle social media, blogging and other digital content for the company and its select clients. Tessa will report to Tom Siebert. Most recently, Tom served as VP/Director, Corporate Communications at Initiative.

Bob Marra was appointed VP/GM at WNYW/FOX 5 and WWOR/My9 in New York, effective immediately. Previously, Bob was GSM at WPIX/New York, a position he held since 2005, though he began at WPIX in 1996 as a local AE.

This day in History:  1959 – Charles Van Doren, a game show contestant on the NBC-TV program “Twenty-One” admitted that he had been given questions and answers in advance.

Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question:   Remington Steele had five passports from 5 different countries, in 5 different names.  And interesting trivia note about the names on these five passports – what was it?  ALL OF THE NAMES WERE HUMPHREY BOGART CHARACTERS, A PARTICULAR FAVORITE OF STEELE Kudos to: Ron Schuller-Nassau Broadcasting/Boston; David Welch-Bender Helper Impact/NY; Mary Cregan-Discovery Networks/Atlanta; Joanna Cajigas-Sundance Channel/NY; Larry Glazer-WTTW/Chicago; Scott Reside-ASERTV/North Hollywood; Michael Rosenzweig-Primestor Development/LA; Dave Harding-CreaTVdave/North Hollywood; Rob Chatlin-FX Network/LA

Today’s Trivia Question:   Where was Alex P. Keaton born?   (Email
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT –  MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2009

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, Accidentally on Purpose, Two and a Half Men, Big Bang Theory, CSI Miami
CW: One Tree Hill, Gossip Girl
FOX:  So You Think You Can Dance, Lie to Me
ION:  Ghost Whisperer, Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds
NBC:  Heroes, Trauma, Jay Leno Show
PBS: Antiques Roadshow, American Experience, Herbert Hoover: Landslide
TELE: Mas Sabe el Diablo, Ninos Ricos Padres Pobres, Victorinos
UNIV:  El Nombre del Amor, Sortilegio, Cristina

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