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Say Good Morning to America’s ^#1 Morning Show!
ABC’s Good Morning America
Winning the 2012-2013 television season in ALL major demos.

#1 Morning Show on Television – #1 Morning Show Online.
GoodMorningAmerica.com on Yahoo!
America’s #1 Morning News Show Website.

Source: Nielsen. Based on C3 data, All Major Demos* defined as P18-49, F18-49, P25-54, F25-54 09/24/2012 – 09/22/2013, M-F 7am-9am. Includes re-titles, breakouts, specials – Source: comScore Media Metrix, August 2013; comScore Video Metrix Key Measures, August 2013.

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Cynopsis
10.14.13

Good morning. It’s Monday, October 14, 2013, and this is your first early morning briefing.

Tonight’s Premieres:
Bounce: My Crazy Roommate at 10p, BRKDWN at 10:30p
Discovery: Pure Evel: American Legend at 10p
MTV: The Hook Up at 6p
Myx TV: Cheap Date at 8p
NickMom: NickMom Night Out at 10p
Science: How to Build a Planet at 10p

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As expected, on Friday broadcasters, including ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC, filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to review the Aereo dispute. The petition contends a New York ruling threatens the TV industry by “blessing a business model that retransmits ‘live TV’ to paying customers without obtaining any authorization or paying a penny to the copyright owners.”
 

Dan Harris is the new co-anchor on Nightline, announced ABC News President Ben Sherwood on Friday. Harris replaces Bill Weir, who is leaving his post to join CNN as an anchor and “chief innovation correspondent.” Harris will continue to co-anchor the weekend edition of Good Morning America.

Comcast‘s groundbreaking “See It” partnership with Twitter, which connects consumers to content, is an example of how social media is helping, not hurting, the television industry, says BTIG Managing Director of Media and Technology Richard Greenfield. “Anything that deepens viewer engagement leads to higher ratings and can lead to greater ad dollars,” Greenfield tells Cynopsis. “It’s not either/or. Twitter is helping the ecosystem.” Greenfield will be on hand to offer more insights into the future of television at the Cynopsis summit this Thursday: http://www.cynopsisfuturetvsummit.com/

Hollywood A-lister Meg Ryan returns to TV (remember when she was on As The World Turns?) in a project from Universal TV in development at NBC. Ryan would exec produce and star in a sitcom about single mom who takes a job at her old workplace, and finds her boss is a woman who was once her intern.

CBS has invited viewers to help build an episode of Hawaii Five-0. Starting Friday, October 11, fans could go to http://www.cbs.com/H50vote to choose key story points. Voting closes on October 31, but in 2014 fans will still be able to weigh in on elements like props and music. Show airs Fridays at 9p.

The CW ordered three more scripts for freshman dramas Reign, The Originals and Tomorrow People. The Originals scored a .9 rating/3 share in A18-49 for its debut on Tuesday, while Wednesday’s premiere of Tomorrow People drew a .9 rating/2 share. Reign bows Thursday, October 17 at 9p.

GLAAD‘s 18th annual “Where We Are on TV” study reports that 3.3 percent of series regulars on primetime broadcast scripted series were lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, down from 4.4 percent in 2012. On cable, the survey showed 42 LGBT characters, an improvement from last year’s 35.

On the final day of MIPCOM, Reed Midem TV Managing Director Laurine Garaude summed up the robust market. “Given what we’ve seen this week,” Garaude said at a press conference, “the industry has become more international in scope and partnerships; the acceleration of digital has boosted the quality; and quantity of content and links between the film and TV industries are strengthening.” Reed Midem also announced the launch of MIP Digital Fronts in 2014.

The CW will air the iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2013 concert from NYC as a two-hour special, featuring Miley Cyrus, Robin Thicke and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, among other performers, on Wednesday, December 18 at 8p.

Despite finishing fourth in its time slot on its last outing with a 1.3 rating in A18-49 and 3.1 million viewers, sitcom Dads got a vote of confidence from Fox in the form of an additional six-ep order. 

Top 10 Weekend Box Office Estimates:  October 11-13, 2013

Gravity (Warner Bros.)	$44.3 million	2 wk total $123.4 million
Captain Phillips (Sony)	$26.0 million	opening weekend
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (Sony)	$14.2 million	3 wk total $78.0
Machete Kills (Open Road)	$3.8 million	opening weekend
Runner Runner (20th Century)	$3.7 million	2 wk total $14.1 million
Prisoners (Warner Bros)	$3.7 million	4 wk total $53.6 million
Insidious Chapter 2 (Film District)	$2.7 million	5 wk total $78.4 million
Rush (Universal)	$2.4 million	4 wk total $22.2 million
Don Jon (Relativity Media)	$2.3 million	3 wk total $20.1 million
Baggage Claim (Fox Searchlight)	$2.1 million	3 wk total $18.3 million

Source: Rentrak

ABC Family picked up The Fosters for a second season. The drama, exec produced by Jennifer Lopez, was the number one new cable TV series of the summer in viewers 12-34. New season one eps launch in January.

MTV renewed Teen Wolf for season four, premiering Monday, January 6 at 10p. New companion talk show Wolf Watch will air immediately afterward. Season three of Teen Wolf averaged a 2.5 P12-34 rating and 2.8 million viewers, its highest season to date.

Teen magnet Victoria Justice (Victorious) will star in MTV pilot Eye Candy, about a woman targeted by a cyberstalker. Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight) will direct and exec produce the Blumhouse Prods. project.

AMC‘s The Walking Dead has added Josh McDermitt (Retired at 35) to its fourth season cast as Dr. Eugene Porter and Michael Cudlitz (Southland) as Abraham. Both characters come from the comic series on which the zombie drama, airing Sundays at 9p, is based.

Max Adler (Glee) and comedian Sandra Bernhard will recur on ABC Family drama Switched at Birth. Both will appear in the drama’s third season premiere in January.

Bob Odenkirk (Breaking Bad), Oliver Platt (The Big C), Kate Walsh (Private Practice) and Glenn Howerton (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia) have been added to the cast of FX mini-series Fargo. The 10-ep show, produced by FX Productions and MGM Television and inspired by the quirky 1996 film, is scheduled to premiere in spring 2014.

Cutie-pie cousins Sophia Grace Brownlee, 10, and Rosie McClelland, 7, frequent guests on Ellen, will star in a direct-to-video feature for Degeneres’ A Very Good Production, as well as a TV show in with a script commitment from NBC, reports Deadline.

MTV is elbowing its way into the singing competition space. Copycat, a half-hour afternoon series from Warner Horizon TV and Next Entertainment, has crooners being judged by a studio audience on how well they can imitate their favorite singers.

A project co-written by Justin Long has a script commitment from NBC, reports Deadline. The show, from 20th Century Fox TV and Small Dog Picture Co., is about a man happily married to an older woman.

CBS has ordered More Time with Family from exec producers Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, for put pilot commitment. The comedy will star Tom Papa (Inside Amy Schumer) as a man who doesn’t find what he expected when he leaves his job on the road to be at home.

Comedy Central UK picked up two more seasons of The Office, numbers eight and nine, from NBCUniversal International Television Distribution.

Call for Submissions: Cynopsis is producing its annual Holiday Programming Guide, which comes out on November 26 and will be sent to all Cynopsis and Cynopsis Kids subscribers. If your network has holiday-themed programming airing from November 27 through December 31, please send your listings to Lynn Leahey at [email protected] no later than Monday November 18. Please include the following information: type of program (i.e. series, special, documentary, movie or holiday-themed episode), title, dates and times of all airings (please indicate when the show first premieres and when subsequent encores will air). A confirmation email will be sent following each submission from Lynn (if you don’t receive a confirmation email, please resubmit).

Food Network is getting into the spirit of the season. Iron Chef America masters face off for “Scary Combinations,” premiering Saturday, October 26 at 10p, and a “Sweet Treats” weekend block, airing October 26-27, includes “Ghoulish Goodies” on Giada at Home, premiering Saturday at 11:30a.

On Cooking Channel, Halloween starts on Sunday, October 20, “with a full week dedicated to all things sweet and spooky,” from 8p-11p.

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Glee ratings jumped for the Fox show’s Cory Monteith tribute episode, drawing a 2.9 rating/8 share among A18-49, up 75 percent from last week.

The premiere of ABC‘s Once Upon a Time in Wonderland on Thursday scored a 1.7 rating/5 share among A18-49, down 23 percent from the premiere of Last Resort in the time slot last year. With 3.1/9 in the demo, Scandal was off 14 percent from its premiere last week, but still the number one-rated drama of the night, and second-highest rated program after CBS‘s The Big Bang Theory.

Most NBC shows Thursday suffered big dips in ratings week to week. Taking the biggest tumbles were The Michael J. Fox Show and Sean Saves the World, both down 29 percent with a 1.2 and 1.0 rating in A18-49.

ABC‘s Shark Tank topped the demos Friday night with 1.7 A18-49, according to preliminary Nielsen numbers. CBS won the night with a 1.4 rating and 9 million viewers.

Oxygen docu-series Preachers of L.A. drew 1.1 million viewers, the net’s strongest Wednesday season premiere ever, and second-highest series premiere in net history for any day among W25-54.Preachers airs Wednesdays at 10p.

Thursday A18-49 Analysis:  CBS grabbed the most A18-49 viewers Thursday with 2.8/8, according to final primetime national ratings from Nielsen. CBS sitcoms Big Bang Theory (5.1/17) and The Millers (3.0/9) fueled the victory with a big win at 8p, with Fox’s The X Factor taking second (2.0/6). Fox’s Glee took the 9p hour with 2.9/8, followed by ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy (2.8/8). ABC’s Scandal topped the 10p hour with 3.1/9, followed by CBS’s Elementary, which drew 2.0/6 in the demo.

Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Thursday, October 10, 2013  time period averages.  Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.

CBS	6.9/11	Big Bang Theory 10.7/18, The Millers 7.3/12, The Crazy Ones 6.0/9, Two and a Half Men 5.8/9, Elementary 5.8/10
ABC	5.2/8	Once Upon a Time in Wonderland [p] 3.7/6, Grey’s Anatomy 5.9/9, Scandal 6.1/10
FOX	4.3/7	X Factor 4.1/7, Glee 4.6/7
NBC	2.2/4	Parks and Recreation 2.1/4, Welcome to the Family 1.7/3, Sean Saves the World 2.2/3, The Michael J. Fox Show 2.5/4, Parenthood 2.5/4
UNI	1.8/3	Porque el Amor Manda 2.2/4, Tempestad 1.8/3, Mentir Para Vivir 1.5/3
CW	1.1/2	Vampire Diaries 1.4/3, Originals .8/1
ION	.9/1	Criminal Minds .8/1, Criminal Minds 1.0/2, Criminal Minds .9/1
TELE	.8/1	Dama y Obrero .7/1, Marido en Alquiler .8/1, Santa Diablo .6/1
UMA	.1/0	Gossip Girl Acapulco .1/0, Seleccion .2/0, Madame, LA .1/0

A18-49:  CBS 2.8/8, ABC 2.5/7, FOX 2.4/7, UNI 1.4/4, NBC 1.1/3, CW .8/2, TELE .5/1, ION .4/1, UMA .1/0

Fox Networks President of Distribution Mike Hopkins is joining Hulu as CEO, reports Bloomberg. Hopkins would replace interim CEO Andy Forssell.

Laureen Ong is stepping down as President of Travel Channel at the end of the month. “I feel my mission at Travel Channel is complete,” Ong said in a statement from the network. Scripps Network President Burton Jablin will serve as interim overseer.

Lauren McGuire was promoted to Senior Vice President, Client Services and Brand Development at Man Made Music. McGuire had been Vice President.

Producer/director/writer Rift Fournier died October 6. He was 77. At age 17, Fournier collapsed from polio and was wheelchair-bound. He went on to write for shows like NYPD Blue, Charlie’s Angels and Kojak, and wrote, produced and directed half-hour newsmag Cover Story.  “Handicapped kids are told they can’t dream,” Fournier said in a 1986 interview. “Well, nobody took my dreams away.”

Respected talent rep Susan Smith died October 12 after battling cancer. She was 71. Smith’s clients over the years included Brian Dennehy, Kathy Bates and Richard Masur.

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This Day In History sponsored by Destination America: 1984 –  George Eastman was issued patents for photographic film.

Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: Who took over the role of Becky from Lecy Goranson in season six of Roseanne (1988-1997), and which actress played the role during the show’s last season? Sarah Chalke replaced Goranson when she went to college. The actresses took turns in the role based on Goranson’s availability, but Chalke had Becky to herself in the final season. Kudos to: Mark Collanzo-Univision/Atlanta, Anthony Fields-Science/Silver Spring, MD, Pete Gautier-A&E/NNYC, Tracy Pruzan-Roy-Syfy/NYC, Bob Ramsey-WCIU/Chicago, LeeAnn Kampfer-WCIU/Chicago, Tom Boyd-WGN/Chicago, Roz Seibold-EDA/Tucson, Suzy Shoup-Moroch/Dallas, Dale Warshaw-KNSB/KTTU/Tucson, Squirrel Rippley-Dark Horse Media/Tucson, Sally J. Maisel-Wienermania/LA, Alex Gillespie-FOX/LA, Karen Daniel-ZodiakAmericas/Santa Monica, CA, Bruce Vilanch/Hollywood.

Today’s Trivia Question – On Moonlighting (1984-1989), what was Maddie and David’s Blue Moon detective agency named after? (Email trivia@cynopsis.com 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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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – MONDAY OCTOBER 14, 2013

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ABC: Dancing With the Stars, Castle
CBS: How I Met Your Mother, 2 Broke Girls, The Big Bang Theory, Mom, Hostages
CW: Hart of Dixie, Beauty and the Beast
FOX: Bones, Sleepy Hollow
ION: Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds
MyTV: Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order SVU 
NBC: The Voice, The Blacklist
PBS: Antiques Roadshow [r], Geneaology Roadshow, POV
Telemundo: Dama y Obrero, Marido en Alquiler, Santa Diabla
UMA: Bangkok Dangerous, La Seleccion
Univision: Porque el Amor Manda, La Tempestad, Mentir Para Vivir

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