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10.29.12
Good morning. It’s Monday, October 29, 2012, and this is your first early morning briefing.
Tonight’s Premiere:
PBS: Independent Lens at 10p (check local listings)
Tonight’s Finale:
Sundance Channel: All on the Line with Joe Zee at 10p
NBC will roll out new game show Take It All, hosted by Howie Mandel as a strip throughout the holiday week of December 10-14 at 9p each night. The show will end on December 17 with back-to-back episodes at 9p and 10p. NBC will air The Voice as a one-hour version instead of its normal two hours at 8p on December 10 and December 17. Take It All watches as a contestant selects and opens a prize worth thousands of dollars and the next player must decide to steal a prize already revealed or go for an unopened prize, hoping what’s inside is worth more. Take It All is produced by Universal Television and Alevy Productions with Mandel, Scott St. John and Mike Marks serving as executive producers.
Those interested in museums and stories of the artifacts they house, will see a fourth season of Mysteries at the Museum return to Travel Channel starting November 15 at 9p. Hosted by museum explorer and history buff, Don Wildman, each episode visits a different museum around the country, delves into local archives and collections to find objects and artifacts that reveal hidden national secrets. Mysteries at the Museum is produced by Optomen Productions, Inc. for Travel Channel.
As two of G4’s long-running series, Attack of the Show! and X-Play come to a close with production ceasing at the end of this year, the network will showcase both series by airing their most memorable moments, important revelations, hosts and more. Attack of the Show! and X-Play will sport a rotating lineup of guest co-hosts including John Barrowman, Michael Ian Black, Josh Myers, Paul Scheer, Rob Huebel and Horatio Sanz joining AOTS hosts Candace Bailey and Sara Underwood and X-Play hosts Morgan Webb and Blair Herter as part of the farewell shows. Both shows will air original episodes until the end of 2012. Attack of the Show! debuted on March 28, 2005 while X-Play began on April 28, 2003 on G4’s previous incarnation, TechTV.
Comedy writer Alan Kirschenbaum has died at the age of 51. Mr. Kirschenbaum’s numerous television credits include the co-creation of CBS’ sitcom Yes, Dear and writing for comedies My Name is Earl and Raising Hope. Mr. Kirschenbaum was recently involved in the creation of new comedy Friend Me that will possibly be inserted in CBS’ midseason schedule. Past TV credits for Mr. Kirschenbaum include Coach, The Gregory Hines Show and Stark Raving Mad.
Top 10 Weekend Box Office Estimates: October 26-28, 2012
Argo (Warner Bros.) $12.4 million 3 wk total $60.8m
Hotel Transylvania (Sony) $9.5 million 5 wk total $130.4m
Cloud Atlas (Warner Bros.) $9.4 million opening weekend
Paranormal Activity 4 (Paramount) $8.7 million 2 wk total $42.6m
Silent Hill: Revelation 3D (Open Road) $8.0 million opening weekend
Taken 2 (20th Century Fox) $8.0 million 4 wk total $117.4m
Here Comes the Boom (Sony) $5.5 million 3 wk total $30.6m
Sinister (Lionsgate) $5.1 million 3 wk total $39.5m
Alex Cross (Lionsgate) $5.1 million 2 wk total $19.4m
Fun Size (Paramount) $4.1 million opening weekend
Source: Rentrak
Call for Submissions: Cynopsis is producing our Holiday Programming Guide which comes out November 27 and will be sent to all Cynopsis and Cynopsis Kids subscribers. If your network has holiday-themed programming airing December 1-31, 2012, please send your listings to Lisa Ball, Editor at [email protected] no later than Friday, November 16. 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 Lisa (if you don’t receive a confirmation email, please resubmit).
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On Friday, Cablevision reached a deal with Tribune Co. that returns the programming on Tribune’s stations to subscribers in the Tri-State area. The Tribune stations have been off of Cablevision since August with some subscribers unable to watch the World Series games. “We are pleased to have reached agreement with Tribune to return its stations to Cablevision, particularly its FOX affiliate in Connecticut, the only source of FOX programming for about 50,000 of our customers,” Cablevision said in a statement. “We sincerely appreciate the patience of our customers as we worked to reach an agreement that is consistent with our focus on minimizing the impact of rising programming costs on cable rates.”
Charter Communications and Verizon Communication’s FiOS TV service have agreed to carry Time Warner Cable’s regional sports networks in Southern California. The decision was reached just in time for the beginning of the NBA season. The networks include Time Warner Cable Sports Net and the Spanish-language Time Warner Cable Desportes.
A trio of projects is in store for Smash EP David Marshall Grant. The first project is an untitled comedy for HBO about three friends in San Francisco who explore the fun and sometimes overwhelming options available to a new generation of gay men. Michael Lannan is writing the script inspired by his short Lorimer. Grant and Sarah Condon will be EPs with Lannan as co-EP. The second untitled project is a medical drama for CBS about adult quadruplets and is an adaptation of the Israeli series Ran Quartet. Grant is the EP along with Sarah Timberman, Carl Beverly, Yona Wiesenthal, Avi Armoza, Eilon Ratzkovsky, original creators Giyora Yahalom and Oren Jakobi as well as Intrigue’s Tariq Jalil and Arik Kneller. CBS Television Studios and Timberman-Beverly are producing with Yes and July-August. The third project is for The CW titled Blink written by Vera Harbert. This is a dark family story about a girl whose father is in a coma. Grant will be an EP with Beverly and Timberman; CBS Television Studios and Timberman-Beverly are producing.
ABC gave script orders to a drama titled City Hall, from Newsroom’s Gideon Yago who will write and serve as EP with ABC Studios producing. The drama centers on a city mayor and her staff who are all in their 20s and 30s who take on the political establishment while juggling their personal and social lives. Bob Sertner is on board as EP.
Production on the final and final season of HBO’s Treme begins November 5 and the premium network confirmed this last run will have just five episodes. The third season of Treme has 10 episodes and previously co-creators David Simon and Eric Overmyer were given the approval by HBO to wrap up Treme’s story with a shortened final season.
Star of Apollo 13, Kathleen Quinlan was cast in NBC’s drama series Chicago Fire playing Lt. Matthew Casey’s (Jesse Spencer) mother. Quinlan will appear in multiple episodes.
Former West Wing star Bradley Whitford is joining ABC’s comedy pilot Trophy Wife, reports TVLine. Whitford will star opposite Malin Akerman who plays a reformed party girl (Akerman) that finds herself in an instant family situation when she falls in love with a man (Whitford) who has three manipulative kids and two judgmental ex-wives. Emily Halpern and Sarah Haskins wrote the script and are the EPs along with The Office writers Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky.
TNT has cast two actresses in leading roles for different projects. Rebecca Romjin (X2, Ugly Betty) will play one half of the private investigator team in King and Maxwell, the pilot from NCIS: LA EP Shane Brennan. Romjin will play Michelle Maxwell, a former secret services agent who investigates politically sensitive cases with her partner, Sean King (Jon Tenney). King and Maxwell is produced for TNT by CBS Television Studios and Shane Brennan Productions; Brennan is EP with Karen Spiegel and Grant Anderson as producers. Mira Sorvino will star in a procedural drama Trooper from executive producer Jerry Bruckheimer. Trooper, which previously received a pilot order from CBS but was not approved to go further, is about a recently divorced female state trooper who is also mother to three kids. Aron Eli Coleite is writing the project which is produced at Warner Horizon Television.
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Cable Lifetime Achievement Award Winner, Les Read, will be accepting his award in person at the CableFAX Program Awards & Top Ops Awards Breakfast Join us as we celebrate his contributions to the industry, as well as honor the best of cable programming and MSOs at the CableFAX Program Awards and Top Operators of the Year event.
October 30, 2012, the W Hotel, New York
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Thursday A18-49 Analysis: FOX hit a homerun Thursday night with a 3.5/10 with the A18-49 viewers, according to final primetime national ratings from Nielsen. CBS was #1 at 8p with its comedies The Big Bang Theory and Two and a Half Men at an average of 4.4/13 and FOX’s World Series Game 2 was second at 2.6/9. FOX slid into first place during 9p with more of the World Series Game 2 at 3.4/10 and ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy moved into second place with a 3.0/8. FOX posted its best ratings for the World Series Game 2 at 10p with a 4.3/12 and CBS was next with Elementary at 2.2/6 and ABC’s Scandal was third at 2.0/5.
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Thursday, October 25, 2012 time period averages. Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.
CBS: 8.1/13 The Big Bang Theory 9.5/15, Two and a Half Men 8.0/12, Person of Interest 8.7/13, Elementary 6.8/11
FOX: 7.8/12 FOX World Series Game 2: Detroit at San Francisco 7.8/12
ABC: 4.8/8 Last Resort 4.1/7, Grey’s Anatomy 6.0/9, Scandal 4.3/7
NBC: 2.3/4 30 Rock 2.2/3, Up All Night 2.1/3, The Office 2.5/4, Parks and Recreation 2.1/3, Rock Center with Brian Williams 2.5/4
UNIV: 2.3/4 Por Ella Soy Eva 2.2/4, Abismo de Pasion 2.6/4, Amor Bravio 2.1/3
CW: 1.5/2 Vampire Diaries 1.8/3, Beauty and the Beast 1.2/2
TELE: 0.7/1 Rosa Diamante 0.7/1, Corazon Valiente 0.8/1, Pablo Escobar: El Patron del Mal 1.0/2, El Rostro de la Venganza 0.6/1
ION: 0.5/1 Numb3rs 0.5/1, Numb3rs 0.4/1, Criminal Minds 0.8/1
TF: 0.3/1 Cineplex THR [7p start r] 0.2/0, Cineplex 2 THR [r] 0.3/1
A18-49: FOX 3.5/10, CBS 3.2/9, ABC 2.1/6, UNIV 1.8/5, NBC 1.4/4, CW 1.0/3, TELE 0.5/1, TF 0.3/1, ION 0.2/1
Two were promoted at Starz Entertainment, as announced by Ray Milius, SVP/Programming and IT Development. James Porter was upped to the newly created position of SVP/Media System and IT Development and Jodi Robinson to VP/Internet and Interactive Technology. James oversees all activities for broadcast and the infrastructure operations for the channels and advanced services as well as the IT group. Jodi and her group head technology strategy and development for the company including advanced services and interactive television.
CBS Television Stations group named Tom Canedo as VP/GM for the group’s stations in Detroit, WWJ-TV and WKBD-TV, the CBS and CW affiliates respectively. Previously, Tom managed the station WUPA-TV as VP/GM, the CW affiliate owned by CBS in Atlanta.
Tom Warner, formerly SVP/Domestic Distribution at Sony Pictures, has joined Rohrs Media Group, working with John Rohrs, President,in the domestic syndication of the WE tv long running series Bridezillas for Fall 2013, as well as other projects.
Toei Animation’s Leiji Matsumoto, creator of Captain Harlock has been honored with the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres on October 23, 2012 for the series’ influence on French popular culture. France established this award 1957 which recognizes luminaries across literature, film and music. Other past title holders include T.S. Eliot, Bob Dylan and Patti Smith among others.
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Cynopsis: Digital Video Measurement Summit
Monetizing Cross-Platform Video – November 14 | NYC
AARP, Anheuser Busch, AOL, Disney, ESPN, Ignited USA, Ketchum, L’Oreal, MSG, Media Storm, NBC Universal, Publishers Clearing House, Sony, Turner, Tremor Video, Unilever, Viacom, Wieden & Kennedy, Yahoo!, YuMe, Zenith Media & more!
Registration Questions: Jenn Ocampo + Sponsorship Questions: Mike Farina
Sponsors: Tremor Video & Yahoo! + Spotlight Sponsor: Videology + Media Partner: Ad Club of NY
This day in History: 1787 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera “Don Giovanni” opens for the first time in Prague.
Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: On Bewitched what role did Pandora Spocks play in multiple episodes? Samantha’s naughty cousin, Serena (also played by Elizabeth Montgomery!) Kudos to: Anthony Salerno-Horizon Media/NYC; Jon Spaet-Viamedia/NYC; Fred Cerullo-Grand Central Partnership/NYC; Hank Bordowitz-The Bordowitz Media Werx/Ridgewood, NJ; Eric Merrill-Mediacentric/Austin, TX; Hank Hope-American Casino & Entertainment Properties, LLC/Las Vegas; Greg Stewart-Evolution Media/Burbank, CA; Talia Rodriguez-Shakur-Streetropical Media/LA; Coleen Raymann-Disney-ABC Domestic Television/Burbank, CA; Betsy O’Connor-DISH Media Sales/LA.
Today’s Trivia Question: On the sitcom Bewitched, what was the street address of Samantha and Darrin Stevens? (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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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2012
ABC: Dancing with the Stars, Castle
CBS: How I Met Your Mother, Partners, 2 Broke Girls, Mike & Molly, Hawaii Five-0
CW: 90210, Gossip Girl
FOX: MLB World Series
ION: Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds
NBC: The Voice, Revolution
PBS: Antiques Roadshow, Market Warriors, Independent Lens
TELE: Rosa Diamante, Corazon Valiente, Pablo Escobar: El Patron del Mal, El Rostro de la Venganza
UNIV: Por Ella Soy Eva; Abismo de Pasion, Amor Bravio
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