A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM BRAVO MEDIA

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10.07.13

Good morning. It’s Monday, October 7, 2013, and this is your first early morning briefing.

Tonight’s Premieres:
CW: Hart of Dixie at 8p, Beauty and the Beast at 9p
Disney XD: Mighty Med at 8:30p
Fox News: The Kelly File at 9p
Sundance Channel: Dream School at 10p
Superchannel: Cloudstreet at 9p
TR3S: Bellezas Indominables at 11p
Univision: Mentir Para Vivir at 10p

Tonight’s Finales:
Discovery: Turn and Burn at 10p

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Oscar winner Halle Berry will star in sci-fi summer series Extant. The project, from Steven Spielberg‘s Amblin Television and CBS Television Studios, has a 13-episode straight to series order from CBS for 2014. The summer-size order allows Berry to take on a TV commitment without abandoning film work. “For five months a year I’ll get to live with and play this incredibly intelligent an vulnerable woman,” said Berry, “and for the remainder of the year I’ll continue to look for other roles.”

The first series to be cancelled in the new season is ABC‘s Lucky 7. The show drew 4.4 million viewers and 1.3 in the A18-49 demo for its premiere, dropping to 2.6 million and a .7 rating on Tuesday. Repeats of the previous week’s Scandal will fill Lucky’s 10p time slot.

While Jay Leno is stepping down from NBC‘s Tonight Show early next year, CBS is staying the course with David Letterman. The late night host’s contract was set to expire at the end of 2014, but CBS signed him through 2015. Letterman’s Late Show trails in the ratings behind Tonight, but was up 5 percent year-to-year for the first week of the new season. “Les [Moonves] and I had a lengthy discussion,” said Letterman, “and we both agreed that I needed a little more time to fully run the show into the ground.”

Bloomberg Television‘s upcoming primetime finance series, C-Suite with Jeffrey Hayzlett, takes a trip to Dunkin’ Donuts headquarters on its October 8 premiere episode to discuss the company’s brand refresh. Hayzlett also gets a tour of the never-before seen research kitchen. Series, sponsored by United Airlines, airs at 9:30p.

Hallmark Channel has given Signed, Sealed, Delivered, about lost-mail detectives, a 10-episode order ahead of the backdoor pilot’s October 12 premiere. “This marks a significant milestone in our growth into scripted programming,” said Michelle Vicary, EVP Programming for the net. The dramedy, about lost-mail detectives, was created by Martha Williamson (Touched By Angel), who exec produced.

On The Big Interview tonight, Daryl Hannah talks to Dan Rather about her battles with Aspberger’s Syndrome. “They recommended to my mom to put me on some medications and institutionalize me,” the actress tells Rather. Conversation airs on AXS TV at 8p.

In the third annual Innovation Challenge at NBC News‘ Education Nation Summit, three teams of innovators are making their pitches in front of a panel of judges and innovators for a $75,000 prize donated by Robin Hood to turn their plans into reality. The action, live-streamed at EducationNation.com and the NBC News YouTube Channel, takes place today and tomorrow, October 8.

Top 10 Weekend Box Office Estimates:  September 27-29, 2013

Source: Rentrak

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Fox has renewed The Simpsons for season 26. “This groundbreaking series is not only the longest-running scripted show in television history, it’s one of the greatest sitcoms of our time,” said Fox chairman Kevin Reilly. The show’s season premiere was the number one entertainment program of the night in the A18-49 demo.

NBC has ordered nine new eps of freshman series The Blacklist. In its first two weeks, the procedural starring James Spader averaged 12 million viewers. In its second week, the show set a Live + 3 record, adding over 5 million viewers to its Live + Same day numbers.

Controversial former NFL player Terrell Owens is forced to confront the issues at the root of his bad behavior on OWN self-help series Iyanla: Fix My Life. New episodes of the Harpo Productions show launch Saturday, November 2 at 9p.

Little People, Big World is returning to TLC for a seventh season. The net announced in 2010 that season six would be the reality show’s last, then aired spin-off Little People, Big World: Wedding Farm in 2012. The Gay Rosenthal Productions series will focus on weddings on the farm, as well as health and relationship issues when it returns Tuesday, October 29 at 9p.

Nikita launches its six-ep fourth and final season on Friday, November 22 at 9p. CW will air the Sesfonstein/Wonderland Sound and Vision production for six straight weeks.

Cake Boss spin-off Next Great Baker will return to TLC for season four. The High Noon Entertainment competition series averaged 1.3 million viewers in season three.

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Diablo Cody (Juno) has sold teen drama Prodigy to Fox. The Fake Empire project focuses on a brilliant home-schooled teen who takes on the challenges of high school.

Brad Garrett (Everybody Loves Raymond) has struck a deal with ABC for a pilot script based on his upcoming autobiography, When the Balls Drop. The Twentieth Century Fox Television project would have Garret starring and exec producing.

Amblin Television and Universal Television are producing a potential TV adaptation of the 1986 Amblin Entertainment/Universal Pictures flick, The Money Pit.

ABC has put into development Raising Mom, based on the experiences of Sofia Vergara (Modern Family) as a young single mom, reports Deadline. The show comes from Vergara and Luis Balaguer’s Latin World Entertainment, Electus and ABC Studios.

Kim Raver and William Devane will return to the roles they created on 24 when 24: Live Another Day debuts on Fox in spring 2014. The Teakwood Lane production will be set in London, picking up several years after the action in 24’s 2010 final season.

Peter Fonda will guest star on Darren Star‘s Lifetime pilot, HR. The drama, from Kapital Entertainment, stars Alicia Silverstone as an unorthodox director of human resources.

Topher Grace and Sarah Silverman will play brother and sister in HBO comedy pilot People in New Jersey; Patti Lupone has been cast as their widowed mother in the HBO Entertainment production.

Viacom International Media Networks announced production of a pilot for The Almost Impossible Gameshow, “our stab at the absurd world of Japanese game shows,” said Jill Offman, SVP, International Content for Comedy Central. Format is created and produced by Endemol‘s Initial.

ABC‘s Scandal opened season three Thursday night at a series-high 10.5 million viewers and 3.6 rating/10 share in A18-49 – up 71 percent over its year-ago premiere in the demo. The drama also scored an evening-high 712,877 tweets.

CBS‘s sitcoms were solid on Thursday. The Crazy Ones dropped 24 percent from last week, when Bang was its lead-in, but still drew 2.9/8 A18-49 and 11.8 million. The Millers, premiering in that sweet spot, became the season’s second-best scoring comedy premiere, after Crazy.

In its regular time slot, NBC‘s The Michael J. Fox Show (5.35 million viewers and 1.7/5 A18-49) fell 15 percent from last week, but built on its Sean Saves the World  (1.4/4 A18-49 and 4.4 million) lead-in.

Thursday A18-49 Analysis: CBS grabbed the most A18-49 viewers Thursday with 3.0/9, according to final primetime national ratings from Nielsen. CBS sitcom Big Bang Theory (5.2/17) and The Millers (3.3/10) won 8p, with NBC’s The Voice taking second. ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy took the 9p hour with 3.1/9, followed by CBS’s The Crazy Ones (2.9/8) and Two and a Half Men (2.4/7). The premiere of ABC’s Scandal topped the 10p hour, followed by CBS’s Elementary with 2.0/6.

Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Thursday, September 26, 2013  time period averages.  Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.

A18-49:  CBS 3.0/9, ABC 2.8/8, FOX 1.8/5, NBC 1.4/4, UNI 1.4/4, CW 1.1/3, TELE .5/1, ION .3/1, UMA .1/0

Isaac Lee has been named CEO of upcoming net Fusion. Lee, who will continue to serve as President of Univision News, will be responsible for all programming and business aspects of Fusion, launching Monday, October 28.

HBO COO Eric Kessler is leaving after 27 years with the company, the net announced Friday. Kessler’s position has been eliminated. Along with effusive praise for Kessler, CEO Richard Piepler said in a memo, “After careful consideration, we have decided that the COO position does not best serve the most effective management process at HBO.”

Neal Kendeall has exited his post as The Arsenio Hall Show Executive Producer. Eric Pankowski, SVP of Programming and Development for CBS TV Distribution, will take on the role until a successor is found. Variety reports a source says the show is looking for “a better creative fit” for Hall.

Emilio Romano is leaving his position as President of Telemundo. It is the latest in a string of executive changes since Comcast took over NBCUniversal in early 2011.

FOX International Channels appointed Todd Siegel as Executive Vice President of International Ad Sales and Partnerships US. Siegel had been in charge of integrated ad sales and marketing for FOX Sports Media Group.

Director William A Graham, who helmed numerous TV shows including The Fugitive and Batman, died September 12 of complications from pneumonia. He was 87.

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This Day In History sponsored by Velocity. Drive Your Passion: 1971 – Disney World opened in Orlando, Florida.

Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: On Soap (1977-1981), which character was abducted by space aliens, who created a duplicate of him/her? Burt Campbell. Kudos to: Barry Poles-WBRE-TV/Wilkes Barre, PA, Mark Berger-Major Energy/Orangeburg, NY, Diane Librizzi-La Loca Entertainment/NYC, Phyllis McQuillan/MSG Media/NYC, Jaime Horowitz-Grant Stations/Huntsville, AL, Matt Rankin-WDAF/Kansas City, Kristin Staskowski/Birmingham, AL, Eric Merrill-Mediacentric/Austin, TX, Judy Margolis-The Ad Place/Dallas, Betsy Samuel-Open TV/Golden, CO, Pat Brady-CESD/LA, Tony Dimond-VH1-Santa Monica, Adam Zuvich/LA, Dale Warshaw-KMSB/KTTU/Tucson.

Today’s Trivia Question – “The Replacements” Theme Week: Dick Sargent famously replaced Dick York on Bewitched (1964-1972). Which actress on the show played a bumbling character meant to fill the shoes of Marion Lorne‘s Aunt Clara after Lorne’s death? (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 7, 2013

ABC: Dancing With the Stars, Castle
CBS: How I Met Your Mother, We Are Men, 2 Broke Girls, Mom, Hostages
CW: Hart of Dixie [p], Beauty and the Beast [p]
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: X-Men, La Seleccion, La Madame
Univision: Porque el Amor Manda, La Tempestad, Mentir Para Vivir [p]

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