A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM MTV NETWORK

Video Music Awards partnerships created some loud results.

MTV gives a big shout out and thanks to our VMA sponsors.
It was truly a killer show, with ratings up 24% over last year.
This made the 2008 VMA’s the highest rated cable telecast this year.
We definitely made some beautiful (and loud) music together.

Source: NHI, 09/07/08 vs. 09/09/07. V12-34. Live+SD gross national rtg. MTV/MTV2.  YTD: 12/31/07-09/07/08.

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09/15/08

Good morning. It’s Monday, September 15, 2008, and this is your first early morning briefing. 
 
Premiering today in Syndication:
The Martha Stewart Show (check local listings for times/stations)

Tonight’s Finales:
TNT: The Closer at 9p
Showtime: Weeds at 9p

FOX signed an expanded renewal agreement with Chef Gordon Ramsay which keeps him as host of Hell’s Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares for at least two additional seasons, as well as an option for a third series. The pact also gives Ramsay the opportunity to host a cooking special sometime during this season. Hell’s Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares are produced by Granada America and A. Smith and Co. The third proposed series would be similar to a show Ramsay is involved with now for UK’s Channel 4 called Man Camp where guys are put through physical and intellectual challenges and learn to cook at the same time. The upcoming special would also mirror a live program Ramsay hosted for Channel 4 last January allowing viewers to cook at home along with Ramsay.

Season premiere of Saturday Night Live this past weekend, featuring Olympian Michael Phelps as host and a cameo by Tina Fey as VP Candidate Sarah Palin, drew in 7.4/18 in metered markets, reports Nielsen. That number marks the highest rated episode since September 29, 2001 with Reese Witherspoon hosting, which was also the first SNL episode following the 9/11 attacks.  National numbers for the SNL season debut will be out on Thursday.

Elsewhere with Palin – the real Sarah Palin – ABC News’ Charles Gibson’s interview with Palin on 20/20 last Friday night pulled in 7.9 million viewers, the highest number for that news program in more than six months. In the key Adult demo, the program averaged a 2.1/6 A18-49, per fast affiliate ratings from Nielsen.

Cake Distribution and FRESH TV made a global distribution agreement for the animated series Total Drama Action from FRESH TV. This second series, now in production with an expected debut launch next spring, picks up where the series Total Drama Island finishes and takes 15 of the original contestants to a deserted film studio lot for even more challenges and the opportunity to win a larger prize. Total Drama Island is currently airing in the U.S. on The Cartoon Network and was commissioned by TELETOON Canada.

Prior to the Primetime Emmy Awards on September 21, ABC will air Jimmy Kimmel’s Big Night of Stars special at 7p on both coasts, according to B&C. The line-up of stars includes an introduction by Barbara Walters and interviews with Ryan Seacrest, Tracy Morgan, Salma Hayek and Michael Phelps. Several other stars will make appearances such as William Shatner, Rachael Ray, Regis Philbin, Kelly Ripa and more.

Top 10 Weekend Box Office Estimates: September 12-14, 2008
Burn After Reading (Focus)                           $19.4 million – opening weekend
Tyler Perry’s The Family That Preys (Lionsgate) $18.0 million – opening weekend
Righteous Kill (Overture Films)                       $16.5 million – opening weekend
The Women (PictureHouse)                          $10.1 million – opening weekend
The House Bunny (Sony)                              $4.3 million – 4 wk total $42.2m
Tropic Thunder (Paramount/DreamWorks)        $4.2 million – 5 wk total $103.0m
The Dark Knight (Warner Bros.)                      $4.0 million – 9 wk total $517.7m
Bangkok Dangerous (Lionsgate)                     $2.4 million – 2 wk total $12.5m
Traitor (Overture Films)                                $2.1 million – 3 wk total $20.7m
Death Race (Universal)                                 $2.0 million – 4 wk total $33.2m
Source: Box Office Mojo

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HBO has an untitled pilot project in the works about a professional golfer from Florida who is forced to enter the witness protection program, reports Variety. Writers Carl Hiaasen, columnist/author with the Miami Herald and Mike Lupica, sports columnist/author of the Daily News will collaborate on the script.

Casting Call: Producers of a new 20-episode television show called The Hollywood Judge are looking for people involved in unusual lawsuits or disputes where justice is needed and deserved. The show is looking for real stories from real people. Send a brief description of your claim or dispute, a recent photo of yourself, name, phone numbers (including cell) and if possible contact info for the other party to
. The show will pay participants an appearance fee to be on the show and will pay the settlement. For more information, visit www.thehollywoodjudge.com.

Casting Call: A major television network is casting for a one-hour reality show, looking for females 18-28 years old who are rich and act like privileged “princesses” who want to move out of the family home. The one chosen young lady must have the desire to move into her own apartment or house that is funded by her parents. The selected participant will get to star in her own show and producers will connect her with professional designers to decorate her new abode. Interested participants must send name, a photo, brief bio, where you live, age, contact numbers, occupation/level of schooling and reasons why you would be great on the show, plus links to Facebook or MySpace pages to
. Deadline for entries is September 23, 2008.

CYNOPSIS DIGITAL – TODAY’S TOP STORY:  The entertainment industry may finally have found an alternative to the all-powerful iTunes/iPod solution. A group of media, entertainment and consumer electronics companies will announce the “Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE)” today, a push to set standards and usage rules to insure interoperability of digital content on multiple devices and platforms. Devices built to DECE specs would be able to play DECE-branded content and work with any DECE-certified service, eliminating annoying territorial divides. Charter members of the group include Alcatel-Lucent, Best Buy, Cisco, Comcast, Fox Entertainment Group, HP, Intel, Lions Gate Entertainment, Microsoft, NBC Universal, Paramount Pictures, Philips, Sony, Toshiba, VeriSign, and Warner Bros.   Full edition: CYN DIGITAL.

CYNOPSIS KIDS – TODAY’S TOP STORY: The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS) awarded the 2007-2008 Creative Arts Primetime Emmys for programs and individual achievements at the 6oth Annual Emmy Awards presentation at the Nokia Theatre L.A. live in Los Angeles.  The ceremony featured outstanding achievement for work in the kid/family entertainment community Full edition: CYN KIDS.

CYNOPSIS INTERNATIONAL – TODAY’S TOP STORY: Life is not a picnic as we well know but it now seems that BskyB will not have any picnic.  The U.K. company’s plans for its over-and-over delayed Picnic digital terrestrial pay TV service have been under scrutiny from the Ofcom watchdog org for the past year and a half due to BSkyB’s rather large presence in the overall English pay TV realm.  Due to the regulatory questioning, BSkyB had decided to stop its Picnic go-ahead efforts until Ofcom issues more approval.  The 4-channel Picnic was to have consisted of entertainment, movie, news and sports networks on the Freeview platform.  The decision to not take the Picnic “outside” may result in the loss of nearly 30 jobs at BskyB. Full edition: CYN INTERNATIONAL.

Thursday – A18-49 Analysis: FOX was leader of the pack Thursday night at 2.6/8 A18-49, according to final national ratings from Nielsen Media Research. At 8p, CBS’ Big Brother was in charge at 2.7/9 while Hole in the Wall on FOX officially made its debut with two back-to-back episodes that posted a 2.0/7 during 8p and a 2.6/8 at 830p. FOX was on fire at 9p as Kitchen Nightmares won with 2.9/8. Then at 10p, CBS was #1 with Flashpoint at 2.2/6.

Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Thursday, September 11, 2008 time period averages. Source: NTI Galaxy, as dated. Live+SD.

CBS: 5.6/9            Big Brother 5.0/8, CSI [r] 6.0/10, Flashpoint 5.8/10

ABC: 3.4/6            Ugly Betty [r] 2.8/5, Grey’s Anatomy [r] 3.8/6, Private Practice [r] 3.5/6

FOX: 3.4/6            Hole in the Wall [p] 2.7/5, Hole in the Wall [p] 3.5/6, Kitchen Nightmares 3.7/6

NBC: 3.4/6           America’s Got Talent 6.3/11, My Name Is Earl [r] 3.5/6, The Office 2.9/5, The Office [r] 2.9/5, 30 Rock [r] 2.4/4, The Office [r] 2.2/4       

UNIV: 2.2/4          Al Diablo con los Guapos 2.7/4, Fuego en la Sangre 2.3/4, La Rosa de Guadalupe 1.7/3

CW: 1.3/2             Smallville [r] 1.4/2, Supernatural [r] 1.2/2

TELE: 0.7/1          El Juramento 0.4/1, Dona Barbara 0.8/1, Sin Senos No Hay Paraiso 1.0/2 

MNT: 0.6/1           Hero Awards [r] 0.6/1

A18-49: FOX 2.6/8, CBS 2.4/7, UNIV 1.9/6, NBC 1.8/5, ABC 1.5/4, CW 0.7/2, TELE 0.5/2, MNT 0.3/1

Retirement Living TV (RLTV) named Patrick Baldwin as GM to oversee all business divisions, strategic direction and overall daily operations of the network. Patrick was upped from VP/Strategic Development where he worked on partnerships with AARP and NBC and distribution agreements with a number of cable operators including Verizon FiOS. He will continue to report to Brad Knight, CEO.

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This day in History:  1971 – Greenpeace was founded.

Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question:  What Indianapolis weatherman of the 1970’s once forecast hail “the size of canned hams”?  DAVID LETTERMAN Kudos to:Ged Young-CBS Affiliate Relations/NY; Tim McNamara-FOX 59/CW 4/Indianapolis, IN; Andrew Goldman-HBO/NY; Robert Morgan-Scripps Networks/Knoxville; Stephen Benefield-Charter Media/Birmingham, AL; Kyle Brawner-KDAF/Dallas; Dan Whitford- RPM Advertising /Chicago; John Heiser-o2 ideas inc./Birmingham, AL; Keith Raskin-What’s Next Productions/Santa Clarita, CA; Alan Perris-The Television Academy/North Hollywood; Jim Gray-FrogLight Prods./Missoula, MT; John Amato-Good Day LA/LA

Today’s Trivia Question:  What was the only TV show of the ’70s to have its theme song top Billboard’s Hot 100?  (Email
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
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT –  Monday, September 15, 2008

ABC: Movie:Batman Begins
AZTECA: Camino a la Fama, Historia Detras del Mito, Noticiero Azteca America
CBS: The Big Bang Theory [r], How I Met Your Mother [r], Two and a Half Men [r], The New Adventures of Old Christine [r], CSI: Miami [r]
CW: Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill
FOX: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Prison Break
ION: Boston Legal, NCIS, ER
MNT: Celebrity Expose [r], Celebrity Expose [r]
NBC: Deal or No Deal, America’s Toughest Jobs, Dateline
PBS: Antiques Roadshow [r], History Detectives, Where We Stand: America’s Schools in the 21st Century
TELE: El Juramento, Dona Barbara, Sin Senos No Hay Paraiso
UNIV: Al Diablo con los Guapos, Fuego on la Sangre, Cristina

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