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09.16.13

Good morning. It’s Monday, September 16, 2013, and this is your first early morning briefing.

Tonight’s Premieres:
ABC: Dancing With the Stars at 8p
FOX: Bones at 8p, Sleepy Hollow at 9p
Veria: The Lisa Oz Show at 8p
Weather: Heavy Metal Monsters at 9p

Syndication Premieres: The Queen Latifah Show, The Wendy Williams Show, Supreme Justice With Judge Karen, Family Feud, Wheel of Fortune

Tonight’s Finales:
Bravo: Tamra’s O.C. Wedding at 8p
CBS: Under the Dome at 10p
CW: Breaking Pointe at 9p
NBC: Siberia at 10p

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Don Robert, Senior Vice President of Research at A+E Networks, works across brand teams to help navigate the multi-platform universe. Robert, who will be sharing his expertise in audience measurement at the Cynopsis Future TV Summit on October 17 in New York City, tells Cynopsis about how the massive changes in television will affect content in the future.

Cynopsis: Where do you see TV ten years from now?
Robert: The whole concept of what is “TV” will be much more ambiguous than it is today. Is online content that you view on your at-home TV screen, television? There will still be a big appetite to watch content at a specific time (particularly for sports and for event programming), but it may no longer be the dominant method to watch programming.The TV set itself will just be a means to watch great stories with interesting characters. It is already starting to happen.

The Future of TV summit early bird rate ends this Friday  so register your team today! http://www.cynopsisfuturetvsummit.com/ 

NBCUniversal nabbed Univision President Cesar Conde to serve as its Executive Vice President, reporting to CEO Steve Burke. Under Conde’s leadership, Univision started beating some of its English-language competitors (including NBC) in the A18-49 demo.

Queen Latifah isn’t planning on playing it safe with her new Sony Pictures Television daytime talker, The Queen Latifah Show, debuting today. “I’m naturally a bit edgier than typical daytime,” she admitted to Time. “I kind of want to push things a little bit further, as far as I can, respectfully, within the daytime space.”

The Thursday results of FilmOn X‘s legal battle could threaten the expansion of Aereo, fellow streamer of over-the-air broadcast television via the Internet. In a ruling rejecting FilmOn X’s motion to stay a preliminary injunction or to limit the injunction to the D.C. area, the D.C. judge referred to Aereo as a “similar service that also appears to infringe… copyrights.”

Fox is changing its programming strategy for upcoming military comedy Enlisted. Instead of debuting the 20th Century Fox TV series on Friday, November 8 at 9:30p as previously announced, the net is waiting until Friday, January 10, kicking off the show with a flurry of promos during the NFL Playoffs.

Woody Allen will be honored at the 71st annual Golden Globe Awards with the 2014 Cecil B. DeMille Award. “There is no one more worthy,” said Theo Kingma, president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. “His contributions to filmmaking have been phenomenal.” Trophies handed out Sunday, January 14 at 8p on NBC.

MSG has put its music net Fuse on the market. “We have been approached by certain parties expressing interest in Fuse and have retained JPMorgan to explore all strategic alternatives,” reads a company statement. The music channel reaches about 70 million homes, but has formidable competition from Viacom‘s MTV and VH1.

Esquire isn’t the only men’s mag expanding to TV. Darden Media, which is buying Maxim, plans to turn it into a cable network. “The opportunities to create powerful, transmedia brands that engage consumers and advertisers on multiple platforms is significantly on the rise,” said Darden chairman Calvin Darden. Esquire takes over Style net on Monday, September 23.

Jingle bells already? Kmart is airing a Christmas commercial, complete with a gingerbread man, to tout its layaway program. That’s almost seven weeks earlier than the retail giant’s first Christmas ad in 2012, which began running on October 28.

It’s a battle of the credit cards in new Lifetime series Million Dollar Shoppers. Personal shoppers compete for top commissions in the True Entertainment/The Weinstein Company reality show, bowing Thursday, October 10 at 10p.

Hallmark movie The Mystery Cruise, about a ship with a murderer onboard, sets sail Saturday, October 5 at 9p. The backdoor pilot stars Gail O’Grady (NYPD Blue) and Michelle Harrison (Emily Owens M.D.).

Can these marriages be saved? Four couples in crisis try to resolve their issues on A&E’s The Marriage Test, exec produced by Dr. Phil McGraw and son Jay McGraw. The 90-minute special, from Ghost Mountain Productions and Bienstock Young Media, premieres Sunday, September 21 at 10p.

CBS is using yogurt to promote its fall comedy line-up. Customers at two Yogurtland locations in L.A. can choose from flavors like “How I Met Your Mocha” and “2 Broke Graham Crackers”; on Mondays between noon at six, the sweet treat in on the house. Promotion runs through Monday, September 30.

ABC is betting $100,000 that a sweepstakes will boost sampling of its upcoming lottery drama, Lucky 7. Potential viewers enter the contest at www.ABCLucky7.com, and the ep’s premiere will reveal the winning seven numbers. Show bows Tuesday, September 24 at 9p.

Trivia champ Ken Jennings (Jeopardy) reported in his blog Saturday that NBC offered to fly him to New York to compete in its struggling Million Second Quiz, only to rescind the offer an hour later, due to a “miscommunication.” Joked Jennings, “That’s even less time than they gave Conan O’Brien!”

Texas Tech may have stumbled on a new way to draw viewers to its televised football games – and it isn’t by scoring touchdowns. New head coach Kliff Kingsbury‘s striking resemblance to movie heartthrob Ryan Gosling had tweeters in a tizzy after his first televised game on ESPN Thursday. The net encouraged the frenzy, showing fans holding a sign that read: “#Our coach is hotter than your coach.”

Fledgling sports net Fox Sports 1 had to issue an apology after NFL analyst Terry Bradshaw was heard blasting the f-bomb on Friday’s Fox Football Daily. The incident took place not during a scheduled portion of the show, but in a behind-the-scenes peek for fans, when Bradshaw was unaware he’d be filmed. “We are reviewing our procedures to make sure this does not happen again,” said a statement from the net.

Described as “part detective story, part emotional journey,” PBS‘s new series Genealogy Roadshow reveals bloodline twists and surprises. “We uncover everything from murder mysteries to people are related to famous people in U.S. history,” exec producer Stuart Krasnow tells Cynopsis. Series debuts Monday, September 23 at 9p.

Heroes of Cosplay welcomes a special guest for its season finale. Peter Mayhew, Chewbacca from Star Wars, pays a surprise visit to the SYFY fantasy costume competition show, to help pull off “the ultimate fanboy marriage proposal.” Ep airs Tuesday, September 17 at 10p.

Top 10 Weekend Box Office Estimates:  September 6-8, 2013

Source: Rentrak

TruTV has picked up a second season of Container Wars. The T Group Productions reality show follows hopeful auction bidders at commercial shipping ports.

Grant Gustin (Glee) has been cast as Barry Allen in in CW backdoor pilot Flash. Gustin will play the DC Comics superhero for three episodes on Arrow, which could spin off into a series.

Danny Glover will guest on NBC‘s upcoming Ironside as father of Robert Ironside, played by Blair Underwood (L.A. Law). The Universal TV/Davis Entertainment/Yellow Brick Road production premieres Wednesday, October 2 at 10p.

Lisa Edelstein (House) landed the starring role in Bravo dramedy pilot The Girlfriend’s Guide to Divorce. The Universal Cable Productions project focuses on a self-help book author hiding her separation from her husband. Edelstein also has an arc on ABC‘s Castle, returning for season six on Monday, September 23 at 10p.

Fox has given a pilot production commitment to The Middle Man, about an FBI agent and his informant. Drama comes from Pearl Street Films, with Ben Affleck on board to direct and produce the pilot, and Glenn Gordon Caron (Moonlighting) on hand to write and exec produce.

ABC is developing a “what if?” drama called The Thirteen, about what modern-day life might be like if America hadn’t won its independence in the Revolutionary War. The net is working on the project with Lionsgate‘s Allison Shearmur, reports Deadline.

Me-TV announced five new affiliates: WILM-DT in Wilmington, NC, XTXS-DT in Abilene, TX, KJCZ-LP in Billings, MT, KTGF-DT in Great Falls, MT and KJJC-LP in Helena, MT. That brings the classic TV net to 155 markets, reaching 90 percent of the country.

Canada’s Battle of the Blades kicks off season four with a two-hour special showing never-before-seen moments from past seasons, as well as introducing the 16 new skating competitors. The Insight production airs on CBC Sunday, September 22 at 8p.

Carnival Films (Downton Abbey) has optioned Michael Sheldon‘s Young Titan, for a drama about life through the eyes of Winston Churchill. Series is being developed for the U.K. first, with plans to eventually take it to other markets, reports Deadline.

GRB Entertainment‘s offerings include doc-soaps Wives with Beehives, about women who choose to run their households 1950s-style and My First Home, about the drama of real estate, both produced for TLC.

Fox‘s The X Factor and CBS‘s Big Brother were Thursday’s top entertainment shows, with a 2.2/7 rating A18-49 rating and 6.87 million total viewers Fox, and 2.2/6 A18-49 and 6.49 million viewers for CBS. Million Second Quiz isn’t turning out to be the event programming NBC had hoped for, dropping again on Thursday, to 1.1/4 A18-49 and 4.2 million viewers.

USA‘s Burn Notice was on fire Thursday night, posting numbers for the season seven finale that made it TV’s most-watched scripted program. The spy drama earned a 1.3 rating/4 share in A18-49 with 4.97 total viewers, its biggest audience since 2011.

NBC‘s two-hour Dateline Thursday night posted its best result A18-49 since May 31, up 17 percent over last week with 1.4/4.

The second season finale of TLC‘s Here Comes Honey Boo Boo Wednesday night hit a series-high of 3.21 million viewers – up 64 percent from last week’s “Stress Poops” ep.

Thursday A18-49 Analysis:  Fox grabbed the most A18-49 viewers Thursday with 2.2/7, according to final primetime national ratings from Nielsen. Fox’s XFactor topped the 8p hour with 2.1/7, followed by Univision’s Porque el Amor Manda’s 1.8/6. It was a battle of reality shows at 9p between X Factor, with 2.2/7, and CBS’s Big Brother with 2.2/6. Univision’s Que Bonito Amor drew a winning 1.2/4 at 10p, versus 1.0/3 for ABC’s Rookie Blue.

Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Thursday, September 12, 2013  time period averages.  Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.

A18-49:  FOX 2.2/7, CBS 1.6/5, UNI 1.5/5, ABC 1.0/3, NBC 1.0/3, TELE .4/1, ION .4/1, UMA .2/0, CW .2/0

Univision has reorganized its executive ranks in the wake of Cesar Conde‘s resignation. Alberto Ciurana, President of Programming and Content, Isaac Lee, President of News and Juan Carlos Rodriguez, President of Univision Deportes, will now report directly to Randy Falco, President and CEO of Univision Communications. Falco said he does not plan to replace Conde.

CBS Entertainment has promoted Margot Wain to Vice President, Daytime Programs. Wain had been Director, Daytime.

Janet Tamaro, who developed TNT procedural Rizzoli & Isles and served as executive producer, will leave at the end of season four, set to premiere in early 2014. Tamaro is talks with R&I producer Warner Horizon TV to develop new series, reports Variety.

LMNO Prods. announced expanded responsibilities for three execs: Ed Horwitz will take on the new position of Executive Vice President of International Production and Distribution; Lisa Bourgoujian is the reality producer’s new Senior Vice President  of Current Programming and Lori Rothschild is Senior Vice President of Development.

John Shield will serve as the Director of Communications for U.K.’s BBC starting in November. Shield is currently Director of Communications for the Department for Work and Pensions.

NESN announced three hires: Howard Zalkowitz is the net’s new Director of Production/Sr. Coordinating Producer; Jim Daddona has been tapped to serve as Coordinating Producer, Red Sox Baseball, and Denny Lott joins the team as Coordinating Producer of News.

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This Day In History sponsored by Destination America: 1968 – Richard Nixon appeared on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In.

Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: What was the name of Mr. Wilson’s wife on Dennis the Menace (1959-1963)? Martha. Kudos to: Jerry A. Kapner-Kapner Group/Montclair, NJ, Neil Young-ION/NYC, Matt Meachem-Tribune Media Services/Queensbury, NY, Natalie Leff-Turner Broadcasting/Atlanta, Barry Wooley-Telepictures/Chicago, Thom Sutton-Telemundo/Chicago, John Kukla-KDFX/Dallas, Joe Pedri-KLAS-TV/Las Vegas, Patti Rodriguez-KXRM Fox 21/Colorado Springs, Karen Weiser-High Noon Entertainment/Denver, Kerri Huyck/Pasco, WA, Susan Nessanbaum-Goldberg-Idiot Box Productions/LA, Sharon Mastropietro-Entertainment One Television/CA, Sandra Mueller-KTLA/LA (who gets a bonus point for also listing Eloise, wife of George Wilson’s brother).

Today’s Trivia Question – Teen Hearthrob Theme Week: How old was David Cassidy when The Partridge Family (1970-1974) debuted? (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 SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

ABC: Dancing With the Stars [p], Castle [r]
CBS: How I Met Your Mother [r], 2 Broke girls [r], 2 Broke Girls [r], Big Bang Theory [r], Under the Dome [f]
CW: Hart of Dixie [r], Breaking Pointe [f]
FOX: Bones [p], Sleepy Hollow [p]
ION: Criminal Minds [r], Criminal Minds [r], Criminal Minds?[r]
MyTV: Law & Order: SVU [r], :aw & Order SVU [r]
NBC: The Million Second Quiz, American Ninja Warrior, Siberia [f]
PBS: Antiques Roadshow [r], Antiques Roadshow [r], POV
Telemundo: Dama y Obrero, Marido en Alquiler, Santa Diabla
UMA: La Maquina Asesina, La Seleccion, La Madame
Univision: Porque el Amor Manda, La Tempestad, Que Bonito Amor

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