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Good Morning. It’s Thursday, April 17, 2008, and this is your first early morning briefing. And as always, if you prefer to watch this morning’s news instead of reading it, click here. With Earth Day coming up on April 22, a couple of media enterprises have launched new green initiatives:
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Lifetime Networks introduced Lifetime Television HD, its second hi-def channel behind Lifetime Movie Network HD which launched last year. Two distribution deals were confirmed with AT&T U-verse TV and Verizon FiOS TV to carry the new channel. Featured programming on Lifetime HD will include Lifetime’s Army Wives and Original Movies. Tuesday night’s back-to-back season premieres of Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch series (9p and 10p) captured 3.4 million and 3.5 million total viewers respectively. On Bravo Tuesday night, the network aired the first season finale of The Real Housewives of New York City (10p) which attracted 1.06 million A18-49 and 1.43 million total viewers. The network just announced the series was picked up for a second season. Also this night, the third season debut of Work Out (11p) tallied 593,000 A18-49 and 764,000 total viewers. TLC introduces a revamped Thursday night schedule on April 24 starting with the season five premiere of Overhaulin’ at 8p; new episodes of American Chopper at 9p; and the return of Miami Ink at 10p. Discovery Channel is teaming with the BBC Natural History Unit on a new documentary series called Frozen Planet slated to premiere in 2012. Over eight episodes shot in hi-def, the series will explore the eco systems and animals of the Arctic and Antarctic. This series will chronicle never-before-seen wilderness and animal behavior as the Russian Arctic region has been off-limits to filmmakers until just recently. Both the Discovery Channel and BBC Natural History Unit were production partners for the Planet Earth series. Frozen Planet is a global co-production between BBC, Discovery Channel, Discovery Channel Canada, Antena 3 (Spain), ZDF (Germany) and Skai (Greece) and was facilitated by BBC Worldwide. FINAL NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS FROM OUR EXCELLENT EUROPEAN ADVENTURE We were away for a total of eleven days – first to Cannes and then on to Venice. Both beautiful destinations, despite the cold weather and the rain, and there were certain aspects of both we found particularly appealing: In Cannes, the dogs are generally much smaller than they are in Venice. The bread is better, and the people seemed friendlier. You can easily walk almost everywhere, or simply hail a cab if needed. We really enjoyed taking time just to sit and people watch in one of the numerous and always open cafes and began to understand the French way of thinking – sitting and sipping your coffee or eating your lunch, is always better than doing it on the run. MIP TV was definitely a working convention with lots of business being done, deals being written. In Venice, it’s more scenic in all directions no matter where you are, and taxis can be much more fun, tho at times hard to find (or identify) and the house wine is better. It’s also so much easier to get into trouble in Venice, and harder to get around because street signs are optional. Everyone rides a three-speed Schwinn bicycle, whether you’re 5 or 95, and Gelato is as much a part of the day as coffee, no matter how chilly it is outside. Open cafes at any time of the day aren’t as prevalent, which is too bad given the great people watching you could do. The Venice Festival of Media was interesting, geared mostly to advertisers, agencies and creative folks, focused on the business of working within the digital space. While it identified numerous questions, the Festival’s numerous seminars over two days wasn’t able to answer many. Perhaps next year that will be a directive. If pressed, I’d go back to both cities … any time! A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM USA NETWORK
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Marissa Jaret Winokur has been signed by Sony TV for a daytime TV syndication deal, possibly for Fall 2009, per Variety. Also coming for fall 2009 – daytime talker with Marie Osmond from Program Partners. What do these two have in common? Dancing with the Stars. Several casting briefs:
ABC Studios made a two-year pact with author Jennifer Weiner to create and executive produce series projects for the studio. Jennifer’s novel In Her Shoes was developed into a 2005 feature film starring Cameron Diaz. She currently has a novel Little Earthquakes in development at Universal and a short story The Guy Not Taken in development at DreamWorks. ~ ELSEWHERE IN CYNOPSIS ~
CYNOPSIS DIGITAL – TODAY’S TOP STORY: Rumblings of a possible digital window release shift have began to erupt as 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment quietly released Juno for sale on iTunes for $14.99 on Tuesday, the same day the DVD hit stores. (It is the first Fox movie to be sold on the Apple site.) Paramount has also been experimenting with new releases on the platform, despite widely held concerns of cannibalization. Full edition: CYN DIGITAL. (Or to listen to the Cynopsis Digital Podcast click here or subscribe to it at iTunes here .)
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CYNOPSIS INTERNATIONAL – TODAY’S TOP STORY: NBC Universal International Television Distribution and Bravo Media signed separate and exclusive multi-year deals with Australia’s FOXTEL for programming and branding. Bravo’s Watch What Happens campaign will be adapted by FOXTEL for its Arena channel in Australia, marking the first time the brand has taken an international step. FOXTEL picked up the exclusive basic cable rights in Australia from NBC Universal for programming from Bravo’s U.S. channel. Full edition: CYN INTERNATIONAL. ~ RATINGS ~
Top 10 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of 3/31-4/6/08 ranked by HH Rtg Top 10 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of 3/31-4/6/08 ranked by A18-49 Rtg Tuesday – A18-49 Analysis: FOX topped the charts Tuesday night at 6.8/17 A18-49, according to final national ratings from Nielsen Media Research. American Idol on FOX hit the high note winning with an 8.8/23 during 8p. The second half of NBC’s The Loser finale at 9p weighed in at first place with 5.1/12. NBC gets the last kudos of the night as Law & Order: SVU at 10p delivers a 4.7/13. Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 time period averages. Source: NTI Galaxy as dated, Live+SD. FOX: 10.1/16 American Idol 13.9/22, Hell’s Kitchen 6.3/9 NBC: 7.5/12 The Biggest Loser 5 [f] 6.9/11, Law & Order: SVU 8.8/14 ABC: 6.2/10 According to Jim 2.6/4, According to Jim 2.4/4, Dancing with the Stars Results 10.1/15, Boston Legal 5.9/10 CBS: 5.8/9 NCIS 9.4/15, Big Brother 9 4.1/6, 48 Hours Mystery 3.7/6 UNIV: 2.1/3 Al Diablo con los Guapos 2.3/4, Pasion 2.3/3, Aqui y Ahora 1.6/3 CW: 1.1/2 Beauty and the Geek 1.1/2, Reaper [r] 1.1/2 MNT: 0.7/1 Street Patrol [r] 0.6/1, Street Patrol 2 [r] 0.6/1, Jail [r] 0.8/1, Jail 2 [r] 0.8/1 TELE: 0.7/1 La Traicion 0.5/1, Victoria 0.9/1, Pecados Ajenos 0.7/1 A18-49: FOX 6.8/17, NBC 4.5/12, ABC 2.3/6, CBS 2.3/6, UNIV 1.9/5, CW 0.7/2, TELE 0.5/1, MNT 0.4/1 ~ EXECUTIVE MOVES ~
8020 Publishing tapped Rob Kligman as VP/Media Sales starting immediately. Rob’s duties will include handling media sales for the company’s brands such as Everywhere and JPG magazines and their counterpart websites. Michael Nevins joined GroupM North America in the new position as Director/Mobile. Michael comes to the company from Crisp Wireless where he served as VP/Sales. At GroupM, he will help with developing client strategy and internal systems in addition to upgrading GroupM Interaction’s mobile presence in the digital arena. Discovery Communications, LLC named James Hitchcock as Marketing and Branding Officer with Discovery Channel where he will spearhead branding for the network that encompasses all facets of the marketing and advertising initiatives. He will also work with all departments at the network to develop creative and media strategies that will integrate advertising and promotional avenues with digital, communications and commerce opportunities. Most recently, James was with MTV Networks as SVP/Marketing and Creative, CMT. In his new position, James will report to John Ford, President/GM. A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM WE tv
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· On Air 52 weeks of bridal programming New series, new season launches every quarter · On Line WEgobridal.com companion site featuring: · Original broadband series · Games · User-generated content · On VOD and In HD WE Go Bridal airs Sunday nights at 9pm/8c This day in History: 1524 – New York Harbor was discovered by Giovanni Verrazano. Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question: She wasn’t the only, but was the first woman to do the voice of famous cartoon character Betty Boop and starting in the mid 1930s, Olive Oyl. Who was this? MAE QUESTEL Kudos to: Jonathan Grosskopf-Groskopf Mazur Productions/NY; Michael Seidel-CBS/NY; Michael O’Gara/NY; Megan Wallace-WorldLink Media/NY; Mechael Tudor-Equity Media Holdings Corporation/Little Rock, AR; Allison Bryant-Hearst-Argyle Corp/Kansas City, MO; Rob Baker-“The John Kerwin Show”/Santa Monica, CA; Peter Fitzgerald-FitzFilm, Inc./West Hollywood; Rich Brase- KBCI/KBCI/Boise, ID; Darlene Lieblich Tipton-Fox Cable Networks/LA Today’s Trivia Question: Who served as the announcer/co-host to Joey Bishop on his late-night talk show, The Joey Bishop Show (1967-1969)? ( Later — Cyn Cynopsis Ad Sales: Cynopsis website – Video Resumes, Extended Classified Ads, Archives, and the Cynopsis Daily Video CableU – Know Networks Better. Pitch Smarter. Click here
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