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Good morning. It’s Thursday, February 17, 2011, and this is your first early morning briefing. As always, if you prefer to watch this morning’s news instead of reading it, click here .
Tonight’s Premieres:
Discovery Channel: Man vs. Wild at 9p; Out of the Wild: Venezuela at 10p
Investigation Discovery: Sins and Secrets at 10p
New reality series, Coming Home will premiere on Lifetime Television March 6 at 10p following the fifth season opener of Army Wives at 9p. In each of the 13 one-hour episodes of Coming Home, the show will follow five surprise family reunions of soldiers representing all five branches of the US military as they come home after spending active duty throughout the world. American Idol finalist Matt Rogers will host the series produced by RelativityREAL, LLC. Army Wives is produced by ABC Studios for Lifetime Television.
GSN introduces a new original spring programming lineup starting April 11 with the launch of Love Triangle hosted by Wendy Williams at 7p followed by the premiere of Drew Carey’s Improv-A-Ganza at 8p. Wedged between these two shows is Baggage with host Jerry Springer airing at 730p. On April 18, GSN will debut a new season of The Newlywed Game helmed by Sherri Shepherd at 6:30p. Each night, the first three half-hour shows form a “love block” of relationship-themed shows for the network: The Newlywed Game, Love Triangle and Baggage with Drew Carey’s Improv-A-Ganza following directly after.
Starting next Wednesday, New Yorkers can view the actual golden Oscar statuettes that will be presented to the Best Actor and Best Actress winners at the 83rd Academy Awards. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presents “Meet the Oscars, Grand Central” showcasing the Oscars on display at Vanderbilt Hall in Grand Central Terminal with Oscar-winner Whoopi Goldberg hosting the opening ceremony on Wednesday at 1p. Admission is free to the public. Then on February 25, the statuettes will journey to Hollywood where they will be presented February 27 during the Academy Awards presentation on ABC.
Before the series finale of Smallville airs on The CW May 13, the network will air the very first episode on April 8 at 8p which originally ran on October 16, 2001 on The WB, reports TV Guide. In addition, Michael Rosenbaum will reprise his role of Lex Luthor, rival to Clark Kent in the series finale.
Henry Winkler, best known for his role as the Fonz on Happy Days and more recently appearing on USA Network’s Royal Pains, will get the royal treatment from the Queen of England. Winkler will become one of only four people outside the UK to receive an Order of the British Empire in 2011. He is receiving the honor for his work with learning-challenged children in the UK. Winkler’s award will be presented at a special ceremony later this year in Washington.
Discovery US Hispanic offers Upfronts for Discovery en Espanol and Discovery Familia in New York City on May 18 from 930-11a at the Four Seasons Restaurant. Both networks will present their programming lineups and projects in development.
This Friday, ESPN 3D will air boxing in 3D for the first time with ESPN’s Friday Night Fights beginning at 9p from Salisbury, MD. The boxing match will also be available on ESPN2 with analysts Joe Tessitore and Teddy Atlas commenting on the action.
OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network premiered four new series this week and reported the results:
- Monday’s debut of Searching For . . . at 9p posted a 0.19 rating among W25-54 and delivered 291,000 total viewers.
- On Tuesday, OWN launched acquired series What Would You Do: OWN Edition at 8p and posted a 0.28 W25-54 rating and 328,000 total viewers; new series Breaking Down the Bars at 9p bumped the ratings to a 0.28 W25-54 rating and 366,000 total viewers; and Our America with Lisa Ling bowed at 10p and continued the ratings growth to a 0.41 W25-54 and 574,000 total viewers.
Laura Prepon (That ’70s Show) will play comedienne Chelsea Handler in Are You There Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea in the multi-camera comedy pilot for NBC. The plot is based on Handler’s autobiography of the same title about her life in her 20s. Dottie Zicklin and Julie Larson are writing and executive producing along with Handler.
ABC tagged James Van Der Beek (Dawson’s Creek) to co-star in its pilot Don’t Trust the Bitch in Apt. 23. The comedy’s plot centers on June (Dreama Walker), an honest, positive girl from the heartland who is forced to move in with Chloe, a crazy New York City party girl who has unscrupulous morals. Van Der Beek will play Chloe’s best friend.
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson will host WrestleMania XXVII on April 3 at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta.
Top 10 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of 1/31-2/4/11 ranked in order by HH Rtg
Wheel of Fortune (CTD) 8.4 AA
Jeopardy (CTD) 6.8 AA
Two and a Half Men (WB) 6.4 AA / 9.1 GAA
Oprah Winfrey Show (CTD) 5.4 AA / 5.5 GAA
Judge Judy (CTD) 4.9 AA / 7.7 GAA
Entertainment Tonight (CTD) 4.4 AA / 4.5 GAA
Family Guy (2/T) 4.1 AA / 5.0 GAA
Inside Edition (CTD) 3.5 AA / 3.5 GAA
Dr. Phil Show (CTD) 3.4 AA / 3.4 GAA
Live with Regis and Kelly (DAD) 3.1 AA
Source: NSS Galaxy Explorer, Live+SD
Top 10 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of 1/31-2/4/11 ranked in order by A18-49 Rtg
Two and a Half Men (WB) 3.7 AA / 5.2 GAA
Family Guy (2/T) 2.9 AA / 3.4 GAA
Wheel of Fortune (CTD) 2.2 AA
How I Met Your Mother (2/T) 2.0 AA / 2.6 GAA
The Office (NBU) 1.9 AA / 2.3 GAA
Jeopardy (CTD) 1.8 AA
Oprah Winfrey Show (CTD) 1.8 AA / 1.9 GAA
Seinfeld (SPT) 1.6 AA / 1.9 GAA
Judge Judy (CTD) 1.5 AA / 2.2 GAA
Entertainment Tonight (CTD) 1.5 AA / 1.6 GAA
My Wife and Kids (DAD) 1.5 AA / 1.9 GAA
Everybody Loves Raymond (CTD) 1.5 AA / 2.0 GAA
Source: NSS Galaxy Explorer, Live+SD
Tuesday A18-49 Analysis: FOX held a slim lead Tuesday night with the A18-49 viewers at 3.0/9, according to final national ratings from Nielsen. FOX outdid the competition at 8p as Glee delivered a 4.2/12 with CBS’ NCIS taking second place at 3.6/10. CBS handily won the 9p hour with NCIS: Los Angeles at 3.3/9 and NBC’s The Biggest Loser was #2 with 3.0/9. CBS ended up the winner at 10p albeit narrowly with The Good Wife at 2.0/6 and NBC’s Parenthood was a mere tenth of a rating point behind at 1.9/6.
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 (February Sweep Day 13) time period averages. Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.
CBS: 9.9/16 NCIS 11.7/19, NCIS: Los Angeles 10.3/16, The Good Wife 7.5/13
FOX: 4.5/7 Glee 6.3/10, Raising Hope 3.3/5, Traffic Light 2.2/3
NBC: 4.2/7 The Biggest Loser 4.7/7, Parenthood 3.4/6
ABC: 3.2/5 No Ordinary Family 3.0/5, V 3.3/5, Detroit 1-8-7 3.4/6
UNIV: 2.2/4 Eva Luna 2.6/4, Triunfo del Amor 2.4/4, Aqui y Ahora 1.6/3
ION: 1.2/2 Without a Trace 0.8/1, Criminal Minds 1.4/2, Criminal Minds 1.4/2
CW: 1.0/2 One Tree Hill 1.1/2, Hellcats 1.0/2
TELE: 0.6/1 Aurora 0.5/1, Los Herederos del Monte 0.5/1, Alguien Te Mira 0.6/1
TF: 0.5/1 Cine de Las Estrellas 0.5/1, India 0.5/1
A18-49: FOX 3.0/9, CBS 3.0/8, NBC 2.5/7, UNIV 1.7/5, ABC 1.5/4, CW 0.7/2, ION 0.6/2, TELE 0.5/1, TF 0.4/1
Jeffrey Wolf, Executive Vice President/US Syndication Sales for Sony Pictures Television has announced that after 18 years with the company, he will be leaving in early March. “It has been a privilege and an honor to work here (at SPT) where I was allowed to do my job, build important relationships and have the greatest experience of my life, which is a testament to both Steve Mosko and John Weiser. Steve & John, thank you for everything.” Jeff plans to use this time to concentrate on his family and hang out with his kids. Nicely done, Wolfie!
Si TV hired Marlene Braga as VP/Programming and Development and Sara Auspitz as Executive Director/Programming. Both positions are newly-created and report to Maria Perez-Brown, SVP/Programming. Marlene previously worked for HISTORY Channel and Sara was with TBS and Endemol USA.
Former Fuse Networks executive, Mike D. Neeves named VP/Program Scheduling with BBC America. Effective immediately, Mike will oversee all program scheduling activities for BBC America and BBC America On-Demand. He will report to Richard De Croce, SVP/Programming.
Lisa Hsia advanced to the newly-minted role of EVP/Bravo Digital Media up from SVP of Bravo Digital Media, a position she has held since November 2005. Lisa will continue to supervise Bravo’s digital assets including Bravotv.com and TelevisionWithoutPity.com in addition to Bravo’s emerging media efforts encompassing wireless, interactive TV, apps, gaming and multi-platform programming. Lisa is based in New York.
Publicity executives Aimee Gautreau of Gautreau Inc. and Michele Wallace lately of Mega Media Worldwide jointly established go2media. The New York City-based entity will concentrate on entertainment and lifestyle media relations.
Beginning February 23, Bill Bellis tapped as Chief Meteorologist for WFLD/Chicago where he will anchor weather reports for the station’s weekday newscast, FOX Chicago News at 9p. Bill joins WFLD from KNXV/Phoenix where he was Chief Meteorologist for the last eight years.
Shankly Productions added Brad Lipton as VP/Acquisitions and Development in charge of purchasing completed television series and specials to be licensed worldwide via Shankly’s distribution division. Brad will dually report to David E. Brenner, EVP and Leon Logothetis, CEO. Previously, Brad served as a Creative Executive at 44 Blue Productions.
FOX elevated three development executives: Suzanna Makkos and Marcus Wiley both upped to SVP/Comedy Development to equally manage the network’s comedy development efforts in live action and animation genres. Terence Carter promoted to SVP/Drama Development to oversee FOX’s drama development efforts and staff. All three will report directly to Kevin Reilly, President/Entertainment.
Larry Lieberman joined SocialVibe (SV network) as CMO where he will head the company’s worldwide marketing activities by spearheading engagement advertising campaigns for large global brands.
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2011
ABC: Wipeout, Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice
AZTECA: Cosas de la Vida, Al Extremo, La Loba
CBS: Big Bang Theory, $#@! My Dad Says, CSI, The Mentalist
CW: Vampire Diaries, Nikita
FOX: American Idol, Bones
ION: Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds
NBC: Community, Perfect Couples, The Office, Parks and Recreation, 30 Rock, Outsourced
PBS: Antiques Roadshow, Pioneers of Television, This Old House Hour
TELE: Aurora, Los Herederos del Monte, Alguien Te Mira
UNIV: Premio L,, ,, o Nuestro 2011
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