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02.03.11
Good morning. It’s Thursday, February 3, 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:
Bravo: Million Dollar Listing at 9p
Galavision: El Peso del Matrimonio (Back in Wedding Shape) at 9p
National Geographic Channel: Ultimate Factories at 10p
DIY Network: Family Under Construction at 1030p
Tonight’s Finale:
HISTORY: Brad Meltzer’s Decoded at 10p
CBS picked up a ninth season of NCIS for the 2011-2012 season on the heels of Tuesday’s broadcast which set a series record at 22.85 million total viewers. NCIS is also television’s #1 drama/scripted series for the second year in a row. Presently in its eighth season, NCIS is averaging 19.60 million viewers.
NBC trimmed its order for newer series The Cape to 10 episodes after a few weeks of struggling ratings. Originally, NBC ordered 13 episodes of the drama about a superhero.
The fifth and final season of Friday Night Lights will debut on NBC April 15 at 8p. DirecTV is currently airing the high school football drama and will air the series finale next Wednesday. In 2008, NBC and DirecTV struck a deal to save the drama series allowing DirecTV to air new episodes first followed by NBC. Then in 2009, NBC ordered two additional seasons with 13-episodes each to carry on the agreement with DirecTV.
Animal Planet renewed two series, giving third season orders to Confessions: Animal Hoarding and Pit Bulls and Parolees. Confessions: Animal Hoarding, producing by GRB Entertainment, will be back in third quarter 2011 while the new season of Pit Bulls and Parolees, produced by 44 Blue premieres during fourth quarter 2011. Additionally, the January 22 season two finale of Pit Bulls and Parolees tallied 1.3 million total viewers, making it the series’ most-watched episode ever among certain demos including 704,000 A25-54 viewers.
Oxygen wants more of its dating competition series Love Games: Bad Girls Need Love Too as a second season debuts April 18 at 10p. During the second season hosted by “Bad Girl” Tanisha Thomas (from season two of The Bad Girls Club), three other former “Bad Girls” Natalie (season 4), Amber B. (season 3) and Lea (season 5) will compete while looking for their perfect man. Bunim-Murray Productions produces the series.
TLC commissioned a new series, Outrageous Kid Parties launching the four-episode, half-hour series on February 21 at 930p. The series showcases families who think nothing of spending a small fortune on a party for their child’s birthday or graduation.
Upfront 2011: TV One
TV One presented its first official Upfront in New York City yesterday morning. The network highlighted its new talk/variety series for Black History Month, Way Black When and also confirmed the return of several other series later this year:
- LisaRaye: The Real McCoy produced by Evolution Media premieres this spring.
- Donald J. Trump Presents The Ultimate Merger produced by Trump Productions LLC and Juma Entertainment debuts in the summer.
- Unsung is back with 12 new episodes airing this spring and fall. A. Smith & Co. produces.
- Life After premieres 10 new episodes this summer and is produced by K2 Pictures.
- TV One continues to be the television home of the Trumpet Awards again this year airing in the spring.
Sinclair Broadcast Group and Time Warner Cable finalized a long-term agreement yesterday allowing continued carriage of Sinclair’s 28 local stations in TWC’s 17 markets. Financial terms were not disclosed. The two reached an agreement in principal on January 15 with extensions following on January 22, January 28 and again yesterday when the two parties reached a consensus.
DirecTV made a short-term deal with Northwest Broadcasting in time for this weekend’s Super Bowl broadcast. Northwest Broadcasting and DirecTV have been immersed in a retransmission-consent dispute for more than a month and yesterday the two parties agreed to turn the stations back on for four weeks while negotiations continue. The Northwest stations involved include: KAYU/Spokane; WICZ-WBPN/Binghamton, NY; KMVU/Medford, OR; and KFFX/Yakima.
The CW ordered four pilots:
- Hart of Dixie from Josh Schwartz (Chuck, Gossip Girl) and Stephanie Savage’s (Gossip Girl) production company, Fake Empire, centers on a young NYC doctor who inherits a medical practice in a small Southern town full of eccentric characters.
- Awakening is a zombie spec script picked up The CW last week about two bickering sisters amidst a zombie uprising.
- Heavenly from Rickard Hatem, co-producer of Supernatural is about a young female attorney and a former angel, Dashiel Coffee, who just became human. The two work on cases together as she saves the clients and he saves their souls.
- Cooper and Stone centers on two intelligent young female detectives working in Chicago’s North Side.
NBC picked up two pilots: Bent is a single-camera romantic comedy from Tad Quill (Scrubs) about a type-A divorced mom who meets her opposite; and an untitled comedy project executive produced by Lorne Michaels and SNL’s Emily Spivey about a working mom, her stay-at-home husband and opinionated parents. Both projects are produced by Universal Media Studios.
TNT tapped original actors for its updated pilot version of Dallas that focuses on the sons of J.R. Ewing and Bobby Ewing as they battle for the future of the family oil dynasty. Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy and Linda Gray will all reprise their original roles of J.R. Ewing, Bobby Ewing and Sue Ellen Ewing respectively. Josh Henderson was cast to play J.R. and Sue Ellen’s son John Ross and Jordana Brewster will play Elena, who is involved in a love triangle between John Ross and Christopher, the adopted son of Bobby and Pam Ewing. Cynthia Cidre is penning the pilot script and the characters are based on those created by David Jacobs. Warner Horizon Television is producing with Michael M. Robin directing and executive producing the pilot.
MTV said yesterday its animated 1990s series Beavis and Butt-Head will make a comeback on the network though no official date has been set. The Mike Judge-created series, which originally aired from 1993-1997 will return to MTV’s schedule later this year. Also yesterday, MTV will debut its new series Teen Wolf beginning June 5 following the MTV Movie Awards.
Chris Messina (Julie & Julia) landed a role on Damages for its fourth season. Messina will play a former decorated soldier who now is employed by a private security firm run by a corrupt CEO (John Goodman). Season four of Damages will air on DirecTV and is set to roll out this summer.
Syfy found its stars for its two-part miniseries, Treasure Island. Eddie Izzard will play Long John Silver; Elijah Wood is cast as Ben Gunn; and Donald Sutherland will portray Flint. Production has started on location in Puerto Rico and Ireland and Syfy will launch the miniseries early in 2012.
BBC Worldwide America made a development agreement with Toronto-based Temple Street Productions. The two entities will work together to develop and invest in factual entertainment series targeting the US market. To date, the duo has two projects in the works with the first project focused on one of North America’s most dangerous day-jobs; the second project centers on the life of a woman competing successfully in a man’s world.
Casting Call: Shed Media, behind ABC’s Supernanny and other programs is casting for a new docu-series about married couples who need some spice in their love life. Producers are looking for married couples in the greater LA area with dynamic personalities, who are outgoing, attractive and ready to tell their story. Send your name, age, city, contact info, a few recent photos and a paragraph describing yourself and your marriage to Zena at: [email protected] or call 323-904-4680. Deadline for submissions is February 25.
Top 10 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of 1/17-1/21/11 ranked in order by HH Rtg
Wheel of Fortune (CTD) 8.0 AA
Jeopardy (CTD) 6.5 AA
Two and a Half Men (WB) 6.2 AA / 8.7 GAA
Oprah Winfrey Show (CTD) 5.0 AA / 5.1 GAA
Judge Judy (CTD) 4.7 AA / 7.5 GAA
Entertainment Tonight (CTD) 4.4 AA / 4.5 GAA
Family Guy (2/T) 4.2 AA / 5.1 GAA
Inside Edition (CTD) 3.1 AA / 3.2 GAA
Live with Regis and Kelly (DAD) 3.0 AA
Everybody Loves Raymond (CTD) 3.0 AA / 3.9 GAA
Source: NSS Galaxy Explorer, Live+SD
Top 10 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of 1/17-1/21/11 ranked in order by A18-49 Rtg
Two and a Half Men (WB) 3.4 AA / 4.6 GAA
Family Guy (2/T) 2.8 AA / 3.3 GAA
Wheel of Fortune (CTD) 2.0 AA
How I Met Your Mother (2/T) 1.7 AA / 2.2 GAA
The Office (NBU) 1.7 AA / 2.0 GAA
Jeopardy (CTD) 1.6 AA
Seinfeld (SPT) 1.6 AA / 1.8 GAA
Oprah Winfrey Show (CTD) 1.5 AA / 1.6 GAA
Everybody Loves Raymond (CTD) 1.5 AA / 1.9 GAA
Judge Judy (CTD) 1.4 AA / 2.1 GAA
Entertainment Tonight (CTD) 1.4 AA / 1.4 GAA
My Wife and Kids (DAD) 1.4 AA / 1.9 GAA
Source: NSS Galaxy Explorer, Live+SD
Tuesday A18-49 Analysis: CBS had the winning lineup Tuesday night attracting more A18-49 viewers at 3.5/9, according to final national ratings from Nielsen. CBS led at 8p with NCIS at 4.6/12 with NBC’s The Biggest Loser weighing in at #2 with a 3.0/8. Competition tightened during 9p though CBS prevailed again with NCIS: Los Angeles at 3.8/9 and NBC’s The Biggest Loser delivered a close second at 3.5/9. At 10p, CBS’ The Good Wife and NBC’s Parenthood tied for #1 at 2.2/6 each while ABC’s Detroit 1-8-7 and Univision’s Aqui y Ahora tied for #2 at 1.2/3 each.
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Tuesday, February 1, 2011 time period averages. Source: NTI Galaxy, as dated. Live+SD.
CBS: 10.5/16 NCIS 13.2/20, NCIS: Los Angeles 10.4/16, The Good Wife 7.7/13
NBC: 4.9/8 The Biggest Loser 5.4/8, Parenthood 3.7/6
ABC: 3.1/5 No Ordinary Family [r] 2.6/4, V 3.4/5, Detroit 1-8-7 3.4/6
FOX: 3.0/5 Glee [r] 3.1/5, Million Dollar Money Drop 2.9/4
UNIV: 2.1/3 Eva Luna 2.3/3, Triunfo del Amor 2.5/4, Aqui y Ahora 1.5/2
CW: 1.3/2 One Tree Hill 1.4/2, Hellcats 1.1/2
ION: 0.9/1 Without a Trace 0.7/1, Criminal Minds 1.0/1, Criminal Minds 1.2/2
TELE: 0.6/1 Aurora 0.6/1, Los Herederos del Monte 0.6/1, Alguien Te Mira 0.6/1
TF: 0.5/1 Cine de Las Estrellas 0.5/1, India 0.6/1
A18-49: CBS 3.5/9, NBC 2.9/8, FOX 1.8/5, UNIV 1.6/4, ABC 1.4/4, CW 1.0/3, TF 0.5/1, TELE 0.5/1, ION 0.4/1
Oliver Ellis and Helen Howells, formerly of Target Entertainment established Hoho Entertainment Ltd., a new children’s production/rights company.
Ivan Bargueiras named GM/Discovery Networks US Hispanic Group by Discovery Latin America/US Hispanic (DLA/USH). Ivan will spearhead the business expansion of the group’s Spanish-language networks including Discovery en Espanol and Discovery Familia in addition to supervising programming, marketing and business development. Furthermore, Ivan will continue in his current position as SVP/Advertising Sales for DLA/USAH and international markets. Ivan is based in Miami and reports to Enrique R. Martinez, EVP/Managing Director, DLA/USH.
Sophie Lloyd joins Peacock Productions, UK as Head/Development where she will manage the development of original programs in the factual entertainment category including lifestyle, crime, documentary and docu-soap. Prior to this appointment, Sophie was a series producer at Studio Lambert.
Tribune Broadcasting-owned WDCW-TV, the CW affiliate in Washington, D.C. promoted Glenn L. Coleman to GSM, effective immediately. Since 2009, Glenn has been the station’s LSM and in his new position he will be in charge of the full sales team including local and national sales, new business and online sales.
Spike TV elevated Tim Duffy to SVP/Original Programming up from VP/Original Programming with the network. Presently, Tim is involved with a new roster of originals aimed at expanding Spike’s audience. Tim will continue to report to Sharon Levy, EVP/Original Programming.
Former VP/Programming and Development at CBS Television Distribution, Heather Olander takes on a new position at USA Network as SVP/Alternative Programming. At USA Network, Heather will manage all alternative development and production for the network, reporting to Jeff Wachtel, President, USA Original Programming and Co-Head/Original Content, Universal Cable Productions.
Mind Candy hired Nicola Duarte as Head/PR and she is charged with increasing the profile of the company and its top brand Moshi Monsters worldwide and within the company’s key territories: the UK, US and Australia. Most recently, Nicola served as Director/PR for Classic Media.
Fox Networks Affiliate Sales and Marketing bumped Michael D’Imperio to Director/Northeast Region; Kim Pendergraft to Manager/West Region; Michael Coffey to Manager/Southeast Region; and Alan Gutierrez to Marketing Associate.
This day in History: 1947 – Percival Prattisbecame the first black news correspondent admitted to the House and Senate press gallery in Washington, DC. He worked for “Our World” in New York City.
Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question: This actor always wore worn out, taped up combat boots which belonged to his father and were handed down to him. He also wore mismatched socks. Who is this actor? MR. T Kudos to: Gabe Alfaya-XL Worldwide/NY; Jodi Katzman/NY; Lia Sestric/Charleston; Barbara Bevel-Sesame Workshop/NY; Dan Haberer-Creo Ent/Playa del Rey;
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Later — Cyn
02.03.11
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 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: Eva Luna, Triunfo del Amor, Mujeres Asesinas 3
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