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02.09.12
Good morning. It’s Thursday, February 9, 2012, and this is your first early morning briefing.
Tonight’s Premieres:
HISTORY: Swamp People at 9p; Mudcats at 10p
A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM LIFETIME
Lifetime’s new hit series continues driving growth
Triple digit growth vs. Season 1
Median Age 32, 9 years younger than Season 1
#2 among all Women demos
Check out Dance Moms now on mylifetime.com
Source: Nielsen, Dance Moms S2TD (1/10-1/31/12; Tue/9-10p); L+SD; Triple Digit Growth vs. S1 (7/13-8/3/11). Rank in time period vs. ad-supported cable nets. Data based on AA (000).
Late yesterday, FOX said this current season of House, starring Hugh Laurie as the unconventional medical genius Dr. Gregory House will be its last. Produced by Universal Television, there is some speculation the show could be picked up by another broadcast or cable network though nothing is official. The series’ present eighth season, airing Mondays at 8p, has averaged 9.8 million total viewers and a 3.9 rating among A18-49.
A proposed English-language cable news channel aiming at the US Hispanic market is in discussions between ABC and Univision. The 24-hour cable news channel would likely launch prior to the fall election period. Based in Miami, the cable news operation would utilize current reporters and producers from ABC and Univision and be owned 50-50 by both broadcasting companies. Presently, the US Hispanic population totals 50 million people and between the 2000 and 2010 census the US Hispanic population increased by 43%.
Jersey Shore spinoff series The Pauly D Project premieres March 29 at 1030p on MTV. The new series, produced by 495 Productions follows Pauly D as he navigates the music industry while trying to balance the trappings of fame and family time. MTV is scheduling The Pauly D Project after Ashton Kutcher’s reality prank series Punk’d at 10p. The Pauly D Project will also roll out internationally on MTV channels starting this June.
A new seven-part series on Investigation Discovery explores the seven deadly sins through scandalous crimes when Deadly Sins debuts March 3 at 9p. Deadly Sins is hosted by attorney and criminal behavior expert Darren Kavinoky who offers professional insight and legal expertise in his analysis of each case. The series leads into Investigation Discovery’s ongoing series Scorned: Love Kills airing at 10p and is part of the network’s Red Hot Saturdays programming lineup. Deadly Sins is produced by Generate Entertainment in association with dick clark productions for Investigation Discovery.
Season six of the paranormal travel series Ghost Adventures returns to Travel Channel’s schedule on March 9 at 9p. Viewers trek with investigators Zak Bagans and Nick Groff and equipment technician Aaron Goodwin as the trio explores the most haunted locales in America. The new season has seven one-hour episodes produced by MY Tupelo Entertainment for Travel Channel.
Drama series Being Human received a third season renewal by Syfy with 13 episodes. So far this current second season, Being Human has increased its A18-49 viewers by +27%; +35% among A25-54; and +15% with total viewers. The series is produced by Muse Entertainment in association with Zodiak USA.
Moving to a new night and time on Mondays at 9p, The Haney Project debuts its fourth season on Golf Channel February 27 airing just before Feherty in a new season at 10p. In the new eight-episode season of The Haney Project, four celebrities including Adam Levine, Sugar Ray Leonard, Mario Batali and Angie Everhart will work at improving their game with world renowned golf instructor Hank Haney. The season will culminate in a golf showdown in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico where the four celebrities will compete to win $100,000 for the charity of their choice. The Haney Project is produced by Golf Channel in conjunction with The WorkShop, LLC.
REELZCHANNEL ordered 26 new episodes of its weekly series Hollywood Uncensored with Sam Rubin. The new order takes the episode count over the 100th episode mark. In the weekly series, longtime entertainment reporter Sam Rubin hosts an unvarnished look at the week in show business as he dishes on everything Hollywood along with four celebrity guests. The show tapes each week in Los Angeles and original episodes air on Sundays at 1030p with an encore airing at 1130p.
In late March, BBC America brings back a new season of Whitechapel as part of the network’s Dramaville programming heading beginning March 28 at 10p. The new season follows three investigators played by Rupert Penry-Jones, Phil Davis and Steve Pemberton as they tackle crimes in London’s East End. Whitechapel is produced by Carnival Films for ITV.
Football players weren’t the only ones taking to the gridiron last Sunday as a cadre of cute puppies frolicked and made touchdowns in Animal Planet’s Puppy Bowl VIII. The network reports 8.7 million unique total viewers tuned in across the 12-hour marathon. For 3-5p premiere of Puppy Bowl, Animal Planet delivered an average of 1.6 million total viewers.
Alfred Haber Inc. (AHI) made sales deals with numerous broadcasters worldwide for the 54th Annual Grammy Awards airing live this Sunday in the US on CBS. Sales secured by AHI for this year’s show include: Canada’s Global Television; UK’s Channel 4; Germany’s ProSieben; Japan’s WOWOW; NRJ12 in France; China’s Shanghai Media Group; TV4 in Sweden; REN TV in Russia; Foxtel in Australia; Turner in Latin America; Denmark’s TV2; Televisa in Mexico; STAR in Southeast Asia; MNET in Africa; Norway’s Norwegian Broadcasting; Finland’s YLE; Corporacion de Puerto Rico in Puerto Rico; Bolivia’s ECOR; and Belgium’s VTM and others.
Mandy Moore will headline a new single-camera comedy pilot ordered by ABC. The untitled project is about newlyweds Annie (Moore) and Ben who open a hip new restaurant in Annie’s hometown that brings her closer to her needy and high maintenance family. Shawn Levy is on board as EP and to direct the pilot. Bob Fisher and Stacy Traub are writers.
ABC further ordered the drama series Mistresses aiming for a summer 2013 premiere. KJ Steinberg wrote the drama described as a thriller about four women with scandalous romantic lives caught in complex webs of secrecy and betrayal that they created. Bob Sertner is attached as EP.
Former co-host on CBS’ The Talk, Holly Robinson Peete landed a hosting position on the docu-series Your Turn to Care produced by KCET. The four-part half-hour series offers solutions to caring for the elderly. The series debuts March 7 at 8p.
Josephson Entertainment is teaming with Nashville veterans Gary Bridges and Kevin Wayne to create a reality show called American Supergroup. The show will begin nationwide auditions and online submissions to find 48 candidates for six band positions. Following the first eliminations, the remaining contestants will live together, rehearse together and compete for a spot in the music group. After the American Supergroup is assembled, the band will be managed by Glen Parrish of Azoff, Geary, Paul, Smith Management. Bridges and Wayne will serve as show producers in addition to film and music industry veteran Doug Falconer.
Kyle Bornheimer is joining the cast of ABC’s comedy pilot White Man Van. The single-camera project is from Bobby Bowman and is based on a British format.
Casting Call: A docu-series for a major cable network is casting nationwide for hot moms aged 34-45 who gave birth to children while in their late teens or early twenties. The show is looking for dynamic, beautiful women who traded in their 20’s to raise kids. Now that the kids are grown, these gorgeous moms are ready to have some fun. Send an email ASAP to: DevelopmentTVCasting@gmail.com and include your name, contact info, city/state, photos and a paragraph about you and your friends.
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Top 10 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of 1/23-1/27/12 ranked in order by HH Rtg
Judge Judy (CTD) 7.6 AA
Wheel of Fortune (CTD) 7.6 AA
The Big Bang Theory (WB) 7.3 AA
Two and a Half Men (WB) 6.4 AA
Jeopardy (CTD) 6.2 AA
Family Guy (2/T) 4.1 AA
Entertainment Tonight (CTD) 3.9 AA
How I Met Your Mother (2/T) 3.4 AA
Inside Edition (CTD) 3.3 AA
Dr. Phil Show (CTD) 3.2 AA
Source: NSS Galaxy Explorer, Live+SD
Top 10 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of 1/23-1/27/12 ranked in order by A18-49 Rtg
The Big Bang Theory (WB) 4.5 AA
Two and a Half Men (WB) 3.3 AA
Family Guy (2/T) 2.8 AA
How I Met Your Mother (2/T) 2.3 AA
Judge Judy (CTD) 2.0 AA
Wheel of Fortune (CTD) 1.8 AA
Seinfeld (SPT) 1.5 AA
Jeopardy (CTD) 1.4 AA
Maury (NBU) 1.4 AA
Everybody Loves Raymond (CTD) 1.3 AA
Friends (WB) 1.3 AA
TMZ (WB) 1.3 AA
Source: NSS Galaxy Explorer, Live+SD
Tuesday A18-49 Analysis: CBS notched a win Tuesday at 3.2/8 among A18-49, according to final national ratings from Nielsen. CBS’ NCIS topped at 8p with a 4.2/11 and FOX’s Glee finished second at 3.3/9. During 9p, CBS held #1 with NCIS: Los Angeles at 3.1/8 followed by FOX’s sitcoms New Girl and Raising Hope at an average of 2.8/7 and in third was the premiere of ABC’s new series The River at 2.6/6. Then at 10p, ABC had a narrow win with the second hour of The River premiere at 2.3/6 and CBS’ Unforgettable was a tenth of a rating point behind at 2.2/6.
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Tuesday, February 7, 2012 time period averages. Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.
CBS: 10.2/16 NCIS 12.8/20, NCIS: Los Angeles 10.0/15, Unforgettable 7.7/13
ABC: 4.7/7 Last Man Standing 4.7/7, Last Man Standing 4.8/7, The River [p] 4.7/7
FOX: 4.1/6 Glee 4.7/7, New Girl 4.2/6, Raising Hope 2.7/4
NBC: 3.7/6 The Biggest Loser 4.0/6, Parenthood 3.1/5
UNIV: 2.1/3 Una Familia con Suerte 2.1/3, El Talisman 2.0/3, La Que No Podia Amar 2.2/4
ION: 0.9/1 Criminal Minds 1.0/2, Criminal Minds 1.0/1, Flashpoint 0.8/1
CW: 0.8/1 90210 0.8/1, Ringer 0.8/1
TELE: 0.7/1 Maid en Manhattan 0.9/1, Flor Salvaje 0.7/1, Relaciones Peligrosas 0.5/1
TF: 0.4/1 Cine de Las Estrellas Tue [r] 0.4/1, El Capo 0.3/1
A18-49: CBS 3.2/8, FOX 3.1/8, ABC 2.4/6, NBC 2.1/5, UNIV 1.8/4, CW 0.6/2, TELE 0.5/1, ION 0.4/1, TF 0.4/1
This day in History: 474 – Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question: What TV show was a spin off of The X-Files? The Lone Gunmen and Millennium. Kudos to: Scott Jenkins-Tribune Media Services/Queensbury, N.Y; Richard Pitruzzello-FairWarning, Inc/St. Petersburg, FL; Michael Strauss-CoxReps/NY; Jonathan Lipson-Active International/NY; Jim Hall-truemedia/Columbia MO; Aly Stogol-KOLD/KMSB/KTTU/Tucson;Eric Litt-WGN-TV|WGN America/Chicago; Liz Murray-Turner Broadcasting/Chicago; John Amato-“Good Day L.A.”/LA; Terry Danuser-Discovery Communications, LLC/LA; Randall Bosley-Studio Talent Group/ Santa Monica; Dennis Treleven-Fox Networks Group/LA; Arlene Clements-20th Century Fox/Toronto; Paola D’Agnolo-GALAFILM/Montreal.
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2012
ABC: Wipeout, Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice
AZTECA: Lo Que la Gente Cuenta, Buenas Noches America, Al Extremo
CBS: Big Bang Theory, Rob, Person of Interest, The Mentalist
CW: Vampire Diaries, The Secret Circle
FOX: American Idol, The Finder
ION: Cold Case, Cold Case, Criminal Minds
NBC: 30 Rock, 30 Rock, The Office, Up All Night, Grimm [r]
PBS: This Old House Hour, Frontline, Independent Lens
TELE: Una Maid en Manhattan, Flor Salvaje, Relaciones Peligrosas
UNIV: Una Familia con Suerte, El Talisman, La Que No Podia Amar
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