Source: NTI, Explorer, 1/17-1/23/05 A18-49 US 000.  Miss Con=TBS, Sat 8p.  Divine Sec=TBS, Sat 10p.  Ranker excludes sports.  Series=Trackage, Movies=Telecast.

CYNTHIA TURNER’S
Cynopsis

01/27/05

Good morning. It’s Thursday, January 27, 2005, and this is your first early morning briefing from the NATPE Convention in Las Vegas. 

Tonight’s Premiere:
BET     College Hill at 9p

Casting / Development / Production

• UPN has ordered up a pilot called Crazy (Spelling TV) centered on a female psychiatrist.
• Fox has picked up a drama pilot called Brennan (20th) about a forensic anthropologist, the key character in the set of novels by author Kathy Reichs.
• NBC has made a cast contingent deal for a project called  Filmore Middle (NBC Universal), written by Matt Tarses, is set in a public middle school.
• Drama pilot Briar & Graves (20th) has been picked up by Fox, about a priest and a doctor who investigate religious phenomena.

ABC has scheduled the premiere of Eyes (McNamara Paper Products/Warner Bros. TV) starring Tim Daly for Wednesdays at 10p beginning April 13, following Lost and Alias.   The action takes place in a risk management company where the risks are high and the staff walks a tightrope between the legal and illegal.

Fox’s American Idol dominated the night on Tuesday in the final analysis of A18-49 ratings from Nielsen Media Research posting a 12.1/31 A18-49 rtg.  For the hour, the competition was non-existent, with the “strongest” competitor being NCIS on CBS with a 2.6/7.  At 9p, reaping the benefits of Idol, House led with a 5.0/12, with the closest competition coming again from CBS with Amazing Race (4.7/11).  At 10p an original ep of L&O: SVU led with a 5.4/14.

NATPE UPDATES:

• Rumors abound as to where HBO’s The Sopranos will end up and for how much.  Current skinny suggests TNT, or perhaps Spike or A&E.  And current dollars are looking north of $2 million per episode.  An announcement is expected by week’s end.  HBO is offering 78 eps for Fall 2006.
• New Line Television‘s second season of The Twilight Zone has been cleared in 72% of the country, with 15 out of the top 20 markets cleared.  Among the most recent renewals are WXGN/Chicago; WMOR/Tampa; KCRA and KQCA/Sacramento; WFTV and WRDQ/ Orlando; XETV and XUPN/San Diego; WSOC and WAXN/Charlotte; WDJT and WMLW/Milwaukee; KASY and KWBQ/Albuquerque; WBDT/Dayton; WTVK/Ft. Myers; WIWB/Green Gay; WBUI/Champaign-Springfield; WZRB/Columbia; WBUW/Madison; WBND/South Bend. 
• Litton Entertainment‘s new property HomeTeam hosted by Troy McClain has been cleared on WCAU/Philadelphia. Earlier clearances of the 1 hr weekly series include KING/Seattle.
•  Also from Litton Entertainment, The World Explorer weekly 30m series, has been picked up by KABC, joining WCVB, WABC, WSB and KING for a fall 2005 launch.
• Paramount Domestic Television‘s weekly off-net Star Trek Enterprise is cleared in 90% of the country for next fall, including 49 of the top 50 markets.  Top clearances include WNBC/NY; KNBC/LA; WCVB/Boston; WSB/Atlanta; WXYZ/Detroit; KTRK/Houston; and WISH/Indianapolis.
• Twentieth Television has given a “firm go” for Judge Alex, now cleared in 65% of the country for next fall.  Clearances include: WNYW/New York, KTTV/Los Angeles, WFLD/Chicago, WTXF/Philadelphia, WFXT/Boston, KTVU/San Francisco,  WFOR/Miami, WNDY/Indianapolis, WDRB/Louisville, WXIX/Cincinnati, WSPA/Greenville-Spartanburg and WZTV/Nashville; as well as more recently cleared KABB & KRRT/San Antonio; WUTV-WNYL/Buffalo, WGNT/Norfolk, WSMH/Flint, WACH/Columbia, South Carolina, WAZE/Evansville and KOCB-KOKH/Oklahoma City.
• Paramount‘s The Insider has been cleared on the CBS O&O station group through 2008.

ReelTime Rentals, Inc. has outlined its plan to expand its services with the launch of Rental-on-Demand, a network which will offer media content previously available on TV.   Rental-on-Demand will include digital content on various special interest program topics.  ReelTime is currently in the process of selecting content for the initial launch of the new service.  ReelTime Rentals, Inc., will rent movies in real-time consumers nationwide, in turn customers will have access to a large range of “DVD-quality full-screen movies” in their homes.  ReelTime will provide this service using Intelligent Rapid Delivery System to help prevent piracy.  ReelTime’s IRDS was created through technology acquired from Communications Technologies, Inc.

Michael Beller has been upped to SVP/Business and Legal Affairs for the National Geographic Channel (NGC).  He is responsible for all day-to-day business and legal matters involving programming, marketing and operations.

Johanna Fuentes has been upped to Director/Publicity, CBS Entertainment, reporting to Phil Gonzales, VP/Communications, CBS Entertainment.  Johanna will continue to work on publicity campaigns on behalf of CBS and UPN primetime series, movies and specials, and will be based in New York.

Tuesday, January 25, 2005. FINAL Ratings for all Networks – program averages. Source: Nielsen Media Research.
[p] = Premiere; [r] = Repeat

FOX     11.8/18 American Idol 15.8/24, House 7.8/12

CBS     7.6/12  NCIS [r] 7.5/11, Amazing Race 7.4/11, Judging Amy 7.8/13

NBC     6.3/10  Most Outrageous TV Moments 4.7/7, Scrubs 4.7/7, Committed 4.4/7, Law & Order SVU 9.7/16

ABC     5.8/9   My Wife & Kids 4.4/7, George Lopez 4.5/7, According to Jim 6.9/10, Rodney 6.4/10, NYPD Blue 6.2/10      

WB      3.1/5   Gilmore Girls 3.4/5, One Tree Hill 2.8/4

UPN     1.5/2   All of Us [r] 1.6/3, Eve [r] 1.6/2, Veronica Mars [r] 1.5/2

A18-49          Fox 8.5/21,  NBC and CBS 3.5/9, ABC 3.2/8, WB 2.0/5, UPN .7/9

A MESSAGE FROM COURT TV

The History Channel presents This Day in History:
1941 – William Randolph Hearst’s art collection goes on private exhibition in New York. It contains some ten thousand works.

Answer to Monday’s Trivia Question: Who is “ready when you are” according to their tag line?  DELTA AIRLINES and/or BETTY CROCKER EASY TO SPREAD FROSTING.  Kudos to:  Julius Picardi-Primedia Inc./NY; Deborah Bays-Turner/Atlanta; Jim Ryan-A&E/NY; Paul Gluck-WHYY/Philadelphia; Susan Arl-CLTV/Oak Brook; Dan Loving-KOCB & KOKH/Oklahoma City; Lauren Grady-The Richards Group/Dallas; Kyle Krebs-KLTY/Dallas; Ron Nicolosi/North Hollywood; Lisa Brenner-Electric Ent/LA; Marty Webb-RPA/Santa Monica; Joe Ruggiero-Joe Ruggiero Design/Encino; Stephen Pickford-Travel World Radio/Montreal; and Ron Margaretten-SmartMedia/Prague.

A MESSAGE FROM COURT TV

Today’s Trivia Question:  What beer did the Beer Bear hawk? (click here with your answer and be sure to include your name, company, city and time zone with your answer. 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.)

Later — Cyn
01.27.05  12:46 PT

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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT: JANUARY 27, 2005:

ABC             InStyle: Celebrity Weddings, Extreme Makeover, Primetime Live
CBS             Without a Trace [r], CSI, Without a Trace
FOX             The O.C., Point Pleasant
NBC             Joey [r], The Apprentice, ER
PAX             AFV, AFV, Diagnosis Murder, Diagnosis Murder
UPN             WWE Smackdown
WB              WB Movie: Home Fries
TELE            La Mujer en el Espejo, Gitanas, Te Voy a Ensenar a Querer
UNIV            Rubi, Amor Real, Aqui y Ahora