A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS

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Cynopsis
01.03.13

Good morning. It’s Thursday, January 3, 2013, and this is your first early morning briefing.

Tonight’s Premieres:
Outdoor Channel: Jacks Link’s Major League Fishing at 9p; Bottom Feeders at 11p
Cooking Channel: Brunch @ Bobby’s at 930p
MTV: Buckwild at 10p
OWN: Lost and Found at 10p
TLC: What Not to Wear at 10p

Tonight’s Finale:
Investigation Discovery: Very Bad Men at 10p

Reportedly Current TV, founded by Vice President Al Gore and his business partner Joel Hyatt, is being acquired by Al Jazeera, according to NYT.  If the deal goes through, Current TV will provide the pan-Arab news outlet a pathway into American homes as Current TV is available in nearly 60 million of the 100 million homes in the US through cable or satellite service.  Apparently Al Jazeera will create a new channel based in New York instead of using Current to distribute its English-language channel, Al Jazeera English which is based in Doha, Qatar.  The new channel may be called Al Jazeera America with 60 percent of the programming produced in the US with the other 40 percent coming from Al Jazeera English. 

HLN tagged Ty Pennington (star of ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition) as host of its new monthly original half-hour news series American Journey which debuts January 12 at 8p with an encore on January 13 at 8p.  Sponsored by Chevrolet, the 10-episode series covers stories of individuals and communities who have found inventive and surprising ways to address today’s challenges by applying lessons learned from American pioneers.  Each monthly installment will air four times a month during weekend prime. 

Investigation Discovery debuts the new series Redrum beginning January 15 at 10p, a series that unravels stories of murder in reverse.  The show starts at the scene of the crime and goes backwards in time to reveal the killer, their motive and the truth behind what drove them to kill.  Redrum is produced for Investigation Discovery by Stephen David Entertainment. 

A second season of Wicked Tuna returns to National Geographic Channel’s schedule starting January 13 at 9p.  The series follows fishermen from Gloucester, Mass. who search for the elusive bluefin tuna as one large catch can bring in as much as $20,000.  Wicked Tuna is produced by Pilgrim Studios.

Beginning January 14 the Powerful Mondays programming block returns to Syfy.  The block showcases the premiere of its new original police drama series Continuum at 8p followed by the third season debuts of Being Human at 9p and Lost Girl at 10p.  Continuum is from Reunion Pictures; Being Human is a Muse Entertainment production in association with Zodiak USA; and Lost Girl is a Prodigy Pictures production in association with Shaw Media.

The 90-minute season three premiere of Dance Moms on Lifetime airing January 1 at 9p delivered a series best tally of 2.8 million total viewers as well as an average of 1.4 million with A18-49 and 1.3 million among A25-54.  Following Dance Moms’ premiere, Lifetime aired a sneak peak of Double Divas which averaged 1.5 million total viewers.  Double Divas will make its official debut on Lifetime January 10 at 10p with two back-to-back half-hour episodes following Project Runway All Stars.

Also on New Year’s, truTV launched Hardcore Pawn: Chicago which delivered 2.1 million total viewers marking the network’s largest series premiere ever.  The series premiere also brought in 1.0 million among A18-49 and 602,000 with M18-49.  Hardcore Pawn: Chicago also surpassed the network’s previous record set by the original Hardcore Pawn in August 2010.  Hardcore Pawn: Chicago is produced by Bischoff-Hervey Entertainment.

ABC Family reports its 15th annual 25 Days of Christmas programming stunt broke records among total viewers at 2.8 million total; 1.3 million among A18-49; and 701,000 with A18-34.  Furthermore, 25 Days of Christmas reached more than 100 million unique total viewers for the 6th consecutive year, pacing at +6% higher than in 2011 (106.9 million vs. 101.3 million).

Over the holidays BET celebrated the 35th anniversary of Roots by broadcasting the miniseries in full.  Nearly 11 million viewers watched the three-day Roots premiere weekend on BET from December 21 through December 23.  On Saturday, December 22 the premiere of Roots Part Three at 8p is now the #1 Roots telecast in cable TV history with an average of 1.8 million viewers among 1.4 million households, delivering a 1.5 coverage rating. 

BBC America posted record ratings for its Doctor Who: The Snowmen Christmas Day episode airing from 9p to 1020p.  The series’ special delivered 1.434 million total viewers and 807,000 among A25-54 in Live+SD, up +54% from last year’s Christmas episode in total viewers and up +60% with A25-54. 

Program Call:  Cynopsis Media will be producing our annual NATPE Shopping Guide sent to all Cynopsis subscribers on Thursday, January 24, 2013, a few days before NATPE Market and Conference 2013 opens at the Fontainebleau Resort in Miami Beach. If your company is an official exhibitor at NATPE 2013, please send us only the following info for your top 5 shows:  title, availability date, number of episodes, length, type (i.e. series, special, movie, etc.), genre (comedy, drama, lifestyle, etc.) and your terms (barter, cash, etc.) as well as your company’s stand/booth location.  To be included in this free and highly-read special edition, please send your submission to Lisa Ball at: [email protected] no later than Thursday, January 17, 2013.  A confirmation email will be sent following each submission from Lisa (if you don’t receive a confirmation email, please resubmit).

Charter Communications and The Walt Disney Company made a comprehensive long-term distribution deal to deliver Disney’s lineup of sports, news and entertainment content to Charter TV customers across televisions, computers, smartphones, tablets, gaming consoles and internet-enabled televisions.  The renewal agreement is in line with the companies’ mutual goal to deliver video content to customers across multiple platforms.  The launch of content across these new distribution platforms is set to happen the first half of 2013.  As part of the new multi-year deal, The Longhorn Network will launch in Texas, Louisiana and Virginia systems in time for football season next year.  The deal covers around 70 services including ABC, ABC Family, Disney Channel, Disney Junior, Disney XD, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN Neportes, ESPNEWS, ESPN Classic, ESPN Goal Line, ESPN, Buzzer Beater, ESPN 3D, ESPN GamePlan, ESPN Full Court, ESPN3, The Longhorn Network and retransmission consent for WABC-TV, KABC-TV, WLS-TV, KGO-TV, KTRK-TV, WTVD-TV and KFSN-TV as well as more than 10 hi-def networks.

NBCUniversal and the National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC) made a recent comprehensive new carriage deal that includes broad distribution for the programmer’s full portfolio of cable and broadcast services in addition to a first-ever retransmission consent deal for NBC and Telemundo Owned Stations.  The deal allows NBCUniversal’s broadcast and cable content to be carried by NCTC’s nearly 1,000 independent cable operator members nationwide.  The deal also encompasses rights to carry the Olympic Games and on-demand content from NBCUniversal’s cable and broadcast networks as well as access to live channels across multiple platforms both in and out of the home. 

New York-based Veria Living, a multiplatform media company dedicated to showcasing healthy lifestyle and wellness programming has recently launched on Optimum TV.  In addition, Veria Living has a number of programs debuting this month: a second season of Yoga Sutra Now with Jai Sugrim opened yesterday and airs on weekdays at 7a; a second season of Rock Your Yoga also debuted yesterday and airs on weekdays at 8a; Peggy K’s Kitchen Cures premieres January 14 and airs weekdays at 6p; Nirmala’s Spice World premieres January 14 and airs weekdays at 630p; What Would Julieanna Do? premieres January 28 and airs weekdays at 7p; and Myth Defying with Dr. Holly premieres January 28 and airs weekdays at 730p.

The Television Syndication Company (TVS) has acquired three sports shows from GameDay Productions for its 2013 syndication slate.  The acquisitions include Sports Stars of Tomorrow in its seventh year of syndication and airing in 90% of the US.  Sports Stars of Tomorrow boasts a new segment Sports Mom and NFL/College Football analyst Charles Davis will become the new host of the E/I series.  TVS’s second series pickup is RaceWeek Powered by Sporting News, the longest running motorsports program in broadcast syndication.  This 17-year old series has served the NASCAR Heartland in 50+ markets in the Southwest and the Southeast.  The third series acquired by TVS is Future Phenoms, the program that highlights young sports stars who are sought after by college recruiters.  This series airs in 70% of the US on regional sports networks. 

Internet Broadcasting (IB), provider of digital publishing technology and services for media companies, has extended and expanded its relationship with News Press & Gazette Company (NPG).  The terms of the renewed operating agreement has IB continuing to provide digital publishing, content and advertising solutions to NPG’s television stations including NPT’s recently acquired stations KEYT/Santa Barbara and KMIZ/Columbia, MO.

Conan O’Brien’s Conaco production company and Warner Bros. Television received a script order from FOX for a single-camera medical comedy called Bob’s New Heart Show.  The title of the project pays homage to The Bob Newhart Show with the script from Community writer and co-EP Ben Wexler.  Bob’s New Heart Show follows a doctor’s return to his old neighborhood where he takes over a family practice after receiving a heart transplant.  Wexler will be an EP on the project along with O’Brien, David Kissinger and Jeff Ross. 

Showtime ordered its first pilot for 2013 titled The Vatican, a thriller about spirituality, power and politics set against the modern-day Catholic Church.  Paul Attanasio (House) penned the one-hour script and Sir Ridley Scott will direct the pilot.  Production will begin in 2013 with Sony Pictures Television producing with Showtime for series pickup consideration.  Attanasio, Scott and David Zucker are serving as EPs.

Academy Award-winning screenwriter William Monahan (The Departed) is developing a period crime drama for Starz titled Crime.  Monahan will write the script which is described as a study of criminal enterprises and scandal in 1960s Great Britain.  The project has received a script commitment from Starz.  Atlas Entertainment is producing with the company’s Charles Roven and William Green serving as EPs along with Monahan and Andy Horwitz as co-EP.  Justine Suzanne Jones, president/development at Monahan’s production company Henceforth Pictures will also co-executive produce.  Starz and Sonar Entertainment will finance development with Sonar securing the option to distribute the project worldwide.  Starz will hold pay television and home entertainment rights in the US. 

RLTV, the cable network and online destination targeting adults 50+ formed a content sharing partnership with Next Avenue, the first fully editorial website in the PBS system focused on Americans 50+.  Under the deal, RLTV will license for its website (www.rl.tv) targeted, mission- and category-aligned content that is selected from Next Avenue’s original articles and blogs.  The agreement also allows for Next Avenue to develop custom exclusive online content for RLTV in the future.  The content will appear on rl.tv effective immediately.  Twin Cities Public Television launched Next Avenue early 2012 in partnership with PBS, APT and public television stations nationwide. 

Casting Call: Veria Living is seeking women to appear on an upcoming talk show highlighting natural beauty.  Those interested may wish they had thicker hair, smoother skin or longer lashes.  Do you need a beauty change or have a beauty issue and desire to look and feel better inside and out?  Veria Living is looking for women with all sorts of beauty dilemmas to share their stories on this talk show.  Those interested must live in the New York Tri-State area and must be 18 years or older.  Please send an email to: [email protected] and include your name, age, cell phone number and email address along with a brief description about you and a photo.

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Broadcast Morning News Shows  Weekly Average Ratings (week of December 17, 2012)
ABC: GMA 5.19 million total viewers; 1.7/12 and 1.97 million A25-54
NBC: Today 4.68 million total viewers; 1.6/11 and 1.91 million A25-54
CBS: This Morning 2.79 million total viewers; 0.9/6 and 1.05 million A25-54
Source: Nielsen, NTI

Thursday A18-49 Analysis:  CBS won last Thursday at 2.1/6 among A18-49, according to final primetime national ratings from Nielsen.  At 8p, repeat episodes of The Big Bang Theory and Two and a Half Men on CBS did best at an average of 2.8/9 and Univision’s Por Ella Soy Eva was next at 1.8/6.  Univision then moved into first place during 9p with Amores Verdaderos at 2.2/6 and CBS’ Person of Interest encore was #2 at 1.9/5.  Univision hung onto a slim lead at 10p with Amor Bravio at 1.7/5 and CBS’ Elementary rebroadcast was a close second at 1.6/5.

Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Thursday, December 27, 2012  time period averages.  Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.

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CBS: 6.1/10            The Big Bang Theory [r] 7.4/12, Two and a Half Men [r] 5.7/9, Person of Interest [r] 6.5/11, Elementary [r] 5.2/9

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ABC: 2.3/4               Happy New Year, Charlie Brown [r] 2.7/4, Grey’s Anatomy [r] 2.2/4, Scandal [r] 2.0/4      

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UNIV: 2.2/4              Por Ella Soy Eva 2.2/4, Amores Verdaderos 2.4/4, Amor Bravio 2.1/4

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NBC: 1.7/3               30 Rock [r] 1.7/3, Up All Night [r] 1.5/2, The Office [r] 1.4/2, Parks and Recreation [r] 1.3/2, Rock Center with Brian Williams [r] 2.3/4

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FOX: 1.1/2               The Mindy Project [r] 1.2/2, The Mindy Project [r] 0.9/2, The Mindy Project [r] 1.0/2, The Mindy Project [r] 1.1/2

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ION: 1.0/2                Without a Trace 1.1/2, Without a Trace 0.9/2, Criminal Minds 1.1/2

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TELE: 0.7/1              Rosa Diamante 0.8/1, Corazon Valiente 0.7/1, Pablo Escobar: El Patron del Mal 0.9/2, El Rostro de la Venganza 0.5/1

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CW: 0.6/1                Vampire Diaries [r] 0.7/1, Beauty and the Beast [r] 0.6/1

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TF: 0.5/1                 Cineplex THR [7p start r] 0.4/1, Cineplex 2 THR [r] 0.5/1

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A18-49:  CBS 2.1/6, UNIV 1.9/6, ABC 0.9/3, NBC 0.8/2, FOX 0.7/2, TELE 0.6/2, CW 0.4/1, ION 0.4/1, TF 0.3/1

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Friday A18-49 Analysis:  Univision ranked #1 this past Friday at 1.8/6 A18-49, according to final primetime national ratings from Nielsen.  Univision won at 8p with Por Ella Soy Eva at 1.7/6 followed by ABC’s Shark Tank repeat at 1.4/5.  Univision held its #1 position through 9p with Amores Verdaderos at 2.0/6 while NBC’s Dateline encore was next at 1.5/5.  Then at 10p, NBC’s extended Dateline encore hit #1 with a 1.9/6 and Univision slid to second place with Amor Bravio at 1.6/5.

Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Friday, December 28, 2012 time period averages.  Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.

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NBC: 3.6/6            Go On [r] 1.8/3, Go On [r] 1.5/3, Dateline Friday [r] 4.5/8

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ABC: 3.3/6              Shark Tank [r] 3.5/6, Back to the Beginning 3.3/6

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CBS: 3.0/5              Undercover Boss [r] 3.6/6, Undercover Boss [r] 2.9/5, Undercover Boss [r] 2.6/5

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UNIV: 2.1/4            Por Ella Soy Eva 2.0/3, Amores Verdaderos 2.3/4, Amor Bravio 1.9/3

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FOX: 1.4/2              DreamWorks Dragons [r] 1.6/3, Ice Age Mammoth [r] 1.5/2, Kitchen Nightmares [r] 1.2/2

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ION: 1.0/2              Cold Case 1.0/2, Cold Case 1.0/2, Cold Case 1.0/2

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CW: 0.7/1               Nikita [r] 0.7/1, Arrow [r] 0.8/1

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TELE: 0.7/1             Rosa Diamante 0.7/1, Corazon Valiente 0.7/1, Pablo Escobar: El Patron del Mal 0.8/1, El Rostro de la Venganza 0.5/1

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TF: 0.3/1                Cineplex Fri [7p start] 0.4/1, Cineplex 2 Fri [r] 0.3/1

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A18-49:  UNIV 1.8/6, NBC 1.4/4, ABC 1.1/3, CBS 1.0/3, FOX 0.8/3, TELE 0.5/2, ION 0.4/1, TF 0.3/1, CW 0.2/1

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DuJour Media Group added Robin Keller as Chief Digital Officer starting yesterday.  Robin will oversee DuJour.com as well as all digital functions for the company’s brands.  She will report to Jason Binn, CEO. 

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This Day In History, sponsored by Discovery Fit & Health: 1952 – Dragnet debuted as a regular TV series on NBC after a successful pilot episode aired on December 16, 1951.

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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 2013

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ABC: Nashville [r], Scandal [r], Scandal [r]
CBS: The Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men, Person of Interest, Elementary
CW: The Vampire Diaries [r], Beauty and the Beast [r]
FOX: Mobbed, Mobbed
ION: Without a Trace, Without a Trace, Criminal Minds
MyTV: White Collar, White Collar
NBC: 30 Rock [r], Up All Night [r], The Office [r], Parks and Recreation [r], Rock Center with Brian Williams
PBS: The This Old House Hour, Mr. Cao Goes to Washington
TeleFutura: Senor Brooks, La Cruz
Telemundo: Rosa Diamante, Corazon, Valiente, Pablo Escobar: El Patron del Mal, El Rostro de la Venganza
Univision: Por Ella Soy Eva, Amores Verdaderos, Amor Bravio

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