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07.22.10
Good morning. It’s Thursday, July 22, 2010, 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 Premiere:
Investigation Discovery: Wicked Attraction at 10p
As CBS closes the door to its long-running daytime soap As the World Turns this September, the network replaces it with a new daytime talk show featuring a cadre of well-known female news and television personalities. The daily, one-hour series launches this fall co-hosted by Julie Chen, Sara Gilbert, Sharon Osbourne, Holly Robinson Peete, Leah Remini and Marissa Jaret Winokur. Motherhood is the focus of the talk show as all the celebrity co-hosts are moms with children ranging from infant to adult. The panel will share stories and interact with the studio audience as well as viewers at home on topics and current headlines relating to being a mother. Show segments include interviews with celebrities and newsmakers, live remotes from the field and personal home footage shot by the co-hosts. Gilbert, formerly on the hit sitcom Roseanne, developed the show and will serve as executive producer along with John Redmann. The series is produced by Raquel Productions Inc.
Master illusionist, Criss Angel returns for a sixth season on A&E Network when a new season of Criss Angel Mindfreak begins August 4 at 10p. Throughout six one-hour episodes, Criss Angel attempts more death-defying escapades including a jump across the Grand Canyon on a high-performance hybrid motorcycle. The series is produced for A&E by Angel Productions Worldwide Incorporated and Baram Productions.
Syfy’s series Caprica will resume the second half of its first season in January 2011, though the exact premiere date is to be announced. A new trailer for season 1.5 of Caprica, the prequel to Syfy’s popular series Battlestar Galactica, will makes its debut at Comic-Con this Friday and after that will be available via Syfy.com. The trailer will additionally air exclusively on Microsoft’s Zune Marketplace on Xbox LIVE and Windows PCs through the Zune PC software available for free at www.zune.net starting next Monday. Caprica stars Eric Stoltz, Paula Malcomson, Esai Morales, Polly Walker, Alessandra Torresani, Magda Apanowicz and Sasha Roiz and is produced by Universal Cable Productions.
TLC reported a couple of notable premiere results starting with DC Cupcakes last Friday with back-to-back episodes at 10p and 1030p that drew in a combined 1.1 million total viewers in addition to 417,000 W18-49 viewers. Sunday’s debut of Strange Sex with double episodes at 10p and 1030p averaged 1.3 million total viewers and 369,000 A18-34.
MTV’s second season premiere of Teen Mom on Tuesday at 10p delivered close to 3.7 million total viewers, a +72% bump over the series launch last December. The opening episode also netted a 3.3 rating among P12-34 and a 5.2 rating among F12-34. Following at 11p, MTV debuted the new series If You Really Knew Me resulting in a 1.9 P12-34 rating and close to 1.8 million total viewers.
Our second Emmy® special edition – Primetime Emmy® Awards: Outstanding Drama Series, highlighting the nominees for Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series, Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series, comes out on July 28. If you’re nominated … Congratulations! And if you’re nominated and would like to provide us with a 150-word description of the nominated project or person for this special edition or any of the four subsequent editions, send it directly to me (cynthia@cynopsis.com) and we’ll include it in the edition. In the weeks ahead, we will do three more special editions focused on Outstanding Reality Show and Reality Show Host, Specials and Non-Fiction and of course, Actor/Actress.
Turner picked up the network TV rights to several top films from Warner Bros. including this weekend’s #1 movie Inception. The movie package also includes the titles Jonah Hex, Clash of the Titans as well as Inception for TNT and Sex and the City 2, Valentine’s Day and the upcoming fall release Due Date for TBS. Each movie will open on TNT and TBS in late 2012.
Principal photography has commenced on the new romantic adventure series Camelot slated to tentatively premiere on Starz next spring in the US and on the CBC in Canada. Production on this fresh re-telling of the King Arthur legend is taking place at Ardmore Studios in Ireland and filming is expected to continue until December. The cast includes Jamie Campbell Bower as King Arthur; Joseph Fiennes as Merlin; Eva Green as Morgan; Claire Forlani as Queen Igraine; Tamsin Egerton as Guinevere; and Peter Mooney as Arthur’s brother, Kay. Camelot is an Irish-Canadian co-production with Morgan O’Sullivan of Ireland’s Octagon and John Weber of Canada’s Take 5 Productions serving as executive producers. Other executive producers include Graham King and Tim Headington of GK Films and Craig Cegielski of GK-TV; James Flynn of Octagon; Douglas Rae of UK’s Ecosse Films in addition to Fred Fuchs, Michael Hirst and Anne Thomopoulos. Chris Chibnall is the showrunner and writer. Starz holds all US rights to the production including home entertainment and digital distribution while GK-TV will handle international distribution with Take 5 Productions involved with distribution in Canada.
FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) optioned the rights from Iconografix to produce and distribute The Drivers, a series inspired by the 24-hour motor race in Le Mans and based on the book, Shelby: The Man, The Cars, The Legend by Wallace A. Wyss. As part of the company’s international drama strategy, FME will finance and package The Drivers in Europe initially then sell the project in the US and to other international countries. The Drivers, set in the 1950s-1960s, will relate the story of young and wild race car drivers from the US, Germany, France, Italy and the UK who are friends and rivals in the historic Le Mans race. Mark Sennet Entertainment and Headline Pictures will co-produce the project. Furthermore, FME announced it is making a first-look deal with London-based Headline Pictures and US-based Sennet Entertainment to develop long-form content projects.
FOX continues to search for an American Idol judge replacement to succeed Simon Cowell and singer Chris Isaak appears to be in the running. As American Idol begins preliminary auditions for the tenth season, Isaak has apparently met with FOX twice. Isaak is best known for his 1989 hit song “Wicked Game” and appearances in TV series such as Eastwick, Cold Case, Smallville and a starring turn in the Chris Isaak Show for Showtime.
TLC is working with producer Stiletto Television on a new reality special about taxidermy that will serve as a backdoor pilot for a future series. The yet-to-be-titled one-hour project is scheduled to air this fall and will meet several different taxidermists from around the country and look at their projects from domestic pets to an African elephant. Executive producers from Stiletto are Mark Grove, Garry Kief and Troy Queen.
Top 10 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of 7/5-7/9/10 ranked by HH Rtg
Wheel of Fortune (CTD) 5.8 AA
Jeopardy (CTD) 5.0 AA
Judge Judy (CTD) 4.3 AA / 6.6 GAA
Two and a Half Men (WB) 4.2 AA / 5.6 GAA
Entertainment Tonight (CTD) 3.6 AA / 3.7 GAA
Oprah Winfrey Show (CTD) 3.2 AA / 3.3 GAA
Family Guy (2/T) 2.9 AA / 3.4 GAA
Everybody Loves Raymond (CTD) 2.9 AA / 3.6 GAA
Inside Edition (CTD) 2.7 AA / 2.7 GAA
The Office (NBU) 2.6 AA / 3.1 GAA
Source: NSS Galaxy Explorer, Live+SD
Top 10 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of 7/5-7/9/10 ranked by A18-49 Rtg
Two and a Half Men (WB) 2.1 AA / 2.8 GAA
Family Guy (2/T) 2.1 AA / 2.3 GAA
The Office (NBU) 1.9 AA / 2.3 GAA
Seinfeld (SPT) 1.5 AA / 1.7 GAA
Everybody Loves Raymond (CTD) 1.4 AA / 1.7 GAA
Wheel of Fortune (CTD) 1.3 AA
Judge Judy (CTD) 1.3 AA / 1.9 GAA
King of the Hill (2/T) 1.3 AA / 1.5 GAA
Jeopardy (CTD) 1.2 AA
Entertainment Tonight (CTD) 1.2 AA / 1.2 GAA
Maury (NBU) 1.2 AA / 1.4 GAA
Friends (WB) 1.2 AA / 1.5 GAA
Source: NSS Galaxy Explorer, Live+SD
Tuesday A18-49 Analysis: FOX was on fire among A18-49 Wednesday night with a 3.0/9, according to final national ratings from Nielsen. At 8p, ABC was in control with Wipeout at 2.9/10 while FOX’s Hell’s Kitchen was next at 2.7/9. The second helping of FOX’s Hell’s Kitchen won at 9p with a 3.2/9 and NBC’s America’s Got Talent placed second with a 2.8/8. NBC then moved up during 10p as the second half of America’s Got Talent topped with a 3.2/9 followed by UNIV’s Aqui y Ahora at 1.3/4.
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 time period averages. Source: NTI Galaxy, as dated. Live+SD.
NBC: 5.0/9 Losing It with Jillian 2.5/5, America’s Got Talent 6.2/11
CBS: 4.9/9 NCIS [r] 6.5/12, NCIS: Los Angeles [r] 4.6/8, The Good Wife [r] 3.5/6
FOX: 3.7/6 Hell’s Kitchen 3.6/6, Hell’s Kitchen 3.8/6
ABC: 2.9/5 Wipeout 4.5/8, Downfall 1.9/3, Primetime: Family Secrets 2.2/4
UNIV: 2.2/4 Hasta que el Dinero Nos Separe 2.3/4, Soy Tu Duena 2.6/4, Aqui y Ahora 1.7/3
ION: 1.0/2 Without a Trace 0.7/1, Criminal Minds 1.1/2, Criminal Minds 1.3/2
TELE: 0.7/1 El Clon 0.6/1, Fantasma de Elena 0.6/1, Donde Esta Elisa? 0.9/2
CW: 0.5/1 One Tree Hill [r] 0.6/1, Life Unexpected [r] 0.4/1
A18-49: FOX 3.0/9, NBC 2.4/7, UNIV 1.8/6, ABC 1.7/5, CBS 1.2/4, TELE 0.6/2, ION 0.4/1, CW 0.3/1
Kip Spidell was recruited as President of BFS Film & Television Productions Inc. Kip joins BFS Film & Television after three years as a freelance producer and director and before that he was Head/Production at Ellis Entertainment. BFS Film & Television Productions Inc. is a subsidiary of BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Limited with headquarters in Toronto.
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This day in History: 2009 – The longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century, lasting up to 6 minutes and 38.8 seconds, occurred over parts of Asia and the Pacific Ocean
Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question: All the villains from the Batman comics appeared in the 1966 Batman television show, except three. Those three later all appeared in Batman movies. Who are they? SCARECROW, TWO-FACE AND POISON IVY (Bane and R’as Al Ghul also were in Batman movies but were created after the television series. And for those of you who said Mr. Freeze, he was played by three different notables in the TV series – Eli Wallach, Otto Preminger and George Sanders) Kudos to: Robert Deason-Halogen TV/Charlotte; Jonathan Donini-RJ Palmer/NY; Brad Kowalski-Universal McCann/NY; Kevin Weist-Chocolate Cake/NY; Jim Roche-Weigel Broadcasting/Chicago; Bryan Wallace-Hks Inc/Dallas; Liz Murray-Turner Broadcasting/Chicago; Veronica Lester-NCC Media/Dallas; Eric Bates-Tennis Channel/LA; Dave Hammargren-KCPQ KMYQ/Seattle; Shelton Wiebe-EclipseMagazine.com/Calgary
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – THURSDAY, JULY 22, 2010
ABC: Wipeout, Rookie Blue, Boston Med
AZTECA: Laura de Todos, Al Extremo, La Loba
CBS: Big Brother 12, CSI [r], The Mentalist [r]
CW: Vampire Diaries [r], Moonlight [r]
FOX: Glee [r] So You Think You Can Dance
ION: Without a Trace, NCIS, NCIS
NBC: Community [r], 30 Rock [r], The Office [r], Parks & Rec [r], Law & Order: SVU [r]
PBS: This Old House Hour, Antiques Roadshow, Ribbon of Sand, PBS Preview: Circus
TELE: El Clon, El Fantasma de Elena, Donde Esta Elisa?
UNIV: Hasta que el Dinero Nos Separe, Soy Tu Duena, Rosa de Guadalupe
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