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Good morning. It’s Thursday, July 9, 2009, and this is your first early morning briefing. And as always, if you prefer to watch this morning’s news instead of reading it, click here. Tonight’s Premieres: ~ MORE GOOD STUFF ~
Michael Jackson Memorial Coverage US Results:
Worldwide Michael Jackson Coverage also achieved stellar results:
And per Variety:
Additionally, Nielsen cites Michael Jackson’s memorial created a big stir online Tuesday, ranking as the third most-discussed topic ever at 3% of conversations. The synergy between television and the web also created buzz as almost 15% of all online conversations about Michael Jackson also referenced a broadcast or social network. TLC trots out the tots with a second season of Toddlers and Tiaras beginning July 22 at 10p. During 13 new episodes from Authentic Entertainment, the series follows eager moms and dads and their little beauties on the American child beauty pageant circuit including several pageants produced by Gold Coast Pageants, the system which inspired the feature film Little Miss Sunshine. Bravo serves up a sixth season of Top Chef this time in Sin City as Top Chef: Las Vegas premieres August 26 at 9p. Seventeen “chef’testants” vie for the title of Top Chef, $100,000 in cash and other top prizes. This new season also features top celebrities in the areas of food, films and entertainment making appearances such as Wolfgang Puck, Natalie Portman, Nigella Lawson among others. Padma Lakshmi returns as well as head judge Tom Colicchio and judges Gail Simmons and Toby Young. Magical Elves produces Top Chef: Las Vegas. Food Network premieres a new primetime series Chefs vs. City August 7 at 10p. In each weekly episode, the chef team of Chris Cosentino and Aaron Sanchez journey to a different US city and challenge two well-known local foodies to a culinary battle. Throughout the season, the duo will travel to New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Chicago, Boston and New Orleans. Fans of FOX’s Dollhouse will have to wait an extra week as the network slated season two to open September 25 at 9p. Previously, FOX scheduled the drama to debut on September 18. Series creator and executive producer Joss Whedon will write and direct the first episode which launches the plotline for the sophomore season. Dollhouse is produced by 20th Century Fox Television. New series premiere results for last Tuesday night:
~ DISTRIBUTION, CLEARANCE & CARRIAGE ~
Comedy Central announced it made a multi-year agreement with NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution to license the comedy series 30 Rock. The network picked up five seasons to air starting fall 2011. NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution also sold 30 Rock to local television stations in top markets for off-net syndication with a fall 2011 debut. Fox Television Stations picking up the sitcom include: WNYW/New York, KTTV/Los Angeles, KDFW-KDFI/Dallas, KRIV-KTXH/Houston, KSAZ-KUTP/Phoenix, WOFL-WRBW/Orlando and KMSP-WFTC/Minneapolis. Tribune Broadcasting stations acquiring the series include: WGN/Chicago, WPHL/Philadelphia, WDCW/Washington, D.C., KCPQ-KMYQ/Seattle, KRCW/Portland, WSFL/Miami, KSWB/San Diego, KTXL/Sacramento, WXMI/Grand Rapids, WPMT/Harrisburg and WNOL-WGNO/New Orleans. 30 Rock is from Broadway Video & Little Stranger, Inc. in association with Universal Media Studios. E1 Entertainment made additional sales globally for its crime drama The Bridge with 13 one-hour episodes. The series was licensed to Sony’s AXN Channels in Latin America and Italy, Sony Entertainment Television in Africa, Marathon/Double V for Television in France and Germany’s Tele-Munchen Gruppe. The Bridge is already set to air on CBS in the US and CTV in Canada. National Geographic Channels International (NGCI) and Abu Dhabi Media Company (ADMC) established a partnership to launch the free-to-air National Geographic Channel Abu Dhabi (NGCAD), the first international Nat Geo Channel in Arabic. NGCAD’s lineup will contain factual entertainment programming and be completely dubbed in Arabic. ~ PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT ~
Following her guest star stint at the end of last season, Maiara Walsh becomes a regular on ABC’s Desperate Housewives for next season. Walsh reprises her role of Ana, Carlos’ beautiful and scheming niece who is a thorn in Gaby’s (Eva Longoria Parker) side. Desperate Housewives is slated to premiere its sixth season September 27. CBS recruited Terry Kinney for a new recurring spot on its crime drama The Mentalist. Kinney will portray by-the-book Agent Sam Bosco in a minimum of seven episodes for the series’ second season produced by Warner Bros. TV. Agent Bosco heads the California Bureau of Investigation’s Serial Crimes Unit and runs into conflict with CBI consultant Patrick Jane (Simon Baker) who becomes frustrated with Bosco’s rigid approach. ~ ELSEWHERE IN CYNOPSIS ~
CYNOPSIS DIGITAL – TODAY’S TOP STORY: After launching a web browser and browser-based productivity software, Google is now taking aim at Microsoft‘s bread and butter. Google announced plans to launch its own open source operating system slated for release to consumers during the second half of 2010. The Google Chrome OS, designed to work with the Chrome web browser, will be optimized for the hot netbook category of laptops that Microsoft hopes to serve with a stripped down version of Windows 7. Speed, simplicity, security and interoperability with other Google products such as its Android mobile operating system will be the Chrome OS’ selling points. (Oh, and did we mention that it will likely be free?) Full edition: CYN DIGITAL. CYNOPSIS KIDS – TODAY’S TOP STORY: The Jonas Brothers and Demi Lovato return to camp later this summer when Disney Channel begins production on Camp Rock 2 The Final Jam, the sequel to the network’s original movie Camp Rock (June 20, 2008). Set to premiere on Disney Channel in 2010, this time around the kids return to camp to find that some of their camp mates and counselors have defected to the new state-of-the-art music/performance camp across the lake and a rivalry with a musical showdown ensues. Of course there is also a love twist, this time Joe Jonas falls for the daughter of the owner of the rival camp. Camp Rock 2 The Final Jam will also feature new cast members Matthew “Mdot” Finley (an R&B musician) and Chloe Bridges (a classical pianist), as well as returning cast mates Meaghan Martin, Alyson Stoner and Anna Maria Perez de Tagle among others. Camp Rock 2 will be directed by Paul Hoen (Jump In!, The Cheetah Girls One World) with choreography by Rosero McCoy (Step Up) and a script by Dan Berendsen (Hannah Montana The Movie, Wizards of Waverly Place The Movie , The Cheetah Girls One World) and the writing team Karin Gist (One Tree Hill, Jump In!) and Regina Hicks (Girlfriends, Jump In!). The first Camp Rock movie was directed by Matthew Diamond and penned by Julie Brown, Paul Brown along with Gist and Hicks. Full edition: CYN KIDS. A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM ION TELEVISION
ION Television: Positively Double Digit Growth in 2Q ’09!
With the continued success of NCIS, hit movies and more, ION Television. Positively Entertaining. second qtr 2008 (3/31/08-6/29/08). HH, A25-54 (000). Subj to quals upon req’t. ~ RATINGS ~
Top Ten Basic Cable Ad Supported Network Rankings among A18-49 for the week of: 6/29-7/5/09 Top Ten Basic Cable Ad Supported Network Rankings among Total Viewers for the week of: 6/29-7/5/09 Top 10 Cable Programs among A18-49 (000) for the week of: 6/29-7/5/09 Top 10 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of 6/22-6/28/09 ranked by HH Rtg Top 10 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of 6/22-6/28/09 ranked by A18-49 Rtg Tuesday A18-49 Analysis: NBC swayed viewers to its side Tuesday night, winning with a 2.2/7 in the A18-49 demo, according to final national ratings from Nielsen Media Research. CBS opened the night at 8p with a favorite hitting the #1 mark as a NCIS repeat delivered 2.0/7 while ABC’s The Superstars and UNIV’s premiere of En Nombre del Amor tied for second at 1.4/5 and NBC’s debut of The Great American Road Trip ranked third at 1.3/5. NBC bowled over the competition during 9p with America’s Got Talent at 3.0/9 followed by UNIV’s Manana para Siempre at 1.9/5. Through 10p, tributes and specials about Michael Jackson abounded as ABC’s Primetime: Family Secrets won at 2.6/7 and Dateline NBC: Michael Jackson Remembered came next at 2.3/7. Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Tuesday, July 7, 2009 (July Sweep Day 5) time period averages. Source: NTI Galaxy, as dated. Live+SD. CBS: 5.7/10 NCIS [r] 7.2/13, The Mentalist [r] 6.2/10, 48 Hours Mystery 3.8/7 NBC: 4.4/8 The Great American Road Trip [p] 3.0/5, America’s Got Talent 6.2/10, Dateline NBC: Michael Jackson Remembered 4.1/7 ABC: 4.2/7 The Superstars 2.7/5, 20/20 Special Edition 4.0/7, Primetime: Family Secrets – The Children of Michael Jackson 6.0/10 UNIV: 1.9/3 En Nombre del Amor [p] 1.8/3, Manana para Siempre 2.3/4, Aqui y Ahora 1.7/3 FOX: 1.5/3 FOX Movie: Legally Blonde 2 [r] 1.5/3 TELE: 0.6/1 Mas Sabe el Diablo 0.5/1, El Rostro de Analia 0.7/1, Ninos Ricos 0.8/1, Los Victorinos 0.6/1 CW: 0.5/1 90210 [r] 0.5/1, Hitched or Ditched [r] 0.5/1 MNT: 0.5/1 2009 Hero Awards 0.4/1, Jail 0.5/1, Jail 2 [r] 0.6/1 ION: 0.4/1 Boston Legal [r] 0.3/1, Boston Legal [r] 0.4/1, Boston Legal [r] 0.5/1 A18-49: NBC 2.2/7, ABC 1.9/6, CBS 1.7/5, UNIV 1.5/5, FOX 0.8/2, TELE 0.5/2, CW 0.3/1, MNT 0.3/1, ION 0.1/0
~ EXECUTIVE MOVES ~
Allison Gollust was named EVP/Corporate Communications with NBC Universal, effective next Monday and reporting to Jeff Zucker, President/CEO. Allison follows Cory Shields in this position who recently moved into the position of EVP/Global Policy Strategies and Alliances. In her capacity, Allison will be in charge of communications policies and strategic positioning of NBCU’s worldwide properties, content and executives. She will also be the chief spokesperson for Jeff Zucker and NBC Universal. Prior to this appointment, Allison was SVP/NBC News Communications since 2005. Allied Advertising, Public Relations hired Elisabeth Baker as VP/Creative Client Services and Tom Platoni as VP/Creative Director. Elisabeth joins from The Weinstein Company where she served as VP/Marketing and Tom also joins from The Weinstein Company where he previously held the role of VP/Print Creative. For their new positions with Allied, both executives will be based in New York. Former Disney Interactive Studios technical executive Britt Morris joins Trilogy Studios as Technical Director to head the studio’s technical vision, design and execution of online services. Sergio Zyman was appointed Chairman of the Board of the Delaware-based company U & Me Marketing Inc. The marketing and distribution company works with leveraging popular brands into the food and beverage industries. Hollywood Records/Walt Disney Company tapped Aaron Simon as VP/Strategic Marketing and Promotions. Aaron is charged with developing partnerships with companies covering various industries such as food and beverage, automotive, media, fashion, sports and gaming to bring additional value to the company’s roster. Aaron will be located at Hollywood Records’ Burbank headquarters. A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE
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