A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM COMCAST SPOTLIGHT
CYNTHIA TURNER’S
Cynopsis
06/01/06
Good Morning. It’s Thursday, June 1, 2006, and this is your first early morning briefing.
CBS tried again, and again the answer was no. The FCC turned down the network’s challenge of the $550,000 fine resulting from the now infamous wardrobe malfunction during the 2004 Superbowl halftime show. CBS claimed the broadcast was not indecent based on the current FCC definition, which the network says is too vague. The FCC’s statement read in part: “The Commission rejects CBS’ argument that the FCC’s indecency framework is unconstitutionally vague and overly broad, both on its face and as applied to the halftime show.” CBS says it will continue to pursue. Now that the appeals process is over, the next step for CBS will be to file suit in court.
Here’s one of those things that makes you think – didn’t they do this already? Legendary Pictures has optioned the film rights to the original Kung-Fu television series with plans of making it into a feature film. The film would focus on the earliest part of the TV series – that portion based in China and focusing on the training of Kwai Chang Caine (played in the TV show by David Carradine). Legendary has a first-look deal with Warner Bros., so once the screenplay is completed, that’s where it will be taken first. Warner Bros. is also the studio who produced the series in the 1970’s. As far as Carradine, he will not be involved.
USA Network will launch Character Road Trip in October, one of two short form programs which will debut as an extension for the network’s Characters Welcome brand. Produced by Magical Elves, there will be forty 5-minute episodes each year, with 10 each quarter, airing as a series of interstitials within a primetime show. Character Road Trip will travel across the country to find the most colorful characters wherever they are. And, the second short form series, Character Fantasy, will be paired with the network’s Saturday afternoon programming, allowing people a chance to portray their favorite character.
ION Media Networks will launch the first 24-hour digital broadcast network later this year with programming focused exclusively on consumer healthcare and healthy living. I-Health will premiere on the company’s owned and operated TV stations and a full rollout with additional distribution and content partners will happen in 2007. The content will be education based and feature short form news segments and web-based content about chronic illness, family health issues, medical technologies and breakthroughs, exercise and wellness as well as alternative health.
On November 18, Comic Relief will reconvene after an eight year absence, to raise money to help the children of Hurricane Katrina. According to Hollywood Reporter, all three of the originals will be on board – Billy Crystal, Robin Williams and Whoopi Goldberg, and the special will be aired simultaneously on HBO, TBS and on AOL.
Sanaa Lathan has been signed to join the cast of FX‘s Nip/Tuck as a young wealthy woman married to man considerably older. Together, they buy the medical practice of McNamara/Troy. No word yet on the casting of her husband.
Casting Call: Oxygen will introduce a new original series The Bad Girls Club this December. The show is a docu-soap that follows a group of “bad girls” who all live together in L.A. and in order to be in the club they must pledge to help each other change their devilish ways. If you are a bad girl and would like to be in the club, the producers Bunim-Murray Productions are holding open casting calls in June across the country. Submit a brief description to badgirls@bunim-murray.com or call 1-800-683-8832. More information is available at: www.bunim-murray.com.
FOX has a number of new promotions starting with Shannon Ryan to VP/Entertainment Publicity, where she will supervise the network’s publicity staff and will manage all aspects of entertainment publicity including the national publicity campaigns for FOX series and specials; Elissa Johansmeier has been upped to VP/Publicity and Corporate Communications, where she continues to manage the East Coast publicity staff, the New York-based entertainment publicity and communications efforts for the network’s national sales team. Both will report to Joe Earley, EVP/Publicity, Corporate Communications and Creative Services. In addition, the following persons in the publicity staff have been promoted: Jason Clark to Executive Director; Todd Adair, Jill Hudson Bell and Kim Fitzgerald Kurland to Director of Publicity; and Alexandra Gillespie, Joshua Governale and Michael Roach to Manager.
LIME has appointed Barbara Steele as Multi-Platform Producer. She will produce and supervise original content across all platforms for the network including TV, broadband, VOD, DVD, satellite radio, podcasts and mobile. Barbara’s duties will also include writing and producing promotional spots and short form content.
Natasha Fishman has been named VP/Retail Development for HIT Entertainment. She will develop and implement the retail development programs and promotions for the company’s roster of brands. Based in New York, Natasha will also manage the relationships with key buyers and marketers at retail and will report to Jamie Cygielman, SVP/Consumer Products.
Alan Klein has been advanced to SVP/Partnerships and Licensing for the Independent Film Channel (IFC). Alan will become the network’s chief of business development, will continue to direct IFC’s partnerships, manage the sales team and secure new revenue opportunities for the network among other duties. He will continue to report to Evan Shapiro, EVP/General Manager.
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. has hired Richard Claflin as VP/Programming and Broadcasting, where he will oversee the development of original programming for the broadcasting division and will provide creative input for current programming. Jill Boulet-Gercourt also joins as VP/Marketing and Broadcasting, where she will manage all marketing, promotion and creative services for the company’s TV business with emphasis centered on the daytime series Martha.
Janet Fitzpatrick is the new Chief Strategic Officer for Initiative Worldwide. Based in New York, Janet will be in charge of the company’s global development of its strategic products including the Futures research team. She will report to Alec Gerster, CEO.
44 Blue Productions has upped Stuart Zwagil to VP/Production. In his expanded role, he will still supervise daily operations including finance, budgeting, cost control and management, in addition to his new duties of new media, marketing and special projects. Furthermore, the company has reorganized management duties and has promoted Glenn Meehan to VP/Development and Sarah Poage to Executive in Charge of Production.
Top Ten Basic Cable Ad Supported Network Rankings among A18-49 for the month of May – 5/1-5/28/06
Primetime (000) Total Pgm Day (000)
TNT 1556 TNT 780
USA 1064 NAN* 591
ESPN 956 USA 542
FX 790 ADSM* 501
TBSC 789 TBSC 496
SPK 644 NICK 487
DISC 591 ESPN 470
CMDY 541 FX 411
LIF 521 LIF 382
MTV 479 DISC 361
Source Turner Research from Nielsen Media Research Data.
All ratings based on Total U.S. Television Universe of 110,200,000 homes
* = Network broadcasts less than 51% of minutes in a 24 hour day. Primetime listing only includes those networks broadcasting more than 51% of the primetime hours (M-Su 8p-11p)
Top Ten Basic Cable Ad Supported Network Rankings among Total Viewers for the month of May – 5/1-5/28/06
Primetime (000) Total Pgm Day (000)
TNT 2349 NICK 1625
USA 1858 TNT 1201
ESPN 1549 NAN* 1170
TOON 1235 USA 963
NAN* 1219 ADSM* 927
LIF 1147 TOON 921
FX 1121 LIF 735
TBSC 1093 TBSC 707
FOXN 1046 ESPN 703
SPK 917 FOXN 649
Source: Turner Research from Nielsen Media Research Data.
All ratings based on Total U.S. Television Universe of 110,200,000 homes
* = Network broadcasts less than 51% of minutes in a 24 hour day. Primetime listing only includes those networks broadcasting more than 51% of the primetime hours (M-Su 8p-11p)
Top 10 Cable Programs among A18-49 (000) for the month of May – 5/1-5/28/06
TNT Mavericks/Spurs – 5/22 3838
TNT Clippers/Suns – 5/22 3520
TNT Mavericks/Spurs – 5/17 3091
ESPN Spurs/Mavericks – 5/19 3085
ESPN Heat/Pistons – 5/25 3081
TNT Suns/Lakers – 5/4 3074
USA WWE Entertainment at 10p – 5/8 2888
USA WWE Entertainment at 10p – 5/1 2818
TNT Lakers/Suns – 5/6 2800
ESPN Heat/Pistons – 5/23 2792
Source: Turner Research from Nielsen Media Research Data.
All ratings based on Total U.S. Television Universe of 110,200,000 homes
Top 10 Broadcast Programs among A18-49 (000) for the week of 5/22-5/28/06
FOX American Idol – Wednesday 18,430
FOX American Idol – Tuesday 15,980
FOX House 13,290
ABC Lost 9,840
CBS CSI: Miami 8,840
FOX 24 7,150
CBS Two and a Half Men 6,670
NBC Deal or No Deal – Monday 5,970
CBS Old Christine 5,840
FOX So You Think You Can Dance – Thurs 5,540
Source: Nielsen Media Research, Galaxy Explorer, Live + SD Data
Tuesday – A18-49 Analysis: NBC pulled off a victory Tuesday night at 3.5/10 A18-49, according to fast affiliate ratings from Nielsen Media Research. CBS was second at 2.6/7, then ABC 1.8/5, FOX 1.8/5, UNIV 1.4/4, WB 0.7/2, UPN 0.6/2 and TELE 0.5/1. The premiere of Last Comic Standing on NBC netted a first place position at 8p with 3.2/10. The second hour of Last Comic Standing won again at 9p with 4.2/11. At 10p, NBC was prevented from earning a clean sweep as the network tied for first with CBS. NBC with an encore Law & Order: SVU and CBS with 48 Hours Mystery each delivered a 3.1/8.
Live + Same Day Ratings: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 – time period averages. Source: Nielsen Media Research
CBS 6.7/11 NCIS [r] 7.4/13, The Unit [r] 6.1/10, 48 Hours Mystery 6.7/11
NBC 5.5/9 Last Comic Standing [p] (2 hours) 5.4/9, Law & Order: SVU [r] 5.8/10
ABC 3.5/6 According to Jim [r] 3.5/6, Rodney 3.5/6, According to Jim [r] 3.6/6, Less Than Perfect [r] 3.4/5, Boston Legal [r] 3.7/6
FOX 3.2/5 FOX Movie: Shanghai Knights [r] 3.2/5
UNIV 1.8/3 La Fea Mas Bella 2.0/3, Barrera de Amor 2.0/3, Ver para Creer 1.4/2
UPN 1.3/2 America’s Next Top Model [r] 1.7/3, Veronica Mars [r] 0.9/1
WB 1.3/2 Gilmore Girls [r] 1.4/2, Pepper Dennis 1.2/2
TELE 0.6/1 Tierra de Pasiones 0.6/1, Corazon Partido 0.6/1, Decisiones 0.6/1
A18-49: NBC 3.5/10, CBS 2.6/7, ABC 1.8/5, FOX 1.8/5, UNIV 1.4/4, WB 0.7/2, UPN 0.6/2, TELE 0.5/1
The History Channel presents This Day in History:
1985 In England, violence breaks out when police try to block a convoy of hippies on their way to Stonehenge. More than 300 are arrested.
Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question: What film did the two Adam 12 lead actors star in together? NASHVILLE BEAT starring KENT MCCORD AND MARTIN MILNER Kudos to: Mick Du Russel-Advantage Productions/Lake Ronkonkoma NY; Chris Claro/Westbury NY; Synda Kollman-NBC/NY; Jerry Gibbons-Cox Communications/West Warwick RI; Alan Garner-Rocket Science Labs/LA
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Source: Nielsen Media Research, 9/26/05-3/26/06, W25-54 AA (000), Live+SD. Rank on strict daypart program-based half hours among all ad supported cable, excluding Kids. Subject to qualifications available on request.
Today’s Trivia Question: On what show did Felix Silla play the role of the cousin in a very quirky family? (click here with your answer and be sure to include your name, company, city and time zone. 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
06.01.06
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT: Thursday, June 1, 2006
ABC The 2006 Scripps National Spelling Bee, Primetime
CBS Gameshow Marathon, CSI [r], Without a Trace [r]
FOX That ’70s show, That ’70s Show, So You Think You Can Dance
NBC The Office [r], The Office [r], The Office [r], The Office [r], ER [r]
i Sue Thomas F.B. Eye, Doc, It’s a Miracle
UPN Everybody Hates Chris [r], Love, Inc. [r], Eve [r], Cuts [r]
WB Smallville [r], Supernatural [r]
TELE Tierra de Pasiones, Corazon Partido, Decisiones
UNIV La Fea Mas Bella, Barerra de Amor, Aqui y Ahora
