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“Fascinating New Reality Series” – New York Post
“Heartwarming” – New York Times “You Need to Tune-in and Watch it” – Dr. Phil “Emotional new reality series” – TV Guide WE tv’s highest-rated series, The Locator , features Troy Dunn on a mission to reunite loved ones and reconnect lives. For your Emmy ® consideration in all categories. WE tv. Simply Fascinating. WEtv.com/thelocatorSource: Nielsen Media Research,Live+SD,HH Rating.”The Locator” S2 prem eps (03/18/09-05/02/09) vs to all WE tv original series prem eps,Prime 8p-11p. Cynopsis
Good morning. It’s Thursday, June 25, 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: A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM SCRIPPS NETWORKS
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Delivering the Right Audience, at the Right Time, with the Right Mindset, to Buy Your Products. HGTV #1 · Food Network #2 · FLN #3 · DIY Network #6 T · Great American Country #6 T Tune in tonight at 10:30pm (ET) for HGTV’s Real Estate Intervention Source: Simmons Engagement Study. Wave 6-9, 1Q-4Q08 . Qualifier: “Inspires Me to Buy New Products.” ~ MORE GOOD STUFF ~
CBS announced its 2009-2010 season premiere dates for new and returning series, packing most in during the official premiere week beginning September 21. Though, Survivor opens one week early on:
Telemundo’s two-hour finale of its novela Sin Senos No Hay Paraiso on Monday at 9p averaged nearly 1.17 million A18-49 viewers, representing a 30% share of Spanish-Language TV. This finale episode ranks as Telemundo’s second highest-rated behind the finale of Cuerpo del Deseo with 1.2 million viewers on February 28, 2006. Additionally, Telemundo’s Tuesday premiere of the new Los Victorinos at 10p averaged 893,000 A18-49 viewers, making it the network’s highest-rated original 10p premiere ever. Bravo’s new docu-series NYC Prep attracted 815,000 A18-49 and 1.23 million total viewers for its opening episode Tuesday at 10p. mun2 opens the fourth season of the reality/lifestyle series The Chicas Project on July 9 at 7p. During 13 episodes, Crash and Yasmin adventurously travel the US trying their hand at everything from herding cattle in Texas to baking punk rock cakes in Chicago. Along the way, Crash and Yasmin will collect the thoughts and concerns of young Latinas across the nation and in the finale episode set in Washington, D.C., the chicas will meet with the President/CEO of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute to present their findings. Sportsman Channel will premiere the new series Tactical Arms next Tuesday from parent company InterMedia Outdoors (IMO), supplier of more than 65 original series episodes to the network for this third quarter. Tactical Arms will primarily air on Thursdays at 930p during the network’s Thursday Night Shooting block presented by Midway USA. The series will examine firing arms, from machine guns to battle rifles, looking at each gun’s inner workings. Nielsen’s latest DTV conversion update reports 2.1 million US households or 1.8% were not able to pick up digital television signals through the week ending June 21. This, though, is an improvement of 400,000 homes since the week of the June 12 DTV transition. GroupM released its media and marketing forecasting study “This Year, Next Year” with the prediction global advertising spending in measured media could decline by -5.5% to $417 billion this year, though a slight recovery is expected in 2010. The study, which covers 70 countries, expects nations Brazil, Russia, India and China to lead the ad spending recovery while the G7 nations, including Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US, will fall behind. In the US alone, the report says ad spending could fall -4.3% in 2009 followed by a further slump to -6.5% next year. GroupM Futures Director Adam Smith in London and GroupM Chief Investment Office Rino Scanzoni in New York jointly released this report, with data from parent company WPP and its global resources in the areas of advertising, public relations, market research and specialist communications. Correction: Kent Weed of A. Smith & Co. is an executive producer on the FOX series Hell’s Kitchen which opens its sixth season July 21 with a two-hour episode at 8p. We erroneously listed him as Kent Week. ~ DISTRIBUTION, CARRIAGE & CLEARANCE ~
Univision Communications Inc. made a multi-year distribution agreement with Mediacom Communications, the eighth largest cable provider in the US serving smaller cities and towns domestically. In addition, Univision made carriage deals with more than 100 distributors across the nation including Cable ONE and NPG Cable involving broadcast networks Univision and TeleFutura and cable network, Galavision, and in select markets, carriage of stations owned and operated by Univision. Some agreements include carriage of affiliated stations owned and operated by Entravision Communications Corporation and Equity Media Holdings Corporation. Retirement Living TV (RLTV) recently launched on Comcast systems in Western New England in Hartford, New Haven, Waterbury and Norwich, Connecticut as well as the DMA of Burlington-Plattsburgh which spills across the states of Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont. ~ PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT ~
ABC handed a six-episode order to RDF USA (Wife Swap, Secret Millionaire) and RelativityReal (Extreme Makeover: Home Edition) for the series Find My Family. The series, based on the Dutch format Lost Without a Trace, follows people who are eager to find a long-lost relative or friend. Hosts for Find My Family are former NFL linebacker Tim Green and former KTTV and KCBS entertainment reporter Lisa Joyner. Joyner and Green have something in common with each as both were adopted and later reunited with their birth parents. Executive producers for the series include RDF USA’s Chris Coelen, Greg Goldman and Tony Yates as well as Tom Forman for RelativityReal and Julie Laughlin-Jones. Two casting updates:
Toronto-based The Nightingale Company tapped producer/director David Steinberg (Curb Your Enthusiasm, Weeds, Mad About You) to be executive producer on the new original comedy series Living In Your Car. The series, with 15 half hour episodes, is about Steve Unger, a former corporate executive who lives out of his luxury sedan. Living In Your Car is developed and licensed by Astral Media’s The Movie Network (Eastern Canada) and Corus Entertainment’s Movie Central (Western Canada) and is created and written by George F. Walker, Dani Romain and Joseph Kay; Walker and Romain also serve as executive producers of the series. MTV reveals an eclectic array of series projects in development:
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CYNOPSIS DIGITAL – TODAY’S TOP STORY: Despite concerns about piracy and harming the lucrative pay TV business model, the cable industry jumped into the broadband video race with two feet yesterday. Time Warner and Comcast announced a partnership to make original TBS and TNT programming available online to Comcast customers for no extra charge under the MSO’s “On Demand Online” brand. Comcast will begin a nationwide trial to test authentication technology involving about 5,000 households next month, hoping other major cable networks will participate. The shows will be initially accessible on Comcast.net, Fancast.com and will soon also be available on TNT.tv and TBS.com. Time Warner also said it is in talks with other MSOs to join the TV Everywhere model. Full edition: CYN DIGITAL. CYNOPSIS KIDS – TODAY’S TOP STORY: Paramount‘s Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (PG-13) took in an estimated $16 million in midnight movie plays, making it the best gross ever for a movie opening on a Wednesday and the third biggest midnight grossing behind The Dark Knight (Friday, July 18, 2008) with $18.5 million and Star Wars: Episode II Revenge of the Sith (Thursday, May 19, 2005) with $17 million, per Variety. A Michael Bay movie, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen opened in about 3,000 runs beginning at 12:01a on Wednesday. Full edition: CYN KIDS. A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM NATPE
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Top 10 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of 6/8-6/14/09 ranked by HH Rtg Top 10 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of 6/8-6/14/09 ranked by A18-49 Rtg Tuesday – A18-49 Analysis: With talent brimming over, NBC was the champ Tuesday night at 2.6/8 with A18-49, according to final national ratings from Nielsen Media Research. CBS was the early winner at 8p with an encore of NCIS at 1.8/6 followed by ABC’s premiere of The Superstars at 1.6/6. NBC had the most viewers during 9p with the season debut of America’s Got Talent at 2.9/9 with UNIV’s Manana para Siempre next at 2.1/6. NBC’s second half of America’s Got Talent picked up more steam delivering a 3.6/11 through 10p followed by UNIV’s Not Uni Presenta at 1.5/4, CBS’ 48 Hours Mystery rerun at 1.4/4, the opening episode of ABC’s Primetime: Family Secrets at 1.1/3 and TELE’s premiere of Los Victorinos at 0.8/2. Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 time period averages. Source: NTI Galaxy, as dated. Live+SD CBS: 6.0/10 NCIS [r] 7.1/13, The Mentalist [r] 5.9/10, 48 Hours Mystery [r] 4.8/8 NBC: 5.5/10 I’m A Celebrity . . . Get Me Out Of Here! 2.9/5, America’s Got Talent [p] 6.8/12 ABC: 2.4/4 The Superstars [p] 2.8/5, Better Off Ted [r] 1.3/2, Primetime: Family Secrets [p] 2.4/4 FOX: 2.2/4 House [r] 2.1/4, Mental 2.3/4 UNIV: 2.2/4 Cuidado con El Angel 2.1/4, Manana para Siempre 2.5/4, Not Uni Presenta 1.9/3 MNT: 0.9/2 Street Patrol [r] 0.7/1, Street Patrol 2 [r] 0.8/1, Jail [r] 1.0/2, Jail 2 [r] 0.9/1 CW: 0.7/1 90210 [r] 0.7/1, Hitched or Ditched 0.8/1 TELE: 0.7/1 Mas Sabe El Diablo 0.5/1, El Rostro de Analia 0.7/1, Los Victorinos [p] 0.7/1 ION: 0.3/1 Boston Legal [r] 0.3/1, Boston Legal [r] 0.3/1, Boston Legal [r] 0.4/1 A18-49: NBC 2.6/8, UNIV 1.7/5, CBS 1.6/5, ABC 1.3/4, FOX 1.2/4, TELE 0.6/2, CW 0.4/1, MNT 0.4/1, ION 0.1/0 ~ EXECUTIVE MOVES ~
Scott Carlin, President/HBO Program Distribution resigned his post just shy of his 7th year anniversary at the network. Scott is leaving HBO to take on new and varied business challenges. A highly respected television industry veteran, Scott tallied 19 years at Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution prior to joining HBO in 2002. While at HBO, Scott worked on domestic distribution opportunities for many of the network’s top original programming and was involved in successful syndication deals for Sex and the City to TBS and Tribune, The Sopranos to A&E, Six Feet Under to Bravo, Band of Brothers to HISTORY and most recently Curb Your Enthusiasm and Entourage to Tribune Broadcasting. Yo Scott! We’re all anxious to see what you got next!! Holly Henderson Mauer joins the Hallmark Channels as Director/Network Distribution and Service where she will be in charge of sales strategies to leverage added distribution for Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movie Channel. Holly will also be involved with arranging affiliate participation for holiday, co-branded multi-platform campaigns and implementing local marketing campaigns. She will also represent the channels at regional and state trade shows. Based in Los Angeles, Holly will report to Laura J. Lee, VP/Network Distribution and Service. Zoom Media and Marketing named Michael Arkin to the new position of SVP/West Coast Sales and Strategic Partnerships. Based at the company’s Los Angeles office, Michael will lead all West Coast sales initiatives and the execution of strategic partnerships with advertisers and content providers. This day in History: 1951 – In New York, the first regular commercial color TV transmissions were presented on CBS using the FCC-approved CBS Color System. The public did not own color TV’s at the time, and in fact were not bought by consumers in large numbers until the late 1960’s. Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question: These two little musical ditties – In Love with Atilla the Hun and Guns of Navarone — were written by Bill Persky and Sam Denoff, who were also writers on The Dick Van Dyke Show. The two musical pieces first aired on the DVD show in the episode titled Bupkiss. They were also both featured in another sitcom written by Persky and Denoff in the late 1960’s. In that situation, the male character “wrote these two piano jingles” for his girlfriend. What was the name of the second sitcom? THAT GIRL Kudos to: George Pellegrino/West Chester PA; Douglas Hochstadt-ABC/NY; Michael Goodman-Radio One Atlanta/Atlanta; Monica Caraffa-RDR Promotions; Jim Roche-Weigel Broadcasting/Chicago; John Kukla-KDFW-KDFI/Dallas; Dale Warshaw-KMSB/KTTU/Tucson; Joanne Stern-WGN/Chicago; Susan Nessanbaum Goldberg-M and S Entertainment/LA; Greg Stewart-Evolution Media/Burbank; David Scott Jones-Marleigh Entertainment/LA; Suzanne Leichter-eModeration; Casey Angelova-Nu Image/Bulgaria Today’s Trivia Question submitted by Steve Lance/PS Insights: Barry played the title role in the TV series “Bat Masterson.” Masterson lived to a ripe old age and became a fight promoter in Brooklyn, NY. What famous Broadway musical character is based on the real William Barclay “Bat” Masterson? (Email A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE
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