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6/28/07

Good Morning, it’s Thursday, June 28, 2007 and this is your first early morning briefing.

Just when you thought According to Jim was dead in the water not having appeared on the ABC fall schedule or the midseason list, ABC goes ahead and surprises you.  The network ordered up 18 new episodes of the sitcom which ABC plans to bring back to primetime as a midseason replacement series. Also at ABC, the pilot Football Wives may be getting picked up after all, as the cast has received extension on their options, says Hollywood Reporter. Produced by ABC Studios, this project was also left off the primetime schedule for next fall.

Tonight’s Premieres:
Bravo: Hey Paula at 10p
USA Network: Burn Notice at 10p
 
Tonight’s Finales:
USA: The Starter Wife (part 6 of 6) at 9p
NBC: Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip at 10p

ESPN/ABC, Turner and the NBA have enhanced their current global partnership that includes an eight-year extension beginning 2008-2009 through 2016. This deal marks the largest digital rights package between ESPN and a major professional sports league. The deal gives ESPN and Turner exclusive rights to distribute full-length NBA games and highlights across all media and territories via TV, HD, VOD, interactive TV, gaming platforms, radio, online, mobile, etc. – through 2016 and includes platforms not yet invented. ESPN’s package includes 76 regular season games and 29 playoff games on ESPN and ABC on any platform – live, delayed, on demand, via interactive TV, or simulcast on ESPN 360.com and ESPN Mobile TV. Turner gets the rights to telecast and stream 52 regular season games, The NBA All Star Game and Weekend and the other conference finals, as well as create interactive applications and fantasy-related content.

Turner has also been busy on another front.  The cable nets TNT and TBS have picked up the cable rights to the firm Rush Hour 3 from New Line, a full six weeks before the film premieres in theatres. According to Variety, the deal is pretty straight forward – a license fee of 12% of domestic box office not to exceed $200 million, or a max of $24 million.  In addition to Rush Hour 3, the deal also includes renewals on Rush Hour 1 and 2, and the cable rights to the film Fracture.  Both films will air first on pay cable – HBO.  Rush Hour 3 goes to Turner in 2010 and Fracture in 2009.

Lifetime has also been in movie shopping mode, and has picked up five titles – Because I Said So (Universal), Georgia Rule (Universal), Notes on a Scandal (Fox Searchlight), Waitress (Fox Searchlight) and the Warner Bros. film In the Land of Women.  As with the Turner deal, all five of these titles will go first to pay TV – HBO, before coming to Lifetime, reports Variety.

A&E Network returns two real-life cop series to its line-up July 12: season six of The First 48 opens at 9p and season three of the SWAT franchise resumes at 10p. The First 48 takes viewers behind crime scenes in Miami, Memphis, Dallas, Kansas City and Detroit and now in Cincinnati. SWAT follows men and women on the force in Dallas, Kansas City and Detroit as they lead crime investigations. Both series are produced by Granada America.

Vertigo Entertainment has signed a first-look TV pact with Lionsgate to develop and produce scripted programming for cable and broadcast. Vertigo Entertainment is best known as the production entity behind U.S. remakes of Asian films such as The Ring, The Grudge and The Departed. Both companies are currently working together on the film project The Eye, a thriller starring Jessica Alba.

A new multi-year content deal has been struck between Viacom’s Comedy Central and Canadian broadcaster CTV. The agreement covers broadcast and digital rights for the entire Comedy Central programming line-up to air across CTV’s multi-platform outlets including The Comedy Network. Now Canadian TV viewers will see more than 200 hours of current series including The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, South Park, The Colbert Report, The Sarah Silverman Program and more. The deal also includes the entire backlog of Comedy Central programs and covers rights to Comedy Central’s online and broadband, VOD and mobile products.

USA Network has ordered 11 additional episodes of the original series To Love or Die, from Broadway Video TV and Universal Media Studios.  The series stars Shiri Appleby and Tim Matheson, about a woman who tracks down her long lost father only to learn he’s a professional assassin.

Jason Dohring has joined the cast of the CBS fall primetime series Moonlight starring Alex O’Loughlin as a private investigator who also happens to be a vampire.

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Meredith Corporation tapped Doug Crichton to be Executive Editor of the Better Homes and Gardens web site BHG.com. Doug joined Meredith from Time Inc., where he served as Editor-in-Chief of Cooking Light and Health magazines as well as their affiliated web sites.

Michael DuPont has been elevated to VP/Eastern Sales at Oxygen to manage all facets of the network’s eastern region advertising sales and will work closely with Oxygen’s sales team as well as clients and agencies.

Dominion Video Satellite Inc., owner and operator of the national Christian/family multi-channel provider Sky Angel, has formed Sky Angel Productions LLC and as a result has advanced two internal executives to manage the new entity. Kathleen Johnson will be President of Sky Angel Productions LLC, and Hope Daley has been moved up to VP.

Court TV hired Marissa Ronca as Director/Program Development to create new primetime non-fiction series for the channel. She will report to Glen Freyer, VP/Non-Fiction Series.

Mark Lund will take on a new role as EVP/Sales for the NBC Universal Television Stations, effective immediately. Mark succeeds Rich Cerussi who has become President/GM of KNTV the NBC O&O in San Francisco.

IMF: The International Music Feed named Lisa Brown as Senior Director/Marketing to develop and execute marketing initiatives that elevate the awareness of IMF’s programming to new audiences. Most recently, Lisa was the National Director/Affiliate Marketing at The Tennis Channel.

ABC Entertainment promoted Suzanne Patmore-Gibbs to EVP/Drama Development where she will report to Stephen McPherson, President. Suzanne provides daily oversight to the primetime drama development department that manages many series for ABC such as Desperate Housewives, Grey’s Anatomy, Lost, Brothers & Sisters and Ugly Betty, as well as the upcoming Pushing Daisies, Private Practice, Dirty Sexy Money and Women’s Murder Club.

CBS Television Distribution added John Cora as VP/Research, based at the company’s Los Angeles office, to cover all research efforts including international, cable, first-run and off-network programming. Additionally, Kym Frank was named VP/Research to manage East Coast research efforts for first-run and off-network programming based in the Short Hills, NJ office.

Robert Natter has been upgraded to the position of Senior Counsel/Business and Legal Affairs at VH1. Headquartered at the network’s Santa Monica office, Robert will report to Monica Harris, SVP/VH1 Business and Legal Affairs.

Today in Cynopsis Kids, listen to the audio version here, or subscribe to the iTunes CynKids podcast

• Michael Eisner’s Vuguru teams with Dinosaur Diorama Productions, to produce the webisode series The All-For-Nots
• PBS KIDS fall lineup
• High School Musical on Ice

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• VOOM HD Networks, Singapore’s Mega Media and the Media Development Authority of Singapore launching Appetizing Adventures with Luke Mangan
• Canada’s CTV and Comedy Central ink 3-year deal
• Globo TV International’s romantic telenovela Soul Mate coming to U.S.

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• ESPN/ABC and Turner strike wide-ranging digital deal with the NBA
• MySpace revamps its video site to go after YouTube
• The MPAA sues YouTVpc.com and Peekvide.com

Top 10 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of 6/11-6/17/07 ranked by HH Rtg
Wheel of Fortune (CTD)                                 6.5 AA
Jeopardy (CTD)                                             5.2 AA
Oprah Winfrey Show (CTD)                            4.9 AA / 5.0 GAA
Entertainment Tonight (CTD)                         4.7 AA / 4.8 GAA
Judge Judy (CTD)                                          4.4 AA / 6.5 GAA
Dr. Phil Show (CTD)                                      4.2 AA / 4.3 GAA
Everybody Loves Raymond (CTD)                   4.2 AA / 5.6 GAA
Seinfeld (Sony)                                             3.9 AA / 4.4 GAA
Friends (Warner Bros.)                                   3.1 AA / 3.6 GAA
Inside Edition (CTD)                                       3.1 AA / 3.2 GAA
Source Nielsen Media Research – Live + SD Data

Top 10 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of 6/11-6/17/07 ranked by A18-49
Seinfeld (Sony)                                              2.4 AA / 2.6 GAA
Everybody Loves Raymond (CTD)                    2.1 AA / 2.7 GAA
Friends (Warner Bros.)                                   2.0 AA / 2.4 GAA
Oprah Winfrey Show (CTD)                             1.9 AA / 1.9 GAA
That ’70s Show (Carsey Werner)                     1.9 AA / 2.4 GAA
King of Queens (Sony)                                   1.8 AA / 2.5 GAA
Entertainment Tonight (CTD)                          1.7 AA / 1.8 GAA
Wheel of Fortune (CTD)                                  1.5 AA
Dr. Phil Show (CTD)                                       1.5 AA / 1.5 GAA
King of the Hill (Twentieth Television)              1.4 AA / 1.8 GAA
Judge Judy (CTD)                                           1.4 AA / 2.0 GAA
Source Nielsen Media Research – Live + SD Data

TUESDAY – A18-49 Analysis:  NBC ranked #1 yet another Tuesday night with a 3.4/10 A18-49, according to fast affiliate ratings from Nielsen Media Research. NBC won every hour in primetime: at 8p America’s Got Talent did a 3.3/11, then at 9p the second hour of the variety competition show did a 4.1/12. Also, ABC’s premiere of Shaq’s Big Challenge during 9p came in third overall with a 1.7/5. NBC kept up the momentum through 10p as the Law & Order: SVU rerun was successful with a 2.8/8.

Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 – time period averages. Source: Nielsen Media Research

NBC        6.7/12        America’s Got Talent [2-hours] 7.1/12, Law & Order: SVU [r] 6.0/10

CBS        4.6/8             NCIS [r] 5.8/10, The Unit [r] 3.7/6, 48 Hours Mystery 4.3/7         

ABC        3.3/6           According to Jim [r] 2.7/5, According to Jim [r] 2.7/5, Shaq’s Big Challenge [p] 3.0/5, Primetime: Family Secrets 4.1/7

FOX        2.9/5           On the Lot 1.5/3, House [r] 4.3/7

UNIV       1.8/3          Yo Amo a Juan Querendon 1.5/3, Destilando Amor 2.1/3, Ver para Creer 1.7/3

CW         1.0/2          Gilmore Girls [r] 1.1/2, Veronica Mars [r] 0.9/2

TELE       0.7/1          Marina 0.7/1, Zorro 0.7/1, Esclava Isaura 0.6/1

A18-49: NBC 3.4/10, ABC 1.8/5, FOX 1.7/5, CBS 1.5/5, UNIV 1.4/4, CW 0.5/2, TELE 0.4/1

 
This Day in History:  1894 – Labor Day established as a federal employees holiday

Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia:  What was the name of the character played by Louis Nye, famous for saying “Hi ho Steverino” on The Steve Allen Show?  GORDON HATHAWAY.  Kudos to: Kudos to: Jenna Walters-ITN Networks/NY; Jack Krayson-APF/Wachovia/NY; Roger Lyons-WBZ/Boston; Paul Gluck-Liveupdate Multimedia/Ardmore PA; Skip Engle-Editech Inc/Omaha; Gary Griffin VBC-Vlociti Television/Houston; Abbie Saunders-KTTC/Rochester MN; Susan Chalfant-FOX Interactive Media/Beverly Hills; Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/LA; Ann Fogelhut/Ann of Arrowhead Media/Lake Arrowhead; J.Weiss-Dailey and Assoc/LA; Larry Goldman-LMNO Productions/Encino CA; Marcy Goldman/W. Hollywood

Today’s Trivia Question: Who am I?  I am half Swedish and half Scottish – my grandfather is Swedish and my grandmother is a tiny little bunny. My mother is a “famous” author and was once on the Jay Leno show.  As a boy I attended boarding school.  I once won a Vanilla Ice look-a-like contest, and I’m very good at plucking eyebrows.  Who am I?    (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
06.28.07

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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT: Thursday, June 28, 2007

ABC:    Ugly Betty [r], Grey’s Anatomy [r], Men in Trees
CBS:    Pirate Master, CSI [r], Shark [r]
CW:     Smallville [r], Supernatural [r]
FOX:    Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?, So You Think You Can Dance
ION:    Mama’s Family, Mama’s Family, Diagnosis Murder, Wonder Years, Wonder Years
MNT:    Movie: Livin’ Large 
NBC:    My Name is Earl [r], The Office [r], The Office [r], The Office [r], Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip [f ]
PBS:    International Dance Sport World Championships, All-American Presidential Forum, Why We Sing!
TELE:   Marina, Zorro, Esclava Isaura
UNIV:   Yo amo a Juan Querendon, Destilando Amor, Aqui y Ahora

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