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Good morning. It’s Thursday, May 14, 2009, and this is your first early morning briefing. Tonight’s Premieres: Tonight’s Finales: A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM DEBMAR-MERCURY Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns…Bigger than TBS’ Biggest Comedies Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns … Available Fall 2010 from Debmar Mercury Source: NHI Explorer, L+SD, M-F 4p-12a, 1/5/09-2/6/09, (000). ~ MORE GOOD STUFF ~
FOX renewed its frosh drama series Lie To Me starring Tim Roth for a second season. Shawn Ryan, creator/executive producer of The Shied also joins the series as an executive producer and show-runner. Imagine Television in association with 20th Century Fox Television produces. In addition, FOX picked up two new series, the drama Human Target from Warner Bros. TV, DC Comics and Wonderland; as well as the single-camera comedy Sons of Tucson from 20th TV and J2TV. Mark Valley headlines Human Target as Christopher Chance, a freelance security guy who takes on the identities of the people in danger he is hired to protect. Sons of Tucson stars Tyler Labine as a charming hustler employed by three young brothers to act as their father while their real dad is serving a prison sentence for a white-collar crime. Starz approved a second season of Party Down, its new 30m comedy about a Los Angeles catering team made up of Hollywood wannabes hoping to catch their big break. Starz Media produces the series which has an ensemble cast starring Ken Marino, Adam Scott, Martin Starr, Ryan Hansen and Lizzy Caplan. Programming note: A&E Network’s Gene Simmons Family Jewels will premiere a special one-hour episode of the new 15-episode season on June 7 at 9p. BBC America debuts a reality competition series next month where a new Maria, star of the revival of The Sound of Music in London’s West End will be chosen. The series, How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria? opens with a 60m episode June 7 at 10p followed by seven two-hour episodes airing Sundays at 8p. Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, Graham Norton and John Barrowman are involved as 55 candidates were selected to attend “Maria School” from open auditions across the UK. The competition whittles down to 20 contestants who are then put through the rigor and voted on by the British public. Judges include Webber, Barrowman, theatre producer David Ian and vocal coach Zoe Tyler. Bravo’s Jersey Girls brought in the highest ratings ever for a premiere episode of its “Real Housewives” franchise over all demos. The Real Housewives of New Jersey premiere on Tuesday at 11p attracted 1.26 million A18-49 and 1.72 million total viewers. Compared to the series debut of The Real Housewives of Atlanta, the New Jersey version was up 186% among A18-49 and up 161% with total viewers. The Real Housewives of New Jersey also posted dramatic increases compared to The Real Housewives of New York City and The Real Housewives of Orange County. Starting next week, The Real Housewives of New Jersey moves to its regular time slot of Tuesdays at 10p. BET’s season two finale of its gospel competition series Sunday Best posted a 1.3 BET Coverage rating with 1.2 million plus households and 1.7 million viewers watching. DTV Update: With about four weeks to go until the June 12 digital transition date, Nielsen reports the number of completely unready US TV households continues to decrease. To date, 3.3 million or 2.9% of US TV households remain completely unready. This overall number improved by more than 200,000 households during the last two weeks. UPFRONT 2009: HISTORY HISTORY delves into this year’s upfront with new original programming and event specials after polishing off record ratings among A25-54 and A18-49 in 2008 and ending the year as the #1 non-sports, non-fiction network with M25-54. The network also has seen its ratings jump during first quarter 2009 as it posted a 7% increase with A25-54 and an 8% gain with A18-49 compared to last year. New HISTORY series include:
Out of five upcoming HISTORY specials, a couple of notable ones include:
HISTORY confirms it is returning the following series to its schedule: Ice Road Truckers, Ax Men, How the Earth Was Made, The Universe, Monsterquest, Ancient Discoveries and Modern Marvels. UPFRONT 2009: V-me Spanish broadcast network, V-me hosts its second upfront presentation May 20. In partnership with public television stations nationwide, the 24-hour network is currently available to more than 60% of all Hispanic homes and this number is expected to rise to 80% by the end of 2009. V-me introduces new and returning series as well as music entertainment programming to its lineup. New music entertainment series:
New V-me reality series:
Returning V-me series include: the original music entertainment interview program, Estudio Billboard; the factual entertainment series, Wild Chronicles/Cronicas Salvajes; the Spanish cooking show, El Gourmet; and the educational kids series, LazyTown. A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM TV GUIDE NETWORKTM
TV Guide Network celebrates Idol’s finale
with nightly original programming starting May 18th. New episodes of Idol Tonight lead up to the red carpet extravaganza, Idol Tonight: Live at the Finale on Wednesday, May 20th with continued coverage throughout the rest of the week! We’ve Got Idol Finale Week Covered! ~ DISTRIBUTION, CLEARANCE & CARRIAGE ~
MGM is quickly selling its MGM Prime-Time Sunday Movie package to The CW affiliates. The movie package is secured in 65% of the US on Tribune Broadcasting Company-owned CW stations in addition to other broadcast groups with CW stations including Sunbeam TV Corporation, Capitol Broadcasting Company, Gray Television Inc., Freedom Communication, Inc. and the CW Plus station group. MGM began programming the 8-10p Sunday slot on CW affiliates last fall. MGM will offer an upgraded library of titles such as Legally Blonde, Overboard and four James Bond films. mun2, the lifestyle network targeting Latinos 18-34, announced its distribution is now at 30.4 million US households as of this month, based on data from Nielsen. DISH Network Corporation made a long-term deal with Racetrack Television Network and HorseRacing TV to offer a monthly subscription racing package. The package, Racetrack Television Network offered to DISH Network subscribers will include nearly 80 channels of live racing with racetracks having their own dedicated channels. Each live simulcast feed will offer complete wagering information, paddock shots and post parades. ~ PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT ~
As part of its overall deal with CBS, Katalyst Media and CBS Television Distribution (CTD) are teaming to develop a television series centered on the Blah Girls, online animated characters created by David & Goliath, Inc. The series premiered yesterday on CTD’s The Insider with one-minute interstitials where the three “girls” – Krystle, Tiffany and Britney dish on everything happening in Hollywood and today’s pop culture. The series will also air on TheInsider.com, where fans can watch the episodes, leave comments and interact with the characters. ABC is working with RDF USA and executive producer Tom Forman to adapt the reality format Find My Family, per Variety. A Dutch property currently airing in Australia, Find My Family is about people in search of long-lost friends or relatives. The series is expected to have just as much emotional impact as Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Forman’s other series for ABC, with each episode relating multiple stories and viewers witnessing reunions. Tim Green, former pro NFL player and Lisa Joyner, entertainment TV reporter will co-host. ABC has not made a firm commitment to the show though is expected to make a decision in the next couple of months. Forman will executive produce through his own company, RelativityReal along with RDF’s Greg Goldman, Chris Coelen and Tony Yates; Julie Laughlin-Jones also serves as executive producer. Scottish actor David Tennant, known for playing the title role in the BBC sci-fi series Doctor Who, will become the new host of PBS’ Masterpiece Contemporary, reports THR. Masterpiece Contemporary begins this October with Endgame, a drama starring William Hurt and Jonny Lee Miller that made its debut at Sundance Film Festival this year. Casting Call: FOX’s original dance show, So You Think You Can Dance will host auditions for the series’ sixth season beginning May 28 in Boston at Hyatt Regency Boston; June 1 in Atlanta at Woodruff Arts Center; June 12 in Los Angeles at the Orpheum Theatre; and July 24 in Salt Lake City (venue TBA). Additional audition cities and venues will be announced at a later date. Interested candidates should be at least 18 years old and not older than 30 years old on the first day of audition registration. Participants who travel to cities for the open calls should plan on staying at least two days following their first audition in case of a callback. For more information on the season six auditions, visit fox.com/dance. So You Think You Can Dance is a production of 19 Entertainment, Ltd. and Dick Clark Productions. Season five debuts later this month on FOX over two nights on May 21 and 27 at 8p. ~ ELSEWHERE IN CYNOPSIS ~
CYNOPSIS DIGITAL – TODAY’S TOP STORY: Fiercely independent (and famously altruistic) online classified service Craigslist announced it will remove its “erotic services” category from its U.S. website next week after receiving increased pressure from law enforcement agencies. It is replacing it with a new “adult services” category where listings must be manually approved by Craigslist staffers. In Nov. 2008, Craigslist and the attorney generals of over 40 States struck a deal to implement new screening policies requiring telephone and credit card verification before users were allowed to post erotic services listings. But things came to head for Craig Newmark and his small staff after the alleged murder of a masseuse by a BU medical student – who police say was found through her Craigslist ad. CEO Jim Buckmaster pointed to research that Craigslist classifieds are associated with far lower rates of violent crime than traditional print ads in blog posting explaining the decision. Full edition: CYN DIGITAL. CYNOPSIS KIDS – TODAY’S TOP STORY: Warner Bros. and Silver Pictures have tapped Evan Daugherty to pen another draft of their feature film adaptation of Mattel’s He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, which is titled Grayskull, per THR. John Stevenson (Kung Fu Panda) will direct the movie. This is Daugherty’s first feature film, in fact his writing credits prior to this includes only an unproduced screenplay titled Shrapnel. Justin Marks wrote the first version of the Grayskull movie script. Full edition: CYN KIDS. A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM PRODUCERS GUILD OF AMERICA
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Top 10 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of 4/27-5/3/09 ranked by HH Rtg Top 10 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of 4/27-5/3/09 ranked by A18-49 Rtg Tuesday – A18-49 Analysis: During a night of weighty endings, FOX proved it still is #1 Tuesday among A18-49 with 6.1/16 A18-49 according to final national ratings from Nielsen Media Research. As the May Sweep heat turns up, FOX’s American Idol sizzled during 8p with 8.0/23 while hour one of the three-hour season finale of NBC’s The Biggest Loser came next at 3.6/11. At 9p, NBC was a strong contender as The Biggest Loser hit #1 with 5.2/13 followed by the first season finale of FOX’s Fringe at 3.9/10. Then at 10p, NBC’s final reveal of The Biggest Loser held steady on top with 5.5/15 with CBS’ Without a Trace placing second at 2.8/7. Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 (May Sweep Day 20) time period averages. Source: NTI Galaxy, as dated. Live+SD CBS: 9.7/15 NCIS 10.2/16, The Mentalist 10.1/15, Without a Trace 8.8/15 FOX: 9.5/15 American Idol 13.0/21, Fringe [f] 5.5/8 NBC: 7.1/11 The Biggest Loser 7 [f] 7.1/11 ABC: 5.1/8 According to Jim 2.7/4, According to Jim 2.6/4, Dancing with the Stars Results 9.1/14, Cupid 3.3/5 UNIV: 2.5/4 Cuidado con El Angel 2.1/3, Manana para Siempre 2.6/4, Aqui y Ahora 2.7/5 CW: 1.3/2 Reaper 1.3/2, 90210 1.4/2 MNT: 0.8/1 Street Patrol 0.7/1, Street Patrol 2 0.7/1, Jail 0.8/1, Jail 2 [r] 0.8/1 TELE: 0.7/1 Dona Barbara 0.7/1, El Rostro de Analia 0.7/1, Sin Senos No Hay Paraiso 0.7/1, Cartel T 0.7/1 ION: 0.3/0 Boston Legal [r] 0.2/0, Boston Legal [r] 0.3/0, Boston Legal [r] 0.3/1 A18-49: FOX 6.1/16, NBC 4.7/13, CBS 3.1/8, ABC 1.9/5, UNIV 1.9/5, CW 1.0/3, TELE 0.6/2, MNT 0.4/1, ION 0.1/0 ~ EXECUTIVE MOVES ~
Seth Metsch advanced to Digital Media Counsel with A&E Television Networks (AETN), up from Director/Legal and Business Affairs. Seth is in charge of negotiating and drafting deals involving domestic and international digital media agreements, involving video distribution to broadband and mobile platforms. Seth will also be the head negotiator on digital media for domestic cable television affiliate distribution agreements in addition to working with AETN’s interactive and e-commerce units. VIP2000 TV named former Telemundo and Azteca America executive Harry Abraham-Castillo as COO. In his new position, Harry’s first project will include overseeing VIP2000’s interests in the newly formed CASABLANCO VIP 888, a joint venture with VIP2000 and Brazilian independent production company Casablanca.
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