A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM COMCAST SPOTLIGHT
CYNTHIA TURNER’S
Cynopsis
05/18/06
Good Morning. It’s Thursday, May 18, 2006, and this is your first early morning briefing.
CBS’s 2006-07 PRIMETIME SCHEDULE:
Monday:
8p How I Met Your Mother
830p The Class
9p Two and a Half Men
930p The New Adventures of Old Christine
10p CSI: Miami
Tuesday:
8p NCIS
9p The Unit
10p Smith
Wednesday:
8p Jericho
9p Criminal Minds
10p CSI: NY
Thursday:
8p Survivor
9p CSI
10p Shark
Friday:
8p Ghost Whisperer
9p Close to Home
10p Numb3rs
SATURDAY
8p Crimetime Saturday
9p Crimetime Saturday
10p 48 Hours Mystery
SUNDAY
7p 60 Minutes
8p The Amazing Race
9p Cold Case
10p Without a Trace
Tonight’s Finales:
FOX: That ’70s Show 200th Episode at 8p
ABC: American Inventor at 9p
NBC: Will & Grace at 9p, and ER at 10p
CBS: Without a Trace at 10p
The last two broadcast upfront presentations are scheduled for today — The CW this morning, and Fox at the end of the day:
- The CW will bring back many of the more popular series from WB and UPN, including hit series 7th Heaven, Gilmore Girls, Smallville, Supernatural, One Tree Hill from the WB; and Everybody Hates Chris, All of Us, Girlfriends, Veronica Mars and WWE Smackdown from UPN. Also expected to return are America’s Next Top Model and Beauty & the Geek. Only two new series for The CW in the fall – Runaway (Sony Pictures Television) and The Game (CBS Paramount Network TV), the latter being a spinoff of Girlfriends. Also in the hopper is primetime soap Palm Springs from Kevin Williamson (Lionsgate Television).
- As for Fox – two things to know. What you know as the drama pilot Primary about crisis negotiators has been retitled as Standoff; and what you may recall as American Crime also has a new name – Justice. Other new shows to be announced this afternoon are The Wedding Album, The Winner, Happy Hour, Til Death and Vanished.
Sometimes saying good-bye is the hardest thing to do, or the easiest depending on your point of view. Meredith Vieira will say farewell live on June 9, when she leaves her post as moderator of ABC’s The View. Earlier in the week, viewers will take a stroll down memory lane with Meredith as the show airs segments of some of the funny and outlandish things she did during the last nine years. There will also be teary good-byes with her on-air co-hosts and crew and a final “Celebrity Roast”. Later in September, Meredith says “hello!” to Today on NBC as co-anchor with Matt Lauer.
MTV Networks and Microsoft Corp. unveiled a new digital music service that is integrated into the new Microsoft Windows Media Player 11 beta. URGE will build on MTV Networks’ music heritage offering editorials and blogs, more than 500 custom playlists, music feeds generated right to users’ PCs or iPods, auto music mixes, more than 130 radio stations in a variety of formats, and it will be a hub for MTV, VH1 and CMT to feature their own music programming, playlists, blogs and more.
NBC Universal Cable will offer the film Brokeback Mountain on VOD and pay-per-view starting today. Coinciding with the film’s premiere, NBCU will donate $10,000 to Cable Positive, a non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness about AIDS and HIV and the fight against it. Each time a Brokeback Mountain e-card is sent via www.universalvod.net, NBCU will donate $1 to Cable Positive, and it will also donate $5,000 to each participating local Cable Positive chapter.
So You Think You Can Dance returns next Thursday on FOX for a new season hosted by Cat Deeley. The show, which discovers new dancing talent in a competition to become America’s #1 dancer, begins its second season with dance auditions in New York and Charleston.
LIME, the healthy living network brand, is teaming with Sprint to offer its customers new content. Sprint’s PCS Vision and Power Vision consumers can obtain health tips, food advice, jet lag remedies and more through LIME’s new mobile platform.
Today’s edition of Cynopsis: Multi-Cultural Edition includes all the Hispanic market upfront news from ESPN Deportes, Univision and Galavision. Yesterday’s covered Fox Sports en Espanol, Telemundo, mun2 and Univision Radio. Tomorrow? Telefutura. It’s been a busy week all around! If you want to check out yesterday or today’s edition, go to www.cynopsis.com and click on Editions where you’ll see MCE.
UPFRONT 2006: CBS
For its 2006-07 primetime schedule, CBS unveiled plans for four new programs and 18 returning series, including six from last season’s freshman class. CBS has ordered one new comedy:
- The Class – A group of twentysomethings who were all in the same third grade class reunite and are forever bound together after wondering if they have anything in common besides vague memories. From Warner Bros. Television.
And three new dramas:
- Smith – Starring Ray Liotta as a criminal mastermind who heads a crew, plots and executes high-stakes heists, all while being married and leading a seemingly comfortable, lawful life. Virginia Madsen also stars playing Liotta’s wife. From Warner Bros. Television.
- Jericho – The residents of a small Kansas town are thrown into chaos when a nuclear bomb explodes leaving them to think they might be the only people left alive. Stars Skeet Ulrich, Gerald McRaney among others. Produced by CBS Paramount Network Television in association with Junction Entertainment.
- Shark – James Woods stars as Sebastian Stark, an overly-confident defense attorney who decides to become a good guy working for the L.A. District Attorney’s High Profile Crime Unit. Produced by Imagine Entertainment in association with Twentieth Century Fox Television.
The returning series include CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Two and a Half Men, The Unit, Criminal Minds, The New Adventures of Old Christine, 60 Minutes, Survivor, The Amazing Race, How I Met Your Mother, King of Queens (midseason), Ghost Whisperer, Close to Home, CSI: Miami, NCIS, CSI: NY, Numb3ers, Cold Case, Without a Trace, 48 Hours: Mystery and Crimetime Saturday.
Not on the schedule: Out of Practice, Yes Dear, Everything I Know About Men, Still Standing, Courting Alex
I am delighted to tell you media veteran Mark Bohn joins Cynopsis as VP/Director of Sales overseeing Cynopsis and Cynopsis: Kids, effective Monday, May 22. Mark’s sales career includes positions with Viacom, Fox Cable Networks and A&E. He helped launch a successful technology based marketing start-up and ran ad sales for an internet company. Give a holler here in the office – he’ll be here Monday and Tuesday. Thereafter, he’s based in New Jersey and we’ll make sure you have all his contact information.
Eight-time Emmy Award winner for writing and producing, Glen Charles will serve on the Board of Directors for the Charlotte-based edutainment company, Educational Adventures.
Tuesday – A18-49 Analysis: FOX was down slightly but still won Tuesday night with a 9.9/25 A1849, according to fast affiliate ratings from Nielsen Media Research. CBS was second at 4.1/10, followed by NBC 3.3/9, ABC 2.2/6, UNIV 1.5/4, UPN 0.8/2, WB 0.7/2 and TELE 0.5/1. At 8p, there was no touching American Idol on FOX; it overpowered the rest with 10.7/29. House on FOX at 9p prevailed with 9.1/22. Then at 10p, NBC with the season finale of Law & Order: SVU took the hour with 5.2/13.
Live + Same Day Ratings: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 – time period averages. Source: Nielsen Media Research
FOX 15.0/23 American Idol 16.3/26, House 13.6/21
CBS 9.1/14 NCIS – Finale 10.4/16, The Unit 8.8/13, The Unit – Finale 8.0/13
ABC 5.3/8 Celebrity Debut 3.2/5, Boston Legal – Finale (2 hours) 6.3/10
NBC 5.2/8 Will & Grace [r] 2.7/4, Will & Grace [r] 2.7/4, Scrubs 3.9/6, Scrubs – Finale 4.2/6, Law & Order: SVU – Finale 8.8/14
UNIV 1.9/3 La Fea Mas Bella 2.0/3, Barrera de Amor 2.1/3, Ver para Creer 1.5/2
UPN 1.2/2 America’s Next Top Model [r] 1.5/2, Veronica Mars [r] 0.9/1
WB 1.1/2 Gilmore Girls [r] 1.2/2, Pepper Dennis 1.0/2
TELE 0.6/1 Tierra de Pasiones 0.7/1, Corazon Partido 0.6/1, Decisiones 0.6/1
A18-49: FOX 9.9/25, CBS 4.1/10, NBC 3.3/9, ABC 2.2/6, UNIV 1.5/4, UPN 0.8/2, WB 0.7/2, TELE 0.5/1
The History Channel presents This Day in History:
1898 – In Plessy v. Ferguson, the U.S. Supreme Court delivers a landmark victory for supporters of racial segregation when it finds that “equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races” is constitutional. The court reversed this ruling fifty-six years later in Brown v. Board of Education.
Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question: Yesterday in Cynopsis we mentioned Skeet Ulrich starring in a new show on CBS. What film other than Scream did Skeet star in with Neve Campbell? THE CRAFT Kudos to: Shannon Fields-Time Warner/OH; Katie Tabolt-Omni Automotive Advertising/Boca Raton FL; Joseph Lurie-WLWC/Providence; Kelly Kaufman-NBC Universal/NY; Jen Allen-The Weather Channel/Chicago; Natalie Parillo-Kelly Scott & Madison/Chicago; Jacquie Stern-CBS Paramount/Chicago; Sara Gallegos-KWGN/Colorado; Mike Heflin-Cannella Response/LA; Josh Harris-New Wave Entertainment/Burbank; Julia Sen-G4 Media/LA; Jennifer Nishimura-TV Guide/Hollywood CA; Chris Kealey-Cookie Jar Ent/Toronto.
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05.18.06 – 4:36a
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT: Thursday, May 18, 2006
ABC American Inventor [r], American Inventor [f], Primetime
CBS CSI [r], CSI, Without a Trace [f ]
FOX That ’70s Show 200th Episode [f] , The OC
NBC NBC Specials: Will & Grace, Will & Grace [f ], ER [f ]
i Sue Thomas F.B. Eye, Doc, Breaking The Da Vinci Code
UPN Everybody Hates Chris [r], Love, Inc. [r], Eve [r], Cuts [r]
WB The WB Movie: Drumline
TELE Tierra de Pasiones, Corazon Partido, Decisiones
UNIV La Fea Mas Bella, Barerra de Amor, Aqui y Ahora
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