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Good Morning. It’s Thursday, October 18, 2007 and this is your first early morning briefing. The CW was the first network to order a second season of a freshman series, Gossip Girl, and it is now the first network to officially cancel a freshman series – Online Nation. If you haven’t heard of it or didn’t get a chance to watch it — neither did anyone else, thus the cancellation. The Sunday night time period will be filled with reruns of Aliens in America starting this weekend. And, lest you think this is the second cancellation of the season – not so. Fox tabled Nashville in early September, and said it would return later in the season – not an official cancellation. Tonight’s Premieres: Tonight’s Finales: HALLMARK CHANNEL DELIVERS RECORD-BREAKING THIRD QUARTER
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Mark your calendars – Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles has been given a premiere date – Monday, January 14 at 8p on Fox, leading into the season premiere of 24. And that’s a pretty cushy neighborhood! This series picks up were Terminator 2: Judgment Day left off. In the role of Sarah Connor is Lena Headey, with Thomas Dekker as her son Thomas. Carat has won the media accounts for Outback Steakhouse and Carrabba’s, a combined $110 million account. Carat will handle on and offline media planning and buying, outdoor, digital, direct mail and emerging media. Carat will work with its sister agencies on this account, with outdoor being handled by Posterscope USA. Velocity Sports and Entertainment currently handles the sports marketing account for Outback Steakhouse. Versus kicks off a new series on October 25th at 8p called Greatest High School Football Rivalries, and in the debut episode, it’s Union Redskins vs. the Jenks Trojans. This weekly series highlights six of the country top match-ups in high school football this season. Four of those six are also nationally ranked in the top 20. The series will be produced by NFL Films in a one-hour documentary style. Peachtree TV launched on October 1st as part of Turner Broadcasting System’s local Atlanta broadcast platform. The channel is now prepping its first original series – Drumline: SWD: Best Band in the Land, a 30m unscripted series taking viewers behind the scenes of the Southwest DeKalb High School Marching Panther Band, a band featured the 2002 Dallas Austin film Drumline. Peachtree has ordered 8 episodes and will launch the show on Tuesday, November 20 at 8p. Nielsen and ESPN are collaborating to measure how consumers use media across multiple platforms including television, the internet and digital mobile devices. A new TV/Internet Covergence Panel will integrate TV and internet usage within the same home liking data from People Meters, Nielsen/NetRatings metering and Nielsen Mobile. ESPN advertisers will be able to view combined metrics such as time spent watching across multiplatform ESPN promotions. Cynopsis Weekender College Edition returns on November 15th! Here’s how it works — if you’re currently a college student here or abroad, submit to Cynopsis your essay of 350 words or less on any topic relating to television. If your essay is one of four chosen as the most insightful, original, humorous and/or well-written, it will included in a special College Edition of Weekender. All four winning essay writers are awarded $350. Entries must be emailed no later than Friday, November 9th to me at ~ PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT ~
The SciFi Channel has a new drama project in the works – Revolution from CBS Paramount Network TV takes the American Revolution and puts it 200 years in the future, set on a distant planet known as New America, reports THR. The planet is looking to separate itself from the mother planet, and much like the colonists of the early 1700’s, begins a revolution. The project is from writers Ed Redlich and John Bellucci. Production on the pilot begins first of the year. A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM HALLMARK CHANNEL HALLMARK CHANNEL DELIVERS RECORD-BREAKING THIRD QUARTER
The Top 10 Network delivers its Source: Nielsen Galaxy Explorer (7/2-9/30/07) ~ EXECUTIVE MOVES ~
Litton Entertainment added Brian Byrne as EVP/Media Sales, based in Litton’s New York offices. Fox Reality Channel promoted Noel Siegel to VP/Production and Development. Noel will be responsible for all current productions for the network, including series and specials, and will continue his oversight of all development projects and development staff. California based Hyper Image hired Neil Weiner as Sales and Marketing executive. Hyper Image is a creative shop with editorial, audio, animation and effects services delivering animated series to CBS morning lineup and shows for HGTV. Matthew Braatz upped to SVP/Technology and Operations for the NBC Universal stations group, reporting to John Wallace, President, NBC Universal Television Stations. Matthew will oversee and lead the engineering, operations, IT and technology efforts for NBC Universal’s owned-and- operated television stations. He will also work closely with other groups within the stations’ organization, including the digital team and out-of-home sales group, to identify growth opportunities and synergies across the division. Douglass Craig was upped to SVP/Digital Media Operations for Discovery Communications, reporting to Josh Freeman, EVP/Digital Media. Craig is responsible for managing content strategy for Discovery On Demand and Discovery Mobile as well as developing content distribution partnerships within the digital space. Maverick Global brought in Adam Wright as its new SVP/International Distribution and Domestic Television Sales at Maverick Entertainment Group. He will manage the global sales, marketing, and distribution for the company’s movie catalog and TV negotiations in the U.S. Previously at PorchLight Entertainment as SVP/Worldwide Sales, Adam will now report to EVP Pamela White. ~ ELSEWHERE AT CYNOPSIS … ~
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Top 10 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of 10/1/07-10/7/07 ranked by HH Rtg New M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of 10/1/07-10/7/07 ranked by HH Rtg Top 10 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of 10/1/07-10/7/07 ranked by A18-49 Rtg New M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of 10/1/07-10/7/07 ranked by A18-49 Rtg Tuesday – A18-49 Analysis: Fox led on Tuesday night according to National Final ratings from Nielsen Media Research,. pulling a 3.8/11 in the Adult 18-49 demo for the night. NCIS on CBS won the 8p hour delivering a 4.1/12. At 9p the ALCS game on Fox beat Dancing with the Stars by a share point – 4.4/11 vs. 4.5/12. At 11p, NBC chimed in to win the hour with Law & Order: SVU earning a 4.8/13. Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 National Final ratings. Source: NTI Galaxy, as dated. Live+SD. CBS: 8.2/13 NCIS 10.9/17, The Unit 7.8/12, Cane 5.8/10 FOX: 7.9/13 ALCS: Boston vs. Cleveland 8.2/13 ABC: 7.6/12 Cavemen 4.6/7, Carpoolers 4.6/7, Dancing with the Stars Results 11.5/17, Boston Legal 6.6.11 NBC: 5.7/9 Matt Laurer Reports: Larry Craig 4.1/7, The Biggest Loser 4.6/7, Law & Order: SVU 8.4/14 CW: 2.3/3 Beauty and the Geek 2.4/4, Reaper 2.1/3 UNIV: 2.0/3 Amar sin Limites 1.6/2, Destilando Amor 2.8/4, S.O.S: S#xo y otros secretos 1.6/3 MNT: 0.9/1 The Academy [r] 0.8/1, Jail 1.2/2, Jail [r] 1.1/2 TELE: 0.6/1 Madre Luna 0.8/1, La Esclava Isaura 0.7/1, Pecados Ajenos 0.4/1 A18-49: Fox 3.8/11, ABC 3.3/9, CBS 3.3/9, NBC 3.2/9, UNIV 1.6/4, CW 1.6/4, MNT 0.6/2, Tele 0.4/1
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Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question: At the end of what popular variety show would you hear the cast sing a song that began: “We loved the time we spent with you, to share a song and a laugh or two, may your pleasures be many, your troubles be few… ? HEE HAW Kudos to: Rhonda Lacey-WCYB/VA; Chris Day-The Weather Channel/Atlanta; Ged Young-CBS Affiliate Relations/NY; Marcy Vincent-The Weather Channel/Atlanta; Kyle Krebs-KLTY/Dallas; Nancy Thurman-WALA/WBPG/FL; Maeve Moreland-MMT/Chicago; Bryan Graves-SpotPlus/Dallas; Rose Pacatte-Pauline Center for Media Studies/Culver City, CA; Beth Leverett-MediaFLO USA, Inc./CA; Vic Lowrey-Vic Lowrey Video Productions/Santa Clarita, CA; Dale Warshaw-KMSB/KTTU/Tucson; Matt Johnston-BBC Voices/Norwich, England Later — Cyn Cynopsis Ad Sales: Cynopsis website – Video Resumes, Extended Classified Ads, Archives, and the Cynopsis Daily Video To Subscribe to any Cynopsis editions, go to www.cynopsis.com and click on the Subscribe tab CableU – Know Networks Better. Pitch Smarter. 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