A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM COMCAST SPOTLIGHT
Cynopsis
10/26/06
Good morning. It’s Thursday, October 26, 2006, and this is your first early morning briefing.
Starting November 30, NBC will revamp its Thursday primetime schedule as Scrubs returns and 30 Rock is added, making a two-hour comedy block. The Thursday night line-up will be My Name Is Earl at 8p, The Office at 830p, Scrubs at 9p and 30 Rock at 930p and ER at 10p. Beginning November 22, NBC will air various specials on Wednesday nights from 8-9p that will soon be announced. Also on November 16, NBC will air super-sized 40-minute episodes of My Name Is Earl, The Office and 30 Rock. Without any further mention of 20 Good Years, one has to assume it will not be returning to the schedule after it gets bumped on 11/22.
And ABC has once again displaced Extreme Makeover, removing it after just one play on Friday at 8p, and replacing it once again with repeats of Grey’s Anatomy.
News Corp. and Nielsen Media Research have apparently kissed and made up with the signing of an 8-year agreement that brings to an end the Personal PeopleMeters technology vs. urban market audience measurements debate and the Don’t Count Us Out pressure group. Nielsen will allocate $50 million to programs that help determine counting accuracies connected to youth and minority groups. It will provide audience measurement services for 49 News Corp. TV entities, consolidating over 150 individual agreements between the companies. The agreement includes FOX Broadcasting Company, FOX News Channel, FX, SPEED, National Geographic Channel, Fox Soccer Channel, Fox Sports Net, Fox Sports en Espanol, DIRECTV, Twentieth Television and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
BBC America has made recent deals with Buena Vista and Sony for movie packages from both distributors. The upcoming titles from Buena Vista include Calendar Girls, The Quiet American, Kinky Boots, Essex Boys and Ethan Frome, and the films from Sony are Four Weddings and a Funeral and Shallow Grave.
ION Media Networks, Inc., owner of the largest local station group an the i network reaching more than 92 million homes, has reached an agreement with RHI Entertainment whereby RHI will be its exclusive program content provider for Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights, from 7-11p, for a total of 12 hours per week. The revenue share deal is initially for a two-year period beginning July 1, 2007. The terms of the agreement also include the U.S. broadcast premiere of a minimum of six new RHI productions each year. Both companies will work together on program scheduling, the development of on-air promotions and advertising sales strategy.
TBS and MySpace are co-hosting an online comedy competition, The Stand Up or Sit Down Comedy Challenge, inviting amateur comics to submit video samples through the MySpace profile at http://myspace.com/StandUpOrSitDown. Starting this week, visitors will have the chance to vote for the top finalists. Five comedians will ultimately have the opportunity to perform in a one-hour special hosted by George Lopez, filmed at The Comedy Festival in Las Vegas. The special will debut on TBS November 17 at 10p. Further voting via MySpace will occur after the TV special, and the one winner will be announced live on TBS during the network’s simulcast of Comic Relief 2006 on November 18. The overall winner will receive $50,000, a development deal and additional prizes. The comedy challenge special is produced by Levity Productions.
Comedy Central will premiere two new broadband series, starting with Good God, which begins today. The six-episode live action comedy is similar to The Office but with God as the boss, and his staff of angels including Gabriel, Associate Archangel; Heidi, Angel of Heavenly Affairs; Michael, Managing Archangel; and Death, the Angel of Death. The second series, Baxter & McGuire, debuts November 6 and runs over eight weeks. From the co-creator of The King of Queens, Baxter & McGuire is an animated comedy about two close buddies who also happen to be testicles. Both series can be found at comedycentral.com.
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A handful of recurring role castings:
- Liev Schreiber has joined the cast of CBS’ CSI in a recurring role as a crime scene investigator. His first appearance will be in the series’ twelfth episode, next January.
- Powers Boothe joins the cast of 24 as the new Vice President, Noah Daniels
- Kip Pardue is added to the lineup on ER, in the role of a male nurse
- Mark Deklin becomes a recurring character on Desperate Housewives as a widower with a young daughter
Bravo has ordered up Top Hair (wt) from Reveille. Known in development as Heads Up, Top Hair is a one hour series in eight parts, searching for the best American hairstylist. Beginning with simple hair styles and working up to major hair makeovers, Top Hair offers the competitors weekly challenges until one remains to win the $100,000 and other prizes. Sound like something you could handle? Casting is going on now in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, Chicago and Miami, and all licensed stylists are welcome to meet with Top Hair casting producers. For information and to schedule an interview, visit www.BravoTV.com/Contestants or contact [email protected] .
HGTV has ordered season two of HGTV Design Star, the network’s highest-rated series ever, and has announced the second nationwide search for professional and amateur designers, architects and artists. Submissions will be accepted now through December 1, and applications, entry rules and information can be found at http://www.HGTV.com. The new season of HGTV Design Star will air next summer over eight weeks. The winner of season one, David Bromstad is the subject of a special four-episode series, Making of an HGTV Design Star that premieres on November 2 at 11p. David’s own show, Color Splash is set to debut next spring.
Fox has ordered up a new drama project about a bounty hunter who travels the globe looking for bad guys, while at the same time trying to deal with his own fear of foreign people and places. According to Variety, the project is from Vince McKewin and Sandy Grushow, Phase Two Prods and 20th Century Fox TV.
FX has a project in development, currently called Charming, CA, about a violent outlaw motorcycle gang. The project is from Art and John Linson and Kurt Sutter, the latter being the exec producer of FX’s series The Shield, and he will write the pilot script of this new project.
Kristin Bragg has been bumped to VP/Strategic Planning, CNN Ad Sales Division at Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. She manages the strategic analysis and the news ad sales business for the cable network and its interactive components. In addition, she will oversee the CNN sales information group in Atlanta. Based in New York, she reports to Alissa Marshall, SVP/Strategic Planning, Turner Ad Sales Division.
Jupiter Entertainment has upped Robert Twilley to VP/GM to supervise the company’s operations including production, business administration and staffing/hiring.
Tuesday – A18-49 Analysis: ABC and FOX both claimed the #1 position Tuesday night with 4.2/11 A18-49, according to fast affiliate ratings from Nielsen Media Research. Following in second place was NBC 3.3/9, and then CBS 2.9/8, CW 1.7/5, UNIV 1.5/4 and TELE 0.5/1. ABC secured a win during 8p with Dancing with the Stars at 5.0/14; the World Series Game #3 was second at 3.5/9. The World Series led at 9p with 4.7/12, just a tenth of a rating point ahead of ABC’s combo of Dancing/Stars and Help Me Help You at 4.6/12. Then at 10p, the big game again was out in front with a 4.6/12.
Live + Same Day Ratings: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 – time period averages. Source: Nielsen Media Research
ABC 10.4/16 Dancing with the Stars (1.5 hours) 13.9/21, Help Me Help You 7.5/11, Boston Legal 7.1/12
FOX 9.2/14 MLB World Series Game #3 9.2/14
CBS 6.6/10 NCIS [r] 7.5/11, The Unit [r] 6.2/9, Criminal Minds [r] 6.0/10
NBC 5.8/9 Friday Night Lights 4.0/6, Law & Order: CI [r] 6.2/9, Law & Order: SVU [r]led2/12
CW 2.7/4 Gilmore Girls 3.2/5, Veronica Mars 2.2/3
UNIV 2.0/3 La Fea Más Bella 2.5/4, Mundo de Fieras 2.0/3, Ver para Creer 1.5/2
TELE 0.6/1 Tierra de Pasiones 0.9/1, Marina 0.7/1, Amores 0.5/1, Decisiones 0.5/1
A18-49: ABC 4.2/11, FOX 4.2/11, NBC 3.3/9, CBS 2.9/8, CW 1.7/5, UNIV 1.5/4, TELE 0.5/1
The History Channel presents This Day in History:
1825-Governor DeWitt Clinton of New York formally opens the Erie Canal, which connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean via the Hudson River. It took more than two years for an army of poorly paid and equipped Irish laborers to dig the canal, which was just four feet deep.
Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question: This little guy with a top hat and cane dancing to the Bay City Rollers #1 song, was an advertisement during the 70’s for what? MR. PEANUT FOR PLANTER’S PEANUTS Kudos to: Greg Scordato/NY; Chris O’Reilly-ITN Networks/NY; Ellen Donahue-Fisher- Price/East Aurora NY; Meredith Walters-Channel One Network/West Palm Beach; Jennifer Washington-Time Warner Cable Media Sales/Houston; Cat Skow-Metro Networks/St Louis; Loretta Norman-GSD&M/San Antonio; Chin Thammasaengsri-Westlake Signal Group/LA; Randy Warner-Special Looks Ent/LA; Eugene E. Scala Jr-The Zamzow Group/Beverly Hills; Melissa Marshall-Schiefer Media, Inc/Santa Ana CA
Today’s Trivia Question: This ad campaign has several cattle characters playing football, sassing each other and even taking photos with young families. What are these wise cracking cows a campaign for? (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
10.26.06
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT: Thursday, October 26, 2006
ABC Ugly Betty, Grey’s Anatomy [r], Grey’s Anatomy [r]
CBS Survivor: Cook Islands, CSI [r], Shark [r]
CW Smallville, Supernatural
FOX IF NO BASEBALL: ’til Death, The War at Home, Family Guy, Family Guy
i Mama’s Family, Mama’s Family, Charlie’s Angels, Diagnosis Murder
MNT Desire, Fashion House
NBC My Name is Earl [r], The Office [r], Deal or No Deal, ER [r]
TELE Marina, Amor mio, Amores, Decisiones
UNIV La Fea Mas Bella, Mundo de Fieras, Aqui y Ahora
