A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS

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Cynopsis
09.12.13

Good morning. It’s Thursday, September 12, 2013, and this is your first early morning briefing.

Tonight’s Finales:
ABC: Rookie Blue at 10p
USA: Burn Notice at 9p, Graceland at 10p

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A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM TV LAND

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AMC and Sony Pictures Television have struck a deal for a Breaking Bad spinoff. A prequel, the one-hour drama will focus on Saul Goodman (working title: Better Call Saul). Breaking Bad’s series finale airs Sunday, September 29 at 9p.
 

NCIS EP Gary Glasberg promised a “pretty damn heart-wrenching” farewell for Ziva David, the popular character played by Cote De Pablo, who quit the show. In an open letter to fans, Glasberg said of upcoming season eleven, “Prepare yourselves for a moment in television history. Images that will end up in the archives.” NCIS returns to CBS Tuesday, September 24 at 8p. 

NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke said at an investors’ conference Wednesday that while NBC lags behind ABC and CBS in profitability, “Broadcast remains a very, very big opportunity” for the company. Not only does Burke expect to grab more cash in retrans fees as current distribution deals expire, he said ratings should get a boost from February’s Winter Olympics, “a great launch pad for all our spring shows.”

NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Group chairman Bonnie Hammer explained the thinking behind launching Esquire Network on Style, not G4 as planned. “The brand lanes were pretty clear where Bravo lived, where E! is living and where Oxygen has been,” Hammer told the Hollywood Reporter. “Then we looked at Style, and it overlapped with all three.” Moreover, Style was averaging a much lower 79,000 viewers in A18-49. Esquire debuts Monday, September 23.

CNBC offers a peek inside mansion gates in Secret Lives of the Super Rich. Robert Frank reports, with an assist by NYC super broker Dolly Lenz, on mega-mansions, yachts and Ferraris, and an over-the-top wedding for a wealthy groom and his Playboy playmate. Eight-ep series debuts Wednesday, September 25 at 9p.

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts Los Angeles will honor Sacha Baron Cohen at its 2013 Britannia Awards for the British actor/writer’s “bravery and comic ingenuity,” said BAFTA LA chairman Gary Dartnell. Ceremony takes place in L.A. on Saturday, November 9, and will be broadcast on BBC America November 10 at 8p.

Targeted TV ad specialist Visible World is testing a smart TV app that lets viewers respond to promos by setting on-screen alerts for shows they want to watch. Just before the show starts, the viewer gets a prompt to tune in, no matter what kind of content is being watched (or played). It’s a way for viewers to catch the content they want – and for nets to gauge the effectiveness of their promos.

Target is getting in the digital video game, aiming for a more family-friendly offering than what’s available now. Deals are in place with major studios like Disney and Warner Bros., as well as TV networks, but keeping it simple may be the key: the retailer’s research shows half its customer base has never downloaded or streamed video entertainment.

The Killing is most sincerely dead. AMC canceled the Fox Television Studios drama after season two, then brought it back, but said it won’t invite the show back for a fourth go-round. While the 2011 series premiere drew 2.7 million viewers, the season three finale earned 1.5 million.

Reality show Alaskan Women Looking for Love relocates six women frustrated with the dating pool up north to sunny Miami Beach. Six-part fish-out-of-water series debuts on TLC Sunday, October 6 at 10p.

Fox is bringing back So You Think You Can Dance for an eleventh season, exec producer and judge Nygel Lythgoe announced on the dancing competition’s season finale Tuesday night. (Winners: Fik-Shun and Amy Yakima.)

Join me at our October 17th Cynopsis Future TV Summit! This all-day conference will bring together expert speakers on topics including measurement, the Second Screen, the New Networks, a unique “People on Chairs” guerilla Focus Group, and much more! Register here: http://www.cynopsisfuturetvsummit.com/

The season nine wedding of Bones‘ Dr. Brennan (Emily Deschanel) and Special Agent Booth (David Boreanz) won’t include Deschenal’s sister Zooey (New Girl), who has guested as Brennan’s cousin. But it will include her husband, David Hornsby (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia), reports E!. Ep will air later this fall.

Syfy drama Defiance has added William Atherton (Centennial) and Anna Hopkins (Circle of Friends) to its season two cast. Atherton will play jaded Earth Republic official Viceroy Mercado; Hopkins joins the show as fearless soldier Jessica Rai. Sophomore season launches in June, 2014.

Michelle Monaghan (Source Code) joins HBO drama pilot Open, from Ryan Murphy Productions and Fox 21. Monaghan also stars in the net’s eight-ep True Detective, debuting in January 2014.

Covert Affairs has enlisted Jonathan Togo (CSI: Miami) for season four. Togo will play family man Nelson Smith. The USA spy drama ends a ten-ep run on Tuesday, September 17 at 9p, returning for six more on Thursday, October 17.

Caitriona Balfe (Super 8) has won the female lead in Starz‘ adaptation of best-selling book series Outlander, from Sony Pictures Television. Starz placed a 16-ep order for the drama.

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Dan Bucatinsky (Scandal) will write and exec produce an adaptation of his bestseller, “Does This Baby Make Me Look Straight?”, for ABC and Shondaland. Bucatinsky is also a co-exec producer/writer on Shonda Rhimes‘ Grey’s Anatomy.

Romance is in the air: Among ITV Studios‘ slate of new formats launching at MIPCOM next month are My Dream Wedding for TLC, about a bride on a budget who gets her dream wedding after all, and How to Find Love Online, a guide to the Internet dating scene. ITV’s slate also includes celeb dance show Stepping Out and Nordic format Saving Jobs, about local businesses trying to go global.

Sony Pictures Television will hit Cannes with cooking competition Grillmaster, already in Denmark and Sweden, and gardening format Grow, Make, Eat, picked up by BBC Two.

FremantleMedia is taking Break the Safe, a quiz format on BBC One, to the global broadcasters’ party, as well as comic reality format Boxing Glove. MIPCOM runs October 7-10.

Netflix is going Dutch. After announcing a U.K. deal on Monday, the streaming service has launched in the Netherlands. Wall Street appears to approve of expansion plans: The company’s stock hit a record high on Tuesday.

Season four of Downton Abbey premieres in the UK on September Sunday 22, with Shirley MacLaine back as Cora’s mother, Martha. The frothy drama returns Stateside to PBS on January 5, 2014.

9 Story Enterprises nabbed global distribution and licensing rights for hit Brazilian animated series Haunted Tales for Wicked Kids. The show was the most-viewed pay-TV program for ages 4-11 April-June 2013, just a month after launch.

The Voice UK has added Kylie Minogue for season three, joining returning will.i.am and Tom Jones. Series bows on BBC One in January.

The same day Discovery Channel announced it nabbed the rights in Italy for the RBS 6 Nations rugby tournament, came a study showing the net is the most distributed in Europe. TV Channel Distribution in Europe counted 171 platforms for DC, versus 169 for Fox‘s National Geographic Channel and 164 for Eurosport.

NBC‘s Million Second Quiz dropped 12 percent on Tuesday from its 1.5 A18-49 debut on Monday. Good news: this time, it improved in the second half hour. America’s Got Talent fell 8 percent with 2.3, but NBC still won the night with a 2.0 rating/6 share.

So You Think You Can Dance had to take a break in the middle of its tenth season live finale on Tuesday for President Obama’s 9-9:15p address. With a 1.4 A18-49 rating and 4.3 million total viewers, it was up a tenth of a point from last week, but down 13 percent from last year – a finale low.

The week of August 26 was good for for syndicated entertainment magazines, bolstered by interest in Miley Cyrus‘s VMA antics and the Michael Douglas/Catherine Zeta-Jones breakup. Access Hollywood was up 13 percent week to week with a 1.7 rating. Extra bounced up 7 percent, to 1.5, and leader Entertainment Tonight drew 3.4, up 6 percent.

The Arsenio Hall Show dipped its second night, with a 1.5 household rating Tuesday, down from 1.9. The Eye Productions Inc. talker scored .7 A18-49 in Nielsen’s Local People Meters, though, indicating the host is holding his own in the demo against the competition: .1 behind Jay Leno, even with Jimmy Kimmel and ahead of David Letterman and Conan O’Brien (.5).

Talk about hot properties – HGTV racked up series highs for two primetime real estate shows. Property Brothers drew a 1.16 rating W25-54 September 4, while Love It or List It scored a 1.17 rating W25-54 on September 9. Brothers airs Wednesdays at 9p; List It airs Mondays at 9p.

Fox News Channel snatched the most viewers for President Obama’s White House address Tuesday night, averaging 4.04 million viewers and 939,000 A25-54. CNN followed, with 1.91 million viewers and 683,000 A25-54.

Top 11 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of  8/26/13-8/30/13 ranked in order by A18-49 Rtg

Big Bang Theory (WB)	4.1AA
Family Guy (2/T)	2.3 AA
How I Met Your Mother (2/T)	1.9AA
Family Feud (2/T)	1.9 AA
Judge Judy (CTD)	1.8 AA
Law & Order (NBU)	1.8 AA
Two and a Half Men (WB)	1.7 AA
Friends (WB)	1.3 AA
How I Met Your Mother (2/T)	1.7 AA
Wheel of Fortune (CTD)/ King of the Hill (2/T)	1.5 AA

Source: Nielsen Media Research

Top 10 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of  8/26/13-8/30/13 ranked in order by HH Rtg

Judge Judy (CTD)	6.3AA
Big Bang Theory (WB)	6.3AA
Wheel of Fortune (CTD)	5.9 AA
Jeopardy ICTD)	5.1 AA
Family Feud (2/T)	4.3 AA
Two and a Half Men (WB)	4.0 AA
Family Guy (2/T)	3.6 AA
Entertainment Tonight (CTD)	3.4 AA
Inside Edition (CTD)	2.7 AA
Law & Order (NBU)	2.6 AA

Source: Nielsen Media Research

Tuesday A18-49 Analysis: NBC won the most A18-49 viewers with 2.0/6, according to final primetime national ratings from Nielsen. UMA’s game averaged 1.7/6 to take the 8p hour, followed by NBC’s Million Second Quiz with 1.5/5. NBC’s America’s Got Talent grabbed the lead at 9p with 2.4/7, over a 2.3/7 for UMA. At 10p Talent stole the show with 2.3/7, versus 1.0/3 for Univision’s Que Bonito Amor.

Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 – time period averages.  Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.

NBC	5.1/8	Million Second Quiz 3.7/6, America’s Got Talent 5.8/10
CBS	4.6/8	NCIS [r] 6.0/10, NCIS: Los Angeles [r] 4.2/7, Person of Interest [r] 3.6/6
FOX	2.8/4	So You Think You Can Dance 2.8/4
ABC	2.5/4	Shark Tank [r], Bachelor’s Funniest Moments 1.7/3, 20/20 2.7/5
UNI	1.6/3	Porque el Amor Manda 1.8/3, Tempestad 1.4/2, Que Bonito Amor 1.5/2
UMA	1.5/2	Natl TMS Intl Qlfr 1.8/3, Madame, LA .2/0
ION	1.0/2	Criminal Minds [r] 1.0/2, Criminal Minds [r]r 1.1/2, Criminal Minds 1.0/2
CW	.8/1	Whose Line Is It Anyway [r] 1.2/2, Whose Line Is It Anyway 1.2/2 [r], Capture .6/1
TELE	.7/1	Dama y Obraro .6/1, Marido en Alquiler .8/1, Santa Diabla .6/1

A18-49:  NBC 2.0/6, FOX 1.4/4, UMA 1.4/4, UNI 1.1/3, ABC .9/3, CBS .9/3, ION .5/2, CW .5/2, TELE .5/1

Sony Pictures Television announced a pair of promotions. Scott Landsman was upped to Senior Vice President, Comedy Development, from VP, Comedy Development. He is replaced in the latter position by Lauren Moffat, who had been Director, Comedy Development.

Viacom International Media Networks tapped Chris Shaw to serve as Executive Vice President, Managing Director of ad sales division, Be Viacom. Shaw was previously SVP, global head of advertising for NBCUniversal International Television.

Comcast appointed Ed Brassel Senior Vice President of its Business Intelligence unit. Brassel was SVP of marketing, strategy and business analytics at DirecTV.

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This Day In History sponsored by Velocity. Drive Your Passion: 1964 – New York’s Shea Stadium held its first football game. 

Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: On Frasier (1982-1993), which shrink does Frasier idolize? Sigmund Freud. Kudos to: Barry Schiffer-WJZ-TV/Baltimore, Kathy Yarbrough-Moore and Scarry/Ft. Myers, FL, Randy Ingram-WBTW-TV/Myrtle Beach, SC, Lara Schuler-Paper Route Productions/Pearl River, NY, Judy Margolis-The Ad Place/Dallas, Ron Salcedo-Zimmerman/Nashville, Rick Pike-InterMedia/Woodland Hills, CA, Alex Petrilli-TRA/ CA, Paul Gygli-NBCUniversal Television/Universal City, CA, Cammie Buerry-Station Casinos/Las Vegas.

Today’s Trivia Question: On The Munsters (1964-1966), where did Herman Munster work? (Email trivia@cynopsis.com 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.).

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09.12.13

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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

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ABC: Shark Tank, Wipeout, Rookie Blue [f]
CBS: The Big Bang Theory [r], CBS Fall Preview, Big Brother, Elementary [r]
CW: The Vampire Diaries [r], America’s Next Top Model [r]
FOX: The X Factor
ION: Without a Trace [r], Criminal Minds [r], Criminal Minds [r]
MyTV: White Collar [r], White Collar [r]
NBC: The Million Second Quiz, Hollywood Game Night [r], Hollywood Game Night [r]
PBS: The This Old House Hour [r], In Performance at the White House [r], Antiques Roadshow [r]
Telemundo: Dama y obrero, Marido en Alquiler, Santa Diabla
UMA: Tornado, La Seleccion, La Madame
Univision: Porque el Amor Manda, La Tempestad, Que Bonito Amor

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