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04.16.13

Good morning. It’s Tuesday April 16, 2013, and this is your first early morning briefing.

Tonight’s Premieres:
A&E: Storage Wars at 9p, American Hoggers at 10p
BRAVO: Don’t Be Tardy at 9p
Cooking Channel: Eat Street at 8p
Discovery: Deadliest Catch at 9p
TBS: Who Gets the Last Laugh? at 10p

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High stakes and charismatic TV personalities are the theme moving forward, as Spike TV unveiled its new slate of upcoming programming, including 11 unscripted pilots. Here’s a look at its 2013 projects.

Adam Carolla is a watchdog for homeowners or businesses who have been cheated by a contractor and left with an unfinished disaster on To Catch a Contractor, tracking down the builder and getting retribution for the owner. Eyeworks USA created the pilot for Spike TV.

In Covert Kitchens (from Shine America), Graham Elliot, award-winning chef and judge on MasterChef, gives viewers an exclusive invitation into the underground restaurant world. 

Jon Taffer (Bar Rescue) teams with two fellow restaurant industry experts in Hungry Investors. From Eyeworks USA, the show puts struggling restaurants to the test in a challenge-based competition for the chance to win a cash investment.
 
Biz Brokers (from the T Group) focuses on the smart middlemen behind high-pressure business deals. The show comes to Spike TV from The T Group.

Frankenfood (from Sharp Entertainment) features chef Eric Greenspan as he travels the country finding Americans with the most unique food creations.

Auto Body Avengers centers on a team of operatives who go undercover to spotlight garages suspected of fraud. Matador produced the presentation.

In Property Monstrosity (from Thinkfactory Media) neighbors join forces to confront the owner of the eyesore on the block, offering to fix the disastrous house as long as he or she  moves out and leaves the renovation in their hands.

Criminal defense attorney Adam Reposa takes on shady salesmen, nasty neighbors, lousy landlords and anyone else who stands in the way of Reposa Justice. The show comes to Spike TV from Left/Right and Watson Pond Productions.

Job applicants unwittingly compete for a full-time position as hidden cameras capture their reactions to being put through extreme on-the-job tests designed to find the perfect hire on Take This Job and Love It. The pilot is being produced for Spike by Scott Stone, Ross McCall and Stone & Company.

We’re the Boss is a workplace reality series in which everyday employees across America get to be in charge for one week. The Hochberg Ebersol Company (THE Co.) created and is producing the pilot.

Hard Money (from Matador) takes viewers inside the fast-paced, high-stakes world of hard money lending; essentially, legal loan-sharking.

Esquire Network, originally slated to launch on April 22, has pushed back its debut to summer. The move will allow the rebranded G4 network to debut with more original programming, including holdover series American Ninja Warrior.

The battle for best home returns when TLC premieres the second season of Four Houses with back-to-back episodes on Saturday, April 20 at 9p. The 10-part series follows four passionate homeowners as they tour and score each other’s homes in hopes of having their humble abode ranked number one and winning the $10,000 cash prize. Four Houses is produced by ITV Studios America for TLC.

History‘s Only in America with Larry the Cable Guy makes its Season 3 debut on Wednesday, May 8 at 9 p, as the blue-collar comedian and his crew hit the road to spotlight the people, places and things that make America unique. This season’s adventures include celebrating the modern-day black gold rush in Williston, North Dakota; delving into the country’s celebrity obsession by banding up with paparazzi in “Hollyweird”, California; and scouring the Florida wilderness for poisonous snakes to bring to the “Serpentarium” where their venom is extracted for medicinal uses. The show is produced by Pilgrim Studios.

There’s another revenge series heading to the screen. Investigation Discovery‘s Karma’s A B*tch!, premiering on Thursday, May 2, May 9 and May 16 at 10 and 10:30p, introduces the most outrageous and innovative ways to get mad and get even. Hosted by Steve Schirripa, who played Bobby Baccalieri on The Sopranos, the show explores scorned spouses, upset exes, and deadbeat dads and their stories of premeditated and meticulously planned plots. The series is a Cineflix (Karma) Inc. production in association with Investigation Discovery.

Saddle up. AMC is moving Western drama Hell on Wheels to Saturdays this summer, beginning with the show’s third season premiere on August 3 at 9p. The network has also acquired the series Rawhide, which will begin airing on April 20, and miniseries Lonesome Dove and its sequel, Return to Lonesome Dove.

CNBC Prime has announced the small businesses that will compete for a $50,000 prize each week in the new reality competition series Crowd Rules, slated to debut Tuesday, May 14 at 9p. Each week, “Crowd Rules” features three small businesses that compete in front of an audience of 97 that votes to decide who wins a much-needed $50,000. Entrepreneur and jewelry designer Kendra Scott, NY1 Anchor Pat Kiernan, along with a weekly guest industry expert, lead the examination of the small businesses in order to help a studio audience choose which company snags the dough.

Emily Kapnek, showrunner on ABC‘s Suburgatory, has signed an overall deal with Warner Bros. TV. Kapnek will continue her post with the ABC comedy series in addition to develop new projects for the studio.

AIM Tell-A-Vision Group has announced that their latest production, Raw Travel, is a firm go, debuting in syndication via broadcast stations nationwide in early October 2013. The show has secured distribution agreements in 40 top markets representing over 50% of U.S. TV Homes. Leading the way are the Fox owned stations in New York with WNYW (Fox) / WWOR (MNTV) & Chicago with WFLD (Fox) / WPWR (MNTV). Additional top markets include the Cox owned station KNTV(Fox) in San Francisco, Hearst station WCVB (ABC) in Boston and NBC-Universals’ KXAS (NBC) in Dallas. Other key affiliate groups include Sinclair, Raycom, Lin Broadcasting, Local TV, Nexstar, CBS and more.

Comedy Central has ordered 12 episodes of Brody Stevens: Enjoy It. The show originated on HBO as a six-episode, 15-minute online series for HBO Digital. Comedy Central has acquired those episodes, which it will expand to half-hour segments, and six new half-hour episodes. The series is slated to premiere this summer.

Heather Graham (The Hangover) and Mary Lynn Rajskub (24) will guest star in the seventh season of the Showtime comedy series Californication. Graham will play a woman from Hank’s (series star and executive producer David Duchovny) past whose arrival upends his life. Rajskub will play a neurotic writer. Production on the series’ new season begins later this month for premiere in 2014.

Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution and French television broadcaster M6 Group have signed a multi-year agreement, which gives the French network free and basic TV rights to broadcast a range of the studio’s film and television programming. Under the agreement, M6 has acquired exclusive rights to air shows including Touch, as well as Academy Award-winning films and popular library films and series. Programming is slated to air across multiple M6 Group channels, including W9, 6Ter, Paris Premiere, Teva, Serie Club, TF6.

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Friday A18-49 Analysis:  Univision won the night among A18-49 viewers Friday with a 1.9/6, according to final primetime national ratings from Nielsen. At 8p, Univision’s Porque el Amor Manda led at 1.6/6, while CBS’ Undercover Boss was close behind at 1.5/6. Univision maintained the top spot at 9p with Amores Verdaderos at 1.9/6. ABC’s Shark Tank was second at 1.4/4. At 10p, Univision continued picking up viewers with Amor Bravio at 2.2/7. ABC’s 20/20 trailed at 1.6/5, followed by CBS’ Blue Bloods at 1.3/4.

Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Friday, April 12, 2013 time period averages.  Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.

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CBS: 5.4/10        Undercover Boss  4.8/9, Vegas 4.6/8, Blue Bloods 6.7/12

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ABC: 2.7/5              Happy Endings 1.9/4, Happy Endings 1.5/3 , Shark Tank 3.5/6 [r], 20/20  3.8/7

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UNIV: 2.2/4             Porque el Amor Manda 1.9/3, Amores Verdaderos 2.2/4, Amor Bravio 2.6/5

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NBC: 2.0/4              Fashion Star 2.1/4, Grimm [r] 1.7/3 , Rock Center with Brian Williams 2.1/4

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FOX: 1.5/3             Kitchen Nightmares [r] 1.4/2, Touch  1.6/3

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TELE: 0.9/1             Pasion Prohibida 0.7/1, La Patrona 1.1/2, La Rostro Venganza 0.8/1

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ION: 0.8/1             Cold Case 0.8/1, Cold Case 0.9/2, Cold Case  0.7/1

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CW: 0.6/1               Nikita 0.7/1, Carrie Diaries  0.4/1

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UMA: 0.3/1            Cineplex Fri [7p start r] 0.3/1  Cineplex Fri  0.2/0

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A18-49:  UNI 1.9/6, CBS 1.2/4, ABC 1.1/4,  FOX 0.9/3, NBC 0.8/3, TELE 0.6/2, CW 0.3/1, ION 0.3/1, UMA 0.3/1

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In its first executive appointment as part of the new CBS Corporation and Lionsgate partnership, TVGN has named Brad Schwartz President of Entertainment and Media. Schwartz, formerly Senior Vice President of Programming and Operations for Fuse at MSG Media, will oversee programming, scheduling, marketing and creative operations for the channel. He previously served as General Manager of a suite of eight music and pop culture cable networks in Canada, part of Bell Media’s CTV, including MTV Canada, MuchMusic, MTV2 and MuchMore. Prior to that, Schwartz was Director of Global Marketing Partnerships at MTV, and he began his career working for Lorne Michaels at Saturday Night Live.

TVGN has also announced that Dennis Miller, former interim President of TVGN, has been named President of Operations. In this new role, Miller will continue to manage affiliate sales, finance and operational strategy, working closely with Schwartz in Advertising Sales.

Sarah Shannon has been promoted to Vice President, Programming and Network Operations for FEARnet. Shannon, who previously served as Director of Programming, will continue to create and curate programming schedules and handle acquisitions for all films, series and original programming for the linear cable TV network and video on demand channel and supervise the company’s broadcast operations, as well as the standards and practices and traffic departments.

Steve Agase has been appointed Senior Vice President of Music and Entertainment Ad Sales, West Coast, at Viacom. In his new position, Agase will oversee West Coast ad sales for networks including CMT, Comedy Central, MTV, Logo, Spike TV, TV Land and VH1 and be responsible for growing Viacom Media Networks’ partnerships with West Coast agencies and advertisers. Agase last served as Senior Vice President of West Coast Sales for NBCU.

Edward Pound has joined Al Jazeera America to head its 16-member investigative unit. Pound, who has worked as an investigative reporter for The New York Times and Wall Street Journal, last served as director of communications at the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, which has been overseeing spending of stimulus money. Al Jazeera America is slated to launch later this year.

It’s been reported that Michael Bass, co-executive producer of Katie, is joining CNN as Senior Vice President. The move reunites Bass with CNN Worldwide president Jeff Zucker. Bass once served as Zucker’s top deputy on NBC’s Today.

Marjorie Cohn, President of Content Development at Nickelodeon, is leaving the company. Cohn had been with the network for 24 years and has been responsible for a number of its hit shows, including iCarly and Victorious. No reason has been given for her departure.

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This Day In History, sponsored by Discovery Fit & Health: 1962 – Walter Cronkite begins anchoring CBS Evening News.

Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: What 1990s teen comedy series did Ryan Murphy
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – TUESDAY APRIL 16, 2013

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ABC: Splash, Dancing with the Stars, Body of Proof
CBS: NCIS [r], NCIS: Los Angeles [r], Golden Boy
CW: Hart of Dixie, America’s Next Top Model [r]
FOX: Hell’s Kitchen, New Girl [r], The Mindy Project [r]
ION: Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds
MyTV: House, House
NBC: The Voice,  Ready for Love
PBS: In Performance at the White House, The Central Park Five
Telemundo: Pasion Prohibida, La Patrona, El Senor de los Cielos
UMA: La Lista, Los Heroes Del Norte, Rosario Tijeras
Univision: Porque el Amor Manda, Amores Verdaderos, Que Bonito Amor

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