Cyn opsis

08/12/08

Good morning. It’s Tuesday, August 12, 2008, and this is your first early morning briefing. 

Sundance Channel picked up the British comedy series Pulling and will add it to the Sunday night comedy block starting October 19 at 9p. The six-episode series is about a 29-year woman who decides on the eve of her wedding to skip getting married, opting instead to move in with her wild partying single girlfriends. The series is distributed worldwide by FremantleMedia Enterprises. The Sundance Sunday night comedy block begins September 7 at 9p with The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle starring Jennifer Saunders and Miranda Richardson.

Taking a unique perspective on Martha Stewart is the upcoming new original series Whatever, Martha! on Fine Living Network which features Sirius Satellite Radio talk show hosts Alexis Stewart (aka Martha’s daughter) and Jennifer Koppelman Hutt. The 30m weekly series, which debuts September 16 at 9p will offer comedic commentary from Alexis and Jennifer about Martha’s appearance, what she says, and how she performs her tasks based on selected segments from the television program Martha Stewart Living.

Television on-demand company TVN Entertainment Corp made a multiyear on-demand distribution deal for new movie releases with Overture Films, a division of Starz, LLC. Overture Films produces, purchases, markets and distributes movies such as The Visitor and the upcoming films Traitor, Righteous Kill and Last Chance Harvey.

Spike TV brings back the all-male MANswers series for a second season starting September 17 at 11p with two consecutive new episodes. The series features trivia questions for guys with answers, such as how to escape from a straightjacket without dislocating your shoulder.

IFC signed a deal with Pitchfork Media, an online independent music resource, to be the exclusive television partner for Pitchfork.tv’s live performances, interviews, documentary segments and music videos beginning August 24. IFC will air this content as 10 uncut interstitials weekly, using select episodes from such Pitchfork.tv series as Juan’s Basement, Daytripping, In the Studio and more. The interstitials will air on a new programming block called Pitchfork Airwaves on IFC. The network will also include Pitchfork content at IFC.com.

If you’ve just been aching to see some good old-fashioned Hee Haw, then RFD-TV has answered your call.  Beginning September 7th, the cable network will begin airing Hee Haw every Sunday night at 8p.

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Actress Salma Hayek is putting on a producer’s hat and partnering with Merv Griffin Entertainment for a wedding-themed reality series project, according to THR. The actual show format has not been revealed but it will feature a fresh storytelling take on weddings. The 60m show is currently being pitched to broadcast and cable networks. Salma will executive produce along with Roy Bank, President of Television at Merv Griffin Entertainment and Jose Tamez, producing partner with Salma and her Ventanarosa Productions.

NBC is in development on a new 30m comedy called Mogulettes about twentysomething female tycoons, reports Variety. The project is written by Plum Sykes and Amy Harris and Charlie Corwin will produce. Production will be handled by Corwin’s Original Media, which has a first-look deal with NBC Entertainment, along with Universal Media Studios and Caliber Media.

ABC gave its approval for a put pilot order for an updated version of The Witches of Eastwick based on a variation of the 1987 flick which was in turn based on the John Updike novel, per Variety. The story has been morphed into slightly different versions for television in the past and for many years Warner Bros. TV has wanted to develop a version for television. Maggie Friedman (Dawson’s Creek) will write the pilot.

Casting Call: MTV is casting for a new reality series MissBehaving (wt) from the producers of The Apprentice and Wife Swap, and is looking for bold, out-spoken, party-hearty girls who want to be transformed into proper ladies. If you fit this description and are interested in making a change, send an email to
. Include name, age, contact telephone numbers, where you live, a photo and a description of yourself and details about your party habits and why you should appear on the show. Applicants must be 21 years or older. Candidates may also be nominated.

CYNOPSIS DIGITAL – TODAY’S TOP STORY: Just a month after launching, the iPhone Store has delivered more than 60 million apps, Steve Jobs told the WSJ. While most were free, Apple is bringing in an average of $1 million a day for the fee-based apps which range from $1-$10. The company is on track to make $360 million/year in revenue from the brand new division even though the company keeps just 30% of the sales, (with the remaining 70% going to the developer.) Sega’s Super Monkey Ball game remains the top moneymaker, selling 300,000 copies during the store’s first 20 days in existence at $9.99 a pop. Full edition: CYN DIGITAL.

CYNOPSIS KIDS – TODAY’S TOP STORY:  Cable TV provider Charter Communications enters into a deal with Disney-ABC Domestic Television to launch a family-targeted subscription video on demand (SVOD) service ($4.99/month), which will offer classic and new movies and animated shorts from Disney Studios.  Titled Disney Family Movies, the SVOD service features a dozen Disney movie and animated shorts that will remain in rotation for a month, with new titled added weekly.  Full edition: CYN KIDS.

CYNOPSIS INTERNATIONAL – TODAY’S TOP STORY:  With the military conflict between Georgia and Russia escalating, the former terminated the broadcasts of all Russian TV networks this past weekend, including Channel One, Rossiya and NTV, in addition to blocking .ru website domains in Georgia.   Full edition: CYN INTERNATIONAL.

Friday – A18-49 Analysis:  NBC went for the gold Friday night winning with a 10.3/32 A18-49, according to final national ratings from Nielsen Media Research. NBC had no contenders in primetime as it broadcast the impressive Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony event: at 8p NBC did a 9.5/32; then at 9p the ratings spiked to 11.0/33; followed by a 10.7/31 during 10p.

Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Friday, August 8, 2008  time period averages. Source: NTI Galaxy, as dated. Live+SD.

NBC: 18.8/34     Olympic Summer Games 2008: Opening Ceremony 18.8/34

CBS: 2.3/4          Ghost Whisperer [r] 2.5/5, Numb3rs [r] 2.5/4, Swingtown 1.9/3

CW: 2.0/4           Friday Night Smackdown! 2.0/4

ABC: 1.9/3          Samantha Who? [r] 1.4/3, ABC Friday Night Movie: War of the Worlds [r] 2.0/4

UNIV: 1.8/3        Al Diablo con los Guapos 2.1/4, Fuego en la Sangre 2.0/3, La Rosa de Guadalupe 1.4/2

FOX: 1.6/3         Fox Movie: Hellboy 1.6/3

TELE: 0.6/1        El Juramento 0.3/1, Dona Barbara 0.6/1, Sin Senos No Hay Paraiso 0.8/1

MNT: 0.3/1        Academy [r] 0.3/1, Paradise Hotel 2 [r] 0.3/0

A18-49: NBC 10.3/32, UNIV 1.6/5, CW 1.1/4, ABC 1.0/3, FOX 1.0/3, CBS 0.9/3, TELE 0.5/1, MNT 0.2/1

Discovery Communications recruited Walt Cheruk as SVP/Client Solutions, Digital Ad Sales and Karen Schmeichel Johnson as VP/Digital Ad Sales, Midwest and Western regions. Based in New York, Walt will oversee the creative aspects and outlook for digital ad sales across all of Discovery’s digital properties. Based in Chicago, Karen will increase and supervise the company’s digital ad sales business throughout the Midwest and Western regions utilizing Discovery’s group of multi-platform properties. Both will report to Kathy Kayse, EVP/Digital Ad Sales.

Bill Werde advanced to Editorial Director of Billboard, a division of Nielsen Business Media, starting immediately. Bill will head the editorial strategy and vision for the Billboard brand which encompasses the weekly printed publication, related websites and digital properties in additional to industry conferences and events. Bill will also manage a staff of 20 editors and reporters located worldwide for Billboard. Based in New York, Bill reports to Howard Appelbaum, Publisher, Billboard.

Univision Communications Inc. elevated Joanne Lynch to President/Television Station Group. In this new role which takes effect immediately, Joanne will supervise Univision’s and TeleFutura’s 63 television stations. Located in New York, Joanne will report to Ray Rodriguez, President/COO, Univision Communications Inc.

Cameron Blanchard takes on the new position of SVP/Communications, Bravo and Oxygen Media with NBC Universal Cable Entertainment. Cameron will continue to manage Bravo Media’s communications team and will now oversee Oxygen Media’s communications activities. Her scope of work includes managing the corporate messaging and media for consumer, trade and business outlets for Bravo and Oxygen. In addition, Cameron will be a member of the company’s senior management team and will continue to report to Lauren Zalaznick, President/Women and Lifestyle Entertainment Networks, NBC Universal.

WGN-TV appointed Glen Callanan as Director/Interactive Sales for wgntv.com beginning next Monday. In this capacity, Glen will head all sales efforts for the station’s website.

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This day in History:  1981 – IBM unveiled its first PC

Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question:  Happy McMann’s tobacco shop was the hangout for what TV Private Eye during most of the series’ run? MARTIN KANE (Martin Kane, Private Eye  1949-1954) Kudos to: Alexis Van Dyke Plauche-Scripps Networks/NY; Paul Rule-Marquest Media & Entertainment Research/Beaufort, NC; Carol Van Dusen-WBND ABC57/IN; Linda Grillo-NBC Universal/NY; Jack Hodgson-Oklahoma State University/Stillwater, OK; Brenda Lee Gauthier/Studio City, CA; Scott Seomin-FX/LA; Michele Skaletzky-ABC Research/ LA; Coleen Raymann-Disney-ABC/Burbank

Today’s Trivia Question: This accomplished actor occupied the center square on Hollywood Squares on its first air date (October 17, 1966) and more recently has provided the voice talent behind Mermaid Man, an aged superhero, on SpongeBob Square Pants. Who is this?    (Email
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
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT –  Tuesday, August 12, 2008

ABC: Wipeout [r], Wanna Bet, Primetime: Medical Mysteries [p ]
AZTECA: Lo Que La Gente Cuenta, Historias Engarzadas, Pasiones Prohibidas
CBS: NCIS [r], Big Brother 10, Without A Trace [r]
CW: Beauty and the Geek [r], Reaper [r]
FOX: House [r], Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles [r]
ION: Quantum Leap, The Dead Zone, ER
MNT: Street Patrol [r], Street Patrol [r], Jail [r], Jail [r]
NBC: Olympic Summer Games 2008
PBS: Nova [r], Wide Angle [r], P.O.V.
TELE: El Juramento, Dona Barbara, Sin Senos No Hay Paraiso
UNIV: Al Diablo con los Guapos, Fuego en la Sangre, Aqui y Ahora

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