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08.18.09

Good morning. It’s Tuesday, August 18, 2009, and this is your first early morning briefing.  And as always, if you prefer to watch this morning’s news instead of reading it, click here.  

Tonight’s Premieres:
ABC: Shaq vs . . . at 9p
HISTORY: The Universe at 9p
Bravo: Flipping Out at 10p
IFC: The Jon Dore Television Show at 10p
TLC: Masters of Reception at 10p
WE tv: The Secret Lives of Women at 10p
MTV: House of Jazmin at 1030p

Tonight’s Finales:
Bravo: Miami Social at 9p
TNT: Hawthorne at 9p; Saving Grace at 10p

A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM HISTORY

ABC announced its cast of 16 celebrities participating in the ninth season of Dancing with the Stars. Eight teams will open the new season with a two-hour premiere on September 21 at 8p, followed by the remaining eight teams with another two-hour show on September 22 at 8p. The first two eliminated couples will be sent home during a special set for September 23 at 8p. Dancing with the Stars’ new celebrity cast includes:

• Aaron Carter – musician/songwriter, producer and actor
• Natalie Coughlin – Olympic swimming gold medalist
• Mark Dacascos – Actor and trained martial artist, best known as “The Chairman” and host of Iron Chef America on the Food Network
• Tom DeLay – Prominent Republican politician and former House Majority Leader in Congress
• Macy Gray – Grammy Award-winning singer
• Ashley Hamilton – Actor/songwriter/comedian and son of actor George Hamilton
• Melissa Joan Hart – Television actress known for starring roles in the series Clarissa Explains It All and Sabrina the Teenage Witch
• Kathy Ireland – Former supermodel and now CEO of kathy ireland Worldwide
• Michael Irvin – Former Dallas Cowboys wide receiver is a triple Super Bowl champ and former broadcaster for ESPN’s NFL Countdown
• Joanna Krupa – Polish-born model and actress
• Chuck Liddell – Ultimate Fighting Championship and Mixed Martial Arts winner
• Debi Mazar – Film and television actress
• Mya – Grammy Award multi-platinum artist
• Kelly Osbourne – Singer/actress and media personality and daughter of Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne
• Donny Osmond – Multi-talented performer and member of the famous Osmonds and brother to Marie
• Louie Vito – Professional snowboarder and Olympic team hopeful in 2010

With a live screening in New York’s Times Square, AMC debuted the third season of Mad Men on Sunday at 10p by delivering 658,000 M25-54 viewers, 1.4 million A25-54 viewers and an 84% increase in total viewers versus the season two premiere at 2.8 million total viewers. Additionally, the cume of the series opening episode airing at 10p, 11p and 1a drew in close to 4 million total viewers.

CBS College Sports Network is host to a seventh season of college football action with 43 games broadcast in hi-def during 2009 including matches from the Mountain West Conference, Conference USA, Navy, Army and NCAA Division II. CBS College Sports Network also airs several studio shows including The Tony Barnhart Show, Tuesdays at 9p; Inside College Football, Tuesdays at 10p; SEC Tailgate Show, Saturdays at 11a or 2p; SEC Post Game Show Presented by Geico, Saturdays at 7p; Inside College Football Extra, Saturdays at 11p; and Maxpreps Lemming Report, Fridays at 730p or 830p.

E!’s series premiere of Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami on Sunday at 10p, averaged close to 2.7 million total viewers. With this debut, Kourtney and Khloe also ties with The Anna Nicole Show as the network’s highest-rated series premiere ever among W18-34 with the rating of 3.73. Following on Sunday at 1045p, the series opener of Reality Hell averaged almost 1.3 million total viewers and delivered a 0.82 rating with A18-49.

ABC’s Supernanny series opens on The Style Network September 4 with a Labor Day weekend marathon. Following the holiday weekend, The Style Network will schedule Supernanny to air each night Monday-Sunday at 7p. Produced by Ricochet Television, the sixth season of Supernanny opens this fall on ABC. The Style Network acquired the exclusive off-net rights for Supernanny from Disney-ABC Domestic Television.

Primetime Emmy® Awards Note: The next installment of the Cynopsis presents: Emmy® Awards 2009 special edition series will focus on Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama / Comedy Series.  Upcoming in this series are … 

• 8/19 Special Edition:  Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series
• 8/24 Special Edition:  Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series

If you’re among the nominees … congratulations!!  And if you’d like to send us a description or brief bio of the nominated series/director/actor/writer (maximum of 150 words – emailed 48 hours prior to publication date), we will include it in our special edition.   Please send the description to me at

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A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE WESTDOC

ION Television gained 40+ major movie titles through new theatrical film deals with NBC Universal Domestic Distribution (NBCU) and Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution. ION acquired a dozen plus titles from NBCU including The Break Up, Miami Vice as well as the Back to the Future trilogy among other titles. Expanding on its current agreement with Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, ION will now have more than 100 Warner Bros. movies in its library. Titles in the new 30-plus package from Warner Bros. include March of the Penguins, Troy, GoodFellas, Ladder 49, among others.

Actor/comedian and author Steve Harvey will lead a series of reports on ABC’s Good Morning America beginning tomorrow. Harvey, who also hosts the nationally syndicated radio program The Steve Harvey Morning Show, will report on issues from relationships to parenting during the upcoming months.

Public television’s weeknight international newscast, Worldfocus announced new anchor changes. Martin Savidge, who has served as anchor since the show’s inception will become a special field correspondent, while Daljit Dhaliwal, contributing correspondent and occasional substitute for Savidge will be the show’s new anchor. Savidge will also work as fill-in anchor as needed. These changes take effect August 31. Worldfocus is produced by Creative News Group for WNET.ORG.

SportsLink is developing a new half-hour sports reality show with ten episodes called The Ride. The premise of the show is to find America’s best quarterback selected from eight high schools. Each of the eight players, who are all unknowns, will go through exhaustive training and instruction with one earning a spot on the 2010 US Army All-American Bowl. The Ride is currently in production and slated to air on various Fox Sports regional networks, including FSN West, FSN Houston and Sun Sports in addition to the national channel Fox College Sports. Gannett picked up digital distribution rights for all ten episodes. SportsLink also produces the US Army All-American Bowl which will happen January 9, 2010 in San Antonio, TX and is broadcast live nationally.

NBC gave a script commitment with penalty for a live-action drama based on the comic book series Midnight, Mass from DC Comics’ Vertigo division. The plotline surrounds sophisticated married couple, Adam and Julia Kadmons who solve mysteries for the supernatural. Gretchen Berg and Aaron Harberts will pen the script for Warner Bros. TV and Jinks/Cohen Co. Berg, Harberts, Jinks and Cohen will all executive produce the project.

This October 17, PBS will debut a new show, Gourmet’s Adventures With Ruth, combining food and travel. The 30m show features Gourmet magazine’s editor Ruth Reichl as she travels the world visiting cooking schools with celebrities such as Frances McDormand and Lorraine Bracco. WGBH in Boston produces the series with American Airlines sponsoring the ten episodes which will also air on Gourmet’s TiVo channel and on American’s in-flight channel. Gourmet is published by Conde Nast.

Casting Call: The CW is hosting further open casting calls for America’s Next Top Model cycle 14 in the coming weeks in several cities. The New York City open call occurred last Saturday. Casting directors are seeking females, 18 to 27 years old, of diverse backgrounds, shapes, sizes and at a minimum height of 5’7” tall. The reality competition show is produced by 10 by 10 Entertainment in association with Bankable Productions. For more information on the casting calls and to download an application, visit www.cwtv.com . Casting cites and dates include: Atlanta August 22; Chicago August 29; Denver September 2; Las Vegas September 5; Houston September 12; and Los Angeles September 19.

CYNOPSIS DIGITAL – TODAY’S TOP STORY :    MySpace is in advanced talks to acquire social music recommendations service iLike for “around $20 million,” according to TechCrunch, citing unnamed sources. iLike, which launched in late 2006 and now claims a base of 50 million registered users, tracks users’ listening habits and recommends songs based on what your circle of friends are listening to. The acquisition would fulfill the pledge of MySpace’s new CEO Own Van Natta to burnish the service’s connections to the music industry. But it would also directly compete with the social network’s MySpace Music project, a joint venture between the Fox Interactive Media subsidiary and the major music labels. iLike has raised about $35 million to date from founders Scott Banister, Bob Pittman, Vinod Khosla and Ticketmaster.    Full edition: CYN DIGITAL.    

CYNOPSIS KIDS – TODAY’S TOP STORY:   Will Ferrell, Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill join the voice0ver cast for DreamWorks Animation SKG animated feature Oobermind, which also stars Tina Fey.  Slated for a November 5, 2010 release, Ferrell plays Oobermind, replacing Robert Downey, Jr., who has exited the project due to scheduling conflicts.  Directed by Tom McGrath (Madagascar, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa), the movie revolves around the super villain Oobermind who conquers his archrival Metro Man (Pitt) only to be left with a life without purpose.  So, he creates a new good guy rival, Titan (Hill), but he wants to be a bad guy too.  Fey plays ace reporter Roxanne Ritchi.  Full edition: CYN KIDS.    

A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE ION TELEVISION

Friday A18-49 Analysis: UNIV maintained its Friday night lead with A18-49 at 1.5/5, according to final national ratings from Nielsen Media Research. UNIV won at 8p with En Nombre Del Amor at 1.4/6 followed by a rerun of Supernanny on ABC at 1.0/4. Through 9p, UNIV stayed at #1 yet increased its ratings to 1.9/7 for Manana Es Para Siempre while NBC’s Dateline came next at 1.4/5. Things reversed during 10p as NBC’s Dateline topped with 1.6/6 and UNIV’s La Rosa De Guadalupe placed second with 1.1/4.

Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Friday, August 14, 2009 time period averages. Source: NTI Galaxy, as dated. Live+SD.

NBC: 3.4/7        Southland [r] 1.9/4, Dateline 4.2/8

CBS: 2.9/6          Neil Diamond August Night: New York City 3.6/7, Ghost Whisperer [r] 2.4/5, Numb3rs [r] 2.6/5

ABC: 2.0/4          Supernanny [r] 2.1/4, Ugly Betty [r] 1.2/2, 20/20 2.8/5

UNIV: 1.9/4         En Nombre Del Amor 1.9/4, Manana Es Para Siempre 2.3/4, La Rosa De Guadalupe 1.4/3

FOX: 1.8/4          Mental 1.7/4, Mental 1.8/3

MNT: 1.7/3          WWE Friday Night Smackdown 1.7/3

CW: 0.8/2           Smallville [r] 0.7/2, Everybody Hates Chris [r] 0.8/1, The Game [r] 0.8/2

TELE: 0.5/1         Mas Sabe El Diablo 0.5/1, Ninos Ricos 0.5/1, Victorinos 0.5/1

ION: 0.3/1           Friday 7PM Movie: Double Impact [r] 0.3/1, Friday 9PM Movie: Double Impact [r] 0.3/1

A18-49: UNIV 1.5/5, NBC 1.2/4, MNT 1.0/4, ABC 0.9/3, CBS 0.8/3, FOX 0.8/3, CW 0.4/2, TELE 0.4/2, ION 0.2/1

Bright House Networks appointed Kimberly Maki as VP/Corporate Communications. Kimberly will lead the company’s entire communications efforts at all levels as well as a team of communications executives placed throughout the company’s six divisions. Kimberly reports to Kevin Hyman, EVP/Cable Operations.

Former Ogilvy, San Francisco executive Mark Yesayian was tapped by Mediaedge:cia (MEC) to spearhead the firm’s West Coast digital operations. Mark is charged with increasing and developing MEC Interaction’s digital practice on the West Coast. He will be based in Seattle, reporting to Patrick Cartmel, Managing Director, MEC Interaction.

Jennifer Barendrecht advanced to VP/Western Region with Turner Sports Ad Sales. In her new capacity, Jennifer will continue to develop client relationships with prominent West Coast movie studios. She will remain based in Los Angeles, reporting to Mark Marshall, VP/NSM, Turner Sports Ad Sales.

Lisa Leingang was hired by Comedy Central to become SVP/Original Programming and Development, East Coast. Lisa will manage development and production of all the network’s original pilots and series emanating from the East Coast. Lisa will report to Lauren Corrao, President/Original Programming and Development.

Sara Kozak was named VP/Production for Discovery Emerging Networks. In her new position, Sara will oversee production of original programming for Discovery Emerging Networks encompassing Science Channel, Investigation Discovery and the Military Channel. Sara will also manage a team of executive producers and senior producers for all three networks in addition to supervising editorial of various outside production companies. Sara will report to Deborah Adler Myers, GM/Science Channel and EVP/Programming, Discovery Emerging Networks.

CBS Television Distribution recruited Kimberly Philo from Walt Disney Parks and Resorts as VP/Media Advertising and Promotion. In her new role, Kimberly will implement media planning and strategy on behalf of the division’s eleven first-run and off-network shows.

A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE

This day in History:   1966 – The first pictures of earth taken from moon orbit were sent back to the U.S.

Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question: Will Truman’s beloved memento from his childhood years – a garden gnome – was accidentally shattered by Grace Adler while trying to swat a bee.  What was the gnome’s name?   SQUATSIE   Kudos to: Jill Beliasov-Empower MediaMarketing/NY; Jenna Klebanoff-NBC Universal/New York; Ryan Quam-Comcast Spotlight/West Palm Beach; Ravi Lakhani-Zenith Media/NYC; Jonathan Pinkerton-NashvilleEntertainment Examiner/Nashville; Carol Rudofski-Charter Media/St. Louis; Tom Nankival-WKOW-TV/Madison, WI; Phillip B. Gittelman-Personal Management/West Hollywood; Matthew C. Bergeron-Disney ABC Cable Networks Group, Research/Burbank; Frank Hagan-Circa Pictures/Hollywood

Today’s Trivia Question:  Who did the Big Giant Head resemble when he came to visit the Solomons?  (Email
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Later — Cyn
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT –  TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2009

ABC: Who Wants to be a Millionaire, Shaq Vs. [p ], PrimeTime: The Outsiders
AZTECA: Los Que Callamos Las Mujeres Edicion Especial, Los 25 Mas, Al Extremo
CBS: NCIS [r], Big Brother, Medium [r]
CW: 90210 [r], 90210 [r]
FOX: Hell’s Kitchen, More to Love
ION: Boston Legal, Boston Legal, Boston Legal
MNT: Street Patrol [r], Street Patrol [r], Jail [r], Jail [r]
NBC: America’s Got Talent [r], America’s Got Talent
PBS: Nova, Nova: scienceNow, P.O.V.
TELE: Mas Sabe el Diablo; Ninos Ricos, Padres Pobres; Victorinos
UNIV: En Nombre del Amor, Manana es para Siempre, Aqui y Ahora

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