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02.14.12
Good morning. It’s Tuesday, February 14, 2012, and this is your first early morning briefing.
Tonight’s Premieres:
ABC: Cougar Town at 830p
HISTORY: Top Gear at 9p; Top Shot at 10p
TLC: 19 Kids & Counting at 9p
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4.2 MILLION VIEWERS
WATCHED THE PREMIERE OFNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHANNEL’S
DOOMSDAY PREPPERS MAKING IT THE CHANNEL’S HIGHEST RATED TUESDAY EVER
CATCH A NEW EPISODE TONIGHT AT 9P ON NGC Source: Nielsen. Live+SD. 10/30/02-2/7/12 Tuesdays 8P-11P. Reach based on P2+, 1 min qualifier. “Biggest Tuesday Ever”: HH, P2+, P25-54 AA(000). Subject to qualifications available upon request.
Sunday’s 54th Annual Grammy Awards on CBS (8p-1133p) delivered more than 39.9 million total viewers, the most viewers since 1984 and the second largest audience in the award show’s history based on live plus same day ratings results from Nielsen. With the A18-49 demo, the Grammys averaged a 14.1/32; among A25-54 a 16.0/33; and a 12.1/31 with A18-34.
Season two of docu-series The Franchise on Showtime will highlight the Miami Marlins. The series ushers viewers into the normally private world of a professional baseball team and into the lives of the players, coaches and team personnel. Production is underway and shooting will document various locations during off-season such as Spring Training in Jupiter, FL and then embedded with the team during regular season. The Franchise is produced by MLB Productions with the support of the Major League Baseball Players Association and airs exclusively on Showtime. The premiere date will be released later this year.
Wellness and lifestyle network, Veria Living debuts a new half-hour exercise series BollyFit next Monday at 8a with an encore airing at 630p. Host and Bollyfit International founder Reshmi Chetram will lead viewers with this new cardio workout combining aerobics and Bollywood dance moves.
New episodes of The First 48: Missing Persons will return to A&E Network’s schedule beginning March 15 at 10p. The series will follow missing persons cases handled by the Chicago Police Department and its elite squad of detectives assigned to these cases. The series is produced by Found Films, LLC for A&E.
A second season of the tattoo competition series Ink Master is on tap for Spike TV. The network ordered 13 episodes, five more eps than season one’s order. Hosted by Dave Navarro, Ink Master is produced by Original Media.
TV Guide Network renewed its original reality series Nail Files for a second season set to debut this summer featuring star and owner of The Painted Nail salon, Katie Cazorla. The first season launched last summer and the network tallied its highest ratings for an original series premiere. The series is produced by reality producer SallyAnn Salsano and her team at 495 Productions. On an aside note, this Thursday TV Guide Network will pay tribute to the late Whitney Houston with Whitney Houston, An Icon Remembered at 8p.
The series premiere of Full Metal Jousting from Pilgrim Studios on HISTORY posted 1.9 million total viewers as well as 1.2 million A18-49 and 1.1 million A25-54 impressions last Sunday.
For its midseason debut on Sunday at 9p, The Walking Dead on AMC delivered 5.4 million with A18-49 and 4.4 million among A25-54 in addition to 8.1 million total viewers. The Walking Dead also tallied 10.1 million total viewers for the night combining the 9p premiere episode and the 11p and 1230a encores. Following at 10p, AMC launched the new unscripted series Comic Book Men with 2.0 million total viewers.
Clarification: Today VH1 Classic is airing the three-hour tribute to the late Whitney Houston titled Whitney Houston Video Retrospective at 12p and again tonight at 8p.
Program Call: Cynopsis Media will be producing our annual MIPTV Shopping Guide sent to all Cynopsis and Cynopsis Kids subscribers on Thursday, March 29, the week before MIPTV 2012 in Cannes. If your company is an official exhibitor at MIPTV this year and would like to have your programming included in our shopping guide, please send us only the following info for your top 5 shows: title, availability date, number of episodes, length, type (i.e., movie, series, special, etc.), genre and your terms (barter, cash, etc.) as well as your company’s stand/booth location. To be included in this free and highly-viewed special edition, please send your submission to Lisa Ball at: [email protected] no later than Thursday, March 22, 2012. A confirmation email will be sent following each submission from Lisa (if you do not receive a confirmation email, please resubmit).
PlayOn! Sports (PlayOn) is launching a new nationwide network initiative concentrating exclusively on high school boys and girls varsity sports coverage called the PlayOn High School Sports Network. PlayOn is the largest rights holder, producer, distributor and aggregator of high school sports events. The multi-platform offerings will include a 24-hour television channel, products for broadband, mobile and VOD platforms and PlayOn will debut the network this fall across cable, satellite, telco and online platforms. Features of the PlayOn High School Sports Network include: 15,000+ hours of live event coverage of regular season, postseason and championship events across all sports; original and exclusive programming associated with event coverage such as original series, studio shows, news, documentaries and highlights; a linear TV channel with complete 24-hour schedule and minimal repeats; a library containing VOD, broadband and mobile products; and access to numerous sports and year-round programming covering football, basketball, baseball, competitive cheer, cross country, golf, gymnastics, soccer, softball, swimming/diving, tennis, track and field, volleyball, water polo, weightlifting and wrestling.
MGM Networks Latin America launches its female-skewing lifestyle and entertainment channel Ella today. The new network makes its debut in the US Hispanic market and in Puerto Rico sporting the tagline Todo Mujer. Todos los Dias (Every Woman. Every Day). Ella is available through iO TV’s iO en espanol digital cable package as well as on Liberty, ClaroTV and Choice in Puerto Rico.
UK-based Target Entertainment has made several broadcast deals for the crime series Police Interceptors with 58 one-hour episodes. Italy’s Sitcom Group and Norway’s TV Norge both bought all four seasons of the series; season four was picked up by Foxtel Australia, VMMA Belgium and RTL Netherlands. Police Interceptors is produced by Raw Cut for Channel 5 UK.
Prior to the Berlin Film Festival and EFM, Opus Distribution acquired the Peakviewing Transatlantic film library consisting of 19 titles slated for worldwide distribution. Titles in the library include Beauty and the Beast, The Christmas Stallion, The Last Leprechaun and The Little Unicorn.
CALL FOR ENTRIES: Think you’re an MVP in the world of sports media or will your rivals steal the spotlight? Enter the Cynopsis Sports Awards and bring home a crystal award for your shelf, recognizing the grit and strategy you’ve shown all year long. The awards will cover the best of 2011 from the world of television, radio and online, with categories that range from news shows to apps to marketing campaigns. Click on this link to learn more: http://www.cynopsis.com/sportsawards.
Friday A18-49 Analysis: ABC and CBS shared the top spot Friday at 1.6/5 each with the A18-49 viewers, according to final national ratings from Nielsen. ABC took a bite out of the competition at 8p with Shark Tank at 1.8/6 and Univision was next in line with Una Familia con Suerte at 1.6/5. CBS took over at 9p with CSI: NY at 1.7/5 though NBC’s Grimm was only a tenth of a rating point behind at 1.6/5. CBS continued in first place through 10p with Blue Bloods at 1.8/5 and Univision’s La Que No Podia Amar was a close second at 1.7/5.
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Friday, February 10, 2012 time period averages. Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.
CBS: 6.7/11 A Gifted Man 5.8/10, CSI: NY 6.8/11, Blue Bloods 7.6/13
ABC: 3.4/6 Shark Tank 3.6/6, Primetime: What Would You Do? 3.0/5, 20/20 3.6/6
NBC: 3.4/6 Who Do You Think You Are? 3.6/6, Grimm 3.2/5, Dateline 3.4/6
FOX: 2.0/3 Kitchen Nightmares 2.2/4, Fringe 1.9/3
UNIV: 1.8/3 Una Familia con Suerte 1.9/3, El Talisman 1.6/3, La Que No Podia Amar 2.0/3
CW: 1.0/2 Nikita 0.9/2, Supernatural 1.0/2
ION: 0.7/1 Cold Case 0.7/1, Cold Case 0.6/1, Cold Case 0.7/1
TELE: 0.7/1 Maid en Manhattan 0.9/1, Flor Salvaje 0.7/1, Relaciones Peligrosas 0.5/1
TF: 0.3/0 Cine de Las Estrellas Fri 0.2/0, El Capo 0.3/1
A18-49: ABC 1.6/5, CBS 1.6/5, UNIV 1.5/5, NBC 1.5/4, FOX 1.3/4, CW 0.6/2, TELE 0.5/2, ION 0.3/1, TF 0.2/1
MLB Network added three on-air talents as studio hosts and reporters for the network’s studio programming. Lauren Shehadi most recently was an anchor/reporter for CBSSports.com and CBS Sports Network; Alanna Rizzo joins the network from ROOT Sports Rocky Mountain; and Scott Braun was with ESPN as a college basketball play-by-play announcer for ESPNU and ESPN3 and a host of ESPN.com’s Heat Index covering the Miami Heat.
Krishan Bhatia was elevated to EVP/Digital Strategy and Operations for the Entertainment & Digital Networks and Integrated Media (E&DN/IM) at NBCUniversal. Krishan will continue to spearhead advertising strategy and the operations group for the roster of NBCUniversal digital media assets that includes E! Online, MyStyle, G4, Fandango, DailyCandy and iVillage. He works closely with Linda Yaccarino, President/Cable Entertainment and Digital Sales for NBCUniversal and Ed Swindler, EVP/COO of NBCUniversal Ad Sales.
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This day in History: 1994 – Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia weds Deborah Koons.
Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question: What year did the Tonight Show move from New York City to Burbank? May, 1972. Kudos to: Synda Kollman-Charter Marketing Group/Boca Raton; Gerry Bixenspan-TV Marketing/NYC; Brad Stern-Floral Park, NY; A’ngelique Tyree-Emmis Communications/NYC; Miriam Aardahl-OMD/LA; Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/LA; Alan Perris-The Television Academy/North Hollywood; Dan Haberer, Creo Entertainment, Playa del Rey.
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02.14.12
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2012
ABC: Last Man Standing, Cougar Town [p], The River, Body of Proof
AZTECA: Lo Que La Gente Cuenta, Buenas Noches America, Al Extremo,
CBS: NCIS, NCIS: LA, Unforgettable
CW: Hart of Dixie [r], Ringer
FOX: Glee, New Girl, Raising Hope
ION: Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds, Flashpoint
NBC: The Biggest Loser, Parenthood
PBS: Tupperware!: An American Experience, Frontline
TELE: Una Maid en Manhattan, Flor Salvaje, Relaciones Peligrosas
UNIV: Una Familia con Suerte; El Talisman, La Que No Podia Amar
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