Source: NTI, Galaxy Explorer, Cov Rtg. 9/27/04-2/13/05. Smallville = M-F 7p.

CYNTHIA TURNER’S
Cynopsis

02/15/05

Good morning. It’s Tuesday, February 15, 2005, and this is your first early morning briefing.

CBS won Sunday night with a lot of help from The Grammy Awards, giving the network an overall 6.8/16 A18-49 rating according to fast affiliate numbers from Nielsen Media Research.  ABC was a very close #2 with 2 hours of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, and an original Desperate Housewives and Boston Legal.  NBC, Fox and WB were dusted.  At 7p the first round of Extreme Makeover:HE led with a 4.1/12, well in front of CBS and NBC, both posting a 7 share. At 8p the Grammys pulled out in front with a 7.9/18 demo rating, inching out the second hour of EM:HE (6.8/16).  Desperate Housewives rallied to win the 9p hour with a 9.6/21 over Grammy’s 8.2/18.  At at 10p the Grammys had a stronghold with a 8.5/20 over Boston Legal’s 5.1/12 and Crossing Jordan’s 3.8/9.  Overall, CBS’ Grammys delivered an 8.2/18 from 8-11p, with an estimated 18.8 million viewers, down significantly from last year’s 26.3 million viewers.

Today’s Premieres:
MSNBC:  Connected: Coast to Coast debuts at 12n and 5p
E! :             Gastineau Girls at 10p

Casting / Development / Production:

• Milo Ventimiglia has joined the cast of WB‘s untitled pilot drama from Tom Fontana and Julie Martin (Warner Bros. TV/HIP) that takes place in a small NYC college. The cast also includes Ernest Waddell and Penn Badgely.
• ABC Family has cast Daphne Zuniga in its series scheduled to launch this summer, Beautiful People (Sony Pictures TV), about three women, mother and her teen daughters, who have recently moved from a small western town to NYC.
• Dylan McDermott joins the pilot cast of 3 Lbs (Paramount Network TV) for CBS, a medical drama that focuses on the lives of a group of neurosurgeons.
• Freddie Prinze Jr. will star in an untitled ABC comedy project from Warner Bros. TV about a young man who was raised in a house full of women.  Now out on his own and successful, the women come move in with him.
• Tim Vincent has joined the syndicated entertainment news show Access Hollywood as New York Correspondent, stepping in where Billy Bush was before becoming co-anchor with Nancy O’Dell.
• Charles Barkley has re-signed with TNT to stick with Inside the NBA through 2008, and will expand his role within Time Warner. Barkley’s new agreement includes a recurring role on HBO sports programming, as well as an increased presence on CNN. 
• Showtime will adapt the BBC comedy Manchild to the US domestic audience, with help from Sony Pictures TV and Nick Fisher who created the original, per Hollywood Reporter.  The show is about four nearly-50 guys who discuss in frank terms a variety of things on their minds as they muddle thru their mid life crises, and as it turns out, the predominant topic on their minds is s#x.
• Charlie Craig has been cast in Fox‘s drama pilot Revved (20th), a project set in NASCAR country from 20th.
• WB has ordered three untitled pilots:  the first, a cast-contingent order for a comedy project about two young women making their way in NYC, from Carsey-Werner/Martin-Stein Co.; the second,  from Warner Bros. TV/Jerry Bruckheimer TV, is about three 20-something men who turn to a female life coach to help them fine tune their relationships with women; and a third from 20th/Imagine TV about a young woman and her mother who meet the girl’s father for the first time. He originally was an unnamed sperm donor.

Turner Broadcasting has picked up the network television premiere rights to the new Will Smith’s Columbia Pictures movie, Hitch, to air on both TBS and TNT beginning in 2007.  The deal is also packaged with Spanglish and The Grudge, also available in ’07.   Hitch pulled in $43.1 million on its first weekend outing.  Spanglish was released in mid-December and thru the end of January has pulled in 42.0 million; while The Grudge was released at the end of October and has earned $110.3 million domestically to date.

TBS has ordered 10 eps of a new series starring Pauly Shore, a reality series tentatively called Minding the Store, in his quest to revive LA’s The Comedy Store, per Hollywood Reporter. The series will be produced by Shapiro/Grodner Prods and Bayonne Ent.  The Comedy Store was founded by Pauly Shore’s parents in 1976.

Hallmark Channel has acquired the basic cable rights to Judging Judy (distributed by Twentieth Television) and will begin airing eps on February 28 with the first five seasons airing M-F.  A specific time period has not been determined, but the show will air in the prime access/primetime neighborhood.

The Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show has negotiated a dog house for itself on USA Network for the next 12 years, taking it through 2016.  USA Network has been home to The Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show for the past 22 years.

Next Monday, beginning at 4p and running thru until 2am, is Discovery Health Channel‘s second annual 10-hour marathon Birth Day Live!  Developed in partnership with the March of Dimes, the Discovery Health Channel marathon event will follow patients, doctors and nurses at Woman’s Hospital in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women in San Diego, California; and Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Maryland, anchored by Mary Alice Williams.

Coming to TLC on April 15 at 10p is a new weekly series called Sheer Dallas – an up close and personal look at the lives of the rich and famous in Dallas, Texas and the southern high society social season.

The Style Network originally launched in October 1998, and today is celebrating having hit the 40 million subscriber mark. 

Dan Gelfand has been named VP/Promotional Marketing for here!, America’s first and only gay and lesbian premium television network.  Gelfand is responsible for sponsorships (festivals, special events, and expositions), corporate and non-profit partnerships, consumer grass roots marketing initiatives and Internet promotion for here!  Gelfand also oversees the development of marketing and creative advertising campaigns for here! Films’ theatrical releases.  Also at here!, Meredith Kadlec was upped to VP/Development, overseeing creative development of here! original features and scripted series.  Her responsibilities also include acquiring projects and developing relationships with the creative community.

BET made several exec appointments.  Robyn Lattaker-Johnson was named as VP/Programming Development.  In this new position, she will be in charge of new programming concepts, pilots and various other on-screen program. Robyn will be based in LA. She was previously Director of Development for Alternative Programming and Production at Sci Fi Channel.Lynda Dorman was named as Executive Director for the BET Foundation.  She was previously in the same position at Lawyers for Children America.  Ola Kudu was named as VP/Creative Services.  He will be responsible for on-air network promotions, special projects, sales presentations and broadcast design.   Ola was previously VP/Creative Director at GlobalHue.  Kevin Newell was named as VP/Midwest Advertising Sales.  He was previously McDonald’s Central Division as Marketing Officer.  Kevin will be based in Chicago. 

Jon Litner will head up the NY Mets new regional sports network (not yet named) as its President.  The network is slated to begin carrying games as well as news and information programs, next year.  It will launch with at least 3 million subs via Time Warner and Comcast, which are also part of the joint venture ownership.

Sunday, February 13, 2005. Fast Affiliate Ratings for all Networks – time period averages.  Source: Nielsen Media Research.  [p] = Premiere; [r] = Repeat

CBS     11.0/17 60 Minutes 8.6/14, Grammy Awards 11.8/18

ABC     9.7/15   EM: HE 6.4/11, EM: HE 9.7/15, Desperate Housewives 14.0/20, Boston Legal 8.8/14

NBC     6.9/11   Dateline 4.5/8, L&O: CI [r] 6.0/9, L&O: CI 8.8/13, Crossing Jordan 8.3/13

FOX     3.5/5    King of the Hill 3.0/5, Malcolm 3.4/6, Simpsons 4.9/7, Arrested Development 3.4/5, Family Guy [r] 3.1/5, Simpsons [r] 3.3/5

WB      1.3/2    Summerland [r] 0.8/1, Charmed 1.9/3, Steve Harvey’s Big Time 1.3/2

A18-49  CBS 6.8/16, ABC 6.4/15, NBC 2.8/7, Fox 2.7/6, WB 0.8/2

A MESSAGE FROM COURT TV

The History Channel presents This Day in History:
1804 – New Jersey abolishes slavery; the state is the last Northern state to make slavery illegal
 
Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question:  What primetime character had a particular fondness for Jellybabies?  DR. WHO. Always had a stash in his pocket.  Kudos to: Christina Ricucci Owen-Millenia 3 Comm/Atlanta; Jim Mundy-Disney/NY; Mike Luoma-Burlington Bcsters/Burlington VT; Dan Pearsons-Upstart Co/NY; Ed Left-Vendikarrstation.com; Dan Thomson-Media First Int’l/Minneapolis; Sam Lawson-UPN 46/St. Louis; Dan Rolls-Echostar/Denver; David Pearlman-Fox Movie Channel/LA; David Scott Jones-Marleigh Ent/LA.

A MESSAGE FROM COURT TV

Today’s Trivia Question: Who am I?  I’m a college grad, and today I wear a uniform.  I met my wife during an interview and married her a month later. She already had three daughters.  I like to play chess and take piano lessons.  After my day job, I wear another uniform and moonlight  at a gas station.  Who am I?  (click here with your answer and be sure to include your name, company, city and time zone with your answer. 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: FEBRUARY 15, 2005:  February sweep 2/3/05 – 3/2/05

ABC              My Wife & Kids, George Lopez, According to Jim, Rodney, NYPD Blue
CBS              NCIS, Dr. Phil Primetime Special, Judging Amy
FOX              American Idol, House
NBC              L&O: CI; Scrubs, Committed, L&O: SVU
PAX              Young Blade, Early Edition, Cold Turkey
UPN              All of Us, Eve, Veronica Mars
WB               Gilmore Girls, One Tree Hill
TELE             La Mujer en el Espejo, Gitanas, Te Voy a Ensenar a Querer
UNIV             Rubi, Amor Real, Jugando Al Amor