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02.26.13

Good morning. It’s Tuesday February 26, 2013, and this is your first early morning briefing.

Tonight’s Premiere:
ABC: Celebrity Wife Swap at 8p
PBS: Makers: Women Who Make America at 8p
BIO: Casanova Killers at 10p
CBS: The Golden Boy at 10p
Syfy: Robot Combat League at 10p
Travel Channel: Armed & Ready at 10p & 1030p
MTV2: Mac Miller and the Most Dope Family at 1130p

ABC’s live broadcast of “The Oscars” on Sunday from 830-1140p attracted an average audience of 40.3 million total viewers and delivered a 13.0 rating among A18-49, based on Nielsen’s Fast National ratings.  This year’s Oscars has become TV’s most-watched entertainment telecast in three years and the Seth MacFarlane-hosted show also scored generous year-to-year gains with A18-34 viewers (+20% – 11.3 rating vs. 9.4 rating).

For you Oscar fans out there, TiVo Research and Analytics, Inc. (TRA) released the top 10 moments from ABC’s 85th Annual Academy Awards on Sunday, based on subscribers Live + Same Day viewership.

1.  Christoph Waltz wins for Best Supporting Actor of Django Unchained and his heartfelt speech (8:50 pm ET)
2.  Seth MacFarlane imitating the Flying Nun in the Green Room with Sally Field (8:45 pm ET)
3.  Melissa McCarthy and Paul Rudd talking about their lack of animation work (8:56 pm ET)
4.  Seth MacFarlane joking about how Best Actress nominee for Beasts of the Southern Wild, Quzenhane Wallis, is the youngest nominee ever (9:04 pm ET)
5.  Captain Kirk (aka William Shatner) appears from the future to tell Seth he needs to fix his hosting performance (8:35 pm ET)
6.  Following the clips for Argo, Lincoln and Zero Dark Thirty, Seth MacFarlane does a short monologue about each film (9:41 pm ET)
7.  “50 Years of Bond” montage is celebrated (9:22 pm ET)
8.  Jennifer Aniston teases Channing Tatum about being waxed for a role while presenting the award for Achievement in Costume Design (9:16 pm ET)
9.  The second montage of the night celebrates film musicals (9:54 pm ET)
10.  Anne Hathaway wins for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Les Miserables (10:22 pm ET)

Following the success of primetime series Love It or List It in its fifth season, HGTV is premiering a spinoff series Love It or List It Too featuring Jillian Harris, interior designer and season 5 star of The Bachelorette.  Beginning Monday, March 4 at 11p and airing every Monday, 26 one-hour episodes follow Harris and real estate agent Todd Talbot as they compete for homeowners’ final decision to remain in their home or buy a new one.  This Friday at 8p, HGTV premieres another new series – Auction Agent – starring Missouri State Auction Champ Christie Hatman in five half-hour episodes.  HGTV has also renewed Hawaii Life and Scoring the Deal for second seasons. 

Syfy serves up Deep South Paranormal, with the first of six episodes on Wednesday, April 10 at 10p.  Featuring a team of local pros who investigate everything from swamp apparitions to haunted plantations, Deep South Paranormal is produced by BASE Productions.

TV One explores real-life stories of love gone wrong in new docu-series Deceived, debuting Monday, March 25 at 9p.  Deceived is produced by Juma Entertainment for TV One.

The latest entry in CNBC’s Prime block is The Car Chasers, premiering next Tuesday, March 5 at 10p.  The eight one-hour episode series is produced by ITV Studios America in association with Leepson Bounds Entertainment.

TBS plans to geek it up, ordering a second season of King of the Nerds with eight episodes in 2014. The competition series is in its freshman season, with the finale set for March 7.  Hosted by Robert Carradine, King of the Nerds is produced by Electus and 5X5 Media.

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TLC renewed Breaking Amish for a second season. Production on eight one-hour episodes is currently underway. Produced by Hot Snakes Media for TLC, the show premieres in May 2013.

Telemundo Media is partnering with moviegoer destination Fandango as the two companies yesterday launched Fandango Cine (www.fandangocine.com), a new comprehensive web and mobile movie site targeted to Hispanic movie fans.  Fandango Cine’s launch partners are Universal Pictures’ “Fast & Furious 6” and Sprint.  Additionally, Fandango Cine will be integrated into www.telemundo.com, mun2.tv and www.fandango.com.

Christine Lahti, presently recurring on CBS’ Hawaii Five-O, was cast as the female lead in the network’s drama pilot Beverly Hills Cop, based on the movie franchise. 

ABC’s comedy Keep Calm and Karey On about a family of petty thieves has added Jane Seymour and Majandra Delfino playing mother and daughter.  The comedy is produced by 20th Television with Shawn Levy, Marty Adelstein and Becky Clements as EPs. 

The X Files’ Gillian Anderson and 666 Park Avenue’s Rachael Taylor have joined NBC’s untitled drama thriller pilot from Rand Ravich.  Ravich will write the pilot and executive produce the 20th Television project along with Far Shariat.

British actor Jamie Bell, who starred in the film Billy Elliot, turns to television for his next role in AMC‘s drama pilot Turn.  Bell will play the lead role of Abraham Woodhull. 

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E!’s three-hour Live from the Red Carpet: The 2013 Academy Awards from 530-830p averaged close to 3.7 million total viewers and 1.9 million among A18-49.  These totals are up +3% and +8% respectively over the Red Carpet coverage for the 2012 Academy Awards.

Friday A18-49 Analysis:  Univision led by a slim margin among A18-49 viewers Friday with a 1.6/5, according to final primetime national ratings from Nielsen.  Univision led at 8p with Por Ella Soy Eva at 1.6/5 and CBS’ Undercover Boss trailed closely at 1.5/5.  ABC moved into first place during 9p with Shark Tank at 1.9/6 and Univision slipped back to #2 with Amores Verdaderos at 1.7/5.  At 10p, Univision was back on top this hour with Amor Bravio at 1.5/5 while ABC’s 20/20 and CBS’ Blue Bloods tied for second place at 1.4/4 each.

Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Friday, February 22, 2013 (February Sweep Day 22) time period averages.  Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.

CBS: 5.8/10          Undercover Boss 4.6/8, CSI: NY 6.0/10, Blue Bloods 7.0/12

ABC: 3.9/7              Last Man Standing 3.9/7, Malibu Country 3.3/6, Shark Tank 4.1/7, 20/20 4.0/7

NBC: 3.9/7              Dateline Friday 4.3/7, Rock Center with Brian Williams 3.1/5

UNIV: 2.1/3            Por Ella Soy Eva 2.1/4, Amores Verdaderos 2.1/3, Amor Bravio 2.0/3

FOX: 1.8/3              Kitchen Nightmares 1.9/3, Touch 1.6/3

TELE: 0.8/1             Pasion Prohibida 0.7/1, La Patrona 1.0/2, La Rostro Venganza 0.6/1

ION: 0.7/1              Cold Case 0.7/1, Cold Case 0.6/1, Cold Case 0.7/1

CW: 0.6/1               Nikita 0.8/1, Cult [r] 0.5/1

UMA: 0.2/0             Cineplex Fri [7p start r] 0.4/1, Cineplex Fri [r] 0.2/0

A18-49:  UNIV 1.6/5, ABC 1.5/5, CBS 1.4/4, NBC 1.3/4, FOX 0.9/3, TELE 0.6/2, CW 0.3/1, ION 0.3/1, UMA 0.1/0

Jeff Zeleny joins ABC News as Senior Washington Correspondent covering Congress and politics.  Prior to this appointment, Zeleny was with The New York Times as a reporter covering national affairs and presidential campaigns.

RLTV tapped Marietta Biberman as Marketing Manager based at the network’s New York sales office. Previously, Biberman was with Screenvision Cinema Network where she served as Marketing Manager/Strategic Marketing.

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This Day In History, sponsored by Military Channel: 1887 – Birth date of William Frawley who played “Fred” on I Love Lucy.

Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: Which star of Absolutely Fabulous (1992-2012) was also a “Bond Girl”? The Ab Fab Bond Girl was Joanna Lumley in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. Kudos to: Eric Emeric-AMC Networks/NYC; Doris Vignapiano-Petry Media/NYC; Gregory Cavaluzzo-Maxus Global/NYC; RT Harris-WideOrbit Inc./Detroit; John Kukla-KDFW-KDFI/Dallas; Dan Whitford-Lakeshore Public Television and Radio/Chicago; Bryan Wallace-HKX/Dallas; Eric Litt-WGN-TV/Chicago; Steven Wishnoff/LA; David Garber-Linzazck Productions LLC/Chatsworth, CA; Aaron Paquette-Vision Critical/LA; Alan Perris-The Television Academy/North Hollywood.

Today’s Trivia Question – British TV Shows Theme Week: Which member of the Beatles was a big fan of Monty Python’s Flying Circus (1969-1974) and actually appeared in an episode? (Email [email protected] 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.).

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02.26.13

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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – TUESDAY FEBRUARY 26, 2013

ABC: Celebrity Wife Swap [p], The Taste, Body of Proof
CBS: NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, Golden Boy [p]
CW: Hart of Dixie, Cult
FOX: Raising Hope, New Girl, The Mindy Project
ION: Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds
MyTV: House, House
NBC: Betty White’s Off Their Rockers, Betty White’s Off Their Rockers, Go On, The New Normal, Smash
PBS: Makers: Women Who Make America [p]
Telemundo: Pasion Prohibida, La Patrona, El Rostro de la Venganza
UMA: Marea Roja, Made in Cartagena, Rosario Tijeras
Univision: Por Ella Soy Eva, Amores Verdaderos, Amor Bravio

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