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01.12.10

Good morning! It’s Tuesday, January 12, 2010, 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:
FOX: American Idol at 8p
Investigation Discovery: I (Almost) Got Away With It at 10p
Spike TV: Blue Mountain State at 10p

A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM HARPO PRODUCTIONS AND SONY PICTURES TELEVISION

FOX made several announcements at the TCA Press Tour in Los Angeles yesterday:

• FOX picked up a second season of its frosh series Glee. Additionally, FOX is launching a national talent search to cast three new roles for season two. Auditions will be open to amateur individuals and professionals aged 16-26. Full details on the auditions will be announced soon; visit

www.fox.com/glee for updates. A multi-part special chronicling the casting search will air prior to the start of the second season this fall. New episodes of Glee resume on FOX April 13 at 9p. Glee is produced by Ryan Murphy Television in association with 20th Century Fox Television.

• America’s Most Wanted, on the air for 22 years, will showcase its 1000th episode with a special on March 6 at 9p. The series is produced by STF Productions, Inc.
• Drama series Bones will reach its 100th episode on April 8 at 8p. Bones is produced by Far Field Productions and Josephson Entertainment in association with 20th Century Fox Television. Furthermore, Family Guy celebrates its 150th episode on May 2 at 9p. Family Guy is from creator/executive producer Seth MacFarlane and produced by 20th Century Fox Television.
• FOX will debut the new action/comedy series Code 58 (wt) with two previews airing May 12 at 8p and May 19 at 8p. The series’ official premiere is scheduled for June 7 at 9p. Code 58, from Matt Nix (Burn Notice), is about Dan Stark, a washed-up, old-style cop (Bradley Whitford) paired with Jack Bailey, a by-the-books, ambitious cop (Colin Hanks). Fox Television Studios produces. Encores of both preview episodes will air back-to-back May 31 at 8p.

More big news from FOX at the TCA Tour: American Idol judge Simon Cowell announced his departure from American Idol at the end of this new season which premieres tonight. Cowell won’t be seen by American audiences for awhile though he will remain with FOX as he is involved with the upcoming new series The X Factor set to premiere in the fall of 2011. The US version of The X Factor will be similar in style to the British version and Cowell will serve as judge and executive producer. Cowell’s Syco Television and FremantleMedia North America will produce The X Factor while Syco and Sony Music Entertainment jointly own the franchise. With this announcement, FOX also revealed its scheduling strategy to have The X Factor air in the fall, American Idol in the winter and spring and So You Think You Can Dance during the summer, keeping its reality franchises on air year-round.

MTV follows the real-life experiences of teenager Liz Lee in the new series My Life As Liz, premiering January 18 at 1030p. The series documents Liz’s experiences as a high school senior in Burleson, TX using confidential conversation and inner-monologues as she navigates different peer groups within her school.

AMC premieres the third season of Breaking Bad beginning March 21 at 10p. Prior to the new season debut, AMC will air a “Best of Breaking Bad” Marathon with six of the series’ top episodes on March 19 at 8p. Season two of Breaking Bad will be available via On Demand this month. Breaking Bad stars Bryan Cranston and is produced by Sony Pictures Television in association with AMC.

Lifetime pulled the plug on its comedy series Rita Rocks from Media Rights Capital. Two seasons of the sitcom aired with the second season concluding last November. Nicole Sullivan starred as a working mom who launches a garage band.

TBS is bringing back a third season of its microseries My Manny next month. The new 10-episode installment will pick up the storyline where it left off, highlighted by a family trip to the Magic Kingdom and Epcot at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. Disney Parks is the exclusive sponsor of this new season. My Manny debuts February 24, airing each Wednesday night for five consecutive weeks within special commercial pods in Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns at 9p and 930p. Episodes will also be available at tbs.com.

A new 24/7 hi-def lifestyle network targeting women 30-65 called BE was established by Mark Goldman, formerly the founding COO of Current Media. BE’s focus will be on Eastern-based wellness techniques through entertainment and information. Content on BE is focused on healthy living, yoga and dance, nutrition, alternative healing, holistic medicine, stress relief, beauty and anti-aging and more. Goldman will serve as President/CEO of BE Network.

A&E Network premieres a tenth season of its real-life series The First 48 this Thursday at 9p. During this new season the series will air its 150^th episode. The First 48 continues to follow homicide detectives in real time during the initial 48 hours of a murder investigation, going inside police departments in Miami, Louisville and Birmingham and new for this cycle, Harris County, TX just outside Houston.

Bicultural Latino network, mun2 is launching mun2 Sports on February 20. Programming on the new network will include more than 20 Saturday night soccer games from Mexico as well as Mexican National Team matches when they play in the US. Other programming will include a weekly 30m show on Sunday nights titled The mun2 Sports Arena showcasing highlights sports and athletes favored by young Latino Americans and the weekend mun2 Timeouts sports briefs airing during regular programming.

ITV Studios produced a new one-hour entertainment competition series called Popstar to Operastar for ITV1, premiering this Friday at 9p. The six one-hour episodes follow eight well-known successful singers as they train from singing pop music to opera. Professional opera singers Katherine Jenkins and Rolando Villazon will mentor the stars. Each week one celebrity popstar will be eliminated by viewer votes.

HISTORY’s third season opener of Ax Men on Sunday at 9p tallied 1.3 million A18-49; 1.4 million A25-54; and 2.5 million total viewers.

Since viewers in the New York Tri-State area are unable to view Food Network currently through Cablevision, WPIX/New York is teaming with the network to air special broadcasts. This last Sunday, WPIX aired the culinary competition show Super Chef Battle: An Iron Chef America Event (which originally aired on Food Network January 3). The Sunday broadcast on WPIX posted a 2.1 rating among A18-49 and a 2.6 with A25-54.

Program Call:   Cynopsis Media is producing our annual NATPE Shopping Guide sent to all Cynopsis subscribers on Thursday, January 21, the week before NATPE 2010.  If your company is exhibiting and you’d like to have your programming included, please send 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.). and location (hotel suite or booth number). To be included in this free and highly-viewed special edition, please send details to [email protected] no later than Friday, January 15, 2010. A confirmation email will be sent following each submission.
 
We remind you about this event every year and it’s come around again — Save the Date! February 25, Battle of the Bands at the Highline Ballroom in NYC.  They are now accepting submissions for bands (email Emily Cleveland at emily@ citymeals.org) as well as your favorite playlists (20 minutes maximum).  Submissions need to be in by January 25, so no dawdling!  This evening is not only a lot of fun, but it benefits the Citymeals-on-Wheel helping to provide meals to homebound elderly New Yorkers.  For more information, check out www.citymeals.org/battle.  See you there!

Premium movie network, Epix made a deal with Cox Communications over multiple platforms beginning this April, cites Multichannel News. This is the second major carriage deal Epix made following its initial agreement with Verizon FiOS. Epix is a joint venture between Viacom’s Paramount Pictures division, MGM and Lionsgate. Epix will be available to Cox subscribers in both standard and hi-def formats as well as on demand and online.

Former Alaskan Governor, Sarah Palin will become a contributor on Fox News Channel as part of a multi-year deal. Palin will appear on various FOX News programs in addition to hosting occasional specials. Unlike former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, Palin will not headline her own show on the cable news network.

TV Land okayed a new original six-episode docu-soap centered on the real-life married celebrity couple Lisa Rinna and Harry Hamlin. Harry Loves Lisa goes inside their marriage and family as they juggle Hollywood careers and lifestyles while parenting two young daughters. TV Land will debut the series this fall.

A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM THE GEORGE FOSTER PEABODY AWARDS

Friday A18-49 Analysis: CBS resumed its overall #1 position among A18-49 viewers Friday night at 2.1/6, according to final national ratings from Nielsen. At 8p, CBS won with Ghost Whisperer at 2.2/7 and UNIV’s En Nombre Del Amor was next at 1.6/5. NBC’s Dateline edged into first place during 9p at 2.2/6 just a tenth of a rating point ahead of CBS’ Medium at 2.1/6. Also this hour, the return of Shark Tank on ABC ranked fourth at 1.4/4. ABC had a turn at #1 in the 10p hour as 20/20 posted a 2.3/7 while CBS’ Numbers came second at 2.1/6.

Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Friday, January 8, 2010 time period averages. Source: NTI Galaxy, as dated. Live+SD.

CBS: 5.5/9          Ghost Whisperer 5.4/9, Medium 5.3/9, Numb3rs 5.8/10

NBC: 5.2/9          Dateline 6.0/10, The Jay Leno Show 3.5/6

ABC: 3.5/6           SuperNanny 2.8/5, Shark Tank [p] 2.4/4, 20/20 5.3/9

FOX: 2.3/4           Bones [r] 3.0/5, Dollhouse 1.5/3

UNIV: 1.9/3         En Nombre Del Amor 2.1/4, Sortilegio 2.3/4, La Rosa De Guadalupe 1.4/2

CW: 0.9/1           Smallville [r] 0.9/2, Smallville [r] 0.9/1

ION: 0.7/1          Criminal Minds 9P 0.8/1, Criminal Minds 10P 0.8/1

TELE: 0.6/1        Mas Sabe El Diablo 0.7/1, Ninos Ricos 0.7/1, Victorinos 0.5/1

A18-49: CBS 2.1/6, NBC 1.7/5, ABC 1.6/5, UNIV 1.5/5, FOX 1.1/3, CW 0.6/2, TELE 0.6/2, ION 0.4/1

WGBH/Boston appointed Neil Kelleher as Sales Manager/Local Corporate Sponsorship. Neil will be involved with developing sales strategies to spur local corporate sponsorship opportunities for WGBH.
 

A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM BOWLING FOR BREASTCANCER.ORG

This day in History:  1943 – The Office of Price Administration announced that standard frankfurters/hot dogs/wieners would be replaced by ‘Victory Sausages.’

Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question:  This iconic logo is based on a mountain in the Wasatch Range in Utah where one of the officers who founded the company nearly a century ago resided.   Whose logo is this?  PARAMOUNT STUDIOS  Kudos to:  Juan Delgado-Telemundo/NY; Corey Chu-NBC Universal/NY; Dennis Maguire-Bright House Networks/Riverview FL; Dave Lucas-News 8/Arlington; Joanna Kuebel-Kelly, Scott & Madison/Chicago; Jon Burshtan-Citizen Pictures/Denver; Scott Renshaw-KXUN/Fort Smith, AR; Brian Fleming-Tribune Television/New Orleans; Dan Matson-20th Television/LA; Mitch Messinger-ABC Daytime, SOAPnet/Burbank; Chin Thammasaengsri-CBS/LA; Jeremy Gardiner/Hollywood; Tiffany Ellis-Jadamali Films/Perth; Arthur Reinstein-Canwest Broadcasting/Toronto; Bernard Bourret-Intent Pictures/Toronto; Keith MacKechnie-The Actors’ Network/Vancouver

Today’s Trivia Question:  Two families on two separate sitcoms lived at 704 Hauser Street.  Who were they?  (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.)

Later — Cyn
01.12.10

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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT –  TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2010

ABC: Scrubs, Better Off Ted, Scrubs, Better Off Ted, The Forgotten
AZTECA: Los Que Callamos Las Mujeres Edicion Especial, Los 25 Mas, Al Extremo
CBS: NCIS , NCIS: LA, The Good Wife
CW:  90210 [r], Melrose Place [r]
FOX: American Idol [p ]
ION: Ghost Whisperer, Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds
NBC:  The Biggest Loser: Couples, Jay Leno Show
PBS:  Nova, Independent Lens
TELE: Mas Sabe el Diablo; Perro Amor; Victorinos
UNIV: En Nombre del Amor, Sortilegio, Aqui y Ahora

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