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01/22/08

Good Morning.  It’s Tuesday, January 22, 2008, and this is your first early morning briefing.  

Apparently a communications olive branch has been extended between the WGA and the AMPTP. After the DGA and AMPTP finalized their deal last Thursday, members of the AMPTP reached out to the WGA to resume informal talks sometime this week, perhaps as soon as today. This would be the first sit-down talk among the two entities since AMPTP representatives broke off formal negotiations on December 7.

Tonight’s Premieres:
TLC: The Bussey Bunch at 9p
truTV: The Real Hustle at 10p
Bravo: The Millionaire Matchmaker at 11p

Tonight’s Finale:
Bravo: The Real Housewives of Orange County at 10p

New court series Judge Karen is cleared by Sony in 72% of the U.S., including 13 of the top 15 markets, reports B&C. Television stations from such groups as Sinclair Broadcast Group, Raycom Media, Meredith Broadcast Group and Media General have picked up the show that stars Miami-based Judge Karen Mills-Francis.

Character actor, Allan Melvin, 84, died of cancer last Thursday at his home in Los Angeles. Over several decades, Allan played a series of sidekicks, buddies and character roles including Archie Bunker’s pal Barney Hefner on All in the Family and Corporal Henshaw on the Phil Silvers Show. His best-known role, though was Sam the Butcher on The Brady Bunch, from 1970 to 1973. He also received steady work over the years as a voice actor, including the lead role in Hanna Barbera’s cartoon Magilla Gorilla. Allan is survived by his wife, one daughter and one grandson.

LATV Networks, LLC acquired American Latino TV (ALTV).  As part of the agreement, LATV will pick up ALTV’s American Latino TV and LatiNation weeklies, video content library, and New York-based production, sales, and marketing office.  As a consultant for LATV, former ALTV President/Exec Producer Robert Rose, will continue as Exec Producer of the ALTV weeklies and oversee LATV’s broadcast syndication unit. ALTV Supervising Producer Renzo Devia will also join LATV as a consultant. ALTV is a syndication/production company producing English-language TV shows for bicultural/bilingual U.S. Latinos.

MTV is planning a new reality competition series to look for the next Elle Woods for the Broadway version of Legally Blonde. The current and original Elle, Laura Bell Bundy recently extended her contract through the spring. The TV show will cast contestants in Los Angeles, New York and Orlando to compete for the lead role later this month through early February.

NBC has finally cast the 2nd title role in its upcoming project Kath & Kim, from Reveille and Universal Media Studios.  Molly Shannon was the first pick, and now starring opposite her will be Selma Blair, reports THR.  The comedy is based on an Australian series of the same name.

Michael Davies and IMG have reportedly been pitching networks with a new celebrity competition series – World’s Strongest Celebrity.  If you’re familiar with World’s Strongest Man series, this is the same idea only with notables, reports Variety.

Elsewhere, NBC is prepping Celebrity Circus – the American version of the international series from Endemol USA.  This live competition will have celebs performing next to professional circus performers, and have a look of “Las Vegas styled circus shows.”  The show is scheduled for this summer, in lead-up to the Summer Olympics which begin on 08/08/08.

Showtime has ordered up a third season of Brotherhood.  According to THR, the show will continue to shoot on location from Providence, and a total of 8 episodes have been ordered.

Casting Call: NBC’s Most Outrageous Moments show wants funny on and off-air video clips including TV and sports bloopers, local TV news goofs, especially reporter live-shots gone wrong, animal guests doing unexpected antics and any other TV clips from news, production companies or commercial clips. Home and corporate videos are also welcome. The show buys and licenses footage used in the series as well as paying for shipping screeners from TV stations and production companies. Contact Steve Howard immediately at
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CYNOPSIS DIGITAL – TODAY’S TOP STORY: HBO begins testing a new broadband content offering today in a selection of Time Warner Cable systems in Milwaukee and Green Bay, Wisconsin. HBO on Broadband, viewable only on PCs by HBO TWC subscribers, will offer access to some 600 episodes (400 at any one time) of HBO originals per month for no additional charge, including The Wire, Sex and the City and The Sopranos. The company, markedly conservative on the broadband front so far, offered no details on whether or not the service would eventually be offered nationally.  Full edition: CYN DIGITAL. (Or to listen to the Cynopsis Digital Podcast click here or subscribe to it at iTunes here .)

CYNOPSIS KIDS – TODAY’S TOP STORY: When all is said and done, who will be the Democratic and Republican US presidential candidates? If you ask kids, the answer is Senators Barack Obama and John McCain, according to the results of Nickelodeon’s first Kids’ Primary Election.  Voting took place January 13-18, following Nick News with Linda Ellerbee: The Kids’ Primary.  Nickelodeon received almost 80,000 votes in the kids’ primary election, with Obama receiving 46% of the Democratic vote and McCain taking 24% of the Republican vote.  The Kids’ Primary Election is part of Nickelodeon’s Kids Pick The President campaign (nick.com/kpp/).  Full edition: CYN KIDS.

CYN OPSIS INTERNATIONAL – TODAY’S TOP STORY:  The U.K.’s BSkyB is adding more polish to its share in Elisabeth Murdoch’s Shine production house by upping its stake from 2.9% to 11.3%.  No word on how much the increase will cost BSkyB.  Currently the #4 indie production firm in the U.K., Shine recently bought Kudos Film & TV and is presently completely its buy of Reveille Productions.    Full edition: CYN INTERNATIONAL.

Saturday – A18-49 Analysis:  FOX led Saturday night with 2.3/7 A18-49, according to fast affiliate ratings from Nielsen Media Research. FOX’s line-up was #1 the first two hours: at 8p the double Cops episodes averaged a 2.1/7 and America’s Most Wanted did a 2.4/7 at 9p. NBC’s Law & Order encore won during 10p with 1.7/5.

Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Saturday, January 19, 2008 – time period averages. Source: Nielsen Media Research

FOX: 4.1/7          Cops 3.6/6, Cops [r] 4.1/7, America’s Most Wanted 4.3/7

NBC: 3.8/7           Law & Order: CI [r] 3.4/6, Law & Order: SVU [r] 4.0/7, Law & Order [r] 4.1/7

CBS: 3.5/6          Movie: Runaway Jury 3.4/6, 48 Hours Mystery 3.7/7

ABC: 3.4/6           Movie: The Terminal [r] 3.4/6

UNIV: 1.4/2         Sabado Gigante 1.4/2

TELE: 0.3/1         Cine Nuestro [7p] 0.3/0, Cine de Impacto/Estreno 0.3/1

A18-49: FOX 2.3/7, ABC 1.5/4, NBC 1.4/4, CBS 1.2/3, UNIV 1.1/3, TELE 0.3/1

Sunday – A18-49 Analysis:  FOX slammed the competition Sunday night with 18.6/40 A18-49, according to fast affiliate ratings from Nielsen Media Research. FOX overpowered the rest with its three-hour NFC Championship game starting at 7p with 18.6/43; at 8p the game did a 17.7/38; then at 9p FOX posted its biggest rating with 19.5/40. At 10p, ABC’s Brothers & Sisters repeat took the hour with 1.9/4.

Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Sunday, January 20, 2008 – time period averages. Source: Nielsen Media Research

FOX: 26.3/39     NFC Championship: Giants at Packers 26.3/39

CBS: 5.2/8         CBS News: The Age of Warming 5.3/8, The Amazing Race 12 5.8/9, Cold Case [r] 4.7/7, Shark [r] 5.1/8

ABC: 4.8/7         AFV [r] 3.5/5, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition [2 hours] 6.2/9, Brothers & Sisters [r] 3.2/5

NBC: 3.1/5        Dateline NBC [2 hours] 3.4/5, Movie: Runaway Bride [r] 2.7/4

UNIV: 1.4/2       Gran Premier: ‘El Chavo’, la Serie Animada 1.6/2, Los 5 Magnificos 1.4/2

CW: 0.5/1         CW Now 0.4/1, Aliens in America [r] 0.4/1, Life Is Wild 0.6/1, Crowned [r] 0.5/1

TELE: 0.4/1       Cine en Casa 0.4/1, Cine Millonario 0.4/1

A18-49: FOX 18.6/40, ABC 2.8/6, CBS 2.0/4, UNIV 1.3/3, NBC 1.2/3, TELE 0.3/1, CW 0.2/0

Adam Lowenberg joined Primary Wave Music Publishing as its CMO from Island Def Jam where he was SVP/Marketing. Based at Primary Wave’s New York office, Adam will manage all marketing functions in his new position.

Viamedia hired Joe Noonan, former Regional VP of Time Warner Cable Media Sales North East Region, as its COO. In his new role, Joe will supervise the daily operations of the organization and he will report direct to Jeff Carter, President/CEO.

CNBC has appointed Lacy O’Toole as Los Angeles Bureau Chief.  Lacy will manage CNBC’s West Coast coverage of breaking news, the housing and mortgage crisis, and the entertainment industry as well as continue to oversee big network projects.

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This day in History:  1984 – Apple introduced the Macintosh. It was the first computer to use point-and-click technology.

Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question: Before landing a role on a popular TV series, this actor appeared in a Heinz ketchup commercial in the 80’s and in an Alannis Morissette music video in the early 90’s. Who is this?   MATT LE BLANC     Kudos to:  Darryl Diamond-PCI Communications/Alexandria, VA; David Williams-WMAK/Knoxville; Mark I. Collazo-Peachtree TV/Turner Broadcasting/GA; Marte Meyerhoff Adler-Turner Broadcasting System, Inc./GA; Josh Anisfeld-Towers Productions/Chicago; Adam Leston-WDJT/WMLW/Milwaukee; Liza Trevino -CW33/Dallas; Deirdre LaVerdiere-Bloomberg Television/Chicago; Michael James-Feudin’ Productions/LA; Evan Weinstein-Hippodrum Entertainment/LA; Patrick Wiegers/LA; Bill Shea-CW Network/Studio City, CA; Lynn Valiquette-Ellis Releasing/Toronto

Today’s Trivia Question: On the classic TV series, The Beverly Hillbillies, what was Granny’s first name? (
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
01.22.08

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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – Tuesday, January 22, 2008

ABC: Just for Laughs, Just for Laughs [r], According to Jim, Carpoolers [r], Boston Legal
CBS: NCIS [r], The Unit [r], 48 Hours Mystery
CW: Reaper [r], One Tree Hill
FOX: American Idol, House [r]
ION: Mama’s Family, Mama’s Family, Drew Carey Show, Drew Carey Show, Who’s the Boss?, Who’s the Boss?
MNT: Street Patrol, Street Patrol [r], Jail [r], Jail [r]
NBC: The Biggest Loser, Law & Order: SVU
PBS: Nova [r], Frontline, Independent Lens, Independent Lens
TELE: Madre Luna, Victoria, Pecados Ajenos
UNIV: Amar sin Limites, Pasion, Aqui y Ahora

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