A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM OXYGEN MEDIA

Cynopsis
07.09.13

Good morning.It’s Tuesday, July 9, 2013, and this is your first early morning briefing.

Tonight’s Premieres:
A&E: Storage Wars New York at 9p
Animal Planet: Swamplands USA at 8p
Bravo: Interior Therapy with Jeff Lewis at 9p, Property Envy at 10p

Tonight’s Finales:
NBC: Betty White’s Off Their Rockers at 8:30p
Oxygen: Bad Girls All Star Battle at 8p
Syfy: Exit at 10p
Telemundo: La Patrona at 9p

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TouchVision, the first 24/7 live video stream information network available simultaneously on television, online, on tablets and on phones, is set to launch this summer. Segments will be presented as “News Movies,” and is aimed at Millennials, who have often shown little interest in TV news programming.

Former American Idol and The X Factor judge Paula Abdul is heading to FOX‘s So You Think You Can Dance. Abdul will join Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy and FOX Sports broadcaster Erin Andrews as a guest judge to critique the show’s hoofers on tonight’s 8p episode.

E! News is upping its style and beauty quotient. Zanna Roberts Rassi has joined the show’s on-air team as a contributing fashion correspondent. Rassi, who is Marie Claire’s senior fashion editor, will also help shape The Trend, Eonline’s beauty and lifestyle destination (www.eonline.com/trends) with interviews and content about today’s leading style makers.

Clueless fans, get ready. High school sweethearts Dionne and Murray — namely, actors Stacey Dash and Donald Faison — are back together again on TV Land‘s The Exes, airing Wednesday, July 10 at 10:30p. In the episode, Phil (Faison) picks up a hot woman (Dash) and finds out she’s a recommitted virgin.

MTV‘s pop-culture countdown 10 on Top returns on Saturday, July 13 at 12:30p. Host Lenay Dunn will be joined by singer Jason Derulo, who will guest co-host the season premiere, which will begin the count down of the top 10 most talked-about celebrities and trending topics of the week. The first episode features interviews with Khloe Kardashian, The Wanted and Avril Lavigne and more.

Save the date! The annual Cynopsis: Sports Business Summit is set to take place on Aug. 14 in NY, and will feature some of the biggest names driving sports today. In addition, we are holding our Women of Action cocktail event celebrating and discussing the impact women are having in the sports industry on August 13.

CBS Corporation and Netflix, Inc. have extended a multiyear licensing agreement for select CBS library content to be streamed instantly to Netflix customers. Under the revised deal, new titles such as L.A. Complex, 4400, and CSI: NY will be available to Netflix subscribers. In addition to the newly added series, the agreement also includes CBS series already on Netflix such as Jericho, Medium and Flashpoint, as well as episodes from iconic franchises, including all generations of sci-fi series Star Trek and the cult favorite Twin Peaks.

WE tv has ordered six, one-hour episodes of a new reality show starring R&B trio Sisters With Voices, who had a string of hit songs in the 1990s. The series, titled SWV – Sisters With Voices, will profile Cheryl “Coko” Clemons, Leanne “Lelee” Lyons and Tamara “Taj” Johnson‘s make-it-or-break-it comeback. It’s slated to air in early 2014 and is being produced by Entertainment One Television.

PBS has greenlit an updated format of History Detectives to air in 2014. Comprised of four one-hour programs, HDSIHistory Detectives Special Investigation [wt] will focus on a single story per episode and introduce the fresh perspective of a new detective. Kaiama Glover will join History Detectives veterans Wes Cowan and Tukufu Zuberi to collectively investigate each mystery from all angles.

Three of Nashville‘s recurring cast members have been upped to series regulars. Sisters Lennon and Maisy Stella and Chris Carmack have all been promoted for the show’s second season. The Stella sisters have been with the ABC country music drama since the pilot, while Carmack joined the series at the end of its freshman run.

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The live premiere of the BET Awards 13 on Sunday, June 30 was cable’s #1 award show among adults 18-49, drawing 7.6 million total viewers. It also garnered 51% of all social chatter across all of cable, dominating Twitter with nearly ten million tweets. With an average 4.7 million households tuning in, this blockbuster special is the #2 BET telecast of all time, only behind the BET Awards 09 Michael Jackson tribute.

Thursday A18-49 Analysis:  NBC came out on top with the A18-49 viewers Thursday at 1.4/7, according to final primetime national ratings from Nielsen. Univision’s Porque el Amor Manda led at 8p at 1.2/6. Tying for second were CBS’ combo of The Big Bang Theory and Two and A Half Men and NBC’s Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks at 1.0/5. At 9p, NBC took over as #1 with  NBC’s Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks at 2.0/9, followed by Univision’s Amores Verdaderos at 1.3/6. NBC finished the night on top at 10p with Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks at 1.3/6. Univision’s Que Bonito Amor trailed at 1.2/5.

Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Thursday, July 4, 2013  time period averages.  Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.

A18-49: NBC 1.4/7, UNI 1.2/6, CBS 0.8/4,  FOX 0.6/3, ABC 0.4/2, ION 0.4/2, TEL 0.3/1,   CW 0.2/1, UMA 0.2/1

Friday A18-49 Analysis:  Univision won the night among A18-49 viewers Friday with a 1.4/6, according to final primetime national ratings from Nielsen. At 8p, Univision’s Porque el Amor Manda was #1 at 1.4/6, followed by ABC’s Shark Tank at 1.0/4. Univision’s Amores Verdaderos led at 9p at 1.6/6. ABC’s What Would You Do? placed second at 1.2/4. ABC’s 20/20 took over the top spot at 10p at 1.5/5. Univision’s Que Bonito Amor followed at 1.3/5.

Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Friday, July 5, 2013 time period averages.  Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.

A18-49:  UNI 1.4/6, ABC 1.2/4, NBC 1.0/4, TEL 0.9/3, CBS 0.7/3, FOX 0.5/2, CW 0.3/1, ION 0.2/1, UMA 0.1/1

Greg Foster has been promoted to Chief Executive Officer of IMAX Entertainment and Senior Executive Vice President of IMAX Corp. Foster, who has been with the company since 2001, previously served as chairman and president of IMAX Entertainment.

FremantleMedia North America has named Lee Rierson as Chief Operating Officer. Rierson, formerly COO of Shine America, will oversee production, business and legal affairs, communications and marketing, business development and strategic planning. He replaces Donna Redier Linsk, who left the post this month.

Tom Barrack has been named Chairman of Miramax. He replaces Richard Nanula. Barrack is chairman and chief executive officer of Colony Capital, which owns the studio.

Rob Sorcher and Mike Lazzo have been appointed Executive Vice President/Chief Content Officer for Cartoon Network and Executive Vice President/Creative Director, Adult Swim, respectively. Both executives will oversee the digital and gaming businesses for each of their areas and continue to spearhead the development and production of original and acquired content for Cartoon Network and Adult Swim, and the supervision of Cartoon Network Studios and Williams Street Studios (Adult Swim). Sorcher previously served as chief content officer for Cartoon Network. Lazzo was senior vice president, programming and production, for Adult Swim and Williams Street Studios.

Fusion, the new network for Hispanics from ABC and Univision, has appointed Anhelo Reyes as Vice President of Marketing. Anhelo, who last served as vice president for strategic property planning and marketing at Nickelodeon, will lead branding, marketing and promotion.

Lesley Norman has been added to Thirteen‘s arts and culture biography series’ production team. She will serve as Director of Planning and Strategy for the series American Masters. Norman will be responsible for developing media and creative partnerships as well as potential funding partners for the American Masters series and coordinating all grant proposals to foundations, government organizations and PBS. Norman most recently served as the senior producer for the PBS special 180 Days: A Year Inside An American High School.

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation has announced the promotion of Karen L. Herman to Vice President of the Archive of American Television. Herman joined the Academy shortly after the Archive was founded in 1997 and previously served as its director. She also leads the Foundation’s “Living Television” initiative, which oversees a curriculum to teach college students nationwide how to conduct oral history interviews with television pioneers and legends in their own locales.

Def Jam Recordings is building up its A&R strength with the appointment of award-winning record producer and DJ Don Cannon to Vice President, A&R. Cannon will oversee current and new artist projects and will actively seek out and sign new talent to the label.

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This Day In History, sponsored by Discovery Fit & Health: 1993 – A Different World, a spinoff of The Cosby Show set at Hillman College, the alma mater of Dr. Heathcliff Huxtable, aired its last episode on NBC.

Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: Booker’s theme song, Hot in the City, was performed by Billy Idol. Kudos to: Alice Lee-BokLee, Inc./NYC; Michael Ritz-BucStar Consulting/NYC; Liza Trevino-Comcast Spotlight-Atlanta/Norcross, GA; Michael Ratliffe-BET Networks/Washington, D.C.;Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/Los Angeles, CA; Dan Haberer-Creo Entertainment/Playa del Rey, CA; Lorrie Shilling/El Segundo, CA; Jerry Jones-A La Carte Com/San Francisco, CA.

Today’s Trivia Question – What was Sydney Bristow’s father’s CIA call sign on Alias?(Email trivia@cynopsis.comwith 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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Janet Di Lauro
07.09.13

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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – TUESDAY JULY 9, 2013

ABC: Extreme Weight Loss, Body of Proof [r]
CBS: NCIS [r], NCIS: Los Angeles [r], Person of Interest [r]
CW: Hart of Dixie [r], America’s Next Top Model [r]
FOX: So You Think You Can Dance
ION: Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds
MyTV: House, House
NBC: Betty White’s Off Their Rockers [r], Betty White’s Off Their Rockers [f], America’s Got Talent
PBS: Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery, Frontline
Telemundo: Dama y Obrero,  La Patrona [f]
UMA: Futbol Central, Futbol
Univision: Porque el Amor Manda, Amores Verdaderos, Que Bonito Amor

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