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CYNTHIA TURNER’S
Cynopsis
03/14/06
Good morning. It’s Tuesday, March 14, 2006, and this is your first early morning briefing.
An un-casting note: Isaac Hayes has opted out of South Park where he was the voice of the character Chef. Hayes cites “inappropriate ridicule” of religion as his reason for leaving the show. Show creators Matt Stone was more specific, saying Hayes was upset that the show took a shot at the Church of Scientology, of which Hayes is a member. Stone offered this statement: “In ten years and over 150 episodes of South Park, Isaac never had a problem with the show making fun of Christians, Muslim, Mormons or Jews. He got a sudden case of religious sensitivity when it was his religion featured on the show. … Of course we will release Isaac from his contract, and we wish him well.” Hayes offered his own statement which read in part, “There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs … begins.”
* MORE GOOD STUFF *Nick at Nite, Procter & Gamble and MediaVest USA are producing a first-time series of eight new 90-second interstitials called At The Poocharelli’s integrating sponsor Febreze directly into many of the show’s story lines. The mini-sitcom will premiere on Nick at Nite on April 11, airing Tuesdays at 957p.
Meredith Broadcasting Group has formed a new unit – Meredith Video Solutions, created to develop and distribute original Meredith content across a variety of platforms including network and syndicated television, VOD and the internet. Heading up the unit will be Paul Karpowicz, with Mark Berryhill heading up production and programming, and JR McCabe overseeing sales and new business, according to Broadcasting & Cable..
USA Network is launching a multi-tiered marketing campaign, Show Us Your Character. The campaign is a digital marketing initiative and centers around the launch of ShowUsYourCharacter.com, USA’s foray into the digital social networking space. Members can upload videos, pictures, and create character profiles or join micro-communities that are USA Network show and advertiser specific. Marketing features will include sponsor-integrated ad banners. The Show Us Your Character campaign marks the second phase of the Characters Welcome brand campaign with a focus shift from the characters of USA Network to the characters of the USA — the viewers.
Attention Bobby Ewing Fans! Patrick Duffy, aka Bobby Ewing on the long-running CBS primetime series Dallas, will join the cast of CBS’ The Bold and the Beautiful beginning April 18.
SCI FI Channel is currently conducting the first-ever nationwide search for America’s most talented new psychic. Eight finalists will be selected by a panel of experts to compete on SCI FI’s new original reality series The Gift, slated to premiere this summer.
BBC AMERICA has acquired season five of the primetime soap Footballers Wive$ and spin-off Footballers Wive$: Overtime. Footballers Wive$ (season five) is produced by Shed Productions for ITV1 and is distributed by Target. Footballers Wive$: Overtime (called simply Extra Time in the UK) is produced by Shed Productions for ITV2 and is also distributed by Target.
Cablevision Systems Corporation and iN DEMAND Networks will launch the Howard Stern subscription video on demand (SVOD) service, Howard TV, starting March 14. It will be available to iO: Interactive Optimum digital cable customers throughout the New York metropolitan area and will give cable customers unlimited and uncensored access to in-studio footage filmed during Howard Stern’s morning satellite radio program, including the ability to pause, fast-forward and rewind.
Maureen Stapleton, 80, died on Monday at her home in Massachusetts. Her career spanned more than half a century with her Broadway debut in 1946 in The Playboy of the Western World. Her first acting role on television was in an episode of Curtain Call in 1952. She followed that appearance with several others in a variety of anthology series. Later she appeared in Bye Bye Birdie, Plaza Suite, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and in 1981, Reds for which she won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. She was also nominated in the same category for Airport, Interiors and Lonelyhearts. Ms. Stapleton was nominated numerous times for an Emmy Award, and won in 1968 for her lead role in Among the Paths to Eden. Her most recent role was as Mrs. Lundt in the filmLiving and Dining in 2003.
* NEW ORDERS / CASTING / DEVELOPMENT / PRODUCTION *A&E has ordered up three new series, renewed a fourth, and dropped another. Okay, bad news first – Rollergirls is gone. Just not enough viewer interest. Moving on to the better news – renewed for next year is Dallas SWAT with 13 more episodes. And new in development are three reality pilots, according to Variety:
- Three children of major showbiz talents are ready to leave the nest and move out on their own, as roommates. This project is from I Candy TV.
- Out There is based at a sanctioned paranormal research society at Penn State wherein students are required to investigate paranormal occurrences. This project is from Go Go Luckey Prods and Four Seasons Prods.
- I Never Said That is what you get when you cross Mystery Science Theatre 3000 and Who’s Line is it Anyway?. In front of a live audience, comedians improvise the dialogue to footage taken of people walking down the street.
Casting Notes …
CBS:
- Peter Strauss and Jason Behr have joined the cast of The Way, about an old New England family who uses witchcraft to further the success of the family business.
- Hector Elizondo has been added to the untitled comedy project from Paul Reiser, which stars Bobby Cannavale who takes over the family car dealership business.
- And untitled comedy about a young couple moving back to the bride’s hometown and coping with her large family, has added Ed O’Neill and Christine Baranski as the bride’s parents.
- The Big Bang Theory has cast Jim Parsons to star.
ABC:
- A Day in the Life, about a couple’s wedding day as seen from a variety of perspectives, has cast Josh Cooke as the groom.
- October Road has added Bryan Greenberg in the lead role and Tom Berenger as co-star.
* EXECUTIVE MOVES *Jason Brown is upped to EVP/National and Regional Advertising Sales for Screenvision. Based in the New York office, Jason will develop sales strategies and manage six sales teams in the firm’s New York, Los Angeles, Detroit, Kansas City, and Chicago offices. He is also responsible for revenue generated via national and regional cinema preshow ads, slides, promotional extensions, and in-theatre integrated marketing programs.
MagRack has promoted Sommer Hixson to VP/Public Relations, reporting to Ellen Kroner, SVP/Corporate Communications and Marketing for Rainbow Media. Sommer will be developing, directing and implementing business and consumer public relations strategies and external communications activities to the media, customers, television and new media industries, potential advertisers and sponsors, and the networks’ cable affiliates. She will also act as counsel to senior management in building long-term strategies.
Debbie Paitchel is upped to Director of Legal and Business Affairs. Debbie will clear Court TV original programming for ancillary sales in the international, home video, VOD and educational markets and focus on programming availability for further distribution in emerging new media platforms.
Turner Network Sales has elevated Heather Baldino to SVP/ Network Marketing and Operations, reporting to Coleman Breland, EVP/Sales and Marketing. Baldino is based in Atlanta. She is responsible for overseeing the creation and execution of integrated national marketing initiatives, program management and reporting, and budget and accounting for the 10 Turner entertainment and news networks as well as the distribution of Turner network content across the video-on-demand (VOD) platform.
Brendan Walsh becomes Director/Sales for Charter Media- St. Louis. Patrick Shelton becomes Automotive Sales Manager. And, Kathy Parks is upped to Director/Sales Strategy and Business Development.
Rob Magdlen is upped to VP/Program Planning and Acquisitions for E! Networks. Rob will oversee all scheduling for E!Entertainment Television domestically as well as video on demand (VOD) and satellite radio via the E! channels on both XM and Sirius. He is also charged with identifying acquisition opportunities of existing programs and theatrical films for E!
Mark Williams comes to Sundance Channel as Creative Director/On-Air, reporting to Sarah Barnett, SVP/Branding, On-Air & Creative Services, Sundance Channel.
* RATINGS *Sunday – A18-49 Analysis: ABC led Sunday night with a 7.4/18 A1849, according to fast affiliate ratings from Nielsen Media Research. Fox was #2 with a 3.8/9. At 7p Fox led the pack with a 4.0/12 for a NASCAR racing event, narrowly beating ABC’s 3.9/11 for its first hour of EM Home Edition, part 1. At 8p ABC jumped ahead with a 6.8/16 for the second hour of EM Home Edition, part 2, beating Fox’s The Simpsons and The War at Home, which had a 4.0/10. For the 9p hour, ABC easily jogged ahead with an 8.8/19 for Desperate Housewives, doubling the ratings and share of NBC’s Law & Order: CI. At 10p, ABC held its lead with a 9.9/23 for Grey’s Anatomy. Now we’ll wait for the national numbers of HBO’s The Sopranos, due out today.
Live + Same Day Ratings: Sunday, March 12, 2006 – time period averages. Source: Nielsen Media Research
ABC 10.8/17 EM Home Edition 6.1/10, EM Home Edition 9.5/15, Desperate Housewives 13.6/20, Grey’s Anatomy 13.9/22
CBS 6.8/11 60 Minutes 7.7/13, Cold Case [r] 9.6/15, Movie: How to Lose A Guy in Ten Days 4.9/8
NBC 6.2/10 Dateline NBC 5.3/9, The West Wing 4.6/7, Law & Order: CI 7.9/12, Crossing Jordan 7.0/11
FOX 5.2/8 NASCAR racing 6.4/11, The Simpsons 5.8/9, The War at Home 4.4/7, Family Guy 4.8/7, Free Ride 3.4/5
UNIV 2.2/3 Bailando por un Sueno 2.2/3
WB 1.2/2 JammX Kids 1.0/2, Charmed [r] 1.3/2, Charmed [r] 1.3/2
TELE 0.4/1 Sin Fronteras 0.5/1, Accion Extrema 0.4/1, Cinemundo de Premier 0.3/0
A18-49: ABC 7.4/18, Fox 3.8/9, CBS 2.7/7, NBC 2.6/6, UNI 2.1/5, WB 0.7/2, TELE 0.3/1
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The History Channel presents This Day in History:
1794 – Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin, increasing the ability to manufacture large amounts of the crop in a much shorter time frame. Whitney’s invention transformed the agriculture industry as one of the first major technological advances in crop production.
Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question: What was Ed Norton’s middle name? LILLY WHITE Kudos to: Brian Pollack-7 Mile Road Productions/Detroit; Mark Morano-Cablevision/Bronx; Todd Baker-Independent Producer/NY; Tom Grayman-Gray Area Research/NY; Rich Koz-WCIU/Chicago; Kathy Yarbrough-The Graham Group/New Orleans; Mark E. Meadors-Natural State Productions/Little Rock AR; Lorrie Shilling/Centennial CO; Mike Heflin-Cannella Response/LA; Joshua Krane-G4TV/LA; Frank Hagan-H2O Productions/Hollywood; Dan Matson-DJM/Glendale
Today’s Trivia Question: Frank is a LA beat cop with asthma. Lucas is a street-smart young orphan. When a judge forces Lucas in Frank’s custody, what show do you get? (click here 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
03.14.06 – 5:17a
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT: Tuesday, March 14, 2006
ABC According to Jim [r], According to Jim, Sons & Daughters, Sons & Daughters, Boston Legal
CBS NCIS, The Unit, The Amazing Race
FOX American Idol [2hrs]
NBC Outrageous TV Moments, Outrageous TV Moments [r], Scrubs, Scrubs [r], Law & Order SVU [r]
i Sue Thomas F. B. Eye, Early Edition, Doc
UPN America’s Next Top Model [r]
WB Gilmore Girls [r], Supernatural [r]
TELE Tierra de Pasiones, Corazón Partido, Decisiones – Casos Extraordinarios, Decisiones
UNIV Contra Viento y Marea, Alborada, Ver para Creer
