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03.23.10

Good morning.  It’s Tuesday, March 23, 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 Premiere:
BBC America: Survivors at 9p

A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM THE HUB

HBO’s comedy series Curb Your Enthusiasm will make its basic cable television premiere on TV Guide Network June 2 at 10p. TV Guide Network is working with Larry David, star and creator of the series to include never-before-seen bonus extras along with each episode. Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Discussion, roughly seven to eight minutes in length, will be hosted by comedienne and star of the show Susie Essman (Susie Greene) who will lead a panel of guest stars, media pundits and social figures discussing and debating the moral issues brought up during each episode. TV Guide Network also tapped executive producer Scott Carter (Real Time with Bill Maher and Politically Incorrect) to produce the Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Discussion segments.

Nielsen released findings from its annual Three Screen Report updating consumer use of TV, the internet and mobile phones. In the final quarter of 2009, 59% of consumers used TV and the internet simultaneously, up +2.7% from the previous year. Consumers also spent 3 and a half hours simultaneously with TV and the internet; this is a nearly +35% increase over the same period in 2008.

FUEL TV is premiering a third season of American Misfits: The Quest for Gnar on April 2 at 8p. In the comedy series about a fictitious extreme sports TV channel, eight new episodes will follow professional skateboarder Laban Pheidias and previous TransWorld Skateboarding art director Ted Newsome. New cast members include Chris Lambert as Slam, Nat Sherwood as Notorious Nate, Jesse Hotchkiss as himself and comedian Jason Rouse as The Boss. Original episodes will air Fridays at 8p with encores airing several times during the week.

According to Nielsen’s Fast National’s, Sunday’s season three premiere of Breaking Bad on AMC at 10p was the highest rated episode for the series delivering 1.1 million A18-49 viewers; 663,000 M18-49; and 482,000 with W18-49. The season opener also tallied 2.0 million total viewers and 3.3 million cumulative viewers over three airings at 10p, 11p and 1a.

The Style Network’s series Kimora: Life in the Fab Lane resumed with new episodes on Sunday at 9p with 514,000 total viewers and a 0.63 rating among W18-49. The network also premiered new series Jerseylicious at 10p which drew 320,000 total viewers and posted a 0.42 rating with W18-34.

MTV2, distributed in an estimated 80 million homes, introduces a new programming line-up and blocks this spring targeting M12-24 and M12-34:

• Balls Out Comedy on Fridays at 11p beginning April 16 features Fur TV and the 15-minute series The Atom Show.
• Rock N Jock Saturdays is the network’s new four-hour music and sports programming block hosted by Todd Richards and Dirty from 11a to 3p. During this block, MTV2 will air the original show Rock N Jock Countdown and in May the network will debut Lucha Libre, the wrestling show from Mexico. This block will also include Nitro Circus, Fantasy Factory, Viva La Bam, Rob & Big, Bully Beatdown and more.
• Sucker Free Sundays, the network’s four-hour music and hip-hop block began March 21 from 12 noon to 4p and features Sucker Free Countdown and in May the series, Funk Flex Full Throttle. This block will also include ABDC, Pimp My Ride, Wild ‘N Out, Yo Momma among other series.
• Each Monday through Thursday, MTV2 becomes a hip-hop destination starting at 3p with Sucker Free Daily led by DJ Envy showcasing hit hip-hop videos. Other shows featured include Fantasy Factory, Rob & Big, Jackass, Silent Library and Nitro Circus among other music, lifestyle and action sports programs.

Program Call: Cynopsis Media will be producing our annual MIPTV Shopping Guide sent to all Cynopsis subscribers on Thursday, April 8, the week before MIPTV 2010 in Cannes. If your company is exhibiting and you’d like to have your programming included, please send us 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.) as well as your company’s stand/booth location. To be included in this free and highly-viewed special edition, please send details to lisa@cynopsis.com no later than Thursday, April 1, 2010. A confirmation email will be sent following each submission (if you don’t get the confirmation, please resubmit).

A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM USA NETWORK

• #1 Original Series on Cable A18-49 & A25-54
• Beats Jersey Shore +18% and Leverage +65% and Men of a Certain Age +90% A18-49
• #1 Cable Program on Thursday Nights in key demos
• Younger than ever +14% A18-34

SOURCE: Nielsen Media Research. Click here for the full source data.

Starz acquired the US rights to air the new 10-episode series Camelot from Ecosse Films beginning the first half of 2011.  Based on the 15th century book Le Morte d’Arthur by Thomas Malory, the series is considered an authentic, definitive look at the Arthurian legend. Graham King (The Tourist, The Aviator) and Tim Headington and Craig Cegielski, president of GK-TV will serve as executive producers along with Morgan O’Sullivan (The Tudors) and James Flynn of Irish production company Octagon and Michael Hirst (The Tudors) and Douglas Rae (Becoming Jane) of UK-based Ecosse Films. Chris Chibnall (Life on Mars, Torchwood) is penning the series. John Weber of Take 5 Productions will also be the Canadian producer. Camelot will be shot on location in Ireland with post-production happening in Canada. Starz acquired the US rights including home entertainment and digital distribution while GK-TV will be involved with the series’ international rights.

Meredith Corporation said its daily lifestyle television series Better is heading into its fourth season this fall on FOX O&Os in Chicago, Houston and Orlando and on Sinclair stations in Pittsburgh, Greensboro and Charleston. LIN TV also renewed Better on ten of its stations and contracts for Better were additionally renewed with such station groups as Belo, New Age Media, Journal and Gray.

Prior to this year’s MIPTV, The Fremantle Corporation has secured several pre-market sales for the miniseries Doc West. The deals include a sale to Grindstone Entertainment for home video rights in North America; a deal with Selectavision for TV and home video rights for Spain and Portugal; and Mediaset in Italy picked up the broadcast rights among other agreements. Doc West is produced by DAP and is distributed theatrically by Tricoast Worldwide. The Fremantle Corporation handles the global television and DVD distribution rights for the miniseries.

Academy Award-winning actress Sissy Spacek takes on the lead role in John Welles’ medical drama pilot for CBS. Spacek will play the intensely-driven visionary leader of a team of mobile volunteer doctors who travel the world and the US helping people in need. Spacek’s part was originally meant to be played by a man and her character’s name switches to Adrianne from Adrian. Warner Bros. Television is producing the project. Recently, Spacek appeared on several episodes of HBO’s Big Love. 

Christian Slater landed another leading role on FOX’s untitled Adam Goldberg comedy pilot, per THR. Slater will play the leader of the Titan Team, a group of 20-something geniuses who crack security systems. The pilot also stars Trevor Moore who was cast as the team’s womanizing intelligence head. Slater also serves as producer on the pilot. Most recently, Slater starred in ABC’s drama The Forgotten and before that NBC’s My Own Worst Enemy.

FOX and Conan O’Brien started up talks again about the possibility of O’Brien headlining a late-night talk show for the network. Amid these current talks, O”Brien was also approached to guest star on FOX’s Idol Gives Back special airing on April 21. The two are not related however, as the guest spot offer came from American Idol’s producer 19 Entertainment who is booking several celebrities to appear on the show. Due to O’Brien’s exit agreement with NBC that expires on May 1, he is not eligible to appear on the Idol Gives Back special. He can, though contemplate a new late-night show launching perhaps in September.

World-famous urban artist Justin Bua (BUA) was selected to host Ovation’s weekly series American Revolutionaries, airing Tuesday nights at 8p. The series chronicles American artists, from musicians and composers, photographers to authors and playwrights and more, who have been pioneers in their respective type of art. Upcoming episodes of American Revolutionaries will profile Truman Capote, Martha Graham, Aaron Copeland and Dale Chihuly among others.

Tate Donovan, lately of FX’s Damages was cast in ABC’s drama pilot No Ordinary Family, playing a mysterious pilot, cites THR. The pilot also stars Michael Chiklis as Jim who heads an ordinary American family that suddenly acquires new abilities.

Career Sports & Entertainment is changing its name to CSE. The sports and entertainment agency was founded 24 years by Lonnie Cooper and it specializes in media, marketing consulting, talent management and property consulting. CSE also produces content for ESPN including STIHL TIMBERSPORTS Series and Bassmaster Series and works with other cable networks such as Nat Geo, Versus, FX and Outdoor Channel.

Casting Call: NBC is casting for its new edition of The Apprentice and is looking for business professionals who have been affected by the economic downturn and are ready to go to work again. People of all ages are welcome to apply from recent college grads to executives who are 40+. There will be national open casting calls and more information can be found at nbc.com. Candidates can also apply by sending an email to ginacasting@yahoo.com and include a recent photo, updated resume and a brief personal and professional bio explaining how the economy has affected your employment, lifestyle and family. The show’s producers are looking for real stories from business pros who are eager to turn their lives around.

Friday A18-49 Analysis: CBS scored the highest overall rating Friday night at 3.4/12 among A18-49, according to final national ratings from Nielsen. CBS kicked off primetime with the NCAA Basketball Championships at 8p with a 2.8/11 with UNIV’s Hasta que el Dinero Nos Separe in second place at 1.9/7. CBS held onto its lead during 9p with more March Madness college basketball coverage at 3.8/13 with FOX’s Kitchen Nightmares next at 1.9/6. Another round of NCAA Basketball Championships aired through 10p as CBS posted a 3.1/11 with NBC’s Dateline trailing in #2 with half as much ratings at 1.5/5.

Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Friday, March 19, 2010 time period averages. Source: NTI Galaxy, as dated. Live+SD.

CBS: 6.0/11        NCAA Basketball Championships [7p-10p] 5.4/11, NCAA Basketball Championships [10p-11p] 5.1/10

NBC: 4.5/8          Who Do You Think You Are? 4.7/9, Dateline 4.4/8

ABC: 3.4/6          Thin Ice 2.7/5, 20/20 Special 3.3/6, 20/20 4.3/8

FOX: 2.6/5           House [r] 2.4/5, Kitchen Nightmares 2.8/5

UNIV: 1.7/3         Hasta que el Dinero Nos Separe 2.1/4, Corazon Salvaje 1.7/3, La Rosa Guadalupe 1.3/2

ION: 1.0/2          Criminal Minds 8P 0.8/2, Criminal Minds 9P 1.0/2, Criminal Minds 10P 1.1/2

CW: 0.8/1           America’s Next Top Model [r] 0.9/2, High Society [r] 0.5/1

TELE: 0.6/1         El Clon 0.5/1, Perro Amor 0.6/1, Donde Esta Elisa 0.7/1

A18-49: CBS 3.4/12, FOX 1.5/5, NBC 1.5/5, UNIV 1.4/5, ABC 1.0/3, CW 0.5/2, TELE 0.4/2, ION 0.4/1

Six Flags Media Networks, a unit of Six Flags, Inc. named four executives to sales teams:

• Pete Dimitrakopolos will become Regional Sponsorship Director/West, a newly-created position based at the company’s Santa Monica offices. Pete will be involved with leveraging Six Flags Media Networks, theme park businesses and its various intellectual properties to create marketing campaigns for corporate partners. He will report to Randy Gerstenblatt, SVP/Corporate Alliances, Regional and Local Sales.
• Mathieu Gilman is the new Director/Regional Sales based in Chicago to manage national accounts within the Midwest territories. Mathieu also reports to Randy Gerstenblatt.
• Thomas Haidinger is now VP in the company’s National Sales department based in New York. Thomas reports to David McKillips, SVP/Corporate Alliances.
• Stephanie Borges, also based in New York, will serve as Director of the National Sales department. Stephanie, too, reports to David McKillips.

Terri Johnson Murray was added at HGTV as Director/Original Programming in the network’s New York office. Terri joins HGTV from Grapevine Multimedia where she served as President/Co-Founder.

The Weather Channel (TWC) appointed Jennifer Rigby as Director/Multimedia Content. In her new role, Jennifer will manage all content, breaking weather news and severe weather coverage across all TWC outlets encompassing on-air, online and mobile. Jennifer reports to Helen Swenson, VP/Live Programming, TWC and Matt DeGanon, SVP/weather.com and Consumer Application Software.

A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE

This day in History:  1912 – The Dixie Cup was invented.

Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question:  Who piloted the Songbird?  SKY KING  Kudos to: William VanDerKloot-VanDerKloot Film & Television/Atlanta; Bob Brewer-Opus 3 Artists/NY; Dave Lucas-Newschannel 8/Arlington; Nanette Anderson-Discovery Comm/Silver Spring; Chuck Gordon-WTTO/Birmingham; Ed Worthington-Worthington Prods/Horseshoe Bend; Mike Ritzman-NEXTMedia/Dallas; Jim Fall-truemedia/Columbia; Lenn Klatt-Premiere Radio Networks/Sherman Oaks; Dona Nelson-Nelson Comm/Santa Barbara; David Garber-Linzack Prods/Woodland Hills; Steve Rubin-Fast Carrier Pictures/LA; Candace Irving-Candace Irving & Assoc/Tortola BVI

Today’s Trivia Question:  What comedian is also known as Mr. Warmth?  (Email Cynthia@cynopsis.com 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
03.23.10

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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT –  TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 2010

ABC: Lost [r], Lost, V: The Arrival
AZTECA: Los Que Callamos Las Mujeres Edicion Especial, Los 25 Mas, Al Extremo
CBS: NCIS, NCIS: LA, The Good Wife
CW: 90210, Melrose Place
FOX: American Idol
ION: Ghost Whisperer, Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds
NBC: Biggest Loser: Couples, Parenthood
PBS: Nova, Frontline, Independent Lens
TELE: El Clon; Perro Amor; Donde Esta Elisa?
UNIV: Hasta que el Dinero Nos Separe, Corazon Salvaje, Aqui y Ahora

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