A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM THE HUB

*Source: Nielsen, program based daypart, most current, Mon-Sun 6A-12A, Feb ’12 vs. Feb ’11.

Cynopsis
03.06.12

Good morning. It’s Tuesday, March 6, 2012, and this is your first early morning briefing.

Tonight’s Premieres:
FOX: I Hate My Teenage Daughter at 830p; Breaking In at 930p
A&E: Storage Wars: Texas at 9p & 930p
Encore: The Crimson Petal and the White at 9p

Tonight’s Finale:
Spike TV: Ink Master at 10p

A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM CURRENT TV

A new morning news block on Current TV features live simulcasts of two radio programs: The Bill Press Show from 6a-9a and The Stephanie Miller Show from 9a-12p.  The shows air each weekday beginning early this spring.  Current TV’s cameras will go live inside Bill and Stephanie’s studios to offer viewers live coverage of the progressive radio shows with access to daily live interviews, political commentary, listener calls and the perspectives of both hosts on topical issues. For Current TV, Bill’s show will be titled Full Court Press: The Bill Press Show and Stephanie’s show will be known as Talking Liberally: The Stephanie Miller Show.

Lifetime opens its docu-series Dance Moms: Miami on April 3 at 1030p following the 90-minute spring finale of the dance competition docu-soap Dance Moms.  Starting April 10, Dance Moms: Miami will air in its regular time slot of 9p.  The new series, produced by Collins Avenue, will go inside the Miami-based Stars Dance Studio following the school’s owners and dance instructors as well as the young dancers they teach in this world of competitive dance. 

Also set in Miami, new original drama series, Magic City debuts exclusively on Starz April 6 at 10p.  The period drama is set in Miami Beach, 1958 at the luxurious Miramar Playa Hotel owned by Ike Evans.  The glamorous hotel is the place to be seen from the Kennedys, to the mob and more and is 90 miles away from the unrest happening in Havana, Cuba.  Magic City stars Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Ike; Olga Kurylenko as Ike’s wife Vera; and Danny Huston as mob boss Ben “The Butcher” Diamond along with an ensemble cast.  Magic City was created by writer/EP Mitch Glazer. 

Season two of La La’s Full Court Life debuts on VH1 March 19 at 9p and in the new season La La Anthony continues to juggle her burgeoning acting career with motherhood and marriage.  Immediately following at 930p on March 19, VH1 launches new series Styled By June following celebrity fashion stylist June Ambrose who is the stylist for many big names in Hollywood such as Jay-Z, Mary J. Blige, Mischa Barton and more.

The sixth season premiere of Nuestra Belleza Latina (Our Latin Beauty) on Univision Network opened Sunday with an average audience of close to 4.0 million total viewers; 2.0 million with A18-49; and 1.1 million with A18-34.  Additionally, the opening episode reached 6.7 million total viewers who tuned in to all or part of the two-hour premiere broadcast. 

International TV production and distribution company, Shankly Productions finalized a comprehensive rebrand including a name change to Principal Media LLC.  The company, led by CEO David E. Brenner, has recently invested in new programming and moved into new office space in Beverly Hills.  Principal Media’s international distribution unit represents 2,500+ hours of TV content including long-running series on Spike TV, Lifetime, Fuel, FOX, Discovery, Versus, SPEED, National Geographic Channel among others.  Principal Media LLC with an office also in London is a subsidiary of the Libra Group, a privately-owned worldwide conglomerate which has 20 offices in four continents. 

Program Call:  Cynopsis Media will be producing our annual MIPTV Shopping Guide sent to all Cynopsis and Cynopsis Kids subscribers on Thursday, March 29, the week before MIPTV 2012 in Cannes. If your company is an official exhibitor at MIPTV this year and would like to have your programming included in our shopping guide, 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 your submission to Lisa Ball at: lisa@cynopsis.com no later than Thursday, March 22, 2012. A confirmation email will be sent following each submission from Lisa (if you do not receive a confirmation email, please resubmit).

The Meruelo Group said its station KWHY-TV in Los Angeles will be the flagship station for the new Spanish-language network MundoFox from Fox International Channels and Colombian broadcaster RCN.  MundoFox is scheduled to launch this fall and to date has secured affiliates in 40% of US Hispanic households.  MundoFox’s affiliate roster also includes WJAN/Miami owned by America CV Group as well as other affiliates in San Antonio, San Francisco, Phoenix, Sacramento, Fresno, Tampa, Las Vegas, West Palm Beach, Bakersfield, Monterey, Fort Myers, Palm Springs, Odessa, Santa Barbara, Lubbock, Boise, Abilene and San Angelo.  All affiliates in the top 10 markets are full power stations or are fully distributed via cable and satellite. 

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 A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM INSP.

Friday A18-49 Analysis:  With a lineup of new episodes, CBS topped Friday at 1.7/5 with the A18-49 viewers, according to final primetime national ratings from Nielsen.  Starting out at 8p, CBS’ Undercover Boss shined in first place at 2.0/7, Univision’s Una Familia con Suerte followed at 1.7/6 and ABC’s Shark Tank was next in line at 1.6/5.  The networks clustered together during 9p though NBC’s Grimm prevailed albeit by a smidge at 1.6/5 while ABC’s Primetime: What Would You Do? was #2 at 1.5/5 and CBS’ A Gifted Man was a close third at 1.5/4.  At 10p, CBS was back in the front seat with Blue Bloods at 1.7/5 with Univision’s La Que No Podia Amar next at 1.5/5 and ABC’s 20/20 was a step behind at 1.5/4.

Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Friday, March 2, 2012 time period averages.  Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.

CBS: 6.5/11         Undercover Boss 5.9/10, A Gifted Man 6.2/10, Blue Bloods 7.4/13

NBC: 3.6/6            Who Do You Think You Are? 4.8/8, Grimm 3.4/6, Dateline 2.6/5

ABC: 3.5/6            Shark Tank 3.5/6, Primetime: What Would You Do? 3.3/6, 20/20 3.6/6

UNIV: 1.9/3          Una Familia con Suerte 2.0/3, El Talisman 1.7/3, La Que No Podia Amar 2.1/4

FOX: 1.6/3            Kitchen Nightmares [r] 1.5/3, Kitchen Nightmares [r] 1.8/3

ION: 0.9/2            Cold Case 1.0/2, Cold Case 0.9/1, Cold Case 0.8/1

CW: 0.7/1             Nikita [r] 0.6/1, Supernatural [r] 0.7/1

TELE: 0.7/1           Maid en Manhattan 0.8/1, Flor Salvaje 0.9/1, Relaciones Peligrosas 0.5/1

TF: 0.4/1              Cine de Las Estrellas Fri 0.4/1, El Capo 0.4/1

A18-49:  CBS 1.7/5, ABC 1.5/5, UNIV 1.5/5, NBC 1.4/4, FOX 1.0/3, TELE 0.5/2, CW 0.3/1, ION 0.3/1, TF 0.3/1

Gaumont International Television (GIT) and its newly-established production and distribution studio in Los Angeles added several executives: Andy House as Head/Production; Elisa Roth as Head/Creative Affairs; Marc Hirschfeld to oversee casting; and Alison Engel as VP/Creative Affairs.

Charlotte van Weede was hired by Entertainment One (eOne) in the newly-minted role as Head/Sales.  Charlotte will be based at eOne’s office in London joining most recently from Protagonist Pictures where she served as Head/Sales.

For its New York office, Jonathan Shipman was named Head/Integrated Production with the visual effects, animation and digital production company Framestore.  Jonathan will report directly to Jon Collins, Framestore President.

Charles W. Wolfertz, III was appointed GSM with WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh owned by Hearst Television Inc.  In his new role, Charles will manage all sales for the station as well as its companion website at WTAE.com and the 24-hour movie channel, thisTV Pittsburgh.  Charles joins WTAE from WHAS-TV, the ABC affiliate in Louisville, KY owned by Belo. 

This day in History: This day in History: 1775 – First African American Mason in US initiated, in Boston.

Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: What is Neal Caffrey’s middle name? George Kudos to: Lauren Gottfried Kinlan-Ad Sales Research/NYC; Dennis Nance-Turner Broadcasting, Inc./Atlanta; Alison Ongvorapong-U.S. Department of Justice/NY; Kevin Eng-Turner Broadcasting/NY; Hannah Hankins-Scripps Networks Interactive/Knoxville; Judy Margolis-The Ad Place/Dallas; Steven Wishnoff-KLCS-TV PBS/LA; Jeff Mirkin-Relativity Real/Hollywood; Darlene Lieblich Tipton-Fox Cable Networks/LA; TJ Szymczak-YPM, Inc./Irvine.

Today’s Trivia Question: What sitcom was located in Lynbrook NY? (Email John@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 & Lisa
03.06.12

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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 2012

ABC: Last Man Standing [r], Cougar Town, The River, Body of Proof [r]
AZTECA: Lo Que la Gente Cuenta, Buenas Noches America, Al Extremo
CBS: NCIS [r], NCIS: LA [r], Unforgettable [r]
CW: 90210, Ringer
FOX: Raising Hope, I Hate My Teenage Daughter, New Girl, Breaking In [p]
ION: Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds, Flashpoint
NBC: The Biggest Loser, Decision 2012
PBS: How the beetles Rocked the Kremlin, American Masters, Before There Were Parks: Yellowstone
TELE: Una Maid en Manhattan, Corazon Valiente [p], Relaciones Peligrosas
UNIV: Una Familia con Suerte; El Talisman, La Que No Podia Amar

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