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05/27/08

Good morning.  It’s Tuesday, May 27, 2008, and this is your first early morning briefing. 

The CW‘s Sunday night line up, courtesy of Media Rights Capital and scheduled to launch on September 14th at 630p (yes, 630p), has been revealed and it will include one reality series, a comedy and two dramas, reports Variety:

• In Harm’s Way kicks off the evening at 630p. This reality show from Craig Piligian has an order for 10 episodes and features people who work in very dangerous jobs – hurricane chasers, avalanche spotters and subway tunnel diggers to name a few.
• Surviving Suburbia is scheduled to air at 730p. MRC has ordered 13 episodes of this blue-collar comedy from Kevin Abbott told from the perspective of the grumpy dad.
• Valentine, Inc. at 8p is a drama series from Kevin Murphy that begins with the notion that Greek gods Aphrodite and Eros are in the matchmaking business.
• Easy Money airs at 9p is about a family of loan sharks, from Andy Schneider and Diane Frolov.

MRC has not yet determined how it will program the 5-630p block, a space typically used by The CW for repeat airings of regular series.

Tonight’s Premiere:
FOX: The Moment of Truth at 8p

Tonight’s Finale:
ABC:  According to Jim at 830p

NBC announced its Fall 2008 premiere schedule for new and returning series.
September 12: America’s Toughest Jobs at 8p
September 22: Heroes Clip Show at 8p and season premiere at 9p
September 23: Law & Order: SVU at 10p
September 24: Knight Rider at 8p; Lipstick Jungle at 10p
September 25: My Name Is Earl [1 hour] at 8p; The Office [1 hour] at 9p; ER at 10p
September 29: Chuck at 8p; My Own Worst Enemy at 10p
October 3: Life at 10p
October 9: Kath & Kim at 930p
October 17: Crusoe at 8p
October 30: 30 Rock at 830p
Note: Kath & Kim has been moved to Thursdays at 930p. For the full 2008 broadcast primetime schedule for Fall 2008, click for excel, or pdf format:

Prior to the kick off of the fall schedule, NBC will debut another new series – Fear Itself is an anthology series of 13 episodes set to debut on June 5th at 10p, and each penned by a different writers of the thriller genre.

CMT has picked up the repurposing rights of NBC talent competition series Nashville Star, set to debut on June 9th, with Billy Ray Cyrus signed to host and judge.  Other judges include John Rich, Jeffrey Steele and Jewel.  The winner of the competition wins, among other things, a chance to perform at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, also aired on NBC.  On CMT, the series begins airing on June 14.

Last Saturday’s NHL Game 1 of the 2008 Stanley Cup Final telecast on VERSUS posted a 1.8 national HH rating and had more than 2.3 million total viewers tuning in.

The entertainment industry lost two notables over the long holiday weekend:

• Producer/Director/Actor Sydney Pollack, 73, died yesterday at his home after losing his battle with cancer. You’ll remember Pollack’s work as the director of Tootsie, The Way We Were and Out of Africa, a producer of such notables as Cold Mountain and The Talented Mr. Ripley, and as an actor in Made of Honor, Michael Clayton, Eyes Wide Shut and on TV as Will’s father in Will & Grace.  He is survived by his wife Claire, two daughters and six grandchildren.
• Comedian Dick Martin, 86, who along with Dan Rowan starred and hosted Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In, the variety show from the 1960s that launched the careers of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin among others, died this past Saturday at a hospital in Santa Monica due to respiratory difficulties. After Laugh-In, Dick’s career continued as a prolific TV director after his split with Dan Rowan in the 1970s. Rowan passed away in 1987.

Weekend Box Office Estimates: May 23-25, 2008
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Paramount) $101 million – opening wknd total $126m
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (Buena Vista) $23.0 million – 2 wk total $91.0m
Iron Man (Paramount)                              $20.1 million – 4 wk total $252.3m
What Happens in Vegas (Fox)                   $9.0 million – 3 wk total $54.2m
Speed Racer (Warner Bros.)                      $4.0 million – 3 wk total $36.2m
Made of Honor (Sony)                               $3.4 million – 4 wk total $39.1m
Baby Mama (Universal)                             $3.3 million – 5 wk total $52.1m
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Universal)         $1.7 million – 6 wk total $58.2m
Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (New Line) $915K – 5 wk total $35.9m
The Visitor (Overture Films)                      $781K – 7 wk total $4.4m
Source: Box Office Mojo

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Moving on quickly, Kelsey Grammer will star in the ABC comedy pilot Roman’s Empire as Roman Pretty, an eccentric billionaire who wants his daughter’s boyfriend to stay part of the family after the couple splits up. Roman’s Empire is a single-camera sitcom from Katalyst Films, CBS Paramount Network Television and ABC Studios. The comedy is based on a British edition of the same name from Tiger Aspect which will also co-produce the U.S. version.

CYNOPSIS DIGITAL – TODAY’S TOP STORY:   The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists may not have made much headway on the issue of new media control and compensation in negotiations with the AMPTP over the weekend. AFTRA National President Roberta Reardon sent a letter out to members warning of “tough challenges” involving new media and pointing to an editorial in the LA Times as a way to remind them that studios are not yet making much off the medium. Studios seek the right to re-use TV and film clips online as they see fit under a flat fee structure without having to consult performers as to their usage. The Screen Actors Guild is scheduled to resume negotiations with the AMPTP tomorrow.  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:  Almost 20 years later Indiana Jones still got it.  Paramount released Steven Spielberg’s feature Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull this holiday weekend around the world, earning estimated domestic box receipts of $151.1 million (including the late night Thursday showings) and a worldwide take of $311.1 million.  Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, becomes the second largest opening movie for a 4-day Memorial Day weekend in the US, with $126 million behind Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (Buena Vista/2007), still holding the top spot domestically with $139.8 million.  Full edition: CYN KIDS.

CYNOPSIS INTERNATIONAL – TODAY’S TOP STORY:   Globo TV International picked up two new strategic partners in the Asia-Pacific region.  The Brazilian distributor closed a volume agreement with Dream House Entertainment to air its telenovelas in Australia, a deal covering over 1,900 hours of dramas to be broadcast until 2010 via its subscription network La Telenovela (which has programming in Spanish). The channel will have Globo’s telenovelas in three of its slots with The Clone, Terra Speranza and Uga Uga as the first to air. Globo TV International and Dream House Entertainment already have a North American market deal in place.  In the second agreement, Globo TV sold the broadcast rights to an Indonesian dub of The Clone to StarHub. The telecom corporation will debut the telenovela in June on the Senasi subscription channel in Singapore. Full edition: CYN INTERNATIONAL. 

Thursday – A18-49 Analysis: ABC was in the clear winning Thursday night with a 5.6/16 A18-49, according to final national ratings from Nielsen Media Research. Back for the summer, the debut of FOX’s So You Think You Can Dance at 8p strutted into first place with 3.4/11. During 9p, ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy finale delivered a top-rated 6.4/17 and stayed in the lead through 10p with 7.6/20. Also NBC’s Last Comic Standing premiere posted at 2.4/6 from 930p-11p.

Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Thursday, May 22, 2008 time period averages. Source: NTI Galaxy, as dated. Live+SD.

ABC: 9.9/17         Ugly Betty [f] 6.2/11, Grey’s Anatomy [f] 11.8/19

FOX: 5.3/9             So You Think You Can Dance [p] 5.3/9

NBC: 5.3/9            Deal or No Deal 6.8/12, Last Comic Standing [p] 3.7/6 

CBS: 4.2/7              The Big Bang Theory [r] 2.8/5, How I Met Your Mother [r] 2.9/5, CSI [r] 4.5/7, Without a Trace [r] 5.3/9

UNIV: 2.0/3         Al Diablo con los Guapos 2.4/4, Fuego en la Sangre 2.2/3, Amas de Casa Desesperadas 1.3/2

CW: 1.4/2             Smallville [r] 1.5/3, Supernatural [r] 1.2/2

MNT: 0.8/1            My Thursday Night Movie: Mighty Quinn 0.8/1

TELE: 0.7/1           La Traicion 0.5/1, Victoria 0.8/1, Pecados Ajenos 0.7/1

A18-49: ABC 5.6/16, FOX 3.5/10, NBC 2.5/7, UNIV 1.7/5, CBS 1.5/4, CW 0.7/2, TELE 0.4/1, MNT 0.3/1

Nelvana Enterprises has two staffing upgrades in its merchandise licensing department: Lily Yan moved up to Director/Licensing International based in the Toronto office; and Sarah Sakr was promoted to Marketing and Licensing Coordinator/Europe based in the Paris office.

Kristin Moss advanced to VP/Marketing for Lionsgate Home Entertainment. She will continue to oversee brands within the Family Entertainment unit in addition to now managing the HIT Entertainment brands which include Barney, Bob the Builder and more.

Juma Entertainment announced Emily Sinclair has joined the company as Head of Development and Co-Executive Producer.  She will report directly to Bob Horowitz, President, Juma Entertainment, and Lewis Fenton, the company’s Head of Production and Executive Producer.  Emily will be based out of the Burbank, CA office.
 

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This day in History: 1986 – Mel Fisher recovered a jar that contained 2,300 emeralds from the Spanish ship Atocha, which sank in the 17th century. The value of the emeralds was said to be “mutli, multimillions” of dollars.

Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question:  What was the name of the Alka-Seltzer mascot appearing in more than 200 TV commercials from 1954-1964?   SPEEDY    Kudos to:  Jim Ryan-AETN/NY; Lou Zaccheo-Video from Video, Inc./NY; Fred Petrosino- JSBG/NY; Frank Zazza-iTVX/NY; Tom Nankival-WKOW/Madison, WI; Catherine Skow-CBS Radio/St. Louis; Yvette Clark-Azteca America/Dallas; Larry Cazavan-WXVT/Greenville, MS; Tom Kilgallon/Sherman Oaks, CA; Marc Freden-On the Marc Prods./LA; Mark Misiano-San Diego Business Journal/San Diego, CA; Stuart Shlossman-Madison Road Entertainment/LA; Jack Krayson- SCTV/Ontario

Today’s Trivia Question:   At the 1973 Golden Globe Awards the Best Actor award was refused by the winner. He also refused his Oscar in the same year. Who was this?     (Email
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – Tuesday, May 27, 2008

ABC: According to Jim, According to Jim [f ], Samantha Who? [r], Samantha Who? [r], Boston Legal [r]
AZTECA: Lo Que La Gente Cuenta, Historias Engarzadas, Bellezas Indomables
CBS: NCIS [r], The Unit [r], 48 Hours Special: Polygamy, A World Apart
CW: Beauty and the Geek [r], Reaper [r]
FOX: Moment of Truth, Hell’s Kitchen
ION: Mama’s Family, Mama’s Family, Quantum Leap, Drew Carey Show, Drew Carey Show
MNT: Street Patrol [r], Street Patrol [r], Jail [r], Jail [r]
NBC: Most Outrageous Moments, Most Outrageous Moments [r], Law & Order: SVU [r], Law & Order: SVU [r]
PBS: Nova [r], Frontline/World, Independent Lens
TELE: La Traicion, Victoria, Pecados Ajenos
UNIV: Al Diablo con los Guapos, Fuego en la Sangre, Aqui y Ahora

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