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05/31/05

Good morning.  It’s Tuesday, May 31, 2005 and this is your first early morning briefing.

Welcome back from your long weekend.  Have a good weekend? Do anything fun?

You know it’s a quiet morning when this is the lead story:

Joan of Arcadia fans are not taking the cancellation of the CBS show lying down.  It used to be a fan group would write letters or sign petitions.  In this day and age, they send e-mails launch a website:  www.savejoanofarcadia.com. The response from CBS spokesman Chris Ender on behalf of the network:  “It was one of the toughest programming decisions we have had to make in the last couple of years because qualitatively, everyone here loved the show and was proud of the show.” All that is well and good, but the fans don’t plan on letting up, particularly since they’ve learned the cast in under contract until mid June.  Joan of Arcadia aired for two seasons -the first year it averaged a little better than 10 million viewers; this season that dwindled to 8 million. And the other factor for CBS – the median age of Joan of Arcadia viewers is 53.9, older than even the average CBS viewer (which is around 51).

Touchstone TV has signed the standard 2-year, 7-figure development deal with David Walpert who will develop new series for the studio.  Additionally, according to Hollywood Reporter, Walpert will join the midseason comedy series Crumbs as Exec Prod, airing on ABC.

The original cast of the film The Breakfast Club will be reunited on MTV’s 2005 Movie Awards, airing June 9.  Already confirmed to appear are Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, Judd Nelson, Anthony Michael Hall and the only one left to confirm is Emilio Estevez.

Eddie Albert, age 99, died on Friday.  Albert’s first role was on television in The Ford Theatre Hour’s Joy to the World (November 11, 1948). He also hosted his own series, The Eddie Albert Show in 1953.  His first film was in 1938, Brother Rat which also starred Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman.  To many, Albert’s most memorable role was that of Oliver Wendell Douglas, wife of the love Lisa Douglas, on Green Acres.  The show ran on CBS from 1965 to 1971 and has been airing in syndication ever since. Other films of note with Albert are Roman Holiday, The Heartbreak Kid (for both he was nominated for an Oscar) Oklahoma, and The Longest Day with Richard Burton, Sean Connery and Red Buttons. He also played the Prison Warden in the original film The Longest Yard in 1974 opposite Burt Reynolds, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award.  Other TV credits include Switch with Robert Wagner, Falcon Crest and most recently as Herbert Gower in The Barefoot Executive (1995).  He also voiced Vulture/Adrian Toomes in the TV animated series Spider-Man.

Note — Local People Meters kick off in Washington DC and in Philadelphia on Thursday, June 2.

Weekend Box Office Estimates: May 27-30, 2005 – Four Day Memorial Day Weekend
Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge/Sith (Fox)   $70./8million – 2 wk total $271.2m
Madagascar (DreamWorks)                       $61.0 million – opening weekend
The Longest Yard (Paramount)                  $60.0 million – opening weekend
Monster in Law (New Line)                         $11.1 million – 3 wk total $60.7m
Kicking and Screaming (Universal)            $6.6 million – 3 wk total $44.2m
Crash (Lions Gate)                                     $6.0 million – 4 wk total $36.1m
The Interpreter (Universal)                          $2.6 million – 6 wk total $69.2m
Unleashed (Focus)                                     $2.3 million – 3 wk total $21.9m
Kingdom of Heaven (Fox)                           $2.2 million – 4 wk total $44.9m
House of Wax (Warner Bros.)                    $1.6 million – 4 wk total $29.9m
Source: Box Office Mojo

Really Important Stuff:  Dennis Rodman will compete in the 2005 Wife-Carrying World Championships in Sonkajaervi, Finland this July.  Though he is not married, he has been given leave to borrow a wife for the event.  Quick, order your plane tickets today.  Elsewhere, Paris is marrying Paris tho the pair is not saying when, and if they marry in Paris it could be confusing.

E! Networks has named David Walkley as SVP/Human Resources. It was announced by Ken Bettsteller/Chief Operating Officer, E! Networks. David will oversee all human resources activities, including staffing and recruitment, benefits and compensation, training and employee development, HRIS, employee relations and organizational matters for E! Entertainment Television, The Style Network, and E! Online
 
MTV Networks Latin America announced the promotion of Luis Goicouria to VP/Digital Media. In this role, he will be in charge of overseeing the company’s New Media division. Based in Miami, Luis will report to Charlie Singer, EVP/Programming, Creative and Strategic Marketing, MTV Networks Latin America.

Thursday- A18-49 Analysis:   In a sea of reruns (the single exceptions being WWE Smackdown and Primetime Live), CBS came out on top with a 3.6/11 on Thursday night according to final numbers from Nielsen Media Research.  NBC was second with a 2.6/8, followed by ABC 2.1/7, UPN 1.8/6, Fox 1.4/4, WB 0.9/3.  At 8p, back-to-back repeats of Joey led with a 2.6/9 for hte hour, in front of Cold Case’s 2.3/8 on CBS. CBS held the win for the next two hours CSI [r] earning a 4.7/14, and Without a Trace [r] 3.8/11, at 9p and 10p respectively.

FINAL HOUSEHOLD RATINGS: Thursday, May 26, 2005, for all Networks – program averages.  Source: Nielsen Media Research. 

CBS     9.0/16          Cold Case [r] 6.9/13, CSI [r] 10.9/19, Without a Trace [r] 9.2/16

NBC      4.4/8           Joey [r] 4.1/8, Joey [r] 4.2/8, Will & Grace [r] 4.3/7, Will & Grace [r] 4.4/7, ER [r] 4.6/8

ABC     4.1/7           Movie: The  Waterboy 3.8/7, Primetime Live 4.6/8

UPN      3.0/5      WWE Smackdown  3.0/5

FOX     2.3/4      The O.C. [r] 2.2/4,  The O.C. [r] 2.3/4

WB       1.6/3           Blue Collar TV [r] 1.5/3, Blue Collar TV [r] 1.5/3, Mobile Home Disaster [r] 1.7/3

A18-49           CBS 3.6/11, NBC 2.6/8, ABC 2.1/7, UPN 1.8/6, Fox 1.4/4, WB 0.9/3

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The History Channel presents This Day in History:
1819 – Poet and democrat Walt Whitman is born in West Hills, Long Island.

Answer to Yesterday’s  trivia question: This actress from a past popular sitcom was originally cast as producer  Roz on NBC’s Frasier, but was fired and  replaced before filming began.  And that freed her up to go on to an Emmy award winning role.  Who is she?   LISA KUDROW    Kudos to: Markie Wilson-Black Family Channel/Atlanta; Ingrid Halpern Dunowitz-NBC TV Sales & Mrkting/Atlanta; Marcy November-NBC TV Stations/NY; Marc Doctrow-CNN/NY; Amy Marie Yaeger-KSDK/St Louis; Diane Ferell-KTVT/Arlington TX; Will Allmendinger-Tribune/Chicago; Gina Johnston-Campbell Mithun/Minneapolis; Marc Freden-On the Marc/LA; Lee Nizani-CBS/LA; Suzanne Leichter-Disney ABC Cable Networks Group/LA; Sandi Resendi-Scripps Network/LA; Steve Truitt-KNBC/LA;  Paola D’Agnolo-GALAFILM/Montreal; Karen Swerdfeger-Comedy Network/Toronto;

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Today’s trivia question:  These neighbors were surely “Helpers” on what television sitcom? (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.)

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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT: Tuesday, May 31, 2005

ABC              My Wife and Kids, George Lopez, According to Jim, Blind Justice
CBS              NCIS,  NCIS, 48 HRS
FOX              Trading Spouses, House
NBC              Movie: Traffic
PAX              Lie Detector, Cold Turkey ll, Diagnosis Murder
UPN              All of US, Eve, Brittany & Kevin: Chaotic, The Bad Girl’s Guide
WB               Gilmore Girls, Gilmore Girls
TELE             Amarte Asi (7p), Los Platedos, Decisiones
UNIV             Apuesta por un Amor, La Madrastra, Casos de la Vida Real

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