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11/13/07

Good Morning.  It’s Tuesday, November 13, 2007 and this is your first early morning briefing. 

Three new series announced today – all unscripted (see below). Also two renewals – only one of those is scripted, Damages on FX.  As the writers strike continues, look for more unscripted series to hit the primetime schedule, including (but certainly not limited to):

• Duel on ABC beginning December 17 and scheduled to air thru the 23rd at 8pm.  In this gamer, players have to bluff well to win.  Also coming to ABC, new seasons of Supernanny and Wife Swap. 
• On CBS – a midseason edition of Big Brother is planned as well as another season of Amazing Race and Survivor.  Also a couple of games – Million Dollar Password with Regis hosting, and Do You Trust Me with host Tucker Carlson.
• NBC – American Gladiator with Hulk Hogan and Laila Ali hosting; Amnesia game with host Dennis Miller, and more episodes of 1 vs. 100 and Deal or No Deal.
• You know American Idol is returning to Fox on January 15th, and you can expect more new eps of Hell’s Kitchen, 5th Grader and Don’t Forget the Lyrics.  Also look for game show The Moment of Truth to kick off on January 23rd.
• CW will bring back more new America’s Next Top Model, Beauty and the Geek and Pussycat Dolls.

It’s gonna be a long strike.

The CW Network will debut Crowned: The Mother of All Pageants, the new one-hour mother/daughter competition series December 12 at 9p, following the season finale of America’s Next Top Model. The other seven episodes of Crowned will air Wednesdays at 8p starting December 19 through the finale on January 30. Judges for the series include Carson Kressley, former Miss USA Shanna Moakler and Cynthia Garrett.

SPORTSKOOL, the free On Demand sports network, introduces Magic Johnson Fundamentals series beginning December 18.  During the eight episodes, Magic will show off his basketball techniques and drills and he’ll be joined by other NBA All-Star players such as Rip Hamilton, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Kenny Smith.

fuse introduces its new series Videos that Rocked the World, unveiling behind-the-scenes stories, interviews and footage surrounding the ten most influential and controversial music videos. The series will air over ten days starting November 26 at 10p, airing weeknights.

It’s just about that time to be thinking about your New Year’s Eve plans, and Dick Clark and Ryan Seacrest are all set.  They’ll join together again this year to host the 36th edition of Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, which starts at 10p, December 31 on ABC. Good to know some things never change.

Clarification:  Only CBS News writers are voting to authorize a strike this week (not ABC News writers too). The WGAE hopes to announce the results of that vote on November 19. CBS News writers contract covers 500 people in televisions and radio, both network and local in NY, Chicago, Washington DC and LA. And to clear up any lingering questions, NBC News writers are not aligned with WGAE, and Fox News writers are currently under contract.

WWOR-TV/My9 and the YES Network extended their agreement, keeping WWOR as the exclusive broadcast home of the New York Yankees for one more year through the end of the 2008 season. A total of 21 hi-def games will air on WWOR, which is owned by FOX Television Stations.

Raycom Media, Inc. will acquire Lincoln Financial Group’s television operations and Lincoln Financial Sports. The deal includes three television stations, WBTV/Charlotte, WWBT/Richmond and WCSC/Charleston and Lincoln Financial Sports which broadcasts live games across a network of more than 70 stations in the Southeast with its partnership with Raycom Sports for ACC and SEC football and basketball. Currently, Raycom owns or operates 42 television stations, which reaches 11.7% of U.S. television households in 18 states. The sports portion of the transaction is expected to be wrapped up by early next month, with the rest completed by second quarter 2008.

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E! Entertainment Television renewed the 30m reality series Keeping Up with the Kardashians for a second season. The show, produced by Ryan Seacrest Productions and Bunim-Murray Productions, reveals the life of Kim Kardashian and her Hollywood family.

FX has ordered up two additional seasons for a total of 26 episodes of Damages starring Glenn Close, with production beginning in January. 

Sewee Entertainment cut syndication deals for current partner/clients for the following projects:

• Macy’s Holiday OTO – lighting of the Great Tree at Macy’s filmed in Atlanta on Thanksgiving night is cleared in more than 85% of the U.S. on stations from Tribune, CBS, Cox, Belo, Hubbard, Clear Channel, Lin, Hearst, Sunbeam and other stations groups. This year’s event will also be seen nationally via WGN Superstation. Hosted by ET’s Jann Carl, musical guests featured include Big & Rich, Chris Brown and more.
• SurveyUSA – news service offering political and news polling for broadcast stations has been renewed on several stations in markets San Francisco, Seattle and Portland as well as new deals in Cleveland, Washington, D.C., Raleigh/Durham and Fresno.
• Connect with Kids – content provider offering news, web and long-form programming for parents and teens has new deals on WPIX/New York, KYW-WPSG/Philadelphia, KGO/San Francisco, KCPQ-KMYQ/Seattle and more. In addition, Sewee Entertainment and Connect with Kids are selling a new three-hour E/I block to broadcasters for use on digital channels.

Correction:  A&E’s Under is from fox Television Studios (not 20th Century Fox TV as mentioned here yesterday).

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Kieran G. Clarke added EVP/GM of Meredith Video Solutions to his roster of duties and will continue in his current role as VP/GM of KPTV (FOX), KPDX (MNT) and LivePDX.com in Portland. Kieran will supervise Meredith Video Solutions operations in Portland, Des Moines and New York as well as the production team.

Lisa Schaeffer joined the Deleon Group as Client Services Manager, coming from Comcast’s eastern division where she was Director/Marketing. In her new position, Lisa will manage daily activity with Comcast, Time Warner, TV One and other non-cable clients as well as new business efforts.

Animal Planet and Discovery Kids Media named Rick Holzman as SVP/Programming and Marc Etkind as VP/Development. Prior to this appointment, Rick was VP/Program Planning and Scheduling and VP/Program Strategy and Forecasting for Discovery Channel and Mark was Senior Director/Historical Programming at The History Channel. Both will now report to Marjorie Kaplan, President/GM, Animal Planet and Discovery Kids Media.

The Weinstein Company tapped Matthew Frankel as CCO and SVP/Corporate Affairs starting November 26. Matthew will oversee the company’s corporate profile and communications goals and manage corporate, trade and business press. Based in New York, he will report to Co-Chairmen Bob and Harvey Weinstein.

Kristin Peace advanced to VP/Development, Acquisitions and Broadband Development with TV Guide Network, up from VP/Development. Kristin, who has been with the network two years, developed the original series Making News: Texas Style and America’s Next Producer. Now she will expand her scope to identify and create content for TV Guide Broadband. She will also lead and execute acquisitions of off-net and foreign titles as well as cross-promotional opportunities that fit the TV Guide Network brand. Kristin will continue to report to Matt Singerman, SVP/Programming, TV Guide Network. 

Today in Cynopsis Kids

• Parthenon Ent. teams with Entara, both now owned by Arkaga Fund
• Jetix Europe and Canalsat return to table over carriage deal
• Moshi Monsters launches in beta

Today in Cynopsis International

• here! is there in Florida on Cox Communications Central Florida while The Africa Channel comes to South Cali on Charter Communications
• Castalia Communications Corporation releases MEXICANAL Network in the U.S. Hispanic market
• Arkaga Fund buys Parthenon Entertainment Ltd followed by a new business launch with its Entara Ltd

Today in Cynopsis Digital, listen to the audio version here or subscribe to the iTunes Cyn Digital podcast 

• Lifetime.tv relaunches as MyLifetime.com with content from Hearst, Glam and Real
• Intel develops new chips to help make PCs stream HD video online
• Google teaming with Idol creator Simon Fuller?

Sunday – A18-49 Analysis: In an unusual twist, ABC, FOX and NBC all tied for first Sunday night at 4.9/12 A18-49, according to fast affiliate ratings from Nielsen Media Research. Starting out, FOX won the 7p hour at 5.5/15 with the average of its Football Runover and The OT. It was NBC’s Football game that made it to #1 with 5.5/13 at 8p, while the premiere of UNIV’s Bailando por un Sueno did a 1.2/3. ABC’s Desperate Housewives took charge at 9p winning with a 7.2/16. Then it was back to football on NBC for the final win during 10p at 5.6/14.

Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Sunday, November 11, 2007 (November Sweep Day 11) – time period averages. Source: Nielsen Media Research

ABC: 8.4/13          NASCAR Nextel Cup 3.5/6, America’s Funniest Home Videos 4.4/7, EM: Home Edition 8.9/14, Desperate Housewives 12.0/18, Brothers & Sisters 8.7/14

NBC: 7.9/12          Football Night in America 4.7/8, Sunday Night Football: Indianapolis at San Diego 9.0/14

CBS: 7.7/12          60 Minutes 8.6/14, The Amazing Race 12 6.4/10, Cold Case 8.2/12, Shark 7.6/13

FOX: 6.5/10          Football Runover 11.1/18, The OT 5.9/10, The Simpsons 6.2/10, King of the Hill 4.7/7, Family Guy 6.1/9, American Dad 4.8/7

UNIV: 1.6/2          Lo que no Vio de los Latin Grammy 1.4/2, Bailando por un Sueno Campeonato Internacionale de Baile [p] 1.6/3

CW: 0.9/1             CW Now 0.8/1, Aliens in America 0.7/1, Life is Wild 1.0/2, America’s Next Top Model [r] 1.0/2

TELE: 0.6/1           Cine en Casa/Estreno 0.5/1, Cine Millonario/Estreno 0.6/1

A18-49: ABC 4.9/12, FOX 4.9/12, NBC 4.9/12, CBS 2.8/7, UNIV 1.2/3, TELE 0.6/1, CW 0.5/1 

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This Day in History: 1805 – Johann George Lehner, a Viennese butcher, created a recipe and called it the “frankfurter.”

Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question: What series began each week by seizing control of viewers’ televisions with its intro?  THE OUTER LIMITS     Kudos to:  Dave Ward-Bonten Media Group/Orlando; Paul Kelly-Court TV/NY; Jeff Grimshaw-PetNet TV/Washington, DC; Sharon Cauthen-Barnard College/NY; Mark Prince–GSD&M Idea City/Chicago; Candace Heathington-Comcast Spotlight/Houston; Keith Paxton-KDFI-My27/Dallas; Kevin Schmidt-National Cable Communications/Chicago;  David Garber-Linzack Productions/Woodland Hills, CA; Lee Toft-Mike Mathis Productions, Inc./Pasadena, CA; Bill Bracken-Brad Lachman Productions/LA; Steve Rubin-Fast Carrier Pictures/LA; Michelle Katz/London; Jim Snider-CTV Television/Toronto; Bernard Bourret-Blueprint Entertainment/Toronto; Sheldon Wiebe-EclipseMagazine.com/Calgary

Today’s Trivia Question:  In the movie Moonstruck, Ronnie (Nicolas Cage) agrees never to see Loretta (Cher) again if she will accompany him to the Met for one evening. What opera do they go to see?     (
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – Tuesday, November 13, 2007

ABC: Cavemen, Carpoolers, Dancing with the Stars (Results), Boston Legal
CBS: NCIS, The Unit, Cane
CW: Beauty and the Geek, Reaper
FOX: Bones, House
ION: Mama’s Family, Mama’s Family, Who’s The Boss?, Who’s The Boss?, Diagnosis Murder
MNT: The Academy [r], Jail, Jail [r]
NBC: The Biggest Loser, Law & Order: SVU
PBS: Nova, Independent Lens
TELE: Madre Luna, La Esclava Isaura, Pecados Ajenos
UNIV: Amar sin Limites, Destilando Amor, Como Ama una Mujer

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