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08.15.12
Good morning. It’s Wednesday, August 15, 2012, and this is your first early morning briefing.
Tonight’s Premieres:
The CW: Oh Sit! at 8p
Style Network: Gossip Girl at 8p
Velocity: What’s My Car Worth? At 8p
A&E Network: Storage Wars: Texas at 9p & 930p; American Hoggers at 10p & 1030p
Investigation Discovery: I Married a Mobster at 10p & 1030p
nuvoTV: Fight Factory at 10p
Travel Channel: Toy Hunter at 10p
Tonight’s Finale:
Bravo: Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles at 9p
On Monday, TNT concluded its series The Closer after seven seasons with nearly 9.1 million total viewers in Live + Same Day, which becomes cable’s #1 telecast for the summer-to-date. TNT followed up The Closer’s finale with the premiere of new drama, Major Crimes which attracted close to 7.2 million total viewers in Live + Same Day to become cable’s #1 new series launch for the year-to-date. The Closer premiered in 2005, produced for TNT by The Shephard/Robin Company in association with Warner Bros. Television and headlined by Kyra Sedgwick. Beginning next Monday, Major Crimes moves into The Closer’s 9p time period followed by all-new episodes of Perception at 10p.
Chef Roger Mooking journeys around the country looking for ways to cook with fire when Cooking Channel’s new series Man Fire food debuts September 18 at 10p. Roger visits with pit masters, chefs and home cooks, all working with fire to create flavorful dishes. Man Fire Food is produced by IW Productions LLC.
This Sunday, Destination America premieres a new series that exposes the deception found in Las Vegas in Cheating Vegas at 10p. The series takes viewers behind the scenes at casinos to uncover real scandals and gaming crimes. Cheating Vegas is produced by Destination America and LMNO Cable Group, Inc.
Spike TV spotlights more tattoo artists when a second season of its original series Ink Master returns October 9 at 10p with back-to-back one-hour episodes. Sixteen tattoo artists from around the country battle it out for a $100,000 grand prize, an editorial feature in the tattoo industry magazine Inked and the title of “Ink Master.” Following its premiere episodes, Ink Master will continue on Tuesdays at 10p with the live season finale airing in December. Ink Master is produced for Spike by Original Media.
A 10th episode of docu-series Beverly Hills Nannies was ordered by ABC Family. The 10th episode will be a Nannies Tell All reunion episode hosted by Ross Matthews and will air immediately after the summer finale of the series on September 4 at 10p. Beverly Hills Nannies is produced by Evolution Media.
VH1 approved a third season of La La’s Full Court Life starring actress La La Anthony as she launches a clothing line and goes to London to watch her husband, NBA star Carmelo Anthony play with the USA men’s Olympic basketball team. Season three will premiere early next year.
Later this month, a second season of Addicted is back on Discovery Fit & Health starting August 28 at 10p. The one-hour docu-series focuses on nine people with uncontrollable addictions and the friends and family members who are hoping they find help. Interventionist Kristina Wandzilak, also the Executive Director and Founder of Full Circle Intervention works with the addicted individuals.
Monday’s sneak preview of Counting Cars on HISTORY at 1030p tallied 4.3 million total viewers in addition to 2.1 million with A25-54 and 1.8 million among A18-49. The series airs in its regular time slot of Tuesdays at 10p and is produced by Leftfield Pictures.
Ron Palillo, best known for playing Horshak, one of the Sweathogs on the 1970s sitcom, Welcome Back, Kotter died Monday night in Palm Beach, FL. He was 63. Starting in 1975, Mr. Palillo was one of the oddball students who plagued Mr. Kotter (Gabe Kaplan) for four seasons on the ABC comedy. Mr. Palillo’s character was the nasally-voiced Arnold Dingfelder Horshack who was always the first to raise his hand in class with his “Ooo-ooo-oooooh!” After Welcome Back, Kotter, Mr. Palillo guest-starred on a variety of shows including The A-Team, CHiPs and Murder, She Wrote and in 1996, played himself on several episodes of Ellen. Also in 2002, Mr. Palillo agreed to appear and box Dustin Diamond for an episode of Celebrity Boxing billed as Horshack vs. Screech. During recent years, he also showed up in various TV Land nostalgia specials. Perhaps his most rewarding role though was teaching drama at the G-STAR School of the Arts for Motion Pictures and Broadcasting, a charter high school in West Palm Beach.
A+E Networks and Lionsgate formed a partnership allowing Lionsgate to handle the home entertainment distribution of programming from A&E Network, HISTORY and Lifetime. Under this new deal, programming from A+E Networks’ catalogue includes Storage Wars, Shipping Wars and Duck Dynasty from A&E; Pawn Stars, American Pickers and America The Story of Us from HISTORY; and Lifetime’s Dance Moms. The catalogue also features thousands of hours of programming such as the A&E miniseries Pride & Prejudice and acquired TV classics such as Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Kids in the Hall and Homicide: Life on the Street among other programming.
The multi-format 24/7 local, regional and national television weather service, WeatherNation TV, Inc. made an agreement with Son Broadcasting Network to offer its local weather news in Albuquerque for KCHF-TV’s digital tier. Beginning this past Monday, WeatherNation is available in Albuquerque and Santa Fe.
Filmmaker, author and Grammy-winning producer, Emilio Estefan made an overall deal with 20th Television that will have him serve as creator and executive producer on a Latino-themed drama series. The timeline for the project is to have it put into development at the studio this fall. Estefan is credited for creating Miami Sound Machine which launched the career of his wife, Gloria Estefan and he also directed the careers of other top Latino performers including Shakira, Marc Anthony, Jennifer Lopez and Ricky Martin.
Tommy Dewey was cast as a boyfriend to Mindy Kaling’s character on her new sitcom The Mindy Project. Dewey will play Josh Daniels, a successful lawyer who goes after what he likes. The Mindy Project premieres September 25 at 930p on FOX.
GSN (formerly Game Show Network) revealed its celebrity guest lineup for The Pyramid when the daily strip show debuts September 3 at 6p. The Pyramid is a contemporary version of the classic game show and elements of the original show are being brought back from the Pyramid game board, the celebrities and the Winner’s Circle hosted by Mike Richards. A cadre of celebrities appearing on The Pyramid this fall include: Yvette Nicole Brown (Community), Kate Flannery (The Office), Samantha Harris (Host, Stars Earn Stripes), Dot Marie Jones (Glee), Wallace Langham (CSI), Joshua Malina (Scandal), Lamorne Morris (New Girl), Oscar Nunez (The Office), Jim O’Heir (Parks and Recreation), Melissa Peterman (Baby Daddy), Megyn Price (Rules of Engagement), Danny Pudi (Community), Jai Rodriguez (Malibu Country), Aida Turturro (The Sopranos), Nick Turturro (Blue Bloods) and Chandra Wilson (Grey’s Anatomy). The Pyramid is produced by Embassy Row in association with Sony Pictures Television with Michael Davies and Maureen FitzPatrick serving as EPs.
The faux reality series, The Joe Schmo Show will make a comeback on Spike TV after being off the schedule for nine years. Spike will premiere a new version in 2013 with 10 episodes titled Joe Schmo: The Full Bounty. The premise will have a contestant believe he is on a new reality show looking for America’s next great bounty hunter. His cast mates will include Lorenzo Lamas, playing himself. Ralph Garman (Family Guy) is reprising his role as the show’s host.
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Top Ten Ad-Supported Basic Cable Network Performance among A18-49 for the week of: 8/6-8/12/12
Primetime (000) Total Pgm Day (000)
TBSC 891 ADSM* 618
USA 886 NICK 431
AEN 673 TBSC 410
ADSM 632 USA 410
FX 615 NAN* 366
HIST 589 FX 353
TNT 578 AEN 349
LIF 527 HIST 347
TRU 518 ESPN 320
SYFY 506 TNT 319
Source: Turner Research from The Nielsen Company data.
All ratings based on Total US Television Universe of 114,700,000 homes.
* = Network broadcasts less than 51% of minutes in a 24 hour day.
Notes: Data based on most currently available Nielsen data stream; Preliminary: Live+SD. Primetime is Mon-Sat 8P-11P and Sun 7P-11P. Total day is Mon-Sun 6A-6A for household and demographic performance.
Top Ten Ad-Supported Basic Cable Network Performance among Total Viewers for the week of: 8/6-8/12/12
Primetime (000) Total Pgm Day (000)
USA 2428 NICK 1969
TNT 1841 TOON 1381
AEN 1693 ADSM* 1288
FOXN 1656 USA 1059
TBSC 1649 FOXN 1039
HIST 1537 NAN* 921
ADSM 1423 TNT 877
AMC 1218 AEN 824
SYFY 1187 HIST 822
LIF 1145 TBSC 743
Source: Turner Research from The Nielsen Company data.
All ratings based on Total US Television Universe of 114,700,000 homes.
* = Network broadcasts less than 51% of minutes in a 24 hour day.
Notes: Data based on most currently available Nielsen data stream; Preliminary: Live+SD. Primetime is Mon-Sat 8P-11P and Sun 7P-11P. Total day is Mon-Sun 6A-6A for household and demographic performance.
Top 10 Cable Programs among A18-49 (000) for the week of: 8/6-8/12/12
VH1 Love and Hip Hop: Atlanta 2188
USA WWE Entertainment 9p 2103
AEN Storage Wars 1030p 2059
USA WWE Entertainment 10p 1954
CMDY Comedy Central Roast 1851
AEN Storage Wars 10p 1846
USA WWE Entertainment 8p 1817
ESPN Green Bay/San Diego 1740
TNT Falling Skies 1660
TNT Dallas 1631
Source: Turner Research from Nielsen Media Research Data.
All ratings based on Total US Television Universe of 114,700,000 home; Ranked by Delivery (000); Preliminary: Live+SD
Top 10 Broadcast Programs among A18-49 rating/share and (000) for the week of 8/6-8/12/12
NBC Summer Olympics TUE Primetime 8/7 9.6/28 12314
NBC Summer Olympics Wednesday Primetime 8/8 9.4/27 11972
NBC Summer Olympics Closing Ceremony 9.2/24 11771
NBC Summer Olympics Monday Primetime 8/6 8.3/23 10658
NBC Summer Olympics Thursday Primetime 8/9 7.0/20 8889
NBC Summer Olympics Friday Primetime 8/10 6.6/21 8470
NBC Summer Olympics Saturday Primetime 8/11 6.2/21 7904
NBC London Gold 5.7/18 7335
CBS Big Brother 14 SUN 2.0/6 2581
CBS Big Brother 14 WED 1.9/6 2435
Source: Nielsen Media Research, Galaxy Explorer, Live + SD Data
Broadcast Evening News Weekly Average Ratings (week of August 6, 2012)
NBC: 9.78 million total viewers; 2.4/10 and 2.88 million A25-54
ABC: 6.78 million total viewers; 1.5/6 and 1.82 million A25-54
CBS: 5.38 million total viewers; 1.3/5 and 1.54 million A25-54
Source: Nielsen, NTI Total Viewers and A25-54 Live+SD
Saturday A18-49 Analysis: On the final weekend of the Summer Olympics, NBC queued up first Saturday with a 6.2/21 A18-49, according to final primetime national ratings from Nielsen. Since no Summer Olympics ratings were recorded during 8p, FOX topped with double Cops rerun episodes at an average of 0.8/3 followed by Telemundo with a combination of Cine Millonario and Summer Olympics coverage at an average of 0.5/2. Then at 9p, NBC was out in front with Summer Olympics coverage at 5.1/18 and ABC’s Wonderful World of Disney presentation was next at 0.7/2. NBC posted its best ratings of the night at 10p with the Summer Olympics at 6.8/23 while CBS’ 48 Hours Mystery encore and Univision’s Sabado Gigante tied for #2 at 0.6/2 each.
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Saturday, August 11, 2012 time period averages. Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.
NBC: 12.6/23 Summer Olympics Saturday Primetime [9p-11p] 12.6/23
CBS: 1.9/4 Crimetime Saturday 1.7/3, 48 Hours Mystery [r] 1.9/3, 48 Hours Mystery [r] 2.2/4
ABC: 1.5/3 Wonderful World of Disney: The Game Plan [r] 1.4/3, Castle [r] 1.7/3
FOX: 1.2/2 Cops [r] 1.4/3, Cops 2 [r] 1.5/3, Mobbed [r] 0.9/2
UNIV: 1.2/2 Sabado Gigante 1.2/2
ION: 0.5/1 Psych Sat 8P 0.5/1, Psych Sat 9P 0.5/1, Psych Sat 10P 0.5/1
TELE: 0.5/1 Cine Millonario: Madagascar: Escape to Africa [7p start] 0.6/1, Summer Olympic Final 0.5/1
TF: 0.2/0 Liga Mexican Saturday: Pachuca vs. Tijuana 0.2/0, Cineplex 3 Sat: La Cruz [r] 0.2/0
A18-49: NBC 6.2/21, FOX 0.7/3, UNIV 0.6/2, ABC 0.5/2, CBS 0.5/2, TELE 0.4/1, ION 0.3/1, TF 0.2/1
Sunday A18-49 Analysis: NBC won its final gold Sunday as the Summer Olympics closed and delivered a 7.9/22, according to final primetime national ratings from Nielsen. At 7p, NBC was first with a re-cap of America’s London Gold at 5.0/17 and CBS’ 60 Minutes rebroadcast followed at 1.1/4. #1 honors went to NBC at 8p with London Gold and the Summer Olympics Closing Ceremony at an average of 8.1/23 and CBS’ Big Brother was next at 2.0/6. At 9p, NBC had its best ratings of the night with the Summer Olympics Closing Ceremony at 9.6/24 and next in line was FOX with a Family Guy rerun and an American Dad repeat tying for #2 at an average of 1.7/5. NBC was still riding high during 10p with more of the Summer Olympics Closing Ceremony at 8.9/23 and ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition was #2 at 1.0/3.
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Sunday, August 12, 2012 time period averages. Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.
NBC: 15.2/25 London Gold 12.4/22, Summer Olympics Closing Ceremony 17.0/27
CBS: 3.1/5 60 Minutes [r] 4.1/7, Big Brother 3.3/5, Criminal Minds [r] 2.3/4, The Mentalist [r] 2.8/5
ABC: 2.2/4 America’s Funniest Home Video [r] 2.6/5, Secret Millionaire 2.5/4, Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition 1.8/3
FOX: 1.5/3 American Dad [r] 1.0/2, The Cleveland Show [r] 1.1/2, The Simpsons [r] 1.7/3, The Cleveland Show[r] 1.7/3, Family Guy [r] 2.0/3, American Dad [r] 1.9/3
UNIV: 1.4/2 Familia P. Luche 3 Sun 1.1/2, Pequenos Gigantes 2 Sun 1.6/3, Sal y Pimienta 1.1/2
ION: 0.4/1 Sunday 7PM Movie: Two for the Money 0.4/1, Leverage Sun 10P 0.5/1
TF: 0.4/1 Cine de Las Estrel Sun 0.4/1, Cine de Las Estrel Sun 2 0.5/1
TELE: 0.3/0 Cine de Impacto II: AVPR: Alien vs. Predator 0.3/0
A18-49: NBC 7.9/22, FOX 1.3/4, CBS 1.2/3, ABC 0.9/3, UNIV 0.9/3, TF 0.4/1, TELE 0.3/1, ION 0.2/1
Monday A18-49 Analysis: FOX delivered a “heavenly” win Monday with a 2.3/7 among A18-49, according to final primetime national ratings from Nielsen. FOX’s debut of Hotel Hell won the 8p hour at 1.9/6 while NBC’s new competition series Stars Earn Stripes was next at 1.7/5. FOX continued to sizzle in first place during 9p with Hell’s Kitchen at 2.7/7 and the second half of NBC’s new Stars Earn Stripes followed at 1.8/5. At 10p, the season premiere of Grimm on NBC won at 2.0/5 and the premiere of new telenovela, Amor Bravio earned Univision a second place showing at 1.4/4.
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Monday, August 13, 2012 time period averages. Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.
FOX: 3.4/5 Hotel Hell [p] 3.0/5, Hell’s Kitchen 3.7/6
NBC: 3.2/5 Stars Earn Stripes [p] 3.0/5, Grimm [p] 3.4/6
CBS: 3.0/5 How I Met Your Mother [r] 2.7/5, 2 Broke Girls [r] 2.8/4, 2 Broke Girls [r] 3.0/5, Mike & Molly [r] 3.3/5, Hawaii Five-O [r] 3.2/5
ABC: 2.3/4 The Bachelor Pad 2.8/5, The Glass House 1.3/2
UNIV: 2.0/3 Por Ella Soy Eva 1.8/3, Abismo de Pasion 2.2/3, Amor Bravio [p] 1.9/3
ION: 1.0/2 Criminal Minds [r] 0.9/1, Criminal Minds [r] 1.1/2, Criminal Minds [r] 1.1/2
TELE: 0.7/1 Rosa Diamante 0.7/1, Corazon Valiente 0.8/1, Pablo Escobar: El Patron del Mal 1.0/2, El Rostro de la Venganza 0.6/1
CW: 0.4/1 Perez All Access: Lady Gaga [r] 0.5/1, Remodeled-ENC 0.3/0
TF: 0.3/0 Cineplex Mon [7p start r] 0.3/0, Cineplex 2 Mon 0.3/0
A18-49: FOX 2.3/7, NBC 1.8/5, UNIV 1.5/4, CBS 1.2/3, ABC 1.1/3, TELE 0.5/1, ION 0.4/1, CW 0.2/1, TF 0.2/1
Emmy Award-winner Lily Tomlin was elected as a Governor of the Television Academy’s Performers Peer Group where she will serve out the term of Performer Peer Group Governor Kathryn Joosten who passed away in June. The term will end in December 2012. Furthermore, Jonathan Murray and David McKillop were elected as the inaugural Governors for the newly-established Reality Programming Peer Group. Jonathan’s term will end in December 2013 while David’s term will end in December 2012.
Oxygen Media tapped Harleen Kahlon to become SVP/Digital. Harleen will additionally be a part of the network’s senior leadership team and is responsible in her new role with creating strategic digital launch plans for new and returning series. Based in New York, Harleen will report to Jason Klarman, President, Oxygen Media.
Sundance Channel bolsters its marketing department by hiring two industry creatives. Raymond Dooley joins as VP/Consumer Marketing and Evan Fleischer was appointed as VP/Integrated Marketing and Branded Entertainment. Raymond is charged with driving strategy and creative direction for all advertising and promotional campaigns to build awareness, promote tune-in and spur ratings for the network’s original programming and films in addition to managing the social media strategy. Evan will spearhead the network’s brand position, strategic development and have responsibility over revenue-generating integrated marketing campaigns. Both Raymond and Evan are based in New York and report to Monica Bloom, SVP/Marketing.
Effective immediately, G4 ramps up its development production of programming by adding former SVP/Development at True Entertainment, Matt Hanna as Head/Original Programming. Matt will oversee the network’s development and programming production that is targeted to men while reporting to G4 Media General Manager Adam Stotsky.
Eric Land was named President/GM at WTLV/WJXX in Jacksonville, FL, owned by Gannett’s Broadcasting Division.
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Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: What show did Claire Danes get her start? Although she had several guest spots prior, it was My So-Called Life brought her national attention. Kudos to: Keith Marder-Halstead Property/NY; Tiffany Jackson-Delta Air Lines/Atlanta; Nicole Capó-Discovery Communications/Silver Spring; Pete Gautieri-AE Networks/NYC; Adam Leston-WDJT/Milwaukee; Sally Zikas-Weigel Broadcasting/Chicago; Jessica Swenson-Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment/Minneapolis; Mary Brannen-Merriam-Webster.com/Encyclopaedia Britannica.com/Chicago; Lilian Lemer-MyMac Productions/Venice CA; Judie Henninger-Valentine Productions Inc./Santa Monica, CA; Colleen Leary-Wikia/San Francisco; Susan Nessanbaum – goldberg-7 Ate 9 Entertainment/Hollywood; Mira Laufer-Corus Entertainment/Toronto; Stephen Kelley-9 Story Entertainment/Toronto.
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SITUATION WANTED: ASSISTANT OR APPRENTICE EDITOR (NY tri-state area): Mastery of Final Cut Pro and Adobe After Effects. Editing exp across genres including digital, corporate & indie film. Open to all opportunities. [email protected] (8/22)
SITUATION WANTED: NYC, Frfld, Wstchstr counties. Experienced SALES, BIZ DEV PRO pro seeking position in educational/home media, ad sales. Solid resume and excellent references.email: [email protected] (8/22)
SITUATION WANTED: SUPERFINE WRITER. Concepts/content. Digital, video, print, integrated. Broadcast, innovation, beauty, foodie, wellness. I hear brand voices. [email protected] (8/21)
SITUATION WANTED: RESEARCHER/EXEC ASST/LOS ANGELES AREA: 16+ yrs exp + key player in Primetime TV as researcher, proofreader, copy-editor, writer, exec asst. Exc. etiquette. [email protected] (8/18)
SITUATION WANTED: SENIOR PRODUCER/FIELD DIRECTOR (NYC): Experienced long-form, short-form and studio producer proficient in booking, writing, directing, talent producing, and post. [email protected] (8/18)
SITUATION WANTED: PRODUCER/WRITER/RESEARCHER: for TV/webcomedy and variety series and specials at the network level. NY-based and looking for new opportunities. Visit http://about.me/markselby for more info. Contact [email protected] (8/18)
SITUATION WANTED: RESEARCHER/EXEC ASST/LOS ANGELES AREA: 16+ yrs exp +key player in Primetime TV as researcher, proofreader, copy-editor, writer, exec asst. Exc. etiquette. [email protected] (8/16)
E-mail [email protected] or call Trish Pihonak at 888.702.3858 for rates and specs for Job Openings.
Are you looking for a job? Post your Situation Wanted Ad here — Email [email protected] for specs.
WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 2012
ABC: The Middle [r], Suburgatory [r], Modern Family [r], Suburgatory [r], 20/20
AZTECA: Quiero Ser Grupero, Al Extremo, Fabrica de Huevos, Fabrica de Huevos
CBS: Big Brother, Criminal Minds [r], CSI [r]
CW: Oh Sit [p], Supernatural
FOX: So You Think You Can Dance
ION: Cold Case, Cold Case, Cold Case
NBC: America’s Got Talent, America’s Got Talent
PBS: Nature, Nova, Powering the Planet
TELE: Rosa Diamante, Corazon Valiente, Pablo Escobar: El Patron del Mal, El Rostro de la Venganza
UNIV: Futbol, Amor Bravio
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