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08/30/06
Good morning. It’s Wednesday, August 30, 2006, and this is your first early morning briefing.
Tonight’s Premieres:
Fox: Bones at 8p, Justice at 9p
Tonight’s Finales:
FX: 30 Days at 10p
Bravo will debut season two of its cooking competition series Top Chef on October 18 at 11p, which follows Project Runway’s third season finale. Top Chef will then move into its regular 10p timeslot on October 25. Hosting this season is actress and cookbook author, Padma Lakshmi and returning as Head Chef/Judge is Tom Colicchio.
The Sunday night season two finale of A&E Network’s documentary series Intervention brought in the best numbers for the series with 2.11 million total viewers and 1.44 million A18-49 viewers.
In the continuing battle between the network evening news broadcasts, Nielsen Media Research has reported NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams came in first, winning all five nights, for the week of August 21-25. NBC’s Nightly News drew in 8.15 million total viewers compared with ABC’s World News with Charles Gibson at 7.26 million total viewers and the CBS Evening News at 7.06 million viewers. With A25-54, NBC’s Nightly News also won all five nights last week, averaging a 2.2 rating, ahead of ABC’s 2.0 rating and CBS’ 1.9 rating.
The first season finale of ABC Family’s original series Kyle XY aired Monday night at 8p, and earned the title of the network’s most-viewed original series telecast ever with nearly 3 million total viewers. Among A18-49 the finale was the second most-watch original series telecast with just a little more than 1 million viewers. On average in its freshman year, Kyle XY is the network’s most-watched original series in the network’s history with nearly 2.2 million total viewers, 797,000 A18-49 viewers and 493,000 W18-49 viewers.
ESPN has reupped with the Big East Conference men’s basketball and football programs for an additional six year term. The basketball deal begins in 2007, and the football in 2008. The deal calls for men’s basketball on Mondays and Thursday nights on either ESPN or ESPN2, as well as eleven regular season’s women’s basketball games. The Big East men’s basketball championship and women’s conference championships will also be carried. On the gridiron, a minimum of 14 Big East games will play on ESPN or ESPN2 on either Thursday, Friday or Sunday evenings. Additionally, at least three games will air on ABC.
Timeless Announces has been given a firm go to distribute in 1st qtr 2007 its series Know Your Heritage, a Jeopardy-style format similar to the College Bowl series. The distributor reports having received clearances in several top markets on ABC, CBS, NBC and CW affiliates. Hosted by Greg Alan Williams (Remember The Titans), the quiz show format brings competing Historic Black College and University students together to showcase their knowledge and skill of African American history. Scholarship monies are awarded participating teams and the winning team receives an all-expense paid trip to Disney World.
Shalom TV premieres today on Comcast Cable and Blue Ridge Communications (Poconos, PA) as America’s first national Jewish channel, in the southeastern Pennsylvania and northern Delaware areas. All during the month, Shalom TV features 50 hours of entertaining and educational telecasts on a VOD format with programming updated on a regular basis. More info at www.shalomtv.com.
Spike TV will launch its own broadband player on spiketv.com. Content will include both programming from the network as well as original including Burning at the Thunderdome which chronicles the adventures of bungee jumpers at the Annual Burning Man Festival in Nevada and Spike’s Hottest Bartenders: NYC (tentative title) showcasing New York City’s best looking female bartenders.
Also announcing their own new broadband channel is the HorseTV Channel, called HorseTV Access. As of Monday, the channel will include a feed from the 2006 International Equestrian Federation World Equestrian Games from Germany. After the games, HorseTV Access will begin its regular programming feeds on September 10.
The Weinstein Co. and Hubbard Media Group as well as a group of private investors, have acquired cable network Ovation: The Arts Network. Financial terms were not disclosed. Ovation was originally launched in 1996 and is currently available in 5.3 million homes, and plans are in place to double that number within the next 12 months. The new owners plan to relaunch the network, perhaps with a new name, tho the focus on the arts remains the same.
If you fancy, available at the www.cynopsis.com website is the 2006-07 Primetime Broadcast Schedule wtih premiere dates.
ABC will add to its game show development slate with its newest project Show Me the Money from Endemol. If this one sounds a little familiar, aside from its Jerry Maguire connection, that may be because this show was on the Fox slate last year, but that network has recently let the project go. The game is trivia based wtih contestants guessing correct answers for big bucks.
IDT Entertainment and Starz Entertainment Group have merged into one entity, Starz, LLC. IDTE has been renamed Starz Media and Starz Entertainment Group is now called Starz Entertainment; both are wholly owned subsidiaries of Starz, LLC, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Liberty Media Corp. The new company will produce live-action and animated programming that includes films, series, specials and shorts. Distribution for these programs will target theatres, DVDs, cable and satellite, broadcast stations, and via online globally. Robert B. Clasen has been named Chairman/CEO of both entities and Starz, LLC. Additionally, William D. Myers has been appointed as President/COO of Starz Entertainment, where he will manage the daily business operations and report to Robert Clasen.
Cynthia Bruck will be the new Producer for the AOL web series, Be a Red Star, reporting to Timothy J. Hamilton. She will oversee the field to post production for the series that debuts on AOL RED the week of October 8.
Diana Wilkin has been made VP/GM for the two Clear Channel Television stations in Jacksonville, WAWS FOX30 and WTEV CBS47.
Kathleen O’Connor has been upped to Director/Sales in Philadelphia for McGavren Guild Radio, a division of Interep.
Top Ten Basic Cable Ad Supported Network Rankings among A18-49 for the month of August: 7/31-8/27/06
Primetime (000) Total Pgm Day (000)
USA 1282 TNT 637
TNT 1133 USA 576
TBSC 951 NAN* 559
ESPN 832 TBSC 535
LIF 729 NICK 510
AEN 688 ADSM* 469
FX 679 LIF 456
DISC 676 ESPN 422
SPK 650 DISC 379
SCIF 625 CMDY 365
Source Turner Research from Nielsen Media Research Data.
All ratings based on Total U.S. Television Universe of 110,200,000 homes
* = Network broadcasts less than 51% of minutes in a 24 hour day. Primetime listing only includes those networks broadcasting more than 51% of the primetime hours (M-Su 8p-11p)
Top Ten Basic Cable Ad Supported Network Rankings among Total Viewers for the month of August: 7/31-8/27/06
Primetime (000) Total Pgm Day (000)
USA 2186 NICK 1681
TNT 2027 NAN* 1094
LIF 1446 TOON 1081
ESPN 1391 TNT 1074
TOON 1261 USA 984
TBSC 1259 ADSM* 858
FOXN 1207 LIF 839
NAN 1058 FOXN 800
HALL 965 TBSC 756
AEN 958 ESPN 650
Source Turner Research from Nielsen Media Research Data.
All ratings based on Total U.S. Television Universe of 110,200,000 homes
* = Network broadcasts less than 51% of minutes in a 24 hour day. Primetime listing only includes those networks broadcasting more than 51% of the primetime hours (M-Su 8p-11p)
Top 10 Cable Programs among A18-49 (000) for the month of August: 7/31-8/27/06
ESPN Cowboys/Saints 3206
LIF Fantasia Barrino Story 3150
TNT The Ron Clark Story 2991
TNT Nextel Cup/Michigan 2978
USA WWE Entertainment – 8/7 @ 10p 2890
USA WWE Entertainment – 7/31 @ 10p 2837
USA WWE Entertainment – 8/14 @ 10p 2812
AEN Dog The Bounty Hunter 2795
TNT Nextel Cup Racing/Bristol 2758
USA WWE Entertainment – 8/21 @ 10p 2689
Source Turner Research from Nielsen Media Research Data.
All ratings based on Total U.S. Television Universe of 110,200,000 homes
Top 10 Broadcast Programs among A18-49 (000) for the week of 8/21-8/27/06
NBC Emmy Awards 6,790
ABC ABC Sun Movie of Week – 8/27 4,870
FOX Prison Break 4,850
CBS CSI 4,480
CBS Big Brother 7 – Tues 4,180
CBS CSI: Miami 4,130
FOX House – Tues 8p 3,980
FOX Vanished 3,850
CBS Big Brother 7 – Sun 3,880
ABC Grey’s Anatomy – Thurs 9p 3,800
CBS Big Brother 7 – Thurs 3,780
CBS Rockstar: Supernova – Tues 3,780
Source Nielsen Media Research, Galaxy Explorer, Live + SD Data
Monday – A18-49 Analysis: FOX came in first Monday night with a 3.5/10 A18-49, according to fast affiliate ratings from Nielsen Media Research. CBS placed second with 2.9/8, and then came ABC 2.8/7, NBC 2.0/5, UNIV 1.7/5, UPN 0.9/2, WB 0.6/2 and TELE 0.5/1. FOX’s Prison Break broke free of the competition with a 4.0/11, up from last week’s premiere by 8%. At 9p, ABC with its Wife Swap rebroadcast and FOX with a new Vanished tied at 3.1/8 each (and Vanished was up from last week’s 3.0 rtg). CBS ended the evening with a win at 10p with an encore of CSI: Miami at 3.1/9, with ABC’s Supernanny not too far behind at 2.8/7.
Live + Same Day Ratings: Monday, August 28, 2006 – time period averages. Source: Nielsen Media Research
CBS 6.2/10 Two and a Half Men [r] 6.0/10, How I Met Your Mother [r] 4.8/7, Two and a Half Men [r] 6.5/10, Old Christine [r] 5.4/8, CSI: Miami [r] 7.3/12
FOX 5.5/9 Prison Break 5.7/9, Vanished 5.3/8
ABC 4.8/8 Wife Swap [r] 4.7/7, Wife Swap [r] 5.1/8, Supernanny [r] 4.6/8
NBC 4.3/7 NBC News Special: Katrina – The Long Road Back 4.0/6, Dateline NBC 4.8/7, Medium [r] 4.1/7
UNIV 2.3/4 La Fea Más Bella 2.4/4, Barrera de Amor 2.4/4, Cristina 1.9/3
WB 1.3/2 7th Heaven [r] 1.3/2, 7th Heaven [r] 1.3/2
UPN 1.2/2 One on One [r] 1.3/2, All of Us [r] 1.4/2, Girlfriends [r] 1.2/2, Girlfriends [r] 1.1/2
TELE 0.6/1 Tierra de Pasiones 0.7/1, Amores De Mercado 0.6/1, Decisiones 0.6/1
A18-49: FOX 3.5/10, CBS 2.9/8, ABC 2.8/7, NBC 2.0/5, UNIV 1.7/5, UPN 0.9/2, WB 0.6/2, TELE 0.5/1
The History Channel presents This Day in History:
30B.C.-Egyptian queen and legendary beauty Cleopatra, whose admirers included Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, clasps an asp to her breast and commits poetic suicide after the defeat of her armies.
Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question: As part of their advertising pitch, this company asked you to let them put you, in the driver’s seat. Who were they? HERTZ Kudos to: Josh Kane-Equation Entertainment/NY; Randy Ingram-WYCW TV/Spartanburg SC; Bill Thompson-Framework Productions/Decatur, GA; Fred Petrosino-HAI/NY; Peter Bright-Bright Productions/West Bloomfield, MI; Alexandra Leh-La Cheraqui Films/LA; Gail Moore-Kalt Productions/LA; Linda Jofery-Sony Pictures Television Research/Culver City CA; Sheldon Wiebe-Eclipsemagazine.com/Calgary, AB, Canada; Nancy Dixon Welch-Eclipse Television & Sports Mktg/Tortola; Steve Weinshel-Transistor Studios/London
Today’s Trivia Question: Where would you find an ill-tempered housekeeper named Berta?(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.)
Later — Cyn
08.30.06
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT: Wednesday, August 30, 2006
ABC George Lopez [r], George Lopez [r], 20/20, Primetime
CBS Rock Star, Criminal Minds [r], CSI: NY [r]
FOX Bones [p ], Justice [p ]
NBC Outrageous TV Moments [r], Outrageous TV Moments [r], Scrubs [r], Scrubs [r], Law & Order [r]
i Mama’s Family, Mama’s Family, Doc, Diagnosis Murder
UPN Everybody Hates Chris [r], All of Us [r], Girlfriends [r], Half & Half [r]
WB Blue Collar TV [r], Blue Collar TV [r], One Tree Hill [r]
TELE Tierra de Pasiones, Amores De Mercado, Decisiones
UNIV La Fea Mas Bella, Barrera de Amor, Don Francisco Presenta
