Good morning. It’s Wednesday, August 4, 2004, and this is your first early morning briefing.
Lifetime has good news and bad news. The good news is the network has ordered 5 additional episodes of its drama series Missing for a total of 18 for the season. Thus far in its second season,the show has averaged 2.2 million viewers. The bad news is their drama series The Division will not be picked up for an additional season. It has been on the air for four years, and according to the network, they feel the storyline has simply run its course. Thus far this season, The Division has averaged 2.0 million viewers for original episodes.
A&E‘s newest reality show, Growing Up Gotti (GRB Entertainment), featuring the daughter of the late infamous crime boss John Gotti and her three teenage sons, debuted on Monday night with 3.2 million viewers in attendance, making it A&E’s most watched new series in the network’s history. That prompted the network to promptly order up seven more eps, in addition to the 13 already in the pipe. In key demos, Gotti avg’d 1.8 million viewers in the A18-49 range, and 2.0 million in the A25-54 demo.
Martha Stewart has a new show coming to broadcast television in January. In conjunction with PBS station WETA/Washington, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc., will launch Everyday Food – the TV series spinoff of the MSO magazine by the same name. The 30m weekly series will feature a stable of five cooks, all offering quick, easy and practical kitchen solutions to making good things in the kitchen, using ordinary ingredients. Initially, 26 eps will be produced.
Season Finale Tonight: Simple Life 2 on Fox at 930p (preceded by the 2nd to last ep)
TNT‘s biopic of Evel Knievel drew a somewhat modest 1.7 million viewers for its Friday night premiere, tho the cumed average for the multiple plays over the weekend averaged approx 2.0 million.
Coming to PAX in September is a primetime weekly series called Faith Under Fire – a talk/debate show that focuses on controversial issues involving religion, spirituality and morality. The show will be headed by Lee Strobel, a former Chicago Tribune legal expert and author. Guests will come from a variety of backgrounds including religious, pop culture, current events, academia and the arts and sciences. Faith Under Fire debuts on September 25 at 10p.
Curtis Sliwa is no greenhorn in the world of television. In the early 1990’s he (and wife Lisa) was featured in an ABC Friday Night summer series with his own talk show, and has made numerous appearances on a variety of talk shows and news programs. As he comes into focus again in the news as the alleged target of incarcerated mobster Gotti, he is also in the midst of rebuilding the LA chapter of the Guardian Angels. The Angels have not been on the streets of LA since 1997. Now, as new members are recruited and trained, a potential reality series is also being developed. According to Variety, the Angels have cut a deal with Rollman Entertainment to follow the process of the Angels return to Los Angeles. As yet, no network attached.
Top Ten Basic Cable Ad Supported Network Rankings among Total Viewers for the of July 26- Aug 1, 2004: Primetime (000) Total Pgm Day (000) USA 2913 NICK 2202 TNT 2553 CARTOON 1514 CARTOON 1934 NAN* 1451 NAN 1886 TNT 1263 LIFETIME 1865 USA 1219 CNN 1648 LIFETIME 1080 FOXNEWS 1641 TBS 956 TBS 1633 FOXNEWS 923 SCIFI 1421 ABC FAMILY 751 DISCOVERY 1385 A&E 665 Source Turner Research from Nielsen Media Research Data. All ratings based on Total U.S. Television Universe of 108,400,000 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 A18-49 for the week of July 26-Aug 1, 2004: Primetime (000) Total Pgm Day (000 USA 1289 TNT 660 TNT 1168 NAN* 640 TBS 932 USA 576 FX 786 TBS 556 DISC 775 LIFETIME 499 LIFETIME 758 NICK 446 COMEDY 742 FX 390 SCIFI 734 ESPN 365 NAN 582 DISC 345 MTV 571 CARTOON 340 Source Turner Research from Nielsen Media Research Data. All ratings based on Total U.S. Television Universe of 108,400,000 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)
Adina Pitt has been upped to VP/Acquisitions for Nickelodeon (well, it’s about time!) and Nicktoons, Nick’s digital channel. Adina will handle pre-buys and acquisitions for both networks, reporting to Pete Danielson, SVP/Programming for Nickelodeon; and Keith Dawkins-VP/GM of Nicktoons. This one is long overdue, so give her a call and congratulate her!
Matt Katzive has been named VP/Communications for Discovery HD Theater, Discovery Kids, Discovery Home Channel, Discovery Wings Channel and Discovery en Español. Elizabeth Hillman will replace Katzive as the new VP/Communications for the Discovery Channel. Matt will oversee all media outreach and communications campaigns on behalf of Discovery’s emerging networks as well as communications strategies and publicity efforts for the company’s ongoing “Discovery Docs” theatrical documentary initiative. Elizabeth will be responsible for all communications strategies and media outreach for the network as well as developing and implementing network branding, positioning and communications campaigns.
Univision Communications Inc. has been appointed John DeSimone VP/National Sales, New York. John will lead and co-manage the NY Spot team along side Frank Donaldson, also VP/National Sales, New York. John and Frank’s responsibilities serve all Univision & TeleFutura O&Os affiliates and Puerto Rico stations. John will report to Charlie Stuart, SVP/National Sales, Univision Television Group.
Starcom MediaVest Group upped Renetta McCann to CEO of Starcom The Americas, which includes the US, Canada and Latin America. She will be responsible for the company in those regions as well as four media brands: GM Planworks, MediaVest, Starcom and StarLink. Renetta was previously chief exec of Starcom North America.
Monday, August 2, 2004. Fast National Household Ratings for all Networks. Fast affiliate numbers which reflect time period data, not program data, and can change slightly once the finals come in, particularly for LIVE programming (i.e. Football). Source Nielsen Media Research. Time Period Averages Only. [p] = Premiere; [o] = Original; [r] = Repeat
CBS 7.3/13 Still Standing [r] 5.2/10, Yes Dear [r] 5.1/9, Raymond [r] 8.0/13, Two and a Half Men [r] 8.6/14, CSI Miami [r] 8.6/15
NBC 4.8/8 Fear Factor [r] 4.6/8, For Love or Money 4.3/7, Who Wants to Marry My Dad? 5.5/9
ABC 3.5/6 Battle at the Bridges(golf event) 3.5/6
FOX 3.1/5 North Shore 3.2/6, The Casino 2.9/5
UPN2.0/4One on One [r] 2.1/4, Half and Half [r] 2.1/4, Girlfriends [r] 2.0/3, Half and Half [r] 1.9/3
The History Channel presents This Day in History: 1735: John Peter Zenger, publisher of the New York Weekly Journal, is acquitted of libel charges for publishing attacks on the British Crown and royal administration in New York. Royal Governor William Crosby had hoped that the charges would silence the paper. Instead, Alexander Hamilton’s successful defense of Zenger affirmed the principles of free speech and a free press.
Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question:What is the name of the first television series to be spun off from an internet website? HINT: It aired on a broadcast network. MONEYWATCHTV.com aired on PAX as a strip series in 2000. Tough one.
Today’s Trivia Question: He’s from the south, tho educated at Harvard. He doesn’t mind the wrinkles in his suit or if his hair is at all awry, and he collects coins. He still likes to play the guitar, hum a tune, hang out with an old pal, or go fishin’. The rest of the time, he’s working. Who is he?(click hereto respond to the trivia question and please be sure to include with your answer your name, company, city and time zone. Only the second four correct responses from each time zone will be listed in tomorrow’s kudo list.)
Later — Cyn
Cynthia Turner’s Cynopsis 08/04/04 5:13AM Subscriptions to Cynopsis: email
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