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THE CLOSER
BASIC CABLE’S #1 PROGRAM
7 WEEKS IN A ROW WITH WOMEN & ADULTS 25-54
Beats Psych, House of Payne, Monk, Damages, Rescue Me,
Top Chef, The Bill Engvall Show, Dead Zone, Family Guy,
Burn Notice, The 4400, Army Wives
Available exclusively from Warner Bros. Domestic Cable Distribution
Source: NHI Explorer. 6/18/07-8/5/07, By week, L+SD Cvg. Rating. Programs=trackage, Movies=telecast. Excludes Specials, Pgms<5 min, Breakouts, Team Sports.
Cynopsis
08/08/07
Good Morning. It’s Wednesday, August 8, 2007, and this is your first early morning briefing.
Preparing a year in advance, NBC Universal announced it will showcase round-the-clock coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games over 17 days, beginning exactly one year from today – 8-8-08. The plan, totaling 3,600+ hours, offers more televised coverage than all previous Summer Olympics combined in U.S. history (from 1960 to 2004). Coverage from Beijing will be seen on NBC, USA Network, MSNBC and CNBC, along with high-definition coverage on USA HD and Universal HD. Spanish-language coverage will be seen on Telemundo. Additionally, NBCU will offer live streaming Olympic broadband video footage for the first time in the U.S. via NBCOlympics.com, and approximately 3,000 hours of highlights, rewinds and encores will be available on-demand. Despite a 12-hour time zone difference, NBCU will feature must-see events in primetime from live swimming, gymnastics and beach volleyball.
Tonight’s Premieres:
BBC America: Hotel Babylon at 9p
MTV: The Real World: Sydney at 10p
HBO: Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Kansas City Chiefs at 10p
Tonight’s Finale:
TV Land: TV Land Confidential at 10p
MEDIA + TECHNOLOGY = EMMY AWARD – www.emmyonline.tv
~ MORE GOOD STUFF ~
Broadcast Evening News Ratings Re-cap: ABC’s World News with Charles Gibson continues to carry the lead both with total viewers and among the prime news demographic of A25-54. The results for the week of July 30, 2007:
ABC: 7.92 million total viewers/1.9/9 A-25-54
NBC: 7.51 million total viewers/1.7/8 A25-54
CBS: 5.70 million total viewers/1.4/6 A25-54
BBC America revs up Monday nights starting August 20 as the British motor show Top Gear debuts at 8p with a two episode special. Each week the show will highlight super-cars, stunts, time trials and road tests led by presenters Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May. Occasionally, celebrity car lovers will drop in such as Ewan McGregor, Ray Winstone, Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver.
Discovery Channel will open the new 12-episode series Last One Standing on October 4 at 9p. The series action pits six American and British athletes who are in tip-top condition against members of remote tribes throughout the world. Sporting matches will include wrestling in Kalapalo, Brazil to tribal stick fighting in Zulu, South Africa. The series is a co-production of BBC and Discovery Channel.
Great American Country (GAC) will introduce two new series to its line-up. One this week:
Riverfront Concert Series – Blake Shelton hosts a 13-part show premiering this Thursday that highlights performances from Nashville’s Riverfront live Music Festival.
The Hitmen of Music Row – reality show debuting September 26 which features four Nashville songwriters and friends who document how a song becomes a hit.
Oxygen’s true-crime series Snapped began a new season Sunday night (10p) and snapped up the highest ratings ever for the series by delivering a 0.7 rating with W18-49 and a 0.9 among W18-34.
TNT‘s debut of the limited series The Company on Sunday night drew in 2.89 million total viewers. That number is down considerably from other recent debuts on TNT, including Saving Grace (6.4 million) and Heartland (4.3 million). The Company will air on the next two Sunday nights.
National Geographic Channel also hosted a premiere this past Sunday as Taboo debuted (9p) and posted a 0.5 A25-54 rating with 2.7 million total viewers at a median age of 36.1.
Style Network recently presented the series premiere of Kimora: Life in the Fab Lane which scored a 0.57 rating with W18-49 and a 0.56 rating among W18-34. The series opener also delivered an average of 335,000 total viewers.
Taking a bite out of the viewer pie, Discovery Channel’s 20th anniversary of Shark Week was viewed by 27.2 million people during the week in primetime (beginning July 29) which represents a 40% increase over the 20 million viewers tuning in last year.
The N will return the teen drama South of Nowhere as season three opens with a one-hour special this Friday at 8p. Eight new 30m episodes will air each Friday, in addition to seven new two-minute webisodes available via The Click, the network’s broadband media player at www.The-N.com .
Teeing off next Monday, Golf Channel will revamp its weeknight primetime line-up. During the periods when golf tournaments are not televised the news show Golf Central will air 830p Monday-Wednesday. Furthermore, the network will showcase its golf instruction shows The Turn, Champions Tour Learning Center and Playing Lessons from the Pros – for a half-hour on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights at 7p.
BBC Worldwide America will host the digital U.S. premiere of Britain’s original The Office series on several digital outlets including BBC America On Demand, Netflix.com and Vuze.com. The complete two seasons, each containing 6 half-hour episodes, as well as two longer-length specials will be available this summer through Netflix and customers can rent the series on DVD or view it on their PCs. Vuze, which has 7 million users, will offer the series on a pay-per-view basis. And, starting this fall, BBC America On Demand will grant Comcast and Time Warner customers unlimited free viewing.
Fisher Communications will acquire the Westwind Communications stations in Bakersfield, CA, KBAK, the CBS affiliate; and KBFX, the Fox station in the market. Reported price tag – $55 million. Fisher owns 19 other stations, all located in the northwest United States.
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~ PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT ~
Fox ordered up a drama project with the working title The FBI, is from Brian Grazer at Imagine Entertainment and Twentieth Century Fox TV. The story follows an Iraqi war veteran who is now an FBI agent in NY and head of a special unit called Critical Incidents Response Group. Fox has ordered the series, even before a pilot has been shot or a cast signed, the same strategy they used with the other project recently ordered, The Oaks.
NBC gives a green light to a project from Barry Sonnenfeld and Universal Media Studios. The untitled legal drama is based in a NYC lawfirm where the lawyers are encourage to do whatever is necessary to win its clients’ civil cases.
Oxygen has ordered up two new projects:
- A reality series that will focus on the lives of former pro athlete Deion Sanders and his family, called Deion and Pilar Sanders: Prime Time Love. Deion and ex-model Pilar have five children and live in small town in Texas. Oxygen has ordered 8 episodes from SokoLobl Entertainment, and is looking at a 1st qtr 2008 launch.
- A true-crime series called Captured, scheduled to debut in October, and airing on Sunday nights after Snapped. Captured is from Jupiter Entertainment.
Additionally news – Oxygen has picked up 6th season of Snapped, and a third season of Janice Dickinson from FremantleMedia NA and exec prod Stuart Krasnow, which is scheduled to return in December with 10 episodes.
Casting Call: Delta Air Lines and partner Gen Art are sponsoring the second annual Delta’s Fly-In Movies national short film competition. Amateur filmmakers are invited to submit their short films and as the official airline of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, Delta will award the top five finalists with a trip to the 2008 Sundance Film Festival to attend a ceremony where the winning film will be revealed. The winner will also receive a $10,000 cash prize and an international round-trip pair of tickets. Films are accepted through September 12, 2007 and professional filmmakers will select the five finalists who will have their films shown on delta.com and Delta’s domestic transcontinental flights. Viewers will have a chance to vote for their favorite December 1, 2007 through January 20, 2008. For complete contest rules, application form and information, visit www.genart.org/deltashorts.
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~ EXECUTIVE MOVES ~
Long-time newspaper and TV tennis journalist, Bud Collins joined ESPN and will cover such Grand Slam events as the Australian Open, the French Open and Wimbledon for ESPN2 starting next year. Bud will also report for Sportscenter, ESPNEWS and ESPN Radio for the US Open beginning this year. Bud has been with the Boston Globe since 1963 reporting on sports and tennis events and has worked for WGBH/Boston, CBS and most recently NBC for 35 years where he covered tennis tournaments throughout the world.
John Lappas became employed with Van Wagner Sports Group (VWSG) as VP/Integrated Sponsorship Sales. He is charged with selling across VWSG’s multiple platforms for various sports venues such as basketball, baseball and college football in addition to the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association, MotoGP and Championship Off-Road Racing. He will report to Cliff Kaplan, President.
Discovery Communications appointed Clara Kim as EVP/Business Affairs. She will be responsible for the company’s business affairs and production management logistics, as well as daily supervision of issues pertaining to programming content acquisition for all of Discovery’s networks and digital products. Her expertise will extend to advising senior management on content deals, intellectual property and licensing among other matters. Clara will be based at Discovery’s global headquarters in Silver Spring, MD.
FlickerLab elevated Franklin S. Zitter to Producer. Working as an Associate Producer since August 2004, Franklin works closely with the design and animation studio’s animators, designers, compositors and editors on various projects in addition to managing the technical operations of the studio.
AnswersMedia, the multi-platform HD video resource company, hired John Lee as SVP/Sales. Previously, John worked at CNN Newsource as SVP/Sales and at CBS Television Network as SVP/Business Development. In his new position, John will sell the company’s diverse HD programming content to major brand advertisers.
Radar Entertainment will open a new division, Radar Distribution, and hired Ernest Cartwright and Mark Robbins as co-Presidents of that division. They will oversee the distribution of the syndicated series Jury Duty which kicks off on September 17th, Ernest from his LA base, and Mark from his Chicago office. Ernest will oversee the western region sales, while Mark will see to the eastern.
New Line Cinema added Chris Carlisle as President/Domestic Theatrical Marketing. Chris will supervise all marketing initiatives for the studio including advertising, media buying and planning, national promotions, publicity and corporate communications, research and interactive marketing. Reporting jointly to Rolf Mittweg, President/COO of Worldwide Marketing and Distribution and to Toby Emmerich, President/Production Chris will be based at the company’s Los Angeles headquarters starting August 20.
Radio One, Inc. named Barry Mayo as President/Radio Division, effective immediately. He was previously SVP and Market Manager for Emmis Radio before becoming a consultant last year. Barry will report to Alfred C. Liggins, III, who will continue as CEO.
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~ RATINGS ~
Top Ten Basic Cable Ad Supported Network Rankings among A18-49 for the week of: 7/30-8/5/07
Primetime (000) Total Pgm Day (000)
USA 1112 ADSM* 606
TBSC 882 NAN* 589
TNT 860 TNT 546
FX 814 NICK 532
DISC 760 USA 521
ESPN 726 TBSC 477
FAM 652 ESPN 462
SPK 637 DISC 444
AEN 631 LIF 395
LIF 596 FX 382
Source Turner Research from Nielsen Media Research Data.
All ratings based on Total U.S. Television Universe of 111,400,000 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 Total Viewers for the week of: 7/30-8/5/07
Primetime (000) Total Pgm Day (000)
USA 2576 NICK 2524
TNT 2369 NAN* 1633
TBSC 1698 TOON 1381
FOXN 1668 ADSM* 1329
FX 1534 TNT 1224
NAN 1524 USA 1136
ESPN 1496 LIF 909
LIF 1475 FOXN 902
HALL 1385 TBSC 865
TOON 1366 ESPN 841
Source Turner Research from Nielsen Media Research Data.
All ratings based on Total U.S. Television Universe of 111,400,000 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 10 Cable Programs among A18-49 (000) for the week of: 7/30-8/5/07
ESPN NASCAR Nextel Cup 2640
USA Burn Notice 2229
TNT The Closer 2060
LIF Army Wives 1832
USA Psych 1746
HIST Ice Road Truckers 1725
ADSM Family Guy 7/30 1696
TNT Saving Grace 1672
ADSM Family Guy 8/1 1643
USA WWE Entertainment 10p 1643
Source Turner Research from Nielsen Media Research Data.
All ratings based on Total U.S. Television Universe of 111,400,000 homes
Top 10 Broadcast Programs among A18-49 (000) for the week of 7/30-8/5/07
FOX Hell’s Kitchen 5,254
FOX So You Think You Can Dance THU 4,581
NBC Singing Bee 4,206
FOX Family Guy SUN 930p 4,126
NBC America’s Got Talent 3,996
FOX So You Think You Can Dance WED 4,102
FOX Family Guy SUN 9p 4,049
FOX Don’t Forget the Lyrics WED 3,909
FOX Don’t Forget the Lyrics THU 3,737
NBC Last Comic Standing 3,769
FOX Family Guy SUN 830p 3,772
Source Nielsen Media Research, Galaxy Explorer, Live + SD Data
Monday – A18-49 Analysis: FOX sparked a win Monday night at 3.0/9 A18-49, according to fast affiliate ratings from Nielsen Media Research. ABC’s Wife Swap and NBC’s The Singing Bee shared #1 during 8p at 2.4/8 apiece. FOX heated up the night as Hell’s Fire won at 9p with 4.1/12, while Fat March on ABC debuted with a 1.6/5 which ranked fifth overall. NBC’s Dateline did best at 10p by posting a 2.5/7.
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Monday, August 6, 2007 time period averages. Source: Nielsen Media Research
NBC 5.0/9 The Singing Bee 4.9/9, Age of Love [f] 4.6/7, Dateline: NBC 5.5/9
CBS 4.7/8 How I Met Your Mother [r] 3.7/7, Old Christine [r] 3.8/6, Two and a Half Men [r] 5.9/10, Rules of Engagement [r] 4.7/8, CSI: Miami [r] 5.2/9
FOX 4.1/7 Hell’s Kitchen [r] 2.8/5, Hell’s Kitchen 5.5/9
ABC 3.5/6 Wife Swap 4.4/8, Fat March [p] 2.9/5, Supernanny 3.3/6
UNIV 1.8/3 Amar sin Limites 1.2/2, Destilando Amor 2.2/4, Cristina 2.0/3
CW 1.2/2 Everybody Hates Chris [r] 1.3/2, All of Us [r] 1.1/2, Girlfriends [r] 1.1/2, The Game [r] 1.1/2
TELE 0.6/1 Madre Luna 0.7/1, La Esclava Isaura 0.5/1, Amor Mio 0.4/1
A18-49: FOX 3.0/9, NBC 2.5/7, ABC 2.1/6, CBS 2.1/6, UNIV 1.3/4, CW 0.6/2, TELE 0.5/1
A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM NATAS
THE 59TH ANNUAL TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING AWARDS
MEDIA + TECHNOLOGY = EMMY AWARD
All awards are intended to recognize the use, creativity and adaptation of technology that improves, enhances or extends the consumer experience with media. Past winners include TiVo, DirecTV, Sony, The N, Showtime Networks, ABC Family, Toon Disney, and Scripps Networks.
11 Categories
Deadline is September 20, 2007
For more information visit www.emmyonline.tv
This Day in History: 1966 – Dr. Michael DeBakey became the first surgeon to install an artificial heart pump in a patient.
Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question: At the end of each episode of the original version of this game show, the contestant was given keys to try to start one of five cars, and if it did start, they won the car. Which game show was this? SPLIT SECOND Kudos to: Alan Browdy-Lifetime/NY; Leah Fonseca-HBO/NY; Andy Weir-Northstar Media/Norwalk, CT; Gary A. Stark-Scripps Television/Cleveland; Kyle Krebs-KLTY/Dallas; Judy Margolis-The Ad Place/Dallas; Les Stipp-GSD&M/Chicago; Don Wollman-Big Brother 8/LA; Jeff Meshel-Jeff Meshel Casting/Valley Village, CA; Kevin Fay-Euro RSCG DRTV/Carlsbad, CA; Dennis Aimino-KABC/LA
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SITUATION WANTED: SHOW RUNNER & PRODUCER: Seeks employment in NY or LA. Story Development & Writing, Field Shooting & Interviewing, Production Mgt experience. Cable, Public TV, Films, Commercial credits. (Docs, Reality, Drama) [email protected] (8/10)
SITUATION WANTED: Recent Wesleyan University grad. Seeking entry-level position at media planning agency or department in NY. Please contact [email protected] (8/10)
SITUATION WANTED: Recent NYU grad. Film BFA w/ minors in journalism, fine + studio arts. Wealth of set + office experience. Seeking ENTRY LEVEL FULL-TIME PRODUCTION OR ADMINISTRATIVE POSITION in LA. Please contact: [email protected] (8/9)
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – Wednesday, August 8, 2007
ABC: According to Jim [r], The Knights of Prosperity, According to Jim [r], The Knights of Prosperity, The Nine
CBS: Power of Ten, Criminal Minds [r], CSI: NY [r]
CW: America’s Next Top Model [r], America’s Next Top Model [r]
FOX: So You Think You Can Dance, Don’t Forget the Lyrics
ION: Mama’s Family, Mama’s Family, Who’s the Boss?, Who’s the Boss?, Wonder Years, Wonder Years
MNT: World Music Awards [r]
NBC: Outrageous TV Moments [r], Last Comic Standing, Dateline
PBS: Pledge Programming
TELE: Madre Luna, La Esclava Isaura, Amor Mio
UNIV: Amar sin Limites, Destilando Amor, Don Francisco Presenta
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