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CBS Corporation is the latest entertainment company to eliminate staff as employees of CBS Entertainment and CBS Paramount Network Television were laid off Monday. A few high-level CBS Paramount TV executives were also let go: EVP Maria Crenna who served under President David Stapf; SVP/Head of Comedy Brian Banks; and VP/Current Programming Jocelyn Freid. IFC renewed original semi-scripted comedy series Z Rock for a second season. Ten new 30m episodes will debut next June about the real lives of three members of rock ‘n’ roll band Z02 who also perform under the pseudonym of The Z Brothers, a musical act for kids’ birthday parties. A&E Network’s sixth season debut of Intervention last Monday night at 9p attracted 1.6 million A25-54 viewers, 1.7 million A18-49 viewers and 2.2 million total viewers. GRB produces the series for A&E. Comcast Entertainment Group hired two licensing agencies to create strategic licensing and merchandising initiatives on behalf of its television properties The Style Network and G4. ACI Licensing will develop programs for The Style Network and its shows such as Clean House and Dress My Nest, while Sloane Vision Unlimited will concentrate on G4 and its top shows Attack of the Show and Code Monkeys. Program Call: If your company will be attending NATPE ’09 with programming, we will send out a special NATPE Shopping Guide edition the Thursday before the conference. To have your programming included, please send only the following info for your top 5 shows: title, availability date, number of episodes, length, type (i.e., movie, series, special, etc.), genre and your terms (barter, cash, etc.). If your company is interested in being included, please send the details to A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM DISH NETWORK MEDIA SALES
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Fox Cable Networks made a deal with DIRECTV and Verizon FiOS to make FUEL TV On Demand available to viewers, with 10 original hours of action sports programming each month. ~ PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT ~
HBO and Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films made a multi-year exclusive agreement to develop and produced scripted television content for the network. The projects could encompass miniseries, movies, documentaries and series. FOX approved a 13-episode order for Glee, a musical comedy series from Ryan Murphy (Nip/Tuck, Popular). The 60m series, featuring a soundtrack of popular songs, is about an energetic high school teacher, Will Schuester (played by Matthew Morrison) who is charged with bringing back the McKinley High School Glee Club to its winning glory days by encouraging a group of misfit students to compete in the Nationals. Glee, premiering next year, is produced by Ryan Murphy Television in association with 20th Century Fox Television. New for Fox Reality Channel is the original series Househusbands of Hollywood, a nine-episode series opening August 2009. The one-hour series produced by Marilyn Wilson Productions, Inc., focuses on the lives of five men who run the households while their wives hold high-powered jobs. Marilyn Wilson, Lisa Bernstein and Scooter Pietsch are executive producers and co-creators. Actor/screenwriter Charlie Mattera, who devised the concept based on his own life will also serve as executive producer and co-creator. MTV introduces a diverse slate of new reality series set to debut in first quarter 2009. Also new for the network next year will be a two-hour primetime block on Sundays starting at 9p. Details of the new projects are:
CBS Paramount Network Television signed a first-look deal with actor Laurence Fishburne and his Cinema Gypsy Productions, reports Variety. Fishburne recently joined as star of CBS’ CSI: Crime Scene Investigation also produced by CBS Paramount Network TV. Fishburne selected Rose Catherine Pinkney to head his television production unit and she will report jointly to Fishburne and Helen Sugland, manager and partner with Cinema Gypsy. MSNBC confirmed yesterday David Shuster will begin immediately as anchor for 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, cites Multichannel News. David Gregory, new moderator of NBC’s Meet the Press previously anchored the hour-long weekday show airing at 6p. Shuster will continue to anchor breaking news stories during the day on MSNBC. ~ ELSEWHERE IN CYNOPSIS ~
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CYNOPSIS DIGITAL – TODAY’S TOP STORY: Mac fanboys will have a hole in their social calendars from 2010 – Apple announced that next month’s Macworld conference in San Francisco will be its last. They can no doubt blame the success of social networking, blogs and other digital mediums that make it much cheaper for the company to keep its community abreast of new developments. CES for one should be happy; Macworld has been held at the same time as the consumer electronics confab for years, drawing the Mac faithful away from Las Vegas. Further, Steve Jobs has declined to give the keynote to the last Macworld. (Prepare for reports of Steve’s declining health to begin flying around the net …) Full edition: CYN DIGITAL.
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CYNOPSIS KIDS – TODAY’S TOP STORY: The Walt Disney Company is forming a joint venture with Russian broadcaster Media-One Holdings Ltd., to launch at Disney-branded free-to-air national TV channel in Russia in 2009. Offering a line-up of kid and family programming as well as original Russian programming, the new entertainment channel will bow on 30 O & O Media-One stations throughout Russia. In return for a 49% stake in the joint venture, Disney will invest cash and provide programming and marketing expertise and content acquisition support. Media-One, the majority shareholder in the co-venture, will provide its knowledge and operational experience in the Russian market. Full edition: CYN KIDS. CYNOPSIS INTERNATIONAL – TODAY’S TOP STORY: Sub-Saharan Africa is getting a BET influx as BET Networks launches the channel in 29 countries across various platforms. Through a new GTV deal, the network will be available in 21 nations and in 11 nations in an initial DStv agreement with MultiChoice. BET will be on DStv’s Premium and Compact bundles and GTV’s English-language G Plus and G Choice and French-language G Choix and G Grand. Full edition: CYN INTERNATIONAL. ~ RATINGS ~
Top Ten Basic Cable Ad Supported Network Rankings among A18-49 for the week of: 12/8-12/14/08 Top Ten Basic Cable Ad Supported Network Rankings among Total Viewers for the week of: 12/8-12/14/08 Top 10 Cable Programs among A18-49 (000) for the week of: 12/8-12/14/08 Top 10 Broadcast Programs among A18-49 rating/share and (000) for the week of 12/8-12/14/08 Saturday – A18-49 Analysis: FOX was #1 Saturday night with its usual lineup at 1.7/6 A18-49, according to final national ratings from Nielsen Media Research. FOX leveled a one-two punch the first two hours: the double Cops episodes averaged a winning 1.7/6 at 8p followed by an America’s Funniest Home Videos rerun on ABC at 1.2/4. Then at 9p, FOX won again with AMW: America Fights Back at 1.8/6 while the holiday movies on ABC and NBC shared #2 at 1.3/4 each. Through 10p, NBC’s movie presentation won the hour by a thread at 1.7/6 with ABC’s movie and CBS’ 48 Hours Mystery tied for second place at 1.6/5 apiece. Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Saturday, December 13, 2008 time period averages. Source: NTI Galaxy, as dated. Live+SD. CBS: 3.4/6 Crimetime Saturday [r] 2.5/5, 48 Hours Mystery [r] 3.3/6, 48 Hours Mystery 4.5/8 FOX: 3.2/6 Cops 3.0/6, Cops 2 [r] 3.3/6, AMW: America Fights Back 3.2/6 NBC: 3.1/6 NBC Saturday Night Movie: It’s A Wonderful Life [r] 3.1/6 ABC: 2.8/5 America’s Funniest Home Videos [r] 2.5/5, ABC Saturday Movie of the Week: Surviving Christmas [r] 3.0/5 UNIV: 1.4/3 Sabado Gigante 1.4/3 MNT: 1.0/2 My Saturday Night Movie: Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties 1.0/2 TELE: 0.3/1 Cine de Impacto II 0.4/1, Cine de Impacto 0.3/1 A18-49: FOX 1.7/6, ABC 1.3/4, NBC 1.3/4, CBS 1.0/3, UNIV 0.9/3, MNT 0.5/2, TELE 0.3/1
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Sunday, December 14, 2008 time period averages. Source: NTI Galaxy, as dated. Live+SD. NBC: 11.9/19 Football Night in America [730p start] 4.5/8, NBC Sunday Night Football: NY Giants at Dallas 13.7/21 CBS: 8.7/14 60 Minutes 11.6/18, Survivor: Gabon Finale 7.8/12, Survivor: Gabon Reunion 7.0/12 ABC: 4.6/7 America’s Funniest Home Videos 4.7/8, ABC Sunday Movie of the Week: The Santa Clause 2 [r] 4.9/7, Desperate Housewives [r] 3.9/6 FOX: 2.8/4 King of the Hill [r] 2.3/4, The Simpsons [r] 3.3/5, King of the Hill [r] 2.8/4, Family Guy [r] 3.6/5, American Dad [r] 3.1/5 UNIV: 1.7/3 Show Suenos: Reyes 1.7/3 CW: 0.6/1 Jericho 0.6/1, The CW Sunday Movie: Spaceballs 0.7/1 TELE: 0.4/1 Cine en Casa 0.3/1, Cine Millonario 0.4/1 A18-49: NBC 7.4/19, CBS 4.3.11, ABC 2.3/6, FOX 2.1/5, UNIV 1.2/3, CW 0.4/1, TELE 0.3/1 Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Monday, December 15, 2008 time period averages. Source: NTI Galaxy, as dated. Live+SD. CBS: 8.3/13 The Big Bang Theory 6.7/10, How I Met Your Mother 6.7/10, Two and a Half Men 10.6/16, Worst Week 7.3/11, CSI: Miami 9.2/15 NBC: 4.0/6 Chuck 4.7/7, Heroes 4.8/7, My Own Worst Enemy 2.6/4 FOX: 3.2/5 Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles [f] 3.1/5, Prison Break 3.3/5 ABC: 2.7/4 I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown [r] 4.1/6, 20/20 Special 1.9/3 UNIV: 2.1/3 Cuidado con El Angel 2.3/4, Fuego en la Sangre 2.4/4, Cristina 1.6/3 MNT: 1.4/2 My Monday Night Movie: Grumpier Old Men 1.4/2 CW: 1.0/1 Gossip Girl [r] 1.1/2, One Tree Hill [r] 0.8/1 TELE: 0.8/1 Dona Barbara 0.6/1, El Rostro de Analia 0.7/1, Sin Senos No Hay Paraiso 1.0/2, Cartel M 0.9/2 A18-49: CBS 4.3/11, NBC 2.6/7, FOX 2.0/5, UNIV 1.7/4, ABC 1.3/3, MNT 0.6/2, TELE 0.6/2, CW 0.6/1
~ EXECUTIVE MOVES ~
Greg Moyer is departing Rainbow Media Holdings where he is GM of Voom HD Networks, to take on the new role as President of Scripps Networks International. Based in Scripps’ New York offices, Greg begins his new position January 5 and is charged with increasing growth for the company globally. Greg will report to John Lansing, President, Scripps Networks. Kevin Collins was promoted to SVP/Director, National Broadcast with Initiative up from VP/Associate Director, National Broadcast. In his expanded role, Kevin will manage the buying activities for the MillerCoors account, working under the newly established stand-alone MC Media agency umbrella as well as becoming more involved with sports TV negotiations. Additionally, Dan Cohn was upgraded to VP/Director, National Broadcast to assist Kevin on the MillerCoors business via MC Media. A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM FUSE
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