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CYNTHIA TURNER’S
Cyn opsis

01/19/05

Good morning. It’s Wednesday, January 19, 2005, and this is your first early morning briefing. 

Premiering Tonight:
Fox:  Point Pleasant at 9p

Tonight’s Finale:
WB:  Big Man on Campus at 9p

Casting / Development / Production

• Pax TV‘s dramedy series Young Blades (Shavick/Insight Studios in association with The Hatchery, LLC) has added Sheena Easton to the lineup as Queen Anne.  The swashbuckling series follows a group of young men who are inspired by the legendary Three Musketeers.  Young Blades debuts on January 23 at 8p.
• Three new shows coming to Outdoor Life Network, currently in production, and all schedule to debut Spring 2005 – Outdoor Investigations (Towers Productions) with hosts Holly Morris and Jon Prescott travel the globe investigating mysteries, strange occurrences and disturbing phenomena from the outdoor world.  E-Force (TWI) is a group of dedicated cops protecting the waters off the Florida Keys  from Illegal dumping, poaching and toxic spills. Rescue Dogs (Gigantic Productions) chronicles the heroic tales of canine rescue teams at Whistler Mountain, where every second counts.
• Dennis Haysbert will return to Fox‘s 24 as now Former President David Palmer.  Haysbert returns for the final 6 episodes/hours of the season.
• Two new pilot orders for CBS:  Conviction (Warner Bros. TV), a legal drama about a defense attorney turned prosecutor; and Commuters (Paramount TV Network), a primetime soap-ish drama about the lives of three couples living in the suburbs with spouses who commute daily into New York, created by Dan Bucatinsky.
• NBC ordered up Inconceivable (Tollin-Robbins), an ensemble drama set in a fertility clinic.
• Kim Delaney joins The O.C. for a five episode story arc beginning January 27, on Fox.

Monday night marked the debut of Supernanny on ABC at 10p delivering a 3.7/9 A18-49 rating according to fast affiliate numbers from Nielsen Media Research.  That gave the show a #3 ranking in the time period after CSI: Miami (7.7/18) and Medium (5.8/14).  Elsewhere Monday evening, NBC’s Fear Factor was back at #1 at 8pm (4.7/12), while ABC’s newest Monday night fare EMHE: How’d They Do That? earned a #2 ranking 4.2/10.  Fox’s 24 was #3 at 9p with a 4.5/10 behind CBS’ Raymond/2-1/2 Men combo (6.2/14) and NBC’s Las Vegas (4.8/11).  The Bachelorette delivered a 3.8/8.

Set your calendar Raymond fans – the final episode of Everybody Loves Raymond has been scheduled for May 16 at 9pm on CBS.

Television Critics Association (TCA) Updates:  The TCA is going on now and broadcast and cable networks are making their annual presentations to the press of new series and specials for the upcoming here. 

A&E series:

• Intervention debuts on March 6.  It’s a reality series with the participants dealing with their various inner demons.
• Knievel’s Wild Ride kicks off on April 5, a reality show with son of Evel Knievel, Robbie, at its center.
• If you like women’s rollerderby, you’ll like Roller Girls (Go Go Luckey Prods), with cameras trained of a group of women roller derby skaters in Texas.
• Inked (Foglight Prods/Fox TV) is a new series on order about a tattoo parlor in Las Vegas.
• New episodes for a 4th season of MI-5 are on order, premiering in January 2006.
• Being is a new biography series with Mick Jagger on as exec producer.  No other details at this time.
• Criss Angel is an illusionist at the focus of a new series in which Angel will give impromptu street performances.

A&E’s projects in development:

• Little Red Man (Granada Television) is in development, a reality series where literally a little red man descends on people who have forgotten something.
• Whipped (City Lights Ent) wherein one spouse attempts to get the other to do everything and anything they want for 48 hours – all caught on tape.
• Spying on Myself (Scott Sternberg Prods) gives participants a chance to hear first hand what people think of them, by disguising them and letting them eavesdrop on their conversations.
• Single Again (Endemol/True Ent) gives couples a chance to be single again for one month – they leave each other with all of their own stuff, living alone, and deciding if they prefer the single life.
• Married in Vegas (Lighthearted Ent) is life at a wedding chapel in Las Vegas.

CBS:

• This comment from Leslie Moonves in response to questions about the future of CBS Evening News post Dan Rather:  “We’re not going to keep doing what we’re doing. Come later this year sometime … there’s going to be a very different show on air than the show that’s on the air now.” … Moonves said CBS is considering how to make its evening news “younger and more relevant, something that younger people can relate to as opposed to that guy preaching from the mountaintop…”  Moonves also reiterated they are considering a multi-anchor format, and would not comment on the rumblings about approaching Katie Couric.

Coming to you immediately after the deliver of this morning’s Cynopsis, is the Cynopsis NATPE 2005 Syndicated Programming Guide, a listing of new strip and weekly series being offered in syndication at next week’s conference.

World Wrestling Entertainment and Stone Cold Steve Austin have come to an agreement for a three-picture deal under the WWE Films banner, produced and financed by WWE Films.  Austin’s first project is called The Condemned, exec prod by Vince McMahon and George Vrabeck, in assoc with Sidestreet/New Wave Ent. The premise finds Austin’s character, a cop of death row, given an opportunity to avoid the death penalty by participating in a reality show in which he is hunted by killers.   IN addition to the Austin film, WWE Films has plans to produce 2-4 films a year, the first being The Marine starring John Cena (WWE Smackdown), which will be distributed by 20th Century Fox.  Another is called Goodnight with WWE Raw’s Kane, a horror film with a potentially multi=film bad guy a la Freddie Kruger. Lions Gate will distribute Goodnight. Both are Village Roadshow prods.
 
Do you care … Richard Hatch is front and center again for trying to duck the IRS?  Me either.

Douglas Craig has been named VP/Programming for Discovery On Demand.  Clint Stinchcomb, SVP/Discovery HD Theater and VOD, to whom Doug reports, made the announcement.  Doug makes the move to DOD from Animal Planet where he was VP/Programming and Scheduling. In his new role, Doug will oversee the programming strategy and the use of the more than 100,000 hours of Discovery Networks content to create value for Discovery’s advertisers and affiliates. He will also supervises the creation of added-value VOD programming elements, develops Discovery On Demand packages for advertisers and affiliates and coordinates with the Discovery Network on-air marketing department to use VOD to promote Discovery’s linear networks.

Mindy Moore has been named VP/Alternative Development at Fox Television Studios, reporting to Holly Jacobs, EVP/Alternative Development. Fox Television Studios is an independent unit of the Fox Entertainment Group that produces a broad range of television programming for the U.S. and global markets. 

Monday, January 17, 2005. Fast Affiliate Ratings for all Networks – time period averages.   Source: Nielsen Media Research.
[p] = Premiere; [r] = Repeat

CBS     10.7/16  Still Standing 7.1/11, Listen Up 6.5/10, Raymond 11.9/17, 2-1/2 Men 11.4/16, CSI: Miami 13.8/21

NBC     7.9/12   Fear Factor 6.6/10, Las Vegas 7.7/11, Medium 9.4/15

ABC     6.6/10   EMHE: How’d They Do That? 6.8/10, The Bachelorette 5.9/8, Supernanny [p] 7.1/11

FOX     6.0/9    Trading Spouses 5.0/7, 24  7.0/10

WB      2.9/4    7th Heaven [r] 3.0/4, Everwood 2.8/4

UPN     2.1/3    One on One 2.0/3, Half and Half 1.9/3, Girlfriends 2.4/3, Second Time Around 2.0/3

A18-49  CBS 5.7/13, NBC 5.1/12, ABC 3.9/9, Fox 3.8/9, WB 1.4/3, UPN 1.3/3

A MESSAGE FROM AMC

The History Channel presents This Day in History:
1974 –  Five citizens of the USSR are expelled from China for spying.

Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question: What kind of car suggests you “live life in your own lane”?  MERCURY.  Kudos to: Dave Ware-WKMG/Orlando; Chris O’Leary-Kelliher Samets Volk/Burlington VT; Amy Jackson-Action Integrated Marketing/Atlanta; Alanna Delmar-Turner/Detroit; Steve Morabito-WJHG/Panama City; Daniel Thomson-Media First Int’l/Minneapolis; Meagan Witherspoon-SpotPlus y Mas/Dallas; Dan Rolls-Echostar Satellite; Joe Feldman-Effective Media Services/LA; Andrea Archer-51 Minds Ent/Hollywood.

A MESSAGE FROM COURT TV

Today’s Trivia Question:  Who’s rule is this:  A cardinal rule of politics: never sleep with a dead woman or a live man.”   (click here with your answer and be sure to include your name, company, city and time zone with your answer.  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
01.19.05  4:53am

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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT:  JANUARY 19, 2005:

ABC              Lost, Alias, Wife Swap
CBS              60 Minutes, King of Queens, Center of the Universe, CSI: NY
FOX              American Idol, Point Pleasant [p]
NBC              SI: Swimsuit Model Search, West Wing, Law & Order
PAX              Doc, Sue Thomas F.B.Eye, Early Edition
UPN              Road to Stardom, Kevin Hill
WB               Smallville, Big Man on Campus [f]
TELE             La Mujer en el Espejo, Gitanas, Te Voy a Ensenar a Querer
UNIV             Rubi, Amor Real, Don Francisco Presenta