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10.31.12

Good morning. It’s Wednesday, October 31, 2012, and this is your first early morning briefing.

Tonight’s Finale:
Syfy: Face Off (live finale) at 10p

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THE DR. OZ SHOW
ROYAL in KANSAS CITY on KMBC

Source: NSI, Live+SD HH rtg, 10/22-10/26/2012, M-F 4-5PM; prior wk=wk of 10/15/2012; best of season=9/10-10/26/2012; LI=1/4 hr TP

First season comedy The Neighbors and second season drama Scandal received back-nine orders from ABC, giving both series full orders for the 2012-13 season.  The Neighbors improved its ratings for its most recent airing at a 2.0 A18-49 rating and 7 million viewers.  Scandal had similar results posting a 2.0 demo rating and 6.1 million total viewers.  These two pickups are ABC’s first full season orders for the fall season. 

The Walt Disney Company is acquiring Lucasfilm Ltd. in a stock and cash transaction.  Lucasfilm is wholly owned by Lucasfilm Chairman and Founder, George Lucas.  Under the terms of the agreement and based on the closing price of Disney stock as of last Friday, the transaction value is $4.05 billion, with Disney paying around half in cash and issuing approximately 40 million shares at closing.  The final consideration will be subject to normal post-closing balance sheet adjustments.   The deal gives Disney ownership of Lucasfilm and its Star Wars franchise and its current businesses encompassing live action film production, consumer products, animation, visual effects and audio post production.  Disney will also own the various entertainment technologies under Lucasfilm, headquartered in San Francisco including LucasArts, Industrial Light & Magic and Skywalker Sound.  At this time, the current Lucasfilm employees will remain in their present locations.  Kathleen Kennedy, Co-Chairman of Lucasfilm will become President of Lucasfilm, reporting to Walt Disney Studios Chairman Alan Horn.  Kennedy will also be the brand manager for Star Wars, working directly with Disney’s worldwide lines of businesses to build, integrate and maximize the value of this global franchise.  Furthermore, Kennedy will serve as executive producer on new Star Wars feature films with George Lucas serving as creative consultant.  Star Wars Episode 7 will be released in 2015 with more feature films planned in the future.  The Boards of Directors of both Disney and Lucasfilm have approved this transaction which is subject to clearance under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act, certain non-US merger control regulations and other normal closing conditions.  The agreement has also been approved by the sole shareholder of Lucasfilm.

NBC detailed its midseason schedule including the premiere date for Community set for February 7 at 8p.  Originally, the network was to debut Community’s new season on October 19.  Community will take over the time slot currently occupied by the final season of 30 Rock which will have concluded its 13-episode season.  Also in midseason, Parks and Recreation will move up an hour to 830p as of January 17 with comedy Up All Night going on an extended hiatus from December to April/May (as announced yesterday).  New NBC series premiere dates include: Deception on January 7 at 10p; 1600 Penn January 10 at 930p; and Ready for Love bowing on March 31 with a two-hour premiere at 8p.  Returning series consist of the fourth season of The Voice on March 25-26; Revolution wraps its fall run in November and is back March 25 at 10p; The Biggest Loser featuring the return of Jillian Michaels, is back starting January 6-7 airing on Mondays from 8-10p until the return of The Voice; Betty White’s Off Their Rockers returns January 8 with back-to-back episodes at 8p and 830p; Smash debuts its second season on February 5 with a two-hour episode at 9p and will settle into its regular day and time starting February 12 at 10p; and The Celebrity Apprentice is back beginning March 3 from 9-11p for four weeks before airing one-hour episodes on March 31 at 10p. 

Not surprising, The Weather Channel delivered the highest reach of any cable network on Sunday, tallying more than 39 million total viewers that tuned in for breaking coverage of Hurricane Sandy.  Additionally, TWC posted an average audience of more than 1.4 million total viewers on Sunday, making the network the #1 non-children cable network for the day.  With A25-54 viewers, TWC had a Total Day delivery of 590,000 on Sunday, the network’s highest Total Day target demo delivery average for 2012. 

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NBC is not moving forward with a spinoff show from The Office.  Rainn Wilson was due to star in The Farm which will air as a back-door pilot of The Office this season.  The project centers on Dwight (Wilson) as a beet farmer running a bed and breakfast inn.  Back-door pilots air as a test-run to help the network determine if the project is worthy to move forward.  NBC in this instance has made the decision even before the episode aired.  NBC has not officially announced this news though reports say the episode will air in The Office as planned.

Glee’s Grant Gustin is moving to The CW as the actor has been cast in a multiple-episode run on 90210’s fifth season.  Gustin will play Campbell on 90210, a charming, handsome college student from a wealthy and privileged background.  Gustin will return to FOX’s Glee to reprise his role as Sebastian Smythe in an upcoming episode.

FOX’s midseason thriller The Following booked Mike Colter (Ringer) in the recurring role of FBI bureaucrat Nick Donovan, reports TVLine.  The series from Kevin Williamson is about a deranged serial killer by the name of Joe Carroll (James Purefoy) who creates his own cult of murderers using technology and the retired FBI profilers Ryan Hardy (Kevin Bacon) who is hunting him down.  Colter’s character is brought in to head the Carroll case and supervise Agent Hardy. 

Chello Zone and CBS Studios International are set to launch the newly rebranded CBS channels across Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) as of December 3, following formal Regulatory Approval granted by the necessary Competition Authorities.  The CBS Chello Zone EMEA partnership, first announced in August, will expand the reach of CBS to an additional 83 territories across EMEA.  The new channels include CBS Reality, CBS Drama, CBS Action and CBS Europa and will be reprogrammed to encompass series and TV movies from CBS’ library of more than 70,000 hours of titles.  CBS Reality, reaching 25 million viewers at launch, will consist of 48 Hours, Judge Judy and other third party content acquired such as FBI Criminal Pursuit, Nowhere to Run, Who Do You Think You Are? and Baby ER.  Programming on CBS Drama will include such past series as Dynasty and Melrose Place as well as Father Dowling Mysteries, holiday movies and other third party acquisitions including Mile High.  CBS Drama will reach up to 9 million viewers at launch.  In Poland, viewers will see series such as Star Trek – The Original Series, Jericho and The 4400 via CBS Action.  Also in Poland, CBS Europa (formerly Europa) will continue to showcase European and American cinema with titles at launch to include The Reader, Hurt Locker and Tristan and Isolde.  CBS Europa, with its new look will reach more than 3 million subscribers who currently receive the channel in Poland.  Furthermore, each of the channels will go through a branding update to better reflect the channel offerings and this new look will also be introduced in the UK next year.

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Top 10 Broadcast Programs among A18-49 rating/share and (000) for the week of 10/22-10/28/12
NBC    Sunday Night Football                                7.0/16            8808
CBS    The Big Bang Theory                                  5.0/15            6314
FOX    World Series Pre-Game 4 10/28                    4.9/13            6231
ABC    Modern Family                                           4.9/13            6263
FOX    World Series Game 4 10/28                          4.7/11            5888
NBC    The Voice                                                 4.3/11            5438
NBC    The Voice  TUE                                          4.3/12            5390
NBC    Football Night in America Part 3                     3.8/10            4812
CBS    Two and a Half Men                                     3.7/11           4692
FOX    World Series Game 1 10/24                           3.6/10            4559
Source: Nielsen Media Research, Galaxy Explorer, Live + SD Data

Broadcast Evening News Weekly Average Ratings (week of October 22, 2012)
NBC:     8.03 million total viewers; 1.9/7 and 2.21 million A25-54
ABC:     7.59 million total viewers; 1.6/7 and 1.89 million A25-54
CBS:     6.37 million total viewers; 1.4/5 and 1.70 million A25-54
Source: Nielsen, NTI Total Viewers and A25-54 Live+SD
Ratings for Saturday, October 27, Sunday, October 28 and Monday, October 29 (November Sweep Days 3-5) were not available due to technical issues at Nielsen and will be presented in an upcoming edition.

Yesterday Shine Group revealed former Chairman of The Walt Disney Studios and President of Disney Channels Worldwide, Rich Ross will become CEO, Shine America.  Rich succeeds current Shine America CEO Carl Fennessy, following Carl’s pre-arranged, two-year term in Los Angeles.   Carl will return to Australia where he will continue as Joint CEO, Shine Australia by mid-2013 following a transition phase with Rich who joins the company in January. 

Sammy Nourmand is departing from September Films and DC Media plc and his role as CEO at the end of 2012.  As a result and following a strategic analysis of the business, DCD is restructuring its resources to address the revenue and growth potential of the North American TV production market.  David Green will lead a dedicated team charged with growing market share and growing its US business.  David will continue as ex-officio Executive Director of the DCD Media Plc main board though steps down as Chairman of DCD so he can concentrate on building a creative team for productions in the US.  Richard McGuire, Chairman of Timeweave Plc, who is also a DCD Non-Executive Director, has been named as DCD’s Non-Executive Chairman.  Additionally, Timeweave Plc’s CEO, David Craven, currently a DCD Non-Executive Director has been appointed as DCD’s new CEO. 

London-based Capablue, specializing in connected TV solutions tapped James Mears as Product Director to head its product development team.  James is charged with defining and developing the company’s products, managing its product portfolios and executing product strategy. 

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This day in History: October 31 Halloween – dates back to the Celtic farming festival Samhain.  As the crops died at the end of the harvest season, farmers believed there was a day when spirits could rise from their graves.  During Samhain, people would dress in disguise to fool and ward off the spirits, and hope that their land would survive through the winter.   In the eighth century, Christians sought to transform the pagan holiday.  Pope Gregory III declared November 1 to be the feast of All Saints’ Day. The night before became known as All Hollow’s Eve.

Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: TV series The Munsters and The Addams Family both debuted in the same month and year on CBS and ABC respectively.  What was the month and year?  September 1964. Kudos to: John Kukla-KDFW/Dallas; Dan Matson/Havana, IL; Ron Salcedo-Zimmerman/Nashville; Dirk Claussen-CNN/Chicago; Vaughn Ericson-Bernstein-Rein Advertising/Kansas City; Bill Graff-REELZCHANNEL/Albuquerque; Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/LA; Dan Haberer-Creo Entertainment/Playa del Rey, CA; Tammi Ortiz-Fox Television Stations/LA.

Today’s Trivia Question:  Annual Halloween episodes air on FOX’s The Simpsons known as The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror episodes.  When did the first Treehouse of Horror episodes air and in what season? (Email [email protected] 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.).

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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2012

ABC: It’s a Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, The Neighbors, Modern Family, Suburgatory, Nashville
CBS: Survivor: Philippines, Criminal Minds, CSI: NY
CW: Arrow, Supernatural
FOX: The X Factor
ION: WWE Main Event, Leverage, Leverage
NBC: Animal Practices, Guys With Kids, Law & Order SVU, Chicago Fire
PBS: Nature, Nova, Nova scienceNOW
TELE: Rosa Diamante, Corazon Valiente, Pablo Escobar: El Patron del Mal, El Rostro de la Venganza
UNIV: Por Ella Soy Eva; Abismo de Pasion, Amor Bravio

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