A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM THE HUB

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Cynopsis

02.07.11

Good morning. It’s Monday, February 7, 2011, and this is your first early morning briefing. As always, if you prefer to watch this morning’s news instead of reading it, click here . 

Today’s Premiere:
PBS: The Electric Company (check local listings)

Tonight’s Premieres:
TeleFutura: Laura at 7p
TLC: Unpoppables at 8p
BBC America: Top Gear at 9p
FOX: The Chicago Code at 9p
truTV: Lizard Lick Towing at 10p

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A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM ION TELEVISION

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TLC’s fourth season debut of Cake Boss on January 31 averaged 2.4 million total viewers.   Episodes from season four air on Mondays at 9p.

PBC Broadcasting, LLC is purchasing KTKA-TV, the ABC affiliate in Topeka from Free State Communications, LLC.  The two companies also made a Local Marketing Agreement allowing PBC the right to act as broker for commercial air time on KTKA.  The deal is pending normal regulatory approvals and will likely be completed during second quarter 2011.

Super Bowl XLV Commercials — and the overall reaction seems to be …. blah.  As a whole, this year was something of a dud.  Some were very disappointing (Bud Light kitchen redo, Pepsi Max), creepy (Doritos sniffer), disturbingly unfunny (Teleflora, Android with opposable thumbs).  According to my in-house focus group, which I’ll grant you is smaller than it has been in year’s past, but the dogs are very opinionated (hated the Doritos Pug dog ad), the winning commercials by brand go to Chevy with the old folks home for Cruze Eco, and the Lassie theme for the Chevy Silverado; and to Volkswagen for Darth Vader.  An honorary Chuckle goes to Audi’s prison break with Kenny G, Budweiser’s Old West Tiny Dancer, and Snickers Roseanne Barr even tho the format is familiar. 

Top 10 Weekend Box Office Estimates: February 4-6, 2011
The Roommate (Sony)                        $15.6 million – opening weekend
Sanctum (Universal)                           $9.2 million – opening weekend
No Strings Attached (Paramount)         $8.4 million – 3 wk total $51.8m
The King’s Speech (The Weinstein Co.) $8.3 million – 11 wk total $84.1m
The Green Hornet (Sony)                     $6.1 million – 4 wk total $87.2m
The Rite (Warner Bros.)                       $5.6 million – 2 wk total $23.7m
The Mechanic (CBS Films)                    $5.4 million – 2 wk total $20.1m
True Grit (Paramount)                          $4.8 million – 7 wk total $155.0m
The Dilemma (Universal)                      $3.5 million – 4 wk total $45.7m
Black Swan (Fox Searchlight)                $3.4 million – 10 wk total $95.9m
Source: Rentrak

Atlanta-based Genter Media, Inc. renewed the hour-long variety/entertainment show, Crook & Chase for the 2011-2012 season.  To date, Crook & Chase airs in 150 markets and 80% of those stations are picking up the show for this fall.  The show is renewed on stations owned by station groups including Media General, Newport, Gray, Hearst, Belo, Lin, Fisher and Raycom among others.  Hosted by Lorianne Crook and Charley Chase, the show is filmed in Nashville and produced by Jim Owens Entertainment, Inc.

Production on the second season of ABC’s Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution was halted as the Los Angeles Unified School District terminated the show’s license to film inside other schools in the district.  Over the last two weeks, Oliver and his crew had been filming at the West Adams Preparatory High School in South LA and more filming was planned at Manual Arts Senior High School before the suspension happened.  The district Superintendent Ramon Cortines said a filming permit would not be renewed unless Oliver could guarantee it would cast the schools in a positive light.  However, on Friday, the school district’s director of food services, Dennis Barrett requested Oliver to outline three weeks’ of school menus costing no more than 77 cents a serving and following federal and local regulations.  This request does not necessarily mean Oliver will be allowed to resume filming on the reality show in the LA school district.

CBS ordered two comedy pilots on Friday:

• Project one is from Rob Schneider and Lew Morton, writers and producers on Saturday Night Live, Futurama and NewsRadio.  The plot will have Schneider play a confirmed bachelor who just got married joining a tight-knit Mexican-American family. Schneider will produce the pilot with his brother John. 
• Homegrown is a multi-camera project from Jeff and Jackie Filgo (That ’70s Show and The New Adventures of Old Christine) centered on four generations of a blue-collar Midwestern family living together in the same house.  Warner Bros. Television is producing.

Thursday  A18-49 Analysis: FOX maintained its top berth position Thursday night at 5.4/14 among A18-49, according to final national ratings from Nielsen.  At 8p, American Idol squashed the competition at 7.5/20 with new episodes of CBS’ comedies The Big Bang Theory and $#*! My Dad Says averaging a second place at 3.5/9.  ABC had the cure for viewers during 9p as Grey’s Anatomy won with a 4.3/11 and Bones on FOX was next at 3.3/9.  It was CBS’ turn to hit #1 through 10p with The Mentalist at 2.9/8 followed by ABC’s Private Practice at 2.5/7.

Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Thursday, February 3, 2011 time period averages. Source: NTI Galaxy, as dated. Live+SD.

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FOX: 8.9/14        American Idol 11.9/19, Bones 5.9/9

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CBS: 8.3/13         The Big Bang Theory 8.0/13, $#*! My Dad Says 6.2/10, CSI 8.4/13, The Mentalist 9.2/16

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ABC: 5.3/9          Wipeout 4.1/6, Grey’s Anatomy 7.0/11, Private Practice 4.8/8

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NBC: 2.8/4         Community 2.7/4, Perfect Couples 1.9/3, The Office 4.1/6, Parks and Recreation 2.9/4, 30 Rock 2.8/5, Outsourced 2.3/4

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UNIV: 2.0/3        Eva Luna 2.3/4, Triunfo del Amor 2.3/4, Mujeres Asesinas 3 1.5/3

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CW: 1.6/3          Vampire Diaries 1.9/3, Nikita 1.4/2

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ION: 1.1/2         Criminal Minds 0.9/1, Criminal Minds 1.0/2, Criminal Minds 1.4/2

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TELE: 0.6/1        Aurora 0.6/1, Los Herederos del Monte 0.6/1, Alguien Te Mira 0.5/1

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TF: 0.4/1           Cine de Las Estrellas Thurs [r] 0.4/1, India 0.5/1

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A18-49: FOX 5.4/14, ABC 3.1/8, CBS 3.1/8, NBC 2.3/6, UNIV 1.6/4, CW 1.2/3, ION 0.5/1, TELE 0.5/1, TF 0.3/1

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 Nelson Davis Wetzstein LLP added Joel VanderKloot as an Associate Attorney.  Prior to this appointment, Joel was with Media Rights Capital (MRC) as Senior Director/Business and Legal Affairs. 

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This day in History:  1962 – The U.S. government banned all Cuban imports and re-export of U.S. products to Cuba from other countries.

Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question:  This framed piece of sheet music titled The Dairymaids is on the wall behind the desk of the titled character, on what classic TV sitcom?  THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW  Kudos to: Johnny Jan/EST; Kara Krupnick-IFC/NY; Paul Gluck-Magnetic North Media/Ardmore; Michael O’Gara/NY; Jim Roche-Me-TV Network/Chicago; Gary Cianciosi-True Media/Columbia; Dale Warshaw-KMSB KTTU/Tucson; Lisa Fikeys-Zimmerman/Chicago; Yolanda Sales-Don Buchwald and Assoc/LA; Dennis Aimino-ABC/LA; Drew Hallman-Pie Town Prods/LA; James Beaton-Eleven Ent/LA; Arthur Reinstein-Shaw Media/Toronto

Today’s Trivia Question:  This broadcast network show revolved around a cowboy with amnesia struggling to find his identity.  What was it?   (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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A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE

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Later — Cyn
02.07.11

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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT –  MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2011

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ABC:   The Bachelor, Castle
AZTECA:  Cosas de la Vida, Al Extremo, La Loba
CBS:  How I Met Your Mother, Rules of Engagement, Two and a Half Men, Mike & Molly, Hawaii Five-0
CW:   90210, Gossip Girl
FOX:  House, The Chicago Code [p]
ION:  Without a Trace, Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds
NBC:  Chuck, The Cape, Harry’s Law
PBS:  Antiques Roadshow, American Experience
TELE:  Aurora, Los Herederos del Monte, Alguien Te Mira
UNIV:  Eva Luna, Triunfo del Amor, Don Francisco Presenta

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