Good morning. It's
Tuesday, January 11, 2005,
and this is your early morning
Kids!
briefing.
WAM! has ordered a second season of the series Get Outta Town
from producer Debbie Nightingale of The Nightingale
Company. The teen targeted travel series launched on WAM this
past October 2004. In other Get Outta Town news, Nightingale has
signed with re-think Entertainment, who will handle all rights outside of
Canada and the US. Get Outta Town follows host Barbara Mamabolo as
she travels around the world meeting up with local teens and spending the
day with them to see what their lives are like. The series is
produced and created by Canada's Nightingale Company (Mob Princess, Dove
Days, Phunkee Zee), with major funding provided by EF Educational
Tours. The show website (produced by Pangae NewMedia) houses the
Barbara's travel blog, and can be found at,
www.wamtv.com
.
An episode of the comedy series That's So Raven commemorating
Black History Month is slated to premiere on Disney
Channel, Friday, February 4, 7:30p. In the episode, titled True
Colors, Raven sets out to expose unfair hiring practices at a local store
by dressing up as a middle-aged folliclally challenged man. During
February That's So Raven will also feature several special guests
including Kathie Lee Gifford and her daughter Cassidy in an episode
debuting February 11, and Cyndi Lauper in an episode bowing February
25.
Play More TV, a new TV program from production & distribution
company AIM Tell-A-Vision, is looking to air fall 2005. The
youth targeted half hour syndicated weekly magazine style program will be
hosted by a ‘live' virtual host and include video gamer news, game
reviews and cheats, new gadget reviews, trends and DVD releases.
Additionally, the show will feature longer human interest segments on the
folks behind the scenes as well as gamers. AIM Tell-A-Vision Dist.
will be offering the series at NATPE, January 25-27. Play More TV
is produced by AIM TV's production company, Maximás Productions, best
known for its series targeted to young US born Latinos; Urban Latino TV,
American Latino TV, Sonidos and LatiNation (f/k/a Latin Fuze). Aim
Tell-A-Vision, unit of Artist and Idea Management, Ltd.
Diamond Select Toys and Collectibles has signed a licensing
agreement with the Hasbro Properties Group for Hasbro's
Transformers brand. The Transformers brand joins DST's growing
portfolio of licensed properties. Plans to release several
Transformers product lines, includes: replicas, bookends, plaques, motion
globes and wall mounted statues.
Girls Explore LLC has released two new dolls based on
African American heroines Harriet Tubman and Bessie
Coleman. Like the other dolls in the Girls Explore line, the
Tubman and Coleman bendable 12” dolls come with a hard-cover biography
recognizing providing a context for each of the real life female role
models,. Tubman helped to lead countless slaves, in the 1850s,
navigate the series of safe houses which comprised the Underground
Railroad. Coleman, aka Queen Bessie, gained fame in the 1920s
performing tricks at air shows. Earlier, Queen Bessie obtained her
pilot's license in France, when no American flight school would accept a
black female. She also gave lectures and opened a nondiscriminatory
flight school. A portion of Girls Explore's profits goes to support
girls' education and the advancement of women in all fields.
Disney Mobile, part of the Disney Internet Group, is offering
consumers a range of ringtones featuring the Disney and
Disney/Pixar character voices: Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Goofy,
Donald Duck, Pooh and Tigger, Stitch, Woody, Buzz Lightyear and even Mr.
Incredible. In addition to voice ringtones, there are musical
ringtones from the studio's movies (e.g. Aladdin, Finding Nemo etc.), as
well as screensavers.
Toronto Casting
Call: Toy manufacturer Spin Master Ltd.
(Air Hogs, Aquadoodle, Hershey's Smores Maker, Mighty Beanz etc) will
hold an open audition for girls 13-19 yrs old, January 15,
from 9a in Toronto, at Elgin Theatre (stage door entrance 158).
Spin Master is looking to cast the new real life Bella Dancerella for a
series of how-to dance videos produced by the company. Those who
want to audition should come prepared to dance, act and perform a song
(with sheet music in the appropriate key in hand). Introduced for
holiday 2004, Bella Dancerella was on Toy Wishes Magazine's list of the
Hot Dozen Toys 2004.
Some 100 college kids will compete in the first ever National
Collegiate Rock, Paper, Scissors Invitational Tournament, April
14-17, South Beach, Florida; the event is officially sanctioned by the
World Rock Paper Scissors Society. No, not a joke but as far as I
can tell from my brief research, there are no scholarships currently
available for the ....er...uh.... sport. The RPS competition is
sponsored by GotUsed, a consortium of 120 college bookstores at campuses
nationwide. The tournament winner will receive $5,000 and go on to
compete in the 2005 World RPS Championship. Like every competition
there is advice and warnings to competitors, including this one from
Douglas and Graham Walker, leaders of the World RPS Society and authors
of The Official RPS Strategy Guide: "Some of them will come into
this tournament unprepared, thinking RPS is a mere child's game ….”
The Walker brothers underline that RPS involves real strategy.
Navarre Corporation has executed a definitive agreement to
acquire all of the general and limited partnership interests in
Funimation Productions, Ltd. and The Funimation Store,
Ltd., for $1.5m cash, “plus its issuance of between 1,495,216 and
1,827,486 shares of Navarre common stock. These shares of Navarre common
stock will be unregistered, but they will be subject to certain
registration rights.” Additionally, Funimation could potentially
receive $17m in cash, to be paid out over the course of 5 years, ‘if it
achieves certain agreed-upon financial targets during that time
period.” Funimation is home video distributor and licensor of
Japanese animation and kid's entertainment titles in the US (Dragonball
Z, Dragonball GT, Yu Yu Hakusho, Case Closed and Fullmetal Alchemist), as
well as engaging in third-party marketing, sales and distribution
agreements with content providers, and acquires master licenses to
properties through long-term arrangements for product lines including TV
series, VHS/DVDs, toys, video games, and trading cards. Navarre
Corporation is a publisher and distributor of home entertainment and
software products. Navarre anticipates that this transaction will
close before May 15, 2005.
Plush toy manufacturer Fiesta Toy has appointed Rich Hammond
as its VP/Sales. In his new role Hammond will serve as
Fiesta's head of sales and business development functions.
Previously Hammond, a 30 yr sales industry veteran, was VP/Sales and
Marketing, SKM Enterprises, also a plush toy company.
Joel Silverman assumed the role of VP/Sales & Distribution,
Virgin Mobile USA, LLC. As the new head of the group Silverman
will be responsible for Virgin Mobile's sales organization and continuing
to expand its customer base and retail partner relationships. Most
recently Silverman was Virgin Mobile's sales director. Prior to
Virgin Mobile, Silverman served as COO/CFO, Blades Board & Skate, the
youth retail action sports merchandise and retailer.
Zindart Limited has named David Davenport, GM/The Americas,
for Corgi-USA; and David Wootliff as Marketing
Director/Corgi Europe, reporting directly to George Volanakis,
Preisdent/CEO, Corgi Classics. Davenport joins Zindart from Hasbro
Canada Corporation, Ontario, where he served as President.
Davenport, who will re-locate to Corgi HQ in Chicago, was previously
SVP/Marketing, The Ertl Company and prior to that as President/Tonka
Canada and President/Golden Books Canada. Zindart's operating
divisions include Corgi Classics, Corgi USA and Zindart Manufacturing.
Kids Cable Network
Averages in thousands (000) for
Friday, January 7,
2005, 6am-11pm, ranked by K2-11:
NICKELODEON:
K2-11 1311; K6-11 605; TWEENS 9-14 391
CARTOON NETWORK: K2-11 810; K6-11 521;
TWEENS 9-14 351
DISNEY CHANNEL:
K2-11 681; K6-11 373; TWEENS 9-14 333
TOON
DISNEY:
K2-11 126; K6-11 60; TWEENS
9-14 43 Source: MTVN Research from Nielsen Media Research Data
Answer to Yesterday's Trivia
Question: What "fits your body like a hammer
fits your hand"? LEVI JEANS. Kudos to: Marianne M.
Szymanski-Toy Tips, Inc./Franklin WI; Caroline Godin-Ellis
Ent/Toronto.
Today's Trivia Question: Joey
Heatherton sang which mattress company jingle?
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