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A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM
DISNEY MEDIA
ADVERTISING SALES AND MARKETING GROUP
Disney Media
Advertising Sales and Marketing Group
The hottest ticket in town for reaching kids and families. The most powerful media reaching kids and families is now working in concert to bring advertisers integrated marketing solutions tailored for their unique needs. DISNEY CHANNEL - ABC KIDS - TOON DISNEY DISNEY ONLINE - RADIO DISNEY - DISNEY ADVENTURES For more information, please contact: Tricia Wilber 212-782-0600 Cynopsis: Kids! 2/08/07 Good morning. It's Thursday, February 8, 2007 and this is your first early morning Kids! briefing. CondeNet, the digital arm of CondeNast, has launched Flip.com a new free online social network targeted to teen girls ( www.flip.com) . Designed to provide teen girls a place to express themselves creatively and meet-up with one another online, Flip.com features a series of interactive tools including what they call Flipbooks, which are customizable, multimedia scrapbooks that allow users to upload their own photos, music, and videos as well as accessorize with online stickers, wallpaper, animations and the like. Additionally, Flip users can draw, write, add a sound track, rotate and size elements, add pages and select page transitions. Aside from user created content, CondeNet has posted four channels that focus on key teen girl topics: My Life; Entertainment; Style; and The World. At launch the initial advertisers for Flip include Clean & Clear, Nike, Nordstrom, PacSun, and Vera Wang Princess. NEW PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT Sesame Street's Bert and Ernie will be rendered in clay for a new series. Sesame Workshop has teamed with Germany's NDR and Kika, and UK Five's preschool block Milkshake, to produce two seasons of a claymation series called The Adventures of Bert and Ernie. Each season includes 26 x 5-minute episodes during which Bert and Ernie will use their imaginations to travel into situations and stories. Season one will be available in March 2008, with season two following a year later in March 2009. Italy's Misseri Studio, will animate the stories, which qualify as European content. Broadcasters ABC (Australia), Cartoon Network India, DR-TV (Denmark), Disney Asia, Disney Spain, HOP (Israel), NPS/Zeppelin (Netherlands), NRK (Norway), and SVT (Sweden) have already inked pre-sale deals for the series. Nickelodeon unveiled its first international development slate, which includes five projects the company will co-develop in partnership with international producers and co-creators:
Studio B Productions has entered into a development deal with YTV for the animated series Look What My Sister Dragged In. Targeted to K6-11, Studio B will produce 52 x 11' episodes of the series, which follows the adventures of Coop, a nice kid who's life is thrown off kilter when his sister brings home a little hairless Kat, a weird creature of mysterious origin. The problem? Kat is out to destroy Coop. Rob Boutillier created the series. MORE KIDS STUFF The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced the nominees for the Children's Programming Emmy Awards yesterday at the Kidscreen Summit in NYC. Leading the way with five nominations is Sesame Street, followed by Reading Rainbow with three nods. The network earning the most nominations is PBS receiving a total of 18, followed by Discovery Kids with 15 nods. Joining the kid's categories this year is outstanding children's programming via broadband. The Children's Emmy Awards will be given out during the televised 34th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards, which will air on CBS live at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles on June 15. The full list of kid's category nominees can be found at www.emmyonline.tv . Nominees and categories include: Children's Animated Program: Arthur PBS Curious George PBS Peep and the Big Wide World Discovery Kids Time Warp Trio NBC ToddWorld Discovery Kids Pre-School Children's Series: HI-5 Discovery Kids Hip Hop Harry Discovery Kids It's A Big Big World PBS PAZ Discovery Kids Sesame Street PBS Children's Series Assignment Discovery Discovery Endurance: High Sierras Discovery Kids Reading Rainbow PBS Strange Days At Blake Holsey High Discovery Kids Broadband Children's Cyberchase PBS Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy Cartoon Network Scooby-Doo: Haunts for the Holidays WarnerBros.com Disney Channel's new live-action series, Cory in the House, is set to launch in Canada on the Family Channel on Sunday, March 18 at 9:10a. Following its debut, the series will air regularly weekends at 9:10a on the channel. A spin-off of That's So Raven, Cory in the House revolves around Cory Baxter, who has moved to Washington DC where his dad has taken a new job as the personal chef for the President of the US. As if adapting to a new school wasn't hard enough, Cory is also getting used to his new home, which happens to be in the White House. Created and executive produced by Dennis Rinsler and Marc Warren, Cory in the House is based on characters created by Michael Poryes and Susan Sherman. Season three of Instant Star will bow with a one-hour episode Friday, February 16 at 8:30-9:30p, as part of The N's Rock and Role Premiere Night, a two-hour block of new episodes during which one viewer will have the opportunity to win a walk-on role. The evening also includes new episodes of Degrassi (8p) and Beyond the Break (9:30p). Details for the Instant Star on-air/online contest, which viewers can qualify for from February 16-18, can be found at www.the-n.com . Wildbrain and The Magic Store has inked an international TV and DVD distribution and licensing deal with RDF Rights for the new live-action preschool series Yo Gabba Gabba! Under the deal, RDFR will handle free TV rights outside of North America and pay TV sales and home video/DVD rights outside of the US, UK, Ireland and Italy. As the international licensing and merchandising representative for the property in categories including apparel, home furnishings, music and publishing rights outside North America. Produced by The Magic Store and Wildbrain, Yo Gabba Gabba! is set to begin production this April, and scheduled to premiere in the US on Nick Jr. fall 2007. Toon Disney will premiere the Bionicle 2: Legend of Metru Nui and Bionicle 3: Web of Shadows back-to-back on Monday, February 26 at 5-6:30p and 6:30-8p respectively. EXECUTIVE MOVES Ann Austen has been appointed SVP/Development and Television/Video Sales, Cookie Jar Entertainment. Austen will be responsible for developing original properties for TV and video sales in the US. She will be based in Cookie Jar's LA office and will report to Toper Taylor, President and COO. Prior to this Austen served as a development executive on a number of kid series. Previously, she was Director/Programming, Fox Clubhouse at Fox Kids Network and she has developed, written and produced a number of kids series. RATINGS Live + Same Day Ratings Kids Cable Network Averages (000) for Tuesday, February 6, 2007, 6am-11pm, ranked by K2-11: NICKELODEON: K2-11 1332; K6-11 628; TWEENS 9-14 396 DISNEY CHANNEL: K2-11 773; K6-11 466; TWEENS 9-14 402 CARTOON NETWORK: K2-11 543; K6-11 336; TWEENS 9-14 261 TOON DISNEY: K2-11 149; K6-11 78; TWEENS 9-14 38 Source: MTVN Research from Nielsen Media Research Data Answer to Yesterday's trivia question: What advertiser used this slogan: "A great weekend in every box."? BISQUICK Kudos to: UH OH! Nobody, Let's try an easier one! Today's Trivia Question: To whom was Slimy the Worm a wonderful and loyal friend? ( 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.) Later -- Gwen Gwen Billings for Cynopsis Kids! 2.08.07 Cynopsis Ad Sales: Mark Bohn - 203-583-1224 / Classifieds: Trish Pihonak - 203-926-9878 / Features available at Cynopsis website: www.cynopsis.com Cynopsis Kids Daily audio podcasts - streaming (download optional) Extended Classified Ads Subscribe a new address or change your email address Unsubscribe Media Kits for all editions Archive Cynopsis Contact info To Unsubscribe from this edition or any Cynopsis editions, please click here Cable U - Know Networks Better. Pitch Smarter. Click here. All outgoing e-mails are scanned and sent out virus free. 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