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Kids! 01/28/04
Good morning. It's
Wednesday, January 28, 2004,
and this is your early morning
Kids!
briefing.
Nominations for the 76th Annual Academy Awards were announced
yesterday morning in LA by The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and
Sciences. Several of the pictures popular with tweens and teens are
top of the awards heap this year. Leading the pack with the most
nominations is The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (New Line)
with 11 nominations (including best picture, director and film editing,
visual effects and original song), followed by Master and Commander: The
Far Side of the World (Fox) with ten nominations (including best picture,
cinematography, directing, film editing and visual effects), and then
Seabiscuit (Universal/DreamWorks/Spyglass) with 7 nods (including best
film, cinematography, film editing); five for Pirates of the Caribbean:
Curse of the Black Pearl (Buena Vista); Finding Nemo (Buena Vista); and
several pictures receiving one nomination, including Brother Bear (Buena
Vista) and Whale Rider (Newmarket Films) which earned newcomer
13-year-old star Keisha Castle Hughes a nomination in the best actress
category, making her the youngest nominee ever in this category.
Thinking it was Shirley Temple? Well, Temple actually received an
honorary Oscar at the ripe old age of six in 1934. The Academy
Awards will be presented on ABC, Sunday, February 29, 8p, live from the
Kodak Theatre in LA.
Who are the youngest actors/actresses to be nominated (and some
winners) in the Academy Award race? Tatum O’Neal holds the record as
the youngest competitive Oscar winner at the age of 10 when she won a
best supporting actress Oscar for Paper Moon (1973), while Anna Paquin
was 11 when she won in the category for The Piano (1993) in the same
category and 10-year-old Mary Badham earned a nomination for To Kill A
Mocking Bird (1962). As for actors 10-year-old Jackie Cooper was
the youngest actor to be nominated as best actor for his role in Skippy
(1930), the youngest nominee for best supporting actor is Justin Henry
was 8 when he was nominated for his role in Kramer Vs. Kramer (1979) and
in case you were wondering Haley Joel Osment was 11 when he got a nod in
the category for The Sixth Sense (2000)
A few categories featuring kid targeted picture nominees (a full nominee
list can be found at
www.Oscar.com):
Best Animated Feature Films Brother Bear (Buena Vista)
Finding Nemo (Buena Vista)
The Triplets of Belleville (Sony Pictures Classics)
Best Original Screenplay The Barbarian Invasions (Miramax) Written by Denys Arcand
Dirty Pretty Things (Miramax and BBC Films) Written by Steven Knight
Finding Nemo (Buena Vista) Screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson and
David Reynolds
Original Story by Andrew Stanton
In America" (Fox Searchlight/20th Century Fox), Written by Jim
Sheridan & Naomi Sheridan & Kirsten Sheridan
Lost in Translation (Focus Features), Written by Sofia Coppola
Best Music/Original score Big Fish (Sony Pictures Releasing) Danny Elfman
Cold Mountain (Miramax) Gabriel Yared
Finding Nemo" (Buena Vista) Thomas Newman
House of Sand and Fog (DreamWorks in association with Cobalt Media Group)
James Horner
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (New Line) Howard
Shore
Best Original song -Into the West from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
(New Line)
Music and Lyric by Fran Walsh and Howard Shore and Annie Lennox
-A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow from A Mighty Wind (Warner Bros.)
Music and Lyric by Michael McKean and Annette O'Toole
-Scarlet Tide from Cold Mountain (Miramax) Music and Lyric by T Bone
Burnett and Elvis Costello
-The Triplets of Belleville from The Triplets of Belleville (Sony
Pictures Classics) Music by Benoit Charest Lyric by Sylvain Chomet
-You Will Be My Ain True Love from Cold Mountain (Miramax) Music and
Lyric by Sting
UPN program changes - Arriving to the network on Wednesday, March
10 is a CGI-animated series called Game Over
(Carsey-Werner-Mandabach) scheduled to air at 8p and immediately
followed by a return of The Mullets at 830p. Game Over follows the
lives of video game characters when they're not 'working'. Star Trek
Enterprise will shift to 9pm, replacing the current Top Model
repeats.
Paul Newman will provide the voice for a ‘car’ character in the
upcoming feature Cars from Pixar Animation Studio’s
Director by John Lasseter (Toy Story, Toy Story 2, and A Bugs Life),
presented by Disney and slated for a 2005 release. Other
celebrities lending their voices to Cars characters includes NASCAR
racing luminary, Richard Petty, Owen Wilson (Shanghai Knights, The Royal
Tenenbaums), Bonnie Hunt (Monsters, Inc.), and Dan Whitney (Bravo’s Larry
the Cable Guy). Previously titled Route 66, Pixar & Disney
officially changed the movie title to Cars in mid 2002.
Additionally, this weekend, January 30-February 1, 2004, Newman
will drive a Disney/Pixar sponsored racecar at The Rolex 24 At
Daytona race when he attempts to break his own Guinness Book record
as the oldest driver to win a professionally sanctioned race, which he
set in 1995. Paul, as I call him, is 79 years old and races on a
team with Kyle Petty, Michael Brockman, and Gunnar Jeannette, and will be
driving a Fabcar-Porsche Daytona Prototype. I dare anyone to beat
Paul Newman, really, I dare you.
Black History Month Programming
CMT: Waiting in the Wings, airs February 21, 8-9:30p, on
CMT. Waiting in the Wings is a documentary that takes both an
historical and contemporary look at the role of African Americans
musicians have in the shaping of and their influence on country
music. Interviews include Charley Pride, Ray Charles, Arsenio Hall,
Hank Williams Jr., Naomi Judd, Marty Stuart, Wynonna, Chris Cagle, Cleve
Francis, music insiders, historians and journalists.
The hour-long off-net drama, My So Called Life is joining
Noggin's The N programming lineup premiering on the teen network
April 2, 8p. The series will air regularly Friday evenings, 8p
following back to back episodes of Degrassi: The Next Generation,
7p. The series, which turns ten this year, stars Claire Danes,
Jared Leto, Wilson Cruz, and A.J. Langer and comes from the executive
producing team of Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovits.
Clifford: The Big Red Dog stars in his first full length movie,
Clifford’s Really Big Movie featuring the voice of actor John
Ritter, who died unexpectedly this past fall, is scheduled to be
released next month. Additionally, PBS will air a Clifford
Valentine’s Day special, February 13 (check local listings).
Decode Entertainment has sold its CGI animated series Franny’s
Feet (13x:30) in Asia to Cartoon Network India and ATV Hong Kong,
with Lorea’s C4U Entertainment picking up TV and home video rights for
the property. Franny’s Feet was commissioned by the UK’s Five and
Canada’s Family Channel, will also air on Discovery UK, ABC (Australia,
France 5, Teletoon (France) and TeleQuebec (Canada). Additionally,
Decode has inked a deal with ATV (Hong Kong) for Decode’s mixed media CGI
& live action series The Blobheads as well as its 2D animated program
King (26x22).
January 2004
Monthly Top Ten Basic Cable Ad
Supported networks, Total Day and Primetime Rankings among
K2-11
in thousands (000) 12/29/04-01/25/04: Kids 2-11 Total
Day (000) Kids 2-11
Primetime 8p-11p (000) NICK/NAN:
991
NICK/NAN:
1231
DISNEY CHANNEL*:
749 DISNEY
CHANNEL*:
1185
CARTON NETWORK:
606 CARTOON
NETWORK:
935
ABC
FAMILY:
103 TOON
DISNEY:
106
TOON
DISNEY:
102 ABC
FAMILY:
103
NOGGIN/THE
N:
54
MTV:
90
MTV:
54
BET:
83
TLC:
49
DISCOVERY:
83
BET:
44 ANIMAL
PLANET:
82
ANIMAL
PLANET:
43
TLC:
77 Source: Disney from Nielsen Media Research Data
*Disney Channel is not an ad supported cable network, unlike the others
in this listing.
January 2004
Monthly Top Ten Basic Cable Ad
Supported Networks, Total Day and Primetime Rankings among
K6-11
in thousands (000) 12/29/04-01/25/04: Kids 6-11 Total Day 6a-6a
(000)Kids 6-11 Primetime 8p-11p (000) NICK/NAN:
545 DISNEY
CHANNEL*:
897
DISNEY
CHANNEL*:
477
NICK/NAN:
812
CARTOON NETWORK:
340 CARTOON
NETWORK: 541
ABC
FAMILY:
77 ABC
FAMILY:
73
TOON
DISNEY:
45
MTV:
60
MTV:
35
BET:
57
BET:
29
DISCOVERY:
56
TLC:
29 ANIMAL
PLANET:
52
ANIMAL
PLANET:
27
TLC:
50
DISCOVERY:
23 TOON
DISNEY:
47 Source: Disney from Nielsen Media Research Data
*Disney Channel is not an ad supported cable network, unlike the others
in this listing.
January 2004
Monthly, Top Ten Basic Cable Ad
Supported Networks, 12/29/04-01/25/04:
Total Day and Primetime Rankings among
Tweens
9-14 in thousands (000) Tweens 9-14 Total Day 6a-6a
(000) Tweens 9-14 Primetime 8p-11p (000) DISNEY
CHANNEL*:
383 DISNEY
CHANNEL*:
751
NICK/NAN:
354
NICK/NAN:
604
CARTOON
NETWORK:
254 CARTOON
NETWORK:
391
ABC
FAMILY:
127
MTV:
213
MTV:
123 ABC
FAMILY:
122
BET:
45
BET:
89
TLC:
44
TLC:
79
COMEDY
CENTRAL:
37
DISCOVERY:
77
ESPN:
33 COMEDY
CENTRAL:
73
DISCOVERY:
31
ESPN:
47 Source: Disney from Nielsen Media Research Data
*Disney Channel is not an ad supported cable network, unlike the others
in this listing.
Former Disney Co. directors Roy E. Disney and Stanley Gold
have been reaching out to Disney shareholders and suggesting that
they withhold votes to re-election Disney’s Chairman Michael Eisner
as well as three board directors; George Mitchell, John Bryson and
Judith Estrin. Disney’s annual meeting will be held in Philadelphia
on March, 3. You’ll recall that Disney and Gold both stepped down
from the Disney Co.’s board of directors while denouncing Eisner for a
number of things including not having a long range plan to grow the
company.
TM Books and Video, the company behind the I Love Toy Trains video
series, has releases part two of its All About Cowboys series this
month.. This installment of the All About Cowboys video series
features more action from Cheyenne Frontier Days; a Western cattle trail
ride; scenes from life on a working ranch; a fast-draw expert; and
horseback riding tips. Released this past December 2003, part one
of the series highlights from Cheyenne Frontier Days ‘The Daddy of ‘em
All’ Rodeo, roping tricks for world-class roper Max Reynolds; commentary
by cowboy & Old West expert Rattlesnake Jake and on.
Kids Cable Network
Averages in thousands (000) for
Saturday, January 24,
2004, 6am-11pm, ranked by K2-11:
NICKELODEON:
K2-11 1491; K6-11 917; TWEENS 9-14 584
DISNEY CHANNEL: K2-11 1056;
K6-11 673; TWEENS 9-14 481
CARTOON NETWORK: K2-11 766; K6-11 472; TWEENS 9-14
273
ABC
FAMILY:
K2-11 213; K6-11 170; TWEENS 9-14 99
TOON
DISNEY:
K2-11 125; K6-11 45; TWEENS 9-14
38 Source: MTVN Research from Nielsen Media Research Data
Kids Cable Network
Averages in thousands (000) for
Sunday, January 25,
2004, 6am-11pm, ranked by K2-11:
NICKELODEON:
K2-11 1447; K6-11 930; TWEENS 9-14 565
DISNEY CHANNEL: K2-11 1149;
K6-11 753; TWEENS 9-14 564
CARTOON NETWORK: K2-11 815; K6-11 455; TWEENS 9-14
238
ABC
FAMILY:
K2-11 260; K6-11 180; TWEENS 9-14 144
TOON
DISNEY:
K2-11 145; K6-11 85; TWEENS 9-14
52 Source: MTVN Research from Nielsen Media Research Data
Kids Cable Network
Averages in thousands (000) for
Monday, January 26,
2004, 6am-11pm, ranked by K2-11:
NICKELODEON:
K2-11 1265; K6-11 653; TWEENS 9-14 393
DISNEY CHANNEL:
K2-11 892; K6-11 471; TWEENS 9-14 371
CARTOON NETWORK: K2-11 733; K6-11 407; TWEENS 9-14
227
TOON
DISNEY:
K2-11 120; K6-11 64; TWEENS 9-14
43
ABC
FAMILY:
K2-11 106; K6-11 90; TWEENS 9-14 144 Source: MTVN Research from Nielsen Media Research Data
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