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12/09/05 Good morning. It’s Friday, December 9, 2005, and this is your first early morning Kids! briefing. NEW PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT Cartoon Network‘s new original animated series, Ben 10 (26 x 30 min) will launch on Friday, January 13, at 7:30p. Following its premiere, the action-adventure series will then take up residence in its regular weekly timeslot on Saturday mornings at 10a, beginning January 14. Ben 10 will serve as an anchor for Cartoon Network’s Saturday morning comedy/action-adventure line-up (9-11:30a). That lineup will also feature the new series Robotboy, Dragon Hunters and Zixx, as well as the current series The Life & Times of Juniper Lee. Launching Saturday, January 14, Cartoon Network’s new Saturday line-up looks like this:
Disney Television Animation has begun production on My Friends Tigger & Pooh, an interactive, learning-focused series targeted to preschoolers. Scheduled to premiere in 2007 as part of the Playhouse Disney programming block on Disney Channel, the CG animated series stars Pooh, Tigger and the rest of the gang from the Hundred Acre Wood and introduces a new character, a 6 yr-old girls who befriends Pooh and Tigger. The series aims to model for younger children how they can get along and work with others. My Friends Tigger & Pooh is Executive Produced by Jeff Kline (Dragon Tales). The series story editor is Brian Hohlfeld (Piglet’s Big Movie, Pooh’s Heffalump Movie), with Don MacKinnon (Tarzan, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command) and Dave Hartman serving as Directors. Continuing in its development of a localized version of Sesame Street for India, Sesame Workshop, Turner India and Miditech, an independent Asian production company, have unveiled four of the newly developed Muppet characters for Sesame India. Named Chamki, Aanchoo, Googly and Boombah, the Sesame India Muppets will be featured on the program when it launches in mid 2006 on Cartoon Network and POGO. Chamki is a typical 5 yr-old, inquisitive and ready to explore the world and she is equipped with never-ending questions. Her best friend is 6 yr-old Googly who is meticulous, an introvert and loves to read. Aanchoo, the storyteller, takes viewers on adventures and different settings every time she sneezes. Boombah is a friendly, cuddly lion who loves to dance, and is a member of the royal family of Boombagarh. Additionally, as part of the development of Sesame India, the series will also feature locally produced segments that address the needs of children and to ensure relevance to kids and families in the region. Sesame India will incorporate a curriculum created by Indian educators, child development experts, and producers. MTV Films has acquired the feature film rights to Marc Ecko’s Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure, the upcoming videogame of the same name from Atari and Marc Ecko Enterprises. The game is slated to be released February 2006 for PS2, Xbox and for Windows. Ecko will serve as Producer on the project with MTV Films’ Gregg Goldin, who brought the project to the company. Jason Weiss and David Gale will be developing on behalf of MTV Films. The movie will be distributed by Paramount Pictures. MORE KIDS STUFF Tomorrow morning Kids’ WB kicks off the holiday season with its 5th annual Holiday Sock Party, 8a-12p, from Fruit Salad Island. Hosted, again by the Holiday Sock (a tube sock), and joined this year by co-host Coconut Fred, the two will grant the wishes of eight kids from letters submitted to the network. During the morning viewers will be invited to help decide on one of the wishes the Holiday Sock and Coconut Fred grant to participate as part of the Kids’ WB! Holiday Sock Party Sweepstakes, a Kids’ WB and Sports Illustrated For Kids sweepstakes to support the 3rd annual S.I. For Kids Next Snow Search Finals, a championship where young athletes get the opportunity to compete in multiple ski and snowboard events. The Holiday Sock Party will also mark the debut of Kids’ WB new Saturday morning programming line-up: MARKETING/LICENSING Nickelodeon has acquired GoCityKids, a searchable online directory and information resource of kid/family activities and events in selected US cities including San Francisco, NY, Washington DC, Chicago, LA, and Philadelphia, among others. The website ( www.gocitykids.com) offers Information written by parents for parents, as well as a weekly newsletter. Under Nick, the GoCityKids is expected to expand from 14 to 20 cities by end of first quarter 2006. Kyra Reppen, VP/GM, NickJr.com will oversee the site. GoCityKids President/Founder, Clare Ellis, will join the Nickelodeon Online group, serving as Editorial Director, and will manage the editorial content of the site from San Francisco. Ellis will report to Reppen. Previously Ellis was Editor/Family Fun Magazine and BabyCenter.com. Toy Play will debut its new Xiaolin Showdown toy line in 2006. Based on the Warner Bros. Animation’s action/adventure TV series of the same name, the Toy Play collection includes action figures, PVC collectible figures and role play toys. Both the Xiaolin Showdown TV series and the toy line are targeted to Boys 6-11. Toy Play is a division of consumer products organization The Betesh Group. Xiaolin Showdown airs Saturday mornings on Kids’ WB! (9a). STONE SOUP Electronic Arts Inc. inked a deal to acquire Jamdat Mobile Inc. for a price tag of upwards of $680m. Together EA and Jamdat plan to publish 50+ games for mobile phones in the first 12 months following the completion of the acquisition, including titles such as Tetris, Bejeweled, Jamdat Bowling, EA Sports Madden NFL Football and EA Sports FIFA Soccer. Nominations for the 48th Annual Grammy Awards were announced yesterday by The Recording Academy. Topping the nominations, Mariah Carey, John Legend and Kanye West each earning eight nods, followed by 50 Cent, Beyonce Knowles and Stevie Wonder with six nominations a piece. Missy Elliott, Alicia Keys, Bruce Springsteen, Gwen Stefani and U2 received five nods each, while Common, Destiny’s Child, Foo Fighters, Gorillaz, Neptunes, Brad Paisley, Phil Tan, and Gretchen Wilson each earned four. The 48th Annual Grammy Awards will be handed out Wednesday, February 8, 2006, on CBS, 8-11:30p, broadcast live in HDTV and 5.1 surround sound, from the Staples Center in LA. In addition to bests in Rock, Alternative, Rap, Country, Pop, R & B, Latin, Classical, Jazz, short-form and long-form Music Video, there are two kid specific categories. A full list of categories and nominees can be found at http://www.grammy.com/awards/grammy/48Awards.aspx . Best Musical Album for Children – for albums consisting predominantly of music or song vs. spoken word. Album title; artist and/or producer (label):
Best Spoken Word Album for Children – for albums consisting of predominantly spoken word vs. music or song. Album title; artist and/or producer (label):
EXECUTIVE MOVES Thomas F. Burchill has been named CEO of Venaca, Inc., a technology company providing digital asset management solutions for the media industry. The announcement was made today by Scott Spector, Chairman and Founder of Venaca, Inc. Tom’s focus will be on refining the product and service, and supporting the management team in order to take Venaca to its next level of success. RATINGS Top 10 Combined Broadcast/Basic Cable shows among Kids 2-11 for the week of Nov 28 – Dec 4, 2005, 6a-6a: Top 10 Combined Broadcast/Basic Cable shows among Kids 6-11 for the week of Nov 28 – Dec 4, 2005, 6a-6a: Top 10 Combined Broadcast/Basic Cable shows among Tweens 9-14 for the week of Nov 28 – Dec 4, 2005, 6a-6a: Top 10 Combined Broadcast/Basic Cable shows among Teens 12-17 for the week of Nov 28 – Dec 4, 2005, 6a-6a: Final K6-11 Ratings for Saturday, December 3, 2005 Broadcast Networks only. WB (Kids’ WB!) 1.8/8 Avg. (8a-12N) ABC 1.5/6 Avg. (9a-12:30p) FOX (4Kids TV) 1.2/5 Avg. (8a-12n) NBC (Discovery Kids on NBC) Avg. 0.7/3 (10a-1p) CBS (Nick on CBS) 0.5/2 Avg. (8a-9a/11a-12n) Final K6-11 Ratings for Saturday, December 3, 2005 Cable Networks only. NICKELODEON 5.4/24Avg. (8a-12n) CARTOON NETWORK 3.0/13 Avg. (8a-12n) DISNEY CHANNEL 0.8/4 Avg. (8a-12n) Kids Cable Network Averages in thousands (000) for Wednesday, December 7, 2005, 6am-11pm, ranked by K2-11:
Answer to yesterday’s trivia question: Robby Benson starred in the 1977 movie Ice Castles. In the ’90s he was the voice of an animated character in what Disney film? THE BEAST in BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Kudos to: Mindy Bloom-Ronald McDonald House/Winston-Salem NC; David Stern-Bard Entertainment/NY; Julie Schwarz/Scarsdale NY; Peggy Beane-Campbell-Nickelodeon Magazine Group/NY; Shawn Walker-Natural Talent/Santa Monica; Obie Scott Wade-Obie Co Entertainment/Long Beach CA Today’s Trivia Question Today: If you were to work for McMahon and Tate Advertising Agency, who might you run into at the coffee machine? Later — Gwen Billings for Cynthia Turner’s Cynopsis Kids! Cynopsis: Kids podcast available for download each morning by 645a at www.cynopsis.com or via iTunes 4.9 listed in the podcast directory under “News” as well as under Yahoo Podcast http://podcasts.yahoo.com/. 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