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Cynopsis: Kids! 01/14/11 Good morning. It’s Friday, January 14, 2011, and this is your first early morning Kids briefing. Italy’s Mondo TV names US-based Showplace Television Syndication as the exclusive US sales representative for its FCC qualifying educational animated kids’ programming. Showplace will debut the following Mondo TV-produced animated series at NATPE 2011:
DreamWorks Animation adds Frances McDormand to the voice cast of its upcoming animated feature Madagascar 3, which is currently slated for release on May 18, 2012, per THR. McDormand will lend her voice to the animal control officer who, with her team, captures the animals. The movie will also see the return of Chris Rock, Jada Pinkett Smith, David Schwimmer and Ben Stiller as the voices of the main zoo animals. Eric Darnell will direct Madagascar 3, he co-directed and wrote the first two Madagascar movies. This time around Noah Baumbach is writing the script for the movie, which will be produced by Mireille Soria and Mark Swift. The movie is expected to include a bunch of new characters, including an Italian sea lion, Russian tiger, and a Latina jaguar (the nationalities are tentative). Target Entertainment inks a multi-territory broadcast TV deal with Nickelodeon for Chapman Entertainment’s preschool series Fifi and the Flowertots. Under the deal Nickelodeon acquires season one of Fifi and the Flowertots (52×10) for broadcast across Europe (including Benelux, Scandinavia, Germany, Spain and Italy), the Middle East, Asia (including India), Africa, Latin America and New Zealand. Target holds the international TV rights to the full Fifi and the Flowertots series (to date a total of 117×10 episodes). This month marks Disney Channel South East Asia‘s launch of the kid-targeted animated series 1001 Nights ( www.1001nightsshow.com ), and will air twice daily on the channel (9a and 5:30p). Big Bad Boo Studios produces 1001 Nights. Disney Channel in South East Asia reaches 71+ million homes across India, Bangladesh, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Nepal, Maldives and Pakistan in Tamil, Urdu, English, Hindi and Telegu. Program Call: Cynopsis Media will be producing our annual NATPE Shopping Guide sent to all Cynopsis and Cynopsis Kids subscribers on Thursday, January 20, the week before NATPE 2011 in Miami. If you’re exhibiting at NATPE this year and would like to have your programming included, please send us only the following info for your top 5 shows: title, availability date, number of episodes, length, type (i.e., movie, series, special, etc.), genre and your terms (barter, cash, etc.) as well as your company’s stand/booth location. To be included in this free and highly-viewed special edition, please send your submission to lisa@cynopsis.com no later than today Friday, January 14, 2011. A confirmation email will be sent following each submission from Lisa (if you don’t receive a confirmation email, please resubmit). A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM BATTLE OF THE BANDS: ROCK THE DECADES
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Benefiting Citymeals-on-Wheels CALL FOR ENTRIES Accepting band submissions for the Battle of the Bands on February 10th at the Highline Ballroom. Entries due by January 14th. Contact Emily Cleveland at emily@citymeals.org for more details. For tickets and event information, visit www.citymeals.org/battle. Kid’s author/illustrator Todd Parr teams up with Thumb Arcade, an app developer, to create and release a new app My Underwear for K2-8 at the iTunes App Store. Featuring Parr’s artwork, My Underwear ($2.99) is comprised of four games in one, which revolve around the theme of underwear, which challenge their hand-eye coordination, memory, motor skills, and pattern recognition. My Underwear works on all iOS devices running OS v3.2 or higher. EXECUTIVE MOVES Joe D’Ambrosia joins Disney Junior as VP/Programming. D’Ambrosia will oversee Disney Junior’s production and programming strategies and creative development of entertainment and educational TV properties. He will report to Nancy Kanter, SVP/Disney Junior Worldwide. D’Ambrosia, who began his career at Nickelodeon, has developed, produced and written kid-targeted TV programming and family movies for Murray Hill 5 Productions, which he co-founded, Nickelodeon and Sony Pictures Family Entertainment. Set to launch on February 14, 2011, Disney Junior is the newly rebranded preschool block (currently Playhouse Disney) in the US on Disney Channel, and free-to-air broadcast partners around the world. In 2012 Disney Junior will also debut as a basic cable and satellite channel in the US. Congrats Joe! Imax Corporation names Ann Sommerlath as VP/Corporate Communications. She will report directly to CEO, Richard L. Gelfond. Prior to this, Sommerlath was SVP/Edelman Public Relations. She previously served as SVP in the corporate and business-to-business communications at Fleishman-Hillard, and was MD at RF/Binder Partners, and was also Director of PR/communications at Lufthansa’s LSG Sky Chefs. Sommerlath spent a decade as a financial journalist at Dow Jones Newswires, BridgeNews and the AP. Target Entertainment builds its sales team with the addition of two new senior executives.
RATINGS Top 10 Combined Broadcast/Basic Cable shows among Kids 2-11 for the week of 1/3-1/9/11 , 6a-6a: Top 10 Combined Broadcast/Basic Cable shows among Kids 6-11 for the week of 1/3-1/9/11 , 6a-6a: Top 10 Combined Broadcast/Basic Cable shows among Tweens 9-14 for the week of 1/3-1/9/11 , 6a-6a: Top 10 Combined Broadcast/Basic Cable shows among Teens 12-17 for the week of 1/3-1/9/11 , 6a-6a: Final K6-11 Ratings for Saturday, January 8, 2011 Broadcast Networks only (Live + SD Data): Final K6-11 Ratings for Saturday, January 8, 2011 Cable Networks only (Live + SD Data): Live + Same Day Ratings Kids Cable Network Averages (000) for Wednesday, January 12, 2011, 6am-11pm, ranked by K2-11:
Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia: On what series will you find Dakota Dude, Geronimoo and Buffalo Bull? C.O.W. BOYS OF MOO MESA Kudos to: Chris Devine Dailey-Simply Devine Marketing Group/Deposit NY; Andy Krinner-aNb Media/NY; Daniel Cohen-Curious Pictures/NY; Toshifumi Yoshida-The Pokemon Company Int’l/WA; Today’s Trivia Question: What is Billy Batson’s secret word? (Email Cynthia@cynopsis.com 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 — Cynopsis Ad Sales: Member of Interactive Advertising Bureau (iab) To subscribe to any Cynopsis edition(s) click here . Cyn opsis CLASSIFIEDS – For More classifieds, visit the Cynopsis.com classifieds page here . 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