Cynopsis: Kids!

03/20/09

Good morning. It’s Friday, March 20, 2009, and this is your first early morning Kids briefing.

Up, the new Disney/Pixar animated comedy feature film, will premiere in Digital 3D as the Opening Ceremony film at the 62nd Festival de Cannes on Wednesday, May 13, 2009.  This is great news for the animation and kid industry  particularly as this is the first time that an animated film will be the opening film at the Cannes Film Festival.  Directed by Pete Doctor (Monsters Inc.), Up will be released in the US on May 29 and in France on July 29.

A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS & SCIENCES

NEW PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT

Ellipsanime heads into production on its new 3D animated series Genius (78×7).  Targeted to K6-10, Genius will debut in 2010 exclusively on Canal J (France), and then on Gulli (France).  Mediatoon Distribution will handle international sales for the series. Based on a comic book series by authors De Groot & Turk and published by Le Lombard, Genius is set sometime during the end of the Middle Ages and revolves around a brilliant inventor (the Master) and his clumsy sidekick as they come up with new creations.  Each episode will be followed by a one-minute segment that features an explanation of the invention or scientific experiment the characters explore  sometimes well before their time.  A companion website with games and other interactive activities will be available to broadcasters.  This year will also see the release of an encyclopedia of the Master’s inventions in December 2009, followed by the publication of Volume 40 of the comic book in March 2010.

MORE KIDS STUFF

This April premiere episodes of the animated series Babar and The Zula Patrol debut on qubo‘s broadcast blocks.  Babar returns to qubo with seven premiere episodes, while nine new episodes The Zula Patrol will bow.  Each premiere episode of both series will debut first on the Wednesday-Friday qubo on Ion Television block, followed by airing on the qubo on NBC Saturday morning block and qubo on Telemundo in Spanish on weekend mornings.  The episodes will also air on qubo Channel.  Beginning April 1, qubo rolls out a new schedule for its blocks:

qubo on Ion Television

Wednesdays: My Friend Rabbit (3p); Babar (3:30p)

Thursdays: 3-2-1 Penguins (3p); The Zula Patrol (3:30p)

Fridays: VeggieTales (3p); Turbo Dogs (3:30p)

qubo on NBC

Saturdays: VeggieTales (10a); 3-2-1 Penguins (10:30a); Turbo Dogs (11a); Babar (11:30a); The Zula Patrol (12p); My Friend Rabbit (12:30p)

qubo on Telemundo

Saturdays: My Friend Rabbit (8a); Babar (8:30a); Turbo Dogs (9a)

Sundays: 3-2-1 Penguins (8a); VeggieTales (8:30a); The Zula Patrol (9a)

Radio Disney hosts the world premiere of the soundtrack to Disney’s new feature Hannah Montana The Movie on Saturday, March 21 during the network’s Planet Premiere feature.  The broadcast will also include an interview with Hannah Montana star Miley Cyrus.  Disney Records releases the soundtrack to Hannah Montana The Movie on Tuesday, March 24, 2009, while the movie opens nationwide on April 10, 2009.

Multiplatform distributor Digital Rights Group will offer a range of new programming at MIPTV 2009 including one for kids.  iD Distribution launches the kid-aimed animated series One Minute Wonders (13×30).  The mixed entertainment/education series stars Blink, a small one-eyed machine, and his clumsy robot assistant Missit, who together help kids discover things about the planet Earth.  One Minute Wonders is produced by Unique Television for BBC One.

The Jim Henson Company will showcase its new CGI animated series Dinosaur Train (40×30, 80×11) at MIPTV. Dinosaur Train is scheduled to debut in the US on PBS Kids this fall 2009, with recent broadcast deals set in Canada with TV Ontario and British Columbia’s Knowledge.  RC2 Corp. is the global master toy licensee for Dinosaur Train; its Learn Curve Brands will introduce a line of preschool products based on the series in the second half of 2010.

Shaftesbury Films signs new sales and renewal deals for its comedy Life with Derek.  Televisa (Mexico), acquires the free TV rights to the first two seasons of Life with Derek.  Additionally, inking renewals for the third and fourth season of the series are Nickelodeon (Australia, New Zealand), SVT (Sweden), and eJunior (U.A.E.).

Novel Entertainment inks new deals and renewals for its animated series Horrid Henry (a total of 104 episodes are available).  ZDF (Germany) extends its deal by picking the second season of the series, which runs on ZDF and Kika.  Op Art SP Zoo (Poland) acquires both TV and DVD rights to seasons 1 and 2 of the show, while SVT (Sweden) secures rights to the first 52 episodes for its main terrestrial channel SVT1.  Village Roadshow picks up DVD rights to both seasons for Australia and New Zealand with releases planned for September 2009 and 2010.

Launching this week is GirlMogulmagazine.com, a new tween girl targeted online magazine/blog.  Targeted to Tween girls 8-12, the site is designed to empower girls and grow their self-confidence in all areas of their lives through its content about school, current events etc., which is presented by four GirlMogul characters (Rose, Lily, Daisy, and Poppy).

MARKETING/LICENSING

Fisher-Price‘s Little People celebrate their 50th birthday tomorrow, kicking off a yearlong celebration of the figures.  First introduced as independent figures as part of Fisher-Price’s Safety School Bus (1959), the company has since sold 1.5+ billion Little People figures  and that is a whole lotta of little AARP cards! As par t of the anniversary, Fisher-Price’s plans include commemorative playsets (e.g. The Little People 50th Birthday Play ‘n Go Farm and School), limited edition CD, birthday parties, in-store demonstrations, hotel-partnerships, and a traveling Little People Live musical show.  The nationwide Little People Live Tour presented by Fisher-Price and Toys “R” Us, debuts April 18 at the San Diego Zoo.  The live show runs 40-minutes and features costumed Little People characters, live animals and an interactive mystery storyline.  The tour will make its way to national zoos across the country through June.  Fisher-Price is a unit of Mattel.  (www.littlepeople.com/birthday)

MIP TV Program Call: If your company will be attending and showcasing programming at MIP TV 2009 in Cannes, France, at the end of next month, Cynopsis will send out a special MIP TV Shopping Guide edition the Thursday before the conference. To have your programming included, please send only the following info for your top 5 shows: title, availability date, number of episodes, length, type (i.e., movie, series, special, etc.), genre, your terms (barter, cash, etc.) and names and contact info of those attending from your company. If your company is interested in being included in this free guide, please send the details to [email protected] by Friday, March 20, 2009.

STONE SOUP

Bestseller Children’s Picture Books (top 10), Week of March 16, 2009: Title; Author (Publisher)
Gallop!; Rufus Butler Seder (Workman)
Swing!; Rufus Butler Seder (Workman)
The House in the Night; Susan Marie Swanson (Houghton)
The Composer Is Dead; Lemony Snicket (HarperCollins)
Cat; Matthew Van Fleet (S&S/Wiseman)
Listen to the Wind; Greg Mortenson (Dial)
Big Words for Little People; Jamie Lee Curtis (HarperCollins/Cotler)
Ladybug Girl and Bumblebee Boy; David Soman (Dial)
Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed; Mo Willems (Hyperion)
Wabi Sabi; Mark Reibstein (Little, Brown)
Compiled from data received from independent and chain bookstores.
Source: Publishers Weekly

Bestseller Children’s Fiction Books (top 10), Week of March 9, 2009: Title; Author (Publisher)
The Graveyard Book; Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins)
The Book Thief; Markus Zusak (Knopf)
Scat; Carl Hiaasen (Knopf)
Coraline; Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins)
The Tale of Despereaux; Kate Dicamillo (Candlewick)
Brisingr; Christopher Paolini (Knopf)
Thirteen Reasons Why; Jay Asher (Razorbill)
The Hunger Games; Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)
Fade; Lisa McMann (Simon Pulse)
One False Note; Gordon Korman (Scholastic
Compiled from data received from independent and chain bookstores.
Source: Publishers Weekly

RATINGS

Live + Same Day Ratings Kids Cable Network Averages (000) for Tuesday, March 17, 2009, 6am-11pm, ranked by K2-11:
NICKELODEON:         K2-11 1019; K6-11 464; TWEENS 9-14 344
DISNEY CHANNEL:     K2-11   813; K6-11 547; TWEENS 9-14 462
CARTOON NETWORK: K2-11   464; K6-11 290; TWEENS 9-14 194
DISNEY XD:               K2-11   109; K6-11   58; TWEENS 9-14   47
Source: MTVN Research from Nielsen Media Research Data

Live + Same Day Ratings Kids Cable Network Averages (000) for Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 6am-11pm, ranked by K2-11:
NICKELODEON:         K2-11 1162; K6-11 534; TWEENS 9-14 409
DISNEY CHANNEL:     K2-11   729; K6-11 444; TWEENS 9-14 378
CARTOON NETWORK: K2-11   524; K6-11 332; TWEENS 9-14 243
DISNEY XD:               K2-11   146; K6-11   80; TWEENS 9-14   64
Source: MTVN Research from Nielsen Media Research Data

Friday Fun Fact:  Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question:  Why did Alf travel from Melmac to Earth?  MELMAC was on the verge of – and eventually did have – a nuclear explosion. Kudos to:  David Stern-BARD Entertainment/NYC; Kerry Hughes-Qubo/NY

Today’s Trivia Question:  The subtitle of this classic novel is “Life Among the Lowly.”  Today marks the 156th anniversary of the publication of this book.  What is the title?  (Email [email protected] 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!
03.20.09

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