Cynopsis: Kids!

11/30/07

Good morning. It’s Friday, November 30, 2007, and this is your first early morning.

Some programming changes for the qubo Channel and qubo.com to report.  Furthering its effort to promote literacy qubo.com debuts Zimmer Twins, a new storytelling application that invites kids to create animated mini-movies, which could be selected to run on the qubo channel and the qubo blocks on NBC, ION and Telemundo.  Additionally, the qubo channel will expand its online presence with new content for each of its series to be featured on qubo.com such as individual show pages, video clips, games and activities.  Meanwhile on the TV side, Monday, December 3 marks the premiere of a new programming schedule on the qubo Channel including the new animated series Miss B.G. (as in Big Girl).  Also joining the daily line-up will be Babar and Jacob Two-Two, with the weekday schedule welcoming Postman pat.  A joint venture among ION Media Networks, NBC Universal, Scholastic, Entertainment Rights group companies (Entertainment Rights, Classic Media and Big Idea) and Corus Entertainment, qubo is a bilingual kids’ entertainment content provider.  The qubo Channel is broadcast in both English and Spanish and is available in all markets served by an ION Television station, as well through Verizon’s FIOS TV, AT&T’s U-Verse and Mediacom.

Boomerang month-long holiday celebration takes off this weekend Saturday, December 1, and every weekend through December 23, 4-5:30p, as the network features a host of favorite Christmas Classic animated specials.  Additionally, on Christmas Eve Boomerang will offer holiday themed programming all day long 9a-6a, and Christmas day 6a-2:30p.  What can kid (and kid-like folks) expect from the annual Boomerang Christmas Party Stunt?  Glad you asked weekends will include – Yogi’s First Christmas (12/1); A Flintstone Christmas Carol (12/2); A Jetsons Christmas Carol (12/8); Yogi Bear’s All-Star Comedy Christmas Caper (12/9); Smurf’s Christmas Special (12/15); Christmas Comes To Pac-land (12/16).  Christmas Eve and Day will offer Justice League  Comfort and Joy (12/24, 6:30p); and A Flintstone Family Christmas (12/25, 8a) among others.

The Family Friendly Programming Forum (FFPF), an initiative of the Association of National Advertisers, handed out The 9th Annual Family Television Awards, which will air as a special on Thursday, December 27, 2007, 9-10p on The CW Network.  Hosted by Phil Keoghan, who hosts the Amazing Race, the Family Television Awards features awards presented in 11 categories, with honorees including Zac Efron, Ugly Betty and Heroes.  The special features appearances by celebrities including Paula Abdul, LeVar Burton, Kristin Chenoweth, Jack Coleman, Kenny Ortega, Monique Coleman, America Ferrera, Vanessa Hudgens, Ryne Sanborn, Jordin Sparks, Kaycee Stroh, Ashley Tisdale, and Tyler James Williams among others.  A portion of the proceeds from the show goes to help fund scholarships to encourage student writers to write about family friendly themes.

Egmont USA announced it has inked a distribution partnership with Random House to handle its US sales and distribution.

MARKETING/LICENSING

As if he wasn’t grouchy enough (at least to start), The Grinch is likely getting his AARP card in the mail this week, as Random House has set December 1 as National Grinch Day to celebrate his 50th anniversary.  Really Dr. Seuss’ story, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, was originally published in 1957.  To mark the event, Random House Children’s Books is launching Grow Your Heart Three Sizes with the Grinch, which underlines the message of the story and thus aims to promote charity and good deeds.  Random House is also sponsoring a National Grinch Costume Tour (events include read-alouds, photo-ops etc.) and is partnering with the US Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Program.  (www.grinch50.com )

STONE SOUP

Bestseller Children’s Fiction Books (top 10) Week of November 12, 2007: Title; Author (Publisher)
Twilight; Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown/Tingley)
New Moon; Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown/Tingley)
Eclipse; Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown/Tingley)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid; Jeff Kinney (Abrams/Amulet)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows; J.K. Rowling (Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Books)
The Lightning Thief; Rick Riordan (Hyperion/Miramax)
The Book Thief; Markus Zusak (Knopf)
The Nixie’s Song; Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi (Simon & Schuster)
Slam; Nick Nornby (Putnam)
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian; Sherman Alexie (Little, Brown)
Compiled by Publishers Weekly from data received from independent and chain bookstores.

Bestseller Children’s Fiction Books (top 10) Week of November 19, 2007: Title; Author (Publisher)
Puff, the Magic Dragon; Peter Yarrow and Lenny Lipton (Sterling)
Five Silly Turkeys; Selina Yoon (Price Stern Sloan)
Thanksgiving is for Giving Thanks; Margaret Sutherland (Grosset & Dunlap)
Star Wars: A Pop-Up Guide to the Galaxy; Matthew Reinhart (Orchard)
Olivia Helps at Christmas; Ian Falconer (Atheneum)
The Alphabet from A to Y with Bonus Letter Z!; Steve Martin and Roz Chast (Doubleday/Flying Dolphin)
The Three Snow Bears; Jan Brett (Putnam)
Knuffle Bunny Too; Mo Willems (Hyperion)
Purplicious; Victoria Kahn and Elizabeth Kahn (HarperCollins)
Compiled by Publishers Weekly from data received from independent and chain bookstores.

EXECUTIVE MOVES

Kristin Feltz is upped to VP/Marketing, BabyFirstTV.  In her new position Feltz will be responsible for marketing operations for both affiliate relations and consumer marketing.  She, who had been Director/Marketing, will report to founder and EVP Sharon Rechter.  Feltz previously toiled in marketing for Knowledge Learning Corporation and Kaplan Inc.

Scholastic Inc. announces new hires and promotions in its trade publishing division: Joining Scholastic is Amanda Maciel as Sr. Editor/Trade Paperbacks.  Most recently, Maciel was an Editor with HarperCollins Children’s Brooks.  Moving up at the publisher is Aimee Friedman who becomes Sr. Editor/Trade Paperbacks.  She had previously served as Editor with Scholastic’s Point imprint.  Additionally Gregory Rutty has been upped to Assistant Editor/Trade Paperbacks.

Elizabeth Law has been named VP and Publisher of Egmont USA.  Law was formerly VP and Associate Publisher at Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers.

RATINGS

ABC won the evening with the premiere of the new DreamWorks holiday special Shrek The Halls (8-8:30p) earning 21.1 million Total Viewers 2+, followed by the annual primetime play of Dr. Seuss’ holiday favorite, How the Grinch Stole Christmas (8:30-9p), absconding with 18.7 million Total Viewers 2+.  Shrek the Halls and The Grinch provided ABC with the top 2 highest-rated K2-11 telecasts on broadcast TV in 7+ years (not including Super Bowls) delivering 11.7 million for Shrek and 11.6 million for Grinch.  In fact, Shrek earned ABC its highest K2-11 rating since in 13-years.  The Grinch had its best K2-11 rating in 13.5 years.  For the whole night ABC was the top broadcast network on Wednesday 8-11p with K2-11 (5.1 million) Teens 12-17 (2.7 million), as well as in the adult demos.

Live + Same Day Ratings Kids Cable Network Averages (000) for Tuesday, November 27, 2007, 6am-11pm, ranked by K2-11:
NICKELODEON:         K2-11 993; K6-11 458; TWEENS 9-14 370
DISNEY CHANNEL:     K2-11 866; K6-11 596; TWEENS 9-14 452
CARTOON NETWORK: K2-11 497; K6-11 282; TWEENS 9-14 190
TOON DISNEY:           K2-11 111; K6-11   48; TWEENS 9-14   36
Source: MTVN Research from Nielsen Media Research Data

Live + Same Day Ratings Kids Cable Network Averages (000) for Wednesday, November 28, 2007, 6am-11pm, ranked by K2-11:
NICKELODEON:         K2-11 983; K6-11 465; TWEENS 9-14 349
DISNEY CHANNEL:     K2-11 863; K6-11 552; TWEENS 9-14 431
CARTOON NETWORK: K2-11 870; K6-11 358; TWEENS 9-14 249
TOON DISNEY:           K2-11 134; K6-11   65; TWEENS 9-14   49
Source: MTVN Research from Nielsen Media Research Data

Friday Fun Fact: The majority of Polar Bears are left-handed or more accurately put: left paw dominant.

Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question: On the animated TV series The Godzilla Power Hour (1978-1980), what was the name of Godzilla’s little buddy who had the ability to fly?  GODZOOKY  Kudos to:  Joe Kromer-Sunny Delight Beverages Co./Cincinnati; Steve Marino/NY; Richard Cotsonas-Finlay Printing/Bloomfield, CT; Mark Moffatt-Anatomy Media/NY; Mark Murphy-Buku Entertainment/Burbank; Scott Ripley-Universal Music Group/Universal City, CA; Rob Chatlin-FX Network/LA; David McDermott/Venice, CA; Claire Wilmut-Boomstone Animation Inc./Ottawa; Michael O’Brien-Digital Alchemy Entertainment Inc./Vancouver

Today’s Trivia Question: Zip-a Dee-Doo-Dah won the 1947 Academy Award for Best Song. What Disney film is this song from? ( Click here 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!
11.30.07

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