Cynopsis: Kids!
09/07/12

Good morning. It’s Friday, September 7, 2012, and this is your first early morning briefing.

Nickelodeon and the National Football League (NFL) further their relationship by entering into a co-production deal for NFL Rush Zone: Season of the Guardians, an original half-hour animated series. The full-length second installment of the Nicktoons series (24×30), based on NFL Rush Zone, the NFL’s kid-targeted online world www.nflrush.com, is set to premiere on Nicktoons this November 2012.  The series follows kid Ishmael (Ish) and his friends on a journey to protect the league’s 32 teams and the world from a master evildoer. Each episode will feature various NFL players and coaches voicing their animated personas, including New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees, Detroit Lions wide receiver Calvin Johnson, Dallas Cowboys linebacker DeMarcus Ware, and New York Jets head coach Rex Ryan. Additionally, Nicktoons and the NFL will produce exclusive weekly video segments with NFL Network analyst and Pro Football Hall of Famer Deion Sanders. The segments will premiere on Nicktoons following Sunday’s NFL action, and feature Sanders’ top three plays from games played that week. NFL Rush Zone: Season of the Guardians will be accessible on Nicktoons.com and NFLRush.com following each episode’s on-air premiere. They will also be re-aired on NFL Network and produced in HD for use on video boards in NFL stadiums nationwide. NFL Rush Zone: Season of the Guardians is produced by Rollman Entertainment, led by CEO Eric Rollman, who previously served as president of Marvel Animation. Nickelodeon and the NFL first teamed in 2010 for the short-form series Rush Zone: Guardians of the Core (a 22 episode micro-series).

Canada’s Corus Entertainment has invested in San Francisco-based Fingerprint Digital, a mobile gaming startup that creates gaming for kids, to grow and expand the Fingerprint Play learning and entertainment platform. Corus will serve as a lead investor for Fingerprint, though no financial terms were announced. Launched in 2011, the Fingerprint Play platform is available on iOS and currently offers 14 interactive apps, which have been played 20+ million minutes. With Corus’ new investment, Fingerprint Play plans to expand to Android devices and add eight new gaming apps by the end of 2012.

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NEW PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT

FilmNation Entertainment acquires the feature film rights to the popular kid’s book A Tale Dark & Grimm by author Adam Gidwitz. FilmNation is partnering with Marissa McMahon of Kamala Films to finance the development and produce the live-action movie with FilmNation Entertainment’s Aaron Ryder and Karen Lunder. Jon Gunn (Mercy Streets, My Date with Drew) and John W. Mann (Mercy Streets) will pen the screenplay. Based on some of the more gruesome Grimm Brother’s stories, A Tale Dark & Grimm follows the adventures of two unsuspecting kids who hold the key to breaking out of the dark ages. McMahon explains, “Gidwitz’s A Tale Dark & Grimm is a smart, addictive, and hilariously gruesome narrative that turns familiar fairy tales on their head, much to the delight of both children and parents.” FilmNation recently completed filming on the new teen-targeted comedy Premature, which they are producing from writer/director Dan Beers.

LICENSING

Zodiak Kids, the kid-targeted production/distribution arm of Zodiak Media, enters into licensing deal with British retailer George for a new line of apparel based on the preschool series Waybuloo, which airs on CBeebies (UK) as part of its Bedtime Hour. An exclusive line of Waybuloo-themed Baby Essentials will be available at retail and online at Asda stores and at George.com beginning this January 2013. Developed for George by licensee Paul Dennicci, the new line of Waybuloo apparel and accessories for babies/toddlers 0-24 months and features sleepsuits, hooded towels, pajamas and bodysuits. Under the deal George has an exclusive six-month window for the new products. Zodiak Rights holds worldwide rights in all media for Waybuloo, excluding Canada where DHX Media handles broadcast, home entertainment and consumer products rights. Waybuloo is produced by The Foundation, part of Zodiak Kids and Decode Entertainment for the BBC.

Genius Brands International enters into a licensing deal with Karmin International for its music/education-based Baby Genius property. Under the three-year deal Karmin International will create a line of Baby Genius-themed preschool-targeted jigsaw puzzles (floor puzzles, dry erase puzzles, book and puzzle combinations, two-sided puzzles, 4-1 progressive puzzles, multi-pack puzzles and musical puzzles) for release in the US and Canada.

MORE KIDS STUFF

Disney Channel will premiere its new comedy Dog With A Blog on Friday, October 12 at 9:40p, immediately following the network’s premiere of its new original TV movie Girl Vs. Monster (8p). The premiere will simulcast on Watch Disney Channel, and the debut episode will be available there through October 14. Told from the dog point-of-view, the series revolves around a blended family, which includes three step siblings and their newly adopted talking and blogging dog, Stan, as they adjust to their new family life. The Dog With A Blog series will move to its regular time slot beginning Sunday, November 4, at 8p. Beginning September 18, fans will be invited to visit Stan’s blog, SeeStanBlog.com (www.seestanblog.com), where posts will be updated weekly. Additionally on that day, the site will launch Stan’s Sneaky Blog game. Further support for the series launch includes the premiere episode will be available: Tuesday, October 2 for free on iTunes; Friday October 5 via Disney Channel On Demand, which is available to a variety of affiliates, including AT&T, Cablevision, Time Warner and Verizon customers; and the premiere episode will also be available Saturday, October 13 on Mobile VOD (AT&T U-Verse, MetroPCS, Sprint and Verizon), Sony Playstation and Microsoft Xbox. The series stars G Hannelius (Den Brother, Good Luck Charlie), Blake Michael (Lemonade Mouth), Francesca Capaldi (A.N.T. Farm), Beth Littleford (Crazy, Stupid Love, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart) and Regan Burns (Wizards of Waverly Place). Stephen Full (I’m In the Band) lends his voice to Stan, who is played by two canine performers, Kuma and Mick. Dog With A Blog is executive-produced by producer Michael B. Kaplan (Frasier, Roseanne, Doogie Howser, M.D. and I’m In The Band). The series is a production of It’s a Laugh Productions.

CBBC (UK) is set to launch its new comedy The Revolting World Of Stanley Brown (13 episodes) on September 21, 2012. The series revolves around Stanley Brown, an average 13-year-old with an insatiable curiosity about revolting world around him, a time traveler named Archie, and his best friends Mike and Jess. Here’s the thing  Archie happens to be Stanley’s great, great, great, great, great, great… grandson), and Stanley is the only one who can see or hear Archie  thus Archie is the only one to care about Stanley and his ideas. Always in trouble, each week Stanley finds a way to land on top. Archie travels through time using technology that will be invented by ideas from Stanley and his descendants.

In other BBC news, BBC Learning has commissioned Somethin’ Else, a content design and creation company, to produce the new K7-11 targeted, short-form series Brining Books to Life (10×6). The mixed live-action/animated/illustrated series is designed to get kids interested in reading books and features celebrities such as Dick and Dom and Kieron Richardson discussing their favorite books. The shorts will also be combined into two specials (2×30) that will air on BBC Two‘s Learning Zone on October 12 at 5a. Additionally, the short films will also be available on the BBC Learning Zone Class Clips database for use in schools. They were also broadcast by Blue Peter on CBBC as part of its collaboration with the Summer Reading Challenge. Prior to this, Somethin’ Else produced the Your Paintings (10×6) online videos for BBC Learning, which designed to get kids interested in art and to visit art galleries.

Guru Studio inks new sales for its animated preschool series Justin Time. Super RTL (Germany) has acquired the first two seasons of Justin Time and will begin running the action series in German speaking territories this December 2012. Pop TV (UK) has also picked up season 1 and 2 of Justin Time for its preschool channel Tiny Pop, which debuted the series premiered over the last weekend. Guru Studio’s other recent international deals for Justin Time include: Disney Jr. Germany (covering Austria and Switzerland) acquires season 2 of the series, which it will debut March 1, 2013; ETV (Estonia) takes seasons 1 and 2 for premiere November 1, 2012; and VRT (Belgium) has picked up the first two seasons  that also premiered over the weekend. Justin Time made its US debut on Sprout in April 2012.

Breakthrough Entertainment acquires the new interactive preschool show Kinderzoo (13×30 or 26×11). Produced by Sunrise Entertainment, the series is set in the Kinderzoo and designed to stimulate and educate K2-5 via Play and Learn within its structure. Kinderzoo underlines concepts of conservation through education and uses real animals that appear to speak.

LA-based Entertainment Licensing Associates (ELA) forms a joint venture with Tokyo-based Kaila K.K. that will acquire, adapt, develop, produce and license films, anime, manga, video games, toys and other Japanese intellectual property rights for use across all platforms in North America and around the world. Dan Kletzky, founder of ELA, and Kei Hiroki, who heads Kaliya K.K., have worked together for more than a decade, initially at Konami Digital Entertainment, and then at Fields Corp, where Kletzky served as a consultant to the Pachinko film subsidiary Lucent Pictures where Hiroki was an executive.

STONE SOUP

Bestseller Children’s Picture Books (top 10), Week of August 26, 2012: Title; Author (Publisher)
Good Night Moon; Margaret Wise Brown-author, Clement Hurd-illustrator (HarperFestival)
Night Before First Grade; Natasha Wing-author, Deborah Zemke-illustrator (Random House Children’s Books)
Oh, The Places You’ll Go!; Dr. Seuss (Random House Children’s Books)
Lorax; Dr. Seuss-author (Random House Children’s Books)
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?; Bill Martin, Jr.-author, Guruge-illustrator, Eric Carle-illustrator (Henry Holt & Company)
Very Hungary Caterpillar; Eric Carle (Philomel Books)
Night Before Preschool; Natasha Wing-author, Amy Wummer-illustrator (Grosset & Dunlap)
Big Purple Book of Beginner Books; Peter Eastman, Helen Palmer, Michael Frith, P D Eastman-authors (Random House Books for Young Readers)
First Day Jitters; Julie Dannenberg-author, Judith DuFour love-author/illustrator (Charlesbridge Publishing)
Little Blue Truck; Alice Schertle-author, Jill McElmurry-illustrator (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Source: Publishers Weekly from information supplied by Nielsen BookScan

RATINGS

Live + Same Day Ratings Kids Cable Network Averages (000) for Tuesday, September 4, 2012, 6am-11pm, ranked by K2-11:
NICKELODEON° :             K2-11 736; K6-11 344; TWEENS 9-14 231
DISNEY CHANNEL:           K2-11 725; K6-11 441; TWEENS 9-14 392
CARTOON NETWORK** :   K2-11 440; K6-11 279; TWEENS 9-14 205
DISNEY XD:                    K2-11 140; K6-11 116; TWEENS 9-14 123
NICKTOONS:                  K2-11   66; K6-11   39; TWEENS 9-14   35
°Nickelodeon Total Day: Mon-Thurs 7a-8p; Fri 7a-9p; Sat 6a-10p; Sun 6a-8p
**Cartoon Network & Adult Swim share channel space ADSM airs Sat.-Thurs. 9p-6a
Source: Disney from Nielsen Media Research Data

Live + Same Day Ratings Kids Cable Network Averages (000) for Wednesday, September 5, 2012, 6am-11pm, ranked by K2-11:
DISNEY CHANNEL:            K2-11 752; K6-11 452; TWEENS 9-14 374
NICKELODEON° :              K2-11 675; K6-11 302; TWEENS 9-14 236
CARTOON NETWORK** :   K2-11 387; K6-11 266; TWEENS 9-14 210
DISNEY XD:                    K2-11 143; K6-11 108; TWEENS 9-14   99
NICKTOONS:                   K2-11   59; K6-11   33; TWEENS 9-14   44
°Nickelodeon Total Day: Mon-Thurs 7a-8p; Fri 7a-9p; Sat 6a-10p; Sun 6a-8p
**Cartoon Network & Adult Swim share channel space ADSM airs Sat.-Thurs. 9p-6a
Source: Disney from Nielsen Media Research Data.

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