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Cynopsis: Kids!
04/24/06
Good morning. It’s Monday, April 24, 2006 and this is your first early morning Kids! briefing.
NEW PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT
Jetix Europe has teamed up with Park Entertainment and Doctor Who veterans, writer Bob Baker and designer/illustrator Paul Tams, to develop K-9 Adventures (26 x 30 min). A comedy-fantasy series, K-9 Adventures is set in space and revolves around Doctor Who’s famous robot dog K9, who will get a high-tech CGI animated and live-action make-over. The original K-9 will make a guest appearance on the new series of Doctor Who, starring David Tennant as the good Doctor, on BBC1 this Saturday, April 29. Baker co-created K-9 with Dave Martin, who was his co-writer at the time. Hmmm, you thinking K-9 already starred in a spin-off series? Well it’s true, he did. The show, albeit brief, was called K9&Co and aired in 1981.
KidSational, Inc. and RuffHouse Productions, Inc, have begun principle photography on the feature film The Guardians in Florida. The movie is based on Kidsational’s family board game of the same name and stars the teen pop group, TGK. Also featured in the movie are Ron Palillo (Welcome Back Kotter/Horshack), Cleat Ezelle, and Alex M (Laguna Beach). Kidsational is a creator and distributor educational kids games.
MORE KIDS STUFF
Comcast Corporation and Screenlife, LLC have entered into a deal to develop customized VOD versions of Screenlife’s Scene It? The DVD Game. A special Harry Potter-themed edition debuted over the weekend in conjunction with the VOD premiere of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire on Comcast On Demand. The Harry Potter Scene It? Edition, which is available at no additional cost, can be found in the Free Movies section of the On Demand menu. Comcast and Screenlife began offering VOD versions of the family targeted trivia games in February.
In anticipation of The N’s premiere of the two-hour season-two finale of its original animated series O’Grady’s tonight at 9p, the network has made the first five episodes of the season available for download at the iTunes Music Store, in addition to season one. Beginning tomorrow, the entire second season of O’Grady will go on sale on iTunes. O’Grady is written and produced by Soup2Nuts and co-created by Carl Adams and Tom Snyder (Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist).
The National Television Academy in cooperation with the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences presented the 33rd Annual Creative Craft Daytime Emmy Awards over the weekend, during simultaneous ceremonies held in NYC and LA. In the kids arena PBS led the way winning 12 Emmys with the most going to Sesame Workshop for Sesame Street, followed by Zoom and Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks with two statues each. Also taking home two awards was the Kids’ WB animated series Batman. Among the other awards handed out on Saturday, Caroll Spinney, the man who brings Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch to life, was honored with this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award. The televised 33rd annual Daytime Emmy Awards airs this Friday April 28, on ABC at 9-11p, live from California, marking the first time that the Daytime Emmy Awards will be broadcast from Hollywood. Congratulations to all nominees and winners. For a complete listing, check out: www.emmyonline.org.
MARKETING/LICENSING
Jakks Pacific, Inc. has inked a worldwide licensing agreement with Hit Entertainment to market and distribute Jakks’s new TeleStory interactive books based on Hit’s properties including Thomas & Friends, Barney, The Wiggles and Bob the Builder properties. Targeted to preschoolers, The TeleStory interactive books connect directly into a standard TVs using Jakks’ Plug & Read technology.
Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. has reduced the price tag of its PlayStation2 entertainment system in North America to $129. Sony will support its new pricing marketing effort through print and online ads, as well as in-store support. The print campaign is slated to bow this Thursday in big city newspapers, with online ads launching on AOL among other sites.
MGA Entertainment Inc. and Vivid Imaginations will launch the Soda Pop Girls in the UK and Ireland toy market this September 2006. Hailing from Yummi-Land, the Soda Pop Girls are a series of six scented dolls. The dolls and their respective pets and accessories (hair brush, purse, flavored lip gloss etc.) come in a collectable bottle in a 2-pack soda bottle carrier. Pet Shop and SodaPop Shop playsets will be released following the initial product launch. MGA introduced the Soda Pop Girls products in the US earlier this month.
Warner Bros. Consumer Products and Visa International with PT. Bank Central Asia Tbk. (BCA) have introduced the BCA Visa Credit Card featuring DC Comics‘ Dark Knight. Targeted to Indonesia’s young adults, the BCA Card Batman is designed to embody the Batman oeuvre and the hip consumer, which is why the card is black.
STONE SOUP
Weekend Box Office Estimates for kids/tweens/teens rated G, PG or PG-13; April 2123, 2006:
Scary Movie 4 (Dimension) PG-13 $17.0m-2 wk total $67.7m
The Sentinel (Fox) PG-13 Opening weekend $14.7m
Ice Age: The Meltdown (Fox) PG $12.8m-4 wk total $167.9m
The Wild (Buena Vista) G $8.1m-2 wk total $22.0m
The Benchwarmers (Sony / Revolution) PG-13 $7.3m-3 wk total $47.1m
Take the Lead (New Line) PG-13 $4.3m-3 wk total $29.6m
American Dreamz (Universal) PG-13 Opening weekend $3.7m
Failure to Launch (Paramount) PG-13 $1.4m-7 wk total $85.6m
Phat Girlz (Fox Searchlight) PG-13 $490,000-3 wk total $6.4m
She’s the Man (DreamWorks) PG-13 $419,000-6 wk total $32.7m
Source: Box Office Mojo
EXECUTIVE MOVES
Overseeing the Kids WB! Saturday morning animation block on the new CW network this fall will be Betsy McGowen as SVP/GM. Betsy migrates over to The CW from Kids WB where she has been since its inception in 1995, and she’ll report directly to Dawn Ostroff.
Casting Call: Prod company Embassy Row is producing a new daily news show and is looking for a host (male or female). Embassy is conducting an open casting call in NYC this Wednesday. If you are between 21 and 34 years old, are internet savvy and can read a teleprompter, perhaps this is the gig for you. Casting call will be held on the 26th between the times of 11a and 5p, at 435 W. 19th Street, 2nd Floor (btwn 9th and 10th Aves) in NYC. Good luck!
RATINGS
Live + Same Day Ratings Kids Cable Network Averages (000) for Thursday, April 20, 2006, 6am-11pm, ranked by K2-11:
NICKELODEON: K2-11 1238; K6-11 566; TWEENS 9-14 393
DISNEY CHANNEL: K2-11 776; K6-11 471; TWEENS 9-14 361
CARTOON NETWORK: K2-11 548; K6-11 379; TWEENS 9-14 302
TOON DISNEY: K2-11 129; K6-11 68; TWEENS 9-14 35
Source: MTVN Research from Nielsen Media Research Data
Answer to Friday’s trivia question: After ten years on Canadian television, what game show host made his American debut in 1973 hosting The Wizard of Odds? ALEX TREBEK Kudos to: Barry Solomon-Menudo Entertainment/NY; Jordan Breslow-Media Com US/NY; Nicole E. Johnson-TV One/Silver Spring MD; John R. Molish-Brighter Minds Media/Worthington OH; Nancy Pines-Harrison & Star/NY; Kerri Huyck-KIDK/Idaho Falls ID; Ginger Sorvari-Best Buy Co/Minneapolis MN; Kevin Schmidt-National Cable Communications/Chicago; Derrick Goulet-CBS/LA; Pat Brady-CESD Talent/LA; Rita Illig-RBI Associates Inc/Grenada Hills CA
Today’s Trivia Question: On the show Eight is Enough, what actor starred as the troubled nephew Jeremy, who joined the clan and made it nine for a while? (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
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04.24.06 – 3:37a
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