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Cynopsis: Kids! 12/06/10 Good morning. It’s Monday, December 6, 2010, and this is your first early morning Kids briefing. CBBC (UK) launches Championsheeps, a new group of online games based on Aardman Animation’s series Shaun the Sheep, at www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/shaunthesheep . Developed by Aardman Digital, Championsheeps is comprised of five games are all set around the farm and allow players to challenge each other and compare scores. Championsheeps and its five new games are designed to support the new episodes of Shaun the Sheep, which start airing on BBC One and CBBC beginning today. The five games that make up Championsheeps are: Flock Together; Alien Athletics; Sheep Stack; Baahmy Golf; and Chic n’ Spoon. NEW PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT Actor/author David Walliams‘, creator/star of BBC’s Little Britain, first kid’s book, The Boy In The Dress, is set to be made into a TV movie by Sky, per The Sun. The program will be produced by Hat Trick (Father Ted, Have I Got News For You), which has begun casting for Dennis, the 12-year-old boy star of the story. Walliams has two other kid’s books, Mr. Stink and Billionaire Boy. More Kung-Fu Panda, Penguins of Madagascar and How To Train Your Dragon movies. DreamWorks Animation‘s Jeffrey Katzenberg lays out plans for several movie sequels in a interview with Empire Online. In total Katzenberg says that there will be four Penguins of Madagascar movies, six Kung-Fu Panda pictures, and at least three How To Train Your Dragon movies (there are eight Dragon books). As for if Shrek Forever After, which releases this week on DVD and Blu-ray, is really the last Shrek movie Katzenberg said, “What our movies and our franchises also share in common with Shrek is that they have a beginning, a middle and an end; they’re not open-ended. Each of the films is a chapter of a story and in every instance we knew what that journey was or could be before we even started.” ABC will air the 2010 Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade special on Christmas Day, December 25, 11a-1p. Hosted by Ryan Seacrest at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida, and Nick Cannon from Disneyland resort in California, with co-host Maria Menounos from Florida, as well as correspondent Samantha Brown, the parade special features performances by Mariah Carey, Darius Rucker, amber Riley, Selena Gomez, Debby Ryan, Jackie Evancho (10-year-old soprano), Lee DeWyze (American Idol), and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, among others. Fans (18+) can also sign up for text alerts to get more information and factoids about the parade, while also sending holiday wishes that might appear during the broadcast, by sending an SMS message with PARADE to 37275 (DPARK). Additionally, on December 25 Radio Disney will run the one-hour 2010 Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade Special on Radio Disney (9a), hosted by Ernie D and Jake Whetter and featuring behind-the-scene information from the parade and a previews of performances. Breakthrough Entertainment completes programming deals in Asia ahead of Asia Television Forum (ATF) this week in Singapore. Among the new broadcast deals, Breakthrough inks one for the kid-targeted, mixed CGI animated/live-action preschool series Dino Dan with Indonesia’s PT Nusantara (TVN). A science/adventure series, Dino Dan was developed/produced by Sinking Ship Entertainment. 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 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 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). Correction: The title of Nickelodeon’s holiday-themed episode of its preschool series The Fresh Beat Band is Fresh Beats in Toyland. A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM BATTLE OF THE BANDS: ROCK THE DECADES
Battle of the Bands: Rock the Decades
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 . MARKETING/LICENSING Knowledge Adventure, the educational software company behind JumpStart, dive into the licensing world with three new deals, brokered by its licensing agency, 360ep. The new licensing partnerships include: a school supplies deal with Fine Line (activity sets, flash cards, paper and pads, stickers, portfolios, notebooks, stationery sets, lunch kits, school bags); a board games and puzzles deal with GDC-GameDevCo; and a graphic novel by Silver Dragon Books. Chapman Entertainment enters into new UK license deals for its preschool properties Fifi and the Flowertots and Roary the Racing Car.
STONE SOUP Weekend Box Office Estimates for kids/tweens/teens rated G, PG or PG-13; December 3-5, 2010: RATINGS Top 10 Combined Broadcast/Basic Cable shows among Kids 2-11 for the week of 11/22-11/28/10 , 6a-6a: Top 10 Combined Broadcast/Basic Cable shows among Kids 6-11 for the week of 11/22-11/28/10 , 6a-6a: Top 10 Combined Broadcast/Basic Cable shows among Tweens 9-14 for the week of 11/22-11/28/10 , 6a-6a: Top 10 Combined Broadcast/Basic Cable shows among Teens 12-17 for the week of 11/22-11/28/10 , 6a-6a: Final K6-11 Ratings for Saturday, November 27, 2010 Broadcast Networks only (Live + SD Data): Final K6-11 Ratings for Saturday, November 27, 2010 Cable Networks only (Live + SD Data): Live + Same Day Ratings Kids Cable Network Averages (000) for Thursday, December 2, 2010, 6am-11pm, ranked by K2-11: Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia: On what series will you find the characters Big Cheese, Polly Ester, Gerri Atric and Al Dente? SAMURAI PIZZA CATS Kudos to … again nobody. Wow. 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