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Cynopsis: Kids!
4/19/07
Good morning. It’s Thursday, April 19, 2007 and this is your first early morning briefing.
TV-Loonland has entered into a content deal with KidsCo, the new kids/family multi-platform channel formed by Sparrowhawk Media, DIC Entertainment and Nelvana Enterprises. Under the pact a raft of TV Loonland’s titles, including Clifford, The Famous Jett Jackson, GI Joe and The Black Stallion, will run on the global channel, which is slated to begin rolling out this fall 2007 in Central and Eastern Europe, to be followed by launches throughout 2008-9 in territories across Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific.
NEW PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT
Mike Young Productions and Gamania Digital Entertainment, the Taiwan-based multiplayer online games publisher, are partnering with Cartoon Network International to co-produce Hero: 108, a new comedy/action, flash animated series. Based on the ancient Chinese novel The Water Margin, Hero: 108 is targeted to K6-11 that revolves around 14-year-old warrior, Lin Chung (aka Panther Eye), who along with her friends has special powers that they use to end the ongoing clash between humans and animals. Plans for the property include multi-platform projects such as video games.
MORE KIDS STUFF
Sesame Workshop and TV Cultura, Brazil’s kids/education/culture channel for kids and parent, have unveiled plans to premiere a one-hour Vila Sesamo (Sesame Street) branded kids programming block in October 2007. Slated to air Monday-Friday on TV Cultura’s main terrestrial channel, the block’s lineup will include Play With Me Sesame, Global Grover and Elmo’s World, which will be dubbed into Portuguese, as well as 78 locally produced, live action films featuring Brazilian kids. Additionally, Vila Sesamo will air three times a day on TV Cultura’s pay TV channel Ra Tim Bum, and will be carried on the broadcaster’s syndicated programming block on state-run broadcasters.
Target Entertainment has inked a rights deal with Cartoon Network UK for the game show, Skatoony. Target will represent format rights and programs sales for the series, which is hosted by two animated characters, Chudd Chudders and The Earl. A localized version of Skatoony is currently being produced in India.
Elsewhere, Target Entertainment has also secured sales for two preschool series. Discovery Kids Latin America and France 5 have acquired the animated show Fluffy Gardens (39×7′), while France 5 also picks up a second cycle of the stop-motion animated series FiFi and the Flowertots.
The animated series Dragon Hunters moves into a second season, according to the series co-producers Your Family Entertainment (YFE), Futurikon and Super RTL. Season two of Dragon Hunters is currently slated to be available for mid-2008. YFE continues to hold the pay-TV rights for Europe’s German-speaking areas and the free-TV rights for Austria and Switzerland, while also being responsible for sales and distribution of the series in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. Additionally, YFE owns the entire rights package for these countries (free-TV, pay-TV, DVD, merchandising).
Piczo Inc. is expanding its teen-targeted online social network site ( http://www.piczo.com ), which until now has been up and running in North America and the UK. Piczo is rolling out its service into Germany, France and Spain, and in their respective local languages.
Calling all college students! The deadline for your TV essays is this Friday at 12midnight for the Cyn opsis Weekender College Edition sponsored by Greek, A New ABC Family Original Series coming in July. The edition will be published next Thursday, April 26, 2007, and if your essay on television is one of the four published, you’ll be paid $350! All entries must be emailed no later than midnight on Friday, April 20th to me at [email protected], SUBJECT: Weekender College Edition. Students – be sure to include your name, age, college, college year, and major (if you know it), and how you can be contacted. And here’s an extra bonus — this one edition of Weekender will also carry Situation Wanted ads at no charge for college students looking to get into the television business – even if you didn’t submit an essay. If you’re interested in learning more – email Trish Pihonak at [email protected].
MARKETING/LICENSING
AOL held its first ad-sales upfront presentation where it introduced five programming initiatives. In the kids area AOL announced the Ye Olde Shrek the Third Royal Tournament, which will launch 25 games leading up to the third Shrek release.
Marvel Entertainment has expanded its deal with Sega Europe and Sega of America, under which they will develop and distribute games based on Marvel’s upcoming feature films, The Incredible Hulk (June 13 2008), Captain America (TBD), and Thor (TBD). These new Super Hero games are slated for release in conjunction with Marvel’s feature films starring the respective Super Heroes. This new exclusive, multi-year licensing deal follows Marvel and Sega’s pact to create game titles based on Marvel’s upcoming Iron Man movie, with both game and movie set for release in May 2008.
Looking to connect with moms online…
- Launching in Canada is BabyThoughts.ca, the site is both an online community targeted to new moms and also an e-retailer, selling developmental toys for infants.
- Actress and real life mom, Leah Remini is starring in an original series of webisodes about being a working mom and wife. Produced by Suave, Sprint and MindShare Entertainment for In the Motherhood, the webisodes premiere this week on MSN and run through June. Viewer moms are invite to submit their own stories to the site for potential inclusion in the webisodes, which are also available on suave.com and Sprint TV and will be promoted in People magazine and on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. http://www.inthemotherhood.com is hosted by MSN.
New Line Cinema has completed a number of license deals to create products based on its upcoming movie musical, Hairspray, which will be released July 20, 2007. Licensing partners for the movie include: Play Along will introduce a line of collectible dolls based on the movie, the first two series bowing spring and fall 2007 respectively; Palace Press is publishing a behind-the-scenes movie book; Lucas Design, Infinite Visions and Accessory Network Group, Inc. (home and personal accessories categories); Sababa (board games); Penguin publishing (novels and movie storybooks); BuyCostumes (Halloween costumes).
RATINGS
Live + Same Day Ratings Kids Cable Network Averages (000) for Tuesday, April 17, 2007, 6am-11pm, ranked by K2-11:
NICKELODEON: K2-11 1112; K6-11 545; TWEENS 9-14 392
DISNEY CHANNEL: K2-11 673; K6-11 388; TWEENS 9-14 336
CARTOON NETWORK: K2-11 552; K6-11 336; TWEENS 9-14 263
TOON DISNEY: K2-11 120; K6-11 67; TWEENS 9-14 46
Source: MTVN Research from Nielsen Media Research Data
Answer to Yesterday’s trivia question: Max from The Suite Life Of Zack and Cody, also played one of the kids in Cheaper by the Dozen. What is this character’s name in Cheaper by the Dozen? SARAH. Kudos to: Al Ovadia-Al Ovadia & Associates/Calabasas, CA; Andy Meyers-M3 Television/Burbank
Today’s Trivia Question: Here’s the description – you give me the character’s name. Professor Everett was a widow and college math professor, with three children. After going through a slew of nannies, there arrived one day a woman with a distinctly British accent who seemed to be just right. What was the nanny’s full name? ( 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!
04.19.07
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