Cynopsis: Kids!
08/07/08
Good morning. It’s Thursday, August 7, 2008, and this is your first early morning Kids briefing.
With a plan to attract Boys 6-14, Disney Channel will re-launch its Toon Disney channel as Disney XD in February 2009, according to an LA Times report. The ad-supported Disney XD will offer a range of original live-action and animated series, TV movies, and sports programs that are being developed with ESPN, which is also owned by Disney, as well as some existing series including: Aaron Stone, a live-action show that revolves around a video game playing prodigy who is secretly also a crime fighter; Mongoose & Luther, a mockumentary about friends who want to be world class skateboarders; the new short-form animated series RoboDz, developed with Toei Animation Co.; and existing animated series such as Phineas and Ferb and Batman: The Animated Series. We can also expect to see a corresponding website and mobile offerings for Disney XD.
MORE KIDS STUFF
Kabillion, the kid aimed broadband and VOD service, acquires the rights to 1960s animated TV series Underdog, which it will debut from today. The premiere also kicks off Kabillion’s month-long programming event featuring Olympic-themed episodes of shows including Bobby’s World, Code Lyoko, Pet Alien, Mix Master and I Got a Rocket and of course Underdog. Kabillion is co-owned by Taffy Entertainment, REMIX Entertainment Ventures and Germany’s EM.Entertainment.
In the spirit of the Olympics and good sportsmanship, PBS Kids Sprout celebrates Good Sport Week on the live Sunny Side Up Show, each morning 9a-12 noon, the week of August 11. The week long programming event includes segments featuring special guests champion figure skater Michael Weiss, Special Olympian Christa Mereen (softball, track and field, bowling, floor hockey and bocce) and Junior Olympians Judy Kahn (jump roper) and Annie McLaughlin (field hockey).
Indie TV distributor All3Media International inks a range of new deals for CBBC Productions‘ factual series franchise Serious …, as it prepares to debut the new Serious Ocean series. Picking up Serious Ocean are TV Ontario (Canada), TV3 (New Zealand) and YLE (Sweden), with further sales to be expected prior to Mipcom. Serious Ocean features eight young adventures as they travel to the southern-most part of Chile where they will train before sailing, diving and exploring the flora and fauna of the fjords, channels of Tierra del Fuego, the Straits of Magellan and the ocean off South West Chile and an attempt to make their way around Cape Horn.
As part of an ongoing effort to reach all South African preschoolers with early literacy education in their own language, Takalani Sesame, the South African incarnation of Sesame Workshop’s Sesame Street, has added 4 new languages to its program: Sesotho, Xitsonga, isiXhosa and Afrikaans. The fifth season of Takalani Sesame bows on SABC this month. This new season will also welcome new characters such as Vinnie, Ma Dimpho’s younger brother a techno-whiz that introduces the Muppets to email and the internet and a mobile library of books and maps, as well as Maria the camel who teaches kids about the desert and ways to treat people who are different. The season features a host of celebrities.
Sushi Pack: The Movie is running in movie theaters nationwide through Kidtoons matinee series beginning this month, following the launch of the Sushi Pack TV series on CBS Saturday morning Kewlopolis block. Sushi Pack: The Movie can be seen at participating movie theaters including National Amusements, Abingdon Cinemall, Allen, Atlas, Emagine, Marquee, Neighborhood, AccessIT’s Pavilion Theatre, Rave Motion Pictures, Republic Theatre Group, Showplace and UltraStar. Additionally, this month America Greetings Properties launches an exclusive lifestyle program for Sushi Pack at American Greetings/Carlton Cards Retail, Inc. stores in the US and Canada.
MARKETING/LICENSING
As kids head back to school Whole Foods Market focuses on health and wellness for kids this month and next. The effort is part of Whole Foods Market’s Be Good to Your Whole Body campaign. Under its program the retailer is offering in-store lectures and video and audio podcasts. Lectures include, Nutritional needs for kids kindergarten through college, How to get more essential fatty acids into a child’s diet, and The big three for kids: exercise, stress management and sleep, among others. Video podcasts include one with Lynda Fassa, founder Green Babies and author, who will present on how tweens and teens benefit from natural products, while audio podcasts focus on kids and multivitamins among other topics.
Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! heads to DVD for the first time when Anchor Bay Entertainment releases A Tale of Tales on September 23, 2008. The release includes six episodes of Wubbzy, as well as two bonus episodes of the series, a music video, coloring pages, printable activities, games, sneak peeks and other content.
September 23 will also see the first release of Dinosaur King on DVD in the US with Dinosaur King: The Adventure Begins on DVD from Shout Factory in association 4Kids Entertainment. Dinosaur King airs the 4KidsTV Saturday morning programming block on Fox. The DVD includes the first five episodes of the series and a special edition trading card and other extras. Sega of America is set to release a Dinosaur King role-play-game for Nintendo DS this September as well.
Fox Home Entertainment releases Care Bears Flurries of Fun on DVD on October 7, 2008. The release (160 minutes) includes three adventures including the Care Bears in Oopsy Does It, Grizzle-ly Adventures and Ups and Downs.
Lionsgate and HIT Entertainment are set to release Bob the Builder: Bob’s White Christmas DVD on October 14, 2008. The holiday release includes five episodes of Bob including: Bob’s White Christmas, Bob and the Big Freeze, Bob of the North, Special Delivery Spud, and Bob’s Bugle.
BBC Worldwide releases a new LazyTown DVD, The Snow Monster and Other Stories, in the UK on November 3, 2008. The DVD is comprised of five LazyTown episodes: The Snow Monster; Friends Forever; LazyTown Circus; Double Trouble; and Sportacus saves the Toys.
RATINGS
Disney Channel’s debut of a new episode of Hannah Montana this past Sunday, August 3 at 8p, earned the series its best rating for in close to a year and was the top telecast for the week among K6-11 2.0 million and Tweens 9-14 1.8 million, per Nielsen Media Research. To date the second season of Hannah Montana has increased the time period versus last year up by +6% among K6-11 by +6% and an increase of +13% with Tweens 9-14.
Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question: What was the first name of the latch-key kid that was hired to do errands and odd jobs on the classic TV series The Facts of Life? ANDY Kudos to: Lauren Meyer/NY; Bob Friedland-Toys”R”Us, Inc./NY; Lee Williams-ChasingImages Entertainment/Ottawa
Today’s Trivia Question: On Nickelodeon’s new animated series The Mighty B!, who provides the voice of the main character, Bessie Higgenbottom? (Email [email protected] 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!
08.07.08
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