Cynopsis: Kids!
03/27/08
Good morning. It’s Thursday, March 27, 2008, and this is your first early morning briefing.
Decode Entertainment, a unit of DHX Media, will co-produce the new 2D animated preschool series Poppets Town (26×30 or 52×11) with Spain’s Neptuno Films. Poppets Town, an official Canadian/Spanish co-production in association with Japan’s OLC/Rights Entertainment, has been pre-sold to Canal J (France) and Disney International (UK, Spain, Scandinavia, Italy, Australasia and Taiwan), with TeleQuebec (Canada) also joining as a broadcast partner. Neptuno will handle international sales for Spain, Portugal and Latin America, and OLC will handle the rights in Japan, with Decode responsible for sales in the rest of the world.
WowWee Group Ltd has completed an a deal with movie producers Avi Arad of Arad Productions and Steven Paul from Crystal Sky Pictures to produce Robosapien: Rebooted, a mixed live-action and CGI animated feature-length movie inspired by WowWee’s Robosapien robot. Arad, in collaboration with WowWee, has developed the title character for the film from graphic designs created by WowWee and Arad. According to the deal, WowWee will have the exclusive worldwide rights to market toy merchandise associated with the film and characters, and will receive a share of the income from all other merchandising related to the movie. WowWee Group is an Optimal Group company.
MORE KIDS STUFF
Canada’s Treehouse will host the world premiere of The Wiggles in Wiggle and Learn, starring Sam, the new yellow Wiggle, on Monday, April 21, at 8p. The series will air regularly on Treehouse, Mondays-Fridays at 8p and Saturdays at 4p.
Nickelodeon and Columbia Records releases the second Naked Brothers Band album, titled Don’t Want To Go To School, on Tuesday, April 15. The new CD is comprised of 14 original songs, which are featured in the second season of The Naked Brothers Band TV series on Nickelodeon, Saturdays at 8:30p. The April 19 episode of the series will feature the premiere of the band’s newest song, Body I Occupy. Additionally, The Naked Brothers Band will perform I Don’t Want To Go To School, live on Nickelodeon’s 2008 Kids’ Choice Awards, this Saturday, March 29, 8-9:30p.
Disney Channel hosts a Night of Premieres on Saturday, April 19 7:30-10p. In addition to the debut of new episodes of Phineas and Ferb, The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and Cory in the House, as well as new episodes of the short-form series As the Bell Rings, the evening includes the world premiere of the music video, We Rock (8:55p), from Disney Channel’s upcoming original movie Camp Rock, featuring the Jonas Brothers and Demi Lovato. The night also includes a play of the movie Spy Kids.
Hallmark Channel has picked up the rights to 99 family-themed movies from Disney-ABC Domestic Television. The titles will air on the Hallmark Channel as well as Hallmark Movie Channel and HD network, and includes a number of classics such as Flubber, Return to Snowy River and Shaggy Dog and more recent titles such as The Princess Diaries and The Santa Clause.
Canada’s YTV picks up a fourth season of the live action kids reality series Prank Patrol, from MarVista Entertainment. Set to begin production across Canada in May 2008, the addition of the new season (22×30) brings the total number of Prank Patrol episodes to 100×30. Distributed by MarVista Entertainment Prank Patrol is produced by Apartment 11 Productions. Prank Patrol is licensed as a format to the BBC, which renewed the series for a second season (total of 3o episodes), and was produced in the UK by Bakermedia. Prank Patrol also airs TV2 (Norway/78×30). MarVista also distributes the UK version of Prank Patrol outside of Canada, the UK and Ireland and is responsible for licensing format rights to other territories.
Target Entertainment inks worldwide distribution deal with Initial Kids, a division of Endemol UK, for two of Initial Kids’ properties, both of which will be available at MIPTV. Under the deal, Target acquires the format rights for the factual series Smokehouse, commissioned by CBBC, and distribution rights for the live-action comedy Emu (26×15), which is a CITV series.
- Smokehouse follows six kids as they encourage their parents to kick smoking for good. With the kids in charge of helping their parents give up smoking, kids and parents are supported by experts on techniques and motivational skills, with additional help from athletes and trainers.
- Emu, a puppet bird and his new human owner, Toby Hull, star in this new comedy that returned to CITV last year. Emu and Toby find themselves in a range of slapstick conflicts in the new building where the live, which by the way does not allow pets. Emu and his original pal/owner, Rod Hull who is the real life father of Toby, became popular back in the UK 30+ years ago.
Galleon Holdings plc will offer its new multiplatform teen/family-targeted reality series Super Soccer Star (13×30) at MIPTV 2008 next month in Cannes. Described as a reality talent show, Super Soccer Star premieres on April 7 on China’s regional broadcaster Guangdong TV, which is available to some 50 million viewers. Galleon is co-producing the first season of the new talent search show with Guangdong TV Sports Channel and Chelsea Football Club. The show is designed to promote football (soccer) skills and fitness among teens, and will feature top players from the Guangdong province competing against one another for a chance to train with at the Chelsea Academy.
STONE SOUP
Gaming is the primary activity driving online experiences for K2-14, according to a new study titled Online Play: Earning Mom’s Trust and Children’s Interest. Commissioned by the Toy Industry Association and conducted by The NPD Group, the study found that 76% of all K2-14 on the internet were attracted to social and gaming websites, while education-centric websites contend for the attention of Tweens 9-12 and younger teens 13-14. Among the other findings is that 28% of kids who use social, gaming and/or entertainment sites have purchased either a real physical item or virtual digital content on one of these sites.
EXECUTIVE MOVES
MGM continues to build its team with the naming of Cale Boyter as EVP/Production. He will report to Mary Parent, who was recently appointed as Chairperson, MGM’s Worldwide Motion Picture Group. Boyter toiled at New Line for the last ten years, most recently as EVP/Development, during which time he worked on and executive produced pictures including Elf, Wedding Crashers and A History of Violence.
Laura Navarro joins Imira Entertainment as Licensing Manager for Spain and Portugal. Navarro is charged with leading Imira’s merchandising push for its library of animated properties across Spain and Portugal. She will report to Christophe Goldberger, Head of Distribution and Marketing. Previously, Navarro was Sales Manager at TBZ in Spain, and prior to that Head of Foreign Rights for the publishing group Editions Salamandra.
RATINGS
Live + Same Day Ratings Kids Cable Network Averages (000) for Tuesday, March 25, 2008, 6am-11pm, ranked by K2-11:
NICKELODEON: K2-11 1010; K6-11 485; TWEENS 9-14 353
DISNEY CHANNEL: K2-11 821; K6-11 559; TWEENS 9-14 417
CARTOON NETWORK: K2-11 534; K6-11 321; TWEENS 9-14 243
TOON DISNEY: K2-11 175; K6-11 77; TWEENS 9-14 51
Source: MTVN Research from Nielsen Media Research Data
Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question: In the TV series My So Called Life, what was the name of the high school that Angela (Claire Danes) and her friends attended? LIBERTY HIGH Kudos to: Sara Resnick-WLIW/NY; Jessica Rosen-RF|Binder/NY; Al Ovadia-Al Ovadia & Associates, Inc./Hidden Hills, CA; Odette Felix-Dark Horse Media/Tucson, AZ;
Laura Meador-Anaid Productions Inc./Edmonton
Today’s Trivia Question: In each episode, a little girl is magically transported to fun and exciting locations around the globe by trying on a pair of shoes on what animated series? ( 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!
03.27.08
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