A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM MARATHON
TEAM GALAXY RULES ON CARTOON NETWORK AND INTERNATIONALLY
– AFTER 2 MONTHS ON AIR, TEAM GALAXY HIT THE #1 SPOT ON CARTOON NETWORK’S SATURDAY MORNING IN DECEMBER 1
– SINCE LAUNCH, TEAM GALAXY GREW WEEK-TO-WEEK AMONG BOYS 6-11, BOYS 2-11, AND CHILDREN 6-11 BY AS MUCH AS 47% 2
– TEAM GALAXY HAS ALREADY BEEN SOLD TO OVER 30 MAJOR BROADCASTERS INCLUDING YTV CANADA, JETIX EUROPE, GMTV (U.K), RTL 2 (GERMANY), RAI (ITALY)
TEAM GALAXY (52X26′) IS PRODUCED & DISTRIBUTED INTERNATIONALLY BY MARATHON
1- source : NHI (Galaxy Explorer), 12/2/06. Cartoon Network, Kids 6-11; 6:00 am – 12:00 pm Household and demographic coverage area ratings.
2- Source: NHI (Galaxy Explorer), 9/9/06-9/12/06. Cartoon Network channel coverage area ratings/shares.
Cynopsis: Kids!
12/19/06
Good morning. It’s Tuesday, December 19, 2006 and this is your first early morning Kids! briefing.
In its ongoing quest to expand its reach via multiple platforms, MTV Networks has established MTVN Mobile Media. Headed by Greg Clayman, the new unit will focus on growing the MTVN’s mobile content business and will manage mobile partnerships and content distribution for the company. Additionally, the MTVN Mobile Media unit will support the teams at the individual MTVN brands, which includes the Kids and Family Group, Entertainment Group; Music, Logo and Films Group; and MTVN International, in developing a unique range of mobile content and applications.
MySpace.com and Cingular Wireless have teamed-up in an deal that will give Cingular customers exclusive access to MySpace.com on its mobile phones. Under the agreement, MySpace’s largest mobile deal ever, Cingular subscribers will be able to edit MySpace profiles, view friend and group lists, add friends, post photos taken on their phones, send/receive MySpace e-mail messages and post blog entries for an additional $2.99 per month. In addition Cingular subscribers will still be able to use MySpace Mobile’s existing features such as real time mobile text alerts. No news yet as to if or when the new MySpace features will be available through other carriers.
NEW PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT
The film and TV rights to Peter Pan In Scarlet, author Geraldine McCaughrean’s officially sanctioned sequel to Peter Pan, have been granted to a consortium of BBC Films, UK Film Council and Headline Pictures by the Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital (GOSH). Charlotte Mann of The Rod Hall Agency Ltd brokered the rights agreement on behalf of GOSH. Peter Pan creator/author J.M. Barrie gave the rights to the London hospital in 1929, as an ongoing source of funding for the institution. In 2004 GOSH Trustees launched a search for an author to pen a sequel to Barrie’s Peter Pan. An advisory panel selected McCaughrean, author of 132+ books & plays, and her book Peter Pan In Scarlet was subsequently published this fall in the UK by Oxford University Press and in the US by Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing, and around the world through with international publishing partners.
MORE KIDS STUFF
URGE, MTV’s digital music service, has launched a preview version of its new My Auto-Mix, which features customizable tools that allows users to create personalized playlists based on songs, artists, genres or moods. Once an Auto-Mix playlist is created, users can then save a feed to it and get new, updated music delivered to their PC and MP3 players each time they access URGE. My Auto-Mix uses new technology created by MediaUnbound, a developer of music personalization technology, which it licensed to MTVN. In addition, URGE also debuted Stories, which showcases all content gathered by URGE music programmers and includes: artists Q & As, album reviews, playlists, trend stories and blogs.
In its first VOD agreement in Canada, Buena Vista international Television has inked a multi-year VOD movie rental agreement with Rogers Cable. Rogers Personal TV customers in Ontario with a digital set top box will be able to watch Disney live-action/animated movies via Rogers On Demand. Available titles will include Cars, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, Cocktail, among others, with new Disney movies added as they are available, and a new selection of library titles to be added on a continual basis.
TV-Loonland has inked new deals in France for its Little Princess preschool property with public broadcaster, France 5, and cable and satellite preschool channel Tiji, a subsidiary of CanalJ. Little Princess made its premiere in October of this year in the UK on Five’s preschool block Milkshake. In addition Five has added the Little Princess to the preschool line-up on FIVE LIFE, its new digital channel.
MARKETING/LICENSING
Genius Products has picked up the home video rights to ToddWorld from Taffy Entertainment. Episodes of ToddWorld will be released on DVD beginning spring 2007. In the US, ToddWorld airs on the Ready Set Learn! block on TLC and Discovery Kids. Targeted to preschoolers, the series is co-produced by Mike Young Productions, Discovery Kids, India’s Dataquest and Ireland’s Telegael.
PorchLight Entertainment and Playtime, LLC recently opened Pavilion Playtown, a Jay Jay The Jet Plane themed play area based on PorchLight’s preschool animated series of the same name, at the SouthBay Pavilion mall in Carson, California. The Jay Jay centric Pavilion Playtown is the first of PorchLight’s long-term outreach plan to expand its Jay Jay The Jet Plane branding and licensing effort. New episodes of Jay Jay The Jet Plane are set to premiere on PBS stations in 2007.
STONE SOUP
While I know that I think this every year, haven’t we have lost some of the best in the business this year? News of the passing of these two gentlemen just underlines what I’m talking about.
News came tonight that Joe Barbera, the latter half of the Hanna-Barbera writing and animation team, died yesterday at the age of 95. Barbera and his partner Bill Hanna met at MGM’s cartoon animation division in the 1940s and starting there were single-handedly responsible for changing the face of animation, specifically TV cartoons, beginning with their Tom & Jerry shorts, which ran in movie houses and later became a TV series. When MGM shuttered its animation department, the two creators established Hanna-Barbera Productions, and they were off and running with their first TV project, Ruff and Reddy. The two characters served as wrap-around segments for animated movie shorts for Screen Gems, followed the next year (1958) by the Huckleberry Hound series that was comprised of some of the teams’ other famous characters including Yogi Bear, Quick Draw McGraw and Pixie and Dixie, which eventually went on to have their own programs. In 1960 Hanna-Barbera produced The Flintstones, the first ever primetime animated series featuring one main story-arc in each 30-minute episode, the series ran on ABC for six years. Two years later, Hanna Barbera’s stone-aged family was joined in primetime by its space-aged series, The Jetsons (okay it only lasted a year there). Of course we could go show-by-show but that would pretty much mean year-by-year so I’ll just remind you of some of Hanna Barbera’s other series (most hits, others less so), specials and animated movies (TV and theatrical): The Yogi Bear Show; Top Cat; Jonny Quest; Scooby Doo (and other variations); Fantastic Four; Superfriends; Sky Commanders; Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm (and variations);; Captain Planet; Alice in Wonderland; Jack and the Beanstalk; The Stone Fox; Anchors Aweigh; Charlotte’s Web; The Pagemaster among many many others. Hanna-Barbera was acquired by Turner Broadcasting in 1991, which in turn was acquired by Time Warner in 1996. Barbera’s partner Bill Hanna passed away in 2001
Chris Hayward, who wrote for TV shows including Rocky and Bullwinkle, Get Smart, The Munster’s and Barney Miller, passed away last month from cancer, he was 81. As part of Jay Ward’s Sunset Boulevard studios, the comic writer helped to develop the inept animated Canadian Mountie Dudley Do-Right, as well as writing for various other segments featured on the Rocky and Bullwinkle shows, which bowed as Rocky and His Friends on ABC in 1959, and two years later began airing on NBC, where it was called The Bullwinkle Show. No matter what you call the show(s), Rocky and Bullwinkle and the segments within the shows included some of the funniest writing ever that still holds up today – some of my first memories of uncontrollable laughter came while watching these shows. While working for Ward, Hayward met Allan Burns, who together created TV series The Munster’s, which launched on CBS in 1964, as well as another 1960s CBS series titled He & She. When the two parted ways, Hayward went on to write and co-produce Barney Miller for ABC.
EXECUTIVE MOVES
In creating the new MTVN Mobile Media group, MTVN also announced several appointments.
- Greg Clayman has been upped to SVP, MTVN Mobile Media. Clayman will report to Mika Salmi, head of MTVN Global Digital Media and Nicole Browning, President/MTVN Affiliate Sales.
- Alice Kim becomes VP/Carrier Relations and Wireless Distribution. In her new role Kim will oversee existing distribution partnerships for all MTVN brands and direct distribution marketing and business development partnerships with carriers.
- Jeremiah Zinn takes on the role of VP/Mobile Operations and Product Development. He will work with the individual MTVN brand teams to manage wireless products and creating partnerships with service and technology companies. Zinn will continue to report to Layman.
RATINGS
Live + Same Day Ratings Kids Cable Network Averages (000) for Friday, December 15, 2006, 6am-11pm, ranked by K2-11:
NICKELODEON: K2-11 1068; K6-11 511; TWEENS 9-14 412
DISNEY CHANNEL: K2-11 794; K6-11 527; TWEENS 9-14 450
CARTOON NETWORK: K2-11 617; K6-11 365; TWEENS 9-14 250
TOON DISNEY: K2-11 140; K6-11 81; TWEENS 9-14 44
Source: MTVN Research from Nielsen Media Research Data
Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question: Name the show of the 80’s which centered around four computer savvy teenagers who assisted the local news reporter Mr. Farley and Lieutenant Quin in solving local crime? WHIZ KIDS Kudos to: Cassel Kroll-The Lexicomm Group/NY; Julie Syers-Briggs & Caldwell/Houston; Betsy Bozdech-Common Sense Media/San Francisco; Rachel Capata-Kauff McClain & McGuire LLP/LA; Jane Apparis-Apparis/Simi Valley, CA
Today’s Trivia Question: For inspiration, the phrase and lyrics to a song, “Put one foot in front of the other,” were part of which animated holiday classic animated film? (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!
12.19.06
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