CYNOPSIS EVENTS AT NATPE 2009

Cynopsis: Kids!

01/20/09

Good morning. It’s Tuesday, January 20, 2009, a history making day, and this is your first early morning Kids briefing.

NEW PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT

Cartoon Network France and Cartoon Network Italy and Spain, have pre-bought the new preschool-aimed flash and CGI animated series Commander Clark (52×13), which heads into production this month at Paris-based GO-N Productions.  Based on an idea from Go-N’s Eric Garnet and Anne de Galard, Commander Clark is penned by Ian Carney (Shawn the Sheep, Frankenstein Cat).  The series comes from Go-N Productions with the participation of France 5 and Cartoon Network France.

Nickelodeon confirms its has inked a deal with production company O’Malley Creadon to produce the a SpongeBob SquarePants TV documentary (1×60) to mark the property’s 10the anniversary.  Filmmaker Patrick Creadon (Wordplay, I.O.U.S.A.) will co-produce, direct and write the doc with co-producer Christine O’Malley.  The project is schedule to bow across MTV Networks’ TV platforms in July 2009 to coincide with the anniversary of the series debut.

MORE KIDS STUFF

Al Jazeera launches its new preschool-centric TV channel Baraem Channel and corresponding interactive website (www.baraem.tv), designed to providing K3-6, their parents and educators with tools to prepare kids for school with age-appropriate knowledge of Arabic writing and language.  Baraem will compliment the Al Jazeera Children’s Channel, the K7-15 targeted channel that launched in 2005.  Broadcasting 17 hours daily, Baraem is airing upwards of 15% of self-produced content and 85% acquired programming from around the world.  Baraem is free to view in Arab countries and Europe on Arabsat, Nilesat, and Hotbird.  Baraem is funded by Qatar Foundation for Education, Science, and Community Development, and managed by Al Jazeera Children’s Channel.

Disney Channel has several big evenings set for February 2009:

• The network premieres its new live-action comedy, Sonny With A Chance, Sunday, with back-to-back episodes on February 8 at 8p and 8:30p.  Starring Demi Lovato (Camp Rock), the series will also be featured ahead of its debut in a range of multiplatform previews including DisneyChannel.com’s new series supersite.  The premiere episode will also be available at the iTunes Store (free for seven days) and via SVOD, and from February 9 the episodes can be found on DisneyChannel.com, Sprint TV, AT&T CV, Verizon V Cast, iTunes, Xbox and Netflix.  Additionally, the new series will be featured on Disney’s new TweenWeekly.com (an online version of the fictional tween magazine), when that site launches February 6.
• On Monday, February 16, Disney Channel hosts Night of Stars, 7-9:40p, which will be simulcast on mobile via Sprint TV and MobiTV.  The Night of Stars includes:
  •   The premiere of Disney Channel’s new TV movie Dadnapped (8-9:40p), penned by Alan Silberberg.
  •   The debut of new music videos: Jonas Brothers’ BBGood, at about 8:20p (from the groups upcoming film, Jonas Brothers-The 3D Concert Experience, February 27); Miley Cyrus’ new music video The Climb (from her film Hannah Montana The Movie, April 10), along with another music video from the movie, HoeDown ThrowDown, bowing during this event (no specific time); 3Rs, a music video from Mitchel Musso (Hannah Montana) bows at 8:24p
  •   The evening also features new episodes of Wizards of Waverly Place and Hannah Montana.

Astral Media’s Family Channel bolsters its online offering with a content deal and re-designed broadband player on its website, Family.ca (www.family.ca ).  Under Family Channel’s newly extended deal with long-time with partner Disney-ABC-ESPN Television, Family.ca will feature Disney Channel original programming and specials for K8-14 online via its newly redesigned broadband player beginning January 30, 2009.  Family.ca will refresh the broadband player weekly.

All this month PBS Kids Goes To The Movies features episodes of Curious George, Martha Speaks and a music video from PBS Kids’ SteveSongs.  Kidtoons, a family-friendly matinee movie program, will offer the programming throughout January at participating Kidtoons theaters, a list of which, along with show times, can be found at www.kidtoonfilms.com.

MARKETING/LICENSING

Crazee Comics, a publisher of comic books and picture books, enters into an exclusive distribution deal with distributor Partners Distributors Group for its titles beginning this year.  The first title to be distributed under the new agreement is Crazee’s sci-fi There’s an Alien in my Toilet, which is aimed at those 5+.

Nickelodeon & Viacom Consumer Products (NVCP) and apparel line Humanity are partnering to create a series of five environmentally themed t-shirts based SpongeBob SquarePants, as part of the animated property’s 1oth anniversary.  SpongeBob will be a featured part of The Big Green Help’s water conservation campaign, SpongeBob and You Save the Big Blue.  The first t-shirt debuted over the weekend at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

STONE SOUP

Weekend Box Office Estimates for kids/tweens/teens rated G, PG or PG-13; Four Day Martin Luther King Birthday Holiday Weekend, January 1619, 2009:
Paul Blart: Mall Cop (Sony/Columbia) PG                          Opening Weekend $39.0m
Hotel for Dogs (Paramount (DreamWorks)) PG                   Opening Weekend $22.5m
Bride Wars (Fox) PG                                                     $14.0m-2 wk total $39.9m
The Unborn (2009) (Universal) PG-13                              $10.9m-2 wk total $34.2m
Marley and Me (Fox) PG                                                $7.5m-4 wk total $133.9m
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Paramount) PG-13    $6.6m-4 wk total $103.6m
Bedtime Stories (Buena Vista) PG                                   $6.1m-4 wk total $104.9m
Last Chance Harvey (Overture Films) PG-13                     $5.1m-4 wk total $5.7m
Valkyrie (United Artists) PG-13                                       $4.5m-4 wk total $78.2m
Yes Man (Warner Bros.) PG-13                                       $3.1m-5 wk total $94.0m
Source: Box Office Mojo

EXECUTIVE MOVES

MTV Networks International (MTVNI) promotes Izabella Wiley to SVP and GM/MTV Networks Poland, which is a part of MTVNI’s Emerging Markets group.  Wiley will now oversee MTVNI’s licensee businesses in the Ukraine and the Baltic region across all media platforms in addition to overseeing MTV Networks Poland’s portfolio of multi-media channels, which includes localized Polish-language MTV, Nickelodeon, VH1, Comedy Central and VIVA channels, VOD web portal Switch2One, four pan-European channels (MTV, VH1, VH1 Classic, Nickelodeon) and MTVNHD, MTVNI’s first international HD service dedicated to music and kids.  Based in Warsaw, Poland, Wiley will continue to report to Bhavneet Singh, MD and EVP/Emerging Markets, MTVNI.

IN THE SPIRIT OF THE DAY:  I offer here an 11-year-old’s poem of hope for the Presidential Inauguration.  In keeping with the rules of full disclosure, the poem was written by my nephew, Charles Billings, on 1/16/09.

1/16

The dark has passed,
The light has sprung,
A new beginning
Has begun
Four more days to sit and wait,
Then a day to celebrate.
To welcome and usher in
A new president to believe in.
Though he is #44,
Finally,
Finally
The days to wait are now no more
The change is coming, coming near
Barack Obama’s coming here
to Washington
In ’09 to break in a new kind
This kind, it cannot be described
To feel this feeling,
Take no bribes
You had to wait
Long and hard
Those days you now must discard
And now on 1-16-09
I feel the hope
Hope of a new time
A time where peace will sure to be
A time when the world will be free
When every person
Regardless of age
Will never feel again
The rage
Of hate
And blood
And sweat
And tears
But NO
NO!
That might never happen.
But here in America
You must stand tall
And hear the call
The battle cry from West to East
From way down South to way up North
From space, to school, to New York
From Memphis, Tennessee
to everywhere the eye can see
How about Chicago
or L.A.
or how about San Jose,
Denver, Portland, or Seattle
to the farmers driving their cattle
America- this is a new breed
a new beginning
We must heed
Stick to logic
But there is nothing methodologic
about this man
He’s one of a kind.
It’s been a long time coming
But take this ride
Because
The dark has passed
The light has sprung
A new beginning has begun.

Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question, submitted by Roxanne Lettman – CBS Paramount International Television: Her married name was “Brady” but what was Carol’s surname before she became a new Mrs. and mother of six? ? CAROL MARTIN Kudos to: Tracey Barrett Lee/NY; Pat Brady-CESD/LA; Dara Monahan/Studio City, CA; Chris Loprete-ABC/Glendale, CA

Today’s Trivia Question:  What was the name of Davey’s younger sister on Davey and Goliath?   (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!
01.20.09

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