Cynopsis: Kids!
7/03/07
Good morning. It’s Tuesday, July 3, 2007 and this is your first early morning briefing.
The Nielsen Company and Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. (SCEA) have teamed up to develop a measurement system for game network advertising. The initial results are expected to be available later this year. Under the deal, SCEA will share with Nielsen game network traffic and other data from its PlayStation 3 systems and PlayStation Network, including PlayStation Home, which in turn Nielsen will create new measurements for calculating the reach, frequency and effectiveness of game network advertising. Usage data provided by SCEA to Nielsen will include enabled first- and third-party software titles accessed through PS3s and PlayStation Network. The initial rollout will begin in the North American market. Nielsen will combine the SCEA census data with its own game usage data currently collected from 12,000+ US TV households.
NEW PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT
As they said they would during upfront season, Cartoon Network is moving forward with production on its first live-action series, officially titled Out of Jimmy’s Head. Based on Cartoon Network’s original TV movie Re-Animated, which bowed December 2006, Out of Jimmy’s Head, continues the story of 12-year-old Jimmy Roberts, who in an emergency brain transplant received that of a famous cartoonist’s, which effects his daily life at school and his friends, some of which are cartoon characters. Currently slated to premiere fall 2007 on Cartoon Network, the cast includes the return of Dominic Janes as Jimmy, and noted voice actors Carlos Alazraqui, Tom Kenny, Ellen Greene and Brian Posehn.
The BBC has commissioned the new Postman Pat series from Entertainment Rights. Slated to debut in late 2008 on the CBeebies channels and the CBeebies zone on BBC TWO, the new version of series is comprised of 26 x 15-minute episodes and finds Postman Pat with a promotion to Head of Special Delivery Service. The new series will also include a new group of characters, vehicles and a new town with what ER describes as “a higher energy approach.” Postman Pat makes his US premiere in October 2007 on qubo, NBC’s Saturday morning programming block.
MORE KIDS STUFF
Chorion’s property Noddy is headed for Spain as part of a deal put together by Barcelona-based Icon Animation with Disney Channel. Under the agreement Disney Channel in Spain has acquired Make Way For Noddy (100×10′) and Say it with Noddy (100×2′) as well as three TV specials, Noddy Saves Christmas (1×26), Noddy and the Island Adventure (1×26′) and Noddy and the Magical Moondust (1×26′). The channel will strip Noddy during on Playhouse Disney, Monday-Friday at 9a, and on Sundays at 5p with back-to-back episodes of Make Way For Noddy and Say it with Noddy. Noddy is based on the characters and books created by author Enid Blyton.
FremantleMedia Enterprises completed a number of deals at DISCOP, including for several live-action teen-targeted series. Both Croatia and Poland have picked up The Best Years (13×60′), which is produced by Blueprint Entertainment in association with CanWest MediaWorks’ Global Television (Canada) and The N (US). Falcon Beach (26×60′ and 1×120’/pilot) has been acquired by Croatia, Slovenia and Romania. Additionally, Poland, Croatia and Slovenia have inked deals for young adult and up aimed series Monarch Cove (12×60′ and 1×120’/pilot).
MARKETING/LICENSING
Starz Home Entertainment is set to release the anime series Kappa Mikey on DVD. Set to be available from September 18m 2007, Kappa Mikey: Lost in Translation is a 66-minute DVD, which includes 2×22′ episodes, and a bonus episode along with a number of added value extras. Created and produced by Larry Schwartz and his Animation Collective, Kappa Mikey airs in the US on Nicktoons Network and around the world on Nickelodeon channels, the series recently entered into its second season.
Under a license from Lucasfilm, designer Mark Ecko Enterprises, also a self-professed Star Wars ‘fanboy,’ has put together a new limited-edition collection of Star Wars-inspired apparel. Scheduled to be in stores for holiday 2007, the Ecko line of Star Wars items, including the Hoth Parka, Fett for Real sweatshirt, a stone Yoda graphic t-shirt, and the “Ultimate Vader” hoodie.
STONE SOUP
Universal Studios Hollywood’s Universal CityWalk launches its Get Discovered: Teen Talent Search tomorrow, July 4. Each Wednesday during the event, which runs through August when the winner is selected, ten teen contestants will show off their singing talents in front of a panel of judges, with the finals decided on by judges from the music industry. The Get Discovered: Teen Talent Search gets underway with a launch event that will include a performance by Mitchel Musso, best known to tweens as Oliver, one of Hanna Montana’s best friends on the Disney Channel series of the same name.
RATINGS
Live + Same Day Ratings Kids Cable Network Averages (000) for Thursday, June 28, 2007, 6am-11pm, ranked by K2-11:
DISNEY CHANNEL: K2-11 1202; K6-11 903; TWEENS 9-14 831
NICKELODEON: K2-11 1145; K6-11 652; TWEENS 9-14 442
CARTOON NETWORK: K2-11 736; K6-11 524; TWEENS 9-14 415
TOON DISNEY: K2-11 155; K6-11 85; TWEENS 9-14 68
Source: MTVN Research from Nielsen Media Research Data
Live + Same Day Ratings Kids Cable Network Averages (000) for Friday, June 29, 2007, 6am-11pm, ranked by K2-11:
DISNEY CHANNEL: K2-11 1133; K6-11 832; TWEENS 9-14 846
NICKELODEON: K2-11 1121; K6-11 737; TWEENS 9-14 560
CARTOON NETWORK: K2-11 794; K6-11 507; TWEENS 9-14 353
TOON DISNEY: K2-11 171; K6-11 73; TWEENS 9-14 49
Source: MTVN Research from Nielsen Media Research Data
Answer to Yesterday’s trivia question: Pee Wee’s Playhouse, what was the name of the playhouse robot, who gave Pee-wee the “secret word” each week? CONKY Kudos to: Kathy May-Fisher-Price, Inc/ E. Aurora, NY; Dennis R. Nance-Turner Broadcasting, Inc./Atlanta; Tim Caton-Play Along Toys/Deerfield Beach, FL; Edward Gregory-WNET/NY; Leigh Ann Schwarzkopf-Lookout Marketing/Minneapolis; Izzy Neis-Star Farm Productions/Chicago; Lisa Cahan-lisa’s original potato chip cookie company/Chicago; Sam Ewing-Cartoon Consultants Group/Burbank; Josh Jones-Palisades Media Group Inc./Santa Monica; Meredythe Dee-Winter Planet One Ventures, Inc./Encinitas, CA; Marilyn Nelson-DTC/LA
Today’s Trivia Question: What is the name of Cap’n Crunch’s barefoot nemesis? ( 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!
07.03.07
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