Cynopsis: Kids!
11/13/12
Good morning. It’s Tuesday, November 13, 2012, and this is your first early morning briefing.
In the UK, Penguin Children‘s Puffin imprint partners with Ireland-based animation studio, Cartoon Saloon (The Secret of Kells, Skunk Fu, the new movie Song of the Sea, and segments for Baby Cow and Moone Boy) and Northern Ireland’s producer of kid’s media, Dog Ears (upcoming animated TV series Miss Rosie Red), to co-produce Puffin Rock as a multi-platform brand – including a Puffin Rock animated TV series (39×7), as well as digital and physical format books, and apps. Puffin Rock revolves around a family of puffins, including a young puffling, Oona, and her little brother, Baba, as they explore the sea, land and sky around their island home. The puffins share the island with various creatures, including an elusive mermaid. The co-production partnership is the latest in a line of recent acquisitions and co-production partnerships that include Topsy and Tim, Hattie B, Magical Vet, Whale Trail, Moshi Monsters and Skylanders for the Penguin Children’s Group UK.
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The Licensing Shop appoints three new sub-licensing agents to represent the CGI animated TV series Dino Dan, as well as new international license deals for the property. The Dino Dan series is produced by Sinking Ship Entertainment and distributed by Breakthrough Entertainment.
– New sub-agents are: KOPA Licensing Group (Central America and Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Chile and the Dominican Republic); Empire Multimedia (Republic of Korea); Popcorn Entertainment (Portugal). These new partners join existing licensing representatives including Vega Brands (Brazil), Team Licensing (Germany and Belgium) and Stella Projects (Australia and New Zealand).
– New signed international licensee agreements include: two new deals for Brazil – Regina Festas (party goods) and Editora Online (activity and coloring books) both of which were brokered by Vega Brands; and in Australia with Goldie Marketing (toys, puzzles, games) in a deal brokered by Stella Projects.
ZeptoLab in conjunction with ITV Studios Global Entertainment (ITVS GE), licensing agent in the European Union for Cut The Rope game, inks four new licensees for kid and tween-aimed products for the UK. New UK licensees for Cut The Rope – including those featuring the game’s hungry star Om Nom, are: Smith & Brooks (outerwear, t-shirts); Trade Mark Collections (accessories including backpacks, umbrellas and wallets); TDP (nightwear and underwear); and Bacup (shoes, slippers and EVA foam rubber soled shoes). Smith & Brooks’ t-shirt line will be available at Next, Tesco and Asda stores for holiday 2012. Trade Mark Collections’ accessories will be available at retail in Q1 2013. TDP will debut its products later this year. Bacup Shoes’ line for fall/winter 2013 will be in stores by July 2013.
Rovio Entertainment, the folks behind Angry Birds, inks a new partnership with Spain-based E-Max to introduce Angry Birds stickers and sticker albums in the UK. Additionally, E-Max will produce Angry Birds “power caps” and trading cards for the international market (excluding Latin America).
Nickelodeon gives thanks with a new holiday-themed episode of Dora the Explorer, entitled Thanksgiving Day Parade, premiering Monday, November 19, at 9:30a. In the episode, as everyone is getting ready for the Thanksgiving Day parade and big dinner, Dora and Boots help save the holiday when the Pirate Piggies accidentally float away on Dora’s boat float. Check out a clip from the new episode at www.vimeo.com/53101767.
Chaz Bono, LGBT rights advocate and author, will make a special guest appearance on a new episode of Degrassi, titled Tonight, Tonight, pt 2, premiering Tuesday, November 20 at 9p on TeenNick. In the episode Bono offers advice to Adam, a transgender teen character. Degrassi is currently in its 12th season.
ABC schedules new and classic family-targeted holiday specials for later this month.
– On Tuesday, November 27, the network will feature the iconic holiday special Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas at 8p, followed immediately by DreamWorks Animation‘s holiday special Shrek the Halls (1×30) at 8:30p. The special features the voices of Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz and Antonio Banderas.
– The Christmas-themed Peanuts special, A Charlie Brown Christmas, created by cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, will air Wednesday, November 28, 8-9p. The hour will also include the animated short Prep & Landing: Operation Secret Santa (1×7), which features Betty White as the voice of Mrs. Claus.
One Media, a UK-based distributor of music and video rights, inks an exclusive acquisition deal for the worldwide rights to content from the classic UK longest running kid-targeted series Sooty, which starred a bear puppet named Sooty. The agreement includes eight TV shows hosted by Sooty’s creator, Harry Corbett. The shows date back to the original Sooty episodes of the 1950’s through to the 1970s – featuring classics like The Sooty Olympics and Sooty’s Birthday. One Media also has the rights for The Sooty Radio Show and the feature length special Sooty – The Big Day Out with Richard Cadell. One Media plans to package the Sooty content for sale across digital platforms including iTunes, Amazon, and YouTube.
ABC Australia signs on for second seasons of DQ Entertainment‘s (DQE) 3D animated series, Iron Man Armored Adventures and Casper’s Scare School (52×11). Under the deal, ABC Australia has the exclusive TV rights for both series in Australia. Iron Man Armored Adventures is co-produced by DQE, Marvel Animation and Method Animation, while Casper’s Scare School is co-produced by DQE with Moonscoop, France and Classic Media, USA.
Call for Submissions: Cynopsis is producing a Holiday Programming Guide, which comes out November 27 and will be sent to all Cynopsis and Cynopsis Kids subscribers. If your network has holiday-themed programming airing December 1-31, 2012, please send your listings to Gwen Billings, Editor at Gwen@cynopsis.com no later than Friday, November 16. Please include the following information: type of program (i.e. series, special, documentary, movie or holiday-themed episode, animated, live-action or other), title, dates and times of all airings (please indicate when the show first premieres and when subsequent encores will air). A confirmation email will be sent following each submission from Gwen (if you don’t receive a confirmation email, please resubmit).
There is still time left to nominate passionate executives and professionals in the kid media industry for the Cynopsis Kids People Awards the late deadline is this Thursday, November 15, 2012.
RATINGS
Live + Same Day Ratings Kids Cable Network Averages (000) for Friday, November 9, 2012, 6am-6am, ranked by K2-11:
DISNEY CHANNEL: K2-11 949; K6-11 587; TWEENS 9-14 482
NICKELODEON*: K2-11 849; K6-11 331; TWEENS 9-14 233
CARTOON NETWORK**: K2-11 383; K6-11 259; TWEENS 9-14 244
DISNEY XD: K2-11 223; K6-11 175; TWEENS 9-14 158
NICKTOONS: K2-11 67; K6-11 39; TWEENS 9-14 38
*Nickelodeon Total Day: Mon-Wed 7a-8p; Thurs-Fri 7a-9p; Sat 6a-10p; Sun 6a-8p
**Cartoon Network & Adult Swim share channel space ADSM airs Sat.-Thurs. 9p-6a
Source: Disney from Nielsen Media Research Data.
Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: What were the names of Robert Bruce Banner’s parents? Brian (bad guy) and Rebecca Banner. Kate Hixson-GreteMedia/San Francisco.
Today’s Trivia Question: Why did Speed Racer have an M on his helmet? (Email John@cynopsis.com 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!
11.13.12
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