Cynopsis: Kids!
11/25/08
Good morning. It’s Tuesday, November 25, 2008 and this is your first early morning Kids briefing.
The Mottola Company, headed by Tommy Mottola, enters into a partnership with Every Baby Company, creators of the infant/toddler-targeted property eebee’s Adventures, which includes a VOD series, and DVD, book, and toy lines. Under the agreement The Mottola Company makes an equity investment in Every Baby Company and supports the ongoing development, marketing and creativity aimed at growing Every Baby Company and eebee’s Adventures brand (www.eebee.com ). Every Baby Company co-founders, Stephen Gass and Don Burton, will continue to manage and run the company, with The Mottola Company taking an active role in expanding the brand into new categories and channels of distribution, as well as naming new members to the Every Baby Company board. Additionally, The Mottola Company is providing the services of Latin performer Thalia, who will be feature in the Spanish-language version of Las Aventuras de eebee, which will be available on DVD, cable and VOD.
NEW PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT
Earthworks Entertainment, Inc., unveiled plans to launch Z-Force Zodiac Force (13 episodes), a new action-adventure animated TV series targeted to both the kids and adults. Designed to blend drama, life lessons and humor with imagination, the series stars the 12 heroic characters of the Oriental Zodiac. The company has completed production on four segments, at a cost of $2.0 million, with another 9 segments schedule for June 2009, and further plans to launch the series on Network TV thereafter. Additionally, Earthworks plans to launch the program simultaneously with Z-Force content including infomercial, long and short form, internet marketing and ads and a Z-Force website.
MORE KIDS STUFF
ABC Family will host its Harry Potter Weekend on December 5-7, during which it will air the first four HP movies and a look at the upcoming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, as part of the network’s 25 Days of Christmas programming event. Throughout the weekend ABC Family will air exclusive first looks at the next and newest HP movie Warner Bros., Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which is scheduled to open July 17, 2009. Additionally, the network will televise the special extended edition of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire on December 7 (7:30-11p), which features deleted scenes not included in the version of the movie release in theaters.
Nickelodeon rings in December with primetime fare including new holiday-themed specials and episodes and Nick Jr. celebrates with Frosty Fridays.
- The network’s new primetime specials and special episodes include the premieres of: Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh on Friday, December 5 (8p), the two-hour TV movie special features guest appearances by Henry Winkler and MMA fighter Kimbo Slice; The Wonder Pets! Save the Nutcracker bows December 8 (8p); and The Fairly OddParents Merry Wishmas debuts Friday, December 12 (8p). The month also features the network’s holiday episodes/specials such as SpongeBob SquarePants Patchy the Pirate Presents the SpongeBob SquarePants Christmas Special, The Fairly OddParents Christmas Every Day among others.
- Additionally, on Saturday, December 13, Nickelodeon will offer back-to-back premieres of holiday episodes: iCarly’s iChristmas (8p); True Jackson, VP Telling Amanda (8:30p); The Naked Brothers Band Christmas Special (9p), featuring guest stars Whoopi Goldberg, Natasha Bedingfield and Leon Thomas.
- Nick Jr.’s Frosty Fridays mini-marathons will feature holiday episodes each Friday throughout the month (9a-2p), including a new episode of Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! A Great and Grumpy Holiday/The Super-Special Gift, on Friday, December 5 (1:30p). The Frosty Fridays rundown also includes holiday themed episodes of the network’s preschool series The Wonder Pets!, The Backyardigans, Dora the Explorer, Go, Diego, Go!, and Yo Gabba Gabba!, among others.
On the heels of last month’s Mipcom 2008, 4Kids Entertainment finalizes broadcast deals for the mixed cel and CGI animated series Dinosaur King in Canada, Mexico, Netherlands, Ireland, and Central Europe. Picking up the second season of Dinosaur King are Jetix in Latin America, the UK and Scandinavia. Meanwhile, the series is set to debut on YTV (Canada), Animax (Central & Eastern Europe), MNET (South Africa), Televisa (Mexico) and RTE (Ireland). Additionally, Universal in France and Contender in the UK have acquired the home video rights for Dinosaur King.
This week marks Sesame Workshop‘s launch of a new interactive website for its animated series Pinky Dinky Doo at www.pinkydinkydoo.com. The Pinky Dinky Doo website sit is aimed at K4-7 and their caregivers and offers a range of games, videos, podcasts and printable activities featuring storylines for the second season of the series, as well as a chance for users to create their own stories, which could be featured as user generated podcasts on the site. The second season of Pinky Dinky Doo airs on Noggin in the US, CBeebies in the UK and Discovery Kids Latin America.
Knowledge Adventure is partnering with Unity Technologies to bring its kid-targeted 3D Virtual World to multiple digital platforms. Knowledge Adventure’s flagship gaming products sold under its JumpStart and Math Blaster brands will soon be available online and via the iPhone, iPod Touch, Mac, Wii, and Wii Ware.
The Hispanic TV network V-me ( www.vmetv.com ) launches 30+ hours of programming on iTunes, including a selection of kid-targeted content, including Spanish-language version of LazyTown.
MARKETING/LICENSING
Galleon Holdings, distributor and licensor of multiplatform properties, inks an exclusive distribution deal in the UK with Trends UK, a toy licensee, for the K6-12-aimed animated series Skunk Fu! (52×13). With the Skunk Fu! toy line set to roll out at retail from Q1 2009; Galleon will support the launch with marketing efforts including national TV campaign through February. In the US, Zizzle Toys is the exclusive distributor for the Skunk Fu! toys. Croco Worldwide, a division of Galleon, developed the Skunk Fu! toy line.
Target Entertainment completes UK and European licensing deals for Chapman Entertainment‘s preschool property Fifi and the Flowertots:
In the UK, Gosh signs on to produce soft balls and skittles, plastic bucket and toolsets as well as travel art; Publications International re-ups its sound book pact; and McDougalls renews its license for make and bake products.
In Europe – Sweet Spa signs on to produce chocolate surprise eggs for Poland, Romania, Hungary, the Baltics, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Russia, Nordics and the Benelux; One 2 Play inks three separate deals snacks and rainwear, and a multi-category deal including inflatables, balls, patio sets, tents etc. for the former Yugoslavia.
STONE SOUP
Corrections:
- FCCReady is an advisory service and media consultancy for the kids entertainment industry.
- The link for Rogar Studio’s new music-based Lessons in the Lyrics System (L.I.T.L.S.) should have read as follows:
EXECUTIVE MOVES
Olivier Missir joins Marathon Group as SVP/Marathon Digital. Missir fills the position previously held by David Doro, who exited the company to pursue other interests. He will report to David Michel, GM/Marathon Digital. Missir had been Director/New Media, First Live Communication, a communication agency he co-founded.
Rocket Licensing appoints Michela Baiocchi as its new Licensing Assistant. Baiocchi will assist in all sales and marketing efforts as the company continues to expand. Baiocchi most recently toiled for Warner Bros. Entertainment Italy.
RATINGS
Live + Same Day Ratings Kids Cable Network Averages (000) for Thursday, November 20, 2008, 6am-11pm, ranked by K2-11:
NICKELODEON: K2-11 1290; K6-11 514; TWEENS 9-14 334
DISNEY CHANNEL: K2-11 717; K6-11 440; TWEENS 9-14 330
CARTOON NETWORK: K2-11 595; K6-11 385; TWEENS 9-14 289
TOON DISNEY: K2-11 124; K6-11 54; TWEENS 9-14 30
Source: MTVN Research from Nielsen Media Research Data
Live + Same Day Ratings Kids Cable Network Averages (000) for Friday, November 21, 2008, 6am-11pm, ranked by K2-11:
NICKELODEON: K2-11 1242; K6-11 612; TWEENS 9-14 418
DISNEY CHANNEL: K2-11 722; K6-11 497; TWEENS 9-14 415
CARTOON NETWORK: K2-11 652; K6-11 437; TWEENS 9-14 299
TOON DISNEY: K2-11 129; K6-11 51; TWEENS 9-14 26
Source: MTVN Research from Nielsen Media Research Data
Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question: What is the name of snarky cartoon cat Garfield’s teddy bear and sleeping companion? POOKY Kudos to: ShannonReilly-CNN Networks/NY; Risa Pearl-Word World/NY; Rich Cotsonas-Finlay Printing/ Bloomfield, CT; Vanessa Orr-OMD/NY; Tom Boyd-WGN/Chicago; Al Ovadia-Al Ovadia & Associates/Hidden Hills, CA; Delia Taylor-Disney Music Group Licensing & Publishing/Burbank; Emily Claire Afan-KidScreen/Toronto
Today’s Trivia Question: On the animated series SpongeBob Square Pants, SpongeBob and Sandy often participate in a sport together; Spongebob in his red gear and Sandy in green. What is this sport? (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
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11.25.08
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