Cynopsis: Kids!
10/30/12

Good morning. It’s Tuesday, October 30, 2012, and this is your first early morning briefing.

Germany-based Bertelsmann and UK-based Pearson are merging their trade-book publishing companies, Random House and Penguin Group respectively. Under the deal, which is expected to be finalized in the second half of 2013, Bertelsmann will own 53% and Pearson 47%. The combined company will operate under the new name Penguin Random House and will be helmed by Markus Dohle, Chairman and CEO of Random House worldwide, as CEO of the new group. John Makinson, Chairman and CEO of Penguin, will become Chairman of the Board of Directors. Further senior executive appointments will be announced. Bertelsmann will appoint five representatives to the group’s Board of Directors, and Pearson will name four. Until deal closes, the companies will maintain their current separate operations and conduct business independently. The new publishing group will include all the publishing divisions and imprints of Random House and Penguin in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, India, South Africa, as well as Penguin’s publishing company in China, and Random House’s Spanish-language publishing operations in Spain and Latin America. Random House’s Munich-based German-language publishing company, Verlagsgruppe Random House, will not be part of the new group and will continue to be based at Bertelsmann. In the new company, the publishing imprints of Random House and Penguin will continue to publish their books with the same autonomy they have now, maintaining their unique editorial identities.

NEW PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT

Kid Glove Creative, the development division of production/distribution/rights management company, Kid Glove, partners with Australia’s Sticky Pictures to develop and produce the animated comedy Perry Parka Polar Possum. Targeted to K6-9, Perry Parka Polar Possum revolves around Perry Parka, Mayor of the North Pole and an innocent and extremely optimistic possum who finds a way to see everything as possible. The series is created by prolific kid’s author/illustrator/cartoonist James Proimos (Swim, Knuckle and Potty Destroy Happy World, Generation O!) with producer/illustrator/animator Carlson Bull, he is also the founder of Bully! Entertainment. By the way, a bit of trivia for Hunger Games fans – author Suzanne Collins dedicated The Hunger Games to Proimos.

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LICENSING

The Jim Henson Company and Gaiam Vivendi Entertainment (GV) ink a multi-year distribution deal giving GV the exclusive physical and digital home video distribution rights to a range of classic Henson properties in the US as well as digital distribution in Canada. The deal gets underway with GV set to release a new Fraggle Rock DVD in 2013, in celebration of 30th anniversary of the iconic series featuring new bonus content and packaging. Henson titles set for re-release by GV include Emmet Otter’s Jugband Christmas, The Hoobs and Animal Show with Stinky and Jake, as well as new productions including the upcoming Fraggle Rock spin-off preschool series Doozers. GV will also make available previously unreleased Henson series such as the Construction Site. Additionally, GV will also roll out the classic Henson catalog across its range of digital partners beginning in December 2012.

MARKETING

The Hess Corporation unveils that its holiday 2012 Hess Toy Truck is a Helicopter and Rescue, which officially goes on sale Friday, November 9, 2012 at Hess and Hess Express locations and online at www.hesstoytruck.com. Fans helped with the reveal by uncovering hints and images of the new offering via social media, including posting a Hess Toy Truck collectors badge on Facebook, tweeting #hesstruck2012, as well as visiting Hess Express locations. Available for pre-ordering from Thursday, November 1, the 2012 Hess Helicopter and Rescue comes with Energizer batteries. This year Hess invites Hess toy collectors to create a digital display case of their collection at http://collection.hesstoytruck.com. The first Hess Toy Truck was released for holiday 1964.

MORE KIDS STUFF

LA-based Digital Development Group Corp. (DigiDev), a content licensing and technology company that offers a distribution platform for a range of content for TV and other internet enabled devices, adds Your Family Entertainment, which features a library of kid/tween-targeted programming, to its content. The deal was completed during Mipcom 2012 in Cannes. DigiDev expects to unveil its new channels and its platform for over-the-top (OTT) media consumption soon. Your Family Entertainment’s library of 1,700+ hours of programming is comprised of animated series, feature length animated movies and other genres, which has been translated into several different languages including English.

November is Pranksgiving on Disney XD, which is set to premiere two hidden camera series, Just Kidding and Code 9, during the month. Pranksgiving, a month-long programming event will take place each Monday in November, beginning Monday, November 5, will encourage viewers to log onto DisneyXD.com/crash to vote on which of the network’s stars will “get Crashed” the puppet star of its series Crash & Bernstein. Just Kidding and Code 9 will launch Monday, November 19 at 7p and 7:30p, respectively. Hosted by YouTube practical joker Zach Fox and produced in association with Juste Pour Rire Les Gags, Just Kidding includes six new episodes that will air Monday-Saturday, November 19-24 (7p). Wes Denning hosts the unscripted hidden camera comedy series Code 9, which also airs on Disney Channel. The month also includes Jillian Michaels, WWE star Kofi Kingston and George Wendt guest starring in a two-part new episode of Kickin’ It on Monday, November 19 at 8p.

BBC Worldwide Channels Latin America & US Hispanic‘s Spanish-language preschool channel CBeebies will premiere the new series Las Increibles Aventuras de Andy (Andy’s Wild Adventures) on Saturday, November 3, 2012 at 12n. The series follows the adventures of host Andy Day, a zookeeper, and his puppet cat pal Kip as they travel the world learning about animals in their natural habitats including footage from the BBC Natural History Unit. Las Increibles Aventuras de Andy will air every Saturday at noon. CBeebies is available as part of DISH Networks’ DishLATINO package (Channel 848), Cablevision’s iO en espanol (Channel 1085) and Verizon FiOS TV (Channel 1727). CBeebies is distributed by Miami-based BBC Worldwide Channels Latin America & US Hispanic.

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 [email protected] no later than Friday, November 16. Please include the following information: type of program (i.e. series, special, documentary, movie or holiday-themed episode), 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).

Recognize a top talent, innovator or passionate executive in the kid media industry by nominating them for the Cynopsis Kids People Awards. The extended deadline is November 15, 2012. Click here for details.

EXECUTIVE MOVES

TRC Family Entertainment, a new Malta-based family-targeted online and multi-platform company, welcomes Andy Mooney, former Chairman of Disney Consumer Products (DCP), to its Board of directors as Joint-Chairman. Mooney will serve as Join-Chairman with Chris Deering, former President of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. Paul Taylor is CEO, TRC Family Entertainment. Mooney is credited with building and extending DCP’s licensing business, including re-inventing the Disney Stores, opening Disney English Language Learning Centers in China and growing Disney’s publishing division worldwide through the creation of the Disney Princess and Fairies franchises. Prior to Disney he toiled for 20 years at Nike, eventually serving as CMO.

RATINGS

Live + Same Day Ratings Kids Cable Network Averages (000) for Friday, October 26, 2012, 6am-6am, ranked by K2-11:
NICKELODEON° :            K2-11 927; K6-11 401; TWEENS 9-14 290
DISNEY CHANNEL:          K2-11 878; K6-11 537; TWEENS 9-14 445
CARTOON NETWORK** : K2-11 385; K6-11 252; TWEENS 9-14 220
DISNEY XD:                  K2-11 167; K6-11 142; TWEENS 9-14 125
NICKTOONS:                 K2-11   84; K6-11   63; TWEENS 9-14  44
°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: Who defeated wrestler Crusher Hogan in order to make money? Peter Parker/Spider-Man. Kudos to: Michael Ritz-BucStar Consulting/NY; Tina Burke-Carlin West Agency/NY; Kerry Milliron-Random House Children’s Books/NYC; Michael Decsi-Nelvana/Toronto.

Today’s Trivia Question: What did Peter Parker’s parents do for a living? (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!
10.30.12

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