Cynopsis: Kids!

04/01/09

Good morning. It’s Wednesday, April 1, 2009, and this is your first early morning Kids briefing.

Disney announced during its ShoWest presentation that the 3D versions of Pixar‘s Toy Story and Toy Story 2 would be released as a double feature on October 2, 2009.  The movies will run in theaters as a 2-week limited engagement.  This is a change in the studio’s original release plan for the 3D versions of the movies, with Toy Story in 3D initially set for October, and Toy Story 2 in 3D to follow in February 2010.  Of course this is all building up to the release of Toy Story 3 in 3D on June 18, 2010.  And … a 3D version of Beauty and the Beast is also on the way.

Elsewhere, Disney and IMAX Corporation unveil plans to release the feature film Alice in Wonderland, directed by Tim Burton in IMAX 3D theaters simultaneously with the film’s wide release on March 5, 2010.  This is the third film confirmed out of the five-film agreement between IMAX and Disney, which was announced in 2008.  Burton’s Alice in Wonderland stars Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, Anne Hathaway as the White Queen and Mia Wasikowska as Alice.

NEW PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT

CBBC orders another new series, this one called Roy (13×28), a live-action series featuring an animated squash and squish kid.  The HD series is set in a suburb of Dublin and revolves around Roy, an 11-year-old boy that is totally normal, well, except for the part where he is animated.  Set to transmit in fall 2009, Roy wants to be an average kid, which is hard when he involuntarily turns blue when he’s sad or has a halo of birds when he bumps his head.  Roy is produced by JAM Media.

Disney acquires author Clete Smith’s not-yet-published young adult novel Grandma’s Intergalactic Bed & Breakfast for Mandeville Films (Beverly Hills Chihuahua) to adapt as a family movie, per Variety.  The book revolves around a boy who visits his hippie grandma for the first time and discovers her bed and breakfast secretly caters to aliens.

MORE KIDS STUFF

Boomerang is going ape today, April 1, with a 24-hour Ape-Reel Fool’s Day event around today featuring episodes of The Magilla Gorilla Show, The Powerpuff Girls  featuring Mojo Jojo, ape-themed episodes of The Flintstones, Scooby Doo and Top Cat.

YTV (Canada) commissions a second season of the kid-targeted series, The Next Star from Tricon Films & Television.  Tricon will produce the new season of 15×60 episodes of the young talent show.  Tricon owns the international format rights to The Next Star.

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MIPTV 2009

RDF Kids & Family signs broadcast and home entertainment deals for Waybuloo (100×20), the preschool series produced by The Foundation.  ABC TV (Australia) picks up the series for air later this year, while ABC Enterprises (Australia and New Zealand) takes the DVD rights for the series.  Canadian co-production partner Decode Entertainment, which holds the Canadian distribution rights, licenses the series to Treehouse TV.  As previously reporter, BBC Worldwide has acquired Waybuloo for its international CBeebies channel.

Telescreen acquires the exclusive worldwide rights for all media for the publishing character Pinkeltje, and its related characters and stories.  Under the deal, Telescreen will develop Pinkeltje across all media including TV, movies, and home entertainment, merchandising, internet, mobile phone, and book publishing rights (excluding the original book series, owned by copyright holder Unieboek Publishers).  Pinkeltje is a character (known in other countries by other names) the size of an adult little finger, who has a white beard, a blue pointy hat, blue pants and a red shirt.  First published in 1939, there are some 29 Pinkeltje books by author Dick Laan, as well as one movie released in 1978.  The deal was made between Telescreen and the shareholders of the former rights holder Deja Vu BV.

In addition to is offering a third season of its HD 3D episodes animated series Bernard (52×3,) at MIPTV this week, BRB Internacional also announces the first full-length Bernard 3D movie as well as its first TV movie and special for DVD, My Friend Bernard (1×70).  Set to premieres in summer 2012, the movie will be produced in the 3D stereoscopic format for viewing with 3D glasses.  Season 3 of Bernard is available in two different formats, either by individual episodes or thematic blocks.  Both the third season of Bernard TV series and the full-length TV film My Friend Bernard are being co-produced by Screen 21, BRB Internacional and RG Animation.

twofour54 ibtikar, the funding division of Abu Dhabi-based twofour54, inks partners with the UK’s 3Line Media to co-produce the Arabic/English-language mixed animated/live-action preschool series, Driver Dan’s Story Train (52×11).  Designed to introduce kids to the joys of storytelling and reading books, the series will debut in the spring of 2010 on BBC’s CBeebies (UK).  Created by British illustrator and kid’s author Rebecca Elgar, Driver Dan’s Story Train features animated animal characters that read and explore a different storybook in each show.

Ludorum‘s preschool series Chuggington is set to pull into Japan under a new deal.  Commercial broadcaster Fuji Television Network licenses all rights to 52×10 episodes of Chuggington in Japan including broadcast, consumer products, home entertainment and publishing.  Available in 50 million TV households, Fuji Television will debut the series this summer 2009, which will be followed in spring 2010 with a consumer products line.

Cookie Jar Entertainment completes deals for two of its preschool series for the UK and Ireland for air in 2009. TG4 (Ireland) acquires Noonbory and the Super 7 (26×30), while Will & Dewitt (26×30) goes to Tiny Pop (UK).

Echo Bridge Entertainment enters into an exclusive distribution deal with Daro Film Distribution to distribute its movies/feature films, TV dramas and 1,000+ kid’s episodes from the Alliance Atlantis International Distribution catalog throughout Africa.  Among the kid-targeted offerings, Daro will distribute the stop-motion animated preschool series Lunar Jim (46×30) and the CGI-animated series Dragon Booster (39×30), while in the teen category it will distribute DeGrassi: The Next Generation (143×30, including the new season 8 episodes) and Instant Star (52×30).

CCI Entertainment and Mackinnon & Saunders ink a deal with BBC’s CBeebies for their new interactive preschool series, Rah Rah The Noisy Lion (52×10), which is set to launch in 2011.  CCI and Mackinnon & Saunders are at MIPTV seeking broadcast partners and completion production financing.  The series revolves around Rah Rah the lion cub as he and his jungle friends explore their world and learn to communicate via actions, expressions and their voices.

Elsewhere, CCI Entertainment in association with MotionWorks, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) launch Artzooka!, a new multiplatform entertainment/art-centric kid’s property.  Designed to encourage kids to be creative through a range of art projects, the mixed live-action/animated will be produced in various languages.  The initial season (26 episodes) in English has have been acquired by the CBC.

RATINGS

Weekly Top Ten Basic Cable Ad Supported networks, Total Day and Primetime Rankings among K2-11 (000) 2/23-3/29/09:
Total Day      (000)   Primetime       (000)
NICK~:            1234    DSNY*:            1211
DSNY*:             814    TOON:               811
TOON:               559    NAN**:             493
NOGGIN:           328    NOGGIN:             442
NAN**:             280    DXD:                 157
ADSM**:           174    NICKTOON:         133
DXD:                 125    BET:                   86
NICKTOON:         86    DISCOVERY:         79
DISCOVERY:        44    ESPN:                 75
BET:                    41    TLC:                 74
Source: Disney Research from Nielsen Media Research Data Live + SD Data
*Disney Channel is not an ad supported cable network, unlike the others in this listing.
**Denotes a network that broadcasts less than 51% of minutes in a 24hr day.
~Nickelodeon Total Day 6a-11p

Weekly Top Ten Basic Cable Ad Supported networks, Total Day and Primetime Rankings among K6-11 (000) 2/23-3/29/09:
Total Day        (000) Primetime       (000)
NICK~:               657   DSNY*:             926
DSNY*:              533   TOON:               563
TOON:                355   NAN**:             370
NAN**:               217   DXD:                  97
ADSM**:             116   NICKTOON:         73
DXD:                    77   NOGGIN:             66
NOGGIN:               55   DISCOVERY:       55
NICKTOON:           46   ESPN:                 53
DISCOVERY:          30   BET:                   52
ANIMAL PLANET:    27   TLC:                   50
Source: Disney Research from Nielsen Media Research Data Live + SD Data
*Disney Channel is not an ad supported cable network, unlike the others in this listing.
**Denotes a network that broadcasts less than 51% of minutes in a 24hr day.
~Nickelodeon Total Day 6a-11p

Monthly March 2009 Top Ten Basic Cable Ad Supported Networks, Total Day and Primetime Rankings among Tweens 9-14 (000) 2/23-3/29/09:
Total Day       (000)   Primetime      (000)
NICK~:              489     DSNY*:            774
DSNY*:             441     NAN**:            452
NAN**:             297     TOON:              394
TOON:               245     DISCOVERY:      97
ADSM**:           168     MTV:                 95
DXD:                   58     BET:                 93
DISCOVERY:        52     ESPN:                86
MTV:                   50     COMEDY:           85
ESPN:                  49     DXD:                 68
BET:                    47     TLC:                  64
Source: Disney Research from Nielsen Media Research Data Live + SD Data
*Disney Channel is not an ad supported cable network, unlike the others in this listing.
**Denotes a network that broadcasts less than 51% of minutes in a 24hr day.
~Nickelodeon Total Day 6a-11p

Live + Same Day Ratings Kids Cable Network Averages (000) for Saturday, March 28, 2009, 6am-11pm, ranked by K2-11:
NICKELODEON:         K2-11 2048; K6-11 1393; TWEENS 9-14 1122
DISNEY CHANNEL:     K2-11 1101; K6-11   681; TWEENS 9-14 495
CARTOON NETWORK: K2-11   538; K6-11   396; TWEENS 9-14 269
DISNEY XD:               K2-11   150; K6-11   103; TWEENS 9-14   68
Source: MTVN Research from Nielsen Media Research Data

Live + Same Day Ratings Kids Cable Network Averages (000) for Sunday, March 29, 2009, 6am-11pm, ranked by K2-11:
NICKELODEON:         K2-11 1564; K6-11 1046; TWEENS 9-14 804
DISNEY CHANNEL:     K2-11 1009; K6-11   643; TWEENS 9-14 532
CARTOON NETWORK: K2-11   791; K6-11   490; TWEENS 9-14 311
DISNEY XD:               K2-11   136; K6-11     85; TWEENS 9-14   59
Source: MTVN Research from Nielsen Media Research Data

Live + Same Day Ratings Kids Cable Network Averages (000) for Monday, March 30, 2009, 6am-11pm, ranked by K2-11:
NICKELODEON:         K2-11 1114; K6-11 472; TWEENS 9-14 378
DISNEY CHANNEL:     K2-11   797; K6-11 482; TWEENS 9-14 372
CARTOON NETWORK: K2-11   473; K6-11 278; TWEENS 9-14 190
DISNEY XD:               K2-11   164; K6-11 110; TWEENS 9-14   77
Source: MTVN Research from Nielsen Media Research Data

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Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question:  At what school would you find Bubbles, Chuchie, Do, and Aqua – and who are they better known as?  THE CHEETAH GIRLS.  Kudos to just one – Al Ovadia/PCT.

Today’s Trivia Question: What show features the band Doctor Teeth and the Electric Mayhem?   (Email Cynthia@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!
04.01.09

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