Cynopsis: Kids!
12/03/08
Good morning. It’s Wednesday, December 3, 2008 and this is your first early morning Kids briefing.
Entertainment Rights (ER) CEO Nick Phillips is reportedly stepping down from his position this week, just nine months after joining the company, per Broadcast Now. According to the report the separation is an amicable one. ER, which acquired Classic Media recently, leaving the company in debt, and had been in take over deals of its own earlier this year, is expected to name a new CEO soon. The new CEO is one that will have experience in company turnaround as well as in the world of kid entertainment. Phillips was formerly CEO of Warner Music UK and Managing Director of Universal Music UK.
NEW PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT
PorchLight Entertainment is partnering with Big Hug Productions on Pozles (78×7), a new 3D CGI animated preschool series developed by Big Hug. Under the deal, PorchLight will be the worldwide distributor and have licensing and merchandising rights for the series that revolves around building block-like characters, each with its own abilities (e.g. build, explore, play), who must figure out how to combine their powers and work together.
MORE KIDS STUFF
Disney Channel picks up additional episodes for the third season of Hannah Montana, and a second season of The Suite Life on Deck. Both Hannah Montana and The Suite Life on Deck, the latter a spin-off of The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, come from It’s A Laugh Productions.
Sorpresa, the 24/7 Spanish-language kid’s network, premieres the new healthy habits-centric special Juega Como un MLS Pro (Play Like an MLS Pro), this Sunday, December 7 (7-8p), which focuses on both MLS soccer pros, nutrition, staying fit and the importance of family involvement. The original special features 15-yr-old reporter, Leily Sanchez, in one-on-one interviews with MLS professionals, as well as the pros teach viewers soccer moves and provide tips on staying healthy and active. Additionally, the special looks at several avid kid soccer players who aspire to be pros.
AOL has launched AOL PlaySavvy .com, a new site designed to helping parents of kids/teens 5-17 to make sense of both PC and console games. Additionally, PlaySavvy also aims to keep parents informed about the various entertainment options out there for their kids/teens and help them make informed decisions. Earlier this year AOL launched ParentDish .com, which provides information and advice to parents with kids of all ages.
Castalia Content Distribution (CCD), a division of Castalia Communications Corporation, enters into a distribution agreement with Dentsu Communications, Inc. (DCI). Under the deal DCI grants CCD the Latin American broadcast and videogram rights to the popular Japanese animated series Deltora Quest (52 episodes). Produced by OLM with support from Dentsu, Deltora Quest currently airs on TV Tokyo. The series is based on the Deltora kid’s fantasy book series by Australian author Emily Rodda (aka Jennifer Rowe). Scholastic publishes the books in the US and Australia.
Channel 7 (Australia) and Nickelodeon (Nick Jr 2 UK and Nick Jr Australia) have commissioned a third season of the series The Fairies. Season three of The Fairies will begin production this February 2009 and debut later in the year, and will feature sets created by Weta Workshop (Lord of the Rings, King Kong). ABC Commercial has picked up the distribution rights for the series, with Haven Licensing named as the licensing and marketing agent. In addition to the initial The Fairies store in Adelaide Australia, with franchises scheduled to open in Sydney in March 2009, and nine additional stores opening by June 2009, and 50 more planned to open by 2010.
Rainmaker Entertainment has released the new DVD The Nutty Professor, a CG animated movie sequel to the 1963 live-action movie. Featuring Jerry Lewis, once again, as Julius Kelp, and Drake Bell (Drake and Josh) as his nephew Harold Kelp, the new movie comes from Genius Products, Rainmaker Entertainment and The Weinstein Company.
Correction:
RAI 2 (Italy) and Disney Channel (Italy) have acquired Spellbound Entertainment‘s The Koala Brothers series and holiday special. The series already airs on in Portugal on pubcaster RTP, which picked up the series earlier this year.
Clarification: If you received an error when trying the Red Nose Day link offered yesterday, try this one instead – http://www.rednoseday.com/schools/early_years
MARKETING/LICENSING
Scholastic continues the hunt for The 39 Clues, its multimedia adventure series, with the release this week of the second title in the series, Book 2: One False Note by author Gordon Korman. Additionally, Scholastic also launches several new components of The 39 Clues multimedia program including:
Arena 39, a new training area on The 39 Clues online game, launches with five different mini-games. A new challenge is added each week.
The 39 Clues: Double-Cross is a free card game in which kids can use their 39 Clues collectible cards and play against friends without having to go on the internet.
Scholastic has also created a Classroom Guide for educators, which allows students to visit every continent and travel through history.
For fans that missed Monday’s live worldwide webcast of Whoopi Goldberg’s interview of Korman, they can still view it at www.scholastic.com/39clues.
Leading up to Aardman‘s new Wallace and Gromit TV special A Matter of Loaf and Death, which will premiere on BBC1 this holiday season, Wallace and Gromit will be featured in two UK promotions, as well as starring in a series of BBC1 on-air IDs produced by Aardman. Aardman has teamed with Kingsmill, a UK bakery, which is offering an enter and win contest, Win a Prize of a ‘Loaf’ Time, now through the end of the month that includes featuring Wallace and Gromit on 29 million packs of Kingsmill bread. The plasticine duo will also be featured in a new Pyrex promotion that offers exclusive collectables free with selected non-stick bakeware at various retailers.
STONE SOUP
The Toy Industry Association (TIA) names nominees for the 2009 Toy Of The Year Awards (TOTY). The 9th annual TOTY Awards will be held at Chelsea Piers in NYC, on Sunday, February 15, kicking off Toy Fair Week. Also this year at the TOTY Awards, Jack Pressman, founder of Pressman Toys, and Joan Ganz Cooney, the creator of Sesame Street, will be inducted into the Toy Industry Hall of Fame. TOTY categories and nominees include:
Property Of The Year
Barbie- Mattel
Fancy Nancy- Harper Collins
Star Wars The Clone Wars- LucasArts Entertainment
Disney Fairies – Disney
Disney’s Handy Manny – Disney
Bakugan – Cartoon Network
Yo Gabba Gabba – Wild Brain
Most Innovative Toy Of The Year
The Pieceless Puzzle- Ceaco
Fisher Price Imaginext Spike, the Ultra Dinosaur – Fisher-Price, Inc.
Kota the Triceratops – Hasbro
EyeClops Night Vision Infrared Stealth Goggles – Jakks Pacific
Sprig Adventure Series Discover Rig – Sprig Toys
Air Hogs Zero Gravity Micro – Spin Master
Bakugan Battle Brawlers Battle Pack Series 1 Spheres – Spin Master
Game Of The Year
Bananagrams LLC – Bananagrams
Haunted Ruins 3-D Adventures Pop-Up Board Game – Basic Concepts
The Cat in the Hat, I Can Do That! – I Can Do That! Games
Monopoly Here & Now: The World Edition – Hasbro Games
Pictureka! – Hasbro Games
Rush Hour -ThinkFun Inc.
Zingo! -ThinkFun Inc.
Activity Toy Of the Year
Crayola Color Wonder Magic Brush – Crayola
Clipo Creativity Table – Hasbro
Girl Gourmet Cupcake Maker – Jakks Pacific
StarWars AT-TE Walker – LEGO Systems, Inc.
Circus Ring – Playmobil USA, Inc.
Pixos Super Studio- Spin Master
KidiArt Studio – Vtech
Educational Toy Of The Year
Computer Cool School – Fisher-Price, Inc.
Idbids Eco-friendly Starter Kit – Idbids LLC
LeapFrog TAG Reading System – LeapFrog
Zillions Touch Screen ATM – Summit Products, LLC
V-Motion Active Learning System – Vtech
Discovery Kids Smart Animals Scanopedia – Jakks Pacific
EyeClops BioniCam – Jakks Pacific
EXECUTIVE MOVES
Curious Pictures names Elyse Lawson as Head of Development. The appointment marks Curious Pictures continuing expansion into original TV series, feature film and game production. Lawson will initially focus on developing feature film projects for Curious Pictures’ client, Swarovski Entertainment. Most recently, Lawson served as Director/Development, Anonymous Content in NY.
Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question: On what educational TV series could you find “therapist” Dr. Ruth Wordheimer? BETWEEN THE LIONS (PBS Kids) Kudos to: Christopher Byrne-Byrne Communications, Inc./The Toy Guy®/ NY; Ellen Harter Wall-FamilyFun/Northampton, MA; Lisa Bussinelli/Chatham, NJ; Leigh Ann Schwarzkopf-Lookout Marketing/Minneapolis; Hank Bordowitz-The Bordowitz Media Werx/Macomb, IL; Michael Hawkins-PromoDoctors/Irving, TX; Richard Quan-Imaginary Time/San Francisco; Clover Keyes Roy-Pacific Technical Group, Inc./Burbank
Today’s Trivia Question: In the 1995 film A Little Princess, Sara, the main character, is bullied by a girl at the boarding school she attends. What was this mean girl’s name? (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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