CYNTHIA TURNER’S
Cynopsis: Kids!
03/01/06
Good morning. It’s Wednesday, March 1, 2006 and this is your first early morning Kids! briefing.
Hit Entertainment is making a play to purchase Chorion Plc for $200+ million, according to numerous UK press reports. Last week we reported that Noddy rights-holder Chorion had accepted an acquisition bid from Waheed Alli in partnership with 3i, a private equity firm, for $193 million. With Hit pitching its bid into the ring, other suitors may also come calling.
NEW PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT
Composer Alan Menken has signed a non-exclusive, multi-picture deal with Disney/Touchstone Pictures to score non-animated feature films and compose music for live-action projects. Menken, the man behind the animated musicals The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin among others, begins the new deal by re-teaming with the great Stephen Schwartz to create the score and five original songs for Disney’s upcoming musical-fantasy, Enchanted, which is being directed by Kevin Lima. Previously Menken and Schwartz collaborated on the animated features Pocahontas and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Under the new agreement, Menken will work with a number of divisions within the company. He is currently in pre-production on the stage version of The Little Mermaid with the Disney Theatrical Productions. Menken is also developing The Frog Princess, an animated musical feature. Additionally, for Disney Creative Entertainment, he is creating a stage musical of The Snow Queen set to debut at Tokyo DisneySea, as well as writing music for a Sinbad attraction in Japan for Walt Disney Imagineering. He is also composing the score for a musical stage adaptation of Touchstone Pictures’ movie Sister Act, slated to open October 2006 at the Pasadena Playhouse.
You may have read the story or have seen the photos of the baby hippo becoming the closest of pals and snuggling with the 100+ year-old tortoise at a wildlife reserve in Mombasa. And now there will be a movie based on the unlikely friends. These guys wound up together when the hippo was rescued off the cost of Kenya following the Tsunami in December 2004. Walden Media and Relevant Entertainment have tapped visual effects supervisor John Dykstra to make his first directorial outing on the movie currently titled Tortoise and Hippo, per the Hollywood Reporter. The story is adapted for the big screen by Roger S.H. Schulman, co-writer of Shrek. The movie will be a mix of live action and photo-real CG animation, and will likely be produced by Andrew Adamson. Also producing is Relevant Entertainment’s Mike Menchel. Now, what about a movie based on the CBS News story about the autistic high-school basketball player last week?
Wild Brain, the animation studio, has entered into a deal to acquire Kidrobot, the NY-based, limited edition art-toy creator and pop-culture company and retailer. Together, Wild Brain and Kidrobot plan to develop animated TV shows, feature films and direct-to-video titles as well as other entertainment properties using Kidrobot characters. If you haven’t ever been to a Kidrobot store, you gotta go – it is a family activity at our place.
MORE KIDS STUFF
Cox Communications has expanded its Paquete Latino channel lineup in the San Diego area to include Discovery Kids en Espanol and Discovery Travel & Living (Viajar y Vivir), both new 24/7 channels from Discovery US Hispanic Networks, and feature programming created in Spanish (versus SAP feeds of their English-language counterparts). Discovery Kids en Espanol includes programming blocks targeted to preschoolers, tweens and families.
MarketResearch.com’s Packaged Facts released a new report titled The US Urban Youth Market: Tapping the Power of the Trendsetting Hip-Hop Culture and Lifestyle. The study looked at 15-29 year olds who connect with hip-hop music and culture. The results showed that the “hip-hop experience” was more preferred by females (58.8% vs. 41.2%) and 15-17 year-olds (48.8%) across racial lines. Consumers living in suburbia, smaller cities and rural settings voiced the same opinions and values on hip-hop trends as those living in the large metro areas. More info on this report available at www.packagedfacts.com/pub/1119538.html.
mun2 and Look-Look revealed the findings of their Latino youth-only national study at yesterday’s New York research forum, me2: Understanding the Young Latino in America. The 3-part study, commissioned by mun2, centered on psychographic profiles of the 14-34 year old Latino demographic regarding their ethnicity, culture, language, family, and religion opinions. The study used research methods such as surveys, ethnographies, blogs and visual journals to survey 1,800+ participants in 7of the top 10 markets for A14-34 Latinos. Look-Look is a consumer research, marketing and trend forecasting company specializing in youth culture. For more information go to www.mun2tv.com/me2
RATINGS
Top Ten Monthly Year-to-Year Comparison: Total Day Rankings among K6-11 (000) 1/30-2/26/06 vs. 1/31-2/27/05, Cable Networks Only:
Network: (000) %diff
NICK*: 711 -3%
DSNY: 481 +39%
CARTOON***: 417 -20%
NAN**: 218 -32%
ADSM***: 142 n/a
TOON DIS.: 56 -8%
MTV: 44 +26%
ANIMAL: 29 +4%
BET: 29 +53%
NKTOONS: 28 +12%
*Nickelodeon Total Day 6a-11p
**NAN Total Day 9p-6a
***Cartoon Network & Adult Swim share channel space ADSM airs Sat.-Thurs. 11p-6a
The networks listed are mostly those cable networks that regularly appear on the K6-11 weekly ranking charts.
Source: Star Media Multitrak Reporting System Live+7 Blended with Live+SD from 2/13/2006 to date; Data prior to 12/26/2005 is based on Live Viewing
Weekly Top Ten Basic Cable Ad Supported networks, Total Day and Primetime Rankings among K2-11 (000) 2/20-2/26/06:
Total Day (000) Primetime (000)
NICK: 1481 DSNY*: 1204
DSNY*: 848 CARTOON: 907
CARTOON: 730 NAN**: 652
NAN**: 652 TOON DIS: 175
TOON DIS.: 165 ANIMAL PLANET: 85
NOG/THE N: 119 BET: 83
MTV: 83 DISCOVERY: 73
NICKTOONS: 62 MTV: 71
DISCOVERY: 59 ESPN: 58
ANIMAL PLANET: 54 NICKTOONS: 56
Source: Disney Research from Star Media MultiTrak Reporting System 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.
Weekly Top Ten Basic Cable Ad Supported networks, Total Day and Primetime Rankings among K6-11 (000) 2/20-2/26/06:
Total Day (000) Primetime (000)
NICK: 814 DSNY*: 873
DSNY*: 507 CARTOON: 618
NAN**: 477 NAN**: 477
CARTOON: 461 TOON DIS: 88
TOON DIS.: 80 ANIMAL PLANET: 61
MTV: 64 MTV: 53
DISCOVERY: 36 DISCOVERY: 48
ANIMAL PLANET: 36 BET: 47
NICKTOON: 35 COMEDY: 38
BET: 29 NICKTOONS: 32
NOG/THE N: 29
Source: Disney Research from Star Media MultiTrak Reporting System 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.
Weekly, Top Ten Basic Cable Ad Supported Networks, Total Day and Primetime Rankings among Tweens 9-14 (000) 2/20-2/26/06:
Total Day (000) Primetime (000)
NICK: 592 DSNY*: 738
NAN**: 502 CARTOON: 497
DSNY*: 399 NAN**: 502
CARTOON: 328 MTV: 213
MTV: 193 COMEDY: 101
BET: 60 BET: 88
DISCOVERY: 46 DISCOVERY: 71
TOON DIS.: 44 ESPN: 60
ESPN: 34 ANIMAL PLANET: 53
ANIMAL PLANET: 34 THE N: 53
Source: Disney Research from Star Media MultiTrak Reporting System 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.
Live + Same Day Ratings Kids Cable Network Averages (000) for Saturday, February 25, 2006, 6am-11pm, ranked by K2-11:
NICKELODEON: K2-11 1417; K6-11 957; TWEENS 9-14 749
DISNEY CHANNEL: K2-11 991; K6-11 598; TWEENS 9-14 473
CARTOON NETWORK: K2-11 877; K6-11 587; TWEENS 9-14 434
TOON DISNEY: K2-11 184; K6-11 98; TWEENS 9-14 46
Source: MTVN Research from Nielsen Media Research Data
Live + Same Day Ratings Kids Cable Network Averages (000) for Sunday, February 26, 2006, 6am-11pm, ranked by K2-11:
NICKELODEON: K2-11 1457; K6-11 958; TWEENS 9-14 690
DISNEY CHANNEL: K2-11 989; K6-11 633; TWEENS 9-14 513
CARTOON NETWORK: K2-11 856; K6-11 560; TWEENS 9-14 350
TOON DISNEY: K2-11 173; K6-11 70; TWEENS 9-14 40
Source: MTVN Research from Nielsen Media Research Data
Live + Same Day Ratings Kids Cable Network Averages (000) for Monday, February 27, 2006, 6am-11pm, ranked by K2-11
NICKELODEON: K2-11 1307; K6-11 540; TWEENS 9-14 388
DISNEY CHANNEL: K2-11 743; K6-11 457; TWEENS 9-14 380
CARTOON NETWORK: K2-11 649; K6-11 346; TWEENS 9-14 241
TOON DISNEY: K2-11 129; K6-11 55; TWEENS 9-14 39
Source: MTVN Research from Nielsen Media Research Data
Answer to Yesterday’s trivia question: What is the last name of Archie’s rival Reggie? MANTLE Kudos to: Carin Greenberg Baker/NY; Terry Taylor-Disney ABC Kids/NY; Mimi Borowich-Barnard College/NY; Ali Klass-Mindshare/NY; Izzy Neis-Star Farm Productions/Chicago; Kerri Berney-Sony TV Research/LA; Karen Bolt-Carrie Productions/LA; Suzanne Marchese-Film & Video Stock Shots/N. Hollywood; Liz Stahler-Suppertime Entertainment/LA
Today’s Trivia Question: The cute little girl dressed in a yellow dress walking in the “rain” was the mascot for an advertisement of what product? (click here 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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03.01.06 – 3:45a
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