Cynopsis: Kids!
9/12/07
Good morning. It’s Wednesday, September 12, 2007, and this is your first early morning briefing.
Breakthrough Animation and Jetix have completed a new deal that will bring the Captain Flamingo to the US where the K6-12 animated series will join the Jetix block on Toon Disney. Under the agreement Jetix picks up the license for the whole series (52×30′) and a 44-minutes worth of Captain Flamingo content including webisodes and mobisodes. Breakthrough recently completed a renewal deal for Captain Flamingo with Jetix Europe.
Granada International has completed a terrestrial broadcast deal with the UK’s Five for two seasons of the preschool 3D CG animated series Pocoyo (104×7′). Pocoyo will join Five’s preschool block Milkshake!, which airs Monday-Friday 6-9a and weekends 6-10a, from early 2008. Pocoyo will also continue to be available to digital viewers on the CITV Channel, which has the exclusive rights to air the program outside of the Milkshake times. Pocoyo is a co-production of Zinkia Entertainment and Granada International.
PorchLight Entertainment completes sales for Sardine Productions 2-D animated series, My Goldfish is Evil!, which comes on the heels of second season pick-up (13×30′) by Canada’s CBC and Radio-Canada. PorchLight has recently licensed the first season (26×30′) to RRS (Germany), ABC (Australia), Starz Home Entertainment (Australia and New Zealand), Tara Film (RAI Sat) (Italy), ETB (Spain), D Productions (Turkey), 7 Arts (Middle East), RTL Klub (Hungary), Noga (Israel), Konstantin Vedermikov (CIS), and Delta in the former Yugoslavia.
Channel One News, the news/content provider to US middle and high schools, welcomes three new on-air reporters: Chris Browne joins Channel One News from CNN where he worked on the assignment desk and produced news stories, including segments for CNN en Espanol; Jessica Kumari was most recently an anchor/reporter for News 12 The Bronx/Brooklyn; and Tony Anderson, who most recently was a performer and panelist on several MTV shows. Overseeing the new reporters is Executive News Producer, Kristy Schantz.
WGBH Boston Video will release The Masterpiece Theatre Family Collection on DVD this October 23, 2007. The DVD set is comprised of adaptations of four beloved kid’s books, Pollyanna, The Railway Children, Carrie’s War, and Goodbye, Mr. Chips.
MARKETING/LICENSING
Neopets and MumboJumbo, a developer/publisher of casual games, launch a new downloadable Neopets game, Neopets: Codestone Quest, this week. The game can be downloaded at mumbojumbo.com and Nickelodeon’s paid games site nickarcade.com, and will be available soon on Neopets.com and other game portals. Additionally, Neopets: Codestone Quest for PCs this month.
4Kids Entertainment and Mirage Licensing have tapped Australia’s Merchantwise to serve as the exclusive licensing agent in the region for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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EXECUTIVE MOVES
Animation studio Laika, Inc. makes two executive moves:
- Alan Keith is appointed VP/Business Operations and COO. Keith will head the expansion of Laika’s business operations and growth in the areas of animated feature films, TV commercials, music videos, broadcast graphics and short films. Formerly VP/Administration & Secretary, Lucasfilm and VP/Business Operations and Controller, Hanna-Barbera, Keith was most recently Corporate Finance Director, Genentech, Inc.
- Travis Knight moves up to VP/Animation. Knight, who had been head of Animation, will be more actively involved in Laika’s business operations, while also maintaining his role as one of the lead animators on the stop-motion feature film Coraline. Knight, who joined the company in 1998, when it was Vinton Studios, is the son of Laika owner and Nike co-founder Phil Knight.
DreamWorks Animation SKG names Philip Cross as Chief Accounting Officer. He will report to President and CFO, Lew Coleman. Cross most recently served as a consultant to DreamWorks Animation. He had been a senior partner Technology, Information, Communications and Entertainment with PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he toiled for 26 years until his retirement.
RATINGS
Nickelodeon’s new multi-platform series, iCarly, which features user-generated content in each episode, premiered with back-to-back episodes on September 8, 2007, at 8 and 8:30p, drawing an average 3.5 million and 3.7 million Total Viewer 2+, respectively. In kid demos for the iCarly series debut and other platforms:
- The 8p episode of iCarly was watched by 1.4 million K6-11 and 1.3 million Tweens 9-14
- The second premiere episode at 8:30p, drew 1.7 million K6-11, up by +16% from the first episode, while the network won the time period with for Tweens 9-14 with 1.5 million, up by +22%.
- iCarly.com netted 270,000 unique visitors for the week (September 3-9, 2007), spending an average of 15.1 minutes, according to Omniture SiteCatalyst. Kids came to the site to submit photo (some 2,200) and upload videos (2000+).
- On TurboNick, the broadband video player, iCarly videos saw 1.1 million streams for the week, 721,000 of which took place over the weekend.
Whether folks like Britney Spears or not tons turned on to watch the MTV 2007 Video Music Awards, which aired live from Las Vegas on Sunday, September 9, 7.0 million total viewers 2+, an increase of +23% over last year’s show. Upwards of 5 million of those who tuned in were P12-34, also up by +23%, making the show the highest rated telecast on ad-supported cable for the year to day for the demo.
Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question: In 1971, a very young Jodie Foster appeared in a TV commercial with Henry Fonda. What children’s product was this for? GAF VIEWMASTER Kudos to: Kristen Tuinstra-Zonderkidz/Grand Rapids, MI; Anita Frazier-NPD Group/Port Washington, NY; Kimberly Keeley-Safety4Kids/Stamford, CT; Ron Yurman-Short Hills Media Group/Short Hills, NJ; Rosemary Cunningham-MMT/Chicago; Al Ovadia-Al Ovadia & Associates, Inc./Hidden Hills, CA
Today’s Trivia Question: On the Nickelodeon series Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide what is the name of the music appreciation/drama teacher? (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
Gwen Billings for Cynopsis: Kids!
09.12.07
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