Category: Kids

MUMBAI: Nickelodeon will be using NewTek‘s 3PLAY multi-channel HD/SD slow motion replay system to capture and replay footage of the the Kids‘ Choice Awards.

The Kids channel will be using the system to reply celebrity arriving on the orange carpet at the 2009 Nickelodeon Countdown.

Says NewTek SVP strategic development Philip Nelson, “3PLAY is designed to ensure that audience can experience all of the random and spontaneous moments of your live event or production. Being used during the Countdown to the Nickelodeon Kids‘ Choice Awards proves that instant replay has much wider production application than just sports highlights.”

NewTek 3PLAY is a multi-channel, HD/SD slow motion replay system for the simultaneous display, ISO recording, and instant replay of three video streams

and four digital or analog audio streams per input.

MUMBAI: Cartoon Network unveiled 19 new programming projects as part of its 2009-2010 content development strategy.

The roster includes three action-adventure and four new comedy animated series, six live-action ‘alternative‘ half-hour series, three original live-action and one CG-animated movie

specials and two hour-long original, scripted live-action pilots.

“Based on Cartoon Network‘s ratings and online growth, coupled with the increased commitment to original content, our goal is to maximize the strength of these linear and digital offerings by developing opportunities for advertisers that will activate their brands across our portfolio,” says Cartoon Network ad sales & marketing executive VP and GM John O‘Hara.

New content to be launched across the 2009-2010 season include:

Comedy and action-adventure animated series
Adventure Time with Finn and Jake, Stoked, Ben 10, Sym-Bionic Titan, Generator Rex

Alternative live-action series
The Othersiders, Survive This, Destroy Build Destroy, Head Rush, Dude, What Would Happen, Bobb‘e Says

Live-action and animated original movies
Ben 10, Scooby Doo! The Mystery Begins, Firebreather, Tiger‘s Apprentice

Scripted live-action pilots
Unnatural History, Prepped

Returning animated series
Star Wars, Chowder,The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, The Secret Saturdays, Batman.

MUMBAI: D3Publisher (D3P), a publisher and developer of interactive entertainment software, together with its parent company D3 Inc, has signed a worldwide publishing agreement with Cartoon Network Enterprises to published videogames based on The Secret Saturdays.

MUMBAI: Kids entertainment channel Disney has appointed Global Trendz Retail as the exclusive license partner for two of its popular brands, Disney Baby and Disney Jeans.

MUMBAI: Disney Channel India is headed for a new gamble this summer to beef up its programming lineup. The mouse house, for the first time ever, has acquired Bollywood movies to garner more eyeballs.

Disney has acquired two Aamir Khan movies. While Hum Hai Rahi Pyaar Ke will be telecast on 12 April, Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikander will be aired on 3 May.

Says Walt Disney Television International India senior vice president and managing director Antoine Villeneuve, “Both the films

have long established themselves in the minds of kids and family. Also, they are a definite fit to Disney Channel‘s values of family, friendship and togetherness. Therefore, it made sense for us to head for these two films to seize more eyeballs.”

The kids-driven family channel is also banking on the Disney film library to create more fun for kids during the summer holiday season. The channel will show classics such as Return to Neverland, Atlantis: Milo‘s return, Mulan, 101 Dalmations 2 and Secret of the Magic Gourd to mark a new presence in its kids programming.

“Also, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man‘s Chest will premiere in Hind for the first time on Disney on 5 April. The film will be telecast at 11 am,” says Villeneuve.

MUMBAI: Walt Disney Pictures, along with Robert Zemeckis‘ production company, is planning to adapt the The Stoneheart Trilogy for the big screen. Written by Charlie Fletcher, the series is based on the story of a 12-year-old London boy who enters a hidden alternate world where statues, instilled with the spirit of their makers, come to life.

The series will be adapted into a film using performance-capture technology

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Silvertongue, the third in The Stoneheart series, will reach stores next month.

NEW DELHI: Nickelodeon will telecast its new series Danny Phantom from 23 March, on every Monday to Friday at 6:30 pm and at 10:30 pm. Says Nick India GM and VP Nina Elavia Jaipuria, “We at Nick are always striving to excite the generation next kids with the most contemporary characters and compelling content. We hope that kids will love Danny Phantom as he re-lives their superhero fantasies.”

Danny Phantom is about a teenage half-ghost boy Danny Fenton, who frequently saves his town and the world from ghost attacks, while attempting to keep his half ghost self a secret.

MUMBAI: Kids Media India (KMI), a subsidiary of Dubai-based Spacetoon Media Group, has entered into partnership with Paws, based in Indiana, USA, to represent licensing, advertising, and publishing rights for the popular cartoon character Garfield.

The rights also include friends of Garfield – Odie, Jon, Liz, Arlene, Pooky and Nermal.

Kids Media India, engaged in the business of children‘s television programming and licensing of cartoon characters, will support Paws to secure licensing, advertising and publishing deals across territories in India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka

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Speaking on the alliance, Kids Media India MD and CEO Rajiv Sangari said “We are delighted to be associated with Garfield. I am confident that using our expertise, we will be able to help Paws reach out to a wider client base across all sections for its licensees.”

For the advertising rights, Garfield has been promoting products and services through print and audiovisual media uses (including radio, television, and motion pictures), packaging materials, point-of-sale displays, and premium items. For licensing rights, opportunities are open for toys, games, clothing, novelties, household items, paper products, sporting goods and others.

Paws senior VP licensing Jill Davis said, “Garfield has been a very popular cartoon character that has transcended geographical boundaries and has reached the hearts of millions of people. I am very pleased to join hands with Kids Media who, with their expertise, will help us reach a new audience and make Garfield even more popular in India and its neighboring countries.”

KMI has licensing and merchandising deals with Rajasthan Royals, Marvel Entertainment

International and WWE for the Indian market.

MUMBAI: WorldKids foundation, a not for profit organization, will showcase The Peace Tree, on 21 March – the international day for the elimination of racial discrimination at the Godrej Dance Theatre Academy at 11 am. This Canadian movie

aims at spreading intercultural understanding to reflect diversity in unity.

WorldKids international film festival director Manju Singh says, “Our endeavour is to engage the children of India with positive media images and inspire them into thinking and learning while having a good time. Value based entertainment leaves a lasting impact on impressionable minds. The Peace Tree clicks with the young and the old alike. And most importantly, it is a lesson for adults to learn from children rather then the usual of grown ups preaching the young.”

MUMBAI: Kids entertainment channel Nickelodeon is launching a multi-platform promotional campaign to celebrate the 10th anniversary of popular Nick star SpongeBob. The campaign will extend across consumer products, on-ground, digital and television.

SpongeBob apparels from Weekender Kids & Cozy Comforters and bed sheets from Portico will be up for sale at DFW. Part of the proceeds, claims the channel, will be utilised for the development of the girl child.

The channel also plans to engage the “generation next” with an innovative SpongeBob Desktop Buddy in the form of a widget that can be downloaded from nickindia.com.