CBS Consumer Products is set to bring some of the most popular Showtime programs to retail this year, including Dexter, Weeds, Nurse Jackie, The L Word, and The Tudors. The line of licensed merchandise will include posters, kitchenware, clothing and greeting cards. New licensed products from Showtime will soon be available at retail stores around the world.

ThinkGeek will create glassware, coasters and aprons based on Dexter; Jerry Leigh will create men’s apparel based on Californication, Showtime Championship Boxing, Dexter, Nurse Jackie, The L Word, The Real L Word, The Tudors and Weeds; Global Prints will create Weeds posters, art prints and postcards; MusicSkins will offer Californication, Dexter, Nurse Jackie, The L Word, The Tudors and Weeds vinyl skins; Culturenik will produce Dexter giftware; NobleWorks will produce Weeds greeting cards; Rizzoli Calendars will offer Dexter and The Tudors calendars; and Hallmark will create Dexter greeting cards.

Mimoco, creator of the MIMOBOT line of designer USB flash drives, and Warner Bros. Consumer Products, on behalf of DC Entertainment, announced a licensing partnership at CES for a collection of USB flash drives veatures  DC Comics’ super heroes and villains. The designer character-based flash drive collection leads off with a vintage 1939-era Batman now available in a limited edition run of 5,000 units, and later joined by a full Batman wave of flash drive designs in February including Robin, Catwoman and The Joker. More MIMOBOT series based on additional DC Comics’ characters, including Green Lantern, Superman and The Flash, will follow in the near future.

UK creative agency Ideas at Work has signed a pan-Europe and Australia agreement with toy manufacturer Hornby, appointing the company as master toy licensee for the European and Australian markets for the upcoming animated series Olly The Little White Van.

Under the four-year license, Hornby will develop an extensive product line for Olly The Little White Van, including die-cast, push-along, friction powered and R/C vehicles, playsets and character figurines, Hornby and Scalextric sets, and jigsaw puzzles. The toys are set to debut in the UK in spring 2012.

C & F Enterprises, Inc. and Gallerie II have announced the new line “Fish Outta Water,” featuring contemporary tabletop, home décor, and accessories. The exclusive line, with coordinating products from both companies, is designed by artist Lori Siebert of Olika Studios.

The collection features fish imagery on guest and kitchen towels, hooked rugs, photo realistic pillows as well as a throw for C & F Enterprises, Inc. Figurines, wall art and ornaments as well as ceramic serving pieces for entertaining round out the coordinated collection for Gallerie II.

Hello everyone,

What can we say, it has been an amazing year in licensing! We want to thank our loyal followers for all of the support and hope you take a look at our new issue, brought to you in a digital format. Learn all about movie-licensing efforts in our Tribute to Hollywood section and find out what happened this year in our Year in Review.

Again, thanks for all of your support and happy holidays!

Your friends at The Licensing Book

Moxie & Company has new properties available for licensing, including Word Roundup Bingo in the categories interactive and electronic games, board games, and promotions; and GIANTmicrobes in the categories promotional tie-ins and health/personal care products.

Moxie & Company has also granted several licenses recently, including Nancy Drew to Her Interactive for “Mobile Mystery” game apps for the iPad; Funbrain to KiwiTech USA for educational game apps for iPad; Funbrain to StickerYou for online and retail personalized stickers; Alphabet Animals to Odyssey Books for Quilt-and-book story time sets; Ziggy to StickerYou for online and retail personalized stickers; Sloane Tanen’s “Tanenworks” to CR Gibson for journals, calendars, notecards, mugs, stationery, and gifts; Olive Sandwiches to MeadWestvaco for 2012 calendars; Olive Sandwiches to Joanna Sheen Ltd for crafts; Diamond Crosswords to Perfect Timing for 2012 page-a-day calendar; and Stone Soup to Habitat for Humanity for spokescharacter tie-in with Habitat for Humanity worldwide.

Moxie has moved, here is the company’s new address:

993 Post Road East
Westport, CT 06880
(203) 259-2729

HIT Entertainment has launched a new Barney mobile app, “Barney’s Super-Dee-Duper Fun Day!” for the iPhone and iPod Touch. With the new app, developed by Blit Interactive, users can play three new games: Wonderful World of Shapes; Lookie Lookie, It’s a Cookie Cookie; and Silly Hats. The games feature Barney, BJ, and Baby Bop and some of Barney’s most popular songs. The app can be purchased at the Apple App Store worldwide.

Editor in Chief Bryan Joiner and I have continued our quest to bring you anything and everything related to Halloween. On our latest outing, we stopped at Ricky’s NYC (375 Broadway, New York; 212-925-5490) and Abracadabra (19 W. 21^st St.; 212-627-7523).

If you want to be a sexy schoolgirl, sexy pirate, sexy monster—basically anything sexy, head to Ricky’s. I found a great pair of Wizard of Oz ruby red slippers, otherwise known as garish glittery red stripper platform pumps, which would be perfect for anyone’s raunchy Dorothy getup.

Also good to know: The two-floor store is open all year and could easily double as your local drugstore if you’re lazy or live in the area—a few Duane Reade-style aisles are stocked with shampoo and the like.

We. Loved. Abracadabra. This place simply rocks. Even if you are one of those people who, dare I say, hate Halloween you will still be amused by this quirky shop. From the get-go we were met by a fabulous life-size ghoulish mannequin vomiting in a bucket. Okay, we’re juvenile but don’t judge, we giggle at that sort of thing. The meat case full of body parts, also near the front of the store, was a nice touch.

If you want a realistic mask, life-size prop or glock, check out Abracadabra. Ok, let me explain the last part: The store also doubles as a place to buy movie props (you need to have credentials to rent any of the realistic weapons).

FYI: You can get costumes, but this isn’t necessarily the place to browse through aisles of sealed packages—the costumes are kept on hangers behind a counter and you should ask an employee for assistance.

Really, if nothing else, go for the vomit. We loved the vomit.

-Mackenzie Allison

People haven’t gotten it this bad for a First Lady since Jackie O. Although today doesn’t quite resemble the angelic times of Camelot, the people seem to have found their American princess yet again in the form of Michelle Obama. Some folks might have their beef with her hubby, but it seems the statuesque First Lady, with a penchant for pearls and pencil skirts, can do no wrong. The Franklin Mint, a company specializing in heirloom dolls, commemorative coins and the like, has taken it upon themselves to immortalize Mrs. Obama in the form of a doll. Inspiration for the figurine was taken from the First Lady’s official White House portrait. Clad in a black sheath dress and simple string of pearls, the limited-edition dolls are now on sale. A whole string of outfits from her visits to Mexico City and Buckingham Palace could soon follow.

In a relatively short time—well, nine years—but short for tech neophytes, aka me—iPhones, the iPod Touch and now iPads have come leaps and bounds. I remember getting my first iPod back in 2004, long before the click wheel and fancy color display. Although I have gone through a few iPods since then, I consider myself cool for still possessing my “vintage” second-generation device. Well, now, the iPod and its offspring are capable of yet another feat—acting as an external storage device. Mediafour Corporation has launched Ready, Aim, Drop! Not exactly a telling title, basically, the new thingamajig makes it easier to transfer files.

How it works: With Ready, Aim, Drop! installed on your Windows computer (it’s true, not everyone owns a Mac—ha, in your face Justin Long!!!), a “target” icon is created on the desktop, drag files onto the target icon and they are transferred. If multiple devices are attached, Ready, Aim, Drop! allows you to copy files to each specific device.

Ready, Aim, Drop! requires Windows 7, Vista or XP and is $9.99 for two licenses and $14.99 for five licenses