FremantleMedia Kids & Family Entertainment


Boat Rocker acquires Fremantle’s kids division

Boat Rocker Media has acquired FremantleMedia’s Kids & Family Entertainment division. The move is effective immediately. It follows a range of investments that Boat Rocker has made in kids entertainment in the past two years, including the purchase of Jam Filled Entertainment, Arc Production assets and a co-development deal with children’s brand Fisher-Price. The division […]

Sander Schwartz joins Subway Surfers prodco

Former Warner Bros., Sony and FremantleMedia animation chief Sander Schwartz will oversee development of popular mobile game Subway Surfers into a TV series. Schwartz has joined Copenhagen-based producer SYBO as head of animation, and will develop Subway Surfers for TV, film and other platforms. “With over 1.5 billion downloads around the world, Subway Surfers is […]

Fremantle adds ex-Hoho sales chief

FremantleMedia Kids & Family Entertainment has hired former Hoho Rights boss Danielle Davies on an interim basis to cover Joss Duffield’s maternity leave. Davies has been named interim VP of sales at UK-based FremantleMedia’s children and family content arm. She was head of sales at Hoho Rights, the sales and L&M division of UK-based preschool […]

Deal Monitor: 16 programming deals at a glance

In a week that began with MIPCOM recuperation and the news TV titan Time Warner was being sold to telecoms giant AT&T, telly companies have quietly been getting on with their post-market deal-making. One major deal announced Thursday saw Chinese state-owned children’s channel CCTV-14 acquiring Kate & Mim-Mim (season one) and Tree Fu Tom (s1-2), […]

Schwartz, Dekel to aid UYoung with int’l launch

Kids TV veterans Sander Schwartz and Elie Dekel are to help Chinese media group UYoung Entertainment launch a US base. King Duckling coproducer UYoung is launching LA-based UYoung Entertainment International, which will debut at the Licensing Expo in Las Vegas this summer. Former FremantleMedia Kids & Family Entertainment chief Schwartz (left) and ex-Saban Brands boss […]

FremantleMedia Kids & Family adds to UK team

The kids and family division of FremantleMedia is bringing an LA-based exec over to its London base. Chapman Maddox (left), who executive produces Danger Mouse, will relocate across the pond to join the UK-based FremantleMedia Kids & Family Entertainment (FMK) team, and is promoted from director of development to VP, development and production. He will […]

Danger Mouse spied in Oz, France

FremantleMedia’s new version of spy toon Danger Mouse has made its way to broadcasters in Australasia, France, Ireland and the Middle East. The show, originally for CBBC in the UK, has sold to the ABC in Australia, Channel 4 in New Zealand, Lagardere’s kids channels in France, Irish pubcaster RTÉ and MBC in the Middle […]

Ex-FremantleMedia exec joins Jim Henson

Former FremantleMedia Kids & Family Entertainment distribution exec Amy Takahara (pictured) has joined US producer The Jim Henson Company. At Henson, she will be director of global distribution, selling shows such as Hi Opie!, Dinosaur Train and Doozers. She was formerly FMKFE’s manager of distribution and marketing. Henson has also promoted former Paramount Pictures exec […]

Netflix detects Danger Mouse, Gadget

Netflix has acquired exclusive rights to a pair of classic kids TV series being rebooted for the modern era. Deals with FremantleMedia Kids & Family Entertainment and DHX Media hand the streamer US rights to Danger Mouse and Inspector Gadget, respectively. Danger Mouse (pictured), which follows a heroic mouse spy that uses technology to apprehend […]

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