Lucy Murphy


Sky bags Moomins reboot

UK satcaster Sky has boarded the upcoming reboot of Tove Jansson’s kids property Moomins. Sky 1 in the UK and Ireland will broadcast Moominvalley, marking one of the largest investments in kids TV for Fox-backed pay TV service Sky. Moominvalley comes from Gutsy Productions, a Finnish production house that acquired a multi-year licence to produced […]

Sky greenlights Kickstarter toon

Children’s Media Conference: European pay TV platform Sky has commissioned a short-form series that began life on Kickstarter. Sky head of kids content Lucy Murphy ordered an 18x2mins series of Labuntina after finding it online. The singalong property is based on a series of animated music videos aimed at entertaining the two-year old daughter of […]

Tiger Aspect to produce Aliens Love Underpants for Sky

Endemol Shine-owned Tiger Aspect (Mr Bean, Charlie and Lola) is adapting award-winning children’s book Aliens Love Underpants AND… into a 12 x 2 minute animation series for Sky. The show, to be labeled as a Sky Original Production, will be available exclusively to Sky and the Sky Kids app, and is part of a concerted […]

Sky Kids secures shortform toon package

The Sky Kids App in the UK has acquired a package of animated children’s shorts from LA-based prodco Calm Island and Paris-based vendor LNC Media. The deal comprises 70 animated songs from the Badanamu online brand, which has clocked up more than 1.3 billion views since 2013. The brand follows a puppy, Bada, and his […]

Bennett to lead Sky UK and Ireland after rejig

Sky Atlantic director Zai Bennett will lead the wider Sky Entertainment business in the UK and Ireland after a management realignment. Bennett takes up the new position of director of programmes at Sky Entertainment, which is similar to the role Stuart Murphy held before exiting last year. The appointment is effective immediately. This means Bennett […]

Sky orders kids Duck Quacks, Big Cats

Sky has ordered kids-skewed versions of its Sky 1 panel show Duck Quacks Don’t Echo and wildlife series Big Cats, as the European paycaster pushes further into original children’s programming. Like its older skewing parent series, Duck Quacks Don’t Echo: Kids will be a science panel show from Magnum Media, while Big Cats – An […]

Turner deal gives Sky Adventure Time streaming

Sky has inked a deal with Turner that gives the pay TV operator the exclusive streaming rights to on-demand box sets of the channel operator’s hit shows Adventure Time and Gumball. The agreement means a raft of programming will be added to the Sky Kids app, including Cartoon Network’s hit toon series Adventure Time (above) and […]

Sky appoints first Kids TV chief

Sky has recruited children’s TV producer Lucy Murphy as head of kids, the first time the UK pay TV operator has had a dedicated kids TV chief. Murphy is a producer and counts Horrid Henry, The Gruffalo and Bing Bunny among her credits. As well as her production work, Murphy is also creative director and […]