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Young Audiences Content Fund reveals first recipients from $75m scheme

The UK’s Young Audiences Content Fund (YACF) has revealed the first recipients to benefit from its recently launched £57m ($75m) development and production scheme, with almost £4m handed out to date. The YACF was unveiled in April and has been devised to support the creation of new programming for children and young audiences aged up […]

Netflix rides Henson’s Dinosaur Train

Netflix has acquired rights to The Jim Henson Company’s animated series Dinosaur Train. The streaming service has taken rights in Canada, the UK, Germany and Spanish-speaking Latin America. A North American SVOD service, Videotron, has acquired season one for French-speaking Canada, while Movile has taken it for its video subscription app, PlayKids, in Canada, and […]

News brief: August bags Ella Bella Bingo sales

Four channels have acquired August Media Holdings-sold animated preschool series Ella Bella Bingo. Indonesia’s DaiiTV, Ireland’s TG4, Turkey’s Samanyolu TV and Good TV in Taiwan have acquired the show, which recently launched on Singaporean channel Okto. The Kool Produktion-produced show runs across Scandinavia on NRK, DR and SVT, on YLE in Finland and is also […]

Mediaset distances itself from Fede scandal

Italian broadcaster Mediaset has moved to distance itself from an emerging scandal surrounding Emilio Fede, the former head of the broadcaster’s news service TG4. According to La Stampa newspaper, Fede is being investigated for allegedly being in possession of compromising photos – which may have been a photomontage – of Mediaset’s head of information, Mauro […]

News brief: Five deals for ZDFE’s Q Pootle 5

ZDF Enterprises-distributed Q Pootle 5 is heading to broadcasters in Russia, Finland, Ireland, Israel and Hungary. VGTRK (Russian Public TV), YLE 2 (Finland), TG4 (Ireland), Hop! TV (Israel) and MTVA (Hungary) have all acquired the show, which first went out in the UK on CBeebies. These agreement come soon after KiKA in Germany and the […]

The War Report

With the 100th anniversary of the most terrible conflict in world history coming in 2014, Jesse Whittock identifies the projects and producers that will shape World War I in the minds of a new generation of TV viewers. War programming has the unique power to shock, appall and intrigue in equal measures, hence its enduring […]

TG4 buys Java docs

Irish broadcaster TG4 has acquired an 11-title package from French documentary specialist Java Films. The licensing agreement begins in September and hands TG4 docs including the 1x52mins Raising Resistance from Dreamer Joint Ventures. The programme follows Latin American farmers’ struggle against the expanding production of genetically modified soy in South America. It was directed by […]

Liberty Global launches Horizon TV in Ireland

Liberty Global has launched its next generation Horizon TV set-top service in Ireland, enabled by a half billion Euro investment in fibre-powered broadband by its European division UPC. Liberty’s Irish operator UPC Ireland launched the set-top box yesterday, which allows users to record up to four programmes simultaneously while watching a fifth, and to access […]

Zig Zag options show from Jack Black prodco

UK independent producer and distributor Zig Zag has taken options on three shows including one from Electric Dynamite, the production company of Hollywood star Jack Black. Zig Zag brokered the deal through Sparks Network, the formats distribution alliance that represents Electric Dynamite formats internationally. The shows in question is gameshow Hide and Seek from Electric […]

Global nets board animal extinction doc

Eleven international broadcasters have pre-bought Gambling on Extinction, a new 1x52mins doc about illegal endangered animal trading, TBI has learned. ZDF and ARTE in Germany and France, DR in Denmark, SVT in Sweden, VRT in Belgium, TG4 in Ireland, TVP in Poland, Czech TV, TV3 Catalunya, TVI in Portugal, Yes Doku in Israel and SBS […]