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Kids
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Show of the week: Alma’s Way
Six-year-old Alma Rivera is a proud Bronx-born, Puerto Rican girl living a fast-paced city life,…
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Cosmos-Maya CEO Anish Mehta exits after decade leading Indian animation studio
Anish Mehta. CEO of Indian animation studio Cosmos-Maya is stepping down after a decade at…
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Exclusive: UK animation indie Lupus Films appoints training & development producer
Lupus Films, the London-based animation studio behind The Snowman And The Snowdog and The Tiger…
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Toei Animation exec boards Sinking Ship to lead MENA sales
Canadian kids firm Sinking Ship Entertainment has hired Toei Animation’s Karine Rubin to lead sales…
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BBC Studios’ kids & family boss Helen Bullough exits
Helen Bullough, head of kids & family productions at the UK’s BBC Studios, is leaving…
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Sales round-up: China goes Beyond for kids & factual; BBC takes ABC’s ‘Born To Spy’; ‘The Water Guardians’ land in Canada & Europe
China goes Beyond for kids & factual Chinese broadcasters and platforms have acquired a range…
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Malaysia’s Lil Critter Workshop sets up UK studio
Malaysian animation house Lil Critter Workshop (LCW) is opening a new studio in the UK….
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News round-up: Canal+ & RAI team for ‘The Crunchers’; ScreenSkills predicts HETV spend growth; Paramount+ debuts Putin inner circle doc
Canal+ & RAI team for ‘The Crunchers’ French broadcaster Canal+ and Italian public broadcaster RAI…
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Paramount+ launches in UK, with ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ among content for 2022
Paramount has launched its SVOD service Paramount+ in the UK and Ireland, which will offer…
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ABC’s Michael Carrington steps down at Australian public broadcaster
ABC in Australia is looking for a new director of entertainment and specialist after Michael…
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Japan’s NHK snags Australian kids show ‘The Inbestigators’
Japanese broadcaster NHK has picked up rights to Australian kids show The Inbestigators, which debuted…
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Exclusive: WBD looks to broaden kids offer in EMEA & eyes coproductions
Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) EMEA is looking to broaden the appeal and range of its…
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Amazon animation boss talks rights flexibility & building “bigger worlds”
Amazon Studios is looking to create franchises with its animation content and said that while…
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Italy’s MIA unveils new animation focus with dedicated co-production forum
Italy’s fast-growing Mercato Internazionale Audiovisivo (MIA Market) is introducing a new section entirely devoted to animation…
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Paramount’s int’l CEO Raffaele Annecchino put on ‘immediate leave’
Paramount’s president & CEO of its international networks, studios and streaming has been put on…
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ITVX to offer 9,000 hours for free, incl dramas, docs & true crime section
ITV has revealed details of its content plans for upcoming free streaming platform ITVX, which…
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Exclusive: Disney’s Orion Ross talks rights, serialised storytelling and ‘Bluey’ love
Disney EMEA is looking to commission complex, serialised animated series and “grounded” pre-school comedies, its…
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Disney orders trio of new animations & extends slew of existing titles
Disney has unveiled a trio of new animated series and announced renewals and additional episode…
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Lupus Films to adapt Benji Davies’ ‘Storm Whale’ trilogy
UK prodco Lupus Films is adapting Benji Davies’ Storm Whale children’s books as a trio…
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Kids round-up: ITV & Cartoonito acquire ‘Mumfie’; ABC Australia & Disney Japan attend ‘Supernatural Academy’
ITV & Cartoonito acquire ‘Mumfie’ ITV and Cartoonito are among a slew of broadcasters across…
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Mediawan’s Method Animation to reboot ‘The Magic Roundabout’
Mediawan Kids and Family label Method Animation is rebooting French children’s stop-motion animation classic Le…
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Disney Branded TV promotes new EVP of TV animation
Disney Branded Television has promoted Meredith Roberts to EVP of TV animation. Roberts previously served…
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Fabrique d’Images launches new JVs with KMBO & Radar
Fabrique d’images, the Luxembourg-based animation studio behind shows such as Percy’s Tiger Tales and Polo,…
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Passion Pictures hires feature exec as head of animation development
UK prodco Passion Pictures has hired feature film exec Nicki Cortese, who worked on franchises…
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Netflix adds eight new European animation projects
Netflix has unveiled a slate of new animated series and films from European producers, ahead…
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Exclusive: Ukraine eyes European pubcaster pre-buys to ‘fuel’ productions
Ukraine’s top production and channel groups are approaching European public broadcasters to pre-buy content from…
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Warner Bros. Discovery unveils EMEA team, with five more senior exits
Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) has unveiled its EMEA team, with a raft of country managers…
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Kids round-up: ‘Hello Kitty’ inks global pre-sales; Banijay options ‘Arnold The Super-ish Hero’; Sky recruits ‘123 Number Squad!’
‘Hello Kitty’ inks global pre-sales Canal+ and M6 in France, RAI in Italy, Tiny Pop…
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Jetpack Distribution names global head of sales amid rejig
Clangers and Chuggington distributor Jetpack Distribution has restructured its sales team, as it looks to…
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Beyond Rights snags 20th Century Fox alum as VP of sales
Beyond Rights has rejigged its sales team, with former 20th Century Fox exec Kate Stevenson…