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Kids
Dot. travels to Piwi+, Panda, SVT
Several European broadcasters have bought Randi Zuckerberg-created kids series Dot. Canal+-owned Piwi+ in France, Dreamia-owned…
OSN launches Kids Zone channel
Middle East pay TV provider OSN has launched a new kids channel, OSN Kids Zone,…
Young Bear Grylls toon series underway
Survival expert and presenter Bear Grylls will be the star of a new animated series…
Bento Box prodco hires kids veteran for UK launch
Fledgling kids prodco Sutikki is opening a UK office and has hired former 4Kids, Zodiak…
Euro nets bring in Ollie & Moon
Two European channels have acquired Cottonwood Media’s kids TV toon The Ollie & Moon Show….
Toca Boca to end SVOD app after six months
Kids games studio Toca Boca has shuttered its subscription VOD app just six months after…
Kids on-demand service scoops BBC content
Kids SVOD service Azoomee has snagged a raft of BBC kids shows. The on-demand service…
Boat Rocker, Fisher-Price co-developing original
Canada’s Boat Rocker Media and toyco Fisher-Price are co-developing an original series based on a…
Cake cooks up Gingerbread toon house
UK-based kids company Cake and Australia’s Studio Moshi have joined forces to create an animation…
Wacky Races reboot joins int’l Boomerang grid
The upcoming reboot of classic Hanna-Barbera kids comedy Wacky Races is to play on Boomerang…
TeenNick debuts in Israel
A new Nickelodeon-branded tweens-and-teens channels has debuted on Israeli pay TV. TeenNick launched last week…
Disney EMEA adopts Sunny Bunnies
The Walt Disney Company EMEA has acquired season two rights to non-verbal animation series Sunny…
Teletubbies returning to Germany
KiKa has acquired the new Teletubbies, marking the return of the iconic preschool series in…
British preschool toon Boj heads to iQiyi
Chinese on-demand platform iQiyi has bought another British preschool toon. The SVOD service has bought…
Ex-CEO buys Angry Birds TV studio
Angry Birds owner Rovio Entertainment has sold its Vancouver studio to its former CEO, Mikael…
Turner sends Boomerang over-the-top
Turner has launched a subscription streaming service for its all-animation Boomerang channel. The platform will…
Latest territory launch for CBeebies
BBC children’s channel, CBeebies, today debuts on 15 cable operators in Taiwan. The dual-language, localised…
Free TV deals for Zak Storm
A raft of free-TV broadcasters in Europe have acquired Zak Storm, the new pirate action…
Nick preparing for junior Lip Sync Battle
Nickelodeon is taking the kids to the Lip Sync Battle arena with a spin-off of…
Studio 100 shows head for China after M4E deal
Chinese company WeKids Asia has acquired local distribution rights to four toons from Belgium’s Studio…
Amazon snags ChuChu for India
Amazon has inked a deal with ChuChu TV, landing a raft of exclusive kids content…
Robbins exits AwesomenessTV
Brian Robbins is leaving AwesomenessTV, the kids-focused multichannel network he founded five years ago. Robbins…
WildBrain brings in ex-Little Dot Studios exec
UK-based online kids network WildBrain has hired a former executive from All3Media digital business Little…
iQiyi bags 300 hours of CBeebies shows
Chinese on-demand player iQiyi is acquiring nearly 300 hours of preschool programming from UK-based kids…
France Télévisions falls for Love, Divina
France Télévisions has acquired teen novella series Love, Divina. The French pubcaster will air the…
Mattel takes new Monster High to YouTube
Mattel’s new season of Monster High will debut on YouTube, the first time the toy…
Squeeze sells Cracké to Viacom
Canadian animation studio Squeeze has shopped its shortform animated series Cracké to Viacom18 in India,…
CBeebies boards new Andrew Davenport show
UK children’s channel CBeebies has commissioned the debut series from the partnership of Andrew Davenport’s…
Disney launching Miranda Hart web series
Disney EMEA is launching So Sammy, a new shortform kids series from British comedian and…
Komixx, Worldwide team for Stanley the Hamster
Kids prodco Komixx and BBC Worldwide are joining forces for the first time and working…