Kids

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Dot. travels to Piwi+, Panda, SVT

Several European broadcasters have bought Randi Zuckerberg-created kids series Dot. Canal+-owned Piwi+ in France, Dreamia-owned…

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OSN launches Kids Zone channel

Middle East pay TV provider OSN has launched a new kids channel, OSN Kids Zone,…

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Young Bear Grylls toon series underway

Survival expert and presenter Bear Grylls will be the star of a new animated series…

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Bento Box prodco hires kids veteran for UK launch

Fledgling kids prodco Sutikki is opening a UK office and has hired former 4Kids, Zodiak…

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Euro nets bring in Ollie & Moon

Two European channels have acquired Cottonwood Media’s kids TV toon The Ollie & Moon Show….

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Toca Boca to end SVOD app after six months

Kids games studio Toca Boca has shuttered its subscription VOD app just six months after…

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Kids on-demand service scoops BBC content

Kids SVOD service Azoomee has snagged a raft of BBC kids shows. The on-demand service…

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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…

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Cake cooks up Gingerbread toon house

UK-based kids company Cake and Australia’s Studio Moshi have joined forces to create an animation…

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Wacky Races reboot joins int’l Boomerang grid

The upcoming reboot of classic Hanna-Barbera kids comedy Wacky Races is to play on Boomerang…

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TeenNick debuts in Israel

A new Nickelodeon-branded tweens-and-teens channels has debuted on Israeli pay TV. TeenNick launched last week…

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Disney EMEA adopts Sunny Bunnies

The Walt Disney Company EMEA has acquired season two rights to non-verbal animation series Sunny…

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Teletubbies returning to Germany

KiKa has acquired the new Teletubbies, marking the return of the iconic preschool series in…

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British preschool toon Boj heads to iQiyi

Chinese on-demand platform iQiyi has bought another British preschool toon. The SVOD service has bought…

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Ex-CEO buys Angry Birds TV studio

Angry Birds owner Rovio Entertainment has sold its Vancouver studio to its former CEO, Mikael…

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Turner sends Boomerang over-the-top

Turner has launched a subscription streaming service for its all-animation Boomerang channel. The platform will…

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Latest territory launch for CBeebies

BBC children’s channel, CBeebies, today debuts on 15 cable operators in Taiwan. The dual-language, localised…

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Free TV deals for Zak Storm

A raft of free-TV broadcasters in Europe have acquired Zak Storm, the new pirate action…

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Nick preparing for junior Lip Sync Battle

Nickelodeon is taking the kids to the Lip Sync Battle arena with a spin-off of…

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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…

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Amazon snags ChuChu for India

Amazon has inked a deal with ChuChu TV, landing a raft of exclusive kids content…

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Robbins exits AwesomenessTV

Brian Robbins is leaving AwesomenessTV, the kids-focused multichannel network he founded five years ago. Robbins…

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WildBrain brings in ex-Little Dot Studios exec

UK-based online kids network WildBrain has hired a former executive from All3Media digital business Little…

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iQiyi bags 300 hours of CBeebies shows

Chinese on-demand player iQiyi is acquiring nearly 300 hours of preschool programming from UK-based kids…

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France Télévisions falls for Love, Divina

France Télévisions has acquired teen novella series Love, Divina. The French pubcaster will air the…

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Mattel takes new Monster High to YouTube

Mattel’s new season of Monster High will debut on YouTube, the first time the toy…

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Squeeze sells Cracké to Viacom

Canadian animation studio Squeeze has shopped its shortform animated series Cracké to Viacom18 in India,…

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CBeebies boards new Andrew Davenport show

UK children’s channel CBeebies has commissioned the debut series from the partnership of Andrew Davenport’s…

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Disney launching Miranda Hart web series

Disney EMEA is launching So Sammy, a new shortform kids series from British comedian and…

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Komixx, Worldwide team for Stanley the Hamster

Kids prodco Komixx and BBC Worldwide are joining forces for the first time and working…