Kids


Sales round-up: France TV buys Attenborough’s ‘Life In Colour’; HBO Max takes ‘Octonauts’; Jetpack strikes BBC deal

France TV buys Attenborough’s Life In Colour France Télévisions is among buyers of Life In Colour With David Attenborough. The show, sold by Flame Distribution, has also been picked up by RTBF (Belgium), Geo Wild (Germany), and HRT (Croatia). HRT additionally picked up one-hour docs In Search Of Sir Walter Scott and Antarctica From Above. Other deals include […]

France set to abolish TV licence fee later this year

France’s TV landscape could soon be transformed after it emerged that plans to scrap the country’s annual audiovisual licence fee are set to be introduced later this year. The proposal, which was part of recently re-elected president Emmanuel Macron’s election pledges, will see the €138 ($143) annual charge applied to households with a TV, scrapped. […]

HBO Max int’l chief exits as Warner Bros. Discovery restructuring gathers pace

HBO Max’s international chief and the streamer’s Latin America GM are among the latest flurry of execs to exit Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) amid the company’s ongoing restructuring. Larcher, who previously launched Hulu, joined HBO Max from Middle Eastern streamer Shahid in 2020 and had been leading the SVOD’s expansion outside of the US. He […]

Sales round-up: AMC & Viaplay acquire ‘Pandore’; FilmRise strikes Rooster Teeth deal; Tencent opens ‘The Creature Cases’

AMC & Viaplay acquire ‘Pandore’ Broadcasters in Europe and North America have acquired Belgian political drama series Pandore, following deals with distributor About Premium Content (APC). AMC Networks International Southern Europe for Spain and Portugal, RTP2 in Portugal, NPO in the Netherlands, Yle in Finland, Stod 2 in Iceland, TV5 in Canada and Viaplay in […]

HBO Max expands live-action kids & family offering

Warner Bros. Discovery streamer HBO Max is expanding its kids and family live-action slate, with two new show acquisitions and a renewal for teen dance drama The Next Step. New shows headed to the service include Hank Zipzer, which is based on the book series Hank Zipzer: The World’s Greatest Underachiever, written by Barry and […]

Magic Light Pictures hires Jetpack alum to oversee global sales

UK kids & family prodco Magic Light Pictures has appointed former Jetpack exec Marie-Laure Roche to the newly created position of head of international sales. Roche will be responsible for supporting business development, seeking new opportunities across broadcasters, streamers, distributors and on-demand platforms, with a focus on Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Middle East […]

Warner Bros. Discovery exits multiply, as new UK sport venture revealed

Warner Bros. Discovery exits continue apace, with UK chief Polly Cochrane and kids topper Tom Ascheim joining TBS & TNT chief Brett Weitz in leaving the freshly minted company. Cochrane had been in the role since 2020, when she replaced long-standing Warner Bros. exec John Stanley who departed following the creation of a new TV […]

News round-up: France TV orders ‘After The Asteroid’; Abacus to shop ‘Wonderland’; Banijay launches ‘Mr Bean’ NFTs

France TV orders ‘After The Asteroid’ France Télévisions has commissioned After The Asteroid (aka Après la météorite, les survivants de la préhistoire), a new documentary exploring how life on Earth returned following a devastating meteorite impact. Produced by Pernel Media, the 1 x 90-minute film examines how, 66 million years ago, an asteroid 12km wide […]

Great Pacific Media strikes factual & kids pact with Sean Connolly’s Original Content Lab

Great Pacific Media, the Canadian factual and scripted label owned by Thunderbird Entertainment, has inked an exclusive multi-year partnership with former Sphere Media producer Sean Connolly’s new outfit Original Content Lab. The agreement will see Connolly’s Toronto-based firm developing unscripted primetime and children’s series for the global market, that Great Pacific Media will produce. The […]

Disney & Laurence Fishburne team for animated adaptation of ‘Cookies & Milk’

Disney Television Animation is in development on Cookies & Milk, a new animated series based on the upcoming novel of the same name by Shawn Amos, with Laurence Fishburne attached to exec produce. The semi-autobiographical novel is inspired by the childhood of Amos, a blues musician and the son of iconic Wallace “Wally” Amos Jr., […]

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