NBC’s US children’s channel Sprout has acquired European- and Australian-produced cartoon series. One deal with Studio 100 Media sees the network buy the 78x12mins CGI series and 3D feature film of Maya the Bee, while the other, brokered by distributor Bejuba! Entertainment, is for Essential Media and Entertainment’s preschool animation Sydney Sailboat. The series of […]
US preschool channel Sprout has ordered The Ollie & Moon Show, the animated series from Cottonwood, the production and distribution start-up launched by kids TV veteran David Michel last year. It is Cottonwood’s first project to go into production and follows the fledgling company picking up rights to the Ollie & Moon book property from […]
Classic British animated series Clangers is coming back to the BBC, 45 years after the last series. The new Clangers will go out CBeebies in the UK and Sprout in the US following the commission. BBC Worldwide has international distribution rights, while the UK’s Coolabi and original series producer Smallfilms are attached for production duties. […]
Former PGS Entertainment acquisitions exec Justine Bannister is working with China’s Shanghai Media Group on a slate of new kids’ series, TBI has learned. Bannister has been working with a range of clients on a consultancy basis since leaving PGS last year including SMG-owned animation producer Toonmax and France’s Panache Animation. It is understood Toonmax […]
