Soon-to-launch Canadian kids channel Family Jr. has added another series to its line-up. The DHX Media-owned channel last week added the new version of Teletubbies to its fall launch slate, and will now get another Anne Wood-created show, the 50x11mins stop-motion preschooler Twirlywoos. DHX acquired the commercial rights to Wood’s UK indie Ragdoll Productions in […]
UK indies trade body Pact and Teletubbies creator Anne Wood have come together to slam the level of investment in UK kids TV programming from commercial public broadcasters, claiming a “crisis” has developed. Pact and Wood’s Ragdoll Foundation have launched a campaign to address their concerns in a report titled ‘Children’s television – a crisis […]
UK preschool channel CBeebies has commissioned a series from Teletubbies creator Anne Wood. Twirlywoos comes from Wood’s Ragdoll Productions, which is behind Teletubbies, In the Night Garden and Abney and Teal!. Wood sold the commercial division of Ragdoll to Canada’s DHX Media last year for £17.4 million (US$27.7 million), after which a reboot of Teletubbies […]
Australian broadcaster ABC1 will move children’s programming to dedicated digital channels as the country completes its digital switchover, it was announced today. From 2 February children’s programmes – including mainstay Play School, which has been broadcast on the ABC since 1966 and acquired shows including Peppa Pig (pictured) – will be transmitted on ABC3 and […]
Canadian content firm DHX Media has hired a UK brand director following its £17.4 million (US$28.3 million) acquisition of Teletubbies firm Ragdoll Worldwide. Tor Bushell has joined the company from HIT Entertainment, where she was brand marketing and retail development director for Thomas & Friends. Based out of DHX’s London officer, she will oversee brands […]
Canada’s DHX Media has acquired Teletubbies and In the Night Garden owner Ragdoll Worldwide for £17.4 million (US$27.5 million). The deal for the commercial arm of UK prodco Ragdoll will be funded from a C$25 million (US$24.2 million) expansion of DHX’s debt facility and cash reserves. The deal, closed with Ragdoll Worldwide owners BBC Worldwide […]
