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BBC Children’s
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Kids roundup: Kelebek options Christmas adventure tale; BBC orders more ‘Petsaurus’ adventures; Wildbrain Spark launches dedicated subtitled channel
Kelebek Media options Christmas adventure tale UK-based indie prodco Kelebek Media has optioned the rights…
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Kids round-up: Xilam appoints Disney acquisitions exec; Sky names commissioners; South Korea’s Asiana agrees Cottonwood deal
Xilam appoints Disney acquisitions exec French studio Xilam Animation has appointed Disney’s former director of…
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BBC Children’s Jackie Edwards to head up BFI Young Audiences Content Fund
The BBC’s head of children’s acquisitions and animation, Jackie Edwards, has been appointed as head…
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BBC Children’s to steer away from VR programming
The BBC’s head of children’s products, Lucie McLean, said she is hesitant to create VR…
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BBC launches interactive voice drama
The BBC has launched what it describes as its first “interactive voice drama” – an…
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UK factual indie hires BBC exec for kids TV
Scotland-based indie Maramedia is blending its natural history programming roots with children’s television for the…
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BBC tackles kids SVOD threat with £34m boost
BBC Children’s will receive its largest cash boost “in a generation”, with an extra £34…
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BBC says channels safe as Kids iPlayer launches
UK pubcaster the BBC has launched a kids-specific version of its iPlayer on-demand service, while…
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CBBC, Worldwide create toon pilot scheme
UK kids channel CBBC and its commercial cousin BBC Worldwide have launched a pilot scheme…
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BBC to launch dedicated kids iPlayer next year
The BBC will launch a dedicated children’s version of the iPlayer next year and has also…
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BBC restructures kids unit
BBC Children’s has restructured its senior management team, creating and expanding roles in production and…
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BBC licence deal ‘bad for children’s TV’
The Children’s Media Foundation, a UK advocacy group, says the license fee agreement hammered out…
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BBC kids boss issues license fee rallying call
The new head of the children’s services at the BBC has called upon the wider…
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BBC looking for disability programming exec
The BBC is recruiting for a disability executive, who will support efforts to improve programming,…
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‘Rising star’ named BBC Children’s chief
The COO of BBC England, Alice Webb, has been named as Joe Godwin’s replacement as…
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Benbow named acting BBC Children’s boss
Kay Benbow has been named acting director of BBC Children’s. The CBeebies controller will take…
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CBeebies launches Playtime app
UK pubcaster the BBC has launched an app to accompany a range of shows on…
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FremantleMedia and BBC on kids partnership
Earlier this year the BBC and the Kids and Family division of FremantleMedia inked a…