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News round-up: WBD & ITVX bring back ‘Bean’; ITV returns ‘Stand Up Sketch Show’; UKTV extends ‘Special Ops’ series
WBD & ITVX bring back Bean Warner Bros. Discovery and ITVX have ordered a fourth…
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TBI Kids: How Hoho Entertainment updated a classic for ‘Toad & Friends’
Hoho Entertainment’s joint-MD Oliver Ellis tells Mark Layton how Toad & Friends will both honour…
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Exclusive: Inside Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA’s kids content strategy
As the industry descends upon Cannes once again for MIPJR & MIPCOM, TBI talks to…
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Kids round-up: ITV & Cartoonito acquire ‘Mumfie’; ABC Australia & Disney Japan attend ‘Supernatural Academy’
ITV & Cartoonito acquire ‘Mumfie’ ITV and Cartoonito are among a slew of broadcasters across…
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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…
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Exclusive: HBO Max EMEA on hunt for live-action comedy & unscripted pre-school shows
HBO Max is looking to commission and acquire unscripted pre-school formats, live-action children’s comedies and…
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WarnerMedia supercharges HBO Max, Cartoon Network with 300-hours of kids shows
WarnerMedia has commissioned more than 300 hours of new original live-action and animated children’s content,…
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Kids round-up: ‘Kid-E-Cats’ expands in Italy; ‘Yu-Gi-Oh!’ increases LatAm foothold; YouTube Kids arrives on Freesat
CTC Media’s ‘Kid-E-Cats’ expands in Italy WarnerMedia-owned preschool network Cartoonito and German distributor and co-prod…
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Kids round-up: Italy’s Cartoonito launches climate toon; YA drama for Israel’s Nick Hot; Sky Kids expands
Climate toon bought by Cartoonito Italy’s Cartoonito has picked up animated children’s series MeteoHeroes for…
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TalkTalk adds Cartoonito to channel line-up
UK operator TalkTalk has added Turner preschool channel Cartoonito to its TV line-up. Cartoonito is…
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Turner strikes new channels deal with Virgin
Turner has renewed its carriage deal with UK cabler Virgin Media, adding a raft of…
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Netflix UK, YFE among Toot buyers
Netflix in the UK, Disney in Australia and Germany-based YFE have acquired Toot the Tiny…
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Turtles, Dora spread in Lat Am, Europe
Viacom International Media Networks properties Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Dora the Explorer: Into the…
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Turner ties up Toot the Tiny Tugboat
Turner Broadcasting System has acquired UK pay TV rights for Toot the Tiny Tugboat the…
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Cartoonito, RTE buy Pip Ahoy!
Cartoonito in the UK and Ireland and Irish pubcaster RTE have acquired rights to Channel…
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Turner moves Asia Pac exec to Cartoon Network US
Turner Broadcasting System has named one of its Asia Pacific kids programming bosses as VP,…
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Turner hires EMEA finance boss from Time Out
Turner International has recruited Aksel van der Wal (pictured) as senior VP, finance, for its…
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Cartoonito digs into Doozers
Turner’s Asian division has acquired Doozers for its preschool channel Cartoonito. The animated series is…
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Netflix cuts kids deal with Cartoon Network
Netflix has struck a deal to bring content from Turner Broadcast’s Cartoon Network and Cartoonito…
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UK streaming service brings MTV, History to Freeview
A new subscription streaming service is bringing channels such as Comedy Central, MTV and History…
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Major channels sign up to Freeview streaming service
A new UK pay-TV streaming service for Freeview viewers, VuTV, has signed deals A+E Networks,…
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Turner poaches Disney’s Patricia Hidalgo
Turner has hired Patricia Hidalgo as its chief content officer, EMEA, filling a role vacated…
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MIPTV News: Channel 5 explores Chloe’s Closet
UK terrestrial Channel 5 has acquired kids’ series Chloe’s Closet for its children’s strand Milkshake!…
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New Fireman Sam series greenlit
Hit Entertainment is making a new 24-part series of popular cartoon series Fireman Sam for…
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Bananas in Pyjamas lands at Disney Junior
Disney Junior in Canada has picked up preschool kids series Bananas in Pyjamas. The channel…
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Turner preps more LazyTown
Turner Broadcasting has greenlit a fourth series live-action kids show LazyTown. Turner acquired the owner…
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Cartoonito buys Henson’s Doozer series
Cartoonito has bought the animated Doozers series from The Jim Henson Company. The Turner preschool…
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Turner to launch two kids channels across Asia
Turner is launching two new kids channels across Asia as its expands its channel portfolio…