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DHX Media alum Ken Faier & Frima founder Steve Couture launch Epic Storyworlds

Former DHX Media exec Ken Faier and Frima founder Steve Couture have joined forces to…

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Kids round-up: Wildbrain reveals management rejig; M6 and Canal+ partner on ‘Presto’; C5 extends Daisy & Ollie’

Wildbrain reveals management appointments Canadian producer and distributor Wildbrain has revamped its senior management team…

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Kids bulletin: Canal+ orders from Dandelooo; BBC adapts Enid Blyton; C5 doubles kids’ spending

France’s Canal+ orders Dandelooo animation French pay TV operator Canal+ has ordered a serialised children’s…

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DHX Media launches children’s SVOD service

Canada’s DHX Media is to launch a children’s SVOD service. The streaming platform, titled Kids…

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DHX sells stake in Peanuts to Sony Music Entertainment Japan

DHX Media and Sony Music Entertainment Japan (SMEJ) have unveiled an agreement whereby SMEJ will indirectly purchase…

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CEO Landry out as DHX shakes up management

DHX Media CEO Dana Landry is leaving the Canadian media giant, with Michael Donovan taking…

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Show of the week: Massive Monster Mayhem

Easily one of the maddest, noisiest and most ambitious children’s series is Massive Monster Mayhem,…

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TBI Weekly: Uncertainty ahead for DHX

After weak quarterly financials, Canada’s DHX Media is eyeing a sale or merger of the…

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DHX mulls sale after shares plummet

Canada’s DHX Media is considering a company sale or a merger with another company after…

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DHX & YouTube Red believe We Are Savvy

DHX Media and YouTube Red have teamed up to release We Are Savvy, a magazine-style…

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Virgin TV signs ‘biggest kids deal to date’ with DHX

DHX Media has acquired a distribution deal with Virgin TV UK for SVOD rights in…

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The kids OTT tidal wave

As technology continues to blur the line between linear and OTT, the opportunities for content…

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Chinese VOD nets welcome Teletubbies

Chinese streaming services Youku and iQiyi have both acquired both seasons of the rebooted Teletubbies…

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DHX buys Shortcake, Peanuts for $345m

Canada’s DHX Media has acquired the entertainment arm of Iconix Brand Group, handing it control…

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WildBrain brings in ex-Little Dot Studios exec

UK-based online kids network WildBrain has hired a former executive from All3Media digital business Little…

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Scherba upped in DHX rejig

DHX Media has promoted Josh Scherba and Anne Loi as part of a restructuring that…

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Canada’s CraveTV orders OTT original

CraveTV has ordered What Would Sal Do?, a slacker comedy about a guy who discovers…

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Nick buys more new Teletubbies

The Nickelodeon channel in the US has bought more episodes of the rebooted Teletubbies series….

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WildBrain to manage Turner YouTube nets

London-based multichannel network WildBrain will manage a number of Turner’s YouTube channels in Europe, the…

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Rainmaker buys Frederator, EH to form WOW!

Canada’s Rainmaker Entertainment has acquired kids companies Frederator Networks and Ezrin Hirsh Entertainment, paying a…

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Amazon UK picks up BBC kids series

Amazon has acquired the new version of CBeebies kids series Teletubbies for its streaming service….

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BBC NHU, DHX open The Zoo for CBBC

UK kids channel CBBC has commissioned a ob-doc series in which the animals of Paignton…

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Viceland orders first scripted series

Viceland’s Canadian feed has ordered its first scripted series. Nirvanna the Band the Show will…

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Netflix acquires Technicolor adventure toon

Streaming giant Netflix has taken US rights to CG-animated adventure series The Deep. The show…

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DHX launches online networks arm

DHX Media has revamped the WildBrain banner as it creates a London-based digital kids network…

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LA equity group buys Octonauts prodco

An LA-based private equity firm has acquired a majority stake in Octonauts producer Silvergate Media…

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Disney Channel goes Backstage with DHX

Disney Channel has acquired rights to DHX Media’s original live action performing arts drama Backstage….

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DHX restructures, creates studio

DHX Media is putting all of its production assets under a new banner, DHX Studios….

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TV industry veterans buy UK indie

Three television industry veterans behind a new London-based investment group have bought a UK-based factual…

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DHX, Mattel team for new Bob, Fireman Sam

DHX Media and Mattel are joining forces to make new multiplatform content based on the…