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DHX Media
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…
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…
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…
DHX Media launches children’s SVOD service
Canada’s DHX Media is to launch a children’s SVOD service. The streaming platform, titled Kids…
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…
CEO Landry out as DHX shakes up management
DHX Media CEO Dana Landry is leaving the Canadian media giant, with Michael Donovan taking…
Show of the week: Massive Monster Mayhem
Easily one of the maddest, noisiest and most ambitious children’s series is Massive Monster Mayhem,…
TBI Weekly: Uncertainty ahead for DHX
After weak quarterly financials, Canada’s DHX Media is eyeing a sale or merger of the…
DHX mulls sale after shares plummet
Canada’s DHX Media is considering a company sale or a merger with another company after…
DHX & YouTube Red believe We Are Savvy
DHX Media and YouTube Red have teamed up to release We Are Savvy, a magazine-style…
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…
The kids OTT tidal wave
As technology continues to blur the line between linear and OTT, the opportunities for content…
Chinese VOD nets welcome Teletubbies
Chinese streaming services Youku and iQiyi have both acquired both seasons of the rebooted Teletubbies…
DHX buys Shortcake, Peanuts for $345m
Canada’s DHX Media has acquired the entertainment arm of Iconix Brand Group, handing it control…
WildBrain brings in ex-Little Dot Studios exec
UK-based online kids network WildBrain has hired a former executive from All3Media digital business Little…
Scherba upped in DHX rejig
DHX Media has promoted Josh Scherba and Anne Loi as part of a restructuring that…
Canada’s CraveTV orders OTT original
CraveTV has ordered What Would Sal Do?, a slacker comedy about a guy who discovers…
Nick buys more new Teletubbies
The Nickelodeon channel in the US has bought more episodes of the rebooted Teletubbies series….
WildBrain to manage Turner YouTube nets
London-based multichannel network WildBrain will manage a number of Turner’s YouTube channels in Europe, the…
Rainmaker buys Frederator, EH to form WOW!
Canada’s Rainmaker Entertainment has acquired kids companies Frederator Networks and Ezrin Hirsh Entertainment, paying a…
Amazon UK picks up BBC kids series
Amazon has acquired the new version of CBeebies kids series Teletubbies for its streaming service….
BBC NHU, DHX open The Zoo for CBBC
UK kids channel CBBC has commissioned a ob-doc series in which the animals of Paignton…
Viceland orders first scripted series
Viceland’s Canadian feed has ordered its first scripted series. Nirvanna the Band the Show will…
Netflix acquires Technicolor adventure toon
Streaming giant Netflix has taken US rights to CG-animated adventure series The Deep. The show…
DHX launches online networks arm
DHX Media has revamped the WildBrain banner as it creates a London-based digital kids network…
LA equity group buys Octonauts prodco
An LA-based private equity firm has acquired a majority stake in Octonauts producer Silvergate Media…
Disney Channel goes Backstage with DHX
Disney Channel has acquired rights to DHX Media’s original live action performing arts drama Backstage….
DHX restructures, creates studio
DHX Media is putting all of its production assets under a new banner, DHX Studios….
TV industry veterans buy UK indie
Three television industry veterans behind a new London-based investment group have bought a UK-based factual…
DHX, Mattel team for new Bob, Fireman Sam
DHX Media and Mattel are joining forces to make new multiplatform content based on the…