On demand kids service Kabillion will show the first excerpt from pop and TV impresario Simon Fuller’s new kids TV project, The Meeps. The world premiere preview will take place this Wednesday (June 19) on Kabillion with a shorter teaser clip launched today. The Meeps is a 3D CGI series, created by Fuller and featuring […]
Moonscoop’s kids VOD service Kabillion has teamed with Saban Brands to launch a Vortexx VOD channel. Vortexx is the Saban-run kids block on US network The CW every Saturday. The Vortexx channel on Kabillion will allow kids to access Saban shows including Power Rangers, Sonic X and Kabillion will add Dragon Ball Z Kai to […]
Kids content firm Moonscoop has scored a deal with a new North American children’s VOD platform to offer its programming via public library cards. The deal with hoopla, a new digital platform from US company Midwest Tape, means programmes such as Code Lyoko and Tara Duncan will launch in the US and Canada on the […]
Moonscoop’s US arm and Australian prodco Wandering Eye Pictures are in Cannes with new ‘east meets west’ comedy toon Southside Shaolin. Moonscoop US’s CEO Mike Young described the 52x11mins series as an “infectious, very relatable combination of high energy characters naviagting the social pressure of high school. It will follow the adventures of the 15 year-old granddaughter […]
Italy’s children’s firm Mondo TV heads to Cannes having secured Middle Eastern and North African rights to programming from Bill Schultz’s US toon studio Home Plate Entertainment. Under terms of the deal, Mondo will sell series such Wild Grinders, which Home Plate produces for US preschool network Nicktoons, across MENA. The show is a half-hour […]
UK terrestrial Channel 5 has acquired kids’ series Chloe’s Closet for its children’s strand Milkshake! ahead of MIPTV. The news comes as distributor Moonscoop prepares to launch a 52x11mins second season internationally in Cannes. Channel 5 has become the latest broadcaster to buy the preschooler. Chloe has already run in the UK on Cartoonito but […]
A third season of animated kids series Geronimo Stilton has been greenlit. Producers Atlantyca and Moonscoop will make the series for Rai Fiction in Italy and France Televisions and M6 in France. That is the same roster of partners that made the first two seasons of the show, about the titular mouse journalist. The new […]
Russian free-to-air network TNT has acquired animated kids series Code Lyoko. The Russian broadcaster has picked up the first two seasons of Code Lyoko and will strip the show through the week. Moonscoop, which distributes the show, added that Code Lyoko toys will also launch in Russia for the first time following the TNT deal. […]
Commissioners want more girl-skewed animation and say there is not enough coming their way. Producers say that commissioners often shun girl-skewed ideas as they are worried boys will turn off. Meanwhile, a handful of shows with girl characters are global hits. Asking kids TV executives why there are not more cartoons with lead girl characters […]
Indian producer and distributor DQ Entertainment (DQE) has sold a pair of animated series to Australian public broadcaster ABC. It has picked up the second season of Iron Man Armored Adventures and the second season of Casper’s Scare School. Iron Man Armored Adventures is a copro between DQE, Method Animation and Disney-owned Marvel and Casper […]
