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Toonz & Kenn Viselman team to launch Itsy Bitsy Animation

Itsy Bitsy Entertainment, the firm led by kids & family entertainment producer Kenn Viselman, has partnered with India’s Toonz Media Group to launch Itsy Bitsy Animation. The new company will focus on creating both animated family feature films and television series that “inspire empathy, compassion and belly laughs.” Itsy Bitsy Animation aims to introduce one […]

News round-up: Middlechild splits off ad arm; Toonz & ELE animate ‘Drac And Skeletons’; Showtime investigates ‘Murder In Big Horn’

Middlechild splits off ad arm UK indie Middlechild Productions is splitting off its advertising arm, which will now be named Friday’s Child. Middlechild, the firm behind Jo Brand’s Kitten Rescue and The Dog Rescuers, launched as a TV production company before also expanding into DRTV adverts. Company founder and MD, David Sumnall said that it […]

Spain’s DeAPlaneta Entertainment hires Toonz alum as kids content & sales director

Spanish content producer and distributor DeAPlaneta Entertainment has appointed Carlos Biern as content and distribution director of the kids & family division. Reporting directly to chief brand officer Diego Ibañez, Biern will be tasked with growing the division’s portfolio of animated series with original productions, co-productions and acquisitions and positioning the brand on TV channels and […]

Toonz launches pay-TV channel Toonz Kids in Indonesia

India’s Toonz Media Group has launched Toonz Kids, a new pay-TV children’s channel in Indonesia, available via local satellite TV network Transvision. The bilingual channel, which went live on 14 November, includes shows in both Bahasa and English, and is targeted at 4-to-12-year-olds. Toonz Kids will focus on edutainment and entertainment shows while also looking […]

Kids round-up: Tencent orders ‘Rainbow Bubblegem’; Toonz taps Zee’s Mukund Cairae for new SBU; Sky Kids orders ‘Paw Patrol’ shorts

Tencent orders ‘Rainbow Bubblegem’ Chinese streamer Tencent Video has ordered Rainbow Bubblegem, a new original children’s animation from Korea’s Campfire Aniworks. The 52 x 11-minute series is due to launch in early 2022 and is being produced for the streamer along with its partner Live Fun, while the show has also been pre-bought by EBS […]

Toonz & K6 partner for new festive pre-school series ‘Li’l Santa’

India’s Toonz Media Group has acquired global distribution rights to Canada-based K6 Media Group’s new Christmas-themed pre-school series Li’l Santa. Based on the comic books by French cartoonists Lewis Trondheim and Thierry Robin, the 52 x 1-minute 2D animated series follows the North Pole adventures of a pint-sized modern-day Santa eco-warrior and culminates with a […]

Kids roundup: WarnerMedia APAC hires Disney alum Melissa Lim; Moonbug shows comes to BBC iPlayer; Ferly & Toonz partner for ‘Kingdom Of None’

WarnerMedia APAC hires Disney alum Melissa Lim WarnerMedia has appointed Melissa Lim as the new head of content acquisitions and co-productions for its children’s networks in the Asia Pacific region, which include POGO, Cartoon Network and Boomerang. Lim will also advise on licensing content to fuel the growing slate of kids and family programming on the […]

Kids round-up: RTÉ preps first children’s slate; Sky Kids & AnimeLab pick up ‘Yu-Gi-Oh!’; Rainbow & Toonz partner for Pinocchio

RTÉ launches first global kids sales slate Ireland’s RTÉ Programme Sales has announced its first-ever slate of kids programming for the global market. Highlights include six new live action series, with the first four, Wonder What, Let’s Find Out, Insiders and Body Brothers, all produced by Stop.watch for RTÉ. Wild Kids was meanwhile produced by regional Irish indie GMarsh TV and Squad Goals by […]