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Playhut: Not Just Toying With Anime
The Playhut Company, a leading toy designer and manufacturer, has launched a new entertainment and media company called Playhut Entertainment. The entity will primarily produce anime and children’s programming for home video and broadcast. It will also be involved in the creation of license-related media products directed to various audiences [...]
SecondSun Puts On Creepshow
Vancouver-based animation company SecondSun Ent. Is teaming up with Western Canada-based independent production company Minds Eye Ent. to produce the animated series Creepshow. The project is in development with YTV and production is expected to start in the fall of 2003. Based on the 1982 creature feature from horror legends [...]
New Warm and Fuzzy Titles Bow on Noggin
Nickelodeon’s preschool spinoff Noggin kicks off three new colorful entries for the milk-and-cookies set this week. The stop-motion animated Miffy, based on the works of Dutch artist Dick Bruna, the BBC’s popular Tweenies, a show that’s often seen as the older cousin of the Teletubbies, and Oobi, an offbeat new [...]
Kids’ WB! Rules Saturday Morning With Action
With a lineup that includes such popular action shows as Yu-Gi-Oh!, Pokemon: Master Quest, Jackie Chan Adventures, The Mummy: Secrets of the Medjai and Static Shock, Kids’ WB! continued to lead in key demos on Saturday, March 29. Kids’ WB!’s action block ranked No. 1 with boys 2-11, boys 6-11, [...]
Angelina Ballerina Makes Encore Performances
Five new episodes of the series Angelina Ballerina will begin airing this May on PBS. Produced by HIT Entertainment and animated by Grand Slamm Children’s Films, the series is based on the beloved Angelina Ballerina children’s books written by Katharine Holabird and illustrated by Helen Craig. Launched in May 2002 [...]
South Park Renewed for Two
Kenny, Cartman, Stan and Kyle will continue to cause mischief in the sleepy town of South Park, CO. for at least two more seasons. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Comedy Central has signed a deal with series co-creators and executive producers Trey Parker and Matt Stone that will keep the [...]
Germany’s EM.TV Singing Financial Blues
German children’s TV outfit EM.TV is hoping to sell the Jim Henson Co., which it aquired in 2000 for $600 million, because of its recent financial troubles. The main reason for the company’s loss was a $220 million writedown of its 16.7% stake in Formula One marketing outfit SLEC, as [...]
Spielberg, The Thing to Materialize on Sci-Fi
The Sci Fi Channel is currently in negotiation with Steven Spielberg, DreamWorks TV and the folks behind last December’s hit miniseries Taken to develop a new epic fantasy slated for the 2004-05 season. “I look on it as a three-part franchise, similar to Lord of the Rings and the Harry [...]
Scholastic Ent. Explores Clifford’s Puppy Days
Scholastic Ent., producer of the award-winning series Clifford The Big Red Dog, is going back to a time when the pooch was not so big with Clifford’s Puppy Days, an all-new animated show for kids 4-7. PBS KIDS has ordered 25 episodes of the new series, which will premiere in [...]
University Games, JP Kids Form New Children’s Media Company
Educational board game manufacturer University Games has merged with children’s and family media company JP Kids/Mindrocket Media, which will become a wholly owned subsidiary of University Games, operating out of its offices in San Francisco. The combined company will create converged intellectual properties for multiple media platforms such as television, [...]
‘Star Trek’ Beams...
Paramount’s Star Trek Into Darkness landed on top of the domestic box office...
Universal Releases New Clip...
Universal has released the first clip from Illumination’s eagerly anticipated...
