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Marc Craste & Studio AKA Deliver BBC’s Culture Spots
U.K.’s award-winning animation house Studio AKA has produced a 3×30 second spots highlighting BBC Radio 4’s new Cultural Exchange feature, which is billed as “a major new cultural sharing scheme providing listeners with 75 expertly curated cultural moments – a great poem or photograph, a painting or a piece of [...]
IDW to Publish New ‘Rocky & Bullwinkle’ Comics
Here is a wonderful new comic-book venture we can all get behind. Over the weekend, we got word that San Diego-based IDW Publishing will be launching a new series featuring Jay Ward’s beloved characters Rocky and Bullwinkle, in conjunction with DreamWorks Classics and Bullwinkle Studios. The new venture will feature [...]
Aardman Preps ‘Shaun the Sheep’ Movie for 2015
Following in the footsteps of Wallace and Gromit, another popular Aardman character is getting ready for its big movie adventure. The Bristol-based animation studio announced today that its teaming up with StudioCanal to launch a new Shaun the Sheep feature for spring of 2015. The stop-motion animated feature (yay…it’s not [...]
Double Negative Opens New TV Branch
VFX company Double Negative has launched Double Negative TV, a new division of Dneg dedicated to visual effects creation for television. Dneg TV will be headed up by 20-year VFX veteran Jonathan Privett, previously head of Film & TV/VFX supervisor at Rushes, VFX producer Louise Hussey and VFX supervisor Hayden [...]
The Mill Shuts Down TV VFX Department
Another day, another troubling news item about the beleaguered vfx industry. This time it’s London-based studio The Mill which revealed that it will close its TV visual effects unit, with a possible loss of 25 jobs. Best known for its effects work for BBC shows such as Doctor Who, Merlin [...]
‘Peter Rabbit’ Hops to Nickelodeon
A new CG-animated series based on the works of Beatrix Potter is high-tailing it to Nickelodeon as the preschool-targeted show Peter Rabbit debuts on the channel Tuesday, February 19 at 12 p.m. ET/PT. The show features educational goals that encourage young viewers to learn problem-solving and interpersonal skills as well [...]
CBeebies Launches New Math-Based Show
A new math-themed animated series is slated to debut on U.K’s children channel CBeebies and the BBC Worldwide Channels later this year. The show, which is called Numtum Adventures, is animated by A Productions and is a spinoff of a series of five-minute shorts which currently air on CBeebies in [...]
Marvel Toons to Stream on Amazon’s LoveFilm U.K.
Amazon.com-owned streaming video service LoveFilm has signed a deal with Disney in the U.K. and Ireland to air animated shows featuring Marvel characters. U.K. and Irish subscribers of amazon.com’s LoveFilm, which has nearly 3 million users across Europe, will be able to stream hundreds of shows featuring the likes of [...]
New on Disc Today
Plenty of family friendly toon goodies are out on home entertainment shelves this week. Here’s the rundown: The Amazing World of Gumball – The Mystery [Cartoon Network, $14.97] 12 episodes from season one of the zany CN mixed-media toon come home on this single-disc release, which also [...]
‘Mike the Knight’ Is Google U.K.’s Top TV Trender
File this one under the special “Who Knew?” file. Mike the Knight, the CG-animated series from Hit and Nelvana has beaten such heavy-hitters as Showtime’s CIA thriller Homeland and BBC’s popular Sherlock series and landed on top of Google U.K.’s highest trending TV shows of the 2012 list. Google defines [...]
BinWeevils Appoints Henwood...
U.K.-based digital social world BinWeevils, for kids 6-12, has appointed media...
Blue Sky’s...
Epic, the new animated adventure from director Chris Wedge and his gifted team...
