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Kavaleer and Dinamo’s ‘Abadas’ Begins Production
Production has begun on Abadas, a 52 x 11 minute TV series that Irish toon house Kavaleer Productions is co-producing with Welsh studio Dinamo Productions. The series is described as a a multi-layered interactive word and sound association series for preschool viewers which offers a mixture of animation and live-action. [...]
Chapman Gets Investment, Restructures Executives
Fifi and the Flowerpots producer Chapman Entertainment has received an influx of cash and reorganized itself, with many top executives leaving the company. Company co-founders Keith Chapman and Andrew Haydon will remain at the U.K.-based company, while co-founder, managing diirector and executive producer Greg Lynn has decided to leave the [...]
Create & phuuz Ready to Deliver ‘Iconicles’
Create Media Ventures and phuuz entertainment are close to wrapping the first season of Iconicles, their new animated/live-action series produced for the preschool set. The 26 x half hour High Def series, which will be ready for CBeebies this summer, features a live-action host named Nat (played by Gavin Stenhouse) [...]
Children’s Media Conference Announces Lineup
Award-winning filmmaker David Puttnam (Chariots of Fire, The Mission) and Michael Acton Smith (creator of Moshi Monsters) will be participating in this year’s Children’s Media Conference, which takes place July 6-8 in Sheffield, England. The confab is chaired by Anna Home, former BCC head of children’s program and organized by Kathy [...]
BBC Greenlights Investment for CBeebies Series
BBC Worldwide has greenlit a slate of new investments for international preschool brand CBeebies. The deals include a number of new properties for CBeebies, including animated and partially animated programs such as the new series Baby Jake from production company Darrall Macqueen. The deals, which encompass broader rights across BBC Worldwide’s different [...]
CBeebies Commissions ‘Tree Fu Tom’ Series
BBC children’s channel CBeebies has commissioned the new series Tree Fu Tom from CBeebies In House Productions and FremantleMedia Enterprise. Designed to help children’s movement development, Tree Fu Tom (26 x 22 mins) will follow the adventures of a boy with magical powers as he takes viewers to an enchanted world [...]
Chapman-mentored Students Win CBeebies Student Commission
Doodle Dan, an animated short made by four Liverpool John Moores University students using the studios of Chapman Entertainment, has won the CBeebies’ Student Commission. From more than a hundred entries, Doodle Dan was chosen for its originality, humor and imaginative use of animation. The students who made it are: Nicolas [...]
CBeebies Picks Up Third Series of ‘Chuggington’
CBeebies has signed on for a third round of Chuggington, the popular train-themed preschooler series from Ludorum. The deal will inflate the number of episodes to 104 10-minute segments, plust 52 four-minute episodes of the miniseries Badge Quest. The new series will debut on the network in spring 2012. “The [...]
‘Postman Pat’ Celebrates 30th Anniversary With 5-Year BBC Pact
The BBC has committed to air Postman Pat on its CBeebies children’s channel through 2015 under a new deal with Classic Media. The popular preschool series is celebrating in 2011 its 30th anniversary and a 30-year releationship with the BBC. The new deal will see the broadcaster re-up the license [...]
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