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‘Peg + Cat’ PBS Premiere Announced
PBS KIDS has revealed the premiere date for its brand new preschool toon Peg + Cat. The 2D-animated show will join the PBS KIDS lineup Monday, October 7 and kick off with a special one-hour, two-episode broadcast. Produced by The Fred Rogers Company and created by Billy Aronson (Broadway’s Rent) [...]
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Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal Debuts on Nicktoons: Popular series Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal has officially joined the Nicktoons lineup in the U.S. The new deal with Nicktoons includes a pick-up of two seasons of the latest installment, Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal along with the entire Yu-Gi-Oh! library which includes Classic Yu-Gi- Oh!, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX and Yu-Gi-Oh! [...]
PlaySquare, Curious Partner for New Prods
PlaySquare, creator of the ‘Touchable Television’ kids’ device interface, has announced a new investment and production partnership with Curious Pictures. Under the agreement, Curious will serve as production partner and provide support to PlaySquare in the development of Touchable Television episodes for its PlaySquare platform. The investment is being made [...]
‘Sid the Science Kid: The Movie’ Coming to PBS, Video
A feature-length outing for the popular Sid the Science Kid series is set to debut March 25 on PBS Kids! followed by a DVD and iTunes release on April 2. The movie is a co-production between The Jim Henson Company and Chinese partners Nine Eyes Stone Pictures and Shanghai Animation [...]
‘Daniel Tiger’ to Pounce on France Televisions
Toronto-based 9 Story Entertainment has sold its award-winning animated preschool series, Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood (40 x 22 mins. HD) to France Télévisions for Zouzous, the preschool programming block on channel France 5. The series launched this fall on PBS KIDS in the United States and on CBC in Canada. It [...]
9 Story to Launch ‘Peg + Cat’ at MIPTV
9 Story Entertainment’s new animated preschool show Peg + Cat will make a splash at the MIPTV market in France in April. The 80 X 11 series was created by Emmy-winning creative director, animator and children’s writer Jennifer Oxley (Little Bill, The Wonder Pets!) and Billy Aronson (Rent, Postcards from [...]
Kidscreen 2013 Award Winners
As the Kidscreen Summit in New York wrapped up, the event celebrated its special awards presentation honoring the year’s best work in children’s television. The Daily Show‘s Samantha Bee did hosting duty, bestowing honors determined by two panels of broadcast executive judges in the Programming and Creative Talent categories. Many [...]
PBS Counts on ‘Peg + Cat’ for Fall 2013
This week at the Television Critics Association Press Tour, PBS KIDS announced production of the newest addition to its lineup: Peg + Cat, which will premiere this fall. The animated preschool series centers on spirited Peg and her sidekick Cat as they embark on adventures and learn fundamental math concepts [...]
PBS Plans New ‘Wild Kratts’ Special for Jan.
The popular animated series Wild Kratts will offer a new science special titled Lost at Sea on Monday, January 21. During the one-hour show, brothers and wildlife explorers Martin and Chris Kratt go under the sea and learn to speak “dolphinese” in two new episodes. Kids will also be able [...]
Henson’s ‘Pajanimals’ Lands on Disney Jr., EMEA
The Jim Henson Company has licensed all 52 x 11’ episodes of its new preschool series, Pajanimals to Disney Junior platforms in France, Italy, Benelux, Central and Eastern Europe, Israel, Turkey, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America. The announcement was made today by Richard Goldsmith, exec VP of global distribution [...]
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