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Welcome to Vinyl Toy High
Strange Hill High, the new tween show from the CBBC, FremantleMedia and Factory Transmedia, has a wicked sense of humor and knock-your-socks-off visuals. Once in a blue moon, all the right ingredients for a cool kids show come together, and the final product ends up being better than anyone had [...]
Global TV News Bytes: Dive Olly Dive & Rastamouse
Atlantyca Brings Olly to RSI: Moonscoop’s animated preschool show Dive Olly Dive will be making a splash on Italy’s RSI, Italy’s Swiss Italian broadcaster thanks to a new deal made by Moonscoop’s distribution partner Atlantyca Entertainment. The second season of the CG, High Def 52 x 11 show follows the fun-filled [...]
Three Stones Media Introduces Animation Fund
U.K.-based indie outfit Three Stones Media has launched an Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) fund to promote production of animated kids’ projects including the twice BAFTA-nominated Rastamouse, supported by One World Investments and Enterprise Private Equity. The government scheme is designed to help small businesses raise finance by offering a range [...]
‘Rastamouse’ Rocks London Toy Fair
Indie children’s entertainment producer, distributor and licensor DHX Media is showcasing rocking new product ranges for its hit property Rastamouse at London Toy Fair this month (Jan 22-24). Ty Beanies has partnered with DHX to create a line of Rastamouse beanies, available at Harrods, Cards Galore and Trocadero. Those attending [...]
BAFTA Unveils 2012 Children’s Awards Nominees
The British Academy of Film & Television has announced its 2012 Children’s Awards nominees, which aim to recognize the best in the U.K.’s kids entertainment industry. Animation: The Amazing Adrenalini Brothers, Pesky Productions/POP The Amazing World Of Gumball, Cartoon Network Europe in association with Dandelion Studios, Boulder Media and Studio [...]
DHX Media to Buy Cookie Jar for $112 Mil
Canadian children’s entertainment giant DHX Media will buy rival animation giant Cookie Jar in a deal worth $112 million. Halifax-based DHX Media, which is headed by Michael Donovan, will take over Cookie Jar’s library of over 6,5f00 half hours of programming like Arthur, Caillou and Care Bears by offering 36 [...]
Rastamouse Makes a Musical Summer Splash
Rastamouse, the super cool preschool sensation from DHX Media is having quite a big season. Activity for Q3 of 2012 includes the launch of a summer single, a CBeebies radio show and several high-profile live appearances. Da Easy Crew have also signed their second album deal with EMI, and as [...]
‘Rastamouse’ Continues Global Domination
DHX Media’s stop-motion preschool hit Rastamouse has snapped up a few more new homes for its second season. BBC Worldwide Channels has acquired the show for its feeds in Hispanic US, Latin America and Africa, while distributing agent White Fox has licensed the series for Greece and Cyprus, where it [...]
Foothill’s MIPTV Toon News
Santa Barbara, Calif.-based Foothill Entertainment has announced new toons and development updates just in time for the April MIPTV market in France. These include second series production for Spike Team, the broadcast launch of Iconicles, upcoming new animation for Raz & Benny and Boy and the Dinosaur and new script [...]
‘Rastamouse’ Jams for Second Season on CBeebies
DHX Media’s super cool Rastamouse will continue to “make a bad ting good” for a second season on the CBeebies. The newly greenlit season which is produced and animated in the U.K. by Three Stones Media, sees the skateboarding, music-loving and mystery-solving character and his band Da Easy Crew return [...]
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