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‘Toby’s Travelling Circus’ Goes on World Tour

March 11, 2013 by Mercedes Milligan No Comments divider image

The U.K.’s Komixx Entertainment Ltd. family entertainment company has announced four more international broadcasters for its successful kids’ series Toby’s Travelling Circus, arranged by distributor Union Media. Last December, the show was the top ranking series on U.K.’s Channel 5 milkshake block for kids 4-9, having premiered in September. In [...]

Calon & Telegael Co-produce 2nd Season of ‘Igam Ogam’

February 20, 2013 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

Irish company Telegael has set up a brand new stop motion studio, Beochan, in Casla in Connemara to create the second series of the prehistoric pre-school animation Igam Ogam for Five, S4C, TG4 and ZDF Enterprises. Preproduction is taking place at Welsh independent Calon’s Cardiff studio while animation and postproduction are [...]

Aardman Lands New Deals for ‘Tilly and Friends’

April 8, 2012 by Ramin Zahed 1 Comment divider image

Aardman has found new homes for Walker Productions and JAM Media’s preschool series Tilly and Friends. The 52 x 11-minute animated preschool series will now be seen on Germany’s WDR and WDR Media Group (TV and DVD), ABC Australia (DVD) and Canada’s TVO Kids (TV). The show is also airing [...]

Cake Sells ‘Poppy Cat’ to France TV

January 31, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

Kids’ entertainment distributor Cake has sold Coolabi’s show Poppy Cat to France Télévisions. The beautifully animated series first aired on Nick Jr. UK last May and has been one of the top-rated shows on Sprout in the US. Poppy Cat is planned to launch on France 5 in July 2012. [...]

Target Nabs ‘Abadas’ Rights

October 17, 2011 by Mercedes Milligan No Comments divider image

U.K.-based Target Entertainment has struck a deal Dinamo as sole global agent for their new preschool show Abadas. Target will be responsible for global licensing, television sales and DVD, with the brand set to launch officially at Brand Licensing Europe this fall, where a preview clip will be available for [...]

Kavaleer and Dinamo’s ‘Abadas’ Begins Production

August 1, 2011 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

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. [...]