DHX Media’s new preschool series Ella the Elephant has sold to Turkish children’s channel Yumurcak TV, which is already home to DHX evergreen properties like Caillou and Arthur.
The three-year deal, which expands on the company’s aim to exploit emerging digital opportunities, will see episodes from its programming library streamed via Midwest Tape’s Hoopla digital platform for public libraries.
The family and kids producer, having recently acquired Cookie Jar Entertainment and its programming library, points to increased deals with emerging digital platforms like Netflix and Amazon.
DHX Media’s Yo Gabba Gabba! (pictured), Muse Entertainment’s Cyberbully and others took home awards for their work in kids programming during 2013.
BlackBerry World, which was unveiled Monday, replaces BlackBerry App World, features the mobile-format availability of programs from a slew of Canadian and international distributors, according to RIM.
Around 900 episodes of content from the Canadian kids TV producer will go to the Internet service producer that serves around 300 million users (Caillou pictured).
Bomb Girls producers Muse and Back Alley Film Productions will produce 13 episodes of a undercover detective drama that CTV hopes will repeat the success of Flashpoint.
The raft of different deals by the kids’ programming juggernaut cover territories as divergent as the U.K., France, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy, Slovakia, Greece, Turkey, East Africa and Argentina.
Company president and COO Steven DeNure discusses what this year’s acquisition of Cookie Jar Group means for the newly-expanded company, its digital distribution strategy, and plans for continued expansion in 2013 and beyond.
The Halifax-based kids entertainment co has started production on the brand new 26 x half-hour animated comedy series for Teletoon Canada.
Toronto-based video personalization platform Percy3D has acquired the worldwide digital party product rights to the hit kids property in a new three-year deal with DHX Media.