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Stella and Sam

Weekly roundup: nominations and awards

This weeks’ prize-heavy briefs include news of Inch’ Allah (pictured) taking a special prize at the Beijing International Film Festival and the Canuck nominations at the up-coming Monte-Carlo International TV Festival.

April 26, 2013

Bejuba! Entertainment adds Jack to catalog

Canadian production and distribution company Bejuba! Entertainment has snapped up the global TV and home entertainment distribution rights (excluding Australasia) for the CGI animated series Jack (pictured).

February 19, 2013

Radical Sheep greenlights new projects for Disney Junior Canada

CG-animated preschool series Yub Yubs (pictured), created by Matt Fernandes of Industrial Brothers, is slated to air on Disney Junior Canada in 2013.

October 4, 2012

Inside the Rockies with John Leitch

The Radical Sheep Productions president and executive producer of animated series Stella and Sam (pictured) talks to Playback about creating a kids property with international reach.

June 5, 2012

Canadians surprise with strength in Banff Rockies competition

Canadian producers grabbed 38 nominations for the Banff Media Awards, just behind U.K. producers with 41 nods, and ahead of American shows with 33 nominations.

April 9, 2012

Radical Sheep strikes development deal with Teletoon Canada

The Toronto-based preschool and youth TV producer will develop The Bagel and Becky Show, for kids ages 8 to 11, based on a book by fine artist Dave Cooper.

March 30, 2012

Bejuba! secures new TV sales for Stella and Sam

The Canadian producer/distributor has sold the series, produced by Toronto-based Radical Sheep Productions, into France, Scandanavia and Estonia.

February 29, 2012

Canadian kids and youth series shine at Banff Fiction Rockies

Amid the usual rivalry at the Banff Rockies between American and British TV shows, Canadian kids and teen TV shows walked away with trophies.

June 13, 2011

Astral plans rebrand of Playhouse as Disney Junior

Astral Media will rebrand specialty channel Disney Playhouse as Disney Junior for cable subscribers on May 6. To hype the transformation, the company will kick off a cross-platform campaign nationwide a month earlier.

March 4, 2011

New Playhouse Disney Canada series backed with interactive

Toronto-based interactive studio zinc Roe is collaborating with production company Radical Sheep to develop an interactive extension of the new preschool series Stella and Sam, which premieres January 9 on Playhouse Disney in Canada.

November 18, 2010