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Deals: Pacific Northwest, eOne, Nelvana, Breakthrough

Pacific Northwest Pictures picks up the Canadian rights to Liv Ullman’s Miss Julie (pictured), while eOne takes the North American rights to Saar Klein’s After the Fall.

October 10, 2014

Nelvana, Spin Master pact on girl-skewing preschool series

Nelvana Enterprises and Spin Master are developing Little Charmers, a new girl-skewing CGI preschool series set to debut on Treehouse and Nickelodeon in 2015.

October 7, 2014

Guru, Baby Octopus form creative partnership

The first project on the dev slate from the new partnership is Pepi, based on a series of best-selling books from Laura Ljungkvist.

September 30, 2014

Let’s Talk TV: The kids biz

Ahead of this fall’s CRTC hearings, a look at what a pick-and-pay world could mean for the broadcasters and producers of kids content in Canada.

August 18, 2014

Guru Studio gets digital with Guru Arcade

The Toronto studio is looking to develop original digital IP and brand extensions for TV series.

July 29, 2014

Target Canada goes kaboom! in branded retail deal

The family label of Phase 4 Films has secured exclusive branded space across Target Canadian retail branches for a suite of Treehouse Presents DVDs.

October 24, 2013

Production begins on Nelvana’s Trucktown

Nelvana Studio’s new animated children’s show Trucktown is based on the best-selling series of books of the same name.

June 7, 2013

The international co-production involves Toronto kids’ programming specialists Guru Studios and Canuck children’s broadcaster Treehouse along with the U.K.’s Impossible Kids, Kindle Entertainment and CBeebies.

February 28, 2013

Peppa Pig comes to Canada via new Corus deal

Entertainment One Family has sold seasons one to six of its hit Astley Baker Davies-produced series Peppa Pig to Corus Entertainment’s 24-hour preschool net, Treehouse.

December 10, 2012