Production on Kid Diners has started in Manitoba. (Hosts Aynalem Plett Martens and Xander Boulard pictured.)
Cheshire Cat producer Tim Tyler on how the Saskatoon company picked up the French format and why Creative Sask’s grant programs work well for interstitials.
Picture Box Distribution sells TVOKids series Lady Vocab (pictured) to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and more deals of the week.
Long-time TVO children’s programming exec Pat Ellingson is retiring from a 20-year career at the provincial pubcaster on Aug. 31.
Indie producer Eh-Okay Entertainment and U.S. creator Wonderful Kid Company are developing the CG-animated preschool series for the educational broadcaster.
As part of its Back to School Week, the Ontario kidscaster is rolling out new series in its kids programming blocks, and online learning resources that are integrated with its programming.
The companies first announced they were partnering on the animated preschool series in June.
She joins the public media outlet as children’s acquisitions officer.
Picture Box Distribution has brokered a co-pro agreement for the live action/CGI series, which has been optioned by Amazon Studios in the U.S. and U.K., with German-language kids’ channel KiKA.
Deals have been penned for the Genuine Pictures kids property (pictured) for South Korea and the Czech Republic, adding to its growing list of international deals.
Genuine Pictures has landed renewals with TVB (Hong Kong) and inked a new distribution deal for its live-action HD kids series, A World of Wonders, which currently airs on TVOKids.
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