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LeapPad and The Entertainer score at toy awards
CONSUMER PRODUCTS / RETAILThe 2011 Toy Industry Awards were handed out last night in London, England and the night’s big winners were the LeapPad Explorer by Leapfrog, UK toy retailer The Entertainer and Hasbro.
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Dino Dan lands renewals, builds CP program
CONSUMER PRODUCTS / RETAIL / TVDino Dan, from Toronto, Canada’s Sinking Ship Entertainment, has been picked up by Nick Jr. (US), TVO (Canada) and TVA (French Canada) for a second season of 52 x 11-minute episodes with production starting this March. The same month will also see a host of consumer products activity for the brand.
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Zodiak rebrands and makes key hires
PEOPLE MOVESIn its efforts to strengthen development and maintain its position as a top independent content group, Zodiak Media Group is rebranding as Zodiak Media and has announced new corporate appointments.
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BBC/FME launch Aliens Vs Wizards
TVRussell T Davies, the man who in 2005 resurrected Doctor Who on the BBC after a sixteen-year hiatus, has created (with Phil Ford) a new teen-based, live-action adventure series called Aliens Vs Wizards (26 x 30-minutes).
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Max Steel is back in action
TVFremantleMedia Enterprises, the brand extension arm of FremantleMedia, has inked a distribution deal with Cartoon Network Latin America for boy-skewing Max Steel (26 x 30-minute), a new CGI-animated series based the Mattel boys action IP.
TV5MONDE launches US French-language kids channel
TVGlobal, 24-hour, French-language digital network TV5MONDE, which reaches more than 220 million households in 200 countries, has inked a deal with DISH Network to launch Tivi5MONDE, the first US French-language channel focused completely on children’s programming.
Ratings Watch Global
TVThis week, EurodataTV has provided us with the ratings for the top-five program broadcasts with kids two to 11 in the US between December 26, 2011 and January 22, 2012.
Kidscreened
- Why cartoon-based beauty collections are not just for little girls (The NY Times)
- Watch out Apple, Android is increasing its share of the growing tablet market (Los Angeles Times)
- Target moves to stop consumers from using stores as “showrooms”(The Wall Street Journal)
- Lego man boldly goes where no Lego man has gone before (Toronto Star)
Licensees hop for It’s Happy Bunny
CONSUMER PRODUCTS / RETAILNew York-based CopCorp Licensing has secured two new licensees and renewed three existing licensees for its Jim Benton tween-focused It’s Happy Bunny cartoon-based brand.
Fuel injects new vision, names co-CEOs
PEOPLE MOVESIn an effort to evolve its brand and business focus around kids, tweens, teens and young adults, Ottawa and L.A.-based digital brand-builder and online gaming creator Fuel Industries has named its co-founder and CCO Mike Burns and senior executive Andrew Wing as co-CEOs.
Winning Moves for DC Comics card game
CONSUMER PRODUCTS / RETAILGame developer Winning Moves has locked down a two-year deal with Warner Bros. Consumer Products UK to launch DC Universe Heroes and Villains Top Trumps, a card game featuring Batman, Superman and other popular DC Comics characters.
Random House launches Sesame digital publishing
INTERACTIVERandom House Children’s Books and Sesame Workshop have partnered to create a new digital publishing program focusing on early learning and reading skills.
Kidscreened
- Weak sales and a strong Yen spell troubling times for Nintendo (Telegraph)
- Rendering 3D animation just got faster thanks to Pixar and the cloud (Mashable)
- How JCPenney is taking a page out of the Apple Store design book (The Wall Street Journal)
- Meanwhile, Popeye and the band Wilco get animated in a new music video treatment (YouTube)
KidZui names president, changes name
INTERACTIVE / PEOPLE MOVESSan Diego-based startup KidZui, which launched kid-friendly search engine Zui.com in August 2011, has officially changed its company name to Zui.com and promoted Ryan Bettencourt to president of the company.
Olivia products reach classrooms
CONSUMER PRODUCTS / KID INSIGHTGreensboro, North Carolina-based educational content provider Carson-Dellosa, through a deal with Chorion, is launching a line of classroom bulletin board sets based on the girls-oriented preschool property Olivia.
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