Up Front

• Q&A: Jeffrey Dunn plots HIT's course for the next five years
• GMTV launching new preschool brand to build next audience for adult fare
• Proper Games flocks to digital download space
• VeggieTales creator launches Christian VOD network
• Hot projects attract standing-room-only crowds at Cartoon

PPD

• A new day dawning for kids formats?
• Up next
• Shaftesbury brings online content creation in-house with Smokebomb

Licensing

• Introducing SpongeBob: Style icon in the making
• Animal Planet kids line bulking up

Retail

• Publishers push into web-toy territory
• TRU ramps up mass-market play with new 'R' superstores
• Big Monster Toys breeds breakthrough playthings

Marketing

• Virtual worlds on the menu at kids marketing agencies

Digital Bytes

• Mini-game experience packs big punch with kids
• Making a solid web/toy connection

MIPCOM

• Don't speak
• The art of reversioning
• Cool new shows!
• Back to the lab

Fall-TV Face-Off

• UK - CN and CBBC vie for the attention of six to12s
• France - French nets take battle online
• US - Dominant preschool players take "if it ain't broke" approach to fall skeds
• Canada - Competition for preschool viewers heats up with entry of new net

People

• People in new jobs