- The Australian Children’s Television Foundation (ACTF) has secured several sales for series in its distribution portfolio, including the live-action YA series More Than This. ABC iview in Australia picked up this Banksia Productions series about a group of teens who are thrown together in an English tutoring group. ABC has also renewed Gristmill’s live-action detective comedy The Inbestigators (pictured) for another three years. Meanwhile, APTN (Canada) licensed the feature film Windcatcher, and Bangladesh’s SRK acquired two ’90s series, Spellbinder and The Girl from Tomorrow. (Interestingly, both of these shows have large fanbases in Bangladesh, but neither have aired in that country since 2010, according to ACTF).
- California-based Meow Wolf, which creates interactive art exhibitions, is teaming up with Niantic Spatial (Pokémon GO) to add augmented reality (AR) to its experiences. The companies are currently in the proof-of-concept stage, developing potential ways to build AR into Meow Wolf’s exhibitions. Meow Wolf is focused on developing family-friendly experiences, and adding AR to these new exhibitions will help to add value for kids, according to a spokesperson.
- Fred Rogers Productions and kids apparel maker Hanna Andersson have partnered for the first time to launch a Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood clothing line in the US next spring. The collection will include kids/toddler sleepwear and apparel. The preschool series Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood (125 episodes)—from FRP, 9 Story Media Group and Brown Bag Films—is distributed in more than 180 countries.
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