- The BAFTA nominations are in, and Wolfwalkers is up against a lot of Disney fare (The Hollywood Reporter)
- A proposed US bill could do away with gendered toy aisles (CBS News)
- Google TV is adding separate kid experiences and profiles (Digital TV Europe)
- A new cottage industry is popping up around making fan fiction physical…and beautiful (The Verge)
- The pandemic has taught kids how uncertain life can be, and that’s probably a good thing (Financial Times)
- Why a show about numbers is so popular with kids this year (The Guardian)
- Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon had a lackluster box-office debut as lockdowns continue (Variety)
- Pepé Le Pew is a bit too outdated for the new Space Jam movie (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Soul and Wolfwalkers are going head to head in Annie Award nominations this year (Deadline)
- Everyone is racing to set the tone and become the first big Clubhouse influencer (Recode)
- HBO Max is lining up its European launch plans (Variety)
- How is Hollywood dealing with its problematic content? (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Black women are more likely than white women to be portrayed as “smart” in TV and movies, but colorism issues are still rampant (Deadline)
- How did YouTube, as a platform, swallow everything else around it? (Recode)
- …And how did “drama” accounts define the AVOD before their self-destruction? (Vulture)
- Toys are ditching gender, but it’s really just a way to sell more toys (The Washington Post)
- Dr. Seuss Enterprises has stopped publishing six books due to racist imagery (Associated Press)
- Disney’s Bob Chapek thinks movie release strategy will change permanently, but sees a return to theme parks in the future (Variety)
- BBC Three, the channel behind Fleabag and Normal People, is coming back to linear—six years after going digital (BBC News)
- Roku is making another interesting buy, picking up part of Nielsen’s TV ad business (The Verge)
- The problem with AI content moderation is that sometimes it flags chess as hate speech (WIRED)
- Pixar’s Soul took home two Golden Globe awards last night, including Best Animated Feature (SF Gate)
- The streamers dominated nominations for the Producer’s Guild Outstanding Children’s Program award (Variety)
- Why kids are hitting a pandemic wall right now (CNN)
- New AI software animates old photos and brings the subjects to life…and it’s very trippy (The Verge)
- Netflix earmarks US$100-million to build a talent pipeline of underrepresented creators (Deadline)
- Disney and Bill Nye are in a legal battle that could determine the future of streaming deals (Variety)
- Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away is headed to the stage (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Pokémon keeps getting stronger, and it’s not just because of Pikachu (Engadget)
- Paramount Pictures is entering the streaming world in a big way, overhauling its entire release strategy (Variety)
- Netflix plans to spend US$500 million on Korean content this year (The Hollywood Reporter)
- The new Punky Brewster isn’t great, making critics wonder if kids deserve better than ’80s and ’90s reboots (TIME)
- Tech firms are finally taking the time to teach voice assistants atypical speech (Wall Street Journal)
- Black and female TV directors are making gains, but Latinx and Asian American women are being left behind (Variety)
- Why is Barbie selling so well in the pandemic? Her success was years in the making (Bloomberg)
- Adults are obsessed with the idea of happiness, and it’s making children miserable (Washington Post)
- YouTube has a new “supervised experience” to help parents ease older kids from the walled garden to the wild west online (The Verge)
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