- Elmo offers advice about love and laughter during his Chicken Shop Date (The AV Club)
- Upcoming video game will highlight Mi’kmaw language and culture (CBC)
- YouTube draws more podcast listeners than Spotify or Apple (The Wrap)
- Online viewing habits of Indian kids drive family spending: Kantar Kidscan Report (Campaign India)
- Paramount co-CEO Brian Robbins talks kids programming challenges (Bloomberg)
- Inside this weekend’s Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair (Publishing Perspectives)
- Aussie parliamentary committee stops short of backing a kids social media ban (The Guardian)
- A history of the four-decade-old Cabbage Patch Kids (First For Women)
- Paramount+ will start streaming Transformers One tomorrow (Variety)
- Wednesday is bringing Lady Gaga into season two (THR)
- Unscripted producers facing a work-for-hire drought in the US are turning to foreign markets (Deadline)
- Meta has been hit with an US$840-million antitrust lawsuit in the EU (TechCrunch)
- The Animation Guild pickets DreamWorks as contract talks drag on (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Disney has settled to avoid a US$300-million pay equity class action suit (Deadline)
- Kids films may be spreading harmful stereotypes about eye conditions (AAP)
- Barney & Friends‘ popularity didn’t shield it from receiving a lot of hate (People)
- Paddington in Peru had the UK’s biggest opening weekend since 2021 (The Guardian)
- Ahead of Moana 2‘s release, Moana is the most-streamed film on Disney+ (Gizmodo)
- Pinkfong has made a serious splash on Netflix with its new series (Toonado)
- John Mayer and McG are reportedly buying the Henson lot (The Wrap)
- Jamie Oliver shelves kids book after criticism from Indigenous Australians (BBC)
- Mattel apologizes for a porn site misprint on its Wicked dolls packaging (THR)
- SEGA sees a 22% uptick in game sales in its half-year financials (Games Industry Biz)
- Marvel boss Kevin Feige teases MCU updates at D23 Brazil (IGN)
- Co-CEO Chris McCarthy says Paramount is comfortable as a standalone entity (Deadline)
- The UK government forms a working group to consider the future of linear TV (THR)
- Funko’s turnaround push bears fruit in its Q3 financial results (The Toy Book)
- Australia’s PM vows to ban under-16s from social media apps (SUCH TV)
- WBD’s David Zaslav says Trump’s re-election opens up new M&A opportunities (Deadline)
- AMC unveils a US$1.5-billion theater investment plan after a poor Q3 (MarketWatch)
- The global games industry has cut more than 13,000 jobs in 2024 so far (Game World Observer)
- Breaking down the decline and consolidation of DTC-led brands (RetailDive)
- Netflix announces that Stranger Things‘ final season will drop in 2025 (Variety)
- UK viewers are getting frustrated with deciding what to watch (Advanced Television)
- Nintendo confirms its next console will be compatible with older Switch games (Gamesidnsutry.Biz)
- Hasbro opens submissions for its second Women Innovators of Play event (LRMonline)
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