Toronto, Canada – 9 Story Entertainment announces the sale of the award-winning animated preschool series, Daniel Tiger’s Neighbourhood (40x22’ HD) to Disney Channel in Russia and Disney Junior in Latin America and Southeast Asia. The series launched last fall on PBS KIDS in the U.S. and CBC in Canada. It has also been licensed to ABC (Australia), Zee Learn (Indian … [Read more...] about 9 Story Ent. sells “Daniel Tiger’s Neighbourhood” to Disney Jr. in Asia
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Beyond International to tap on Aspera to power global production workflows
SINGAPORE— Aspera, Inc. announced that global production company, Beyond International, has expanded its deployment of Aspera’s high-speed fasp technology for production of hit shows such as MythBusters, Selling Houses, Deadly Women, Behind Mansion Walls and Toy Box. Beyond creates and produces programmes across a number of genres, with a focus on factual entertainment, family and documentary programmes and series broadcast on Discovery … [Read more...] about Beyond International to tap on Aspera to power global production workflows
ABC Kids’ Tim Brooke-Hunt to resign
According to The Guardian, the controller of children's content at ABC TV, Tim Brooke-Hunt, will be stepping down in September this year. Brooke-Hunt led the launch of ABC3 and the relaunch of ABC4Kids on ABC2 during his six years in the position. The report adds that earlier this month, Brooke-Hunt was quoted by Fairfax as saying that the popular animated kids' show Bananas in Pyjamas was being cancelled, but ABC TV later told Guardian Australia he was "seriously … [Read more...] about ABC Kids’ Tim Brooke-Hunt to resign
CBS wins big at Critics’ Choice Television Awards
CBS’ The Big Bang Theory bagged several awards at the 3rd annual Critics' Choice Television Awards, including Best Comedy Series, Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series (Simon Helberg) and Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy, whereKaley Cuoco tied with Eden Sher from ABC’s The Middle. Highlights of other networks’ wins: HBO performed well too, with Game of Thrones winning Best Drama Series together with AMC’s Breaking Bad and Julia Louis-Dreyfus winning Best Actress in … [Read more...] about CBS wins big at Critics’ Choice Television Awards
Australia’s ABC to adapt award-winning novel, “The Secret River”
Australia’s ABC has committed to the development of acclaimed Australian novel, The Secret River, by author Kate Grenville, as a television mini-series. The novel won the Commonwealth Writers Prize in 2006 and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in the same year. Through the deeply personal story of a young couple, William and Sal Thornhill, The Secret River dramatises the colonisation of Australia and the escalating conflict between the original Indigenous inhabitants and the newly … [Read more...] about Australia’s ABC to adapt award-winning novel, “The Secret River”
Sony Pictures Television announces 2013/ 2014 upfront slate
Sony Pictures Television has announced its 2013/ 2014 upfront slate. NBC’s comedies The Michael J. Fox Show and Welcome to the Family, medical drama The Night Shift, and The Blacklist, have been picked up by the network set to be distributed globally. Additionally, the network has also picked up ABC’s comedy The Goldbergs; FOX’s Us & Them – a U.S adaptation of the U.K’s Gavin & Stacey – of which both has been ordered for a full series; FOX’s … [Read more...] about Sony Pictures Television announces 2013/ 2014 upfront slate
