Hollywood, California - Family entertainment producer and distributor The Jim Henson Company has licensed its new animated children’s series Doozers to Nickelodeon Australia, with the series airing on the network’s dedicated preschool channel, Nick Jr. The announcement was made by Richard Goldsmith, EVP of Global Distribution for The Jim Henson Company. Doozers “We continue to secure partnerships with top notch broadcasters around the globe to … [Read more...] about Henson licenses “Doozers” to Nickelodeon Australia
Discovery Kids
Discovery Kids to create studio in Singapore theme park
Singapore – Family entertainment company KidZania has announced the first six of 30-plus industry partners to be part of its educational and entertainment theme park. The partners are Maybank, Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific, Yakult, Canon and The Soup Spoon. Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific will create a Discovery Kids studio within the park, where children will experience the behind-the-scenes work that goes into being a Discovery Channel filmmaker. KidZania will not have any … [Read more...] about Discovery Kids to create studio in Singapore theme park
Zodiak Kids inks multiple sales agreements across Asia
Zodiak Kids has secured a raft of programme sales throughout Asia for over 280 hours of programming from across their portfolio. Cartoon Network has picked up a third series (52X11’) of Horrid Henry to air in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, the Maldives and Sri Lanka. In a separate deal, Discovery Kids has acquired the broadcast rights to the third series (20X20’) of Mister Maker produced by Zodiak’s The Foundation studio. Mister … [Read more...] about Zodiak Kids inks multiple sales agreements across Asia
Discovery Kids turns one
Original series Adventure 8: Zoo Games, which premiered in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong in March 2013. Singapore – Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific (DNAP) this week celebrates a milestone with Discovery Kids, marking a successful first year since launching in Asia in April 2012. The channel is now available to over 20 million homes in seven countries – Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Hong Kong and India – with content offered in seven different … [Read more...] about Discovery Kids turns one
New Discovery Kids on the block
If Discovery Channel had a younger sibling, what would it look like? The answer was revealed on April 2 when Discovery Kids officially rolled out in India, The Philippines and Indonesia. Since then, the network has added Singapore to its growing distribution road map (launched on StarHub TV on September 14); offering Hindi, Tamil and Bahasa Indonesia full dubs in addition to English; and surpassing the 13 million subscriber mark. Despite recent news of The Walt Disney Company Southeast Asia … [Read more...] about New Discovery Kids on the block
Discovery expands in the Philippines
Manila – Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific (DNAP) has launched Discovery Kids on SKYCable in the Philippines. In addition, its global lifestyle channel TLC, will now reach a broader subscriber base with its move to SKYCable’s Silver Pack. Rodrigo P. Montinola, chief operating officer, SKYCable, said, “SKYCable takes pride in being one of the first to launch Discovery Kids in the Philippines. We are now the only operator in the country to carry all of the Discovery networks … [Read more...] about Discovery expands in the Philippines
