Tag: HIT Entertainment
Fisher-Price Green Lights ‘Little People’
Fisher-Price and its affiliated HIT Entertainment have announced they are in pre-production on a new CG-animated series based on the popular preschool brand Little...
Amazon Gets Exclusive U.S. Rights to ‘Fireman Sam’
HIT Entertainment has announced that web giant Amazon will be the exclusive U.S. home to the popular preschool franchise Fireman Sam, encompassing TV episodes,...
HIT Taps Universal for Home Entertainment Distribution
HIT is going with Universal for distribution of its library in home entertainment, streaming video and video on demand for the United States and...
‘Nut Job’ Looks to Crack Home Video Debut
It's a heist gone wild with the home video release of the hit animated feature The Nut Job (Open Road Films, $29.98 DVD, $34.98...
Mainframe to Animate HIT’s New ‘Bob’ Series
HIT Entertainment has tapped Vancouver-based Rainmaker Entertainment's Mainframe division to animate a new CG-animated Bob the Builder series.
Now in production, the series is being...
CBeebies Picks Up ‘Hettie Makebelieve’
U.K.'s 1973 Films has announced that their new stop-frame animated series Hettie Makebelieve (52 x 7) has been pre-bought by preschool outlet CBeebies. The show...
TV News Bytes: Cartoon Network, Wildseed Studios
+ Cartoon Network has kicked off production on its first two shows made in the Asia-Pacific region and intended for global distribution, both from...
NBCUniversal Purchases Remainder of Sprout
In another shakeup in the small-screen landscape, NBCUniversal has bought out its partners in preschool cable network Sprout. The company says this move demonstrates...
FremantleMedia Kids Welcomes Rick Glankler
FremantleMedia has appointed Rick Glankler, previously of Mattel/Fisher-Price where he was in charge of HIT Entertainment brands, to the role of EVP/General Manager of...
Yowza Comes on Board ‘Impossimals’ Preschool Toon
Yowza Digital, Creating4Kids and SupperTime Entertainment have joined forces to deliver a new animated preschool series based on the popular Impossimals characters created by...
‘Moshi Monsters’ Turn 5
British studio Mind Candy's online world of adoptable pet creatures Moshi Monsters is celebrating its fifth birthday with a special event in London this...
MIPTV: Nelvana Invites ‘Zack’ & ‘Mike’
Corus Entertainment's Canadian toon studio/distributor Nelvana Enterprises will be hyping two animated series in production at MIPTV this year--the new oddball comedy Zack &...
Peter Byrne to Head DHX Media’s Licensing Company
DHX Media has appointed Peter Byrne as the new CEO of its wholly owned licensing company, Copyright Promotions Licensing Group.
CPLG has a renowned reputation...
Carrington Joins HIT as Head of Content & Production
Children’s entertainment producer/rights holder HIT Entertainment has announced the appointment of Michael Carrington to the newly created position of Head of Content and Production,...
Union Puts ‘Calamity Island’ on the Map
London-based Union Media has been appointed the international distributor for new kids’ series Calamity Island, a stop-motion slapstick comedy created by David Johnson (The Koala...
‘Mike the Knight’ Is Google U.K.’s Top TV Trender
File this one under the special “Who Knew?” file. Mike the Knight, the CG-animated series from Hit and Nelvana has beaten such heavy-hitters as...
Mind Candy Hires Jocelyn Stevenson As Exec Producer
Mind Candy, the entertainment company behind the popular brand Moshi Monsters has hired Jocelyn Stevenson as the exec creative producer to lead creative on all...
Michael Hefferon Named President of Rainmaker Ent.
Vancouver-based Rainmaker Entertainment has appointed veteran feature film and television executive Michael Hefferon as president and executive producer, it was announced by Craig Graham,...
‘Jake and the Pirates’, ‘Batman’ Help Mattel’s Bottom Line
Toy giant Mattel reported an overall entertainment product sales drop of 36 percent, but posted a profit of $96.2 million (up from $80.5 million)...
JimJam Acquires Two New Preschool Series
Global pre-school channel JimJam, has picked up two animated series, Monkey See, Monkey Do and MuMuHug. Available to JimJam’s 17 million subscribers across Europe,...
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