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Writers Guild Authorizes PBS Writers Strike with Support from Animation Faction

Writers Guild of America (WGA) members at PBS member stations WGBH, THIRTEEN and PBS SoCal voted to authorize a strike if management does not...

People on the Move: Simensky Toons Up Duolingo; Hires at Ghost, Herschend, Nexus & More

Duolingo today announced that veteran children's television executive Linda Simensky has joined the company as Head of Animation and Scripted Content. In the newly...

PBS Says Goodbye to ‘Arthur’ with 25th Season Next Year

America's longest-running children's animated series -- the well-loved, award-winning, meme-generating Arthur -- will be coming to an end in winter of 2022 after 26...

‘Molly of Denali,’ ‘Xavier Riddle’ Win YMA Awards of Excellence for Animation

Canada's Youth Media Alliance announced the winners of the 2021 Awards of Excellence during a virtual gala streamed live from the Globe and Mail...

KEPYR Launches 5th Annual ‘Kindred Spirits’ Campaign for UNICEF Child Refugee Relief

Kids Entertainment Professionals for Young Refugees (KEPYR), the grassroots, all-volunteer organization of kids and family entertainment professionals, has announced the May 20 launch of...

2021 Kidscreen Awards Winners Announced

The annual Kidscreen Awards ceremony was held virtually on Tuesday, hosted by actor/comedian Emma Hunter and exclusively sponsored by the Canada Media Fund. The...

Global Mechanic & ALT Animation Juggle ‘Class Clown’ from Ian Boothby

Award-winning Vancouver animation studio Global Mechanic, producer of the recently Emmy-nominated digital interactive story Scribbles & Ink (PBS/WGBH, has joined forces with Northern Ireland’s...

KEPYR Kicks Off ‘Kindred Spirits’ Fundraiser for UNICEF COVID-19 Relief

Kids Entertainment Professionals for Young Refugees (KEPYR), the grassroots, all-volunteer organization comprised of kids and family entertainment professionals, has announced the launch of their...

Animation Magazine’s Best of 2019

Congratulations to all our Animag’s Best of 2019 Award Winners. These year-end honors were determined by our readers who picked their favorites during the...

Kids Entertainment Professionals for Young Refugees Launches Online Fundraiser

For the third year in a row, grassroots volunteer org Kids Entertainment Professionals for Young Refugees launches its annual online “Kindred Spirits” campaign. The...

Oasis Animation Announces Major Expansion, New Broadcast Deals

Leading Canadian 2D studio Oasis Animation announced a $3,330,000 investment in a major expansion program to boost its production capacity, modernize its infrastructure and...

New PBS KIDS Series ‘Pinkalicious & Peterrific’ Premieres in 2018

At the PBS Annual Meeting on Tuesday, the debut of a new PBS KIDS animated series was announced, with Pinkalicious & Peterrific set to...

Kidscreen Unveils 2017 Awards Nominees

The shortlisted finalists for the 2017 Kidscreen Awards, honoring the best in children's television and digital media, have been announced. Contenders in the Programming,...

Partners Re-up With 9 Story for ‘Arthur’

9 Story Entertainment has secured multiple international sales of the award-winning children's animated series Arthur (20 x 22'). Longstanding broadcast partners for the series, CBBC...

New Eps. of ‘Arthur’ and ‘Martha Speaks’ Debut on PBS

PBS Kids will premiere new episodes of popular animated children's series Arthur and Martha Speaks, beginning November 11. The new outings feature guest voice...

An Aardvark’s Road to Animated Success

To paraphrase Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, there remains one fixed point in an ever-changing world of television animation: the desire to sell a show....

Amazon Studios Picks Up Animated Pilot ‘Sara Solves It’

Amazon Studios has greenlit a test pilot for the original animated children’s series Sara Solves It, co-developed by WGBH and Out of the Blue...

Oasis to Produce New Season of ‘Martha Speaks’

Montreal-based Oasis has struck a deal with Boston pubcaster WGBH and the PBS Network for the production of 16 new episodes of the popular...

PBS ‘SciGirls’ Announces Multi-platform Plans

PBS series SciGirls, which aims to engage girls 9-13 in science, technology, engineering and math has announced comprehensive multimedia plans for its second season,...

Irene Weibel Promoted to Head of Nelvana Studio

Irene Weibel has been appointed VP, head of Nelvana Studio. Weibel will have overall responsibility for the development and production for all original productions...
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