Karolina Kaminska

SBS in Australia, Hot 8 in Israel and Virgin Media Television in Ireland are among a string of buyers to have acquired science and health documentaries produced by UK indie Knickerbockerglory for Paramount-owned channel 5.

France Télévisions and Ireland’s RTÉ have jointly commissioned animated preschool series MaeBee with BBC Children’s and Education in the UK, which announced the show earlier this week

London-based kids and family company Cake has picked up the distribution rights to seven seasons (63x22’) of Wonderstorm’s animated fantasy-adventure series The Dragon Prince.

US-based animation studio Cloud 10 Studios is launching a 3D animated family Christmas special at Mip Junior and Mipcom next month, with an accompanying TV series and feature film in the works.

Dutch unscripted channels operator and content producer Insight TV has launched World Storytelling Media Group to consolidate the company after its recent acquisition of Off the Fence’s distribution assets.

UK public broadcaster the BBC, RTÉ in Ireland and Sky Free in New Zealand are among a number of buyers to acquire Australian drama series Scrublands: Silver.

Streamer Paramount+ has acquired the worldwide rights to Red Alert, the drama series depicting the October 7 terrorist attack in Israel in 2023.

LA-based distributor TGC Global Entertainment has acquired the international rights to NRK in Norway’s forthcoming reality competition format Code Red: The Lighthouse.

CARTOON FORUM: Spanish pubcasters RTVE and À Punt, and CNTV and TVN in Chile, have boarded an environment-focused stop-motion preschool series that was pitched at Cartoon Forum in Toulouse on Wednesday.

Former BBC and Sky Studios executive Paul Gilbert has been appointed senior VP of English-language series at Canal+’s production and distribution subsidiary StudioCanal.