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.

French animation prodco La Chouette Compagnie is adapting British author-illustrator Jamie Littler’s Frostheart books into an animated series.

Pan-Arab kids’ and family network Spacetoon is partnering with celebrity chef and content creator Abir El-Saghir on an animated series.

Télé-Québec in French-speaking Canada, Chilean broadcaster NTV and Switzerland’s RTS have acquired French animated series Samuel.

Belgian public broadcaster VRT’s children’s channel Ketnet, Warner Bros Discovery in Italy and Sweden’s SVT have acquired CG animated preschool series Piggy Builders.

Sky’s head of coproductions Jack Oliver has been let go by the UK satcaster after 11 years, as it absorbs his role into existing teams.

Asian content-focused streamer Rakuten Viki has picked up the exclusive rights to K-drama My Youth for its Viki platform in the US, Latin America and Europe.

Warner Bros Discovery’s UK sports broadcaster TNT Sports has formed a partnership with Grenfell Athletic Football Club in London, which will include a documentary film.

Fox Entertainment Global, the distribution arm of Fox Entertainment, has appointed Fifth Season’s Liz Tang as VP of UK content and acquisitions.

Candle Media-owned kids’ content company Moonbug Entertainment has launched a Portuguese-language version of its Moonbug channel in Angola and Mozambique.

Philippa Childs, head of creative industries union Bectu in the UK, has welcomed the government’s Small Business Plan and its intention to put a stop to late payments.