Sky has announced a new documentary Save Our Wildlife set to hit Sky Kids platforms on October 9th. The show will also air on Sky News on December 2nd and 3rd whilst COP 28 takes place. This one-off special in partnership with Sky Zero sees eight-year-old conservationist Aneeshwar Kunchala and five friends from around […]
Sandbox Group, the London-based group operating a network of learning businesses, has announced the launch of PlayKids+, a new app that adapts its UI and featured content based on the child’s age. The app is the next generation of Sandbox’s existing PlayKids app with enhanced functionality, adaptive user experience and a library of mixed media: […]
Recent seasons of iconic children’s series Sesame Street are set to debut on Amazon Kids+. Children in the UK will laugh and learn with eight of the latest seasons of Sesame Street, totalling 280 episodes, produced by nonprofit media and education organisation Sesame Workshop. From October 1st the all-in-one subscription service will be showing seasons […]
Creator of innovative kids entertainment, TeamTO, presents animated preschool comedy What’s Up Eesha? (11 x 52 min), a spin-off of TeamTO’s holiday special ‘Winter is Here’, based on the book series by Jean Gouronas. Eesha is an imaginative penguin who loves to create but frequently finds her plans disrupted by her rambunctious, fun-seeking friends. Set […]
Banijay Kids & Family, a specialist in children’s entertainment behind popular shows such as Totally Spies! and Mr Bean: The Animated Series, has announced a partnership with YouTube revenue experts, The Polar Bears, to boost the commercial performance of its digital network. The partnership will see Banijay Kids & Family leverage The Polar Bears’ expertise, […]
ITV has announced that its children’s TV channel CITV will close next month to make way for ITVX Kids, the children’s service on the ITVX streaming platform which launched earlier this summer. ITV told Sky News: “As a consequence of this new streaming approach and responding to the changing ways children and their parents are […]
KidsMe, the Children Content Factory of the De Agostini Group, and Kelebek Media, a UK-based production company active in television, film and media, have partnered to distribute the Italian rights to the animated series Isadora Moon. In the Italian territory, KidsMe will manage the audiovisual and licensing & merchandising rights of the series. The book […]
BBC Studios Kids & Family, has announced the appointments of Katharina Pietzsch as VP Content Sales, BBC Studios Kids & Family; and Kelly Wood in the newly created role of Head of Content Strategy, BBC Studios Kids & Family. Pietzsch’s role will see her lead the sales and co-production strategy for the BBC Studios Kids […]
Sky Kids and Sky News are set to air a one-off documentary this weekend called FYI: Investigates: Kids Who Vape, exploring why there has been a rapid rise in the popularity of e-cigarettes among the younger generation. The number of children vaping is increasing, with the NHS reporting that 9 per cent of 11–15-year-olds are […]
Channel 5 has commissioned MGM Alternative UK to make a new two-part series exploring what happens when kids are unleashed into the world without parental supervision, it announced today. The series, Who Let the Kids Out? (w/t), looks at what various groups of children – between 9 and 10 years of age – get up to when encountering a plethora of […]