***This feature originally appeared in the April '22 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 319)***
While not everyone is going to the MIPTV market in France...
WarnerMedia has acquired the broadcast rights for German-produced preschool show Spookies. The series will be broadcast on WarnerMedia’s Cartoonito channel and will also be...
Nickelodeon International has acquired pre-buy rights to animated comedy series “Best & Bester,” a new co-production between London-based studio Eye Present and Finnish studio...
Leading Chinese kids & family entertainment media company UYoung has licensed multiple series to CCTV, China’s state-owned broadcaster, for it children’s channel CCTV-14, which...
The spring market season officially kicks off this month with the arrival of the international content market MIPTV in Cannes, France (April 8-11). The...
Bo & To’s Family, an original stop-frame animated series from South Korea’s Comma Studios, has been picked up by London-based distributor Serious Lunch. The...
London-based kids & family executive production/distribution company Serious Lunch has appointed former Saban and CAKE exec Leila Ouledcheikh to the newly created position of...
London-based distributor Serious Lunch has snagged the international distribution rights to Gigglebug, the original preschool brand from Finland’s Gigglebug Entertainment. The hand-painted animated series...
London-based exec production and distribution company Serious Lunch Ltd. has secured a second raft of major territory deals for Studio Ghibli’s 26-part animated series...
Following a successful step-out at Cartoon Forum 2017, digital-first series concept Best & Bester (78 x 7’) from Finland’s Gigglebug Entertainment has signed on...
London-based digital distribution and content management company MoMedia has signed on four new digital-first IP brands in the kids’ entertainment category. Added to the...
Studio Ghibli and The Astrid Lindgren Company have appointed London-based Serious Lunch to manage the international rollout of NHK’s Ronja, the Robber’s Daughter --...
Following the collaboration between Squint/Opera and Serious Lunch to finance the 4.5m GBP ($7.2m USD) animated series Messy Goes to Okido -- coming to...