World Screen

LONDON: BBC Worldwide and CBBC have launched ANIM8, the channel's first animation pilot scheme providing an open call that gives U.K. innovators the opportunity to pitch for funded development. ANIM8 aims to develop the next generation of U.K. animators and …

HALIFAX: DHX Media has signed seven broadcast and VOD distribution agreements around the world for the animated comedy series Endangered Species. CBBC in the U.K. snapped up Endangered Species for broadcast, as did Turner Broadcasting System Latin America for its …

LOS ANGELES: Splash Entertainment is set to attend Asia TV Forum & Market (ATF) for the first time ever next month, where it will showcase its catalogue of award-winning children’s programming. The company will head to Singapore with a slew …

MUNICH: The kids' and family pay-TV channel Fix&Foxi has added new CGI-animated idents featuring the titular twin foxes and the other main Rolf Kauka characters in all of its broadcast territories around the world. Subscribers of Fix&Foxi in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, …

GLENDALE: Filmmaker Edgar Wright has been tapped by DreamWorks Animation to co-write and direct a new animated feature film. The untitled project will reportedly focus on the concept of shadows. It would mark the first feature-length animated project for Wright, …

TORONTO: 9 Story Media Group has licensed the second season of the animated comedy series Numb Chucks to Disney Channels Asia for broadcast in Southeast Asia, South Korea, Japan and the Indian subcontinent. Numb Chucks follows the wacky adventures of …

LONDON: CBBC won channel of the year and production company Somethin’ Else took home three trophies, among them a win for independent production company of the year, at this Sunday’s British Academy Children’s Awards. This year marked the third time …

WOODLAND HILLS: Toon Goggles, an on-demand entertainment destination for kids, has appointed Lee Adams as its new chief creative officer.  In his new role, Adams will be in charge of the expansion of Toon Goggles’s IP into the licensing and …

BURBANK: Disney XD has ordered a second season of its live-action comedy series Gamer's Guide to Pretty Much Everything for a 2016 premiere. The show stars Cameron Boyce as a teenage pro-gaming phenomenon whose thumb injury forces him off the elite …

BURBANK: Nickelodeon has appointed Chris Viscardi, co-creator of the kids’ classic The Adventures of Pete & Pete, as senior VP of content development for Nickelodeon Franchise Properties, with the executive currently in development on an original Hey Arnold! TV movie. …