Jamie Stalcup

A second season of MIAM! animation’s Edmond and Lucy has been greenlit by France Télévisions.

Animotion Media Group has expanded its kids’ IP portfolio with Shooting Stars, a girl-first adventure comedy that combines sports with sci-fi.

The BBC’s Kate Morton and Sarah Muller held a session at Annecy today to share the keys to making a good program for CBeebies and CBBC and what they are looking for to complement their current slates.

Disney Branded Television’s Orion Ross, VP of animation in EMEA, and Shamik Majumdar, director of development and current in EMEA, spoke to Annecy attendees about the types of projects they are looking for to complement their current slate.

Sky Kids has commissioned a new series based on Lucy Cousins’ best-selling Maisy books, My Friend Maisy, from BBC Studios Kids & Family Productions and Trustbridge Entertainment.

Cheeky Little Media’s Patrick Egerton, Ludo Studio’s Chloe Hume, Princess Bento Studio’s Laura DiMaio, Studio Showoff’s Sean Zwan and Dave Enterprises’ Michael Pattison convened in Annecy for a panel moderated by Flying Bark Productions’ Barbara Stephen to discuss the global success of the Australian animation industry.

BBC Studios Kids & Family has begun development on Children Vs Battle SuperStars (w.t.), the first project to come out of its two-year first-look deal with Blink Industries.

Tales from Outer Suburbia, represented by the Australian Children’s Television Foundation, has added British actor, comedian and writer Dawn French (French and Saunders, The Vicar of Dibley) to its voice cast.

BBC Studios Kids & Family Productions is working alongside France’s Watch Next Media and Ireland’s Kavaleer Productions to produce the action comedy Vanishing Point.

Disney Branded Television has unveiled a slate of new and returning content for Disney+, Disney Jr. and Disney Channel, including Miraculous Stellar Force.