Interviews

In the highly competitive kids’ business, which has seen a number of companies fall by the wayside in the last few years, reaching 40 is a major milestone. Spain’s BRB Internacional heads into MIP Junior armed with four decades of experience producing top-quality children’s fare. The company, led by CEO ...

Now in its 15th year, Alphanim, which is owned by the European movie powerhouse Gaumont Group, is one of France’s leading producers and distributors of animation, with a catalogue that includes the global hit Galactik Football. Pierre Belaïsch, who joined the outfit last year as managing director, shares with TV ...

For more than 100 years American Greetings Corporation has been producing greeting cards for the global market. In that process, it has created some indelible characters, including Strawberry Shortcake and Care Bears, among numerous others. AG Properties (AGP), under the leadership of president and chief creative officer, Jeffrey Conrad, has ...

This interview originally appeared in the MIPTV 2012 issue of TV Kids.   Having spent time at CITV and CBBC, Nigel Pickard has firsthand experience of what kids’ broadcasters are looking for. He has brought this experience to bear at Zodiak Media Group, where he serves as the CEO of ...

Spider-Man, Hulk, X-Men, Iron Man and Thor are all characters that started out in comic books and have since become multimillion-dollar franchises encompassing animated series, blockbuster live-action theatricals, video games, toys and more. All of those, and many others, were co-created by legendary comic-book artist Stan Lee during his long ...

TV Kids Weekly profiled a variety of leading executives in the kids’ business this year, from top channel operators to innovative producers to market-leading distributors. As the year comes to a close, here’s a recap of our top video interviews of 2011.   Dan Povenmire and Jeff “Swampy” Marsh The ...