Profiles

TV Kids Weekly talked to a range of distributors to find out what are some of the newest and hottest kids’ properties that will be on offer in Miami. While times certainly haven’t been easy in the kids’ market, things appear to be brighter now than they have been in ...

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The kids’ business has faced hard times in the last few years, and 2011 had its share of highs and lows. Less than two weeks into the year, Al Kahn, the longtime chairman and CEO of 4Kids Entertainment, announced his retirement, and six months after that the company filed for ...

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PGS Entertainment’s Chaplin & Co. introduces the iconic Charlie Chaplin character to young viewers in a new animated series that is among a trio of highlights on the French distributor’s roster. Animated for the very first time, the beloved character Charlie Chaplin, who was king of the silent-film era, is ...

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Carl Christian Hamre, the founder and CEO of CreaCon Entertainment, shares his perspective on the Nordic market for children’s TV. One of Norway’s leading independent producers of children’s television entertainment, CreaCon Entertainment, founded in 2007 by Carl Christian Hamre, is behind the preschool property City of Friends. The flagship series ...

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We’ve seen Batman, Superman, Spider-Man and now WordGirl, but never before have we seen a duckling, a guinea pig and a turtle out to save the world. But those are precisely the stars of The Wonder Pets!, created by Josh Selig, who not only writes and produces preschool shows, he ...

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For more than three decades, Kiddinx has been fulfilling its goal to provide entertainment for children that is not only fun, but also provokes them to ask questions. The German producer and distributor is behind the well-known series Benjamin the Elephant, centered on a lovable pachyderm, and Bibi Blocksberg, starring ...

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