MIPJunior Video Highlight: Paramount’s Ramsey Naito

In conversation with TV Kids’ Anna Carugati at MIPJunior, Ramsey Naito, the president of Paramount Animation and Nickelodeon Animation, weighed in on franchise management, the crucial role of theatrical releases and reinventing classic properties like Dora the Explorer.

Paramount Global’s prolific animated slate runs “across theatrical, linear TV and digital,” Naito said, “powered by the most loved and biggest kids’ brand in the world, Nickelodeon. Our company’s commitment to kids’ and family content is firm and unwavering. We are working hard at growing our footprint, expanding our influence and filling our pipeline of movies, series and specials that, on the one hand, feature some of the most beloved characters ever and, on the other, produce original ideas that captivate today’s audiences everywhere. And though the content we create is largely for our own platforms first, we’re open to partnering with local third parties and platforms to distribute our shows and characters to even wider audiences around the world. As we already do, with TF1, Televisa and Super RTL, among many others.”