{"id":18054,"date":"2020-02-07T10:03:06","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T15:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/baby-octopus-options-rights-nadya-skylung-books\/"},"modified":"2020-02-07T10:03:06","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T15:03:06","slug":"baby-octopus-options-rights-to-nadya-skylung-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/baby-octopus-options-rights-to-nadya-skylung-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Octopus Options Rights to Nadya Skylung Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baby Octopus is expanding its portfolio of female-led fantasy-animation shows, optioning the rights to the series of <em>Nadya Skylung<\/em> books and signing a development deal for television and merchandising with author Jeff Seymour.<\/p>\n<p>Development on the 26 half-hour episodes for tweens will also reunite Baby Octopus with the Auckland, New Zealand-based animation company Toybox, co-producers of the YouTube Kids\u2019 show <em>Sherwood<\/em>. The companies will work with Seymour to bring the <em>Nadya Skylung<\/em> stories to life.<\/p>\n<p>Diana Manson, co-founder of Baby Octopus, said: \u201cWe were enthralled by these books and the strong character of Nadya as soon as we read them and this is just the type of distinctive, multi-layered and powerful project we love. Jeff has created an absorbing and complex world with dramatic ecological airships and tense humanistic themes that are ideal for the screen. We can\u2019t wait to work together with Jeff and our colleagues at Toybox, whose cinematic style of animation for television will bring his incredible vision to life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baby Octopus is expanding its portfolio of female-led fantasy-animation shows, optioning the rights to the series of Nadya Skylung books and signing a development deal for television and merchandising with author Jeff Seymour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1049,"featured_media":18055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[5261,5262],"class_list":["post-18054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-baby-octopus","tag-nadya-skylung","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Baby Octopus Options Rights to Nadya Skylung Books - TVKIDS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/baby-octopus-options-rights-to-nadya-skylung-books\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Baby Octopus Options Rights to Nadya Skylung Books - TVKIDS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Baby Octopus is expanding its portfolio of female-led fantasy-animation shows, optioning the rights to the series of Nadya Skylung books and signing a development deal for television and merchandising with author Jeff Seymour.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/baby-octopus-options-rights-to-nadya-skylung-books\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVKIDS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-02-07T15:03:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/07\/BABY-OCTOPUS-Nadya-Skylung-220.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"381\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Alison Skilton\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Alison Skilton\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/baby-octopus-options-rights-to-nadya-skylung-books\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/baby-octopus-options-rights-to-nadya-skylung-books\/\",\"name\":\"Baby Octopus Options Rights to Nadya Skylung Books - TVKIDS\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2020-02-07T15:03:06+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-02-07T15:03:06+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/#\/schema\/person\/f590d4d1481b8cce2a066e89197c7550\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/baby-octopus-options-rights-to-nadya-skylung-books\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/baby-octopus-options-rights-to-nadya-skylung-books\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/baby-octopus-options-rights-to-nadya-skylung-books\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Baby Octopus Options Rights to Nadya Skylung Books\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/\",\"name\":\"TVKIDS\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/#\/schema\/person\/f590d4d1481b8cce2a066e89197c7550\",\"name\":\"Alison Skilton\",\"description\":\"Alison Skilton is an associate editor of World Screen. 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