{"id":19477,"date":"2020-10-27T09:10:34","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T13:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/gigglebug-entertainment-expands-team\/"},"modified":"2020-10-27T09:10:34","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T13:10:34","slug":"gigglebug-entertainment-expands-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/gigglebug-entertainment-expands-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Gigglebug Entertainment Expands Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bolstering its team, the Nordic animation studio Gigglebug Entertainment has named Lucy Pryke as creative producer and Jarkko Nordlund as board member and special advisor.<\/p>\n<p>Pryke has a wealth of experience in developing and producing children\u2019s animation, including more than three years as a senior manager in animation at Disney EMEA, where she worked on <em>Sadie Sparks<\/em> and with Gigglebug on <em>101 Dalmatian Street<\/em>. Nordlund&#8217;s experience includes stints as CEO for MTV Oy and as managing director for Universal Music Finland and Baltics, Viasat and Canal+.<\/p>\n<p>The appointments follow the recent commissions of two shows based on original ideas and development from Gigglebug. <em>The Unstoppable Yellow Yeti<\/em> has been commissioned by Disney EMEA and Nordic broadcasters YLE, DR, NRK and SVT. <em>Best and Bester<\/em> was greenlit by Nickelodeon for the broadcaster\u2019s first-ever Finnish show.<\/p>\n<p>Anttu Harlin, co-founder of Gigglebug, said: \u201cA huge welcome to the brilliant Lucy and Jarkko! They are wonderful additions to the super talents and world-class creativity here at Gigglebug. It\u2019s an exciting time for us and their vast experience and know-how will play a key part in our ambitious plans for international growth and our aim of becoming a leading European animation studio that spreads joy around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bolstering its team, the Nordic animation studio Gigglebug Entertainment has named Lucy Pryke as creative producer and Jarkko Nordlund as board member and special advisor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":19478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[1356],"class_list":["post-19477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-gigglebug-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Gigglebug Entertainment Expands Team - 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