Tag: BBC
Europe’s EBU Plans Animated Specials
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU), an association of 60 national broadcasters negotiating and advocating for pubcasters in Europe, has revealed plans to create half-hour...
Rupert Grint Leads English ‘Foosball’ Cast
Harry Potter's Rupert Grint will be leading the voice cast for the English-language version of Juan Jose Campanella's Spanish-Argentine co-pro CG feature, Foosball. Variety...
Global TV News Bytes
+ SLR Productions and co-producers Telegael and Top Draw Animation have welcomed Nine Network and ZDF Enterprises as broadcast partners for the new kids...
Eight Shows to Track Down at MIP Junior
One of the great draws of the MIP Junior market in Cannes (Oct. 5 and 6 at the Carlton Hotel) is that buyers and...
Guru Appoints Lambur Director of Sales
Guru Studio has appointed Ian Lambur to the new role of director of sales.
Reporting to VP Mary Bredin, Lambur will manage worldwide sales of...
Adam Elliot to Attend Bradford Animation Fest
The organizers of U.K.'s Bradford Animation Festival have announced that acclaimed Australian stop-motion animation director Adam Elliot, creator of Oscar-winning short Harvie Krumpet and...
Channel 5 Welcomes Back the Wombles
The fuzzy ol' Wombles of Wimbledon Common are returning to the small screen in a new CG-animated series for the U.K.'s Channel 5. The...
Aardman Tackles ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ Teaser
Aardman Animation has done it again. The Bristol-based studio's teaser trailer for BBC Radio's adaptation of Sir Tom Stoppard's play Darkside has created quite...
CBeebies Adds Three New Shows to Upcoming Slate
BBC's Children's Channel CBeebies has announced several new shows that put the spotlight on female characters and voices:
A co-commission with BBC Learning, Melody (20x7-minute)...
Global TV News Bytes
+ BBC's CBeebies has begun airing 10 new episodes of Karrot Animation's 2D animated preschool series Sarah & Duck as of August 12, following...
Intl. 3D Society Picks a New Name
The International 3D Society has changed its name to the International 3D and Advanced Imaging Society.
"New advances in display technologies to enable features such...
Former Aardman and BBC Execs Launch New Org
Aardman Animations’ former head of broadcast Miles Bullough and former BBC creative executive Jesse Cleverly have founded Wildseed Studios, a next-generation entertainment content incubator...
Former Mill Artists Form New Milk VFX House
Six former members of vfx house The Mill have formed a new London-based vfx studio called Milk. The new shop will specialize in innovative...
Marc Craste & Studio AKA Deliver BBC’s Culture Spots
U.K.’s award-winning animation house Studio AKA has produced a 3x30 second spots highlighting BBC Radio 4’s new Cultural Exchange feature, which is billed as...
IDW to Publish New ‘Rocky & Bullwinkle’ Comics
Here is a wonderful new comic-book venture we can all get behind. Over the weekend, we got word that San Diego-based IDW Publishing will...
Aardman Preps ‘Shaun the Sheep’ Movie for 2015
Following in the footsteps of Wallace and Gromit, another popular Aardman character is getting ready for its big movie adventure. The Bristol-based animation studio...
Double Negative Opens New TV Branch
VFX company Double Negative has launched Double Negative TV, a new division of Dneg dedicated to visual effects creation for television.
Dneg TV will be...
The Mill Shuts Down TV VFX Department
Another day, another troubling news item about the beleaguered vfx industry. This time it’s London-based studio The Mill which revealed that it will close...
‘Peter Rabbit’ Hops to Nickelodeon
A new CG-animated series based on the works of Beatrix Potter is high-tailing it to Nickelodeon as the preschool-targeted show Peter Rabbit debuts on...
CBeebies Launches New Math-Based Show
A new math-themed animated series is slated to debut on U.K’s children channel CBeebies and the BBC Worldwide Channels later this year. The show,...
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