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Sixteen South
Sixteen South is a company creating, producing and distributing television for children. Founded in Belfast in 2007 by Colin Williams, they currently employ over 100 people and have partnered with major names in children's entertainment, co-producing shows with Sesame Workshop, The Jim Henson Company and the BBC. The company has won over 50 major international television awards including a BAFTA Award the Prix Jeunesse award, two Emmy nominations, a British Animation Award, RTS awards and many more and in business, they have been ranked among the UK's top indie producers by Televisual and been ranked at the top of the Deloitte UK and Ireland Fast 50 in 2013. Television shows Odo This series is produced by Sixteen South in co-production with Polish newcomer animation studio Letko. This series focuses on the smallest owl in a forest camp who doesn’t let his size stop him from believing in himself and trying to prove he can do whatever he puts his mind to. Pinkalicious & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Williams (producer)
Colin Williams is a Northern Ireland film and television producer. Williams founded Sixteen South in 2007 and since then has produced eleven shows including Pajanimals in partnership with The Jim Henson Company,Growth of 3,000%? Meet Britain's top tech startups The Guardian Big & Small, Big City Park and in partnership with Sesame Workshop. He is currently producing '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HOP!
Air France Hop, formerly branded HOP!, is a French regional airline operating flights on behalf of its parent company Air France. The airline was founded on 21 December 2012http://www.verif.com/societe/HOP!-790151716/ after the merger of Airlinair, Brit Air and Régional brands. Its head office is at Nantes Atlantique Airport.Legal notice ." History 
The new airline brand was created to better compete with the low-cost airlines which have taken a significant market share of Air France's regional routes. Régional operated with 44 aircraft to 38 destinations;
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Kindle Entertainment
Kindle Entertainment is an independent television production company based in London, England. Kindle Entertainment was formed after ITV Kids (a section of ITV Productions) was closed, and current personnel includes Anne Brogan, the former controller of ITV Kids, and former head of development at ITV Kids, Melanie Stokes. Recent productions include Sky Kids' ''Little Darlings'', teen supernatural thriller '' The A List'' for BBC iPlayer and Channel 4 drama Kiss Me First (TV series). Kindle Entertainment's previous productions include: Dixi, an interactive mystery set in the world of social networking, Minibeast Adventure with Jess, fact-ent for pre-schoolers; a series of behind-the-scenes documentaries about Harry Potter including specials on The Goblet of Fire, Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, Costume Drama, and Animals; a live-action action comedy My Spy Family, which was shown on Boomer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big & Small
''Big & Small'' is a children's television series aimed at preschoolers following the lives of puppets, including the eponymous Big and Small. ''Big & Small'' is a co-production between Kindle Entertainment and 3J's Productions produced in association with the BBC, Treehouse TV, and Studio 100. Three series were aired between 2008 and 2011. It was aired on CBeebies in the UK. Episode structure The show starts off with the characters doing many things, such as playing a game, or making something. There is then a conflict between the characters that leads to the plot of the episode. The characters then resolve their conflict before the end of the episode. There is always at least one song per episode, which was filmed in shadowmation. Characters Broadcasters In the United Kingdom, ''Big & Small'' was shown on BBC1, BBC2 and CBeebies, as well as Cyw in Wales. Treehouse TV aired ''Big & Small'' in Canada. In total, over 40 channels worldwide have featured the programme. Home ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parent's Choice Award
The Parents' Choice Award was an award presented by the non-profit Parents' Choice Foundation to recognize "the very best products for children of different ages and backgrounds, and of varied skill and interest levels." It was considered a "prestigious" award among children's products, and had been described by the ''Cincinnati Enquirer'' as the industry equivalent of an Academy Award The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international film industry. The awards are regarded by many as the most prestigious, significant awards in the entertainment ind .... The Parents' Choice Awards were established in 1978 by Diana Huss Green, who was then the president of the Parents' Choice Foundation. The award recipients were determined by a committee of educators, scientists, performing artists, librarians, parents and children. One of six award commendations were given to award winners: Classic, Gold, Silver, Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiny Pop
Tiny Pop (styled as tiny POP) is a British free-to-air children's television channel in the United Kingdom, owned by Narrative Entertainment UK Limited. Broadcast on many of the major digital television platforms in the UK, Tiny Pop, which was launched on 8 September 2003 as Pop Plus, and shows, its target audience is children aged 7 and under. The station broadcasts principally animated content sourced from various distributors. History As Pop Plus The channel began on 8 September 2003 as Pop Plus (stylized on-screen as p⊕p), a secondary service to Pop. The channel was licensed to air animation and music, it operated the same broadcast hours as its sister channel (6am to 8pm at the time; Pop later expanded to its current 24-hour service) and was not a direct timeshift of its sibling, instead offering an alternative mix of the channel's content. (At one point the arrangement was that whilst Pop was showing music Pop Plus would show cartoons, and vice versa, but this was not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TVNZ
, type = Crown entity , industry = Broadcast television , num_locations = New Zealand , location = Auckland, New Zealand , area_served = Nationally (New Zealand) and some Pacific Island nations such as the Cook Islands, Fiji, and the Solomon Islands , founded = , owner = Minister of Finance (50%) Minister of Broadcasting (50%) , key_people = Simon Power (CEO) , homepage = , divisions = , products = Television , subsid = Former TV stations , revenue = (2019) , net_income = (2019) , assets = 43.2% (2019) , predecessor = Television New Zealand ( mi, Te Reo Tātaki o Aotearoa), more commonly referred to as TVNZ, is a television network that is broadcast throughout New Zealand and parts of the Pacific region. All of its currently-operating channels are free-to-air and commercially funded. TVNZ was established in February 1980 following the merger of the two government-owned television networks, Television One (now TVNZ 1) and South Pacific Television (now T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disney Junior
Disney Junior is an American pay television network owned by the Walt Disney Television (part of Disney General Entertainment Content) unit of The Walt Disney Company through Disney Branded Television. Aimed mainly at children two to seven years old, its programming consists of original first-run television series, films, and select other third-party programming. As of January 2016, the channel is available to 74 million households in the U.S. History Origins The Walt Disney Company first attempted to launch a 24-hour subscription channel for preschoolers in the United States, when the company announced plans to launch Playhouse Disney, a television offshoot of Disney Channel's daytime programming block of the same name, which launched on the channel on May 8, 1997 (airing during the morning hours seven days a week, with the weekday blocks lasting until the early afternoon). Plans for the United States network were ultimately shelved. However, channels using the Playhous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NBC Kids
NBC Kids was an American Saturday morning children's television programming block that aired on NBC from July 7, 2012 to September 25, 2016. Telemundo also aired a version of the block under the "MiTelemundo" title, which featured a separate lineup of Spanish-dubbed programs until December 31, 2017. NBC Kids, which replaced the Qubo block (as a result of NBCUniversal dropping out of the joint venture, which also included Ion Media Networks), was programmed by the other Sprout preschool cable network, as they were both targeted at children ages 2 to 6. The three-hour block featured educational entertainment series for younger children, which met programming requirements defined by the Federal Communications Commission's Children's Television Act. The block was replaced by Litton Entertainment's The More You Know, which features live-action educational programming on October 8, 2016 on NBC, and January 6, 2018 on Telemundo (retaining the MiTelemundo title). History On March 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PBS Kids Sprout
Universal Kids is an American children's television channel owned by the NBCUniversal Television and Streaming unit of Comcast's NBCUniversal. The channel launched on September 26, 2005, as PBS Kids Sprout, a preschool-oriented channel jointly operated by PBS, Comcast, Sesame Workshop, and HIT Entertainment, as an offshoot of the PBS Kids brand. After the acquisition of NBC Universal by Comcast in 2011, the company began to buy out the remaining owners' shares in the network. NBCUniversal became the sole owner of the network in 2013, after which it was renamed Sprout. Under NBCUniversal ownership, the channel increased its investments into original programming. In 2017, the network relaunched as Universal Kids, adding an evening and primetime lineup targeting a wider youth audience—including DreamWorks Animation content, non-scripted programming (including game shows, and youth spin-offs of reality series from its NBCUniversal sister networks, such as ''American Ninja Warr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Henson's Pajanimals
''Jim Henson's Pajanimals'' (a portmanteau of the words ''pajamas'' and ''animals'') is an American-British children's TV series created by Jeff Muncy and Alex Rockwell. The Pajanimals are characters that were made by Jim Henson's Creature Shop at The Jim Henson Company. The series was filmed in Northern Ireland. It aired on PBS Kids Sprout (now Universal Kids) in the United States, and Sprout was a co-producer of the series. Premise The show is about the Pajanimals, four friendly animals who share the last moments of playtime before bedtime, sing songs, and learn a valuable lesson by traveling to whimsical lands. The characters are Apollo, Sweetpea Sue, Squacky, and Cowbella. Characters Main * Apollo (performed by John Kennedy in the shorts and Michael Winsor in the US and Edward Cross in the UK in the series) is a friendly green and purple dog who is the leader of the group. He enjoys watching the night sky and playing with his rocket. He loves his rocket flashlight and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadcast Awards
''Broadcast'' is a monthly magazine for the United Kingdom television and radio industry, owned by Media Business Insight. History ''Broadcast'' was started in 1973 by Rod Allen, who went on to work at LWT, HTV and HarperCollinsInteractive. He was most recently head of the Department of Journalism at City University, London, until he retired in 2006. Description The magazine covers a wide range of news and issues affecting the professional broadcast market in the UK. It has regular monthly sections covering news, commissioning, facilities, analysis, opinion, interview, platforms, production and ratings. ''Broadcast'' also often has a special feature covering an issue relevant to the industry. It is owned by Media Business Insight, a publishing, events and information business that also includes Screen International. Notable former staff * Dan Wootton (former ''News of the World'' TV editor) Awards Since 1996 the magazine has conferred the annual ''Broadcast Awards'', i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
