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The winners of this year’s Kidscreen Awards have been revealed at a presentation event held at the Kidscreen Summit 2020 in Miami this week. The Awards looks to celebrate the year’s best work in children’s television and digital media, with winners determined by two panels of industry judges. Among this …
Read More »BBC Studios and Posh Paws renew BBC Earth plush deal with eco-friendly new launches
BBC Studios and Posh Paws International have renewed their current partnership to continue to develop and distribute plush products under the BBC Earth license. The deal brokered by European Licensing Agent WildBrain CPLG, will be effective in the UK, EMEA, Australia, and New Zealand from January 2020. After the successful …
Read More »LEGO unveils the LEGO Technic App Controlled Top Gear Rally Car
The LEGO Group has revealed the results of its first collaborative effort with BBC Studios’ Top Gear with the unveiling of its LEGO Technic App Controlled Top Gear Rally Car. The new launch is an authentic looking GT Rally car for fans aged nine years and above and will be …
Read More »A colour of magic: BBC Studios talks Bluey, Hey Duggee, His Dark Materials and Terry Pratchett
It’s with a great sense of betrayal to my own ambitions of a writing career that, sat opposite Rikesh Desai, BBC Studios’ licensing director, I am forced to admit to having read only one book by Terry Pratchett in my lifetime. Of the ‘at least 32 titles’ that the treasured …
Read More »BBC Studios launches Hey Duggee exhibition at London’s Design Museum
BBC Studios launched its new partnership with the Design Museum to throngs of families and children today, when it officially opened a new exhibition celebrating the success and design behind its hit CBeebies series, Hey Duggee. The Designing Duggee exhibition will run from October 25 to 28 and allows fans …
Read More »LEGO teams with BBC Studios for Top Gear LEGO Technic
The LEGO Group has veered into a new partnership with BBC Studios to launch its first official LEGO Technic Top Gear set. The new launch is aimed at kids aged nine years old an upwards – and presumably their parents, too – and will launch globally in early 2020. Eloise …
Read More »Stephen Davies named MD of BBC Studios Consumer Products and Licensing
Stephen Davies has been appointed managing director of BBC Studios Consumer Products and Licensing in a move which brings together all of the BBC commercial subsidiary’s UK publishing and licensing businesses together for the first time. Davies is currently the director for live entertainment, music and motion gallery at BBC …
Read More »BBC Studios signs 8th Wonder as toy partner for Sarah and Duck
The deal marks the first wooden toy range for Sarah & Duck, and will include wooden dominos, blocks, sound puzzles, a skittles set and a train set.
Read More »BBC Studios and CBeebies take three BAFTA wins for Hey Duggee
The popular animated series cleaned up when it took home awards in the Pre-School Animation, Director and Digital categories.
Read More »Posh Paws partners with BBC Studios for Blue Planet and Planet Earth plush
A fluffy animal range is inspired by the Planet Earth II and Blue Planet II TV series will include an elephant, panda, tiger, penguin, polar bear, sea turtle, lion, sloth, sea otter, shark, octopus, grizzly bear, and each will come in three different sizes.
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