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The Oscar-nominated production company, Magic Light Pictures is bringing the animated worlds of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler to BBC One in a series of exclusive idents this Christmas. The festive collaboration will feature idents of Zog, Princess Pearl, and Sir Gadabout, as well as The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo’s …

The kids, youth and family specialist research agency, Giraffe Insights, has bolstered its team of experts with the appointment of Lucy Irving as its new Insight Manager. Irving brings with her a wealth of research experience in media content development and kids’ research, having worked with brands such as the …

The BBC’s chief sports writer, Tom Fordyce has penned a new children’s activity journal that aims to tap into the impending football fever as Euro 2020 gets underway this May. Called My Greatest Football Team Ever, the new activity journal – published by Wren & Rock – will teach readers …

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 …

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 …

A delayed project to open Britain’s largest theme park in Kent – our own ‘answer to Disneyland,’ is back on, having signed a new deal with the Hollywood film studio, Paramount Pictures. The studio pulled out of plans to be the London resort’s title sponsor two years ago, but has …

VTech has said that it was alerted to a software flaw that had potential to allow hackers to remotely take control of the device and spy on users months ago. The firm has said that it promptly issued a fix, but that some parents had yet to install it.

Conmen exchanged £200 worth of fake bank notes for toys and change at Puff's Toy Shop in Wymondham, Norfolk.

The UK’s media watchdog has given each of the country’s commercial public sector broadcasters until next March to produce a plan to improve their offering for kids.

With news that Ofcom has lambasted the likes of ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 for underserving UK children through lack of original and diverse programming, hitting the headlines, ToyNews thought it time enough to revisit its exclusive interview with a hero of the kids' TV space.