BBC Studios Brings Bluey To Africa In Four Different Languages

BBC Studios announced at FAME week Africa that Bluey, the beloved Emmy® and BAFTA Award-winning animated series, has been dubbed in four widely …

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CBeebies Celebrates Heritage Month By Airing Sleepy Time Stories In Four African Languages

• Seven Sleepy Time Stories to be aired in Isizulu, Sesotho, Tsonga and Afrikaans on CBeebies (DStv channel 306).• The translated Bedtime Storie…

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News Shorts: CBeebies Picks Up Rights To New Series Piggy Builders, Bob Bakish Exits Paramount Global’s CEO Position Amidst Acquisition Talks With Skydance And Every Girl's Dream Makes Its Freemium Debut On Zee One

BBC Children’s, France Télévisions and Germany’s ZDF have ordered Piggy Builders
Created by Marie Manand, Julien Hazebroucq and Emmanuelle Leleu,…

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News Shorts: Fireman Renewed For Season 16 On JimJam And e.tv, History Channel Unveils It's Early 2024 Lineup Across Africa And A Magical Love Story Takes Up Primetime On Star Life (Divya Drishti Cancelled)

Fireman Sam renewed for 16th season
New international distribution deals have also been secured for previous seasons of both shows, which are bas…

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BBC Children’s Has Ordered A Trio Of New Shows For CBeebies and CBBC (BBC Kids)

For CBeebies, the pubcaster has commissioned Mojo Swoptops (52 x 11 minutes) from Blue Zoo and Tararaboom. The CG-animated preschool series star…

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BBC Studios Kids & Family Orders Hey Duggee Spinoff

BBC Studios Kids & Family and CBeebies have commissioned new preschool series Hey Duggee’s Squirrel Club from Studio AKA.
A spinoff of the Lo…

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News Shorts: Cbeebies Acquired Broadcasting Rights To Big Lizards, Dumisa TV To Debut A Gender Based Talk Show And Supernatural Comedy Love In 40 Days Makes A Landing On Novela E Plus

CBeebies is set to go on a comedic adventure
CBeebies and France Télévisions have teamed up to co-commission Big Lizard, a CG-animated co-pro for…

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New Channel Alert (NOT REALLY): CBeebies Coming This September To Zuku TV

Zuku, an East African brand operated by Wananchi Group established with the aim of making quality home entertainment and communication services …

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BBC Studios And MultiChoice Strengthen Long-Standing Partnership By Expanding Reach Of BBC Channels On DStv In South Africa

• BBC UKTV expands its potential audience by a further 2.7 million homes by joining DStv Compact.
• BBC Lifestyle joins DStv family for the first…

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New Series Alert: Grizzy And The Lemmings And The Weasy Family Coming Soon To CBeebies And BBC Kids

The BBC has just picked up a pair of CG-animated series from French studio HARI— Grizzy and The Lemmings and The Weasy Family (pictured above an…

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News Shorts: CBeebies Set To Debut Brand New On-Air Look, M-Net Movies Action HQ To Rollout On DStv And Zee World Undergoes Various Schedule Changes

CBeebies is set to align themselves with the rest of the BBC channelsIn the UK, BBC Studios has begun phasing out the playful and enthusiastic C…

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Speech: Leading The UK Into Digital By The Director-General Of The BBC, Tim Davie, At The Royal Television Society

Good morning. Today, 100 years and 23 days after the first BBC broadcast, I want to talk about choices. Choices for us all. Choices that have pr…

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Roundups #122: CBeebies Picks Up Second Season To Tish And Tash, Soete Wraak Eyeing An Early 2023 Debut On eExtra And AIT Acquired Broadcasting Rights To Televisa's Falling Into Temptations

CBeebies renews this preschool series for another seasonLondon-based distributor CAKE brokered the presale deal for co-producers Studio Gale (So…

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Digital First: The End Of BBC Kids And Likely CBeebies

BBC Kids served as children's channel from BBC Studios and unlike CBeebies caters for older children with already viewed Da Vinci Kids conte…

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eToonz Now Caters To Teens With This Slate Of Live-Action Series

After almost 2 years, eMedia Investments gives eToonz some fresh content once seen as another Rewind in their portfolio burst out of that bubble…

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Roundups #20: Scrat TV Series And Local Drama Mathata Coming To Disney+ And Cape Town TV Respectively In April, CBeebies Working On New Cooking Show Big Cook Little Cook And FOX News International Streaming Service Launched In South Africa And 6 Other Countries

Disney+ sets release date for final Blue Sky Studios project, Ice Age: Scrat TalesThis is a series of six all-new animated shorts starring Scrat…

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A List Of Animated Series Coming In 2022 To Both Cable And Streaming Services With A Few Exceptions Like Sitcoms

Netflix:Anime: Entergalactic
A young man goes on a journey to discover love.Magic: The Gathering
Based on the digital card game of the same name…

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