Here’s some eye-catching news from the international kids TV distribution space: Cake is set to buy rival Jetpack.
No financial details was forthcoming today, but Cake released a statement noting “it is in advanced negotiations” to acquire its rival’s brand. More news will come “within the coming weeks,” the company added, and it’s not yet clear if the deal is only for Jetpack’s assets or the entire company.
Both Cake and Jetpack are based in London and operate in the same space, primarily selling animated content globally. Cake is known for shows such as Total Drama Island, Angelo Rules and Angry Birds: Summer Madness, while Jetpack sells the likes of Clangers.
“Since Jetpack launched, they have always been a competitor who we have admired,” said Cake CEO Ed Galton. “Combined operations will deliver an even better kids and family distribution solution for this market.”
Jetpack was...
No financial details was forthcoming today, but Cake released a statement noting “it is in advanced negotiations” to acquire its rival’s brand. More news will come “within the coming weeks,” the company added, and it’s not yet clear if the deal is only for Jetpack’s assets or the entire company.
Both Cake and Jetpack are based in London and operate in the same space, primarily selling animated content globally. Cake is known for shows such as Total Drama Island, Angelo Rules and Angry Birds: Summer Madness, while Jetpack sells the likes of Clangers.
“Since Jetpack launched, they have always been a competitor who we have admired,” said Cake CEO Ed Galton. “Combined operations will deliver an even better kids and family distribution solution for this market.”
Jetpack was...
- 8/6/2024
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
To celebrate the release of The Clangers, available to own on Blu-Ray and DVD from 30th October, we are giving away Blu-Rays to 2 lucky winners!
Originally broadcast between 1969 and 1972 Clangers was made by Smallfilms the company set up by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin producing many other childhood classics including Bagpuss, Noggin the Nog and Ivor the Engine.
Enjoy all 26 episodes from Season 1 and 2, now fully restored and presented from high-definition masters.
Discover a small blue planet populated by pink beings known as Clangers, a green dragon who cultivates soup and orange monopods who emerge from a magician’s top hat. Wonderful and exotic creatures often visit, and are always very welcome, especially a chicken made of iron who lives on a nearby nest made of space junk.
Please note: This competition is open to UK residents only.
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Originally broadcast between 1969 and 1972 Clangers was made by Smallfilms the company set up by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin producing many other childhood classics including Bagpuss, Noggin the Nog and Ivor the Engine.
Enjoy all 26 episodes from Season 1 and 2, now fully restored and presented from high-definition masters.
Discover a small blue planet populated by pink beings known as Clangers, a green dragon who cultivates soup and orange monopods who emerge from a magician’s top hat. Wonderful and exotic creatures often visit, and are always very welcome, especially a chicken made of iron who lives on a nearby nest made of space junk.
Please note: This competition is open to UK residents only.
a Rafflecopter giveaway
The Small Print
This competition is open to UK residents only.
- 10/22/2023
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
This list applies to UK streaming services
On rainy days, television isn’t only a parent’s best friend, it’s a lifeline. Let’s be honest, during the seemingly endless school holidays, the TV is also practically a co-parent.
But kids’ TV is undeniably formative: the best shows really stay with us, fondly in our memories, all the way through to adulthood. The best of the best are even still fun to watch as grownups.
Whether you’re looking for a nostalgia hit, some quality family viewing or a bit of headphones-and-bowl-of-sliced-apple alone time for your youngest, we’ve collected up 50 top children’s TV shows from across the UK’s major streaming platforms. (As well as the 50 best British TV dramas and British TV comedies available.) Find a few old classics and plenty of new favourites below…
Adventure Time
Pendleton Ward’s endlessly inventive fantasy cartoon about the...
On rainy days, television isn’t only a parent’s best friend, it’s a lifeline. Let’s be honest, during the seemingly endless school holidays, the TV is also practically a co-parent.
But kids’ TV is undeniably formative: the best shows really stay with us, fondly in our memories, all the way through to adulthood. The best of the best are even still fun to watch as grownups.
Whether you’re looking for a nostalgia hit, some quality family viewing or a bit of headphones-and-bowl-of-sliced-apple alone time for your youngest, we’ve collected up 50 top children’s TV shows from across the UK’s major streaming platforms. (As well as the 50 best British TV dramas and British TV comedies available.) Find a few old classics and plenty of new favourites below…
Adventure Time
Pendleton Ward’s endlessly inventive fantasy cartoon about the...
- 4/4/2023
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
The Clangers.
The Clangers, a remake of the classic 1960s stop-motion series, was a huge hit in the UK when it launched last year..
The redo is narrated by Michael Palin, and bows on ABC Kids this Monday.
The Clangers are a family of pink, long-nosed, inventive and inquisitive mouse-shaped creatures who live on a small blue planet, out in the starry stretches of space not far from our world.
The planet.s surface is peppered with craters topped with metal dustbin lids. These flip open and shut with a .Clang!. — hence the series. name.
Beneath the craters are steps and tunnels to warm, inviting caves and burrows. The family have many friends (the cast regulars) that participate in and make up their community..
But space is also filled with all manner of weird and wonderful objects and creatures that can visit the planet too. These visits are often the...
The Clangers, a remake of the classic 1960s stop-motion series, was a huge hit in the UK when it launched last year..
The redo is narrated by Michael Palin, and bows on ABC Kids this Monday.
The Clangers are a family of pink, long-nosed, inventive and inquisitive mouse-shaped creatures who live on a small blue planet, out in the starry stretches of space not far from our world.
The planet.s surface is peppered with craters topped with metal dustbin lids. These flip open and shut with a .Clang!. — hence the series. name.
Beneath the craters are steps and tunnels to warm, inviting caves and burrows. The family have many friends (the cast regulars) that participate in and make up their community..
But space is also filled with all manner of weird and wonderful objects and creatures that can visit the planet too. These visits are often the...
- 1/29/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Louisa Mellor Apr 26, 2017
Puns, movie references and nods to Aardman’s past abound in Wallace & Gromit: A Matter Of Loaf And Death…
Animator Nick Park’s fifth Wallace and Gromit film, A Matter Of Loaf And Death (named for the Powell & Pressburger 1946 fantasy romance A Matter Of Life And Death, the first of many such baking-related puns) became the most-watched television programme in the UK in 2008, attracting a Christmas day average audience of 14.4 million viewers. It saw 62 West Wallaby Street, Wigan, transformed into a granary, making Wallace the target of a “cereal killer” intent on ridding the world of bakers. Gromit, as ever, came to the rescue.
See related Why Alien: Isolation proves the Alien deserves another movie
We’ve scoured the half-hour short to unpack some of Aardman’s characteristic in-jokes and film references…
1. The name and look of Baker Bob, who meets an unfortunate end at the hands...
Puns, movie references and nods to Aardman’s past abound in Wallace & Gromit: A Matter Of Loaf And Death…
Animator Nick Park’s fifth Wallace and Gromit film, A Matter Of Loaf And Death (named for the Powell & Pressburger 1946 fantasy romance A Matter Of Life And Death, the first of many such baking-related puns) became the most-watched television programme in the UK in 2008, attracting a Christmas day average audience of 14.4 million viewers. It saw 62 West Wallaby Street, Wigan, transformed into a granary, making Wallace the target of a “cereal killer” intent on ridding the world of bakers. Gromit, as ever, came to the rescue.
See related Why Alien: Isolation proves the Alien deserves another movie
We’ve scoured the half-hour short to unpack some of Aardman’s characteristic in-jokes and film references…
1. The name and look of Baker Bob, who meets an unfortunate end at the hands...
- 6/29/2015
- Den of Geek
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