Some of television’s most beloved (and reviled) children’s characters are headed to streaming. The first trailer for Netflix’s upcoming “Teletubbies” revival series has been released, promising a return to the long-running franchise’s bizarre world.
First created in 1997 by Anne Wood and Andrew Davenport, “Teletubbies” is a British children’s show aimed at toddlers. Named after the main characters — a bizarre quartet of multi-colored, toddler-like creatures with antennae on their heads and television screens on their bellies — the show follows them exploring and playing in the grassy landscape they call home. The original show ran for five seasons and over 300 episodes and developed a global following thanks to syndication in over 120 countries. Even outside of its target demographic, the show quickly became famous for its surreal tone and character designs, and attracted sometimes bizarre controversy — such as when televangelist Jerry Falwell accused one of the Teletubbies, Tinky Winky,...
First created in 1997 by Anne Wood and Andrew Davenport, “Teletubbies” is a British children’s show aimed at toddlers. Named after the main characters — a bizarre quartet of multi-colored, toddler-like creatures with antennae on their heads and television screens on their bellies — the show follows them exploring and playing in the grassy landscape they call home. The original show ran for five seasons and over 300 episodes and developed a global following thanks to syndication in over 120 countries. Even outside of its target demographic, the show quickly became famous for its surreal tone and character designs, and attracted sometimes bizarre controversy — such as when televangelist Jerry Falwell accused one of the Teletubbies, Tinky Winky,...
- 10/18/2022
- by Wilson Chapman
- Indiewire
Teletubbies are making a return. A new, animated incarnation of the popular British kids series, narrated by Tituss Burgess (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), will premiere on Netflix Nov. 14. The project was announced as part of the streamer’s fall preschool slate, which also includes Princess Power, a new animated series based on the New York Times bestselling book series Princesses Wear Pants by Today co-anchor Savannah Guthrie and Allison Oppenheim, as well as the previously announced Spirit Rangers, inspired by stories from Native American tribes and landscapes of American national parks.
Returning series on the roster include CoComelon, Gabby’s Dollhouse and Waffles + Mochi.
Teletubbies became a global phenomenon when it first aired from 1997-2001 and was later rebooted for a 2015-1018 run.
Here are details about Netflix’s new preschool series
Teletubbies (premieres November 14)
Synopsis: Join colorful friends Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa and Po on wonder-filled adventures as they learn and...
Returning series on the roster include CoComelon, Gabby’s Dollhouse and Waffles + Mochi.
Teletubbies became a global phenomenon when it first aired from 1997-2001 and was later rebooted for a 2015-1018 run.
Here are details about Netflix’s new preschool series
Teletubbies (premieres November 14)
Synopsis: Join colorful friends Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa and Po on wonder-filled adventures as they learn and...
- 9/7/2022
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
New Metric Media, the award-winning producer behind hit Crave/Hulu original comedy series “Letterkenny,” has expanded its team as part of a strategic company-wide reorganization.
The outfit is expanding from an indie production company to a comedy-focused entertainment studio that aggregates and amplifies premiere global comedy brands through a vertically integrated, franchise-building eco-system across content creation, talent development and IP, distribution, live entertainment and merchandise and licensing.
Former Bell Media executive Jeff Hersh has been appointed as New Metric Media’s first COO and comedy executive Bill Lundy (“Run the Burbs”), formerly of Pier 21 Films and Bell Media, as senior VP, comedy, with both roles reporting into founder and CEO Mark Montefiore.
Hersh will focus on corporate strategy and driving significant strategic growth at New Metric Media via acquisitions, partnerships and raising capital as well as further monetization across all lines of business along with building out the operations to support growth.
The outfit is expanding from an indie production company to a comedy-focused entertainment studio that aggregates and amplifies premiere global comedy brands through a vertically integrated, franchise-building eco-system across content creation, talent development and IP, distribution, live entertainment and merchandise and licensing.
Former Bell Media executive Jeff Hersh has been appointed as New Metric Media’s first COO and comedy executive Bill Lundy (“Run the Burbs”), formerly of Pier 21 Films and Bell Media, as senior VP, comedy, with both roles reporting into founder and CEO Mark Montefiore.
Hersh will focus on corporate strategy and driving significant strategic growth at New Metric Media via acquisitions, partnerships and raising capital as well as further monetization across all lines of business along with building out the operations to support growth.
- 3/8/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
New Metric Media, the Canadian production company behind Hulu and Crave’s Letterkenny, is staffing up.
The company has hired former Bell Media exec Jeff Hersh as its first Chief Operating Officer and former Pier 21 Films exec Bill Lundy as SVP, Comedy.
Hersh has spent the last eight years at the Canadian broadcaster, where he is Gm of its Crave service as well as the Canadian version of Starz. He will focus on corporate strategy and driving strategic growth via acquisitions, partnerships and raising capital.
Lundy has spent the last three years at The Beaverton producer Pier 21 Films, having also worked at Bell Media. He will focus on broadening the company’s slate of comedy brands and roster of comedy talent across scripted, sketch and stand up for multiple platforms including television, live entertainment, merchandise and licensing.
Both Hersh and Lundy will report to Mark Montefiore, Founder and CEO,...
The company has hired former Bell Media exec Jeff Hersh as its first Chief Operating Officer and former Pier 21 Films exec Bill Lundy as SVP, Comedy.
Hersh has spent the last eight years at the Canadian broadcaster, where he is Gm of its Crave service as well as the Canadian version of Starz. He will focus on corporate strategy and driving strategic growth via acquisitions, partnerships and raising capital.
Lundy has spent the last three years at The Beaverton producer Pier 21 Films, having also worked at Bell Media. He will focus on broadening the company’s slate of comedy brands and roster of comedy talent across scripted, sketch and stand up for multiple platforms including television, live entertainment, merchandise and licensing.
Both Hersh and Lundy will report to Mark Montefiore, Founder and CEO,...
- 3/8/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Just to recap, so far this week we’ve heard news that Uncle Buck, In The Heat Of The Night and Say Anything have been earmarked for TV treatment. While Say Anything has already been canned due to original director-writer Cameron Crowe’s vocal disapproval of the project, there’s still a clear trend emerging. And that’s not taking into account other titles announced in recent months; Real Genius, Minority Report and Rush Hour. With TV networks increasingly turning to film for inspiration (caused by a lack thereof), today we can add another title to the list, as Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs is now destined for the small screen.
Sony Pictures Animation have joined forces with Dhx Media in developing a spinoff TV series of the successful animated franchise. Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs: The Series will contain 26 22-minute episodes that are set to follow...
Sony Pictures Animation have joined forces with Dhx Media in developing a spinoff TV series of the successful animated franchise. Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs: The Series will contain 26 22-minute episodes that are set to follow...
- 10/9/2014
- by Gem Seddon
- We Got This Covered
With Uncle Buck, In the Heat of the Night, and Real Genius series all in the works, it looks like the television forecast has called for a high probability of more movie reboots in the future. Next up: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. Dhx Media and Sony Pictures Animation have begun developing a new TV adaptation based on the bestselling book by Judi and Ron Barrett and the 2009 film and 2013 sequel. Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs: The Series will chronicle the high school years of eccentric young scientist Flint Lockwood, voiced by Bill Hader in the films.
- 10/9/2014
- by Jake Perlman
- EW - Inside TV
Dhx Media has signed a deal with Sony Pictures Animation to expand film franchise Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs into television with a new adaptation. Dhx Media will develop and produce 26, 22-minute traditionally animated small-screen episodes of the computer-generated animation feature films; that includes global television and non-u.S. home entertainment exploitation rights to Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs: The Series (Sony will distribute home entertainment in the U.S.). The deal also has Dhx Media representing merchandising for the television series on a worldwide basis.
The 2009 animated comedy Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs and its 2013 sequel, Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2 were produced by Sony Pictures Animation, and distributed by Columbia Pictures. The films grossed a combined $510 million in theaters. The first movie, based on the best-selling book by Judi and Ron Barrett, followed the adventures of Flint Lockwood, an eccentric young scientist...
The 2009 animated comedy Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs and its 2013 sequel, Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2 were produced by Sony Pictures Animation, and distributed by Columbia Pictures. The films grossed a combined $510 million in theaters. The first movie, based on the best-selling book by Judi and Ron Barrett, followed the adventures of Flint Lockwood, an eccentric young scientist...
- 10/9/2014
- by The Deadline Team
- Deadline
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is to be adapted into a television series.
The series, inspired by the popular Judi Barrett books, will be set before the events of the 2009 animated film of the same name and its 2013 sequel, both of which performed well at the box office.
Sony Pictures Animation and Dhx Media will produce 26 episodes of the traditionally animated series, each of them 22 minutes long.
The series will focus on high-schooler Flint Lockwood, who is frustrated with his life in the town of Swallow Falls. Flint, whose town is driven by sardine fishing, suffers from Nfd: Non Fish-related Dreams.
Flint hopes to be a serious scientist and teams up with new girl Sam Sparks, who dreams of being a reporter. The pair will have a series of adventures with the best known characters from the films.
These will include Flint's dad Tim, Steve the Monkey, Manny the head of the school's audiovisual,...
The series, inspired by the popular Judi Barrett books, will be set before the events of the 2009 animated film of the same name and its 2013 sequel, both of which performed well at the box office.
Sony Pictures Animation and Dhx Media will produce 26 episodes of the traditionally animated series, each of them 22 minutes long.
The series will focus on high-schooler Flint Lockwood, who is frustrated with his life in the town of Swallow Falls. Flint, whose town is driven by sardine fishing, suffers from Nfd: Non Fish-related Dreams.
Flint hopes to be a serious scientist and teams up with new girl Sam Sparks, who dreams of being a reporter. The pair will have a series of adventures with the best known characters from the films.
These will include Flint's dad Tim, Steve the Monkey, Manny the head of the school's audiovisual,...
- 10/9/2014
- Digital Spy
Teletubbies will return to screens with brand new episodes on CBeebies.
Dhx Media - the producers of the much-loved children's series - have announced that 60 new instalments are entering production, in partnership with UK production company Darrall Macqueen.
The new series will feature the same characters as the original, but the styling will be refreshed in a bid to give the show a "contemporary look".
Kay Benbow, Controller at CBeebies, said: "Teletubbies is an enduringly popular series with our youngest viewers, although no new episodes have been made for over ten years. I think that now is the right time to create new episodes of this much-loved, iconic show for the current CBeebies audience.
"I'm sure they will engage with and delight in the activities of Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa Laa and Po, in the same way that children and parents did when they first appeared on our screens.
"Darrall...
Dhx Media - the producers of the much-loved children's series - have announced that 60 new instalments are entering production, in partnership with UK production company Darrall Macqueen.
The new series will feature the same characters as the original, but the styling will be refreshed in a bid to give the show a "contemporary look".
Kay Benbow, Controller at CBeebies, said: "Teletubbies is an enduringly popular series with our youngest viewers, although no new episodes have been made for over ten years. I think that now is the right time to create new episodes of this much-loved, iconic show for the current CBeebies audience.
"I'm sure they will engage with and delight in the activities of Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa Laa and Po, in the same way that children and parents did when they first appeared on our screens.
"Darrall...
- 6/13/2014
- Digital Spy
Wolf Creek director Greg McLean has received development support from Screen Australia for a new film set in Vietnam.
McLean’s project Black Echoes is among 13 projects to have been selected in the latest round of funding from the national screen agency.
Set in in the Vietnamese countryside, the film is about a group of tourists who go on an adventure into Viet Cong tunnels more claustrophic and scary than the famous Cu Chi tunnels.
Other projects to receive funding include The Outrageous Barry Rush, directed by Red Dog’s Kriv Stenders, written by Andy Cox and produced by Alan Harris, The Dressmaker by written and directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse and produced by Sue Maslin and the sequel to last year’s online hit, The Tunnel, called The Tunnel: Dead End by Enzo Tedeschi and Julian Harvey.
Single-project Development: Feature Development
Addition
Genre Romantic Comedy
Producers Bruna Papandrea, Cristina Pozzan...
McLean’s project Black Echoes is among 13 projects to have been selected in the latest round of funding from the national screen agency.
Set in in the Vietnamese countryside, the film is about a group of tourists who go on an adventure into Viet Cong tunnels more claustrophic and scary than the famous Cu Chi tunnels.
Other projects to receive funding include The Outrageous Barry Rush, directed by Red Dog’s Kriv Stenders, written by Andy Cox and produced by Alan Harris, The Dressmaker by written and directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse and produced by Sue Maslin and the sequel to last year’s online hit, The Tunnel, called The Tunnel: Dead End by Enzo Tedeschi and Julian Harvey.
Single-project Development: Feature Development
Addition
Genre Romantic Comedy
Producers Bruna Papandrea, Cristina Pozzan...
- 3/2/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
A sequel to last year.s successful low-budget horror film The Tunnel is currently in the works.
The sequel . titled The Tunnel: Dead End . received development funding from Screen Australia earlier this month and will pick up the story years down the track. No shoot date has been set for the horror flick.
It.s a sequel creators Enzo Tedeschi and Julian Harvey weren.t planning on. .Initially, we weren.t anticipating doing another Tunnel film but the overwhelmingly positive reaction to the original . as well as our fans clamouring for another on an almost daily basis . made us go back and give it a second thought,. Tedeschi and Harvey, of Distracted Media, said in a joint statement.
.We weren't going to go ahead unless we could find a story we were 100 per cent behind, which we now have, and are thrilled to have the support of Screen Australia.
The sequel . titled The Tunnel: Dead End . received development funding from Screen Australia earlier this month and will pick up the story years down the track. No shoot date has been set for the horror flick.
It.s a sequel creators Enzo Tedeschi and Julian Harvey weren.t planning on. .Initially, we weren.t anticipating doing another Tunnel film but the overwhelmingly positive reaction to the original . as well as our fans clamouring for another on an almost daily basis . made us go back and give it a second thought,. Tedeschi and Harvey, of Distracted Media, said in a joint statement.
.We weren't going to go ahead unless we could find a story we were 100 per cent behind, which we now have, and are thrilled to have the support of Screen Australia.
- 2/29/2012
- by Sam Dallas
- IF.com.au
Toronto -- Canadian producer Dhx Media has promoted kids show veteran Steven DeNure to the new post of president and COO.
DeNure, most recently president of Dhx's kids and family show subsidiary Decode Entertainment, will work alongside the Halifax-based parent's chairman and CEO Michael Donovan, the company said Wednesday.
DeNure also will oversee Decode Enterprises, the company's international distribution arm, as current president Neil Court prepares to step down in May and shift into an adviser role.
Dhx Media, which recently failed to complete a merger with rival producer and distributor E1 Entertainment, also promoted Charles Bishop, president of subsidiary Halifax Film, to president of production and development for the parent company.
The Canadian producer is best known for such kids series as "Franny's Feet" and "Bo on the Go," and dramas like "The Guard," which was picked up by Ion Television last month.
DeNure, most recently president of Dhx's kids and family show subsidiary Decode Entertainment, will work alongside the Halifax-based parent's chairman and CEO Michael Donovan, the company said Wednesday.
DeNure also will oversee Decode Enterprises, the company's international distribution arm, as current president Neil Court prepares to step down in May and shift into an adviser role.
Dhx Media, which recently failed to complete a merger with rival producer and distributor E1 Entertainment, also promoted Charles Bishop, president of subsidiary Halifax Film, to president of production and development for the parent company.
The Canadian producer is best known for such kids series as "Franny's Feet" and "Bo on the Go," and dramas like "The Guard," which was picked up by Ion Television last month.
- 3/4/2009
- by By Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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