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Job Description: Working with producers and researchers on a wide variety of projects, from ‘The One Show’ to ‘The Crown’, British Pathe has established itself as the world’s number 1 historical newsreel archive, with a thriving global licensing business and vastly popular YouTube channel. Following a decade of rapid growth …

Creative Kids, producer of interactive kids’ arts and crafts and STEM toys, has announced a new partnership with Hasbro to produce a variety of new Play-Doh branded products in 2022. Through the multi-year, multi-national licensing agreement, Creative Kids and Hasbro will introduce a full line of Play-Doh toys with new twists …

American watch brand Tockr has announced a new, limited series of “The Wheel of Time” inspired wristwatches. With their luminous serpentine watch dials, the new unisex Tockr “The Wheel of Time” models channel the mystery and magic of the new fantasy series from Prime Video and Sony Pictures Television, available …

Fans of the Star Wars spin-off The Mandalorian can get their hands on the limited-edition collection of Boba Fett merchandise, thanks to online retailer Zavvi.  Launching worldwide in conjunction with the release of The Book of Boba Fett, the wearable memorabilia is emblazoned with the iconic Mandalorian helmet and Beskar armour, printed on a range of t-shirts and jumpers.  The new clothing collection joins the existing Boba Fett products available on the Zavvi website, …

Award-winning content creation, distribution and licensing studio One Animation has secured a new deal with Sky Kids in the UK for its hit CG-animated series Oddbods. Under the deal, Sky Kids has acquired rights for season three of Oddbods’ long-form series (60 x 8’) and the seasonal special ‘The Festive …

Emmy Award-winning French animation production and distribution company Dandelooo is set to adapt the successful children’s book series Gaston’s Emotions for television. Written by author and illustrator Aurélie Chien Chow Chine and published by Hachette Enfants, an imprint of Hachette Livre France, the books featuring a unicorn with a rainbow-coloured …

Z2 Comics has partnered with heavy metal legends Judas Priest for an original graphic novel to be released in 2022, in time for the return of Comic Con International and the 40th anniversary of the band’s highest-selling album of all time: ‘Screaming for Vengeance’. Produced with writers Rantz Hoseley (Comic …

Silvergate Media is readying the upcoming release of Hilda and the Mountain King, an 80-minute movie special which will launch exclusively on Netflix’s global streaming platform from 30 December. Adapted from Luke Pearson’s sixth graphic novel in the Hilda series, Hilda and the Mountain King picks up where the cliff-hanger ending of Hilda Season 2 left off: finding Hilda …