BLE 2015 Show Preview
Award-winning fun Blue-Zoo Animation Studio 020 7434 4111 www.blue-zoo.co.uk
BLE
Blue-Zoo is an award-winning UK based animation studio founded in 2000. It’s a creative, adventurous and independent company which has a renowned reputation for passionate, stand-out, high-quality animation for TV, commercials, children’s programming, titles and idents. Over the past 15 years Blue-Zoo has produced fantastic hits such as Tree Fu Tom, Q Pootle 5, Olive the Ostrich, Alphablocks. Get Squiggling and the new TV series of Miffy and Digby Dragon currently in production. In 2012, Blue-Zoo won BAFTA’s Children’s Award for best Independent Production Company. Digby Dragon is a nature inspired comedy animation for children aged between four-six years. Set in the colourful and enchanted Applecross Woods, Digby Dragon follows Digby a fledging dragon learning to fly. Aardman Animations have acquired international TV, DVD and digital sales rights with Nickelodeon UK commissioning 52 x 11mins of the programme launching on its preschool channel, Nick Jr in autumn 2016. Nickelodeon & Viacom Consumer Products have consumer products rights in the UK and Ireland. The Alphablocks are 26 living letters who discover that when they hold hands and make a word it comes to life. Alphablocks is a discovery-based starter phonics system that helps children learn to read. It is based on best-practice phonics teaching and structured around the Key Stage 1 curriculum. There are 26, 3.5 minute episodes, and 65, five-minute episodes broadcast on CBeebies.
Stand D003
Brand-tastic DHX BRANDS
BLE
Stand E070
020 8563 6400 www.dhxmedia.com
DHX Brands, the dedicated brandmanagement and consumer-products arm of DHX Media, heads to BLE with an exciting, diverse slate of properties this year - headlined by Teletubbies, and brand new addition Make It Pop alongside preschool favourites In the Night Garden and Twirlywoos. The original Teletubbies is one of the most successful children’s brands of all time and was voted one of the Best Children’s TV Programmes of the last 50 years by international kids’ television experts at the 2014 Prix Jeunesse International. The hotly anticipated new version, set to air late 2015 on CBeebies, features the characters with a refreshed, contemporary look and will be supported by heavyweight national PR and advertising campaigns. Licensing activity continues to ramp up on the property.
70
Egmont published four story book titles in 2015 and further titles will be launched in 2016. Pearson education produces 30 phonically de-codable books, which they sell into schools. Immediate Media launched the Alphablocks Reading Programme last year. Abbey Home Media has released five DVDs while Ravensburger have launched a 24 piece Giant Floor puzzle. Alphablocks launched an interactive app early 2015 and will be launching a further apps in 2015-2016 Alphablocks is looking particularly into markets for Back to School and stationary, toy, apparel, and bedding.
Reach for the clouds
BLE Stand B100
Ho Ho Entertainment 020 7682 3154
BLE
www.hohoentertainment.com
Hoho Entertainment will be exhibiting for the fifth year at BLE and seeking licensees and retail partners together with international licensing agents to represent its brands overseas. The company’s priorities for BLE include colourful pre-school series Cloudbabies, girls’ fashion brand Mimi and Bibi.
Real care for hair
Stand M60
Lee Stafford www.leestafford.com For the first time, multiaward winning haircare collection, Lee Stafford, is showing at Brand Licensing Europe. The Lee Stafford brand already enjoys a very successful track record with existing licensing partners in haircare – both electricals and brushes – which is rolling out worldwide.
www.ltwmag.com