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KIDS TRENDSETTERS PATRICIA HIDALGO Chief Content & Creative Officer, EMEA, & International Kids Strategy, Turner Turner International operates channels and content brands across EMEA, including Cartoon Network, Boomerang, Boing and Cartoonito. As the chief content officer and being responsible for international kids strategy, Patricia Hidalgo has a broad remit. She’s responsible for all Turner-owned, cofinanced or acquired content across EMEA; oversees programming, marketing and digital strategies; and represents Turner International with production teams in the U.S. Among Turner’s biggest successes are The Amazing World of Gumball, the global hit shepherded by Hidalgo, We Bare Bears and Ben 10, which has spun off eight local versions of the live-action game show Ben 10 Challenge for EMEA. Teen Titans Go! and LEGO Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu are other strong performers on Cartoon Network, while Grizzy & the Lemmings and Tom and Jerry are top hits on Boomerang. Hidalgo spent 15 years at The Walt Disney Company before joining Turner in 2013.
MICHAEL CARRINGTON Head of Children ’s Content ABC TV, Australia
Michael Carrington has more than 20 years of experience in children’s television. He started his career in kids’ TV at Network Ten in Australia, then moved to the U.K., where he worked for LEGO Media, CBeebies— as the first controller of the preschool service—Cartoon Network, HIT Entertainment and Zodiak Kids Studios. In 2016, he returned to Australia and is now head of children’s content for the public broadcaster ABC TV, which serves young viewers on TV, online and through mobile apps. ABC KIDS caters to preschoolers with such long-running series as Bananas in Pyjamas, the recent co-production Kazoops! and the acquired Little J & Big Cuz. ABC ME is for older children and offers the recent live-action commissions Nowhere Boys, a drama, and Little Lunch, a comedy, along with the co-productions The Deep and So Awkward.
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