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Kids TBIvision.com April/May 2017 KidspOFC AprMay17.indd 1 15/03/2017 18:01 LAGARDERE_SONIC_TBICOVER_0317_def.indd 1 15/03/2017 17:20 TBI KODY KAPOW FULL PAGE.pdf 1 13/03/2017 17:58:07 C M Y CM MY CY CMY K KidspIFC Zodiak AprMay17.indd 1 14/03/2017 14:45 CONTENTS INSIDE THIS ISSUE This issue 2 6 2 TBI Kids interview: Dan Povenmire and Jeff ‘Swampy’ Marsh The Phineas and Ferb creators tell Stewart Clarke about their new showMilo Murphy’s Law, and their take on the animation business 4 Kids Matrix What’s going on in kids TV, from digital to linear, and live-action to animated, at a glance 6 Kids OTT tidal wave 10 The people behind the growing number of kid-focused streaming services open up about their strategies and goals, and how younger consumers are enagaging with content 10 Emerging studios 14 Several kids studios are evolving from work-for-hire shops into content-creation hubs. Jane Marlow speaks to the wave of emerging studios about balancing service work with origination 14 Hot Picks The best new kids shows launching at MIPTV, from a newMr Magoo, to a live-action ballet series, to a princess knight 20 TBI Kids interview: Christina Miller, Boomerang The president of Cartoon Network, Adult Swim and Boomerang talks SVOD Editor Stewart Clarke • [email protected] • @TBIstewart Television Business International (USPS 003-807) is published bi-monthly (Jan, Mar, Apr, Jun, Aug and Oct) by KNect365 TMT, Maple House,149 Tottenham Court Road, London, W1T 7AD, United Kingdom. The Deputy editor Jesse Whittock • [email protected] • @TBI_Jesse 2006 US Institutional subscription price is$255. Airfreight and mailing in the USA by Agent named Air Business, C/O Priority Airfreight NY Ltd, 147-29 182nd Street, Jamaica, NY11413. Periodical postage paid Sales manager Kate Roach • [email protected] at Jamaica NY 11431. 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Air Business Ltd is acting as our mailing agent. 149 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 7AD © 2017 Informa UK Ltd All rights reserved Tel: +44 (0)20 7017 5000 Reproduction without permission is prohibited e-mail: [email protected] web: www.tbivision.com Printed in England by Wyndeham Grange Ltd, Southwick, West Sussex BN4 4EJ @TBImagazine For the latest in TV programming news visit TBIVISION.COM TBI Kids April/May 2017 1 Kidsp01 Contents AprMay17scJW.indd 3 22/03/2017 22:23 TBI KIDS INTERVIEW POVENMIRE & MARSH Laying down the Law Dan Povenmire and Jeff “Swampy” Marsh are the creators of animated classic Phineas and Ferb. Their new show, Milo Murphy’s Law, follows the 13-year-old great-great-great-great grandson of the Murphy of Murphy’s Law repute, and has already gone out on Disney in the US. “Weird Al” Yankovic voices the optimistic Milo and sings the theme tune, and other voice talent includes Christian Slater. Ahead of a launch in the UK on Disney Channel and DisneyLife in early April, the animation A-listers were in London and sat down with Stewart Clarke to talk about their shows and the animation business TBI: Was Milo Murphy’s Law a long time in the TBI: Was that the same with Phineas and Ferb? DP: It fell together very easily this time, partially making? DP: With Phineas and Ferb we built that world in thanks to the success of Phineas and Ferb. Dan Povenmire: No, [Milo] was a drawing I was very fast, probably in a day, and it went on air Christian Slater had done one episode, and thinking of pitching for a secondary character looking pretty much like that, but it took 13 years had such a good time that he called us up the for another show. Every time I looked at it I to sell it. The thing is, now we havePhineas and day the show was announced to see if he could thought it popped and should be the main Ferb on our CVs, it only took a month to sell have a role. We wrote something specifically character. Swampy agreed, and within an Milo Murphy’s Law. for him. hour we had the whole show worked out, and SM: It’s much easier to take a chance on us The hardest [voice to find] was Milo. We the plot for the pilot. A week later we had the now. auditioned and auditioned and then someone opening for the pilot. mentioned “Weird Al”. We were looking for ‘Swampy’ Marsh: When you find something TBI: There’s some A-list voice talent in there. someone who sounded genuinely positive that works it tends to come together fast. How did that come together? without sounding like they were putting it 2 TBI Kids April/May 2017 For the latest in TV programming news visit TBIVISION.COM Kidsp02-03 Disney AprMay17scJW.indd 2 22/03/2017 22:21 TBI KIDS INTERVIEW POVENMIRE & MARSH Dan Povenmire and Jeff “Swampy” Marsh TBI: Could Phineas or Ferb appear in Milo, or TBI: The way people watch TV has changed. vice versa? This is on DisneyLife as well as linear; does that SM: It could conceivably happen. Dan has change the way you approach making shows? described it before as like a Marvel Universe DP: TV has changed a lot, and that is part of that we are building; we know they’re all why we wanted to serialise Milo Murphy’s Law a playing somewhere in the same playground little. People will binge and go through all 220 and the possibility they meet always exists. episodes of Phineas and Ferb in two weeks. If that’s the way people start to watch, we can take TBI: And the storytelling is different with the that into account. new show. How was it making a series with a serialised element? TBI: Technology has evolved since you started SM: Phineas and Ferb contained stories on Phineas and Ferb. How does that affect the without an overall arc. This time we had the day-to-day? opportunity to do a whole season arc so that SM: You don’t actually end up making the story builds. significant time savings in production, mostly DP: There is a big story to follow that because time-saving devices and processes gets really complicated towards the middle usually mean you spend time doing more and then ebbs back, and then builds again. drawings. We have bought ourselves that time. Because it takes so long to do animation, we on, and we’d met him couple of times, so we could be writing episode twelve and then go TBI: It’s a golden age of drama. Can the same recorded him and suddenly it worked. back to episode seven and seed in something, be said of animation? which makes us look a lot smarter than we DP: We’ve been through several: there was the TBI: What was the look you were going after? are. It also makes us look like we planned original golden age and then one around The DP: We still wanted it to look like the same everything from the beginning. Simpsons and Batman and Ren & Stimpy. There universe as Phineas and Ferb in the wayFuturama are ebbs and flows where suddenly a bunch looks like same universe as The Simpsons, so TBI: Have you scoped out a full three- or five- of good stuff is happening. I think for TV this it was really about what other characters and season plan? is another golden age; there is so much good stories we could tell in that place. You feel like DP: No, but we have a second-season arc and content being made. Phineas and Ferb live here and Milo is maybe have talked about what we would do if we got SM: What is also relevant now is you have a couple of neighborhoods over. Because of that a third season. We hope a third would have people at home with the power on their laptop you can hide Easter eggs for fans of both shows. elements from first two. to make a full-on show. That’s amazing. TBI For the latest in TV programming news visit TBIVISION.COM TBI Kids April/May 2017 3 Kidsp02-03 Disney AprMay17scJW.indd 3 22/03/2017 22:21 INDUSTRY FOCUS KIDS TV The Kids Matrix An at-a-glance look at the biggest news in children’s television this year – in grid form Digital Netflix has acquired Sesame Workshop and CBeebies kids series THE FURCHESTER HOTEL YOUTUBE adding kids content to its paid-for Red BRIAN ROBBINS has left service AwesomenessTV, the teen MCN he founded Live Action KiKa has acquired the new TELETUBBIES, marking the return of the iconic preschool series in the German market Disney EMEA is launching So Sammy, a Nickelodeon is taking the kids new shortform kids series from British to the Lip Sync Battle arena with comedian and actor MIRANDA HART a spin-off of the popular Spike format, LIP SYNC BATTLE SHORTIES France Télévisions buys teen novella series LOVE, DIVINA Linear 4 TBI Kids April/May 2017 For the latest in TV programming news visit TBIVISION.COM Kidsp04-05 Matrix AprMay17.indd 6 22/03/2017 22:34 INDUSTRY FOCUS KIDS TV Digital Chinese IQIYI buys 300 hours of CBEEBIES programming Outfit7 sells TALKING TOM and Friends to an Asian consortium for US$1 billion Australian SVOD service STAN becomes the exclusive streaming home of Cartoon Network programming Mattel’s new Monster High series, THE ADVENTURES OF THE GHOUL SQUAD, will debut on YouTube, Animation Method Animation’s pirate action adventure series ZAK STORM sells CBeebies orders Moon and Me, throughout Europe the debut series from Suttiki, the partnership of In the Night Garden ANDREW DAVENPORT’s new prodco and Bento Box Entertainment’s kids division Channel 5 orders animated preschool Linear series about an energetic chef and his daughter, SHANE THE CHEF For the latest in TV programming news visit TBIVISION.COM TBI Kids April/May 2017 5 Kidsp04-05 Matrix AprMay17.indd 7 22/03/2017 22:34 TBI KIDS OTT Kids OTT tidal wave 6 TBI Kids April/May 2017 For the latest in TV programming news visit TBIVISION.COM Kidsp06-08 OTT AprMay17sc.indd 6 22/03/2017 16:28 TBI KIDS OTT As technology continues to blur the line between linear and OTT, the opportunities for content providers are never greater than when delivering programming to digital natives opster was an early entrant into is the robust data that’s available,” says CEO the world of entertainment Todd Miller.