The first ever licensed merchandise, which is where characters and brands are used to create products with official permission, was produced in the early 20th century. Peter Rabbit soft toys, which were licensed for production by the author Beatrix Potter in 1903, was the first recorded example of this practice. Since then, officially licensed products […]
LA-based film and TV studio Happy Accidents has joined forces with Australian production outfits Total Fiction and Screen Invaders to co-produce the highly anticipated new series Gnomes (6×30’). This twisted genre series has been commissioned by Stan in Australia and picked up by ZDFneo in Germany via production company Network Movie – a subsidiary of […]
El Estudio, the Mexican production company, has picked up acclaimed Australian comedy format Here Come the Habibs for Mexican audiences from LA-based studio Happy Accidents. Here Come the Habibs, originally developed and produced in Australia for Channel 9, made television history as the first mainstream comedy series featuring a Middle Eastern family in a leading […]
LA-based film and TV studio Happy Accidents has announced its coproduction with leading New Zealand-based production company Kevin & Co on new original comedy series The Sanctuary (8×22’) developed with Warner Bros Discovery NZ. The Sanctuary is a comedy series following Hunter, an eccentric American billionaire hiding in New Zealand. After selling an innocuous app, […]
Sport1 has agreed a long-term cooperation with HAPPYBET, the brand of Snaitech subsidiary Trinity Bet Operations, to offer betting related services both in Austria and in Germany. Throughout this collaboration, HAPPYBET will become the official sports betting partner of the No. 1 multichannel sports platform in German-speaking countries. On the HAPPYBET website, sports fans in […]
LA-based film and TV studio Happy Accidents has appointed Meredith Willis as SVP of Creative Content. Working in both Los Angeles and London, Willis will oversee development and production of feature and television projects. Willis joins after a tenure as the Director of Development for Ellen Pompeo’s Calamity Jane Entertainment under a deal with ABC […]
A happiness hideout is to open its glittery gates on October 6th, to coincide with World Smile Day and to celebrate the upcoming release of the new DreamWorks Animation film Trolls Band Together, in cinemas from October 20th. Trolls Happy Place is a smile-powered pop-up that will unlock 2,500 square feet of experiences inspired by […]
Serbia’s Regulatory Authority for Electronic Media (REM) has renewed the broadcasting licences of the four existing national commercial TV broadcasters Pink, Prva, Happy and B92. The broadcasting regulator said that, as a result of the large interest in the tender, it has decided to offer a fifth commercial TV licence. Besides the four winners, there […]