China Bridge Content, the New York-based content and consulting firm founded by Josh Selig (The Wonder Pets, 3rd & Bird, Small Potatoes), has announced its latest project, music-based animated series – The C-Pops! – in partnership with Chinese animation studio, Perfect World Animation. A spin-off of the hit Chinese show Rainbow Crew, The C-Pops! features the […]
Narrative Entertainment has signed a new FAST deal with Samsung TV Plus to continue the expansion of its kids’ POP channel, with launches in Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines. The launch of POP will bring popular shows including Totally Spies! and The Cat In The Hat Knows A Lot About That! to family and co-viewing […]
Narrative Entertainment is expanding the reach of its children’s channels with the launch of POP, Tiny Pop and POP Up on FAST platform Pluto TV. The launch of POP will mean popular franchises such as Unicorn Academy, Miraculous, Totally Spies, Barbie and Dragon Ball Super are available for Pluto TV viewers in the UK for […]
Narrative Entertainment has launched Frame in the UK, a fully independent, ad sales house bringing together broadcast experience and digital expertise. Frame has been incubated in broadcaster Narrative Entertainment, and launches with the POP and GREAT! channel networks, engaging family and co-viewing audiences, and the often overlooked 55+ demographic. These brand-safe environments provide advertisers with […]
Narrative Entertainment has signed a FAST deal with Samsung TV Plus to bring its kids’ POP channel to Australia and New Zealand. The channel is live now. The launch of POP will mean global franchises such as Totally Spies and Yu-Gi-Oh Sevens are available on FAST for families down under. “It’s well understood that viewing […]
Children’s channel POP Max has ceased broadcasting on all Sky platforms. This includes the main POP Max and POP Max+1 channels which were available via Sky Q and Sky+HD, as well as POP Max HD on Sky Glass and Sky Stream. The channel brand was already removed from Freeview in 2024 amid a shift towards […]
Mattel has announced that their fan-favourite animated series Barbie: A Touch of Magic is returning for a second season. Premiering April 18th on Netflix, the 13 new episodes will follow Barbie ‘Brooklyn’ Roberts and Barbie ‘Malibu’ Roberts as they embark on a new adventure. When a magical crystal gem goes missing, Barbie and Barbie are […]
The new movie from Mattel, Barbie and Stacie to the Rescue, will make its UK linear TV premiere exclusively on free-to-air children’s channel POP on March 23rd. This new adventure sees the Roberts family head to Wisconsin for a hot air balloon festival where Stacie finds herself caught in between, too young for the adult […]
Narrative Entertainment is expanding its management team as it continues its growth trajectory following a successful 2023. Kate Gartland will oversee the Narrative Entertainment marketing teams, working across both their GREAT! brand of movies and entertainment channels and kids’ offerings Tiny Pop, POP and POP MAX across both broadcast and digital platforms. A creative marketer […]
Narrative Entertainment has reported record audience, share and advertising impacts growth in 2023. The independent free-to-air channel group’s portfolio of channels gained its strongest yearly share growth, up 21 per cent year-on-year, whilst 4 in 5 of the UK population enjoyed the channels in 2023. Its four Movies and Entertainment Channels saw 28 per cent […]