NEW YORK, March 16: Fitz Roy Media's president and CEO, Hamp Hampton, he explains his strategy for a new take on the kids' business in this video interview.

NEW YORK, March 16: 4Kids Entertainment's fourth-quarter loss rose from $19.6 million to $21.3 million, largely due to a $20.2 million impairment charge on the Chaotic property.

LONDON, March 16: RDF Media's The Foundation has announced the recommission of Basil and Barney's Swap Shop for a third season of 26 hour-long episodes for CBBC.

PARIS, March 16: Moonscoop has landed presales for the second season of Dive Olly Dive!, with, among others, France 5 and SVT of Sweden.

TORONTO, March 16: Portfolio Entertainment has slated a diverse pool of jurors to select the winner and runner-up of its recently launched In Toon With Tweens animation contest.

VICTORIA, March 15: The Australian Children's Television Foundation (ACTF) has sold the second season of the live-action children's series Lockie Leonard to Disney XD, which will launch the show in June.

LONDON, March 15: The Foundation, part of the RDF Media group, has been commissioned to produce a fourth and fifth season of the children's game show Escape from Scorpion Island for CBBC in the U.K. and ABC TV in Australia.

CULVER CITY, March 15: Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has reworked its Animax channel to focus more broadly on youth culture, along with extending its programming to alternate platforms.

BURBANK, March 12: Warner Premiere is in production on Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster, an all-new live-action/CG movie slated to air on Cartoon Network this fall.

PARIS, March 12: PGS Entertainment has secured representation for Studio Hari's CGI-animated series The Gees for worldwide distribution across TV, video, licensing and merchandising.

NEW YORK, March 11: At its annual upfront presentation, Nickelodeon announced a raft of new programming that will be joining the network's 2010-11 slate, including six fresh series and further seasons of 16 returning hits.

MUMBAI, March 11: The Walt Disney Company in India has unveiled plans for its first locally developed studio project aimed specifically at Southern Indian audiences, an as-yet-unnamed epic fantasy adventure.

NEW YORK, March 9: Barry Koch, the senior VP and general manager of Cartoon Network, Boomerang and Tooncast in Latin America, talks in this video interview about the growth of the channels across the region and what the key priorities are for the year ahead.

LOS ANGELES/TORONTO, March 9: E1 Entertainment has firmed up a production and development deal with the legendary rock group KISS to create a half-hour kids' comedy series using the band's personas.

BURBANK, March 9: On April 3, Cookie Jar Entertainment's new series Doodlebops Rockin' Road Show is to make its debut in the CBS children's programming block Cookie Jar TV, which will also feature the return of Stawberry Shortcake.

LONDON, March 9: The licensing and merchandising rights for Fresh TV's hit tween-target franchise Total Drama have been taken on by Turner CN Enterprises.

PARIS, March 8: Mooscoop has wrapped a deal with Chutti TV, Sun TV's kids' channel in India, for 725 half-hours of programming.

LONDON, March 8: Coinciding with its 20th anniversary, VGI Entertainment has changed its name to VSI Entertainment.

LONDON, March 5: CBBC has commissioned two further seasons of its hit Doctor Who spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures.

TORONTO, March 5: Breakthrough Films & Television's live-action docutainment series TOONED! is slated to premiere on Canada's TVtropolis on March 19 during the 11:30 a.m., 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. time slots.

ABU DHABI, March 5: A new global five-year publishing deal has been signed between twofour54 and Macmillan Children's Books for the preschool property Driver Dan's Story Train.

JAKARTA, March 4: Indonesian media conglomerate PT Media Nusantara Citra (MNC), which operates the leading terrestrials RCTI and TPI, has agreed to a multiyear program licensing deal with Disney-ABC International Television (DAIT) Asia Pacific covering series and original movies for kids and family audiences.

LONDON, March 4: CAKE Entertainment has licensed the live-action tween comedy series Cartoon Gene to the BBC and Germany's ZDF.

LONDON, March 4: Turner Broadcasting has picked up the exclusive U.K. rights to air all 26 half-hour episodes of the animated series Mr. Bean on its Boomerang Channel.

SYDNEY, March 4: Beyond Distribution will be offering up more than 200 hour of new content in their catalogue for MIPTV, spanning genres such as children's, factual, documentary, science and crime.

LOS ANGELES, March 4: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (MGM) and Rubicon Group have announced the launch of Pink Panther & Pals, the first new series in the iconic franchise in 17 years, on Cartoon Network on March 7 at 7:30 a.m.

NEW YORK, March 3: Disney Channels Worldwide has unveiled the 2010-11 programming highlights for Disney Channel and Disney XD in a presentation to U.S. advertisers.

TORONTO, March 3: Shaftesbury Films and Canada's Family Channel have announced a new half-hour teen comedy series, Baxter, which will air later this year.

NEW YORK, March 3: Sesame Workshop has signed up a host of top-name celebrities, including How I Met Your Mother's Neil Patrick Harris and Grey's Anatomy's Sandra Oh, as well as a number of industry experts and opinion-makers for the Grand Prize judging panel in conjunction with the launch of the Aniboom Awards 4 Sesame Street competition.

SYDNEY, March 3: Turner International Australia has hired Melissa Fitzgerald to serve as its sales director for Australia and New Zealand, effective April 6.