HALIFAX – DHX Media Ltd., an independent international producer, distributor and licensor of mainly children's entertainment content, has signed licenses with ABC TV Australia for three of its children’s programs.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australia’s national public broadcaster, has picked up the exclusive free-to-air rights to DHX Media’s Ha Ha Hairies season 1, Rastamouse season 2 and a renewal of Grandpa in my Pocket season 1 for broadcast later this year.
DHX Media has worldwide television and home entertainment rights and North American licensing rights to the Turner Broadcasting-commissioned series Ha Ha Hairies produced by Adastra Creative, the team behind CBeebies show Grandpa in my Pocket.
Rastamouse, the animated series based on the critically acclaimed books by Genevieve Webster and Michael De Souza, is already popular with fans in Australia. ABC has added a further 26 episodes to its roster. DHX Media represents worldwide television (excluding the UK) and licensing rights to the Rastamouse Company production.
DHX Media also holds worldwide television and licensing rights to Adastra Creative’s Grandpa in My Pocket which features live action with special effects and is one of the highest-rating shows on CBeebies in the UK. The show has sold to broadcasters worldwide including Canal+ in France, French-speaking TFO, TVO and Knowledge in Canada, Al Jazeera Children's Channel, Norway’s NRK and Sub Juniori in Finland, HOP Israel, RUV Iceland, Okto in Singapore, Greece’s MCOM.
