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EXCLUSIVE: One of the BBC’s longest-serving kids executives, Michael Towner, responsible for the likes of Teletubbies and Andy and the Band, is exiting after nearly three decades with the corporation. Deadline understands Towner has taken voluntary redundancy and his Senior Commissioning Editor role will be…

The BBC has announced it will axe up to 1,000 employees across the next few years while also stopping the broadcast of smaller, but much-loved, linear channels such as children's channel CBBC and BBC Four. The move comes as director general Tim Davie laid out initial plans as to how the BBC will save around £1.5B…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal International Studios Exec Mark Freeland is hoping his upcoming CBBC Oliver Twist spin-off Dodger can land as a rare, traditional family hit, while he revealed plans for “another epic idea with family appeal.” The first five episodes of Dodger, which stars Christopher Eccleston as Fagin and Shamele…

EXCLUSIVE: Keshet Productions’ rebranded UK non-scripted arm Interstellar has picked up an ITV pilot commission for a celebrity dance format. All Star Dance Off will most likely air around the Christmas period on youth-skewing portfolio channel ITV2, according to an ITV spokesman who confirmed the order. The format is…

CBBC has commissioned a supersized version of kids conservation series One Zoo Three as UK broadcasters prepare for the Cop 26 conference in Glasgow next month. A 26-episode series of the show, which follows brothers Cam, Tyler and Aaron who run the UK’s Paradise Wildlife Park with more than 800 rare and exotic…

EXCLUSIVE: Libertine Pictures (NZ) and Slim Film + Television (UK)'s family action adventure series Mystic, has been recommissioned for two more seasons by CBBC (UK) and TVNZ (NZ). British actor Macey Chipping (Holby City) returns in the lead role of Issie Brown and is joined once again by New Zealanders Antonia…

EXCLUSIVE: British drama producer Slim Film + Television has teamed with Luther creator Neil Cross' New Zealand-based production company on an adaptation of Stacy Gregg's Pony Club Secrets books. Slim Film + Television, run by former Kudos Managing Director Simon Crawford Collins, has partnered with Libertine…

Israeli crafting and DIY format Craft Party is heading to the UK after the BBC ordered a local version. The British public broadcaster's kids network CBBC has ordered two seasons of the show from Keshet Productions. Two seasons of ten episodes, with 15 minute episodes, will see children aged six to 12 create art and…