Nick Junior UK is also currently running a special competition where Nick Jr. Channel UK and Ireland and Nick Jr. 2 viewers and NickJr.co.uk website visitors can enter "Olive the Ostrich" themed drawings and artwork they've created for a chance to have their pictures to be featured on television in a all-new episode from the upcoming brand new series of the popular Nick Jr. show "Olive the Ostrich"! You can find out more information about Nick Jnr's contest here on NickALive!. Competition closes on Friday 5th April 2013:
MIPTV News: DLT/Raydar Rights preps first slateAlso, from C21Media:
Alison Rayson and Don Taffner Jr.’s fledgling distributor is heading to MIPTV with a slate spanning drama, gameshows and kids programming.
Indie distributor DLT/Raydar Rights was created last year through the merger of the sales arm of Taffner Jr.’s DLT Entertainment and former Target executive Rayson’s Raydar Media.
Its first full slate will be unveiled in Cannes.
It includes BBC One one-off drama Our Girl(pictured)about a teenage tearaway who joins the army. it was produced by the BBC’s in-house drama department and has just debuted in the UK.
DLT/Raydar’s other drama highlights include two shows from Kiwi indie producer KH. Reservoir Hill is a teen drama that was commissioned by public broadcaster TVNZ, while Girl Vs Boy is pitched as a romantic whodunit.
Factual content on the slate included Sundog Pictures’ Flatmates, which aired on Channel 4 in the UK.
Kids content includes Blue Zoo’s Olive the Ostrich. The preschool series was greenlit by Nick in the UK where it also airs on Channel 5.
DLT/Raydar will also be re-launching the DLT Entertainment gameshow format Talkabout.
Rayson set for return to Cannes
Distribution veteran Alison Rayson will be back at MipTV next month with a new slate as part of her joint venture with DLT Entertainment.
Last Mipcom, Rayson unveiled DLT/Raydar Rights, a joint venture with DLT, following her exit from now-defunct Target Entertainment. She has since picked up BBC1 primetime drama Our Girl for distribution.
The 1x90′ show debuted last Sunday night in the UK and stars Lacey Turner as a “disenfranchised inner-city tearaway” who joins the Army. The BBC production was written by Tony Grounds (Births, Marriages & Deaths) and directed by David Drury (Ashes to Ashes).
Other shows that DLT/Raydar will be taking to Cannes include Emmy-winning interactive teen thriller Reservoir Hill, created by New Zealand independent producer KHF Media for TVNZ. DLT/Raydar has international rights to both the finished programme and the format.
Also from KHF is romantic comedy Girl vs Boy, which is currently in production for a second season for TVNZ’s TV2, and Sundog Pictures’ Channel 4 factual commission Flatmates. Children’s content is in the mix with Blue Zoo’s preschool Nickelodeon series Olive the Ostrich, alongside DLT’s revamped 1980s gameshow format Talkabout.
Rayson said her alliance with DLT “will combine our strengths to build a diverse, innovative and original slate from the world’s best format creators and independent producers.”
The distribution exec left Target in October 2011, ahead of the company moving into administration after parent Metronome failed to find a buyer earlier this year.
Ed Waller
26-03-2013
©C21Media
SHOWS: Flatmates, Girl vs Boy, Olive the Ostrich, Our Girl, Reservoir Hill, Talkabout
PEOPLE: Alison Rayson
COMPANIES: DLT Entertainment, DLT/Raydar Rights, KHF Media, Sundog Pictures, Target Entertainment, TVNZ
