BBC Studios Kids & Family strikes first look deal with Blink Industries
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BBC Studios Kids & Family has struck a first look deal with Blink Industries in a move that reinforces its commitment to working with the industry’s best creative partners.
It marks BBC Studios Kids & Family’s first first-look deal since it became part of content powerhouse, BBC Studios, in 2022.
L-R: Cecilia Persson (Managing Director BBC Studios Kids & Family), James Stevenson Bretton (Founder and Managing Partner at Blink Industries). Images provided by BBC
The creative partnership gives exclusive access to Blink Industries’ slate of animation and live action projects in a two year deal that will help supercharge the ambition of Kids & Family to grow its global reach and take content to new audiences.
Blink Industries is an Emmy, Annie and BAFTA award-winning UK development and production studio that specialises in an inventive, mixed media approach to the kids and family genre.
The company produced the animated rendition of the beloved classic tale Peter and the Wolf with BMG, featuring music and narration by Gavin Friday and artwork based on original illustrations by Bono, with BBC Studios Kids & Family as the distribution partner.
Blink’s slate also includes Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared, Dead End: Paranormal Park and The Grumpy King. As well as an impressive list of credits, Blink also has a 120-seat animation studio, a computer games division and a roster of home-grown talent.
We are really looking forward to working with Blink Industries. This is a strong partnership between two companies who share the same creative vision to develop authentic content aimed at kids and family audiences globally. Blink Industries is an innovative and exciting company with proven global appeal. Combined with the commercial and creative expertise of BBC Studios, we are sure this will be the beginning of a hugely successful collaboration.
-Cecilia Persson (Managing Director, BBC Studios Kids & Family)
BBC Studios Kids & Family will be taking the first projects from the partnership to market ahead of MIPCOM later this year.
We’re thrilled to be embarking on this adventure with BBC Studios Kids & Family. The alchemy of BBC Studios’ commercial and creative insights and knowledge, alongside our unique offering as an independent studio, will allow us to make some big waves in the kids and family space across animation and live action.
We house some of the most exciting creatives on the planet and being able to introduce our development process and production wizardry to an ever greater audience is an incredible opportunity. We have already diversified into areas such as gaming, licensing and publishing and BBC Studios’ enthusiasm for that growth is invigorating and will help us to expand our reach into even more ambitious IP and projects.
-James Stevenson Bretton (Founder and Managing Partner at Blink Industries)