Egmont wins rights to CBeebies hit

Written By: Caroline Horn Publication Date: Tue, 09/08/2011 - 09:05 Egmont has won the publishing contract for the latest preschool series to run on CBeebies, Baby Jake, which launched in July and which is expected to be the next big children’s hit. Baby Jake was developed by Darrall Macqueen and combines storytelling, live action and 2D photographic animation and is focused on two young siblings. Since launching on 4 July, Baby Jake has been a permanent fixture in the CBeebies iPlayer ‘Top Five’ and grew from 240,000 viewings in week one to a half a million viewings in week two. read more Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2011-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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