Entertainment Rights facts for kids

Quick facts for kids
Entertainment Rights

Former type	Public
Industry	Global media company
Fate	Absorbed into Classic Media
Successor	DreamWorks Classics
Founded	March 21, 1989; 35 years ago (1989-03-21)
Defunct	May 8, 2009; 15 years ago (2009-05-08)
Headquarters	London, England , United Kingdom
Products	Children and family television programming

Entertainment Rights was a media company with international business in the production and sales of children's and family television programming. The business entity was first founded in 1989 as "Sleepy Kids". In 1999, the company was renamed "Entertainment Rights".

List of licensed programmes and acquisitions

Banksia Productions

• The Curiosity Show
• Hot Science
• Kids Down Under
• The Music Shop

Cosgrove Hall

• Discworld (co-produced with Channel 4, Carrington Productions International, Egmont Imagination and ITEL)
• Lavender Castle (co-produced with Carrington Productions International)
• Postman Pat (2003-2009)
• Postman Pat and the Greendale Rocket
• Postman Pat and the Pirate Treasure
• Postman Pat Clowns Around
• Postman Pat's Magic Christmas
• Rupert Bear, Follow the Magic...

Filmation

• For a full list of shows, films, shorts and specials, see List of works produced by Filmation.

Hibbert Ralph Entertainment

• The First Snow of Winter (co-produced with Link Entertainment and BBC)
• The Forgotten Toys (both the TV series and the special; co-produced with United Productions, Meridian Broadcasting and Link Entertainment)
• The Second Star to the Left: A Christmas Tale (co-produced with BBC)
• Spider! (later sold to Evergreen Entertainment)

Link Entertainment

• Animal Antics
• Barney (co-produced with Barney Entertainments Ltd)
• Bill the Minder (produced by Bevanfield Films)
• Bug Alert
• Chatterhappy Ponies
• Christopher Crocodile (co-produced with Mixpix and BBC)
• Deep Sea Dick
• Fairy Tales (produced by Bevanfield Films)
• Ethelbert the Tiger (co-produced with Millimages)
• Eye of the Storm (co-produced with Meridian Broadcasting and Pater Tabern)
• Grabbit the Rabbit
• Hamilton Mattress
• Jack and Marcel
• Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories (produced by Bevanfield Films)
• Monster TV (co-produced with BBC)
• The Morph Files (co-produced with Aardman Animations)
• Orm and Cheep
• Pirates (co-produced with Childsplay Ltd and BBC)
• Preston Pig (co-produced with Varga London)
• Siyabonga
• Tales of a Wise King
• The Slow Norris (co-produced with HTV)
• The Spooks of Bottle Bay (co-produced with Fugitive/Playboard Puppets and Carlton Television)
• The Treacle People (co-produced with Fire Mountain Productions)
• Teddybears (co-produced with United Productions)
• There's A Viking In My Bed (co-produced with BBC)
• Tiny (co-produced with Martin Gates Productions)
• Jane Speakman's Tiny Tales

Martin Gates Productions

• Molly's Gang

Little Entertainment Company

• Little Red Tractor
• Merlin the Magical Puppy
• Little Monsters

Maddocks Animation

• Caribou Kitchen
• The Family-Ness
• Jimbo and the Jet Set
• Penny Crayon

Siriol Productions Ltd

• The Blobs
• Hilltop Hospital
• Romuald the Reindeer
• Hurricanes

Queensgate Productions

• Stoppit and Tidyup (co-produced with CMTB Animation)
• The Trap Door (co-produced with CMTB Animation)

Carrington Productions International

• The Snow Queen
• The Snow Queen's Revenge
• Friendly Monsters
• Jack and the Beanstalk
• The Ugly Duckling

Sleepy Kids

• Dr. Zitbag's Transylvania Pet Shop (co-produced with Fairwater Films, PMMP Productions and Watch It!)
• Budgie the Little Helicopter (co-produced with HTV and Fred Wolf Films)
• Potsworth & Co. (co-produced with Hanna-Barbera and BBC)

Tell-Tale Productions

• BB3B
• Boo! (co-produced with Universal Pictures and BBC)
• Fun Song Factory (2004 series only)
• Fun Song Factory

Transformers

• Transformers: Animated (co-produced with Hasbro, Takara Tomy, The Answer Studio, MOOK DLE, Studio 4°C and Cartoon Network Studios)
• Transformers: Armada (co-produced with Hasbro, Takara Tomy, Æon, Dangun Pictures, Hangzhou Feilong Animation Ltd, M.S.J. Musashino-Seisakujo, Paramount Domestic Television and SD Entertainment)
• Transformers: Cybertron (co-produced with Hasbro, Takara Tomy, We've Inc, TV Aichi, GONZO, Sun Woo Entertainment and Voicebox Productions)
• Transformers: Energon (co-produced with Hasbro, Takara Tomy, We've Inc, ACTAS, Inc., A-CAT, Studio Galapagos and TV Tokyo)

Trumptonshire

• Camberwick Green (co-produced with BBC)
• Chigley (co-produced with BBC)
• Trumpton (co-produced with BBC)

Woodland Animations

• For a full list of shows and details, see Woodland Animations.

Miscellaneous

• Cubeez (co-produced with Cubeez Ltd. and Optical Image Broadcast for GMTV)
• The Story of Tracy Beaker (2002–2005; co-produced with BBC)
• Short Cuts (2002-2003; co-produced with Burberry Productions)
• Custer's Last Stand-up (co-produced with BBC and RTÉ)
• Dr Otter (co-produced with Red Balloon Productions)
• Finley the Fire Engine (co-produced with RHI Entertainment)
• Inuk (co-produced with Tube Studios)
• Katie and Orbie (2001-2002; co-produced with Amberwood Entertainment)
• Finger Tips (2001-2004; co-produced with The Foundation)
• The Little Lulu Show (2005-2009; co-produced with the Cookie Jar Group and BBC)
• The New Adventures of He-Man (co-produced with Jetlag Productions)
• Titch (co-produced with Hutchins Film Company and Yorkshire Television)
• The Basil Brush Show (2002–2007; co-produced with BBC and The Foundation)

Distribution rights

Transformers

• Transformers: Armada (co-produced with Hasbro, Takara Tomy, Æon, Dangun Pictures, Hangzhou Feilong Animation Ltd, M.S.J. Musashino-Seisakujo, Paramount Domestic Television and SD Entertainment)
• Transformers: Energon (co-produced with Hasbro, Takara Tomy, We've Inc, ACTAS, Inc., A-CAT, Studio Galapagos and TV Tokyo)
• Transformers: Cybertron (co-produced with Hasbro, Takara Tomy, We've Inc, TV Aichi, GONZO, Sun Woo Entertainment and Voice Box Productions)
• Transformers Animated (co-produced with Hasbro, Takara Tomy, The Answer Studio, MOOK DLE, Studio 4°C and Cartoon Network Studios)