"Noddy" joins stable of properties already boasting "Postman Pat," "Lassie" and "Where's Waldo." By Stuart Kemp Noddy Car - H 2012 LONDON – U.S. group Classic Media has coralled rights to iconic ...

The British children’s rights company, whose kids’ properties include the Nick Jr show Olivia, is set to bid for Thomas the Tank Engine. The bidding process has yet to begin though. Apax Partners, the ...

Chorion, the media firm behind Toytown's Noddy, said yesterday it hoped to finalise a deal before the end of the year to add the Mr Men characters to its portfolio of children's icons. Chorion, which ...

The animated adventures of a six-and three-quarter-year-old pig called Olivia, who has inspired an unlikely quasi-feminist movement in the pre-school market, have helped media company Chorion report ...

After a £28m deal, UK intellectual property outfit Chorion has finally acquired the Mr Men kids characters, uniting Mr Tickle and the gang with the company’s existing characters Noddy and Big Ears.

Retooled British media company Chorion may have found the ideal corporate mascot in Olivia the Pig. Made popular in a series of children’s books, Olivia is set to become Chorion’s next major TV title ...

LONDON — Chorion, a U.K. rights outfit that exports children’s favorite “Noddy,” has forked out an undisclosed sum for the rights to author Raymond Chandler’s books including Los Angeles gumshoe ...

When Jon Scieszka and his editor at Simon & Schuster, Justin Chanda, first discussed the idea for Scieszka's preschool boys' brand, Trucktown, it included not only 52 books, but online games, social ...