The year’s best work in children’s television is singled out and celebrated by the global kids’ entertainment industry at Kidscreen Summit in New York.
NEW YORK – At an ceremony hosted by The Daily Show‘s Samantha Bee, the year’s best work in children’s television was singled out and celebrated by the global kids’ entertainment industry at Kidscreen Summit in New York.
Determined by two panels of broadcast executive judges, awards in the Programming and Creative Talent categories were given to the following entries:
PROGRAMMING—PRESCHOOL CATEGORY
Best Animated Series 2013 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood The Fred Rogers Company/9 Story Entertainment/Out of the Blue Enterprises
Best Non-Animated or Mixed Series 2013 Yo Gabba Gabba! DHX Media
Best One-Off, Special or TV Movie 2013 Driver Dan’s Story Train 3 Line Media, in association with TwoFour54 Abu Dhabi
Best Companion Website 2013 Dinosaur Train The Jim Henson Company
PROGRAMMING—KIDS CATEGORY
Best Animated Series 2013 The Amazing World of Gumball Cartoon Network Studio Europe
Best Non-Animated or Mixed Series 2013 4 O’Clock Club CBBC In-House
Best One-Off, Special or TV Movie 2013 The Jungle Bunch—Back to the Ice Floe TAT Productions/Master Films/Vanilla Seed
Best Companion Website 2013 Wild Kratts Kratts Brothers Company/9 Story Entertainment
PROGRAMMING—TWEENS/TEENS CATEGORY
Best Animated Series 2013 Bob’s Burgers Bento Box Entertainment/20th Century Fox Television
Best Non-Animated or Mixed Series 2013 In Real Life 3 Apartment 11 Productions/YTV
Best One-Off, Special or TV Movie 2013 Cyberbully Muse Entertainment
Best Companion Website 2013 Dance Academy Werner Film Productions/Hoodlum/ABC/ZDF/ZDFE/ACTF
CREATIVE TALENT CATEGORY
Best Design 2013 The Adventures of Figaro Pho Chocolate Liberation Front/Ambience Entertainment
Best Acting 2013 Up and Away: A Newsround Special CBBC In-House
Best Writing 2013 Big and Small Kindle Entertainment
Best Animation 2013 The Adventures of Figaro Pho Chocolate Liberation Front/Ambience Entertainment
Best Directing 2013 Cyberbully Muse Entertainment
Best Music 2013 Yo Gabba Gabba! DHX Media
Best Voice Talent 2013 Sesame Street Sesame Workshop
The Kidscreen Awards also includes a category designed to spotlight the best efforts made by broadcasters to forge stronger connections with kids and family audiences around the world. These winners were determined by a Kidscreen readership online vote that took place in December.
BROADCASTING CATEGORY
Channel of the Year 2013
Cartoon Network
Best Channel Design 2013
Cartoon Network
Best Channel Website 2013
PBS Kids www.pbskids.org
Best On-Air Host or Hosting Team 2013
Sprout The Sunny Side Up Show Hosting Team
Best Integrated Promotion 2013
PBS Kids Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood Launch
Best Interstitial Campaign 2013
Cartoon Network Adventure Time Music Video
Source: Kidscreen
Formerly Editor-in-Chief of Animation World Network, Jennifer Wolfe has worked in the Media & Entertainment industry as a writer and PR professional since 2003.
