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| | '''WildBrain Ltd. '''(formerly known as '''DHX Media Ltd.''' until September 23, 2019)'''''' is a Canadian media production and distribution company that is the world's largest independent owner of children's and family entertainment, owning more than 13,000 half-hours of programming such as ''Peanuts, Teletubbies, Caillou, ''and ''Inspector Gadget''. |
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| '''WildBrain Ltd.''' (formerly '''DHX Media Ltd.''' until 2019) is a Canadian media production and distribution company founded in 2006 by Michael Donovan, and is headquartered in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The company was formed following the merger of two Canadian production companies, ''Decode Entertainment'' and ''Halifax Film Company''. | |
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| WildBrain is the world's largest independent owner of childrens' and family programming, with more than 13,000 half-hours in its library, including titles such as ''Peanuts'', ''Teletubbies'', ''Caillou'', ''Inspector Gadget'', and the first 15 seasons of {{Arthur}}. | | WildBrain was founded in 2006 as DHX Media following the merger of two Canadian entertainment companies, ''Decode Entertainment'' and ''Halifax Film Company,'' and is headquartered in Halifax, Nova Scotia. |
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| In late 2012, DHX Media acquired Cookie Jar Entertainment (formerly known as CINAR) <ref>https://www.wildbrain.com/trade-news/dhx-media-to-acquire-cookie-jar-entertainment-creating-the-worlds-largest-independent-library-of-childrens-entertainment-content/#</ref><ref>https://www.wildbrain.com/financial-news/dhx-media-closes-acquisition-of-cookie-jar-entertainment/</ref>, which co-produced and animated ''Arthur'' from 1996-2011. More information about Cookie Jar Entertainment (and its predecessor, CINAR Productions) can be found below. | | <nowiki> </nowiki>In 2012, DHX Media acquired (and folded) fellow Canadian company '''Cookie Jar Entertainment Inc.''' (formerly known as '''CINAR Productions Inc.''' from the company's founding in 1976 until 2004), which was located in Toronto, Ontario (previously Montreal, Quebec as CINAR). They co-produced and animated {{Arthur}} from 1996 until 2011, when [[9 Story Media Group]] took over. They made seasons 1-8 from 1996-2003 as CINAR and seasons 9-15 from 2004-2011 as Cookie Jar Entertainment. |
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| ==CINAR/Cookie Jar Entertainment History==
| | As of 2019, WildBrain no longer lists Arthur on their website or distribution catalogue. |
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| '''Cookie Jar Entertainment Inc.''' (formerly known as '''CINAR Productions Inc.''') was a Canadian media production and distribution company originally founded in 1976 by Micheline Charest and Ronald A. Weinberg. The company started out in New York City, New York, USA as a distribution company, but later moved operations to Montreal, Quebec, Canada in the mid-1980s, where they also became a media production company.
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| CINAR produced several childrens' series from the late 1980s to the early 2000s. Some of their most notable works include ''The Busy World of Richard Scarry'', ''Wimzie's House'', ''Caillou'', ''Zoboomafoo'', and seasons 1-8 of ''Arthur''.
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| In early 2004, following a 1999 tax scandal, CINAR was bought by Birch Hill Equity Partners and industry veteran Michael Hirsh.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20130915201949/http://www.cjar.com/press/cj_press_20040325.php</ref> The company rebranded as Cookie Jar Entertainment and relocated operations to Toronto, Ontario, Canada shortly thereafter.
| | == External Links == |
| | | WildBrain's official website: [https://www.dhxmedia.com{{DEFAULTSORT:WildBrain}} https://www.wildbrain.com] |
| As Cookie Jar, the company continued to make several childrens' series, including ''Caillou'', ''Johnny Test'', ''Will and Dewitt'', ''Hurray for Huckle!'', and seasons 9-15 of ''Arthur''.
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| In September 2011, it was announced that [[9 Story Media Group]] would take over co-producing, animating, and distributing new seasons of ''Arthur'' starting with season 16, with Cookie Jar continuing to distribute the previous 15 seasons.<ref>https://9story.com/9-story-entertainment-becomes-co-producer-distributor-new-season-internationally-popular-wgbh-childrens-series-arthur/</ref> After Cookie Jar was acquired by DHX Media in late 2012, distribution rights to the first 15 seasons of ''Arthur'' were transferred from Cookie Jar to DHX Media.
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| ==External Links== | |
| *WildBrain's official website: https://www.wildbrain.com
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| *CINAR's website on the Wayback Machine (2001 Archive): https://web.archive.org/web/20010603121901/http://www.cinar.com:80/index.html
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| ==References==
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| [[Category:Production]] | | [[Category:Production]] |
| [[Category:A to Z]] | | [[Category:A to Z]] |