Classic Media, LLC, is an American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 production company

Production company

A production company provides the physical basis for works in the realms of the performing arts, new media art, film, television, radio, and video.- Tasks and functions :...

 and distributor of family programming. It was founded in 2000 by former Marvel Entertainment

Marvel Entertainment

Marvel Entertainment, LLC , formerly Marvel Enterprises and Toy Biz, Inc., is an American entertainment company formed from the merger of Marvel Entertainment Group, Inc. and Toy Biz, Inc....

 CEO Eric Ellenbogen

Eric Ellenbogen

Eric Ellenbogen in an American entertainment executive.In 1987, Ellenbogen became head of Broadway Video. At Golden Books Family Entertainment in 1996, Eric was president. Ellenbogen was appointed CEO and president of Marvel Enterprises in November 1998 and served until July 1999.Together with...

 and former Broadway Video

Broadway Video

Broadway Video is a media production and distribution company located within the Brill Building on Broadway, New York, United States. Founded in 1979 as a production house tasked with post-production work on Saturday Night Live, Broadway Video has since become one of the largest independent...

 executive John Engelman in hopes of acquiring mismanaged classic properties and giving exposure to them.

Their library consists of properties which they acquired from other companies, including United Productions of America

United Productions of America

United Productions of America, better known as UPA, was an American animation studio of the 1940s through present day, beginning with industrial films and World War II training films. In the late 1940s, UPA produced theatrical shorts for Columbia Pictures, most notably the Mr. Magoo series. In...

, Harvey Entertainment, Golden Books Family Entertainment, Big Idea Entertainment

Big Idea Entertainment

Big Idea Entertainment, LLC. is an American Christian animation production company best known for its computer-animated VeggieTales series of Christian-themed family home videos...

, and Entertainment Rights

Entertainment Rights

Entertainment Rights Plc was a global media company. Its main role was in children and family television programming.The group was established in 1989 as Sleepykids. In 1999 it become entertainment rights and was focused on the creation and exploitation of major children's characters and brands...

.

History

In May 2000, Ellenbogen and Engelman launch Classic Media

Classic Media

Classic Media, LLC, is an American production company and distributor of family programming. It was founded in 2000 by former Marvel Entertainment CEO Eric Ellenbogen and former Broadway Video executive John Engelman in hopes of acquiring mismanaged classic properties and giving exposure to...

 with funding from Pegasus Capital Advisors

Pegasus Capital Advisors

Pegasus Capital Advisors L.P. is a private equity investment firm founded in 1995 by former co-founder of Apollo Management and Drexel Burnham Lambert lawyer, Craig Cogut. Cogut is a Managing Partner at Pegasus Capital Advisors, L.P...

, Frank Biondi

Frank Biondi

Frank J. Biondi, Jr. is an American businessman.He was born in New York City to Frank Biondi, Sr. and Virginia Willis, and was raised in Livingston, New Jersey. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University and an Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School...

's Waterview Partners and the Tisch family. Classic acquired a number of companies for their media properties including UPA

United Productions of America

United Productions of America, better known as UPA, was an American animation studio of the 1940s through present day, beginning with industrial films and World War II training films. In the late 1940s, UPA produced theatrical shorts for Columbia Pictures, most notably the Mr. Magoo series. In...

 and Harvey Entertainment

Harvey Comics

Harvey Comics was an American comic book publisher, founded in New York City by Alfred Harvey in 1941, after buying out the small publisher Brookwood Publications. His brothers Robert B...

  With Random House

Random House

Random House, Inc. is the largest general-interest trade book publisher in the world. It has been owned since 1998 by the German private media corporation Bertelsmann and has become the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing. Random House also has a movie production arm, Random House Films,...

 in 2001, Classic Media wins a bankruptcy court auction for the assets of Golden Books Family Entertainment including the assumption the debt with Random House receiving all the publishing properties and Classic its entertainment division. In 2002, the company teamed up with the estate of Jay Ward

Jay Ward

J Troplong "Jay" Ward was an American creator and producer of animated television cartoons. He produced animated series based on such characters as Crusader Rabbit, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Dudley Do-Right, Peabody and Sherman, Hoppity Hooper, George of the Jungle, Tom Slick, and Super Chicken...

 to create a joint venture called Bullwinkle Studios, which manages all rights to the Jay Ward Productions

Jay Ward Productions

Jay Ward Productions was an Amercian animated television cartoon series production company, founded in 1949 by American animator Jay Ward. It made extensive use of limited animation techniques....

 animated catalog (with Classic Media owning an 80% stake and the Ward estate owning 20%). In 2003, Classic Media purchased the assets of the bankrupt Big Idea Productions.

In 2005, the company was recapitalized by an investment group led by Spectrum Equity Investors

Spectrum Equity Investors

Spectrum Equity Investors is a Boston-based private equity and venture capital firm founded in 1994. The firm focuses on business services, entertainment, communications, information services, media, and related growth sectors. The firm currently has a capital base of approximately $4.7 billion...

 and existing partner Pegasus Capital Advisors. This investment group also included Random House Ventures, a private equity subsidiary of Random House which is now known as Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI). In 2006, Classic Media teamed up with ION Media Networks

ION Media Networks

ION Media Networks is an American television broadcasting company that owns and operates over 60 television stations in most major American markets. It is now a privately owned company.-History:...

, NBCUniversal, Corus Entertainment

Corus Entertainment

Corus Entertainment Inc. is a publicly traded Canadian media and entertainment conglomerate.Corus is a leading Canadian specialty television and radio producer, with additional assets in pay television, advertising services, television broadcasting, children's book publishing and children's...

, and Scholastic Corporation in a joint venture to launch qubo

Qubo

Qubo is a multi-platform children's television specialty channel endeavor operated as a joint venture between ION Media Networks, NBCUniversal, Nelvana, Scholastic Corporation, and Classic Media...

, a general kids and family entertainment network.

On December 14, 2006, it was announced that Classic Media (CM) would be acquired by UK-based rival Entertainment Rights

Entertainment Rights

Entertainment Rights Plc was a global media company. Its main role was in children and family television programming.The group was established in 1989 as Sleepykids. In 1999 it become entertainment rights and was focused on the creation and exploitation of major children's characters and brands...

 (ER) for $210.0 million, and the deal was completed on January 11, 2007. Before the acquisition of CM by ER was completed, both companies announced distribution and production agreements with Genius Products

Genius Products

Genius Products was an entertainment company based in Santa Monica, California, United States.On December 5, 2005, Genius Products, Inc. announced a distribution joint venture with The Weinstein Company called Genius Products, LLC, with Weinstein holding a 70% stake...

, LLC, replacing the deal with Sony Wonder

Sony Wonder

Sony Wonder is a children and family's music and home video arm of Sony Music Entertainment, founded in 1991. The division once distributed material from Sesame Workshop and Classic Media...

.

On April 1, 2009, it was announced that Boomerang Media

Boomerang Media

Boomerang Media, L.L.C. is an American media company founded by John Engelman and Eric Ellenbogen and the private equity firm GTCR in 2008...

, LLC would acquire Entertainment Rights' principal U.K. and U.S. subsidiaries, including Classic Media, Inc. and Big Idea, Inc. On May 11, 2009, CM announced that the former U.K. and U.S. subsidiaries of ER would operate as a unified business under the new parent company's name, Classic Media. Big Idea, Inc. would operate under its own name.

Holdings

• The catalogues and characters of Entertainment Rights
  Entertainment Rights
  Entertainment Rights Plc was a global media company. Its main role was in children and family television programming.The group was established in 1989 as Sleepykids. In 1999 it become entertainment rights and was focused on the creation and exploitation of major children's characters and brands...
  
   (including Postman Pat
  Postman Pat
  Postman Pat is a British stop-motion animated children's television series first produced by Woodland Animations. It is aimed at pre-school children, and concerns the adventures of Pat Clifton, a postman in the fictional village of Greendale .Postman Pat's first 13-episode season was screened on...
  
  and Basil Brush
  Basil Brush
  Basil Brush is a fictional anthropomorphic fox raconteur, best known for his appearances on daytime British children's television. He is primarily portrayed by a glove puppet, but has also been depicted in animated cartoon shorts and comic strips...
  
  )
• Where's Waldo?, known internationally as Where's Wally?
  Where's Wally?
  Where's Wally?, published in the United States and Canada as Where's Waldo?, is a series of children's books created by British illustrator Martin Handford. The books consist of a series of detailed double-page spread illustrations depicting dozens or more people doing a variety of amusing things...
  
  (but not the TV show
  Where's Waldo? (TV series)
  Where's Wally?: The Animated Series was a joint venture between American/Canadian/British animated television series productions, distributed by DiC Entertainment and The Waldo Film Company...
  
  ¹)
• Rankin/Bass
  Rankin/Bass
  Rankin/Bass Productions, Inc. , also known as Rankin/Bass Animated Entertainment, was an American production company, known for its seasonal television specials, particularly its work in stop-motion animation. The pre-1974 library is currently owned by Classic Media,while the post-1974 library is...
  
  's pre-1974 library (Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
  Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
  Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer is a fictional reindeer with a glowing red nose. He is popularly known as "Santa's 9th Reindeer" and, when depicted, is the lead reindeer pulling Santa's sleigh on Christmas Eve. The luminosity of his nose is so great that it illuminates the team's path through...
  
  , Frosty the Snowman
  Frosty the Snowman
  "Frosty the Snowman" is a popular song written by Walter "Jack" Rollins and Steve Nelson, and first recorded by Gene Autry and the Cass County Boys in 1950. It was written after the success of Autry's recording of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" the previous year; Rollins and Nelson shipped the...
  
  , etc.), with a few exceptions²
• The Filmation
  Filmation
  Filmation Associates was an American production company that produced animation and live action programming for television during the latter half of the 20th century. Located in Reseda, California, the animation studio was founded in 1963...
  
   catalog (He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
  He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
  He-Man and the Masters of the Universe is an American animated television series produced by Filmation based on Mattel's successful toy line Masters of the Universe...
  
  , Ghostbusters
  Ghostbusters (1986 TV series)
  Ghostbusters was an animated television series created by Filmation and distributed by Tribune Broadcasting and launched following the success of Ivan Reitman and Columbia Pictures' 1984 film Ghostbusters. It ran from September 8 to December 5, 1986 in daytime syndication and produced 65 episodes...
  
  , Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
  Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
  Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids is an animated series created, produced, and hosted by comedian Bill Cosby, who also lent his voice to a number of characters, including Fat Albert himself. Filmation was the production company for the series. The show premiered in 1972 and ran until 1985...
  
  , etc.), excepting those series based on licensed properties
• The Jack Wrather
  Jack Wrather
  John Devereaux "Jack" Wrather, Jr. , was a petroleum millionaire who became a television producer and later diversified by investing in broadcast stations and resort properties...
  
   catalog (The Lone Ranger
  The Lone Ranger (TV Series)
  The Lone Ranger is an American western television series starring Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels as Tonto. The live-action series initially featured Gerald Mohr as the episode narrator...
  
  , Lassie
  Lassie (1954 TV series)
  Lassie is an American television series that follows the adventures of a female Rough Collie named Lassie and her companions, human and animal. The show was the creation of producer Robert Maxwell and animal trainer Rudd Weatherwax and was televised from September 12, 1954, to March 24, 1973...
  
  , Sgt. Preston of the Yukon)
• The Harvey Comics
  Harvey Comics
  Harvey Comics was an American comic book publisher, founded in New York City by Alfred Harvey in 1941, after buying out the small publisher Brookwood Publications. His brothers Robert B...
  
   catalog (Casper the Friendly Ghost
  Casper the Friendly Ghost
  Casper the Friendly Ghost is the protagonist of the Famous Studios theatrical animated cartoon series of the same name. As his name indicates, he is a ghost, but is quite personable...
  
  ³, Richie Rich³, Baby Huey
  Baby Huey
  Baby Huey is a gigantic and naïve duckling cartoon character. He was created by Martin Taras for Paramount Pictures' Famous Studios, and became a Paramount cartoon star during the 1950s. Although created by Famous for its animated cartoons, Huey first appeared in comic-book form in an original...
  
  , etc.)
• The non-theatrical rights to Famous Studios
  Famous Studios
  Famous Studios was the animation division of the film studio Paramount Pictures from 1942 to 1967. Famous was founded as a successor company to Fleischer Studios, after Paramount acquired the aforementioned studio and ousted its founders, Max and Dave Fleischer, in 1941...
  
  ' non-Popeye
  Popeye
  Popeye the Sailor is a cartoon fictional character created by Elzie Crisler Segar, who has appeared in comic strips and animated cartoons in the cinema as well as on television. He first appeared in the daily King Features comic strip Thimble Theatre on January 17, 1929...
  
  cartoons from October 1950 to March 1962, except the 1961 Noveltoon Alvin's Solo Flight, starring Little Lulu
  Little Lulu
  "Little Lulu" is the nickname for Lulu Moppett, a comic strip character created in the mid-1930s by Marjorie Henderson Buell. The character debuted in The Saturday Evening Post on February 23, 1935 in a single panel, appearing as a flower girl at a wedding and strewing the aisle with banana peels...
  
  
• The Jay Ward Productions
  Jay Ward Productions
  Jay Ward Productions was an Amercian animated television cartoon series production company, founded in 1949 by American animator Jay Ward. It made extensive use of limited animation techniques....
  
   catalog⁴ (Rocky and Bullwinkle, George of the Jungle
  George of the Jungle
  George of the Jungle was an American animated series produced by Jay Ward and Bill Scott, who created The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. The character George was inspired by the legend of Tarzan. It ran for 17 episodes on Saturday mornings from September 9 to December 30, 1967, on the American TV...
  
  , The Dudley Do-Right Show, etc.)
• The Total Television
  Total Television
  Total Television was an American animation studio responsible for many well known American Saturday Morning cartoon television animated series.-History:...
  
   catalog (Underdog⁴, Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales
  Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales
  Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales is a popular, semi-educational animated cartoon TV series that originally aired on CBS from 1963 to 1966. It was produced by Total Television, the same company that produced the earlier King Leonardo and the later Underdog, and primarily sponsored by General Mills...
  
  , ect.)
• The claymation animator Art Clokey
  Art Clokey
  Arthur "Art" Clokey was a pioneer in the popularization of stop motion clay animation, beginning in 1955 with a film experiment called Gumbasia, influenced by his professor, Slavko Vorkapich, at the University of Southern California.After the Gumbasia project, Art Clokey and his wife Ruth came up...
  
  's Gumby
  Gumby
  Gumby is a green clay humanoid character created and modeled by Art Clokey, who also created Davey and Goliath. Gumby has been the subject of a 233-episode series of American television as well as a feature-length film and other media...
  
  franchise⁵
• Felix the Cat
  Felix the Cat
  Felix the Cat is a cartoon character created in the silent film era. His black body, white eyes, and giant grin, coupled with the surrealism of the situations in which his cartoons place him, combine to make Felix one of the most recognized cartoon characters in film history...
  
  
• The Trans-Lux
  Trans-Lux
  Trans-Lux is a world leader in designing, selling, renting, installing and maintaining multi-color, real-time data and LED large-screen electronic information displays, but is primarily known as a major supplier of national stock ticker display devices for stock exchanges...
  
  /Adventure Cartoon Productions
  Adventure Cartoon Productions
  Adventure Cartoon Productions was a television production studio that created the cartoon series The Mighty Hercules and Felix the Cat in association with Trans-Lux Television for broadcast from 1963 to 1966. The company worked from the cartoon division of Paramount Pictures, utilizing music...
  
   catalog (Felix the Cat
  Felix the Cat (TV series)
  Felix the Cat was the first television series featuring the famous cartoon character Felix the Cat.In 1954 Otto Messmer retired from the Felix daily newspaper strips, and his assistant Joe Oriolo took over. Oriolo struck a deal with Felix's new owner to begin a new series of Felix cartoons on...
  
  cartoons from the 1950s and 1960s, The Mighty Hercules
  The Mighty Hercules
  The Mighty Hercules was an animated series based loosely on the Greek mythological character of Heracles, under his Roman Mythology name, Hercules. It was created in 1962 and then debuted on TV in 1963 and ran until 1966 coinciding with the sword and sandal genre of films popular at the...
  
  )
• US rights to the French
  France
  The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
  
  -Belgian comics catalog (The Adventures of Tintin
  The Adventures of Tintin
  The Adventures of Tintin is a series of classic comic books created by Belgian artist , who wrote under the pen name of Hergé...
  
  and Blake and Mortimer
  Blake and Mortimer
  Blake and Mortimer is a Belgian comics series created by the Belgian writer and comics artist Edgar P. Jacobs. It was one of the first series to appear in the Belgian comics magazine Tintin in 1946, and was subsequently published in book form by Les Editions du Lombard.The main protagonists of the...
  
  )
• Roger Ramjet
  Roger Ramjet
  Roger Ramjet is an animated American children's television comedy series that first ran in 1965 and has aired in syndication since. Starring Roger Ramjet and the American Eagle Squadron, the show was known for its crude animation, frenetic pace, and frequent references to popular culture, which...
  
  
• UPA
  United Productions of America
  United Productions of America, better known as UPA, was an American animation studio of the 1940s through present day, beginning with industrial films and World War II training films. In the late 1940s, UPA produced theatrical shorts for Columbia Pictures, most notably the Mr. Magoo series. In...
  
  's animated TV catalog (Mr. Magoo
  Mr. Magoo
  Quincy Magoo is a cartoon character created at the UPA animation studio in 1949. Voiced by Jim Backus, Quincy Magoo is a wealthy, short-statured retiree who gets into a series of sticky situations as a result of his nearsightedness, compounded by his stubborn refusal to admit the problem...
  
  , Gerald McBoing-Boing
  Gerald McBoing-Boing
  Gerald McBoing-Boing is an animated short film produced by United Productions of America and given wide release by Columbia Pictures on November 2, 1950...
  
  , etc.)
• Gerald McBoing-Boing (the 2005 edition co-produced with Cookie Jar)
• Theodore Tugboat
  Theodore Tugboat
  Theodore Tugboat is a Canadian children's television series about a tugboat named Theodore who lives in the Big Harbour with all of his friends. The show was produced in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada by the CBC , and the now defunct Cochran Entertainment, and was filmed on a model set using radio...
  
  
• Shari Lewis
  Shari Lewis
  Shari Lewis was an American ventriloquist, puppeteer, and children's television show host, most popular during the 1960s and 1990s...
  
  ' two PBS
  Public Broadcasting Service
  The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....
  
   series (Lamb Chop's Play Along, and Charlie Horse Music Pizza
  Charlie Horse Music Pizza
  Charlie Horse Music Pizza is a children's television show that was shown on PBS in the United States from January to May 1998. Re-runs aired until late 1999. It is a spin-off of the series Lamb Chop's Play Along, and features the original cast from that show, including host Shari Lewis.The show...
  
  )
• Golden Books Family Entertainment's Entertainment Division: the movie, TV and home video libraries, and the production, licensing, and merchandising rights for Golden's characters
  • Little Golden Books
    Little Golden Books
    Little Golden Books is a popular series of children's books. The first 12 titles were published on October 1, 1942:#Three Little Kittens#Bedtime Stories#Mother Goose#Prayers for Children#The Little Red Hen#Nursery Songs...
    
     characters (The Poky Little Puppy
    The Poky Little Puppy
    The Poky Little Puppy is a children's book written by Texas author Janette Sebring Lowrey and illustrated by Gustaf Tenggren. It was first published in 1942 as one of the first 12 books in the Simon and Schuster series Little Golden Books...
    
    , Pat the Bunny
    Pat the Bunny
    Pat the Bunny is a "touch and feel" book for small children and babies and has been a perennial best-seller in the U.S. since its publication in 1940...
    
    , etc.)
  • Gold Key Comics
    Gold Key Comics
    Gold Key Comics was an imprint of Western Publishing created for comic books distributed to newsstands. Also known as Whitman Comics, Gold Key operated from 1962 to 1984.-History:...
    
     characters - Magnus, Robot Fighter
    Magnus, Robot Fighter
    Magnus, Robot Fighter is a fictional comic book superhero created by writer/artist Russ Manning in 1963, based primarily on Tarzan. Magnus first appeared in Magnus Robot Fighter 4000 A.D. #1, published by Gold Key Comics in February 1963...
    
    , Doctor Solar
    Solar (comics)
    Solar is an American fictional comic book character. Originally known as Doctor Solar, Man of the Atom, he first appeared in a comic book published by Gold Key Comics in the 1960s. He has since appeared in other incarnations in books published by Valiant Comics in the 1990s, and Dark Horse Comics...
    
     and Turok, Son of Stone
    Turok
    Turok is a fictional American comic book character initially in comics from Western Publishing published through licensee Dell Comics. He first appeared in Four Color Comics #596 , then graduated to his own title, Turok, Son of Stone...
    
    
  • Little Lulu
    Little Lulu
    "Little Lulu" is the nickname for Lulu Moppett, a comic strip character created in the mid-1930s by Marjorie Henderson Buell. The character debuted in The Saturday Evening Post on February 23, 1935 in a single panel, appearing as a flower girl at a wedding and strewing the aisle with banana peels...
    
    ⁶
• Ancillary rights to Tribune Media Services
  Tribune Media Services
  Tribune Media Services is a syndication company owned by the Tribune Company.The company has two divisions, "News and Features" and "Entertainment Products"...
  
  ' comic strip properties (Dick Tracy
  Dick Tracy
  Dick Tracy is a comic strip featuring Dick Tracy, a hard-hitting, fast-shooting and intelligent police detective. Created by Chester Gould, the strip made its debut on October 4, 1931, in the Detroit Mirror. It was distributed by the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate...
  
  , Brenda Starr
  Brenda Starr
  Brenda Starr may refer to:* Brenda Starr, Reporter, a comic strip about a female reporter* Brenda Starr, a 1989 film based on the comic strip* Brenda Starr, Reporter, a 1945 film serial based on the comic strip...
  
  , Gasoline Alley
  Gasoline Alley
  Gasoline Alley is a comic strip created by Frank King and currently distributed by Tribune Media Services. First published November 24, 1918, it is the second longest running comic strip in the US and has received critical accolades for its influential innovations...
  
  , Broom Hilda, etc.), in co-license with Tribune Media Services
• US rights to certain Godzilla films, including the Godzilla segments of The Godzilla Power Hour
  The Godzilla Power Hour
  Godzilla is a 30-minute animated series co-produced between Hanna-Barbera Productions and Toho in 1978 and aired on NBC in the US and TV Tokyo in Japan.The series is an animated adaptation of the Japanese Godzilla films produced by Toho...
  
  
• Ancillary rights to World Events Productions
  World Events Productions
  World Events Productions is an American-based animation and distribution company in St. Louis, Missouri, best known for releasing the anime titles Voltron, Defender of the Universe and Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs, as well as producing the original animated series Denver, the Last...
  
  ' library (Voltron, Defender of the Universe
  Voltron
  Voltron is the titular super robot of an anime series that features a team of young pilots, known as the Voltron Force. The team’s individual vehicles join together to form the giant super robot, with which they defend the galaxy from evil...
  
  , Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs
  Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs
  Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs is a 1987 animated space western following a similar theme as Galaxy Rangers and Bravestarr. Originally a 1984 anime series known as created by Studio Pierrot, it achieved moderate success in Japan...
  
  , etc.)
• Shorts from Bevanfield Films, Ivor Wood
  Ivor Wood
  Ivor Wood was a prolific Anglo-French stop motion director, producer, animator and writer known for his work on children's television series....
  
  , Peter Maddocks
  Peter Maddocks
  Peter Maddocks, born in Birmingham on 1 April 1928, is a noted British cartoonist. In 1939 he won a scholarship to the Moseley School of Art in Birmingham....
  
   and Charles Mills & Terry Brain
• Big Idea
  Big Idea
  Big Idea may refer to:* Big Idea Entertainment, an American Christian computer animation production company best known for "Veggie Tales" videos.* The Big Idea, a Scottish museum* The Big Idea , a 1917 short comedy film...
  
  , Christian animated producer and the makers of VeggieTales
  VeggieTales
  VeggieTales is an American series of children's computer animated films featuring anthropomorphic vegetables in stories conveying moral themes based on Christianity...
  
  

See also

• qubo
  Qubo
  Qubo is a multi-platform children's television specialty channel endeavor operated as a joint venture between ION Media Networks, NBCUniversal, Nelvana, Scholastic Corporation, and Classic Media...
  
   (co-ownership with ION Media Networks
  ION Media Networks
  ION Media Networks is an American television broadcasting company that owns and operates over 60 television stations in most major American markets. It is now a privately owned company.-History:...
  
  , NBCUniversal, Nelvana
  Nelvana
  Nelvana Limited is a Canadian entertainment company founded in 1971 known for its work in children's animation. It was named by founders Michael Hirsh, Patrick Loubert and Clive A. Smith after a Canadian comic book superheroine created by Adrian Dingle in the 1940s...
  
  , and Scholastic Corporation)
• PBJ
  PBJ (TV channel)
  PBJ is a United States children's television network operated as a joint venture between Luken Communications and Classic Media. PBJ began programming in late summer 2011 and currently has two broadcast affiliates. The network does not yet have a website....
  
   (upcoming network, co-ownership with Luken Communications
  Retro Television Network
  The Retro Television Network is a system of television stations that airs classic television shows as well as more recently produced programs...
  
  )
• Big Idea
  Big Idea
  Big Idea may refer to:* Big Idea Entertainment, an American Christian computer animation production company best known for "Veggie Tales" videos.* The Big Idea, a Scottish museum* The Big Idea , a 1917 short comedy film...