Sky to launch linear kids channel, announces originals


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European pay-TV large Sky is launching a 24-hour ad-free Sky Children channel in February 2023, which it says will probably be “filled with a standout slate of Sky Originals and franchise favourites”.

The UK service, which can put the pay-TV supplier in competitors with BBC channel CBeebies, is aimed toward 1-7 year-olds, andwill be obtainable at no further price for Sky TV clients with Sky Children and NOW Leisure Members.

Unique reveals launching on the brand new channel embody My Good friend Misty, government produced by Fearne Cotton, which sees animated character Misty got down to construct youngsters emotional resilience, and Prepared, Eddie, Go!, an animated sequence based mostly on the Eddie’s Tales books written by Nikki Saunders.

Franchise favourites on supply mwanwhie embody Trolls: TrollsTopia, Clifford The Massive Crimson Canine and Morph.

Lucy Murphy, director of children content material at Sky, stated: “Thousands and thousands of our clients already love watching our big vary of authentic reveals on-demand however households with youthful youngsters have advised us that watching on linear channels is a crucial a part of their day; so, we’ve listened and expanded our Sky Children providing at no further price.”

Content material will span themes of studying and doing, arts and crafts, music, dance and health, and extra. Along with My Good friend Misty and Prepared, Eddie, Go!, the platform will launch Dino Membership (age 4+), a sequence about dinosaurs.

Sky already has a Sky Children package deal which affords 10,000 episodes of children’ content material on demand. The brand new channel will probably be included at no further price. The transfer is one other instance of the resilience of linear channels within the face of on-demand.

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