On Saturday, 13th July 1985, rock and pop music’s top table came together to raise money and awareness for the famine crisis then taking place in Ethiopia. Radio X looks back at the hugely influential ...

After shutting down its production operations last year, Nelvana is showing signs of life with a handful of nostalgic licensing deals. The studio paused its development and production work in ...

EXCLUSIVE: Media Res has struck a first-look distribution deal with Fifth Season and set Swedish series Summer of 1985 as their debut project. First trailer for the Stranger Things-esque series is ...

Back in the '80s, TV networks made a habit of making kids' cartoons based on grown-up movies. Tim Burton's dark and twisted "Beetlejuice" was one that received a Saturday morning spin-off, but it came ...

She walked so He-Man, My Little Pony, the Transformers and more could run. Strawberry Shortcake, from the pens of Barbi Sargent and Muriel Fahrion for American Greetings, was picked up by Kenner and ...

1984 was a banner year for music in the eighties, and 1985 somehow topped it. Of course, the midway point of the decade didn’t have a Like a Virgin or Purple Rain, but it didn’t need titles like those ...

After watching just five minutes of Nelvana’s 1977 animated special A Cosmic Christmas — so the story goes — George Lucas threw up his arms and yelled “That’s it! I don’t want to see any more!” The ...

Born with Autism (formerly classified as Asperger syndrome), Tyler B. Searle has been obsessed with storytelling since he was old enough to speak. He gravitated towards fairy tales, mythology, the ...

Several news outlets have reported that Nelvana will halt production of new shows due to financial issues. The Canadian animation company is famous for producing beloved kids shows such as Babar, The ...

A legendary animation studio has shut down its production of new shows nearly 55 years since it first opened. Animation fans in Canada might be all too familiar with many of the changes going on with ...

Corus Entertainment has paused production at Nelvana Ltd., ending one of the most influential runs in Canadian animation history. The announcement ends a sobering chapter for a studio that, for more ...