Michael Donovan, a veteran of the film and TV industry, is the founder and boss of DHX Media.
Outside
of the big Hollywood studies, the Canadian company is the world's next
largest owner and distributor of children's TV programmes.
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Titles in DHX's vast portfolio include Teletubbies, In the Night Garden,
Bob the Builder, and Inspector Gadget. In total, it has a library of
more than 11,800 - and growing - episodes across all its shows. And its
revenues last year totalled $260m (£212m).
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He stumbled on the fact that there were many libraries of animated film
and TV series going cheap because - in the new internet-dominated
marketplace - it was wrongly assumed that there was no value in them.
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"In the world of Netflix, 34% of all the minutes viewed are family and children's programming," says Michael.
In
the old broadcast world it used to be just 3%, as this was all the time
that broadcasters would give to kids' shows. But with streaming
services, viewers can choose exactly what they want to watch, and it is
often children who are holding the remote controls.
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