Challenging documentaries have a notoriously hard time finding slots on television, but as Raphael Abraham discovered at this year's Ecocinema Festival, a sense of humour can help sugar the pill for broadcasters.

Today Spanish toon house Zinkia comes under the spotlight, revealing its broad range of media activities housed in the country's capital.

Korean toon studio DreamPictures 21 comes under the spotlight today, outlining plans for an animated comedy coproduction with North America.

Antefilms became a creature of two halves last year when it acquired Paris-based studio France Animation. Raphael Abrahams considers the implications for both companies.

Raphael Abraham talks to Australian-based studio Yoram Gross-EMTV about plans to ramp up US coproductions.

As IDT Entertainment announces plans to launch a distribution arm, Raphael Abraham looks at the company's rapid expansion in the animation market.

Like many buyers at this year's LA Screenings Katie Denton, channel manager at Granada Plus in the UK was impressed by the US version of The Office. But what else tickled her fancy?

As senior vice president of programming for Channel Four Finland, Pirjo Airaksinen has American network series high on the acquisition agenda, looking to fill primetime drama and comedy slots. But, she says, the choice is diminishing.

In the Netherlands, a tightly-fought contest to produce a new daytime quiz for pubcaster EO has been won by a format from two-man independent development outfit, Intellygents.

The factual department of prolific UK indie Tiger Aspect Productions has lined up a busy schedule, with new and returning series commissioned by three of the UK's terrestrial broadcasters as well as Discovery USA.