Winners to be revealed at a gala event on February 6 during Kidscreen Summit in New York

Kidscreen, host of the global kids television industry’s leading awards for excellence, is delighted to announce the shortlisted entries in the Programming Categories that will be continuing in the competition through a final round of judging.

The nominees are:

PRESCHOOL

Best Animated Series
Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood (The Fred Rogers Company/9 Story Entertainment/Out of the Blue Enterprises)
Guess How Much I Love You (SLR Productions/KI.KA/Scrawl Studios/Hessicher Rundfunk/TFO)
Tree Fu Tom (CBBC and FremantleMedia Enterprises, in association with Blue Zoo)

Best Non-Animated or Mixed Series
Big and Small (Kindle Entertainment/Sixteen South)
Sesame Street (Sesame Workshop)
Yo Gabba Gabba (Wildbrain Entertainment)

Best One-Off, Special or TV Movie
Driver Dan’s Story Train (3Line Media in association with TwoFour54)
Sesame Street: Growing Hope Against Hunger (Sesame Workshop/documentary films by Cynthia Wade)
Y Raplyfr Coll: The Lost Rap Book (Fflic)

Best Companion Website
Cyw (S4C)
Dinosaur Train (The Jim Henson Company)
Jake’s World (Kanoti)

KIDS

Best Animated Series
Adventure Time (Cartoon Network Studios)
Regular Show (Cartoon Network Studios)
The Amazing World of Gumball (Cartoon Network Studios Europe/Dandelion Studios/Boulder Media/Studio Soi)

Best Non-Animated or Mixed Series
Four O’Clock Club (CBBC In-House)
Waffle Heart (NRK)
The Aquabats! Super Show! (FremantleMedia Enterprises/The Magic Store)

Best One-Off, Special or TV Movie
Same But Different (Libra Television/Two Sugars)
The Jungle Bunch—Back to the Ice Floe (TAT Productions/Master Films/Vanilla Seed)
WordGirl (Scholastic Media)

Best Companion Website
Giver (Sinking Ship Entertainment)
Leonardo (Kindle Entertainment)
Wild Kratts (9 Story Entertainment)

TWEENS/TEENS

Best Animated Series
Bob’s Burgers (Bento Box Entertainment/Twentieth Century Fox Television)
Dan Vs. (Film Roman/The Hatchery)
Horace in Slow Motion Series 2 (Bombada Productions)

Best Non-Animated or Mixed Series
Fort Boyard Ultimate Challenge (The Foundation)
In Real Life 3 (Apartment 11 Productions)
R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour: The Series (The Hatchery)

Best One-Off, Special or TV Movie
Cyberbully (Muse Entertainment)
Treasure Island (Kindle Entertainment/MNG Films/Parallel Film Productions)
Up and Away: A Newsround Special (CBBC In-House)

Best Companion Website
Dance Academy (Werner Film Productions/ABC/ZDF/ZDFE/ACTF)
My Babysitter’s A Vampire (Secret Location)
Splatalot (marblemedia)

These shortlisted entries will be reviewed and assessed by a fresh panel of judges, including the following execs: Andrew Beecham (Sprout), Kay Benbow (CBeebies), Michael Carrington (Turner Broadcasting Europe), Lana Castleman (Kidscreen), Joe D’Ambrosia (Disney Junior), Keith Dawkins (TeenNick), Tiphaine de Raguenel (France Télévisions), Donna Dos Reis (Astral Media), David Levine (Disney XD Worldwide), Cheryl Taylor (CBBC) and Kim Wilson (Kids’ CBC).

Bios and headshots for all of the Kidscreen Awards 2013 judges are available online at http://awards.kidscreen.com/Home/OurJudges).

All winners will be announced and celebrated at a special presentation event and after-party during Kidscreen Summit, on the evening of Wednesday, February 6. Kidscreen Summit delegates are invited to attend as part of their event registration, and tickets for just the Kidscreen Awards evening can be purchased for $150 by contacting Kidscreen Events Sales Manager Joel Pinto (416-408-2300 x650 or jpinto@brunico.com). Additional details about the Kidscreen Awards, including categories, eligibility, judging and entry process, can be found at http://awards.kidscreen.com.