Walt Disney has made its largest commitment to a television production outside the US after striking a deal to develop a new animated series in the UK.More from Matthew Garrahan in The Financial Times.
The deal to develop Enid Blyton’s Famous Five stories, comes as Disney moves away from its traditional model of exporting US-made content and towards producing more of its content in local markets.
In The Telegraph, Tom Leonard welcomes the news - even though the stories will be rewritten by American writers.
After the decades of demonisation heaped on Blyton – racist, sexist, smug-middle-class-ist, -ist, -ist, -ist – the fact that a media company as fearsomely politically correct as Disney has turned to them for inspiration is remarkable.
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