The Ticker

Amazon Prime to show WGBH-made kids pilot

The latest animated children's show from the WGBH producer behind "Curious George" and "Arthur" will be hitting the screen today, but not the airwaves.

The GBH-produced show "Sara Solves It" is among the latest batch of pilot episodes released on Amazon Prime for viewers to give feedback on. The best-received pilots will be turned into full series.

"We want to be where kids are, and if Amazon is a place where kids are consuming media, that's where we should be," said Carol Greenwald, executive producer of the show. "Everybody who is making content for kids realizes that we have to start thinking about other platforms."

"Sara Solves It" is a musical mystery show that follows Sara and her brother as they solve mysteries using math and logic. In the first episode, Sara is hot on the trail of a mysterious, pizza thief.

Greenwald executive produced the show along with Out of the Blue Enterprises, the production company led by the creator of "Blue's Clues." She said the show was originally developed for PBS, but the pilot was not picked up.

U.S. retail sales slump in December

U.S. retail sales recorded their largest decline in 11 months in December as demand fell almost across the board, tempering expectations for a sharp acceleration in consumer spending in the fourth quarter.

Economists, however, cautioned against reading too much into the surprise weakness, noting that holiday spending made it difficult to smooth December data for seasonal fluctuations.

Developer plans Brighton apartments

Boston developer and restaurateur Jon Cronin has filed notice with the city to build a 23-unit apartment building at 386-388 Market St. in Brighton. The $6.2 million project, which would include ground-floor commercial space, would be on the site of the Brighton Beer Garden.

Today

 Labor Department releases weekly jobless claims.

 Labor Department releases the Producer Price Index for December.

 Freddie Mac releases weekly mortgage rates.

TOMORROW

 Labor Department releases Consumer Price Index for December.

 Federal Reserve releases industrial production for December.

THE SHUFFLE

Burlington-based data recovery company Unitrends announced Kevin Weiss as the company's new president and chief executive officer. Weiss previously held leadership positions with Bertram Capital, McAfee, Ariba, BindView, BMC Software and IBM.

Anda sedang membaca artikel tentang

The Ticker

Dengan url

http://terdiamtersipu.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-ticker_15.html

Anda boleh menyebar luaskannya atau mengcopy paste-nya

The Ticker

namun jangan lupa untuk meletakkan link

The Ticker

sebagai sumbernya