- Shutdown Announcement: Nelvana, founded in 1971, has reportedly closed down as of late August 2025, with employees confirming the studioâs abrupt end amid ongoing financial struggles at parent company Corus Entertainment.
- Studio Legacy: From humble beginnings in Toronto to becoming Canadaâs first major animation exporter to U.S. networks, Nelvana produced over 100 shows and films, blending heartwarming kidsâ content with edgy adult animations.
- Notable Hits: Classics like Care Bears movies, Beetlejuice: The Animated Series, Franklin, and Bubble Guppies defined childhoods, while co-productions like Clone High pushed boundaries.
- Star Wars Connection: Nelvanaâs work on the infamous Star Wars Holiday Specialâs animated segment paved the way for the beloved Droids and Ewoks series in the â80s.
- Reasons for Closure: Economic pressures, including ad revenue slumps, U.S. strikes, and cost-cutting at Corus, led to layoffs and development halts, culminating in the full shutdown.
Who will own the copyright to hundreds of shows and movies produced by Nelvana now?
Corus, probably.
thatâs if Corus doesnât sell those rights. Corus is in the shit financially, like Bell Media is.
If Corus can find a buyer for Nelvana and get the company reactivated, good news.
The swedish TV4 is leaving terrestrial distribution and becoming a subscription channel at the end of the year. The very limited amount of antenna viewers will be left with only the 5 SVT channels, plus a Finnish channel in Stockholm only. All other channels (as part of the Boxer subscription service, terrestrial pay TV having taken off in Europe) left terrestrial in January.
Vietnam Television has officially launch their own English-language channel, starting at 7:09 a.m. (GMT+7, 10:09 a.m. AEST), 7th September, 2025. Named as Vietnam Today, the channel was introduced on mid-July, and went on-air experimentally on 19th August, 2025. A 24-hour channel, Vietnam Today airs news, current affairs, economic and cultural contents with aims to expatrites, experts and Anglophone users who have interests into Vietnam, as well as giving the official views on the situation in Vietnam from the countryâs government. The launching time, 7:09, resembling the first day Vietnam Television went on-air exactly 55 years ago, on 7th September, 1970.
Footage to the first 24 hours of Vietnam Today can be seen at this YouTube link below, or on the channelâs official webpage, www.vietnamtoday.vtv.vn
A sign-off from the rather bizarrely named Daveâs Television Channel 8 Guyana. I find it funny that itâs called Daveâs Television, yes itâs owned by Daveâs Portrait Studio. Like if @Radionead owned a station and we called it Radioheadâs Radio.
Switching to the French tongue nowâŠ
Both T18 and OFTV (now named NOVO19) are now on air.
Despite the logo being a work of Etienne Robial (the designer behind M6 and Canal+), I think the NOVO19 branding (desisgned by Dream On) looks better than T18. Both are animated by Gedeon though.
Meanwhile, Mediawanâs two cable channels in Belgium, AB3 and ABXplore, just updated their symbols and graphics. Now in line with what AB1 in France has been using since last year, the latter is renamed to just ABX with sharp edges in the wordmark.
This is a promo on ABX:
The reel for the two channelsâ ad bumpers, as seen on their Facebook page:
And also from Lenodal, the in-programme promo on AB3:
Certainly a smart update to their old identity, but not as flashy as AB1.
Some more ProSiebenSat.1 news: the three major free-to-air channels â ProSieben, Sat.1 and Kabel eins â have now introduced a new uniform promo design in the middle of September 2025, with the Joyn streaming service at the forefront. Thereâs a new glowing aesthetic behind rounded rectangle, similar to what Apple does in several promotional materials. The channels are referred to as âJoyn ProSiebenâ, âJoyn Sat.1â and âJoyn Kabel einsâ, which sounds jarring. Also, the Campton font from ProSiebenâs graphics is applied across the entirety of Joyn-branded promos across all channels.
By the way, itâs amazing that ProSiebenSat.1 channels in general have lasted for more than a decade without a graphics rebrand. There have been incremental updates over the years, but no full-fledged rebrand Ă la the RTL channels. Amazingly, ProSieben Maxx has not changed even once in the 12 years since it was launched in September 2013. Is that a testament to its ageless Gotham-powered design, or is it getting too old?
Similarly, ProSieben and Kabel eins last rebranded in 2015, Sat.1 in 2016 (with a minor facelift/refresh in 2022), Sixx in 2018 and Sat.1 Gold in 2019. Make no mistake, these are great graphics packages, and ProSiebenâs slickness and Sat.1âs colourful ball with Ridley Grotesk have served it excellently over a decade. But when so many channels havenât rebranded across the broadcaster for so long, you wonder if anythingâs wrong with the graphics team.
No wonder there hasnât been much by way of German TV rebrands since RTLâs United rebrand in 2021 â which, by the way, I found to be very underwhelming and lacking personality, compared to the Hungarian RTL channelsâ very creative and fun rebrands in 2022. In fact, non-RTL-branded channels at RTL Deutschland have been very quiet too in recent years! VOX and RTLZWEI have been unchanged since 2018 and 2019 respectively, and n-tv is mostly the same since 2017 with a minor update in 2021.
I believe the creative team at P7S1 as a whole has largely stagnated, in contrast to the genuinely exciting and innovative rebrands at broadcasters like TVN WBD in Poland and Atresmedia in Spain. Just look, for example, at the joie de vivre in the rebrand of TVN (Poland) in 2024, or the futuristic typography in the rebrands at Antena 3 (Spain) in 2025 â both the channel rebrand in January and that of Antena 3 Noticias in September. P7S1 has largely had slick, minimalist design all this while, and Iâd love to see it continue with a refresh⊠and this also applies for German TV as a whole.
Two more French rebrands this month, in a year thatâs already had a lot of them â thanks in large part to the big TNT realignment and the launches and closures of several channels as a result.
On 1 October, ChĂ©rie 25, NRJ Groupâs last remaining TNT channel after the closure of NRJ 12, rebranded to RMC Life after being purchased by RMC BFM. It remains on channel 25, neatly complementing RMC Story (23) and RMC DĂ©couverte (24), and those channels are also expected to rebrand shortly.
And on 6 October, the global Francophone channel TV5Monde introduced a new visual identity, using the very same IBM Plex Sans font that youâre reading now! The previous one wasnât that long ago, in December 2021, and the new logo retains the vertical positioning of TV5 above Monde. However, everything else has changed about the logo and graphics, except for the iconic and instantly recognisable 5 that retains the channelâs legacy.
As ever so often, Lenodal has a full-fledged article that dives deep into the hows and whys of the rebrand, positioning TV5Monde as a channel for the global Francophonie with colours for every region of the world (Maghreb-Orient, Afrique, Asie, etc.). While all global TV feeds use flat colours, the TV5Monde+ streaming platform uses a gradient instead, presumably to integrate all of the content that TV5Monde as a service offers.
As with so many rebrands in 2025, GĂ©dĂ©on was involved with the rebrand of TV5Monde. The agency has done some stellar work this year, including the launches of both T18 and Novo19 in France, as well as Antena 3 â both the channel graphics and the futuristic news rebrand for Antena 3 Noticias â in neighbouring Spain.
Sadly, in spite of all the rebrands in French TV recently, the TF1 group has largely remained silent. TMC, for one, could do with a rebrand â itâs been 9 years since the last one!
Edit: WestKnight has already covered TV5Monde in the International News thread, but I felt it would be pertinent to include it here as well, since it goes beyond news.
RTVE starts broadcasting a Catalan-speaking version of La 2 (as 2Cat) in Catalunya, under an agreement between the Spanish government and local politicians in January.
Theyâre looking to push the channelâs Catalan offering up to 70% within 2025.
The name is eerily similar to the regionâs public broadcaster TV3, specifically its streamer and holding company brand 3Cat, to the point that they registered variations of [number]Cat and Cat[number] names to the trademark offices a few months ago.
Iâve noticed that in Greece, one of their game show hosts has now gone very casual with his outfits this season on 5Ă5, which is the Greek version of Family Feud. He now wears casual shirts, polo shirts and casual pants.
In previous seasons, he had been wearing a suit and business shirt like Australian and UK hosts do these days.
American hosts had still been wearing a suit and tie, but I noticed today that Ryan Seacrest has also ditched the tie this season. 
Grant Denyer is still doing the suit and tie in Australia.
Thatâs nothing⊠I was watching CNN, and Max Foster was wearing a quarter zip jumper and T-shirt. To present the news! Why oh why is this allowed etc etc 
Because he jogged to work? 
Yeah. There has to be a standard. I think itâs inevitable that newsreaders will ditch the ties sometime in the future, I think a suit and business shirt should still be the requirement for serious news. Game shows, I can understand them being less strict with a suit.