The BBC has snapped up the UK rights to Komixx Entertainment children's series 'Itch', to be broadcast on kids channel CBBC.
Komixx Entertainment has elevated Asia Pacific MD Amanda Morrison to head of global production.
When BBC announcer Simon Mayo wrote a short story for Joe, his then 10-year-old son, he had no agent or publisher and he could not imagine the book turning into a TV series half way across the world in Australia.
Artist Ian Strange first became captivated by the idea of home once he left his own; he moved to New York from Perth over eight years ago.