Calon (TV production company)

[5] Shortly afterwards it was Incorporated into Mount Stuart Media Ltd.[6] Two series of Hana's Helpline were produced for Channel 5's Milkshake block for preschool children in co-production with S4C and German broadcaster ZDF.

Following its success with SuperTed, the company was commissioned by S4C to produce another series called Wil Cwac Cwac which was based on a series of children's books that were first published in Wales in the early 1930s about a little duckling who is always naughty and lives on a farm village in rural Wales with his family and friends.

Lyons and Young have also been involved in working on a children's stop motion animated series, Fireman Sam in 1987, except it was produced by Prism Art and Design Ltd and Bumper Films.

In its early years, the studio worked exclusively for S4C, and Robin Lyons (managing director) decided to broaden its customer base and to move into co-productions to form Siriol Productions in 1988.

The group was involved in co-productions with major European broadcasters, typically with the BBC in the UK, FR3 and Canal+ in France and ZDF and WDR in Germany.

In 1995, EVA received a substantial private investment and attracted two top executives from BBC Children's International, Mikael Shields and Tony Stern.

EVA Entertainment has made many series and specials, (the group's major productions were controlled creatively by Siriol) which were sold to over fifty different countries on five continents, including Robert Creep, Tales of the Tooth Fairies, Billy the Cat (the group's largest project) and Romuald the Reindeer.

In 1998, Siriol was brought over by Sleepy Kids[9] (renamed Entertainment Rights in 2000), with Lyons expanding his role within the new company.

Blunt has also developed a low budget feature, 360, which has attracted funding from the Film Panel of the Welsh Lottery, and several web-based animation projects including Once Upon A Morgue and Deadenders.

Knife and Wife is a British one-off half-hour animated Comedy programme screened on Channel 4 in December 2001.

The programme was part of the Channel 4 Comedy Lab try-out project, which had spawned several successful series including Trigger Happy TV and That Peter Kay Thing.

[13] Launched in 1986, the company has developed a show called Space Baby (which eventually became Fantastic Max, which was co-produced with Hanna-Barbera), along with another series called Satellite City (co-produced with Fairwater Films) and the 1991 animated film adaptation of the children's book The Little Engine That Could.