London-based Hit Entertainment will plunk down $275 million in cash and stock to acquire Richardson, TX-based Lyrick Studios, the outfit behind the successful Barney & Friends franchise. A production ...

LONDON — Barney the dinosaur with a British accent? It could happen — the London-based Hit Entertainment has bought the company that produces the “Barney” series, Lyrick Corp., for $275 million. “Our ...

The big purple dinosaur is not extinct after all, as Mattel on Monday announced it was relaunching the children's-TV franchise starring Barney, the friendly, human-size 'saur. Originally a DIY project ...

LONDON -- Hit Entertainment PLC annnounced Friday that it will buy U.S. family-entertainment group Lyrick Corp., home of the popular "Barney" character -- for 190.5 million pounds ($275.2 million or ...

Former Lyrick Studios CEO and Paramount exec Tim Clott has been named president of Echo Bridge Entertainment’s homevid subsidiary Platinum Disc, replacing Platinum founder and prexy Dave Thompson, who ...