Sky presents the Sky Kids Café

For half term family fun, Sky presents the first ever kids TV themed play & cafe experience. Open from Monday 30th May through to Wednesday 1st June, the Sky Kids Café will offer children the exciting chance to step into the captivating worlds of some of their favourite TV shows, all of which are available through the new Sky Kids app.

They will be able to play amongst famous scenes, come face to face with their beloved characters, and be part of their magical worlds – all for free. Children and parents will also enjoy flavourful fun through a special food and drinks menu created by celebrity chef and mother Lisa Faulkner, inspired by the playful storylines and charismatic characters from each show.

The Sky Kids Café will offer arts and crafts, and three imaginative play areas for children to discover; Nicktoons’ SpongeBob SquarePants , Boomerang’s Scooby-Doo, and Ben & Holly from Entertainment One (eOne), which airs daily on Nick Jr., They will be able to explore SpongeBob’s underwater world, complete with his Pineapple House and colourful sea creatures, enter the haunted house and help to solve Scooby-Doo mysteries, and jump into Ben & Holly’s oversized Little Kingdom with magic wands and fairy dust trails. 

• WHERE: The Vinyl Factory, 18 Marshall St, London W1F 7BE
• WHEN: Monday 30th May - Wednesday 1st June
• AGES: Recommended for pre-schoolers - 9 years old
• OPENING HOURS: Book a slot between 10AM – 6:30PM
• COST: Free, book your time slot via www.skykidscafe.eventbrite.co.uk
• HOW TO GET THERE: Walking distance from Piccadilly (5 mins), Oxford Circus (6 mins) and Tottenham Court Road (7 mins) tube stations. Parking available at Q-Park Soho
  
  

Visitors will need to book their 90 minute Sky Kids Café slot prior to the event.  A member of the Sky Kids Café team will be in touch 72-48 hours ahead of the event via email and phone to confirm your booking.  Each session will include access to discover all three worlds, arts and crafts activities, and refreshments in the Cafe.  Families will also have the opportunity to try out the new Sky Kids app on tablets.

The Sky Kids app features thousands of episodes of kids’ favourite shows in an app that’s just for them. It features 16 of the 20 highest-rated shows, all available on demand and gives them their own profile with shows tailored to their age. Sky Kids is available to download now from both Google Play and Apple’s App Store. The app will work on 3G/4G and Wi-Fi and is available at no extra cost for customers with the Sky Family or Variety bundle or Sky Q.

For further information:

Jessica Archard
Jessica.archard@feverpr.com

Notes to Editors:

About Lisa Faulkner

Lisa Faulkner is a cookery author, presenter and actress. She first established herself as a leading actress starring in numerous high profile TV dramas including Holby City, Spooks and Dangerfield. In 2010 Lisa won BBC One's Celebrity MasterChef and has since gone on a remarkable food journey. In 2012 Lisa’s first cookery book was published, Recipes From My Mother For My Daughter and became an instant bestseller, reaching number one in The Times non-fiction list. Lisa’s second cookbook The Way I Cook was published in September 2013. Her third book, Tea and Cake was published in February 2015 also becoming a bestseller.

Lisa has presented a number of TV programmes, including ITV’s iconic daytime series This Morning, BBC2's primetime version of the critically acclaimed Heir Hunters, hit Channel 4 daytime show What’s Cooking? with Ben Shepherd as well regularly cooking in the This Morning kitchen. Lisa is a regular face on the Food Network, in 2014 she presented The Big Eat alongside Matt Tebbutt and Kitchen Superheores. As well as presenting and cooking on This Morning Lisa has also anchored a number of food strands including Coastal Cottage, Comfort Cottage and Hollywood Menu. 

About Sky Kids

Sky Kids is available to download now from both Google Play and Apple’s App Store. The app works on 3G/4G and Wi-Fi and is available for customers with the Sky Family or Variety bundle or Sky Q.

Sky announced the development of the app with Ustwo in June 2015 as it aimed to build on its position as the best entertainment choice for children and their parents.  Sky Kids commitment saw the expansion of the kids’ shows available in Sky’s on demand library from 700 to 4,000 episodes making Sky home to more episodes of the most-watched kids’ shows than any other provider in the UK and Ireland. 

Following the on demand investment, a dedicated Kid tiles was added to the Sky homepage which opens up a one-stop-shop of all the kids’ shows and movies available on demand, all kids TV recordings, plus a quick view of what’s on now on linear channels like Cartoon Network, CBeebies and Nick Jr.  Since the kids tile was added, on demand views have more than trebled.

Sky’s Kids service has been overseen by Sky’s first dedicated Head of Kids Content, Lucy Murphy, who joined Sky in November 2015.

About Sky

Sky is Europe's leading entertainment company, serving 21 million customers across five countries: UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria and Italy. We offer the best and broadest range of content, deliver market-leading customer service and use innovative new technology to give customers a better TV experience, whenever and wherever they choose.

Sky has annual revenues of over £11 billion and is Europe's leading investor in television content with a combined programming budget of £4.9 billion. The group employs 30,000 people and is listed on the London Stock Exchange (SKY).