Animated and live action series sold to broadcaster
in Ireland
Toronto,
24 July 2009. Leading kids and family entertainment specialist DECODE Enterprises,
the distribution subsidiary of DHX Media Ltd., has scored a major package deal
with TG4, selling six of its animated series to the Irish channel.
Live
action My Spy Family, preschool
animated shows Franny's Feet,
Animal Mechanicals and Bo
on the GO! (season two) have sold
alongside older-skewing Chop Socky Chooks and
Canadian/Hong Kong/Singapore co-production Clang Invasion in a deal that totals over 120 half hours of
programming from the DECODE library.
Josh
Scherba, VP Distribution at DECODE Enterprises said: "We're signing a number of
these package deals which highlights that we have a solid library across the
board. While our new shows are going from strength to strength, we're also
seeing continued demand for our more established series, across both live
action and animation, and for all age groups."
Turner Broadcasting's
live action My Spy Family (26x22') centres on the Bannons, a
family of ex-spies who live in an ordinary looking house, in an ordinary
looking street, in an ordinary looking part of a very ordinary town. But as a
family they are completely, desperately, utterly...EXTRAordinary. Trained to
foil supercriminals, overthrow dictators and leap from planes without
parachutes, they're now squashed together in a cramped semi and facing their
toughest mission to date: retirement! My Spy Family is produced by Kindle
Entertainment and aimed at kids aged 6-14 years.
Franny's Feet which follows the adventures of a
little girl with magical shoes is a commission by Astral Media's Family Channel
in Canada, which airs the show on its Playhouse Disney and Family channels.
Further broadcasters include PBS KIDS, Sprout and V-me in the US and channels
in more than 150 countries worldwide such as Five in
the UK, France 5, Disney Channel Germany, Italy's Rai, and TV2 Denmark
in Europe as well as ABC Australia and Cartoon Network in Japan, Korea and
Taiwan, and TV12 Singapore in Asia. Franny's
Feet is supported by an extensive
worldwide licensing and merchandising campaign.
Halifax
Films' Animal Mechanicals is
an action adventure series for preschoolers that combines fantastical worlds,
mythical animals and cool quests. And, best of all, Animal Mechanicals transform! The series is one of CBC's top-rating
preschool shows where it has recently been commissioned for a third season and
also scores high ratings around the world on Disney
Channels in the UK and Asia; Radio-Canada, Discovery Latin America, Romania's
HOP, EBS in Korea; Al-Jazeera Children Channel and Prava I Prevodi, who
acquired the title for Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro.
Using motion
capture technology and CGI, Bo on the GO! promotes an
active lifestyle and an active mind for preschoolers. Bo on the GO! follows the
adventures of Bo, a positive, energetic and inquisitive young heroine and her
young friend Dezadore dragon.
Also produced by Halifax
Film, Bo on the GO! has been commissioned for a third season by CBC in Canada where
it is currently one of the broadcaster's highest rating preschool shows and also airs on CITV in
the UK and France 5 as well as on further channels worldwide.
Aimed at
7-11 year olds, the 26x22' 3D Aardman Animations and DECODE
Entertianment-produced Chop Socky Chooks is a
commission for Cartoon Network and Teletoon. The Chooks are a crack team of
Kung Fu chickens - Chuckie Chan, Chick P and KO Joe. The three plucky heroes
work undercover in Wasabi World, a towering shopping mall run by their
arch-enemy Dr Wasabi, mutated piranha and head of an evil retail empire.
Clang Invasion (26x22' or 52x11') is a fast-paced
sci-fi comedy about the adventures of a dysfunctional crew of alien robots who
crash-land in the backyard of siblings Daisy and Robin. The series has been
developed by Singapore's Scrawl Studios and the Media Development Authority of
Singapore (MDA) in co-production with DECODE, YTV and Hong Kong animation
company Agogo Entertainment Ltd.
