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‘City of Friends’ Celebrates 1st Year with Milkshake

August 16, 2012 by Mercedes Milligan No Comments divider image

City of Friends, the hit preschool show from Norwegian kids’ entertainment production house CreaCon Group (France’s Action Synthese provides the show’s CG animation), has announced plans to mark its first broadcast anniversary on Channel 5’s Milkshake block in the U.K. with special “Rescue Week” fare. Each day starting Monday August [...]

‘City of Friends’ Gets Chummy with U.K. Auds

March 22, 2012 by Mercedes Milligan No Comments divider image

Norwegian kids’ entertainment producer CreaCon Group’s hit CG preschool series City of Friends has proven popular with audiences in the U.K. since debuting in the country last October on Channel 5’s Milkshake. The show has reached more than 1.3 million viewers and is currently ranked the fifth most popular Video [...]

France Gives Rebates to ‘Russell and Frankie,’ ‘Eureka’

December 30, 2010 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

France’s CNC film board has also given a tax rebate to two animated TV series: Russell and Frankie and Eureka. Marseilles-based toon house Action Synthese is making the comedy Russell, produced by U.K.’s Parthenon Animation Prods. and Australia’s Stewart & Wall Entertainment. XD Prods., a Paris-based film-TV studio and high-tech [...]