TV Bytes: Horrid Henry, Figaro Pho

March 19, 2013 by Mercedes Milligan No Comments

The pre-MIP-TV deluge of toon TV sales news continues to trickle in, with big deals being announced by Novel Entertainment, Chocolate Liberation Front in advance of the mega market in Cannes next month. U.K.’s Novel Entertainment has announced new sales for its animated kids’ program Horrid Henry through its global [...]

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Ambience Ups the Ante for ‘Adventures of Figaro Pho’

October 30, 2012 by Mercedes Milligan No Comments

Sydney-based production company Ambience Entertainment is celebrating the release of its short-format toon star’s new 13 x half-hour series The Adventures of Figaro Pho, which premieres on Australia’s ABC3 today. Conceived and directed by award-winning illustrator Luke Jurevicius, the excessively paranoid Figaro Pho first hit the toon scene in 2008 [...]

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Rising Stars of Animation: 2011

October 7, 2011 by Ramin Zahed 1 Comment

We searched high and low to find some of the brightest, bravest and most talented up-and-coming over-achievers in the toon scene. Zack Keller & Ed Skudder Co-Creators, Dick Figures [6 Point Media] Work goes faster when you have a good buddy helping you out—or hurling insults at you, or postulating [...]

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Shorts Star Figaro Pho Gets New CGI Series

April 13, 2011 by Thomas J. McLean No Comments

The Chocolate Liberation Front and Ambience Entertainment are set to produce a new animated series called The Adventures of Figaro Pho that will be distributed worldwide by ZDF Enterprises, ABC Commercial and D360. The producers describe the series as follows: “Figaro Pho is a warm-hearted, curious and mischievous character who just [...]

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