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10 Shows to Write Home About
The beginning of April may signal the arrival of spring in the natural world, but for TV execs and animation producers, it only means one thing: Yup, it’s time to fight the crowds and sell your goods at the MIPTV content market (April 1-4) in Cannes. Here are some of [...]
Zodiak Kids Introduces ‘Marco Macaco’ in Cannes
Paris-based Tele Images Productions, part of Zodiak Kids, and Danish studio Nice Ninja are bringing a new 3D animated comedy series called The Marco Macaco Show. Co-produced with Canal+, the show is a TV spin-off series based on the forthcoming animated feature Marco Macaco by Jan Rahbek. Zodiak Kids, Zodiak [...]
Monster & Monster Join Forces for Distribution
Monster Animation has announced it has appointed Monster Entertainment to distribute its hit animated series Fluffy Gardens (80 x7), and Punky (20 x 7) which debuted at MIP Junior last year. The shows were formerly with Target Entertainment until the company entered Administration last month and the rights reverted to [...]
Turner Greenlights ‘Team Toon’
Turner Broadcasting has commissioned a new live-action/animation hybrid series titled Team Toon (26 x 30), which it is co-producing with FremantleMedia Enterprises and Larry Schwarz and His Band for Cartoon Network EMEA. The show has been greenlit for Cartoon Network channels in EMEA and Asia-Pacific. FME is handling worldwide distribution [...]
MIPTV: PGS Offers 4 New Seasons of Hit Toons
Leading international brand managers PGS Entertainment have revealed their toon slate for the MIPTV market, which kicks off in Cannes next week. Four new seasons of popular and award-winning shows total 81 half-hours of new programming available for broadcasters. “The fact that the majority of the properties represented by PGS [...]
MIPTV: Aardman Secures ‘Snowman 2' TV Rights
Aardman Rights, the distribution arm of the Bristol-based animation powerhouse, has partnered with the U.K.’s Channel 4 as international TV distributor for the brand new sequel to classic Christmas toon The Snowman (1982), based on the novel by Raymond Briggs which Dianne Jackson directed and John Coates produced. Channel 4, [...]
MIPTV: Henson Seeks Partners for ‘ImaginOcean’
The Jim Henson Company is hard at work developing a new animated children’s series, ImaginOcean, based on the acclaimed Off-Broadway musical John Tartaglia’s ImaginOcean. The musical underwater adventure series (52 x 11) will utilized the company’s Emmy-winning proprietary Henson Digital Puppetry Studio which blend real time puppeteering and CG characters. [...]
Cake to Distribute Chapman Ent. Shows
Kids TV distributor Cake will distribute Chapman Entertainment’s entire catalog of shows for the world, excluding N. American and the U.K. The new deal includes well-received stop-motion and CG-animated shows such as Raa Raa the Noisy Lion, Little Charley Bear, Fifi and the Flowertots and Roary the Racing Car added [...]
Imira’s ‘Lucky Fred’ Lands in New Countries
Barcelona-based Imira Entertainment has found a few new homes for its new animated series Lucky Fred: RTM in Malaysia, e-Vision in UAE, TG4 in Ireland and Kidz in Turkey have joined TF1 for France; Disney Channel in Spain, France, Italy, Germany, India, Israel & Australia and Nickelodeon in Benelux, Scandinavia, [...]
TeamTO Brings Animated Slate to MIPTV
French animation studio TeamTO has announced the full line-up of animated shows it’s bringing to the MIPTV Market in April. Among the company’s new offerings is Jade Armor (52 X 13”), a striking CG-animated co-pro with Gamania Digital and Sofa Studios. The action-comedy series centers on a pair of heroic [...]
Jon Vitti to Pen ‘Angry...
Emmy-winning writer Jon Vitti, who has worked on hit toons The Simpsons and...
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+ Canadian indie Guru Studio and publishing partner Immedium have released a...
