The latest news on TV and streaming animation series
Amoeba TV has signed a new contract with the award-winning French studio Dandeloo, for four series and one animated film, which will join the platform's growing list of 2.200 hours of programming for children and families in the United States and Canada.
- The Treehouse Stories Seasons 1 and 2 (49 x 7 '). Originally produced in France for Canal + by Dandeloo e Caribara, the series is a mix of live action with 2D animation and is aimed at children aged four to seven. The animated series features a group of friends, who meet in a secret tree house, to share their favorite books and experience stories from around the world.
- Chico Chica Boumba (52 x 3'30 “) allows children to learn 52 different dances, thanks to its fantastic professional trainers. By dancing, children will solve their daily problems with the help of the best coaches.
- Ribbit's Fantasy Riddles (52 x 3 ') Each episode features Ribbit as he reveals clues to the audience, so that each child can try to guess which animal of the day will be. At first, a misleading fantasy animal will be described ... until the end, when the "real" animal will be revealed.
- Kiwi (78 x 5 ′) This series is a nice "awakening" to learn English words and literacy in a fun way, thanks to the stupid Kiwi brothers.
- Houdini (53 ′) Meet Little Harry and see how the great Houdini, the most famous wizard of all time, has become.
Future Today announced a significant expansion for its most popular online TV streaming channels, supported by free advertising. The Roku channel: happy kids - Free and safe app designed to educate and entertain millions of children of all ages with music, stories and activity guides across multiple platforms every day; The LEGO channel - dedicated to inspiring and developing the builders of tomorrow where kids can watch their favorite LEGO Minifigure characters; is iFood.tv.
The IP development company based in India Aadarsh Technosoft, Telegael (Ireland) and the leading company in animated entertainment Cyber Group Studios (France / United States) have announced that their animated preschool co-production Purple Turtle (52 x 7 ′; 2D HD) is now airing in its first season with great success on Discovery Kids in the Middle East and North Africa. The series premiered on April 6, with two episodes and currently airs with 10 episodes per day. Other major international broadcasters will be announced soon.
Directed by Swati Rajoria, the show follows the adventures of the eponymous hero and his friends - Roxy the chameleon, Zing the rabbit, Melody the bird and Tadley the bear - who enjoy figuring things out as a team. Purple Turtle encourages children to explore, make choices, learn from their mistakes and make the necessary decisions along the way, promoting self-determination and promoting independence. The Emmy-winning team of writers includes Karl Geurs (Winnie the Pooh, My Little Pony), Dev Ross (Jakers !, Clifford the Big Red Dog), Carter Crocker (Disney, Warner Brothers), Paul Parkes (CBeebies, Cartoon Network) and Phil Harnage (Nickelodeon, Saban Brands). Producers are Manish Rajoria, Ankita Shrivastava (Aardash), Paul Cummins (Telegael) and Pierre Sissman (Cyber Group).
Cyber Group handles worldwide distribution as well as licensing, merchandising and publishing outside of India.
Bing the black rabbit of Acamar Films is a preschool animated series that is enjoying enormous success around the world, which is expanding its production with a new series and licensing and broadcasting agreements. ketnet (the current issuer of Bing in Belgium) bought the rights for the final fourth season. The 26 episodes will air in Flemish, with a premiere date to be announced. In the Netherlands, all 104 episodes of Bing S1-4 are already available on NPO Zappelin.
New licensing partners signed by the Benelux agent License Connections to include John (toy range, SS 2021), big balloon (magazines, Q4 2020) e Mepal (melamine lunch box / cups, AW 2020). Existing partners extending their offerings include TM Essentials / Totum (wooden toys, puzzles, car accessories; AW 2020) and local Golden bear distributor spectron (toys, AW 2020). These come together Vadobag for bags and Aymax for bed linen.
Dabangg
Disney+Hotstar, India's largest premium streaming platform, has acquired all 104 episodes of Cosmos Maya e Arbaaz Khan Productions'New family series Dabangg - a first-of-its-kind animated adventure based on the Bollywood franchise. The deal coincides with the 2010th anniversary of the first film, which introduced Chulbul's character 'Robin Hood' Pandey, and in 52. The 52 x 2021 half-hour first season will begin airing in Summer 400 on Disney + Hotstar, which counts XNUMX million viewers, eight million paying subscribers and additional content from the Disney + library, making it the most prolific OTT platform in India in terms of both subscribers and content.
The animated series tells the daily life of police officer Chulbul Pandey (played by Salman Khan in the films). Supported at every step by his entourage, he faces evil to keep the city safe. Fighting evil is hard work, but whatever the situation, Chulbul always has time to lighten the mood with his jokes, jokes, and jokes. Chulbul is joined by his loving younger brother Makkhi (played by Arbaaz Khan in the movies), who is new to the police force and continues to try to emulate him.
The show will feature animated avatars of all the iconic characters in the franchise, including the three antagonists Chhedi Singh, Bachcha Bhaiya and Baali Rajjo (played by Sonakshi Sinha in the movies), along with Prajapati Ji (played by the late Vinod Khanna in the movies) and the boy "BhaiyaJi Ismile".
After a successful run on Rai Gulp, Atlantica Entertainment announced the premiere of his spooky comic adventure Bat pat on the main Italian channel for children, RAI Yo-Yo, which will air two full seasons of the popular series. Unveiled on September 21, the show airs in half-hour intervals with two consecutive episodes in the period. On October 31st, the young viewers of RAI YoYo will have the opportunity to enjoy the Bat pat Halloween special.
The first season, produced by Atlantyca with the participation of Rai and RTVE, was sold in more than 100 countries including Italy, Spain, United States, United Kingdom, Benelux, Sweden, Lithuania, Singapore, Sri Lanka, India, Middle East . In November 2019, the second season debuted in Italy and Spain with 52 new episodes. S2 is a co-production with Mondo TV Producciones Canarias, Bat Pat AIE, with the participation of Rai Ragazzi and Clan TVE.
The animated series features Bat Pat and his brother Silver, who help strange creatures with strange and incredible problems, not only in Fogville, but around the world. Thanks to Engine 13, a Victorian-era steam train driven by the zombie Molly Walker, our heroes travel via an underground railway to anywhere in the world. The bat gang is joined by Bat Pat's cousin WingNut, an upbeat and optimistic surf-loving and expert on Batga - the bat version of yoga - and Bat Pat's youngest niece Jinx, a fiercely independent and courageous teenager who it is often too expressive with her emotions. Together they are ready to help every creature because, remember: the supernatural inhabitants of Fogville do not want to harm anyone. In fact, what they really want is… help.
Turkish study Fauna and worldwide distributor License for edutainment are sending the adorable little birds of Giligilis (35 x 2'30 ”; preschoolers 2-4) flying around the world with a slew of new broadcast and streaming offerings. Brands Genius, Toon Glasses, KidoodleTV, Playground, El Reino Infantil, Medialink, BatteryPop, FingerPrint, Kidomi, Playkids, Highbrow, Kidscast, Viomobile e VixiTV join the previous acquisitions of Lulli TV (Israel), JY Animation (China), Vietcontent (Vietnam) and AVODs Tubi and Kabillion.
Giligilis supports the first years, primary and secondary school programs, teaching music and rhythm through the Orff approach, which involves the mind and body of children through singing, dancing, acting and the use of percussion instruments. Wildlife has given the green light to a second season scheduled for May.
Meta Media Entertainment has been busy making series deals from its growing animation catalog around the world
In Asia, China Up to Average acquired International Emmy-nominated animanimals, Mister Rabbit, Ping & Friends e Li'l Doc. animanimals was also sold to Disney in Southeast Asia. In Taiwan, Ping & Friends was sold to PTS e animanimals for From Winn and PTS for VOD.
In Europe, YLE Finland has acquired Li'l Doc, TVP Poland it has renewed itself The Koala brothers e ERR Estonia has acquired Li'l Doc, Mister Rabbit e Happy Go Hopscotch Christmas Special. Furthermore, azoomee e Czech TV have acquired Jingle Kids e RTV Slovenia has acquired animanimals e Happy Go Hopscotch Christmas Special.
In North America, TF extension (Canada) acquired animanimals. And agreements have been made with NorAm VOD platforms Kidoodle. TV e Cartoon Channel! (Genius Brands International) for Elvis and Benny, The Koala Brothers, Ping & Friends, Happy Go Hopscotch Christmas Special e Mister Rabbit; Toon glasses for Animal stories, Ping & Friends e Elvis and Benny; is Common sense networks for The Koala brothers, Mister Rabbit e Ping & Friends.
Meanwhile, unusual eccentric comedy Elvis and Benny recently launched on the social platform TikTok and after a few months it has accumulated over 30 million views and almost 2 million likes!
