The latest news from the world on animated TV series and streaming
We Bare Bears: The Movie (We Bare Bears - We are only bears: the movie) is ready for its release on cartoon network, with WarnerMedia announcing the network's largest cross-platform movie premiere on September 12 across eight channels and apps across Asia and the Pacific: Cartoon Network, Boomerang, HBO, HBO Family, Warner TV, Oh! K (South Korea).
In the run-up to the film's release, there will be three weeks of broadcasting the episodes of We Bare Bears - We are just bears. The episodes will be dedicated to the history, origin and characteristics of each bear in the trio. On September 12, fans from across Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand will be able to take part in Cartoon Network's first ever party. They will be able to share the reactions live on social media during the film's premiere by including hashtags #CNWatchParty and #WeBareBears in their posts. Celebrities are also part of the marketing push in the region. In Taiwan, Fandy Fan lends his voice to a main character, while Mario Maurer acts in Thailand.
Funimation added even more exciting anime titles from Aniplex of America to its catalog: nohana: The Flower We Saw That Day (The flower we saw that day) (English subtitles and dubbing), Persona 4 the Golden Animation (subtitled), High School Fleet (subtitled), Our love has always been 10 centimeters apart (Our love has always been 10 inches apart) (subtitled) e Servant x Service (subtitled) are now available to fans via Funiamtion's streaming service in the US and Canada.
This year, Funimation announced a series of partnerships with major anime licensees to deepen its catalog and deliver popular, must-see and iconic anime across a wide range of genres. As part of its partnership with Aniplex of America, Funimation has added nearly 40 titles to its streaming service, including The Promised Neverland (English dub), Alicization by Sword Art Online (English dub), Kaguya-sama: Love is War? and many others. Even more TBA series in the coming months.
Free go-to platforms Kabillion e Kabillion Girls Rule! they are expanding their late summer programming to entertain children and families throughout August and September. These include seasonal episodes of LEGO City Jungle Rumble e Barbie: The Sweetest Journey as well as the premiere of popular series Angry Birds, Monster High Ghoul Squad, Little Baby Bum e Giligilis. Kids can also get into the rhythm of back to school with themed episodes of Dream Defender (Defender of Dreams) and 90s favorites Bobby's World.
Kabillion / Kabillion Girls Rule! are available on most cable and satellite services and streamed to Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Roku, Sling, and XUMO. Kabillion, where they also offer a Free section, where you can find printable / downloadable words and coloring pages with characters and scenes from the various series so that children can unleash their creativity.
Acamar Films signed a new agreement with Amazon Prime Video to bring the last 26 7-minute episodes of Bing in the UK and extend the license of the original 78 episodes for another two years - this means that preschoolers and their adults can now enjoy watching all 104 episodes on Prime Video in the UK The deal also brings season one 26 7-minute episodes. In Italy and Spain, the animated series was a huge success on Prime Video.
Bing can now be used on multiple TV and SVOD services in 130 territories around the world and through Bing: watch, play, learn app (now available in the UK, Italy and Poland). In May, the brand joined its trophy cabinet by winning the Best Property for the Year in Italy activity for 2019.
the Brazilian network Telecine is carrying 16 of the movies Pokémon to be broadcast, celebrating the famous media franchise with a programming event lasting over 24 hours Telecine Fun starting Saturday 29 August at 20:15 All titles will be available on Telecine's streaming service on the same day, inclusive Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo strikes again, the first release in 1998 and one of the most recent productions, Pokémon The Movie: Volcanion and The Mechanical Marvel.
After the June 15th launch of its new free digital service Cartoon Channel! across multiple AVOD and OTT platforms, Genius Brands International has expanded its premium entertainment offerings with the acquisition of approximately 230 new programming episodes, including 148 x 22 'of the # 1 anime phenomenon, Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V, based on the trading card game of Konami.
Genius Brands has also licensed the English-language rights for the 25 x 4 "episodes and the Spanish-language rights for the hit YouTube 5 x 30" episodes. My Dog Chocolate, from Productora Atiempo Ltda., which has over four million subscribers and more than three million daily views and a total of over two billion views. The company also acquired 52 11-minute episodes of the 3D comedy series History of inventions starting from Mondo TV, who follows an eccentric fox inventor who tries to fit into Carrot Town, a place full of rabbits and hopes he will win them over with his big heart and cool gadgets; and 26 x 22 'episodes of Mysteries by Alfred Hedgehog starting from Muse Entertainment, a series that encourages children to explore scientific and team work, where they will have to think, intuit and deduce. Kids can have fun and learn as they solve the puzzles and problems of Alfred's mysterious world!
Leading Canadian manufacturer-distributor for children Nelvana and global children's entertainment company Spin Master secured new international broadcast partners for season 1, Bakugan: Battle Planet (100 x 11 ′) and season 2, Bakugan: Armored Alliance (104 x 11 ′). The new distribution agreements include Netflix (United States, Canada), POP (UK.), 9 Go! (Australia) e Dreamy (Portugal) for ArmoredAlliance, as well as Televisa (Mexico), Dreamia (Portugal), Four Media (Finland), Dexy Co (Serbia) e Show of talents (Croatia) for Battle Planet.
These new distribution agreements add to previously announced broadcast partners including TELETOON (Canada), Cartoon Network (United States, Spain, Italy, Middle East), Gulli and Canal J (France, Africa), POP (United Kingdom), SUPER RTL (Germany), RTL (Netherlands, Hungary, Croatia), TVNZ (New Zealand), Star (Greece), 1 + 1 (Ukraine), POP TV (Slovenia), VMMa (Belgium), M6 (France, Africa ) and Lithuania / SIA (Baltic States).
Bakugan: Armored Alliance follows the adventures of Dan Kouzo and his best friends as the first children on Earth to bond with the mysterious alien creatures known as Bakugan. The fate of not one but two planets rests in the hands of this new breed of Bakugan Brawlers. The new season launched earlier this year on Cartoon Network in the United States and TELETOON in Canada. Along with the new season, Spin Master launched toys in North America in spring 2020, with a new wave of products launched this fall 2020 in the United States and Canada. The toy line will be launched internationally this fall.
International distributor for children and families Jetpack distribution announced an agreement with South Africa's subscription video on demand (SVOD) service Showmax. The deal will see more than 153 hours of content from Jetpack's expanding catalog broadcast across a range of devices in sub-Saharan Africa, including South Africa. The following shows will be available through the service in 2020 and 2021:
- BES ' comic animation Kitty is not a cat (seasons one and two).
- funrise's The animation of worldwide success Rainbow, Butterfly, Unicorn, Kitty (first season).
- MuckpuddyAdventure comedy animation The Barefoot Bandits (The barefoot bandits) (first season).
- 7 Outfit From the animated series Talking Tom and Friends (seasons three to five).
- Samka - Adventure comedy animated series Jamie's Got Tentacles.
- Jam's - Innovative preschool mixed animation series Becca's Bunch (first season).
- Wizart e DibulitoonThe playful preschool animation Yoko (first season).
Wingsing Animation's Series for children on social and emotional learning Gogobus! The show aired prime time on South Korea's major television stations, including CJ Tooniverse, Animax, Daekyo Children's TV e Boomerang, achieving excellent performance in the TV charts among similar cartoons. Meanwhile, the channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCct8vYhWIikm2xUPN2O8xew”> Gogobus YouTube has surpassed one million clicks and thousands of subscribers since launch in April and continues to grow. This edutainment program revolves around an AI school bus that can transform into several different vehicles to protect the safety of children. To date, 156 episodes x 13 'have been released in China. Toys inspired by Gogobus are now on the shelves of major retailers and online stores.
Australia Nine acquired all five seasons of the international Emmy-nominated preschool science animation series Earth to the Moon from the distributor Monster Entertainment. The series had its Australian television premiere on August 24, airing Monday through Friday at 8:30 am 9GO! Furthermore, Joke toys has signed up as an exclusive distributor for Earth to Luna toys and other products licensed in Australia and New Zealand.
The series follows the adventures of Luna a six year old girl, who is completely, undeniably and passionately in love with science. The STEM-based series, which is a co-production by Pinguim Content with Discovery Kids Latin America, is gaining more popularity at a time when schools are closed and children are at home.
Earth to Luna is now available in 96 countries. Recent deals include Condista's Kids Central and Discovery Education (USA), Netflix (NorAm, Asia, Europe), Sky Kids (UK and Ireland), Brand Vida's Kidstream (US, UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand , South Africa), MiniMe Videos from airG (SVOD mobile, US and territories), Ludikids (French-speaking Arica), Hopster, Azoomee, Ceska (Czech Republic), Adventure2Learning (classroom, NorAm), Kanopy (libraries and others in English-speaking territories), Discover Kids (MENA), TG4 (Ireland), CJ E&M's English-language channel GEM (South Korea), Minika (Turkey), Amazon Prime and iQiyi (China).
gruffaloUYoung, China's leading children's and family entertainment media company, has acquired six family-favorite movies Magic Light Pictures for its teaching UKids SVOD app and service: the only Chinese platform for learning English for preschoolers. Available on OTT, iOS, and Android, the app contains a wide range of content specially selected for its educational value, ranging from STEM, arts and crafts and nature to socio-emotional programming. The app's English learning elements were developed in collaboration with the British Council.
The famous and award-winning animated Magic Light specials included in the offer are: The Gruffalo, Gruffalo's Son, Room on the Broom, Stick Man, The Highway Rat e Zog. Based on the much-loved children's picture books written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler, the films were first shown to an audience of millions on the BBC as part of its Christmas programs, for which Magic Light produced. a new festive party. every year for the past seven years.
Boat Rocker Studios, a division of global media company Boat Rocker Media, has announced a series of television sales for new quirky preschool series, Love Monster (54 x 7 ′). After the successful launch of the series on CBeebies in late January and achieving more than 6 million iPlayer views to date, many international broadcast partners have joined.
Radio and television sales include national public service broadcasters ABC Australia, CBC Gem Canada, RTE Ireland, Yle Finland e TVNZ New Zeland; MBC, the largest and leading private media company in the Middle East; Registration channel for Iberian children Panda Channel for Spain; and free channel Viu TV in Hong Kong. The international launch began with ABC Australia in June 2020.
Based on Rachel Bright's bestselling preschool books and produced by Boat Rocker Studios, BBC Children's In-House Productions and China UYoung, the 2D series shows how each day the one-of-a-kind hero Love Monster can embrace the opportunity to embark on all kinds of great adventures with his friends in Fluffytown, where, together, they learn all sorts of little life lessons. .
Free platform TV Educa Chile started broadcasting Learning Time with Timmy - Let's learn time with Timmy, a worldwide educational television series aimed at young children learning English as a second language. The series was created in the UK through a collaboration between the British Council, a world leader in teaching English, e Aardman, the renowned British animation studio behind Chicken Run, Wallace & Gromit e Shaun the Sheep.
Learning the time with Timmy helps children acquire new vocabulary through themed activities and songs. The series is enriched with additional material for children and advice for parents, accessible on the official YouTube channel.
Award-winning content creation, distribution and licensing studio An animation has secured a number of international deals with broadcasters in Europe, Latin America and across Asia Pacific for the final third season (60 x 7 ') and specials of the beloved global preschool comedy oddbods:
- teleTOON+ (a channel of the Canal + group) in France e TV3 Catalonia in Spain I am also on board for season 3 Turner Latin America. MangoTV (China) has resumed the third season and new content in short form.
- One Animation's appointed agent for Asia (excluding China), Bomanbridge Media, added new offers for long-running series and seasonal specials. Juggernaut's children's stations include Eastern Broadcasting YoYo (Taiwan), mediacorp (Singapore) and RTV (Indonesia).
- ABC (Australia) acquired a second season of oddbods short-form compilation, while new VOD platforms are joining the party too. AVOD platform Pipes is on air oddbods abbreviated form and other One Animation content in the United States, United Kingdom, Latin America and Australia, iQiYi Taiwan is facing long-running seasons one and two, while Malaysia Astro acquired the VOD rights for the first season and for the "Zee Force Five" special.
