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Product News MIPJunior Preview highlights some of the content on sale from around the world at MIPJunior, and onwards at MIPCOM LITTLE AIRPLANE PRODUCTIONS NEW 2D-animated property for pre-
MEDIATOON DISTRIBUTION FRANCE’s Mediatoon Distribution is
schoolers, P.King Duckling (52 x 11 mins) is aimed at 4- to 7-year-olds and features the adventurous but hapless bird with his friends Wombat and Chumpkins. The co-production from New York-based Little Airplane Productions and China’s UYoung aims to encourage children to see setbacks in a positive light and keep on dreaming, imagining and doing.
highlighting two of its latest series at MIPCOM. The Crumpets, already picked up by Canal+ Family, features an oddball family including Ma who is busy inventing revolutionary machines and a money-making Granny. Linkers, prebought by Gulli, follows five teen heroes who find that their online friend and game designer Cassiel is trapped inside his own video game.
CYBER GROUP STUDIOS NEW EPISODES of Mini Ninjas (52 x 11 mins 2D/HD) are brought to MIPCOM by Cyber Group Studios, a coproduction based on a video game and app, from Cyber, TF1 Production and Enamination. The French producer and distributor also brings the second season of Zou (104 x 11 mins), which aims to teach young viewers valuable lessons about family and growing up; and the first episodes of Zorro The Chronicles (26 x 22 mins), a CG-animated series featuring the masked swordsman, produced by Cyber for France Televisions and RAI.
KARTUN STUDIOS MALAYSIA’s Kartun Studios is prioritising
The Crumpets (Mediatoon Distribution) P.King Duckling (Little Airplane Productions)
FREMANTLEMEDIA KIDS & FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT DANGER Mouse, a popular secret agent animated character from the 1980s, makes his return at MIPCOM in a 52 x 11-minute series co-produced by the UK’s CBBC, FremantleMedia Kids & Family Entertainment and Boulder Media. The series features new characters, gadgets and high-tech vehicles.
GENIUS BRANDS INTERNATIONAL (GBI) THOMAS Edison’s Secret Lab is a new animated series developed with American Public Television, scheduled to premiere in 2015, and brought to MIPCOM by Genius Brands International. With the pilot episode written by Emmy-nominated Steve Banks (SpongeBob SquarePants), the 52 x 11-minute episodes of the multimedia property encourage kids to engage in the fun and exploration of science with 12-year-old prodigy Angie and her science club. They discover a scientist’s ultimate dream lab, including two of Edison’s very last inventions: a hologram that brings Mr. Edison himself “to life,” and a robot named Von Bolt.
three titles at MIPCOM: Geckoman features a superhero created after an accident in a school science lab, aimed at eight- to 11-year-olds; Rex Squared, about six-year-old Rex and his adventures through literary classics with his dinosaur toy; and Ribbit, a 3D-animated series based on an animated feature film about an adventurous frog and his friends in the Amazon Rainforest and their efforts to foil a megalomaniacal Witch Doctor.
Thomas Edison’s Secret Lab (GBI)
Danger Mouse (FremantleMedia Kids & Family Entertainment)
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