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Product News CINERAMA BRASILIS LEO AND Lisa — The Adventures Of Little Da Vinci (26 x 11 mins) is set in a small village where Leo spends his days drawing and inventing. The father of his best friend Lisa wants to steal his inventions, but Leo is aided by the mysterious Druidess in the forest.
NHK
VERALIA
THINK Like A Crow! — The Scientific Method is brought to MIPCOM by Japan’s NHK. With its title taken from one of Aesop’s Fables in which a crow cleverly uses pebbles to drink water from the bottom of a pitcher, this educational series aims to teach children the four steps of the scientific method: observation, hypothesis, experiment, and evaluation. Humorous segments demonstrate the first three steps, and the audience is left to think about the evaluation.
SPAIN’s Veralia brings its new series Magic Mania (26 x 11 mins) to MIPCOM. The show teaches youngsters how to build magic tricks using household materials such as glue and paper.
Leo And Lisa — The Adventures Of Little Da Vinci (Cinerama Brasilis)
Magic Mania (Veralia)
HENSON INDEPENDENT PROPERTIES (HIP)
SONY CREATIVE PRODUCTS
ELIAS the rescue boat first gained popularity as a children’s book in Norway, and is now rolling out as an entertainment brand from HIP (Henson Independent Properties), The Jim Henson Company’s distribution and licensing banner, which has recently acquired rights for global consumer products and media distribution. MIPCOM is the debut for 52 x 11-minute episodes of the CGI pre-school series, Elias: Rescue Team Adventures, in production from Iceland’s Caoz Animation. The series is set to air on Norway’s NRK.
FOOTHILL ENTERTAINMENT SANTA-Barbara, California-based Foothill Entertainment brings pre-school animation Rollie & Friends (52 x 11 mins) to MIPCOM. The CGI series features Rollie the rollercoaster and his friends at Sunshine Cove amusement park. Characters include Charlie the helicopter, Sammy the submarine, Flash the spaceship and his best friend Tootie.
Rollie & Friends (Foothill Entertainment)
Think Like A Crow! — The Scientific Method (NHK)
BEYOND DISTRIBUTION BEYOND’s new series for MIPCOM features 10-year-old naturalist Robert Irwin, son of Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin, with science geek Isabel Yamazaki in Wild But True, a series exploring how nature and wildlife have influenced modern life.
MOFY, a pre-school series set in a world made of soft cotton puffs, now airs in more than 20 countries and is brought to MIPCOM by Japan’s Sony Creative Products. Season two is due at the end of this year, and the company has greenlit season three, which is scheduled for the end of 2015, bringing the number of episodes to 78. Mofy is a stop-frame animation produced by the Italy’s Misseri Studio.
SCHOLASTIC MEDIA ASTROBLAST!, a co-production between Scholastic Media and the Sprout network, is a pre-school CGI show based on a Scholastic book series. The stories, set on the Astroblast! Space Station, emphasise embracing differences, positive relationships and healthy habits. Scholastic Media, along with Netflix, is set to launch The Magic School Bus 360°, based on Scholastic Media’s series The Magic School Bus. The new CGI series features Ms Frizzle’s class and a high-tech bus that takes children on scientific adventures. The 26 episodes will launch on Netflix in 2016.
Mofy (Sony Creative Products)
NOTTINGHAM FOREST SPAIN’s Nottingham Forest returns to MIPCOM with its series Sendokai Champions, co-produced by Kotoc, TVE and Planeta Junior. The animation series, with transmedia and interactive elements, emphasises friendship, fairplay, teamwork and heroism. Sendokai Champions (Nottingham Forest)
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