PRODUCT NEWS NERD CORPS ENTERTAINMENT
ENDANGERED Species (26 x 22 mins) is Nerd Corps Entertainment’s newest comedy series for kids six to 11, which follows a mismatched family of animals who live in a stump — Pickle the adrenaline-junkie bunny, Merl the safety-conscious squirrel, and Gull the naive but adoring seagull. Nerd Corps has also partnered with Shout! Factory and Screenvision to bring the Slugterra franchise to the big screen. The new 70-minute movie, Rise Of The Elementals continues the story from the TV series and the first Slugterra TV movie, Ghoul From Beyond. Endangered Species (Nerd Corps Entertainment)
ZDF ENTERPRISES
RUSTY Knight [52 x 13 mins/HD) stars a knight built from an old cash register and assorted scrap metal pieces who thinks he’s the coolest knight in Scrapland. The company also brings: pre-school series Q Pootle 5 (52 x 11 mins/HD); live-action series Sam Fox: Extreme Adventures (26 x 26 mins/ HD); New Adventures Of Peter Pan (26 x 22 mins/ HD/3D); Lassie And Friends (26 x 22 mins/HD); and Jungle Book (104 x 11 mins/1 x 60 mins/HD). PLANETA JUNIOR
SPAIN-headquartered producer and distributor Planeta Junior is highlighting three co-productions at MIPTV: Bubble Bip, a new 26-episode pre-school series about a character from an action video game who decides to escape to the real world; two series of Sendokai Champions, about four friends with no talent for sports, who have to learn the art of Sendokai to win the Great Multiverse Tournament in order to save the planet; and Egyxos, due for completion later this year which is set in an ancient Egyptian civilisation lost in space and time. Bubble Bip (Planeta Junior)
SABAN BRANDS
SABAN Brands returns to MIPTV with Julius Jr., based on characters created by Paul Frank, which is due to launch on Disney Junior in Italy, and anime series Digimon Fusion. The series airs on Nicktoons and Vortexx on The CW in the US, CITV in the UK and YTV in Canada, and broadcast on Cartoon Network Latin America later this year. STUDIO 100 MEDIA
NEW 2D series Knietzsche is targeted at five- to 12-year-olds and features the world’s smallest philosopher who examines the major questions in life. Sometimes funny, sometimes comforting, the series mixes education with comedy. Produced by vision X Film und Fernsehproduktion, the series is distributed worldwide by Germany’s Studio 100 Media, excluding Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Knietzsche (Studio 100 Media)
AADARSH PVT
INDIA-based IP development company, Aadarsh is at MIPTV to showcase the first episode of Purple Turtle, a new pre-school animation based on the books of the same name, to international broadcasters and possible co-production partners. The series (78 x 7 mins, 3D/HD) is currently in development for delivery in 2015. BRB INTERNACIONAL
CO-PRODUCED by Aardman, VoozClub and Screen 21, and brought to MIPTV by Spain’s BRB Internacional, Canimals (52 x 7 mins), is a comedy that combines animation and real live images to tell the story of little characters in the shape of tin cans. The complete series is now available in the US on Hulu along with other BRB titles including Bernard, Suckers and Angus&Cheryl. Canimals (BRB Internacional)
SUPERIGHTS
SUPERIGHTS is at MIPTV with new animation series Boyster (52 x 13 mins), from Paris-based producer Je Suis Bien Content. Currently in production, the series will be broadcast on Disney XD in Europe, Middle East, Africa and the USA and France 3.
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