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Your Family Entertainment Sindbad & the 7 Galaxies / Eena, Meena, Deeka / Badanamu At MIPCOM, Your Family Entertainment’s (YFE) highlights include Sindbad & the 7 Galaxies as well as Eena, Meena, Deeka and Badanamu. “All three of these shows are beautifully produced with appealing characters, strong writing and compelling stories for kids,” says Armin Schnell, the executive VP of sales at YFE. The 26x11-minute animated adventure/sci-fi series Sindbad & the 7 Galaxies is about an extraterrestrial, Sindbad, living his life on Earth as a 14-year-old boy with his friends Zac, Lana and Lee. The three siblings Eena, Meena and Deeka are the central characters in the slapstick comedy that carries their names. The characters all live peacefully, until a hungry fox walks in with evil plans. The 73-episode preschool series Badanamu is billed as a comedic edutainment series, done in 3D, that features catchy songs and joyful dances. Besides its licensing operations, YFE operates a fast-growing TV channel network currently broadcasting in Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa, as well as Latin, Central and Northern America, available in local languages. “The next phase of development will be the addition of new content and first-run shows to all the feeds, and new platform and broadcast partners to carry the channel,” says Schnell. “Our overall goal is to build the Fix&Foxi channel into a global kids’ brand, so further launches in other markets will follow in 2016.”
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“As a full-service company and a channel operator, we are constantly expanding our highly entertaining and educational portfolio of 3,500 half-hours, which will strongly appeal to all broadcasters, VOD and OTT platforms worldwide.” —Armin Schnell
ZDF Enterprises Mako Mermaids / H2O: Mermaid Adventures / Coconut, the Little Dragon ZDF Enterprises’ ZDFE.junior catalogue is home to a number of live-action hits, including the popular H2O: Just Add Water and Mako Mermaids franchises. For MIPCOM, the company has a third season of Mako Mermaids to offer buyers, as well as an animated mermaid series, H2O: Mermaid Adventures. Mako Mermaids comes from Jonathan M. Shiff Productions, while the mermaid series H2O: Mermaid Adventures comes from Les Cartooneurs Associés and Fantasia Animation. “We are not just the ‘Home of Mermaids’—starting off the worldwide mermaid mania with the international distribution of series such as H2O: Just Add Water and Mako Mermaids—we also have an enormous selection of highquality animation and live-action productions for all target groups,” says Peter Lang, the VP of ZDFE.junior. There’s also the animated preschool series Coconut, the Little Dragon from Caligari Film- und Fernsehproduktions. The series is based on a best-selling book property that has sold more than 6 million copies worldwide. “Our kids’ slate is comprised of high-end series produced with renowned partners in the industry, many of them through international co-productions,” says Lang. “As such, the content is created by an ensemble of great international partners, thus ensuring that the storytelling is universal and can travel across cultural borders.”
“ZDF Enterprises’ department for children’s and youth programs, ZDFE.junior, has a vast catalogue with anything that any programmer might possibly need to satisfy the viewing hunger of young audiences.” —Peter Lang
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