Rocket man

Studio B Productions’ Being Ian (above) joins Decode Entertainment’s Naturally Sadie, Soapbox Productions’ Heads Up!, Halifax Film Company’s Poko and CCI Entertainment’s Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs as the finalists for the 2006 Shaw Rocket Prize, honoring the best Canadian children’s program for the 12-and-under crowd. The producers of the winning show will receive $50,000. The finalists, selected by an international five-person jury, were announced on Feb. 9 at the KidScreen Summit in New York.