Instant Star has found new life in Latin America, where all four seasons of the teen drama have been picked up by Boomerang, just as its sister series Degrassi: The Next Generation prepares to move to MuchMusic.
The Turner-owned Boomerang will dub all 52 episodes of Instant Star in Spanish and start airing them in March.
‘We anticipate that the universal appeal of the series… to be a huge success with our teenage audience,’ said Vicki Zambrano, channel director of Boomerang Latin America in a statement.
The series by Toronto’s Epitome Pictures originally aired on CTV, running unpredictably in the spring and summer after its 2004 launch, and with more regularity in the U.S. on MTV-owned Nick. It launched the career of star and singer Alexz Johnson — seen recently on Smallville and in Final Destination 3 and due to release her debut album, Voodoo, in March.
Instant Star also ran on MuchMusic, said to be the new home of Epitome’s flagship series Degrassi: TNG. The erstwhile music channel has aired D:TNG before, but with the upcoming tenth season is understood to be the teen drama’s new, first-run home; sidestepping from CTV.
Echo Bridge Entertainment has previously sold Instant Star to Canal J in France, Spain’s Antena 3, Israel’s Noga Communications and others.