Sinking Ship Entertainment has joined forces with Australian studio Cheeky Little Media to coproduce the new CG-animated series Flower & Flour (39 x 7 minutes).

ABC (Australia) and Canadian broadcasters TVOKids, Radio-Canada and Knowledge Network have co-ordered the series, which should be ready to go in 2026. The series has received funding from Screen Australia, the Canada Media Fund, the Shaw Rocket Fund and Screen NSW.

Targeting four- to seven-year-olds, Flower & Flour revolves around the escapades of a young girl and her best friend — a bag of flour that acts like a cat — as they help run her family’s dumpling restaurant in a bustling metropolis. The concept was created by Dan Mansour (Spongo, Fuzz & Jalapena).

Sinking Ship is doing the animation work and distributing the series worldwide with HOPR Media, while Cheeky Little Commercial takes the lead on brand management.

For Sinking Ship, Flower & Flour plays into an ongoing strategy to expand its animation portfolio. The Toronto-based studio produced Builder Brothers Dream Factory for Corus in Canada, and then branched out into service work with SpongeBob: Saving Bikini Bottom for Netflix.

“We’ve admired Cheeky Little Media and their wonderful collection of shows for a long time. We’ve been eager to collaborate with them, and as soon as they introduced us to Flower & Flour, we were captivated,” said Carla De Jong, Sinking Ship’s head of coproduction and international partnerships, in a statement. “These lovable characters bring such a perfect blend of humour and charm that we knew we had found the ideal project to work on together.”

This story originally appeared in Kidscreen

Image courtesy of Sinking Ship Entertainment/Cheeky Little Media