The 9 Story Media Group-produced animated series has been licensed to the U.K.’s CBeebies.
Toronto’s Jam Filled Entertainment is animating the 52 x 11-minute series, which is set to launch in fall 2023.
Drama, serialized content and Shakespeare? Over at the BBC’s CBeebies, kids content is (sort of) growing up.
The U.K. broadcaster has ordered 25 more episodes of Ragdoll Productions and DHX Media’s preschool series.
U.K. broadcaster CBeebies has commissioned 25 new episodes of the preschool series.
The first project on the dev slate from the new partnership is Pepi, based on a series of best-selling books from Laura Ljungkvist.
Canada’s DHX Media and U.K.-based Darral Macqueen are producing 60 new episodes of the series for CBeebies in the U.K.
The international co-production involves Toronto kids’ programming specialists Guru Studios and Canuck children’s broadcaster Treehouse along with the U.K.’s Impossible Kids, Kindle Entertainment and CBeebies.
The American preschool TV channel follows BBC’s Cbeebies, TVO and Knowledge Network in acquiring the kids series based on Mick Inkpen’s Wibbly Pig book series.
The UK pubcaster has picked up the stop-motion preschool series from DHX Media and Wildbrain Entertainment for another 26 11-minute episodes, to be produced and animated in the UK by Three Stones Media.