The UK broadcaster has ordered new original series
Dodo from Bristol-based Wildseed Studios for a June premiere. The 20 x 10-minute animated comedy follows along as a young boy starts his first year of middle school and always ends up overcoming embarrassing situations.
Dodo was created by Jack Bennett and is based on his eight-minute animated short
Not The End of the World. Wildseed is producing the series in association with Birkdale Film and Television, India’s Toonz Media Group and Ireland’s Telegael.
NHK
First Day (four x 30 minutes) from the Australian Children’s Television Foundation.
NHK acquired the 18-minute film that inspired the series back in 2019, and now it plans to premiere the series in June as part of its Inclusion Week programming stunt.
Counting With Paula aims to teach numeracy, literacy and social skills
Catalonian broadcaster TV3 has picked up preschool animated series Counting With Paula from Singapore-based Omen Studios.
TV3 has bought both free-to-air and digital rights to seasons four and five of the show, while international multi-language pay TV channel ZooMoo Networks has picked up worldwide rights to S3.
S5 has also been acquired by US-based Future Today for Happy Kids TV in the UK, Canada and the US. Japan’s Me Interactive has also secured rights to S4-5 for Enfan TV.
Through separate deals, S1-3 are now available on Canadian streamer Kidoodle.TV and S4 is available on Amazon Prime in the US.