POPPY CAT HEADS INTO PRODUCTION FOR NICK JR. UK LAUNCH – WORLD SCREEN
LONDON: Coolabi has proposed prolongation upon a Nick Jr. UK-commissioned children’s array formed upon a well read impression Poppy Cat.
The series is slated for a 2011 launch upon a network. Ahead of a launch, a uncover has already been sole to Nick Jr. Australia, RTE in Ireland, YLE in Finland, TV2 in Norway as well as Canada’s TVO, SCN as well as Knowledge Network. CAKE Entertainment handles a tellurian placement for a series, which will be a prominence during MIP Junior in October. In February, Collabi brought upon King Rollo Films as a existence partner for a series.
Michael Dee, Coolabi’s executive of content, said: “We have been really unapproachable to be investing in existence in a lead market, quite when a U.K. existence attention is carrying appropriation hurdles during present. We have been gratified to be operative in as well as with both Nick Jr. as well as King Rollo Films in a U.K. to move Poppy Cat’s adventures to hold up for audiences opposite a globe.”
Debbie Macdonald, Nickelodeon UK’s VP as well as programming director, commented: “We have been gay which prolongation of Poppy Cat is office building up a genuine conduct of steam in a consultant hands of Coolabi as well as King Rollo Films, as well as you can’t wait for to move a array to U.K. audiences in 2011.”
Leo Nielsen, owners as well as co-founder of King Rollo Films, added: “Poppy Cat is a single of a many sparkling as well as visually constrained array you have produced, as well as it is sparkling to see a prolongation receiving shape. The U.K. has an huge birthright of peculiarity children’s programming as well as we’re intensely gratified which Coolabi as well as Nick Jr. motionless to keep prolongation upon home soil.”
