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| Tue Jun 3, 2008 Thunderbird Films Announce German and French deals... | |
| ZDF and France 5 acquire TV rights to animation series Zigby.... French broadcaster France 5 and German broadcaster ZDF have acquired free-TV rights to the CGI animated preschool series Zigby from EM. Entertainment GmbH. Both France 5 and ZDF have acquired the broadcast rights to the new preschool series (52 x 11-minute episodes) which is produced by Avrill Stark Entertainment Pty Ltd., Zebra (I) Productions Inc. and Big Animation Pte Ltd - in association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Canada's Treehouse. Completion of the series is scheduled for December 2008. Zigby,the series is based on HarperCollins Children's Books wildly popular literary character Zigby -- "The Zebra Who Trots Into Trouble" The story centers on the adventures of zebra, Zigby, who has a lively imagination and comes up with offbeat ideas -- getting him and his friends into "trouble"... HarperCollins Children's Books first published Zigby, created by children's author Brian Paterson, in November 2002. The series has now been extended to five picture books and four board books sold in 15 different countries. For more information contact: Thunderbird Films Inc. Melissa Wilson 604-683-3555 melissa@thunderbirdfilms.net Zigby © Avrill Stark Entertainment Pty Ltd., Zebra (I) Productions Inc., Big Animation Pte Ltd. All rights reserved. Produced Avrill Stark Entertainment Pty Ltd, Zebra (I) Productions Inc. and Big Animation Pte Ltd. in association with Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Treehouse TV. Original concept, characters and illustrations created by Brian Paterson. Produced with the financial participation of Shaw Rocket Fund, Canadian Television Fund, British Columbia Film Incentive and Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit and with the assistance of the Media Development Authority Singapore. An Australia- Canada- Singapore Official Co-Production. | |
