Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Animate Globally

The Hollywood Reporter tells us:

Sprout, NBC/Universal Cable Entertainment's 24-hour preschool network, has greenlighted a new animated series, plus three holiday specials based on original series, as part of its effort to ramp up original programming. In addition, the cable network has renewed Ruff-Ruff, Tweet and Dave for a second season.

New series Kody Kapow centers on a Chinese-American boy named Kody who spends the summer with his grandparents in a small village in China. His grandfather, a martial arts master, teaches Kody ancient lessons of mindfulness, which Kody employs as he and his cousin Hana set off on adventures in the village on a quest to solve problems and help their neighbors.

The series is created by Alexander Bar and developed for television by Robin Stein and Dan Franklin. Eryk Casemiro is executive producing for Zodiak Kids Studios, with the animation to be produced by Canadian studio Arc Productions. ...

Zodiak Kids Studio operates out of London in the United Kingdom, where Free Money roams far and wide, particularly if you're part of the filmed entertainment biz.

Just one more example of cartoons that are made on other parts of the globe, and pop up on the big flat screen inside your home.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Speaking of free money, have you seen any of these articles popping up around the web?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/18/states-film-tax-credits_n_7306342.html
The era of tax credits in the US may be nearing an end.

Unknown said...

It's not free. In most cases, it's known as "taxpayer rape." Especially in the sad, sad case of louisiana--a state where it's more commonly known as "repeated self rape."

Steve Hulett said...

Well, it's not free to the tax payers, never is.

Free to the fine large entertainment conglomerates among us.

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