Bing and Bong, the animated extra-terrestrial stars of the hit, short-form preschool series, Tiny Planets, have a new series coming to the marketplace. Tiny Planets producer Pepper’s Ghost will be shopping Bing & Bong at this year’s MipTV, taking place in Cannes April 11-15. The show will combine Flash and CG animation with live-action to create a new world where the title characters acquire the ability to talk and change colors.
The new series will build on the educational themes of Tiny Planets, extending the viewing experience from five-minute installments to a half-hour format. The show will also introduce new characters like robot Spark and Socket.
The pilot episode, "Blown Away," is focused on the subject of wind. The animated characters help young viewers learn about the movement of air on various planets while live-action sequences taking place on Earth teach children how to make practical and creative use of the wind.
Bing & Bong is a collaboration between Pepper’s Ghost, 2Sides TV and exec producing entities Cake Ent. and the Creative Garden. The companies are aiming to bring 26 episodes to the screen by 2006.
Tiny Planets airs on Nickelodeon’s NOGGIN outlet in the U.S. and is carried around the world by such broadcasters as CiTV in the U.K., Super RTL in Germany, Mediatrade in Italy, tbc in France, NRK in Norway, IBC in Iceland, HRT in Croatia, NHK in Japan, SBS in South Korea, Channel 9 in the Philippines, Astro-Ria in Malaysia, UBC in Thailand, Discovery in Latin America, Televisa in Mexico and CBC in Canada. The property is distributed on home video by StudioWorks Ent.
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