Mama Mirabelle’s Home Movies, a new animated preschool series from National Geographic Television & Film’s Kids’ Programming and Production, will premiere at MIPCOM 2005. The project has been greenlit for production and the first episode will be screened at the confab in hopes of generating presales worldwide.
The series’ title character, an elephant, leads an inquisitive cast of baby animal characters, including regulars Bo the cheetah cub, Karla the zebra foal, Max the elephant calf and monkeys Pip, Flip and Chip. Each day, the animals gather in the savannah to watch home videos of themselves and other amazing creatures of the natural world.
Mama Mirabelle’s Home Movies is based on an original concept by Wild Brain animation studio and George Evelyn. The pilot was directed and produced by Leo Nielsen (Wide Eye, Paz, Maisy) of U.K.-based animation house King Rollo Films. The script was written by Andrew Yerkes (Pocoyo, Stanley, Bear in the Big Blue House), with Eve Hall (The Berenstain Bears, Sagwa the Chinese Siamese Cat) serving as educational consultant.
A series of 26 eleven-minute episodes is slated to go into production for delivery in the fall of 2006. National Geographic will be at stand # R29.40 at MIPCOM. More information about the company is available at www.nationalgeographic.com.
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