DECODE, Aardman Sell Sketch to Cartoon Network Asia Pacific

Cartoon Network Asia Pacific has acquired broadcast rights to the animated kids series Planet Sketch, a co-production of DECODE Ent. and Aardman Animations. Since debuting at MIPCOM in October, the 13 x 11 series, commissioned by CiTV and Teletoon, has also sold to Cartoon Network Latin America, ABC Australia and South African broadcaster M-Net.

Aimed at 7-11 year olds, Planet Sketch is a rapid-fire sketch comedy format featuring a cast of recurring characters that include the mean and moody Street Rappers, the gross-out prank-loving Gnaughty Gnomes and the flatulent Parping Ponies.

Toronto, Canada-based producer and distributor DECODE Ent. counts among its properties the animated television series Naughty Naughty Pets, Bromwell High, The Save-Ums, Franny’s Feet, King and Angela Anaconda. Based in Bristol, England, Aardman Animations is best known as the creator of DreamWorks Animation’s clay-animated features Chicken Run and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, and is currently in production on its first CG feature, Flushed Away, also for DreamWorks. Another iron in the fire at Aardman is an Americanized version of its hit animated British TV series, Creature Comforts.