4Kids Ent. Inc. has sewn up a free TV broadcast agreement with ITV Network in the U.K. for the fourth season of the animated favorite Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. A slate of 26 episodes is scheduled to launch on ITV early this year, before production begins on a new season of the action-comedy in late 2006.
The fourth season of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo and Donatello taking on all-new adventures, gaining amazing new allies and facing treacherous new foes. In addition to its deal with ITV, 4Kids Ent. recently locked up season 4 commitments from Mediaset in Italy, TF1 in France, Telecinco in Spain, SIC in Portugal, Alter in Greece, TELETOON Canada and Ten Network in Australia. These networks join a global broadcast lineup of outlets for the new show.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was created in 1984 with the publication of a 40-page, black-and-white, underground comic book by Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman. From the late 1980s through the early 1990s, the property dominated kids’ entertainment with feature films, an animated series and consumer products. The revitalized franchise is set to gather even more momentum in 2007 when Warner Bros. and The Weinstein Co. release a new CG-animated feature film, produced by Imagi Animation Studios in Hong Kong.
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