London-based Zenith Ent. and Barcelona’s Neptuno Films have renewed their animation co-production and co-financing agreement for a second season of King Arthur’s Disasters. The companies will produce 13 additional half hours of the comedy series for air on CiTV this September. The first season is set to begin its digital run this spring on Nickelodeon U.K.
King Arthur’s Disasters follows the epic adventures of the legendary title monarch, who sets out on various quests to satisfy Guinevere’s need for exotic presents in the vain hope that she will finally agree to marry him. Based on an original idea by Paul Parkes and Will Ashurst, the 13×30 series features the voices of Brit comics Rik Mayall, Matt Lucas, Phil Cornwell and Morwenna Banks.
Julian Scott, head of children’s drama and animation at Zenith, comments, ‘The first series was greeted with great critical and commercial success and it is exciting to be working with Neptuno again. We look forward to building on the international sales with this second season.’
Zenith will deficit finance the show and retain distribution rights with the exception of Spanish/Brazilian speaking territories, which are reserved for Neptuno. Both companies will finance the series and Cake Ent. Ltd will distribute in key territories for Zenith.
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