Universal Pictures International Ent. has snatched up international DVD rights to the all 52 episodes comprising the first season of Bernard, a CG-animated children’s series from BRB Internacional. The show has been sold in 50 countries to date, but this latest deal marks the first time the Spanish company has entered into such a wide-ranging alliance covering so many countries. Universal has also acquired U.K. mobile rights to the series.
Bernard is an unusually clumsy polar bear who gets into one misadventure after another on his anarchic journey around the world. Joining him on his journey are penguins Lloyd and Eva, a lizard named Zack and a bad-tempered little dog named Goliath. Universals two-disc DVD release will include such extras as storyboards, artists’ sketches, animatics and a karaoke activity.
The series airs on Cartoon Network in the U.S. and can be seen around the world on such broadcasters as M6 and Teletoon in France, KIK in Germany, BBC in the U.K., Mediaset and Nickelodeon in Italy, TVE and Jetix in Spain, SVT in Sweden, DR in Denmark, MUZ in Russia, TV Samanyolu in Turkey, Disney in Latin America, ABC in Australia, Radio Canada in Canada, Victory IP in the Middle East, EBS in South Korea and M-Net in Africa.
In addition to being distributed to mobile phones in the U.K. by Universal, Bernard will be available to mobile subscribers in Austria through carrier OHM, while Materna handles the property’s mobile presence in Germany and Switzerland, and Kitio Mobile in Croatia and Slovenia. BRB is now at work on 52 new episodes for a second season.
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