Kids in Germany will be introduced to DECODE Ent.’s popular animated children’s series Franny’s Feet through a pay TV rights deal with The Disney Channel in that country. In Asia Pacific, Cartoon Network Korea has picked up all 78 11-minute episodes, while Cartoon Network Taiwan is renewing all episodes of the educational show about a young girl whose magical shoes can take here anywhere.
Commissioned by Five in the U.K. and Canada’s Family Channel, Franny’s Feet has Franny putting on a new pair of shoes each episode in order to travel around the world and through time to meet interesting people and learn about their way of life. The show is now in its second season and has been a ratings success on PBS in the U.S. and on major international channels including ABC Australia, France 5, Cartoon Network in Japan and Taiwan, Italy’s Rai, TV2 Denmark and TV12 Singapore.
Other new international broadcast deals for the series have seen TVP1 in Poland pick up season two, along with alongside season one interstitials, and MBC3 in the Middle East renewing all episodes and interstitials. Meanwhile, MediaWay in Poland has acquired home video rights to both seasons. To date, DECODE has secured more than 80 television broadcast and home video agreements for the series, making it available in more than 150 countries.
PLAYSKOOL, a division of Hasbro Inc., has been granted the worldwide master toy and game license for Franny’s Feet, and will release a line of dolls, accessories, role play items, games and puzzles in 2008. In addition, Penguin Group and Simon & Schuster have come on board as publishing partners and will release lines of story and activity books in 2008.
