Top Mexican broadcaster Televisa has purchased free TV rights to Taffy Ent.’s animated series Growing Up Creepie and The Fantastic Four. The deal was completed in partnership with Hola Ent., the Latin America agent for Taffy, a worldwide distribution, brand management and entertainment company with offices in Paris, Los Angeles, London and Shanghai.
Growing Up Creepie takes an irreverent look at adolescence through the eyes of 12-year old Creepie Creecher, a young girl abandoned as a baby and raised by a family of bugs. With a praying mantis mother, a vampire mosquito father and a gnat and pill bug for brothers, Creepie now has to deal with the most bizarre and unpredictable species on the planet’human teenagers. The show won a Pulcinella Award at Cartoons on the Bay and was nominated for an Emmy in its first season.Produced by Mike Young Prods. and Discovery Kids, in association with DAG Ent., Sunwoo Ent./Peach Blossom and Telegael Teoranta, the series airs in the U.S. on Discovery Kids, and launched last fall on Nickelodeon Latin America.
Based on the Marvel Comics superhero property, Fantastic Four is co-produced by MoonScoop and Marvel, with the participation of Cartoon Network Europe and M6. Taffy holds distribution rights outside the U.S., with Marvel handling U.S. television and subsequent DVD distribution rights and worldwide merchandising. Throughout Latin America, the show can also be found on pay TV on Cartoon Network Latin America.
