Cartoon Network has acquired broadcast rights to three Marathon Media properties: the fifth season of Totally Spies!, Totally Spies! The Movie and a new series called Amazing Spiez.
The latter is a 52 x 26 min. boy-skewing spy comedy series produced by the France-based Marathon Media and distributed by Zodiak Entertainment.
Marathon says the sale makes it the only European production company to have sold each of its animated programs over the past five years to major U.S. channels or networks.
‘There is no other non-American series as long-lived and successful as Totally Spies!,’ says Vincent Chalvon Demersay, CEO of Marathon Media. ‘Some episodes have aired more than 70 times in the U.S. and 45 times in France, making it our most widely watched animation property to date.’
