TELETOON, Canada’s 24-hour animation broadcast outlet, has entered into seven new development partnerships with independent Canadian producers. The raft of new projects will be spread out across the network’s core programming blocks, including its kids and after-school line-up, as well as its successful teen/young adult-targeted The Detour on TELETOON.
The Original Production team at TELETOON will oversee the development process on Foolish Girl from Toronto-based CCI Ent., The Ghost Fiddler of Sable Island from Ottawa-based Amberwood Prods., Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins from Toronto-based Portfolio Ent., Iggy Arbuckle Nature Freak from Toronto-based Blueprint Ent., Jimmy Two-Shoes from Toronto-based Breakthrough Ent., Road Hogs from Montreal-based producers Cité-Amérique and Poussière d’étoile from Les Productions Vic Pelletier, in collaboration with Studio Art Média of Québec City.
Dark humor is the order of the day in Foolish Girl, based on the cartoon strip created by Canadian underground artist Vesna Mostovac and published in NOW and Exclaim! The show will follow the exploits of a neurotic, guy-needing and angst-ridden 17 year-old girl.
The Ghost Fiddler of Sable Island is a special that will employ classical 2D animation to expand on the romantic Canadian folklore of the Sable Island horses, which are said to be descended from shipwreck survivors. When a streetwise teenage girl is forced to spend the summer with relatives on the island, she develops a friendship with a legendary ghost fiddler who assists her in rescuing a mare in distress.
Hershel And The Hanukkah Goblins is a holiday special adapted from author Eric A. Kimmel’s tale about a boy who outwits the goblins that haunt the old synagogue and prevent the village people from celebrating Hanukkah.
TELETOON and Blueprint Ent. are partnering with National Geographic Kids’ Programming and Production on the 2D Flash series Iggy Arbuckle Nature Freak, a series, created by Guy Vasilovich (Moville Mysteries, Hey Arnold!).
Aimed at kids 6-9 set, the show focuses on a nature-loving pig and his sidekick, a daredevil beaver named Jiggers. Blueprint’s stop-motion sketch comedy series, The Wrong Coast, is set to launch on TELETOON this fall.
Jimmy Two-Shoes targets the K-12 set with the tales of an ever-optimistic boy who keeps his cheery demeanour despite being sent to hell instead of heaven upon his death.
Slated to join the Detour lineup, Road Hogs will combine 2D and 3D to bring the concept of the road movie to animated television. The show will follow what happens when two teenagers head out for the summer hoping to meet as many girls as possible.
Poussière d’étoile is described as the charming tale of Simon and Camille, young twin siblings who find themselves miniaturized after eating candy made of star dust. In order to find the antedote, they must undertake a perilous journey to the North Pole.
TELETOON recently offered sneak peeks at new fall offerings, including original productions Carl 2 and Delilah & Julius, as well as Gerald McBoing Boing, Cookie Jar’s new series based on the classic Dr. Seuss tale and the 1951 Oscar-winning UPA toon short produced by John Hubley.
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