VOOM HD Networks’ Animania HD channel will kick off new episodes of the animated series Lola & Virginia on Saturday, Oct. 14, at 2:30 p.m. (EST). Two 12-minute episodes will air back-to-back, filling 13 half-hour programming blocks this month. The show will air regularly on Saturdays and Sundays in the 2:30 p.m. timeslot, repeating at 7:30 p.m. Animania HD will air 13 additional half-hour installments nest year.
Lola and Virginia is a co-production between Icon Animation, Millimages, France 3, TV Catalunya and ETB. The series is based on an original concept by Myriam Ballesteros, who founded Icon with Sergi Reitg. Aimed at the tween demographic, the show chronicles the rivalry between two twelve-year-old girls clashing over friends, boys and clothes. Lola, who lives in a run-down neighborhood and takes care of her irksome brothers, thought she was the local princess until snooty Virginia came to town.
The Flash-animated show premiered on Animania HD in the U.S. last June and on Nickelodeon Latin America in July. Icon holds all distribution rights worldwide except for France, French speaking Switzerland, Benelux, the UK, Ireland, Iceland, Australia and New Zealand, which are held by Millimages.
Featuring new series and specials, along with classic toons remastered to HD quality, Animania HD most recently picked up Gerry Anderson’s New Captain Scarlet, FUNimation Ent.’s anime series Akira Kurosawa’s Samurai 7 and Monster Distributes’ CG cartoons PicMe from Jammedia and Jungle Beat from Sunrise Media. Other offerings include Erky Perky, 2020, Horrible Histories, The Gravediggers Squad, Ratz, Dan Dare’Pilot of the Future and Voltron: The Third Dimension, as well as vintage cartoons The Pink Panther, Dick Tracy, Mr. Magoo and Felix the Cat. Animania HD is one of more than 10 high-definition core channels available through VOOM HD Networks, a subsidiary of Rainbow Media.
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