While its new interactive series Face Academy and CG shorts series The Owl generated a good deal of interest at MIPCOM last month, TV-Loonland inked a number of deals with major pay TV and terrestrial broadcasters for its other animated properties at the market. Buyers were particularly keen on Little Princess and seasoned properties Transformers and My Little Pony.
Little Princess, which has already been sold to ZDF Germany, SVT Sweden, DR Denmark, NRK Norway, YLE Finland and ABC Australia, was picked up at MICPOM by RUV Iceland, MNET South Africa/Africa, ATV Hong Kong and Minimax Hungary. Another 35 episodes of the series have been ordered into production for delivery in late 2007.
As the Transformers property celebrates it 20th Anniversary and makes it way to the big screen via DreamWorks, TV-Loonland has inked a new DVD deal for the cartoon classic with Selecta Vision in Spain, and a TV deal in Canada with YTV. Other evergreen, toy-based franchises are performing well for the company. My Little Pony was snatched up by CCTV in China, MNET in South Africa and Cartoon Network in India and the Philippines for air in the near future, while offers for home video deals are coming in from Spain, Portugal and Germany.
Among other deals TV-Loonland closed at MIPCOM is a home video pact with distributor TriNet International in Japan for Little Ghosts, which will soon air on Cartoon Network Japan and TPS France. Both broadcasters have also renewed the first season of Connie The Cow, while TV3 New Zealand re-licensed the Cramp Twins.
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