Cookie Jar Ent.’s newest original animated series, Magi-Nation, has found North American broadcast homes in Kids’ WB! on The CW in the U .S., Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and Radio-Canada. The networks have all signed on to air the first 26 episodes of the show, which is the latest entry in Cookie Jar’s expanding action-adventure brand, Coliseum.
A co-production of Cookie Jar and South Korea’s Daiwon, Magi-Nation follows the adventures of 15-year-old Tony Jones, whose world is forever changed when he is mystically transported into Magi Nation, a beautiful world created millennia ago by a powerful race known as the Magi. Here Tony meets Edyn and Strag, two young Magi heroes in training, who help him protect the Moonlands of Magi Nation from the evil Shadow Magi using their vast collection of Dream Creatures.
‘With the multi-platform capabilities of Magi-Nation, the series will organically extend its animated adventures’and Kids’ WB! branded entertainment’far beyond the television screen,’ says Betsy McGowen, senior VP and general manager of Kids’ WB!
The series is based on the Magi-Nation game originally developed and published by Interactive Imagination Corp. Kids will also be able to keep up with the characters via mobile and internet content.
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