Technicolor’s new team for developing and producing animated content for broadcast has acquired rights to Pete & Pickles by award-winning cartoonist Berkeley Breathed.
Technicolor’s team will be headed by animation industry veterans Jean MacCurdy and Fonda Snyder, who will work with VP of digital productions Steven Wendland.
‘We are honored that Technicolor’s initial entry into content development is Pete & Pickles, and we are thrilled and humbled by Berkeley Breathed’s trust in partnering with Technicolor to produce a series that will be true to his creation,’ says Sarnoff.
Breathed is best known for his comic strip Bloom County, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize, and its follow-up, Opus.
“I told the folks at Technicolor that the only way I could get lured to the world of small screen pixels is if a company were to declare their intent to make the coolest, most unique animated show for children’s television — one that shakes up the art-form like my son shakes the grocery bag full of eggs just because it’s fun,’ Breathed says.
MacCurdy was the former president of Warner Bros. Animation, and Snyder was the co-founder and former president of Storyopolis Productions and former VP of original movies with Disney Channel.
Wendland joined Technicolor in 2008 as the vice president of animation after working in animation at Mainframe Entertainment for 10 years.
