9 Story to Bring Fugget About It to MIPCOM

TORONTO, September 22: 9
Story Entertainment is taking to MIPCOM its first prime-time animated project, Fugget
About It.

9 Story will present
buyers with a first look at the pilot of this sitcom, which follows the
misadventures of a powerful former New York mob boss and his family, who are
relocated to a sleepy Canadian town upon entering a witness protection program.
A culture clash is inevitable as Jimmy Falcone and his family do their best to
get used to a new subdued lifestyle.

The pilot has been
commissioned for The Detour on
TELETOON, the network’s teen and adult programming block. A co-production with
Darius Films, the series is co-created and written by Darius Film’s Willem
Wennekers (Weirdsville) and
executive produced by Vince Commisso, the CEO of 9 Story Entertainment, along
with co-creator Nicholas Tabarrok of Darius Films.

“This is an incredibly
humorous and extremely entertaining animated comedy, that is certain to hit a
nerve with audiences around the globe,” Commisso said. “The proven popularity
of stories about the mob provides a perfect launching pad for this hilarious
look at the seemingly endless struggle of strong and criminal personalities who
must suppress their usual more uncontrolled side in order to survive in a world
of more civilized folk.”

—By Jackie Stewart