Classic Media Takes Worldwide Rights to Nan & Lili

LONDON: Excluding the Middle East, the worldwide TV and home entertainment distribution rights for the preschool series Nan & Lili are now represented by Classic Media.

Created for Al Jazeera Children’s Channel (JCC), Nan & Lili is aimed at 2- to 4-year-olds. The series, 200×3 minutes, is available in three languages: Arabic, English and French. A further 100 episodes are in development for deliver later in the year.

Chloé van den Berg, the executive VP of international at Classic Media, commented: “We’re delighted to be launching Nan & Lili at MIPTV and are very excited to be working with JCC on its first animated preschool series. Nan & Lili is a fantastic show with a unique animation style and a fresh approach to preschool learning—offering entertainment whilst encouraging the valuable building blocks of problem-solving skills and emotional intelligence.”

Malika Alouane, the director of channels’ programming at Al Jazeera Children’s Channel and Baraem TV, added: “Nan & Lili is a multi-award winning series that has gained international recognition and appreciation for providing preschoolers with unique and fresh educational content. The positive feedback that the channel has received from mothers and preschool teachers from across the Arab world is a clear testimony that the series’ innovative methods of delivering educational values have succeeded, and we are thrilled to share it with the rest of the world. We are confident that Classic Media, our distribution partner for Nan & Lili, will secure international positioning of this property, especially with broadcasters who are keen on delivering quality programming to their young audiences.”

Firdaus Kharas, creator of the series, commented: "I am very pleased that two world-leading companies, Al Jazeera Children’s Channel and Classic Media, are joining together to educate and entertain the children of the world through this stunning series. For the first time an animated series made for the Middle East will travel the world—a historic achievement that reflects the quality of the programming broadcast on Baraem TV.”