Studio100 Sells Re-Mastered Classics to RTS

CANNES: Studio100 Media has sold the exclusive free-TV rights for the newly re-mastered 3D series Maya the Bee, Vicky the Viking and Heidi to Radio Television Suisse (RTS).

The deal covers a four year period with unlimited runs. The three new re-mastered animations will be produced by Studio100 Animation, with Maya the Bee in association with TF1 and ZDF and Vicky the Viking and Heidi in collaboration with Flying Bark Productions. Delivery is set for the end of 2012 and 2013 and 2014, respectively. RTS also picked up the animated series Pippi Longstocking for four years. 

Patrick Elmendorff, the managing director of Studio100 Media, said, “We are delighted to have secured this agreement for our ‘new 3D’ classics and to have strengthened our successful and long lasting relationship with RTS. With generations watching these series, its popularity and high recognition factor, we are confident that we will be able to build on their success with RTS and offer audiences in French speaking Switzerland these truly amazing and vibrant shows.”