Foothill Entertainment Snags Rights to Live-action Puppet Series

SANTA BARBARA, April 2: Foothill
Entertainment has secured the worldwide distribution rights, excluding Asia and
Australasia, to Studio Bizzaro’s live-action puppet series Planet Bizzaro,
The World According to Zoomer.

Originally
conceived as the concept for a series of Public Service announcements, Planet
Bizzaro came to life
as a set of comic shorts for Nickelodeon, called What Planet Are You From. A year later, it evolved into the current
episodic television series Planet
Bizzaro, The World According To Zoomer.

Created by puppeteer Brian
Zimmerman and co-produced by Brad Bowyer, Planet Bizzaro, The World
According to Zoomer is targeted
at tweens and features a unique combination of live action, miniature
backgrounds and state-of-the-art puppetry. The series revolves around the online
relationship between a 15-year-old alien boy named Zoomer who lives on a
dust-ball planet called Bizzaro 317 light years away and a young Earth girl
named Amber.

“The show provides an
inspiring look at friendship, creative exploration and issues that surround the
teenage spirit,” says Jo Kavanagh-Payne, the president of Foothill
Entertainment. “We’re very pleased to have acquired an imaginative show with
such loveable characters and original stories.”

Based in Singapore, Studio
Bizzaro creates multimedia entertainment content, in particular original
concepts for children’s programs, for TV, movies and new media. The company
invents stories, scripts, characters, illustrations and character voices for
animation, advanced puppetry and hybrid forms of entertainment that fuse
puppetry, live action and animation.