Cuppa Coffee Secures New Deals for Bruno

TORONTO, February 26:
Canada’s Cuppa Coffee Studios has inked new sales for its preschool series Bruno
and the Banana Bunch, including
broadcast deals with
Nickelodeon Holland and VOOM HD Networks’ Animania in the U.S.

Additionally, Dutch video
publisher Memphis Belle has picked up the video rights to the series, with a
U.S. DVD offer pending. North American sales are helmed by Cuppa Coffee’s
president and executive producer, Adam Shaheen, while international sales are
brokered through Julie Fox from AWOL, based in Paris.

A third season of Bruno
and the Banana Bunch is now
gearing up for production. The first season of Bruno was comprised of 50×1-minute interstitials that
found an audience in more than 80 countries. Season two saw a change in name
and structure as Bruno and The Banana Bunch launched with a new 26×11-minute format.

—By Irene Lew