Studio100’s Bumba The Clown Bound for Middle East

MUNICH, June 18: Studio100
Media has reached a five-year broadcast agreement with the pan-Arabian Al
Jazeera Children’s Channel (JCC) for its CGI-animated and live-action preschool
series Bumba The Clown.

Studio100 Media has
granted JCC the exclusive free-TV and pay-TV rights via cable, satellite and
terrestrial broadcast to Bumba The Clown for the Arabic-speaking territories of Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros
Islands, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania,
Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia,
the United Arab Emirates and Yemen.

Targeted at 2- to
3-year-olds, Bumba The Clown
follows a clown who lives in a circus with his friends Bumbalu (also a clown), Nanadu the bear, Tumbi the elephant, Pantuf the
rhino, Kiwi the bird and his Asian friend, Zazati. Based on variations in colors, characters and
music, the series mixes educational elements such as guessing words and colors
with humorous segments.

Patrick Elemendorff, the
general manager of Studio100 Media, commented: “This sale helps Studio100 Media
to further expand its presence in the Arabic regions, illustrates the rising
popularity of the series and the continuous demand for great children’s
entertainment within the preschool genre.”

—By Irene Lew