Disney Junior Australia & Italy Pick Up The Cat in the Hat

TORONTO: Portfolio International has sold season two and the holiday special of the preschool series The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! to Disney Junior Australia and Disney Junior Italy.

Treehouse (Canada), PBS (U.S.) and CBC (Canada) have already secured all 20 episodes of the second season of the series. Actor Martin Short stars as voice talent in The Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That!, which currently airs internationally in more than 80 countries. It is a Portfolio Entertainment/Collingwood O’Hare Production, a Canada-U.K. co-production produced with PBS (U.S.), Treehouse (Canada), in association with Dr. Seuss Enterprises and Random House Children’s Entertainment. The series is distributed by Portfolio International and is based on the children’s’ book by Dr. Seuss.

“The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! continues to perform exceedingly well in all territories where it originally launched, and we are delighted to count on the continued support from one of the world’s most respected family entertainment providers—Disney Junior International,” said Louis Fournier, the VP of sales and acquisitions at Portfolio Entertainment.