Disney Spain Takes Thomas & Friends

BARCELONA: Imira Entertainment has sold four seasons of HIT Entertainment’s popular preschool show Thomas & Friends to Disney Channel Spain, which will air the series on Playhouse.

Thomas & Friends has been sold across 185 territories and translated into more than 30 languages. Thomas & Friends celebrates its 65th anniversary in 2010. Imira Entertainment represents the rights to the HIT Entertainment TV catalogue in Spain and Portugal.

Christophe Goldberger, the head of distribution and marketing at Imira Entertainment, said: “Thomas & Friends is one of the best-loved and well-known brands in the world and we’re very pleased to further extend our relationship with the Disney Channel, which we believe will provide the ideal home for the series in Spain.”

Wayne Dunsford, the VP of television distribution at HIT Entertainment, added, “We are delighted to be taking the world’s number one preschool property, Thomas & Friends, to the Disney Channel in Spain, enabling us to expand the show’s reach to a new audience of young Thomas fans.”