Jetix Europe Unveils New Co-Production with Studio B

AMSTERDAM/LONDON, February 12: Jetix Europe is working on
the new animated comedy series Kid vs. Kat
with DHX Media-owned Studio B Productions and YTV in Canada.

Kid vs. Kat will
debut on Jetix Europe’s channels beginning in early 2009. Jetix Europe holds
the TV distribution rights for the 52×11-minute series across Europe and the
Middle East, including pay-TV and free-TV distribution, as well as home video
and consumer product rights. Disney-ABC International Television will service
the distribution of the television rights to Kid vs. Kat for the Jetix Europe-held territories. DHX Media’s
distribution subsidiary DECODE Enterprises will handle television, home
entertainment and merchandising and licensing rights for the rest of the world.

Studio B received the greenlight on Kid vs. Kat last month, with production on the series already
under way. The Canadian studio was previously commissioned to produce the Pucca property on behalf of Jetix Europe.

Created by Rob Boutilier, Kid vs. Kat is
about the exaggerated conflict between a demonically malevolent cat and the
beleaguered 10-year-old boy to whom it has taken a demented dislike. When
Coop’s spoiled little sister Millie brings home Kat, a stray kitty of
mysterious origin, his idyllic life is turned upside down. It’s obvious to Coop
that Kat wants to annihilate him. The problem is that he has no evidence to
prove it; by the time his Dad comes onto the smoking, debris-littered scene,
all evidence pointing to Kat is gone.

Marc
Buhaj, the senior VP of programming at Jetix Europe, said: “We are
excited to be part of the Kid vs. Kat
adventure with the Studio B team. The series has those quality cartoon elements
found in the classics—great music and score, neat characters and crisp
slapstick timing. Our main duo of Coop and Kat are set to establish one of the
great ongoing cartoon rivalries. One unlucky kid with one freaky, ferocious
feline creates absolute mayhem that Jetix kids across Europe will love. I have
a feeling that Coop is the one who is going to need a full nine lives just to
survive!”

—By Irene Lew