Playhouse Disney Debuts New Preschool Series in Canada

TORONTO, December 6:
Playhouse Disney in Canada will premiere the new 26-episode half-hour preschool
series Bunnytown on January 13,
2008, at 7:30 a.m.

The series will air
subsequently on Saturdays and Sundays at 7:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m. and 5 p.m.

Bunnytown was produced by Baker Coogan Productions. The
series was created and is executive-produced by David Rudman, Todd Hannert and
Adam Rudman (each from Spiffy Pictures) and is produced by Martin Baker and
Pete Coogan at Elstree Film Studios in the U.K. Todd Hannert and Terry Fryer
are co-musical directors and composers.

Set in a bustling world
where laughter rules, the carrot-loving citizens of Bunnytown create a
fun-filled, comedic learning environment. The cast of characters in Bunnytown
includes a superhero, inventor, caveman, mischief-maker and rock star. The
bunnies play, sing, dance, hike and go on picnics and even blast into space.
Some of the more curious bunnies burrow their way out of Bunnytown through
colorful tunnels and emerge in the neighboring Peopletown to observe the antics
of humans.

The episodes also feature
a wide range of original music across genres, including hip-hop, disco,
country, jazz and light opera. The Bunnytown Band, inspired by the sounds of
Earth, Wind and Fire and Sly and the Family Stone, appear in every episode to
perform songs including “The Bunnytown Hop” and “Making Music.” Counting,
shapes and vocabulary are part of the curriculum, which is taught to the
preschool audience in a humorous context.

Playhouse Disney is a
commercial-free, multiplex channel offered to Family Channel subscribers across
Canada.

—By Ned Berke