PorchLight Shores Up Goldfish Sales

LOS ANGELES, September 12:
PorchLight Entertainment has secured sales on Sardine Productions’ 2-D animated
series My Goldfish is Evil! in
more than 50 countries, following the renewal of the show by Canada’s CBC and
Radio-Canada.

The first 26 half-hour
episodes of My Goldfish is Evil! have
been licensed to RRS/Germany; ABC/Australia; Starz Home Entertainment/Australia
and New Zealand; Tara Film (RAI Sat)/Italy; ETB/Spain; D Productions/Turkey; 7
Arts/Middle East; RTL Klub/ Hungary; Noga/Israel, plus Konstantin
Vedermikov/CIS and Delta/former Yugoslavia.

The series, created by
Nicolas J. Boisvert, directed by Steven Majaury and produced by Ghislain Cyr,
centers around the adventures of a young boy, Beanie, and his diabolical,
talking goldfish, Mr. Bubbles, who wants nothing more but than to conquer the
world. Beanie must stay a step ahead of Mr. Bubbles to try and thwart him at
every turn.

Ken DuBow, PorchLight’s
president of worldwide distribution, commented: “My Goldfish Is Evil! has achieved outstanding ratings and we’re
thrilled with the reception of the series by broadcasters and video distributors
throughout the world. We’re looking forward to introducing the second season of
new episodes at MIPCOM this fall.”