Spellbound Inks New Deals on The Koala Brothers

LONDON, March 1: Spellbound Entertainment has secured a
series of new deals in Europe, Asia and North America for its award-winning
preschool series The Koala Brothers.

In the latest round of deals, Hungarian children’s channel
Minimax has purchased the cable and satellite rights to the first two seasons
of The Koala Brothers, as well as the
46-minute Christmas special, The Koala Brothers Outback Christmas, for broadcast in Hungary, the Czech Republic and
Slovakia. Canal Plus has also acquired all 78×10-minute episodes and the
Christmas special for its cable and satellite service, Mini Mini, in Poland.
Having already acquired the first series and the Christmas special, S4C in
Wales also recently purchased the second season.

Meanwhile, after picking up the first and second seasons,
broadcasters such as ABC in Australia, RTE in Ireland, TVP in Poland, ETV in
Estonia, Tele-Quebec in Canada and ATV in Hong Kong have all acquired the
third. TV12 in Singapore has also added The Koala Brothers Outback Christmas to its slate.

Following the success of The Koala Brothers series on CBeebies in the U.K., BBC Worldwide has
taken the DVD compilation rights to the series for inclusion in its catalog of
CBeebies titles to be launched later this year.

Spellbound Entertainment controls
all rights to The Koala Brothers brand
internationally and manages all TV
distribution, home entertainment, publishing and licensing. The series
also recently premiered on Disney Channel in Japan and will launch on EBS in
Korea this fall. Created by Australian animator/director David Johnson and
originally commissioned by CBBC in the U.K., The Koala Brothers is a stop-frame animated series that has been
acquired by 48 broadcasters in over 80 territories worldwide, including Disney
Channel in the U.S., Discovery Kids in Latin America, Super RTL in Germany,
France 5 and Tiji in France, ABC and Nickelodeon in Australia, Jetix in
Holland, Cartoon Network in India and Denmark's TV2, among others.