Sphere Media & Mojumbi Team Up for Rock Girl

Sphere Media and Mojumbi Entertainment have extended their development partnership with the new project Rock Girl, a kids’ live-action musical series.

Aimed at children aged 8 to 12, Rock Girl is an original creation from award-winning composers and producers Matthew Gerrard and Mladen Alexander of Mojumbi. The series sees eras collide as the universe time-drifts from today’s world back to the ’80s, when electric-guitar solos were all the rage.

In Rock Girl, musical misfit Stevie Simone just wants to rock while the other kids are listening to hip hop, dance and pop. When she’s given a vintage guitar that has the power to bring rock ‘n’ roll back as long as she promises to believe in herself and not touch the red switch, Stevie flips the switch, sending herself back to 1984. There, she discovers she’s the rock star she always dreamed she’d be—but that it comes at a cost.

Mojumbi’s Gerrard and Alexander are currently collaborating with Sphere Media on the recently greenlit animated comedy adventure series Riley Rocket for TVOkids.

Gerrard said: “I have had the honor of collaborating on some of the world’s most successful kids’ shows, from Dora to Hannah Montana. But what most people don’t know is that Mladen and I were on the brink of success as the next Bon Jovi back in the ’80s, just as the world lost its love for big-haired rock ‘n’ roll. Now, thanks to Sphere, we’ve been given a chance to create our own time machine and go back to save our own rock ‘n’ roll dreams. And this time, we’re turning it up to 11!”

Marlo Miazga, Sphere Media’s president, unscripted, kids and family English content, added: “After a period of what might be diplomatically described as ‘change,’ Sphere Media’s engines are starting to purr very nicely. What excites me is the range, scope and ambition of our output. From last month’s Peabody Award for our gender-identity dramedy Sort Of through our diverse factual-entertainment development slate to our very own musical time machine for young adults, we’re delivering on every level.”