{"id":10003,"date":"2016-04-29T12:35:16","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T16:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/wind-dancers-ready-jet-go-takes-off\/"},"modified":"2016-05-02T09:45:24","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T13:45:24","slug":"wind-dancers-ready-jet-go-takes-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/wind-dancers-ready-jet-go-takes-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind Dancer\u2019s Ready Jet Go! Takes Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TV Kids<em>\u00a0shines a spotlight on the new space-themed animated series\u00a0<\/em>Ready Jet Go!<em>, the first kids\u2019 show from Wind Dancer Films.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The 3D animated series\u00a0<em>Ready Jet Go!\u00a0<\/em>follows the outer-space adventures of two friends and their alien neighbor, Jet, as they explore the solar system in a flying saucer. The show, created by Craig Bartlett (<em>Dinosaur Train<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Hey Arnold!<\/em>), aims to teach astronomy and Earth science concepts to children between the ages of 3 and 8. It is produced by Wind Dancer Films (<em>Roseanne<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Home Improvement<\/em>) and marks the company\u2019s foray into kids\u2019 television programming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Bartlett] came in with a film idea and in the course of that discussion, he mentioned that he had this idea about wanting to make a show for kids to learn about astronomy and Earth science through the eyes of an alien kid,\u201d says Dete Meserve, executive producer of\u00a0<em>Ready Jet Go!\u00a0<\/em>and principal of Wind Dancer, which recently set up a new children\u2019s TV division. \u201cI thought, There isn\u2019t a kids\u2019 show about space and I don\u2019t really know why. This could be a really fun way in, and [doing a show] through the eyes of an alien kid made me really excited because it was a way to look at Earth the way we wanted kids to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meserve feels that a big part of\u00a0<em>Ready Jet Go!<\/em>\u2019s appeal is that it provides answers to many of the space-related questions that children often have. \u201cI know as a kid I had always wondered, What is it like to jump on the moon?\u201d she says. \u201cWell our kids [in the show] get to do that. They get to play soccer on Mars; they get to go close enough to the sun to really understand that it\u2019s a star and that it\u2019s not this flat disc in the sky but a sphere. It\u2019s opening up [their] imagination at the same time that [they\u2019re] learning how the solar system and the world work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Ready Jet Go!<\/em>\u00a0premiered in February on PBS Kids in the U.S. In its first three weeks on the air, the show reached 8.4 million viewers, 3.1 million of which were children. It had more than 30 millio<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/i8.cmail20.com\/ei\/r\/5E\/974\/A87\/235424\/csimport\/2016-04-29-ready-jet-go_7.jpg\" alt=\"***Image***\" width=\"225\" height=\"147\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"8\" \/>n streams on digital platforms for the month of February.<\/p>\n<p>Just ahead of its linear debut, Wind Dancer tapped Licensing Street as the property\u2019s U.S. licensing and retail development agent. The consumer products program will launch with branded toys, publishing and apparel that will begin rolling out around the country in 2017. \u201cLicensing Street really got this show from the day that we showed it to them and it was in its very, very early form of drawings and concepts,\u201d says Meserve. \u201cWe didn\u2019t even have a finished episode to show them and they [came up with] ways to make things that would be really fun for kids to play\u00a0<em>Ready Jet Go!\u00a0<\/em>in their backyards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CAKE is on board to internationally distribute the series outside of the U.S. \u201c<em>Ready Jet Go!<\/em>\u00a0is first and foremost a character-based comedy with heart and a bit of space science thrown in as seasoning,\u201d says Tom van Waveren, the company\u2019s CEO and creative director. \u201cBartlett\u2019s talent lifts this show to be a wonderful celebration of friendship and curiosity. It\u2019s a joy to take Jet and his crew into the world for our friends at Wind Dancer Films.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to animation,\u00a0<em>Ready Jet Go!<\/em>\u00a0features live-action interstitials with Jet Propulsion Laboratory astronomer Dr. Amy Mainzer, who also serves as a science curriculum consultant on the series. Even though it\u2019s unlikely that\u00a0<em>Ready Jet Go!<\/em>\u00a0will inspire all of its young viewers to become astronomers, Meserve hopes that at the very least, the show will encourage them to be \u201cscientifically literate and curious, because those are the kids that are going to [become] the adults wrestling with the issues of the day,\u201d she says. \u201cIf we can give them those skills at a young age, we\u2019re doing something really important.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shines a spotlight on the new space-themed animated series Ready Jet Go!, which is the first kids\u2019 show from Wind Dancer Films.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":479,"featured_media":10004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,21],"tags":[100,754,172,403],"class_list":["post-10003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-profiles","category-top-stories","tag-cake","tag-dete-meserve","tag-ready-jet-go","tag-wind-dancer-films","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Wind Dancer\u2019s Ready Jet Go! 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