{"id":10483,"date":"2016-07-22T10:24:23","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T14:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/disney-channel-australia-orders-actf-preschool-show\/"},"modified":"2016-07-22T11:44:07","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T15:44:07","slug":"actf-producing-preschool-show-for-disney-in-oz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/actf-producing-preschool-show-for-disney-in-oz\/","title":{"rendered":"ACTF Producing Preschool Show for Disney in Oz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE: Australian Children&#8217;s Television Foundation (ACTF) is producing <em>Balloon Barnyard<\/em>, a new animated preschool series, for Disney Channel Australia.<\/p>\n<p><em>Balloon Barnyard<\/em> follows the adventures of two heroic donkeys while teaching social and emotional skills to viewers between the ages of 2 and 4. The 26&#215;7-minute show is being produced for Disney Channel Australia by Kristen Souvils and Nadine Bates for Like A Photon Creative. The series, which is being\u00a0globally distributed by ACTF, is launching at MIPJunior and is slated for completion in December 2016.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, ACTF has secured a number of sales with broadcasters around the globe. The first three seasons of the animated short-form comedy <em>Dukes of Br\u00f6xst\u00f4nia<\/em>\u00a0were licensed by Disney XD in Germany. The preschool series <em>Hoopla Doopla!<\/em> was snapped up by U.S. Hispanic pay-TV channel VME for broadcast in Spanish-speaking U.S. In Latin America, Televisa&#8217;s online platform Blim went for a package of animated programming that includes the comedy <em>FleaBitten!<\/em> and the short-form series <em>Desdemona<\/em>, <em>Horace in Slow Motion<\/em> and <em>Mega Bites<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s PlusTV took a package consisting of\u00a0<em>Ready for This<\/em>, <em>Worst Year of My Life, Again!<\/em>, <em>Bushwhacked!<\/em>, <em>My Place<\/em> and <em>You&#8217;re Skitting Me<\/em>. Australia Plus will air the shows in more than 44 territories across the Asia Pacific and Indian subcontinent. And in\u00a0Ireland, RT\u00c9 signed on for the two new half-hour <em>Little Lunch<\/em> special episodes after having already snapped up\u00a0season one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE: Australian Children&#8217;s Television Foundation (ACTF) is producing Balloon Barnyard, a new animated preschool series, for Disney Channel Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":479,"featured_media":10484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[412,1555,1556],"class_list":["post-10483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-actf","tag-balloon-barnyard","tag-disney-channel-australia","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ACTF Producing Preschool Show for Disney in Oz - 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