{"id":11496,"date":"2016-12-20T11:22:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T16:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/thomas-friends-special-lands-on-discovery-kids-latam\/"},"modified":"2016-12-20T14:04:20","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T19:04:20","slug":"new-thomas-friends-content-on-discovery-kids-latam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/new-thomas-friends-content-on-discovery-kids-latam\/","title":{"rendered":"New Thomas &#038; Friends Content on Discovery Kids LatAm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: Mattel&#8217;s <em>Thomas &amp; Friends<\/em> special <em>The Great Race<\/em> and the show&#8217;s 20th season are\u00a0launching exclusively on Discovery Kids in Latin America.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Great Race<\/em>\u00a0is\u00a0the 11th feature film about the famous blue engine. The hour-long movie made its theatrical debut in Mexico last October. The latest installment of the <em>Thomas &amp; Friends<\/em> series marks the eighth CGI season to air on Discovery Kids. All-new episodes are becoming available in\u00a0Spanish and Portuguese for LatAm\u00a0viewers\u00a0this month.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Keenan, the senior VP of global content and executive producer at Mattel Creations, said: \u201cWe can\u2019t wait to share the exciting world of <em>Thomas &amp; Friends<\/em> with children and families across Latin America on Discovery Kids with the release of <em>The Great Race<\/em>, our very first musical adventure. Showcasing our commitment to quality and innovation, this film will treat audiences to unparalleled production values, sing-along songs and over a dozen exciting, new engine characters from around the globe. We\u2019ve also got a great new season of the show, which is really fun and dynamic but keeping the educational values we all love about the show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Flavio Medeiros, the director of programming and acquisitions for Discovery Kids Latin America, added: \u201cWe are very proud to be the network that offers the smallest viewers of the household this exciting new movie, where kids and parents will be able to see this iconic character in a new and exciting context. We are also looking forward to the premiere of new episodes of this beloved series during this festive season of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: Mattel&#8217;s Thomas &#038; Friends special The Great Race and the show&#8217;s 20th season are launching exclusively on Discovery Kids in Latin America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":479,"featured_media":11497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[1231,1008,2180,409],"class_list":["post-11496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-discovery-kids-latin-america","tag-mattel-creations","tag-the-great-race","tag-thomas-friends","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New Thomas &amp; Friends Content on Discovery Kids LatAm - TVKIDS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/new-thomas-friends-content-on-discovery-kids-latam\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New Thomas &amp; 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