{"id":12955,"date":"2017-09-15T09:48:30","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T13:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/blue-ant-expands-kids-space-gears-mipjunior\/"},"modified":"2017-09-15T12:39:20","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T16:39:20","slug":"blue-ant-expands-into-kids-space-gears-up-for-mipjunior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/blue-ant-expands-into-kids-space-gears-up-for-mipjunior\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Ant Expands into Kids\u2019 Space, Gears Up for MIPJunior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Ant International has expanded its distribution business with a new premium kids\u2019 offering, including the preschool show <em>Teddies<\/em>,\u00a0that it will present to international buyers at MIPJunior.<\/p>\n<p>Working with Blue Ant Media\u2019s recently acquired global production businesses NHNZ, Northern Pictures and Beach House Pictures, the distributor is adding more than 200 hours of content for the preschool market and kids aged 6 to 11 to its offering, and all of these titles will be available at MIPJunior. The lineup includes <em>Teddies<\/em>, produced by Beach House Pictures and Northern Pictures for Okto and Channel 9; <em>ZooMoo\u2019s Wild Friends<\/em>, from NHNZ for ZooMoo; <em>Creature Mania!<\/em>, produced by Northern Pictures for ZooMoo; and <em>Most Extreme: Alien Planet Earth<\/em>, from Northern Pictures for ZooMoo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Teddies<\/i> tells the story of four teddy-bear friends living in Teddytown.\u00a0<em>ZooMoo\u2019s Wild Friends<\/em> introduces two 7-year-olds and their parents to the natural world using puppetry, animation and wildlife footage.\u00a0<em>Creature Mania!<\/em> consists of ten short segments, while\u00a0<em>Most Extreme: Alien Planet Earth\u00a0<\/em><\/span><span class=\"s1\">showcases sequences of extreme animal and human behavior.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMIPJunior marks the launch of our new kids&#8217; and family offering,\u201d said Solange Attwood, the senior VP of Blue Ant International. \u201cWe tip our hats to our premium production partners such as NHNZ, Beach House Pictures and Northern Pictures, who have created strong and compelling stories to engage children of all ages. Blue Ant International is honored to join the kids\u2019 community and our team is looking forward to representing titles such as <em>Teddies<\/em> (45&#215;30 minutes HD) and <em>ZooMoo\u2019s Wild Friends <\/em>(180&#215;30 minutes HD) to buyers across all platforms worldwide.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Ant International has expanded its distribution business with a new premium kids\u2019 offering, including the preschool show\u00a0Teddies,\u00a0that it will present to international buyers at MIPJunior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":477,"featured_media":12956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[3026,3027,3028,3029,3030,3031],"class_list":["post-12955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-blue-ant-international","tag-blue-ant-media","tag-creature-mania","tag-most-extreme-alien-planet-earth","tag-teddies","tag-zoomoos-wild-friends","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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