{"id":13205,"date":"2017-10-10T11:14:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T15:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/sonar-bring-sci-fi-book-watchdog-small-screen\/"},"modified":"2017-10-10T11:16:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T15:16:26","slug":"sonar-to-bring-sci-fi-book-watchdog-to-the-small-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/sonar-to-bring-sci-fi-book-watchdog-to-the-small-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonar to Bring Sci-Fi Book Watchdog to the Small Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sonar Entertainment has picked up the worldwide rights to develop a new animated show based on Will McIntosh\u2019s science-fiction book <em>Watchdog\u00a0<\/em>(Penguin Random House).<\/p>\n<p><em>Watchdog<\/em> is being developed by Sonar with Art Brown and Douglas Sloan (<em>Dragons: Race to The Edge<\/em>), who will also serve as showrunners on the new series. The story follows the futuristic adventures of 16-year-old Vick, his autistic, tech-savvy sister Tara and their robotic &#8220;Watchdog&#8221; Daisy, which Tara built. The show will be aimed at\u00a0children between the ages of 8 and 12.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn <em>Watchdog<\/em>, Will McIntosh has brilliantly created a future that not only echoes current issues but engages us through a kid\u2019s perspective in a very modern way,\u201d said Andrea Gorfolova, the president of kids&#8217;, family and factual at Sonar Entertainment. \u201cWe look forward to working with Art and Doug to develop this extraordinary story of friendship, love and adversity for worldwide audiences.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sonar Entertainment has picked up the worldwide rights to develop a new animated show based on Will McIntosh\u2019s science-fiction book Watchdog\u00a0(Penguin Random House).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":479,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[3142,3143,3123,3144,3145],"class_list":["post-13205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories","tag-art-brown","tag-douglas-sloan","tag-sonar-entertainment","tag-watchdog","tag-will-mcintosh","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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