{"id":15222,"date":"2018-10-18T01:00:25","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T05:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/worldscreen.com\/"},"modified":"2018-10-18T01:15:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T05:15:02","slug":"kika-to-co-produce-new-smurfs-tv-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/kika-to-co-produce-new-smurfs-tv-show\/","title":{"rendered":"KiKA to Co-Produce New Smurfs TV Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KiKA has teamed up with Peyo Productions to co-produce <em>The Smurfs<\/em>, a new animated television series featuring the iconic blue characters.<\/p>\n<p>KiKA will serve as co-producer and German broadcaster of the CGI show, which is aimed at kids between the ages of 5 and 10. France&#8217;s TF1 and Belgium&#8217;s Ketnet and OUFtivi are also on board as co-pro partners for the series, which ranked as number seven on the list of the top 30 viewed programs at MIPJunior.<\/p>\n<p>V\u00e9ronique Culliford, president and founder of Peyo Productions and I.M.P.S., commented: &#8220;I&#8217;m very happy to once again be able to continue my father&#8217;s work by co-producing a new TV series about the Smurfs, almost 40 years after the universally known series. You will discover Smurfs in 3D-CGI, as in the last movie (<em>The Lost Village<\/em>, 2017), with lots of fun, humor and adventures full of twists. I&#8217;m convinced that for this co-production, KiKA is the best player in the market, and that the Smurfs will continue to delight all generations for decades in Germany!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Astrid Plenk, managing and programming director for KiKA, noted: &#8220;The Smurfs are absolutely cult! They are a highlight and an animated classic in the comic and animation culture of the last decades in Europe, and of course well known in Germany. And so I&#8217;m really excited to be able to present <em>Die Schl\u00fcmpfe<\/em> exclusively to our viewers from 2021 on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was always my dream to produce a new series of <em>The Smurfs<\/em>, so I am truly happy to co-produce this animated series together with our partners Peyo Productions, Belgium, the French broadcaster TF1 and the Belgian broadcasters RTBF and Ketnet,&#8221; noted Sebastian Debertin, head of fiction, acquisition and co-production at KiKA.<\/p>\n<p>Plenk added: &#8220;The Smurfs also stand for strong values and great feelings, and therefore this series will fit perfectly with KiKA. I am particularly delighted that Schlumpfine will, over the course of the new series, get female reinforcement. 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