{"id":18391,"date":"2020-04-15T10:13:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T14:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/france-televisions-picks-apc-kids-hardball\/"},"modified":"2020-04-15T11:37:53","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T15:37:53","slug":"france-televisions-picks-up-apc-kids-hardball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/france-televisions-picks-up-apc-kids-hardball\/","title":{"rendered":"APC Kids\u2019 Hardball Heads to France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>APC Kids has secured a deal with France T\u00e9l\u00e9visions for the new live-action comedy series <em>Hardball<\/em>, distributed by the Australian Children\u2019s Television Foundation (ACTF).<\/p>\n<p><em>Hardball<\/em>, a fish-out-of-water comedy aimed at 8- to 12-year-olds, premiered in Australia on ABC ME last year. It follows a boy named Mikey who moves from New Zealand to Western Sydney, where he ends up diving into the competitive schoolyard game of handball. The series is produced by Northern Pictures in association with Screen Australia, Create NSW and the ACTF.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hardball<\/em> has also been sold to broadcasters in Norway, Ireland, Canada, Hong Kong, Portugal and Slovenia.<\/p>\n<p>Claire Heinrich, head of acquisitions, children and youth department at France T\u00e9l\u00e9visions, said: \u201cWe fell in love with this series for its devastating humor, its values of team play and solidarity, its endearing hero and its colorful and unforgettable characters; Mikey and his friends are inviting us into their game and there is no doubt that Okoo viewers will like to follow them as much as we do!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lionel Marty, managing director of APC Kids, said: \u201c<em>Hardball<\/em> is an original, charming series with diverse, down-to-earth characters we know young viewers all over the world are going to relate to. We\u2019re proud to be partnering with the ACTF to bring its great programming to a French audience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jenny Buckland, CEO of the ACTF, added: \u201cWe\u2019re thrilled that children in France are going to meet the gang from <em>Hardball<\/em> and we hope they love them as much as we do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APC Kids has secured a deal with France T\u00e9l\u00e9visions for the new live-action comedy series Hardball, distributed by the Australian Children\u2019s Television Foundation (ACTF).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1033,"featured_media":18392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[1894,411,268,3863],"class_list":["post-18391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-apc-kids","tag-australian-childrens-television-foundation","tag-france-televisions","tag-hardball","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>APC Kids\u2019 Hardball Heads to France - 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\/france-televisions-picks-up-apc-kids-hardball\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"APC Kids\u2019 Hardball Heads to France - TVKIDS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"APC Kids has secured a deal with France T\u00e9l\u00e9visions for the new live-action comedy series Hardball, distributed by the Australian Children\u2019s Television Foundation (ACTF).\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/france-televisions-picks-up-apc-kids-hardball\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVKIDS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-04-15T14:13:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-04-15T15:37:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/07\/Hardball_APC_Kids-0420.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Chelsea Regan\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Chelsea Regan\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/france-televisions-picks-up-apc-kids-hardball\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/france-televisions-picks-up-apc-kids-hardball\/\",\"name\":\"APC Kids\u2019 Hardball Heads to France - TVKIDS\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2020-04-15T14:13:11+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-04-15T15:37:53+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/#\/schema\/person\/2a2c6d8fb3c7c8b4220b8877ecffb79a\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/france-televisions-picks-up-apc-kids-hardball\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/france-televisions-picks-up-apc-kids-hardball\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/france-televisions-picks-up-apc-kids-hardball\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"APC Kids\u2019 Hardball Heads to France\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/\",\"name\":\"TVKIDS\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/#\/schema\/person\/2a2c6d8fb3c7c8b4220b8877ecffb79a\",\"name\":\"Chelsea Regan\",\"description\":\"Chelsea Regan is the managing editor of World Screen. 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