{"id":29948,"date":"2025-06-23T09:40:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T13:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/custom-nuts-baboon-greenlight-ibn-battuta\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T09:47:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T13:47:25","slug":"custom-nuts-baboon-greenlight-ibn-battuta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/custom-nuts-baboon-greenlight-ibn-battuta\/","title":{"rendered":"Custom Nuts &#038; Baboon Greenlight Ibn Battuta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Custom Nuts and Baboon Animation have greenlit two seasons of <em>Ibn Battuta<\/em>, an adventure series about the titular 14th-century explorer.<\/p>\n<p>The show reimagines the explorer as a kid with big dreams who travels through unexplored lands with a magical travel trunk and donkey. Two seasons are fully funded and in preproduction, with production hubs operating in Japan, the U.S. and MENA.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ibn Battuta<\/em> is being produced with a hybrid anime model. 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