Nickelodeon International Picks Up Broadcast Rights To The Animated Children's Comedy Series "Lucky Fred"
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C21Media:
Nick gets lucky with toon
Viacom’s Nickelodeon has added kids animation Lucky Fred to more of its channel feeds worldwide, while broadcasters in Mexico and South Korea follow suit.
Lucky Fred
Lucky Fred (52x12′) has been picked up for free-TV by Nickelodeon in Germany [Nickelodeon Germany/Nickelodeon Deutschland] and Poland [Nickelodeon Poland/Nickelodeon Polska], as well as ORF in Austria and Televisa Mexico.
Meanwhile, Nickelodeon in Ukraine [Nickelodeon Ukraine] and the Baltic states [Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Finland], Canal Panda in Portugal and Tooniverse in South Korea have picked up pay-TV rights to the toon, which is coproduced by Imira Entertainment, fellow Spanish firm Televisió de Catalunya and Rai Fiction in Italy.
Lucky Fred has now been sold to networks in more than 160 territories, including France's TF1 and Disney channels across the world.
The toon follows the comic adventures of an ordinary 13-year-old boy who accidentally becomes the owner of a shape-shifting robot.
Nico Franks
26-09-2012
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TAGS: Acquisition
GENRES: Animation, Children's
SHOWS: Lucky Fred
COMPANIES: Canal Panda, Imira Entertainment, ORF, RAI Fiction, Televisa Mexico, Televisió de Catalunya, Tooniverse
SECTIONS: C21Kids
COUNTRIES: Austria, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, South Korea, Spain, Ukraine
Also, from
Kidscreen:
New international broadcasters for Lucky Fred
A number of new broadcasters have picked up Imira Entertainment’s hit animated kids series Lucky Fred.
Nickelodeon has snapped up free-TV rights for Germany and Poland, and pay-TV rights in the Baltics and Ukraine. In additional deals, pay-TV rights have been taken by Canal Panda for Portugal and South Korea’s Tooniverse while free-TV rights have been picked up by ORF Austria and Televisa Mexico.
The latest deals further expand the audience reach of the program which currently airs in more than 163 territories worldwide including France (TF1), Spain, France, Italy, Germany, India, Israel and Australia (Disney Channel), Benelux, Scandinavia, Latin America, Asia and South Korea (Nickelodeon), Malaysia (RTM), UAE (e-Vision), Ireland (TG4), and Turkey (Kidz).
Lucky Fred (52 x 12 minutes), is co-produced with Televisió de Catalunya (Spain) and RAI Fiction (Italy), and follows the adventures of 13-year-old Fred who has a personal robot that can transform into anything he wants.
As a cross-platform IP, Imira launched a Lucky Fred app in February that features a web and mobile-based interactive geo-localised aliens hunt.
Additional licensing partners include TF1 Licences (France), Coscoi (South Korea) and CPLG (Benelux, Germany and Italy) in categories including toys, publishing, apparel, and stationery.
In Spain and Portugal, Editorial Planeta (Castilian version) and Grup 62 (Catala version) will release 16 book titles between 2012 and 2014 including eBooks.
Tags: Canal Panda, Imira Entertainment, Lucky Fred, Nickelodeon, Televisa
