KidsCo Secures The Future Is Wild And DinoSquad

[Detomah]

KidsCo, today announces that it has secured the broadcast rights to two compelling animated series’ - DinoSquad and The Future is Wild. Today’s agreement will see these compelling shows airing on KidsCo, the home of entertaining and educational programming, for the first time ever.

KidsCo’s agreement with Cookie Jar for the broadcast rights to the action-adventure series DinoSquad, will see the channel airing the 26 x 22 minute series across all its global feeds on an exclusive basis*.

In a further agreement, KidsCo is pleased to announce that it has secured the broadcast rights for 26 x 22 minute episodes of the brand new animated series, The Future is Wild. The Future is Wild will launch across KidsCo’s central and eastern European feed from April.

DinoSquad follows the adventures of five teenagers, each with the power to turn into a respective dinosaur. They use this power to fight the villainous Victor Veloci, who is intent on returning the world to the age of dinosaurs by turning humans into new mutant dinosaurs and accelerating global warming

The Future is Wild animated adventures follow on from the globally successful CGI series aimed at adults which has been a smash hit around the world. The Future is Wild encourages children to question how the world and its flora and fauna will look in millions of years time. The Future is Wild follows the adventures of C.G., an inhabitant from the seventh solar system, Ethan, Emily and Luis as they are propelled into the future to solve mysteries behind Earth’s evolution while trying to survive extreme climates and hungry creatures.

Commenting on today’s announcement, Paul Robinson, Managing Director, KidsCo said: “We are absolutely delighted to be launching these compelling new series’ on KidsCo. The Future is Wild and Dinosquad are welcome additions to our library of top quality content and prime examples of why kids and their parents choose KidsCo - the home of entertaining and educational programming. Today’s agreements underline the high calibre of KidsCo’s offering and why we are the destination of choice for producers and distributors. ”

"Cookie Jar is pleased that KidsCo has picked up our popular action-adventure series, 'DinoSquad,'" said Toper Taylor, President and COO, Cookie Jar Entertainment. "We believe that its popularity on Cookie Jar's CBS Saturday morning block will help make it a great success for Kidsco."

John Adams, creator of The Future is Wild added: “I was very excited when I heard that KidsCo were planning to launch the children’s animated version of The Future is Wild on their very extensive network. Those audiences who have seen the original live action and CGI version will remember that it was a documentary which got people of all ages thinking about the future of our planet. This time it is devoted particularly to kids and our future science is woven into some really fun stories about a group of time travelling kids. We had great fun making it and I know that kids have just as much fun watching it.”

*Excludes Turkey, South Africa, Bulgaria

Jointly-produced by iVL Animation, a studio of ST Electronics (Training & Simulation Systems) Pte Ltd, and Nelvana with the support of the Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA), The Future is Wild is the first Singaporean 3D animated television co-production to have been broadcasted on TV in the United States, Germany and Singapore.