Peep and the Big Wide World, the animated preschool science series, will be available to Spanish-speaking and bilingual preschooler for the first time when it debuts weekday mornings on V-me ( www.vmetv.com ) beginning this month (Monday-Friday, 9:15-9:30a).
Peep is produced by WGBH and 9 Story Entertainment in association with TVOntario and Discovery Kids.
A Spanish section of the Peep and the Big Wide World ( www.peepandthebigwideworld.org) is launching simultaneously. The site will offer animated Peep stores and related live-action videos featuring real kids playing the real world, as well as providing additional online educational activities and the like in Spanish for parents and caregivers.
Major funding for Peep is provided by the National Science Foundation, with additional funding is provided by the Northrop Grumman Foundation.
MarVista Entertainment acquires the worldwide distribution rights to the feature film Mandie and the Secret Tunnel, which is based on Lois Leppard's kid-targeted novel of the same name, from Lost World Pictures.
Under the deal, MarVista will license the rights to movie worldwide, and also maintains the option to acquire the remaining four movies for which Lost World's Producer/Director team Owen Smith and Joy Chapman own the rights.
The second movie in the series, Mandie and the Cherokee Treasure, is currently in development and will be completed this year. Mandie and the Secret Tunnel will debut to the international market at MIPTV. By the way ... there are 40+ titles in the Mandie book series, which are set in the early 1900s and follow Mandie on her mystery solving adventures with the her friends and cat Snowball.
Friday, March 5, 2010
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