Canal + buys all European, Caribbean and African French-speaking rights to hit preschool series produced by Dublin-based Wiggleywoo.
DUBLIN, IRELAND -- Monster Entertainment has announced that Canal + has bought all European, Caribbean and African French-speaking rights to hit pre-school series, The Day Henry Met…. It will broadcast the series on both Canal+ and Piwi+ in France, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Haiti, Vanautu together with French-speaking territories in Africa. Groupe Média TFO has bought Canadian French-speaking rights. Both broadcasters have bought the existing Series of 26 x 5 minute episodes and have pre-bought Series 2 (also 26 x 5 minute) which is scheduled to start production in the first quarter of 2016.
The Day Henry Met… is produced by Dublin-based Wiggleywoo and distributed by Monster Entertainment. The series, which won the Pulcinella Award for Best European Work at Cartoons on the Bay in 2015, was recently the top rated pre-school series in Australia when broadcast on Nick Junior. It will also debut on ABC in Australia later in the year and ABC Home Entertainment has picked up the Australia and New Zealand home entertainment rights. It has also recently been picked up by WhyJ in South Korea.
The series has previously been sold to RTE in Ireland, Nick Junior in the UK and Australia, TV Ontario and Knowledge Network in Canada, YLE in Finland, SVT in Sweden and HMH in the US.
Source: Monster Entertainment
Formerly Editor-in-Chief of Animation World Network, Jennifer Wolfe has worked in the Media & Entertainment industry as a writer and PR professional since 2003.
