Nickelodeon Acquires Int’l Rights to ‘The Day Henry Met…’

DUBLIN, IRELAND - Monster Entertainment and Wiggleywoo have announced that Nickelodeon has acquired the international broadcast rights to the award winning pre-school series The Day Henry Met, across markets on six continents, including Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Benelux, GSA, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Central & Eastern Europe, Russia, Israel, Africa, South East Asia and Asia Pacific, India, the Middle East and Latin America.  Nickelodeon already holds the rights to the series in the UK and Australia. Henry was the top rated pre-school series on Nick Jr, Australia and is building a legion of young fans on Nick Jr UK and around the world. The Day Henry Met has now been sold to 177 territories worldwide.

Nickelodeon will now carry the current Season of 26 x 5 minute episodes and Season 2 (also 26 x 5 minute episodes) which is currently in production. The Day Henry Met is produced by Dublin-based Wiggleywoo Ltd and distributed by Monster Entertainment. The series won the Pulcinella Award for Best European Work at Cartoons on the Bay in 2015.

The Day Henry Met has also been sold to RTE in Ireland, TV Ontario, Television Francaise Ontario and Knowledge Network in Canada, Canal Plus for all French speaking territories worldwide, ABC in Australia, Kids TV in Korea, YLE in Finland, SVT in Sweden and HMH in the US.

Source: Monster Entertainment