9 Story Media Group has licensed animated children’s comedy series Get Ace (52 x 11) and Nerds and Monsters (40 x 11) to Gloob, Globosat’s Brazilian kids’ TV channel. Both shows will air in Brazilian Portuguese and are expected to launch in January 2016.
Get Ace, produced by Galaxy Pop, follows hapless geek Ace McDougal who, after being accidentally fitted with a pair of hi-tech super-spy braces, finds himself thrown into a world of espionage and intrigue. The show premiered on Network TEN’s ELEVEN in Australia and has been licensed to Boing (France), ABC TV Australia, TVNZ (New Zealand), TVE (Spain), E Junior (U.A.E.) and Zoom (Israel).
Nerds and Monsters is produced by Slap Happy Cartoons for Canada’s YTV, and is currently in production for a second season. The show tosses there nerdy kids and a thick-headed jock on an uncharted island, where the tween castaways must use their smarts to survive the reckless attacks by the island’s inhabitants: a tribe of hideous, hilariously inept monsters. Previous licensees include CiTV (U.K.), ABC TV Australia, TVE (Spain), Canal+ Family (France and Africa), E-Junior (U.A.E.), Noga (Israel) and MBC Kids (Middle East).