Jetix Europe has acquired European pay TV rights to Urban Vermin, a CG-animated comedy series from Decode Ent. The children’s programming entity has also picked up TV distribution, home video and consumer products rights to the property in European territories except France, and will begin airing the series on Jetix outlets in the fall of 2007.
Produced by Decode Ent. as a YTV Canada original production, Urban Vermin targets kids 6-12 with tales of raccoon brothers Abe and Ken, who were once best friends and are now sworn enemies. The brothers each lead a rag-tag band of critters in a turf war to end all turf wars and at stake is a smorgasbord of trash-can takeout.
The concept for the show was originally developed by Decode’s interactive department as a prototype videogame for console systems. Decode has produced ancillary digital assets to be used on Jetix websites across Europe to support the TV launch.
